The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-10-04

the tracks and viii counter march
The different bands in attendance al
the Carnival will have positions
among the agricultural exhibits.
At night the Carnival dance will be
the feAture. 1t VII be in the f1rsi
block on north Market street. AR
engagements have been made for the
bands for the dancers.
The crowd in Wichita yesterday ex-
ceeded all former congregations of hu-
manity in this city. No one counted the
people an destimates care in taking them
being precluded. were not attempted with
any confidence.
All that can be said to give any ade-
quate idea of what tremendous Assem-.
bly, it was, is that at the moment Of the
flower parade. an account of which is
given elsewhere, people were lined four
de9p from the Court House south on
Mcin through the street fair, on English
On Market, on Williams and east on
Douglas to the depots in four rows, for
while the procession was countermarch-
watching, columns each over half a mile
long.
AS early as O'Clock the sidewalks
would hold no more and people were out
on the pavements. BY eleven O'Clock the
inpour from the depots and the risedent
portion of the city had damned the
streets and on the corner of Main and
Douglas the street was full from curb to
curb. On top all the principal buildings
there were lines of people and every win
dow was crowded with heads. Marching
college boys and girls on the streets forg-
ed their way through the mass.
The crown of the whole glorious day
was the good order There was no rody-
ism, no offense to good tastes. Every
body had good time and as the night
came down the hilarity increased but
never to an extreme.
The street fair held all it could hold at
o'clock. Every inch of it was occupied
The overflow went into the big midway
and IN the open court people stood
shoulder to shoulder on every foot Of
ground, while the attractions were all
crowded There was not IN the whole
fair, midway or promenades, a three foot
a
continual dodge and jostle.
What today will be with its carnival to-
night, it win not pay to predict. Thous-
ands Of people who intended to go home
last night did not. The carnival is too
splendid to desert. They are not doing
1t. They are remaining. The streets
were never deserted through the night,
but many were still promenading them
at daybreak this morninf. The success
of yesterday was beyond telling as it ex-
ceeded predictions, and taxed the city to
the limit in the way of accommodations
It would be hard to estimate how many
persons were on the midway last night.
There were all sorts of a crowd, and it
was out for fun. The night was the rec
ord breaker so far, though crush as 1t
was, it will probably not surpass tonight
and tomorrow night
Plenty OF town people could be seen
having fun all around. For instance.
there was Colonel Tom Fitch, Juggling
around several packages of confetti.
which he showered over friend and
stranger with like generosity. There was
Senator Bentley, who took in the Streets
of Cairo, ana all sorts Of other notables.
the call, humanity was so tightly wedged
in everywhere that knife blade inserted
betwkeen the people gathered around
would have found difficulty in gaining
entrance. The fountain continues to be
one of the drawing cards. and the people
stack up with great regularity as the
hour for display approaches.
Have you ever observed the American
spirit of 'Jcshing?" 1t is present at the
wichita Carnival. and it was scattered
around everywhere on the Midway last
night. For instance there are unkind
enough people to Josh" pretty little Lu-
nette in her flying act, and last night
when she was being hynotied by her
manager preparatory to doing her act,
and he was gently passing his hands
about her face, her hands. her forehead,
soma fellow permeated with the Ameri-
can shirt yelled rub er-neek." OF course
this brought down the house, and opera
lions were suspended for some consecu-
tive moments Again during the foun-
tain exhibition, when the prettiest scene
was on, some fellow imbued with burn
ing desire to say something made ludi-
circus comparison to something entirely
and brought the crowds
from the sublime to the ridiculous with
thump that shook the midway once
more. when Bosco was doing his eeie-
orated snake-eating act. and everyone
could see him put the twisting reptile
into his mouth. and all were horrihed,
nronerlv. some "josher" said to his girl
in a loud tone, Don't get scared-he only
NM that snake down his sleeve The
cairo dancers were joshed. the pathetic
scenes of the wargraph pictures were
.iolied up" the almost sacred Mechahi-
raj Jerusalem was the butt Of testing
remark and thus il went from O'Clock
until midnight.
The wargraph shows up some very IN
terestirgi pictures OF the Boer war and OF
service in the Philippines. The opening
,;c4ure however, would not do for Web
star paws. Boer champion. TO see, for he
,s,r,ts old Dom Paul as an exceedingly
5anocrasic individual, and many who
49, s..ard the noted Missourian sing OF
,,i,,, and his people had some Illusions
a,enalled about simplicity and democracy
,ast NIGHT when they beheld the Boer
-rss,aent leaving his palace and ge1ung
80 a magnificent carriage; horses tFap-
- sn5 trimmed splendidly: tootman
behind: mounted escort. and all tnst- Inc
story of the entire Philippine camPS1sh
= well told in a single picture, where tle
rs,,n;nos are shown on the run ana the
rr-,,,sntserb Kansas after them. That has
,,aen the campaign-a veritable chase lot
.-,on,hs General Fred Fusion IS shown
- when the crowd sees him and recog-
.,~es him. calling his valiant snnhowe'
,,ar,~ ar. TO pursuit and capture OF another
a-s,al the crowd turns loose mighty
yell OF applause ,.., 1.r,,-
afanarer Cooke Of the mechanical JeTu-
. at.nn,,ernd many old W arSaN.