The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-10-05

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TO the cars for the bands.
They are coming. People and thousand'
of them in special trains. in heightened
trains, in wagons and every which way
wichita's experience yesterday wa!
new.
1t was new in this; that the carniva
has proved cumulative. In all formeI
years there have been one or two bis
days in week.
1t hasn't worked out that way thi:
year. The crowd on Monday was ere
mendous; on Tuesday it umped still high
er; on Wednesday of the Flower parade
one of the big days it damned the city
And everybody said: well, wen have
a rest tomorrow, and get ready for Fri
day.
They didn't. They didn't rest They
didn't get ready for Friday.
Wichita got up yesterday morning and
came down town to take fresh breath
and found the crowd still here, the same
crowd and new crowd.
The great mass Of Wichita people were
crawling slowly out of bed after a day.
hilarity when the streets Of Wichita were
already crowded with more visitors than
have ever held the street here alone.
Outside the stores nearly every face was
new.
And then Wichita began to realize that
the people hadn't gone home. The car
nival was too good a thing to desert.
And men banked four deep at the tele-
graph offices telegraphing home and the
receiving mail boxes filled up by people
who intended only to stay a day"
writing home that they weren't coming
yet, proved it.
No one who came to Wichita expected
to see things on the scale that they have
seen them.
And last night another curious thing
happened-the commercial travellers and
the railroad men began dropping down
from Kansas City. The news has spread
that far, and the Missourians are slip
ping in to be shown. The verdict Of the
arrivals from Kansas City is: kansas
City's blowout isn't to be mentioned in
the same breath"
The RAILROAD men said: 1.-THE roads are
not handling the people into Kansas
City that they are into Wichita"
Steve Hayden of the Missouri Pacific
said yesterday: 81 brought people to
Wichita from as far east as Butler, Mo-,
y have brought them from the extreme
northwestern part of Kansas"
The news IS spreading, the news that
Wichita has about the finest thing in the
way Of carnival that ever happened.
Yesterdays crowd by o'clock in the
afternoon exceeded the crowd which wit
messed the flower parade
The managers Of local entertainments
could not understand it. They expected
a big crowd on Wednesday, a big crowd
on Friday, but they were counting on a
lull for Thursday.
But the people kept coming and those
here remained, the greater part of them.
The crowd during the afternoon scat
tered. You could find groups Of big par
ties on Paramount on College Hill. thous-
ands in the parks, hundreds at the court
house. while the street fair was full up.
And at night the resident portion Of the
cit yadded its portion. The streets in
places became impossible. The carnival
spirit was rampant and was granted IL
cense to spread itself.
About o'clock a local wag Bill Fryer.
stepped out on the street, with a beau
tlful morocco pocketbook peeping from
a side pocket. pickpocket sided up to
him. snatched the pocketbook and fed.
He fed about five feet and then a string
by which the pocketbook was tied stop
ped the thief. who was so ASHAMED that
he apologized. That started the fun.
The megaphones began to roar, confetti
Nd I ia
ceiving little slips which reveal such ter
rible things when held to the light were
passed about Streets were blocked by
faxed greetings. friends grabbing paws,
and shaking hands like long lost friends.
Bevies Of girls. holding ribbons stormed
through the masses and up and down
Main street. up and down Market and
east and west on Douglas there was a
continual tangle of laughing people old
and young.
The WEAKNESS from Wednesday wore
off. The bands surged up the streets,
playing. the corner of Market and Doug
las where the carnival could be seeen be-
came packed Buggles were blocked in
and street cars had to feel their way.
To one or any of the business streets
II appeared that all the crowd was there,
but the street fair told a different story.
For at the street fair the policemen
were having the tussle of their lives.
The crowds in turning on English ave-
me. became too thick and although the
nolicemen roared keep to the right
that only eased the condition and did not
remedy it. Just north Of the Dold booth
the crush was terrible. Here the con-
fetti-throwing was intense and with
scarcely any room for movement Of arms
defense was impossible.
It took on an average Of ten minutes
~ get ten feet at S o'clock near the Dold
booth. The crush was not surpassed by
any former night
FINALLY Chief Cubbon struck upon an
,dea to keep things going and armed his
force with long fishing poles by which
a 5ividing line between the moving col
umns could be kept. This served Wet
Meanwhile the Midway was packed,
neopla standing shoulder to shoulder
Every attraction was packed ana couio
not serve all corners.
Rv o'clock the masks began 70 Sp-
,ssr on the street and Market street.
north from Douglas 20 Ill up BY ten
a,clock the curbs were SLED with people
seated and watching the fun.
"Wednesday there were some people VINO
did not think the crowd the day OF me