The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-06-08

rade committee. consisting of Jack
BeIlamy. Captain w. p. Monroe, Geo.
Harriss. Jr.. A. 3. Shedding and Thos.
H. Wright. will meet a representative
company of ladies and gentlemen in
the Orion hotel parlors this afternoon
at 5 O'Clock, the the special object OF
the meeting being to select a lady
ager for the floral parade to be given
during the progress of the great tour
nament July 10th to 18th. other bust
ness pertaining TO this event will be
fully discussed and the preliminary
arrangements begun in earnest.
The committee hopes that there will
be a large attendance. The following
are especially requested TO be present,
and any others will be gladly well
coined Mrs. James Sprunt Mrs. E. c.
L. Bridgers. Mrs. E. j. Powers, Mrs
Clayton Giles, Mrs. Ed. 5. Latimer,
Mrs. John d. Bellamy, Mrs. James H.
Chadbourn, Jr., Mrs. NJ. J. Corbett,
Mrs. II. l.. Fennell, Mrs. j. w. Atkin-
son. Mrs. John F. Garrell, Mrs. r. c.
DeRosset, Mrs. S. H. Ffshblate, Mrs.
J.. w. Norwood, Mrs. Hugh MacRae,
Mrs. Gabriel Holmes, Mrs. Warren G.
Elliott, Mrs. Donald MacRae, Miss
Martha Williams, Mrs. H. l.. Vollers,
Mrs. W. d. Mcmillan, Mrs. w. r. ke-
nan, Mrs. W. H. Sprunt, Mrs. j. s.
Armstrong. Mrs. William Calder, Mrs.
w. A. Johnson, Mrs. T. NJ. Emerson,
Mrs. ]. a. Arringdale, Mrs. E. P. Bal
ley, Mrs. r. r. Bellamy, Mrs. w. NJ.
Cumming, Mrs. DuBrutz Guitar, Jr.,
Mrs. E. H. Sneed, Mrs. w. l.. Parsley,
Mrs. A. H. Harriss, Mrs. T. S. Bur
bank. Mrs. NJ. ]. Heyer, Mrs. E. w.
VanCourt Lucas, Mrs. J.. W. Jackson,
NfrS h IOnpG Mrs Charles
McMillen, Mrs. Iredell Meares, Mrs. ].
w. Murchison, Mrs. William Gilchrist,
Mrs. B. H. j. Ahrens, Mrs. w. II.
Northrop, Mrs. NJ. McRary, Mrs.
Staples, Mrs. N. B. Rankin, Mrs. w.
A. French, Mrs. G.. G.. Thomas, Mrs.
G. W. Higgins, Mrs. William Chad
bourn, Mrs. ]. II. Waters, Mrs. A. B.
Shielding, Mrs. w. E. Worth, Mrs.
Walker Taylor.
There will be two prizes given, which
the ladies will select, for the best dec
GRATED team and one to the prettiest
team.
The following gentlemen have already
consented to enter the parade: Messrs.
George Harriss, Jr., r. w. Wallace,
T. H. Wright, Bellamy Harriss, John
D. Bellamy, Jr., 3rd., (trap), James
Woolvin. John K. Williams, George
r. French, Captain Donald MacRae.
Then there will be outsiders on horse
back, ladies n gentlemen, and the
decorated bicycles, which, in all, will
make the %grandest parade ever seen On
our streets,
POSSIBILITIES OF A FLORAL PA
RADE.
Concerning the Importance and pos
sibilities of a floral parade in connec-
ton with the great firemen's tourna-
ment, the following letter from Mr. G.
H. Campbell, of Charlotte, to Captain
| w p Monroe will he road with intQr-
est:
My Dear Mr.. Monroe
Now that the great celebration at
Charlotte, which was based upon the
125th anniversary of the Mecklenburg
Declaration of Independence, is now a
feast of the past, and u city has re-
sumed it's normal condition and the
workers that made the gala week a
success are now rested from their la
bors, we look to Wilmington for recre-
alton and amusement. Charlotte feels
gratified to the many thousand visitors
that were within her gates during our
carnival, because they came, Joined in
the festivities, they enlivened our city,
spent their money freely with Jul mer-
chants, and, better than all, they went
home with a good word for the hos
pitality of our people, and this latter
reason alone was sufficient
ton to the management and our people
for having gotten up a week of enter
tainment for our visitors.
The many friends that our city
made during the celebration will live
to speak the praise of our city long
after the gala week itself is forgotten.
These festivities, properly encouraged
by liberal subscriptions for attractive
prizes and amusements, and having
the moral support of the business ele-
ment, will do more to bring a commun-
ity into favorable notice than any other
style of advertisement, and they al
ways pay for the advertisement right
then and there, and leave a large sur
plus to the credit of the city jim which
they are held, by the staunch friends
the business community creates by
the limit of their hospitality and the
amusements they a furnish to the
visitors.
1.-The most beautiful and most pop
ular fad n o might say the least
expensive, for the general good result
obtained, is the flower parade.
Il witnessed the floral parade at
Richmond and I was so struck with it's
splendor and attractiveness and the
great admiration every person present
seemed to have for it that I practically
purchased all their flowers and shipped
them to Charlotte, n in a very few
days our leading society ladies manip-
ulated these flowers into gems Of
beauty, and our floral parade at Char
- q LIZ lSdu1IS Lea
ture of our carnival week and the
ak of the town; it was simply out
of sight and indescribable. 1t has to
be seen to be fully appreciated.
Miss Addie Williams, city editor Of
The Charlotte News, was selected as
the floral director and she quickly or
ganized h ladies and created an en-
thusiasm which had no bounds except
success, and to her efforts and skillful
the credit of our flower
parade was due.
The Ole WORKOUT trades display
which usually has no merit was entire
ly discarded, and we had a clean-cut
and neat parade. Men cannot get UP
the beautiful-it takes the ladies; there
fore trades displays are relegated to
he rear and the flower parade blooms
in its place.
Let the ladies of Wilmington once
take hold Of it and they will eclipse all
other parades that have ever been seen
in your city. People have heard of
these floral parades and expect some
thing fine, and I know if Wilmington
undertakes It the visitors will not he