Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1899-09-09
Special Days Have Been Set
Apart i'm the Schedule of
the Festival.
Grand Display of Fireworks to
Be One of the Prominent
Features.
IRISH-AMERICAN DAY OCTOBER II

There is no abatement in the interest
felt in all quarters of the city in the Elks
Fall Exposition and Carnival. Impor-
tant meetings have been held this week
and numerous novel features have been
arranged for. 1t has been decided to
endeavor to have President Mckinley,
Admiral Dewey, William Jennings Bryan
and other celebrities visit the city during
the fair, and Mayor Weaver, President
Mengel, of the Board of Trade, and Pres
ident Belknap, of the Commercial Club,
will join with the committee in extend
ing the invitation.
Merchants and manufacturers have
already made application for sufficient
space to insure the success of the under
taking. The great parade will take place
on the first day of the carnival, and it is
expected to be the most brilliant ever
seen i'll this city. In addition to the
Legion and the police and fire depart
ments and uniformed divisions of all
lodges in Louisville, about 800 industrial
floats will be in line. Twenty brass
bands will furnish the music for the pa
rade, which will be at least three miles
long. A feature will be the Midway
dancers and performers and the animals
of the Streets of Cairo. Besides our local
fraternal and civic societies there will be
a number of visiting lodges of Elks in the
parade.
The Midway performers engaged to
come here are now i'll Detroit They go
from that city to Kansas City and then to
Louisville. There are 200 members of the
company, who travel in special train of
fifteen coaches, which are necessary to
carry their paraphernalia. Louisville will
have manv of the same attractions which
were at the Worlds Fair in Chicago,
except all of them will be more up-to-
date.
Tuesday, October II, has been set aside
as Irish-American day, following that of
our German citizens, and already meet
ings have been arranged for to make pro-
vision for the proper observance of that
day.
The schedule as mapped out is as fol-
lows:
Monday, October 9-Louisville day.
Tuesday, October 10-Bryan day, when
William Jennings Bryan will be the guest
of honor at the exposition.
Wednesday, October 11-Ladies' day
and floral day. On this day prize will
be offered to the florists for the most
artistic display of flowers and arrange
ment effected, to distribute the flowers
among the ladies after the awarding of
the prizes. Also on this day the baby
show will be given. Purchasers of tick
cts will be given voting blanks, number
to correspond with the number of the
baby, the one receiving the largest num-
Der of ballots to be declared the winner
Thursday, October 12-Orphans' day.
when the children of the orphanages will
be admitted free.
Friday, October Mckinley day.
when President Mckinley is expected to
be present.
Saturday, October l4-School chill
dren's day.
Monday, October 16-German-Ameri-
can day, at which the German-Americans
of the city and State will be the guests of
honor.
Tuesday, October l7-Irish-American
day, for which the Irish-Americans will
arrange an appropriate programme.
Wednesday, October 1S-Elks' day,
when grand social session will be held
in the German village in honor of prom
inent national officers.
Thursday. October l9-Tennessee day.
Thursday, October 20-Indiana day.
Saturday, October 2l-Kentucky day.
On the State days the Governors and
their stats will be guests of honor.
Chairman Frank Fehr and Secretary
Hogan have general headquarters in the
Board of Trade building, where any in
formation desired may be obtained