The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-10-20
Tonight Is High Carnival and
Reign of the GenteeI
Smile
PARADE STARTS AT 7i3O
viii Consist of Things That
Never Were, are Not and
Never Will be Again.

The big, extravsgant, hilarious, stun
ming carnival parade will happen tonight.
The rest is to see it. There will be
horseless carriage, queen, a fire depart
ment, a midway, a houchee couchee. a
light, joke, a lion tanner, a laugh, a yell,
etc. II will not be the automobile that
you have read about: it viii not be the
queen Of the flower parade; It will not be
Queen Victoria or a queen Of spades, but
the queen Of tonights carnival viii throw
you into a muscle dance You have seen
a lion tanner and a midway, a houchee
couchee, a prize fight, a wild animal
show, tom-tom drill and a Zulu march,
but you never saw them as they Will be
represented in tonights carnival. The
coming man viii be represented but il
won't be the coming man in the Coming
Race that Bulwey Lytton wrote about. Il
VIII be George Bergman'S idea Of COM
ing man with carnival jag. This means
that the coming man in tonights parade
will be a man with a romping. rLsible
spasm. And you'd better stay on the
sidewalk. The jubilee singers won't be
OF the Yale variety but they'll be jubileers.
You can judge for yourself as 10 whether
they sing. There viii be some real police
in the advance, in charge of a flesh and
blood chief-ex-CoUucilman Cu0bon It
Will cost you two dollars to get out on
the pavement while the spasms file by.
This, while directly connected with the
rest Of this tale, Is no joke. because it's
the chiefs orders. The Filipino battery
will be different from the ones you'd see
in Manila, though neither will this one
be under cover. They wiz have sure
enough cannons with real powder. and
they'll shoot, so you'd better stay off the
pavement awhile yet, to save your clothes
and the two dollars in cash which would
otherwise go 10 the police fund. The
fire brigade IS not Chief Walden's men nor
IS it company Of bouncers It's a fire
brigade, though, and they'll do rescue
scene that Will thrill and freeze and en-
thuse you and afterwards give you a clear
title to an 1s-karat horse laugh.
There will be race horses and Jockeys,
and bicyclers and masQueraders different
from any you ever saw. There will be
comic Illuminated floats and a surprise
bigger than Fritz SchnitzIer, and there
won't be any monkey business about
starting. Every participant in this par
ade must be on hand at 700 The parade
starts at 7:3Q with or without you. The
procession VIII move on schedule time,
preceded by RazZooper IN Chief. His Car
nival Highness George Bergman and
aides, principal Of which viii be Georges I
own carnival made-tO-order smile. The
parade will move at 7;30 Watch 1t and /
see
The procession will form on y. Fourth 4
avenue, march west on Douglass to Main /
street, north on Main 10 Elm, counter /
march on Main TO Second street, where |
the parade will disband. Four hundred /
police will protect disbanders from any /
mob violence. No paint or -four will be
allowed. No bladders. Carnival will be
held after the parade on the first block
north of Main and first block Of East
Douglass. The east half Of Main street, /
from Douglass to First street will be re
served for the dancing Of Virginia reel by
the masqueraders. Tonight IS carnival
night Have good time, but don't get /
bad
There viii be a masquerade ball at the
beginning at Q o'clock, under
the auspices OF the Central Labor Union.