The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-12-10
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

Jury and to get mad at being made the
victim of such pranks was simply useless
AID but added to the dscomuuure of the
person who showed such poor Judgment as
to become angered at anything on Carnival
night, where everything is on the level, for
once In the huge jostling, unmanagable
crowd, there is a sense of comradeship,
1t raises the draggled soul to a sort of
eXaltation which the person whose path
lies along lines that are always pleasant
finds it hard TO understand.
Last night was simply a forerunner OF
what will continue 10 happen as the Car
nlval progresses. It's after the lights are
lit that things begin to bubble over during
the Carnival season. Say what you Will,
humanity is always a bit freer after dark.
Besides the artificial light glazes over many
scene that would be crude TO the shock
ing point in the day time. BY pickering
lights the fakirs do business with better
spirit. their voices sound more melodious.
the merry. laugh of the prankish urchln Is
more portic.
ON Main street last night it was positive
ly difficult to get along without being
stopped by crowds that had copgresated
around the stand OF some faktr selling Car.
niva trinketS, or clustered about some or
the handsomely decorated show windows.
for the displays were really handsome and
artistic,
Captain james Lawlor at the Rice hotel
simply surpassed oil efforts on the part OF
the previous homogeneous Of that popular
hostelry to make II what Its location has
designed II to he, the center Of attraction.
In addition to being the FIRST to decorate
with the Carnival colors. Captain Lawlor
with myrds of vari colored incandescent
lights. giving the place glamor that re-
nected all colors of the rainbow
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Main street was q showing, pushing, surg.
ing crush of humanity. The closing of the
stores and factories and railroad Offices in
the evening added thousands 10 the thous
ands already congregated on the streets
and when the electric lights were turned
on the scene presented was an Inspiring
one Fannln aud Main streets, from The
bayou 10 Capitol avenue, We're ablaze WIN
electricity, Between each square on Main
stringers Of electric lights were added, and
with the cross strlngers on the corner
running from Franklin avenue 10 cap oil
avenue, the scene was magnlh ent. TIE
dozens Of incandescent lights between 81
square and the double st inge S, IN NJ
diagonally across al the corners, MAZE 2
scene rs bright as day, and to this en- ct
the countless lights from the show wind VS.
OF the big dry goods, clothing. shoe. jcwe ry
and other establishments added mate iall %
A view Of Main street from Ere XII n
the north and Capitol on the south was
pleasllrallc sight u d one m ch mn u ]
upon by visitors and HOustonians alike. Such
beautiful effect did the thousands Of IN
candescents produce that many were led 10
remark no natter what it cost electricity
was, after al, easily the leader in the line
Of decorations
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BY O'Clock the great .throng on the
street had Increased to such proportions
that it was almost impossible to pass and
hundreds found the street pavement the
more acceptable mode Of travel. The crowd
was one Of the most orderly seen at any
carnival or street fair, aud not a single
case Of tllsorderly conduct was seen or re-
ported during the night. il was thor.
onghly easy going. good -nstured crowd; II
wss made up Of men. women and children,
white and blsck, Chipamsp and Jap. There
was the young aud the cd, the neh and the