The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-09-21
MISS Gil MORE WON
She Is Selected Queen of the
Carnival.
WITH GREAT SPLEND0R
She VIII be Crowned Next
Friday Evening.


was cast
Miss Floy Gilmore will be the queen for
this years carnival. Miss Gilmore Is a
stenographer at the National Bank Of
Commerce, and is one OF Wichita's most
pleasant and popular society girls. out
side Of being very handsome. she is wei
liked by all who know her, and she
counts her friends by hundreds. Miss
Gilmore viii certainly make an ideal
queen, and IL can be safely said that she
viii rule Judiciousiy during her reign,
carnival week. Miss Beal made a very
good race, and proclaimed her popularity
By a good sized vote. The vote last night
stood IS follows.
Miss FlOy Gilmore ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 0l
Miss Matte Beal .........................7
Miss Gertrude Mclean ..................3l0
Miss Hattie Sewell .................... s.
Miss Ada Parkhurst ..................... 73
MISS ada wilson ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. %
Miss Emma Swab ....................... p
Miss Blanche Chiids .................... .
Miss Dolly Schintelt ......................
Miss Ophelia Love ...................... l
\ grand coronation bail win be given IN
honor Of the newiy-elected queen, Miss
FIoy Gilmore, and her maids OF honor on
next ~ ttlAcSNdF A4HANt slrlLclNDcl %
Prof Sanford fun orchestra viii play
the grand march at D. N. sharp. This
viii be a big social event, and all Of
Wichita's l-0Je violate have been invited
and a very swell affair IS promised. The
committee on arrangements is: Messrs.
Walter p. Innes, Roy Z. Allen, 2. Given
Hagney, Bruce NJ. Priddy, Chas. Top
ping, De Los Woods. Geo. Lynch. Jesse
\. McCless. Ike Goldsmith and J. Elmer
Reese.
Everything is hummlng at the carnival
grounds. and the hammer is keeping up
merry ring from early in the morning IN
Ill sunset. Chas. Payne IS building fences
cages and enclosures, which cover one
complete acre of ground. Mr.. Payne Will
have curios and wild birds and animals Of
all description in his exhibit
The new enclosure for Paine's fireworks
has been completed. The electricians
have completed their decora ting supplies,
and they viii commence stringing the
lights next week. The streets to be fes-
TONED will be Main street and Douglas
avenue. which will be brilliantly illumin-
ated by electric lights. During the Gay
the color scheme VIII be worked out with
pennants and flags in carnival cOlors, be-
tween the electrical festoons. All the
rigging. paraphernalia and fireworks TO
make the Wichita fire department run,
one Of the most spectacular and brilliant
affairs ever presented, is now in posses
sion of Chief Of the Fire Department A.
G. Walden. This run will undoubtedly be
one OF the most ma gnificent and beaad-
ful spectacles ever Witnessed in the west
A large consignment of muslin advertis-
ing matter sent by the Oriental Midway
company and attendant attractions. was
received yesterday by Colonel Fitch. The
same viii be swung to the breezes during
the week OF the carnival.
People who have never seen Paine's
fire works have no conception of what
an enormous and magnificent thing they
are.
The display Of fireworks is brilliant. 1t
begins at $50 o'clock and for over half
an hour there is a steady stream of
screaming rockets. bursting shells. bang
ing bombs, haring lighls, hugh spraying
stretches of sparks and stars. floating
chains Of colored lights, festOons Of many
colors, lines of fiery torches along the
shore, belching flames of fire on the lake
itself set pieces, the falls, an oriental
tree that buds in white fire and blooms
in gorgeous red and green and blue,
Chinese pagoda of Ginning sparkles. a
whirring wheel of blazes diamond dust
screen and an aquatic carnival
It All is gorgeous and bewildering In its
bright and everchanging colors. Perhaps
n is most beautiful when the chrysanthe-
mum bombs and the aoral bombshells
and the golden shower batteries are cap
ped nv A dozen Of the hugh fiery spider
bombs which burst into scene which re-
sernbles a score of mighty colossal spiders
creeping across the night In the bright
ness of the colors. the spiendor of the
showers of stars. the magnihcence Of the
and creations, and the
promptness and smoothness OF firing. the
disDlsy stands unequaled
This exhibition is absolutely free to all
visitors. and is brought 70 Wichita at
great expense.