People's voice., 1900-09-27
THE JUBILEE.
THURSDAY.

THURSDAY.
Wellington is simply overwhelmed
with people today. The greatest
crowd that ever gathered IN the his
tory Of Sumner county Is here today,
The number OF visitors is variously
estimated at from 10000 10 3O,OVO.
Washington avenue, during the flower
parade, was a jam from the court
house corner 10 Rush's livery barn-
, seven blocks long. People stood upon
the sidewalks, in the street, on top OF
awnings, in windows and on the roofs
OF buildings. The flower parade was
mile long. II would easily have
stretched out a mile and a halt. We'll
llngton people did not expect the par
ade to be Une fifth as imposing as IL
was. This Is the truth OF it. The
editor Of the JOURNAL thought he
had an idea Of what the parade would
be like and was preparing JOapOlOglze
for il on the ground that the women
mad put all their energies On the
queens float and did not have time 10
brepare individual carriages. WI.
Puett of AtChisOn, deputy Internal
revenue collector, and one of the
flower judges, said that the parade
discounted the AtchlsOn parade OF
last year. Last years Atchison par.
ACE was generally conceded TO be the
finest flower parade ever seen in tie
wes5, Wellington has beat 1t. W. W.
SchWinn says it was better than the
Kansas City parade. He says there
was only one feature lacking in t0day'S
parade: the absence OF liVeried coach
men to lead the horses. The Wichita
and the LeaYenwOrth parades are not
in it. The route Of the parade was
on f street north from Harvey avenue
to Eleventh street, east to Washing
ton avenue, south to Second, west to
f street and north to Harvey, east to
Washington, south to Third, vest to
Jefferson and north to Fourth, east to
Washington aud then north. When
the last carriage passed the intersec-
tiOn OF Washington and Harvey ave-
nues, the band and horsemen leading
the parade were coming back in to
Washington avenue from Harvey
avenue. The parade was made up of
the following floats, carriages, bicy-
cleS and saddle horses, not mentioning
the bands and hundred or more
hOrsemen who guarded the queens
float: FloatS-QueeD Edna, Geo. B,
Dean, A.O.U.W., LO.O.F., Worden's
nursery, DR., H. j. Stevens, Il. L.
Buttrey, A. Graf, Fraternal Aid as
sociatlOn,. Pyramids, Richardson &
Co., B. f. Dobbs, F. A. Amsden,
Racket, L. c. Fisher; double seated
csrriages-MrS. ]. W. Haughey, Mrs.
S. P. Kramer, Sam'l Fox, Miss Grace
Rise, Edna Hunter, A. Graf; single
seated Carriages-S. Crane, Mrs, jacob
Engle and Cora Newbold, Mrs. q. F.
smith, Mrs. Fred Smith, Katie Le1n-
ing, DR.. J. 81. Stevens, Grace Botkin,
Maude Barrett, Mrs. Glenn Spruance;
bicycles-Haze Mcclure, Blanche
Nelson, Ruby Havens, Mary Davis, c.
L. Sadler, Earl Daily; saddle horses
Glenn Richardson, Everett Carnes,
Chester Simpson.
A correspondent OF the St. Louis
Globe Democrat, Mr.. CASTLE, is 10
Wellington for the purpose Of writing
up the Jubilee. He said today that
the Wellington flower parade was
finer than anything he ever saw 10
New York, Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas
City, or elsewhere. Do Wellington
people realize that they have beaten
The United States in flower parades?
The rubber ball nuisance became SO
annoying that City Marshal Cox went
the rounds shortly after supper last
night and gave orders to The effect
that no more rubber balls would be
allowed on the streets. The order
travelled faster than the marshal, aud
before he could walk a block every
ball on the streets had disappeared.
The confetti man did thriving bust
ness at once, aud acquisitions were
made on the grocery stores for Oat-
meal, -four, etc.-any harmless thing
that could be used to make fun. 1t
was not long until every person on the
street was literally covered with con
fetti, oatmeal, etc. a young man was
seized with bright idea and went
into u store and bought brush. He
elbowed his way through the crowd
industriousiy brushing the clothes
aud hats OF women. The crowd
caught on and soon dozens Of other
Young men were doing the same thing.
A young man with d pocket full Of
confetti or oatmeal, and a brush.
managed to have great deal of fun
The women did not become ANNOYED
until the men commenced throwing
confetti in their hair and brushing IT,
until their hair was streaming down
their backs.
Grif1 8 bard came up from Heur es-
Sey this morning to help furnish music
for the flower parade. 1t is number
one band, Two OF the best bands in
the country are furnishing music for
the Jubilee.
The award of prizes was made as
follows: Floats-First, $40 Racket;
second prize, $40, LO.O.F,; third
prize, IS, Richardson & Co. Two
seated carriages-First prize, SIS,
Edna Hunter; second prize, $3.50, A.
Graft; third prize, S., Mrs. s. P.
Kramer. Single seated carriages
First prize, sl2, Mrs. Glenn Spruance;
second prize, 81, Mrs. Jacob Engle and
Miss Cora Newbold; third prize, IS,
Mrs. Fred Smith. HI Stevens was
accorded favorable mention. Saddle
borses-Flrst prize, 50, Everett Carnes;
second prize, 81, Chester Simpson;
third prize, 81, Glenn Richardson.
Bicycles-First prize, $3.50, Mary
Davis; second prize, 50 so, RUBY Ha-