The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-07
BElATED REX WILL ARRIVE
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IN ALL HIS GLORY TOMORROW

the most beautiful features OF the cafnl-
val.
At 6 p. m. there will be a grand open-air
concert at Capitol park by Memois band
and at 7:S0 O'Clock magnificent display of
fire works.
President Lesser, of the Carnival society,
says that there is absolutely no danger
from any of the fireworks which are 10
be exhibited. Ropes will be stretched
around all the northern end of the park,
and there will be a number of policemen
on hand to keep the crowd back. Mr.. Les
ser also requests that all people living in
Eighth avenue, near the park, will please
keep off their front porches during the fire.
works display and thus avoid any posi-
bility of danger. There will be no necessity
for the spectators to crowd up into the
park, as the fireworks will be all the more.
beautiful from the neighboring residences,
streets and buildings. Among the features
of the entertainment will be an eighteen
foot picture in fire of the NEUROLOGICAL
character of Vulcan.
Turn voreIn Ball
AT p. m. the annual ball given in honor
of the royal party by the Birmingham Ger
man Turn Verein will take place at the
Auditorium, which will be attended by the
former kings and courts and the grand
marshal and his aides. Many invitations
have been issued, and the ball promises
to be one of the features of the season.
On Tuesday the first official parade will
form at the corner of Eighth avenue and
Eighteenth street at II O'Clock, and Will
consist of two sections; the first, ten mag
.nifieent official floats, representing myt'he-
logical, historical and allegorical subjects,
and the second, the trades display, which
will be an interesting feature.
The trades parade will also be in charge
of Grand Marshal McCrossin, and floats
when they will be required to report at
Eighteenth street and Eighth avenue. The
following firms have already entered
C. c. Ellis, Jr., Birmingham Buggy COM
pany, New Home Sewing Machine COM
pany, Trade Palace, e. e. Forbes, Biz
mingham Arms company, Blddle-Warren
Cycle company, H L. & e. l.. Hunt Cycle
company, Peter Zinzer Central of Georgia
Railroad company, Mayberry & Watson
company, Southern Music company, Obe-
lisk Flour, McMillan-Lee company, Love-
man, Joseph & Loeb, Birmingham Trunk
Factory, Pratt=Munger Gin company, John
w. O'Neil Showers Furniture company
and many others.
The parade, like the other official pa
rades, will take up the following line of
march:
Move east to Nineteenth street, thence
south to Sixth avenue, east to Twentieth
street south to Avenue d, countermarch
nue. thence east First avenue, to
.Twenty-firSt street, countermarch and go
west ON First avenue to Eighteenth street,
north to Second avenue, east to Twenty
first street. north to Third avenue where
parades will disband.
Magnificent Night Parade 8
The grand Illuminated parade which will
be by far the most magnificent of the off,
cal parades will form in Eighteenth street
and will move promptly at p. m. over the
same line of march as the afternoon pa
rade. The twenty beautiful floats will be
peopled and the parade will be Illuminated
with 100 gasoline lamps and LOCO colored
hamboes presenting dazzling scene.
AT $3.50 p. m. the grand Rex ball, the Gull
minating feature of the carnival, will take
place at the auditorium, where another
brilliant scene will be presented.
All officers of the First, Second and Third
Alabama Volunteer regiments, or any 9TH
err former army officers who may be in the
city, are requested to take part in the Car
nival parade tomorrow.
Grand Marshal McCrossin requests that
all who desire to do so. report to him at
Troop DIS armory, on Third avenue, at
o'clock tomorrow morning in full uniform.
He will at that time give them full instrue-
tions as to the part they are to take in the
ceremonies. Troop D will also take parE in
the parades.
Bureau of Information
A bureau of information has been estab-
lished in Morris avenue, between Nine
teenth and Twentieth streets, just opposite
the union passenger station, where stran-
gers will be given all possible aid and ,,s-
sistance in getting boarding places, etc.
This service is entirely free of charge.
Chairman Meglemerv, of the committee at
the head of this department, says that peo-
pie have been pouring into birmingham by
the hundreds during the last three days,
and that today and tomorrow they will
continue to come by the thousands. He
says that even If the hotels are overtaxed
that there will be plenty of room for ev-
erybody in the boarding houses and private
residences.
Visiting newspaper men will be supplied
with tickets to the Rex ball by applying 10
Chairman j. "A. Rountree of the arrange
ments committee at his office; No. 1907la
Second aVaplla