The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-10-05
TWAS A RIOT OF FUN
Carnival Dance Last Night
Another of Weeks Successes.
GREAT CROWDS GATHER
And Participate in Evenings
Manipulating on Market
GREAT CROWDS GATHER

| If ever there was a riot Of good times
and merry maing In Wichita there was
/ certainly one at the carnival dance en-
North Maret street last night. Every
citizen and visitor was out, and for
hours the continual round Of pleasure
was kept up. The crowds surged back
and fourth as does tall grass in strong
wind. They were packed along Market
street as though they had been IN a
packing machine, yet for all of that they
were intent on having glorious time
and they had 1t.
To attempt to describe the scene as it
really was would be impossible and If
somo Of the people out in mask knew Just
! how they appeared they would wonder
how it seemed TO the other fellow.
! The old fashioned clown with his wide
roomy suit was there and he had as
much fun as any one. The negro with
his curly hair and shining face was talk
/ ing the language of the south just as if
he was from Virginia and hadn't lived
in Wichita all of the years of his life
The terrible Turk entered in on the mer-
rymaking and the thought Of the Armen-
ian was forgotten in the minds of others
The Dutchmen came also and then the
Irishman with his brogue. If you hap
pened around on the edge you saw a
large fat fellow with a red nose He
didn't like TO move very well and he
gave you the impression of a sign for a
tobacco store.
Long before the time of the dance peo-
pie crowded along on Market and waited
for some one to commence the histilities
of fun. They finally came in the persons
Of tall, lank fellow in the garb of
rustic and along by his side was some
young man dressed as a fat negress. Her
face was shiny and when you noticed her
she bowed as low as though you were
the king of some foreign land.
The tall lank youth who trudged along
by her side when she did her bowling
though he had never noticed the lady
before. When the crowd saw the couple
every one gave a yell and then the car
nival fun commenced. In a little while
others began to come around, and each
time new conner appeared, there was al
ways the words well, 1 wonder who that
fellow is? After the bands commenced
their music everything began to get live
lier and when the music stopped every
one who found it possible to move was
on the go following the example Of the
giddy dancers in the center of the
streets.
Every once in q while the crowd of
decorated people would break away from
Market street and would rush along
Douglas as though on their way to a
conhagration. 1t was a streak of red, a
daub of white touch of yellow or
mask on a few old clothes and the
change was made. IN the rush and
hurry of last night you would not have
recognized your best friends, for you
were too intent on good times and they
were hunting for an opportunity Of ex-
pandIng for another inch or so of keen
enjoyment.
Everyone who attended the dance was
proud of the manner in which the ar
rangements had been made. The streets
were swept The middle of the blocks
where there was no pavement had been
rolled. The hundreds Of lanterns strung
along the walks on wires added to the
beauty. The streets were well policed,
and the man or woman who showed the
least inclination TO rowdyism was
promptly taken in charge by the officers.
The music of the bands was grand and
every time the music started the feet of
the people in attendance started also. 1t
was moving Of a great sea Of human
ity and every motion Of the great crowd
was in perfect harmony with the notes of
the band.
Out of town people who had never wit
messed the Peerless Princess when she
has a good time were surprised and the
next sensation was that Of being pleased
and before the end came along towards
morning. they were having just as much
pleasantly as any Wichita man or wo-
man could possibly have.
To estimate the crowd II would take
days and days Of figuring and then the
person who undertook the project could
not conclude. The people were too num-
erous in the first place and then they
wouldn't keep still long enough. It was
everybody's night and everybody pro-
ceeded to have time.
The committee in charge OF the ar
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