Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-10-11
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sweltered, but the bands came not and
the sound of music was not heard. At
II o'clock, when Patience grew tired
and began to crawl down from her
perch, several bands struggled in and
there was "A Hot Time" and some
other rag-time for an hour, and then
the bands marched down town, and
that was the the only music outside the
parades, heard on the streets
during the entire week. The boys were
so busy watching the other spectators
that they forgot to play.
The leading half of the show-the in
dustrial exhibit-did not show up at
all. The booths We're all there, dotting
the cross streets like quaint little ORR
entail villages, artistically built and
handsomely decorated with bunting,
flags and gayly colored streamers, but
the rancho contingent failed to provide
the filling and they looked as bare as
/ Goldsmith's Deserted Village" There
us nothing strange about the omission,
when you come to think of it, one Won
ders just why an agricultural exhibit
was advertised at all, as every one
Knows nothing can be grown within
hundred miles of Denver save cactus
and sandburs. 1t would be impossible
| to exhibit any green products that We're
not imported and there is faint sus-
plclon IN my mind that the fruit dis
played was foreign goods. If the fine
specimens of peaches and pears and
lapples We're not from California; Mis-
souri,, Kansas, Iowa and Nebraska, it
| looked wonderfully like it anyway. j
never saw any such fruit in our shops
here, in quantities and at such prices
las would warrant the belief that they
We're home grown. | have eaten no
/ peaches this summer-home grown
t that costso less than 10 cents per
pound and no apples less than six cents
/ per pound, and without the merchants
4 word of honor 1 could not possibly have
4 told whether l was eating fruit or
turnips.
| In the vegetable department ] saw
nothing save couple of big pumpkins.
4 and a cabbage. AS for tomatoes, we'll
they have been cent apiece all sum
inner.
In the flower department there was a
handful of Columbine looking lonesome
and forlorn.
/ 1t is a serious question whether Den
Ever will try to repeat her carnival an
other year. 1t seems to be the universal
IeXperience in those cities where they
! have been tried that in few years,
icarniyals run their course and cease to
! attract. There is notable exception
/ in the case of New Orleans and that is
owing probably to the difference of
temperament and motive. The warm,
llight-hearted pleasure-loving nature of
/ the southerner, tinctured with the
glamour of love and beauty, can stand
4 that sort of thing better than our
northern people.
Besides. the Latin and Gallo races
are actuated less by the selfish and
mercenary motives which appeal most
strongly TO the cold-blooaed money
scheming Anglo Saxon. Denver is lib
Eeral and hospitable, eager and enthusi-
astic to take hold only Of that which
/ offers money returns. Show our peo-
i pie where small fortune can be made
and they will open their hearts and
their purse-strngs to work out the
scheme. Show her only pure, open
4 hearted, Wholesome joy and Denver is
A not in it, Her bonanza kings are deaf
Ito all appeals that do not mingle pleas
ure and profit in such happy proportion
4 that the latter come out vastly in eS-
cess of the former. That was the ont
glaring and painfully obtrusiye feature
about the recent carnival. The com
mittee, consisting of Denvers wealth
lest men, stretched over one entire
d week a program that ought to have
CONSUMED but three days in order TO
keep the crowds here. and the people
were not slow in catching on.
A. j. n.
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1899.
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