Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-07-04
M|LWAUKEE'S CARNIVAL.
Annual June Event Passes Off to
the Satisfaction of All.
CITY FULL OF PEOPLE.
Rain Interferes Somewhat with the
Display of Fireworks-The Floral
Parade Success.

Milwaukee, Wis. June 27.-Crowds in
the streets, buildings decorated, bands
playing. carnival rubbernecks being sold
on the street and being operated by the
rubberneckS who bought them, special
guides and programmes on sale, visiting
yachts in the bay and in the harbor, deco
rated boats and scows and the general
holiday appearance of the city indicated
that the Milwaukee carnival of 1S90-thc
second affair of the kind-was a grand
success as far as the attendance was con-
cerned.
The liberal cent-a mile rate granted by
the Wisconsin railroads and the system
attic and persistent advertising by the
Milwaukee Carnival association formed a
combination that was irresis tible to the
people, and as 4 result 80, 900 visited the
Carnival city. remnants and drapings of
bunting and greenery and flags and mock
ing carnival heads made the streets APP
pear like those of Venice, of old New Or
leans, of any place but i matter-of-fact
town of the middle West All the build
lngs from top story to plate-glass win
doWs wore Il blaze of collar From the
cornlces wide bands of the tri-coior fell.
draplng windows and balconies III their
descent, and ending in the saucy, smiling
mead OF Plerrot with great spreading
colored collar. The windows were hung
with cut paper in the chosen tints, and
everything IN the window dressing, from
flowers to fabric, were of carnival
shades: At the street corners high on
the telephone and telegraph poles bal
anced full-length paper-mache figure
OF a cloWn-"a piebald TOOL" in red and
white, with painted face and pointed cap,
waving colored pennant over the
streams Of people below, and smiling i'm.
partially Oh all And across the asphalt.
from walk to walk, arch the close rows
of colored electric lights, spanning the
High over everything the city hall
tower reared its crown of electric lights,
with a necklace of the lights like gems
farther down, and below a blaze of the
hghts-ln unfurled flag in the national
colors, and the tall letters to spell "NNel-
come. The effect of the city hall was
one OF the best marked in ali the city's
ightings
All up and down the river the lights
OF the various transportation lines hung
on the steamboats, anchored, and they
burned on the bridges and lined the
shores, and were hung in long glitteriny
lines from roofs to street itself. Many
of the shops and stores had erected
framework, covered with colored awning
III front. and wound them with green and
set them with lights, and the carnival
neads and edged the While with tiny fly
ing flags.
Electrical Decorations.
The feature of the carnival illumina-
tons, aside from the arches upon Grand
avenue and Wisconsin street, were the
electric lights upon the city hall and the
pabst building. The circle of arc lights
on the top of the Pabst building could be
seen from a long distance and were very
beautiful
The bands of colored lights around the
city hall tower blended very prettily and
from distance We're exceptionally beau
tlful; The sides Of the Pabst office
building were brilliant with incandescent
lights tastefully arranged Every night
during the week the electric light plants
OF the city were drawn upon to their
utmost capacity. The use of electric
lights was much more general this year
than last and the result was that the
street Illumlnatlons We're superb.
The first part of the programme the
water carnival on the bay Tuesday night.
was not completely carried out because
OF the rainstorm which commenced about
9:3O o'clock and drove the spectators to
cover, but thousands and thousands Of
people from the bluffs along the lake
shore and from boats on the lake itself,
defSIng the weather and scorning to be
troubled by such material things as damp
clotheS and wet feet, witnessed a fairy
like spectacle in the bay, which for two
or three brief hours was transformed
into the 4 driatic with the great wafer
fetn OF Venice in full sway. The rain
spoiled some of the finest pieces on which
the hopes of those who had the Venetian
might fete in charge were most firmly
fixed, and it helped to bring the spec
tacle to speedier end than had been
originally planned, but it was, in spite
OF these drawbacks, lovely enough to suit
the most captious taste.
GOV. Roosevelt arrived at II 80 in the
evening on the Northwestern road and
was taken for a, drive to witness the il
dumlnatlons of the city. On Wednesday
morning banquet was given in his hon
or at the Milwaukee club and from there
ne was driven to Twenty street
to head the Floral parade, which gave
the thousands along the line of march a
change to view and cheer the famous
rough rider. Gov. Roosevelt left on the
$50 train tc catch the $50 train for the
East at Chicago. The exciting fire run
through the principal streets accompa-
med by special Examinations and search
light effects was the feature of the even
ing. Thursday was declared a public
holiday and thousands of people filled the
streets. The bands played in the Court
of Honor and in the parks in the morn
ing, and during the afternoon the street
parade of hundreds of maskers, grotes-
quely costumed, representing historic,
dramatic and artistic scenes was the
great attraction. After the disbanding
of the parade the maskers were given
special privileges and for time prac-
tarally ran the city. In the evening
MANY of the citys guests attended the
promenade concert in the Court of Hon
or, and a special musical entertainment
given for them at Schitz park.
The grand finale of the carnival was
the gorgeous and magnificent pageant of
twenty floats which passed through the
principal streets Friday evening. The
resident districts were illuminated with
coiored lights, and the music OF bands,
the cheers Of thousands aided in the in
spring spectacle which can never be sur
passed. This grand display was fol-
lowed by the carnival al fresco the great
out-of-doors, social event of the carni-
val. The grounds of the Calumet and
Deutscher clubs on the Court of Honor
were Illuminated for this event