The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-07-14
CONTRACT is SIGNED UP
Wichita Can Now Boast with Pride OF
an Electrical Street Pa2elnt.

The contract for the grand electrical
Street pageant was closed yesterday az
ternoon with P. J. TOomey Of St. Louis,
by the officers Of the Street Fair associ-
alton and it viii be produced on Friday
night Of Carnival week. To say that It
Will be one Of the grandest parades ever
witnessed in the west would be q mild as
sertion.
II is 10 be put on by the KnOxOn-
Toomey Scenic Art company Of St. Louis
OF which Mr.. Toomey is at the head. Mr..
Teomey arrived in the city yesterday at
the inst'gation Of the association members
and met The executive committee in the
afternoon. All of the members Of the
eammittee were heartily IN favor of hiv-
ing the parade, but some held back on
account OF the great expense connected
with the enterprise. The matter was dis
cussed all afternoon, the question Of
finances being talked over In detail, and
finally II was the unanimous expression
OF the committee that the contract be
cIesed. y contract was Immediately
drawn up and signed by Mr.. Toomey for
the company and by President Cohn and
Secretary Stockwoed of the association
The stipulati7ns and agreements in the
contract are concise
The parade is 10 consist of twelve in
dependent floats and four band floats. Ar
raBgements have already been perfected
with the street car company TO use the
track and 20 furnish the power TO put on
the parade. The contract calls for
.Ssuntermarch on Main street AID Doug
las avenue. which is the first time this
was ever done. This VIII enable the spec
tator to witness the pageant 10 better
advantage, To build the floats and put
on the parade viii cost SII60o. 1t requires
about three months work and the con-
truc,Ion viii commence upon M Toom-
ey's return 10 St. Louis.
The subject Of the hoats VIII not be
given out until the week OF the carnival.
but it VIII be magnificent in the extreme
Il VIII require sixty-tive characters On the
floats ard 20 on foot. M Toomey viii
have fun charge OF the production and
VIII costume the characters The floats
viii he c1nructed on street car trucks
which Nr Toomey carries with him The
floats are 10 be run 20 feet apart. thus
making q grand display Mr. Toomey
carries his Own costumes and each char
acter represented or the float VIII be a.
ranged in elaborate costumes which VIII
4, be in keeping with the remainder OF the
enterprise.
The floats vii be equipped with 800 10
candle power Incandesce2t lights and the
street pageant as a whole viii = the
rrandeSt enterprise ever attempted In the
west. But three VIII be produced in the
United States this year-at Wichi-a, Nj,
waukee aud Springfield, III The one held
at Milwaukee was q decided success.
Studded with 500 electric lights the dis
play viii abound in briliaucy and present
an Illuminating effect that xii surpsss
in beauty anything ever attempted in the
west
MI Toomsy is reputed TO be the best
Eoat constructor n the United States. He
successfully put on the electrical pageant
nt Milwaukee and for years mana Set the
Mad Gras parade be has also been
identified WITH al the elaborate street
PRODUCTIONS during the past twenty wears
The c77amittee has every confidence II his
integrity and ability q prosecute the