The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-10-15
NOISE TO RUN RIOT
Street Fair to Open Formally
Tomorrow at | O'Clock.
THREE BIG PARADES
Civic, Flower and Carnival
Procession Immense.

Before another Eagle is issued Wichi-
ta's street fair will be opened formally by
cannons, bells and whistles. Promptly at
l o'clock tomorrow Dolds thunderous
whistle will boom down upon the town.
Battery A will follow with a round from
their cannons which will be set on West
laundry whistles and locomotives in the
yard will take it up and scream for If
teen minutes that the fair is on. The
bells will jump and ring and clang for the
big fair. Every noise that will work
will be turned loose a quarter Of an hour
Tuesday will be German day and Mis-
souri, Pacific day.
THE CIVIC PARADE.
Wednesday at o'clock the big civic
parade. consisting Of four divisions, will
form.
Division No. will meet and form on
Ida avenue
Division No. viii form on Washington
avenue. north Of Douglas avenue
Division No. will form on Washing
ton avenue, south Of Douglas avenue
Division No. will form on Rock Island
avenue
This parade. Grand Marshal Locke
says, will be the biggest thing Of the
kind that ever happened in Kansas. and
everybody who knows anything about it
says that Mr.. Locke is right
Thursday Will be Oklahoma and Frisco
day. The Frisco will run special trains
from Ellsworth. oswego and Blackwell.
FLOWER PARADE.
Friday at 1:3O the flower parade, with
the big fairy floats and decorated car
riages will form This parade will be
surprise to Wichita Besides the process
sion of carriages, the High school. Fair
mount college, Lewis academy, the
Friends university and the different Sun
day schools of the city will have floats.
Some OF the eastern papers, hearing of
the immense parade, have asked for pho
tographs Of the different sections.
THE BIG CARNIVAL PARADE.
George Bergman and his assistant, J.
A L. Pinto, have kept the program of
carnival night something Of a. secret, but
when by mistake it was mentioned that
there would be no parade that night, Mr..
Bergman was ready to whip the town.
There will be a parade, a big, funny, long
parade. one of the best things of the
week It Will consist Of comic and illum-
mated floats and other things, making up
the longest and most unique and spec
tacular event that ever happened in the
west, not excepting Kansas City's Priests
of PalIas shows. Carnival night and
that parade will be one of the biggest
things of the week.
Excursions will be run from other
towns just to see the carnival parade.
Saturday will be every body's day.
PUBLIC SCHOOLS PROGRAM
Superintendent Dyer issues the follow
ing orderi
The public schools Of the city will
adopt the following plan during fair
week:
On Monday. Tuesday Wednesday and
Thursday. all schools will hold continu-
Gus session, beginning at 9 a m, and
closing for the day at p. m.
The first year schools W i'll observe the
following; Forenoon pupils will attend
school from to II o'clock a. m. After
noon pupils will attend school from 1i:S0
a. m. to l p. m. Parents who have pu-
pills in the afternoon schools will please
notice the time and send the pupils at
u:SO a m. instead of 100 p. m, as has
been the custom. This plan will be in
operation Monday. On Friday all schools
Of the city will adjourn for the day.
The above very liberal arrangement by
the board OF education should be appre-
ciated by faithful attendance OF all pu-
pills during the hours of the school ses-
sion, as the time gives ample time to en-
10y the events of the day after schools
have adjourned. FRANK R. DYER.
Snnerintendent.