The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-09-25
GRAND COURT SCENE
viii be a Feature of Carnival
Queens Coronation.
BIG CARNIVAL BALL
ShoWmen Arrive to Work On
Displays,

Everything is being done to make the
! coronation entertainment oae of the
grandest affairs ever heard o. thought of
in the state. Not stone is being LETT
un:urned, and rehearsals for the great
social event are going one morning, aft,i-
noon and evening. The court scene this
year will not be foreign affair. as here
tofore, but strictly an American girls
court, and everything in it will be con-
Quoted in a real American manner. This
will make a delightful departure from
the old custom.
President Thomas G. Fitch. accompa-
MED by a corps Of officers, will crown
the queen with appropriate ceremony.
Some very beautiful costumes will be
worn by the people participating in the
musical part of the coronation concert.
Yesterday Mr.. s. A. Welsh, who VIII
be manager and proprietor Of the Wichita
Projectoscope company, viii show his
moving pictures. Yesterday he secured
at a cost Of $500 three sets Of films show
ing the late President McKinley's funeral
professions at Buffalo, Washington and
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has taken great pains to secure the latest
and best moving pictures that money
can buy. His show alone will be worth
coming miles to see, as these late films
are not carried by travelling moving pic
ture shows until the views have become
old and the price has decreased consid-
erably on the films.
Many requests are being received for
rooms and boarding places at the Car
nival headquarters. It is the request of
the management that people having fur
nished rooms for rent leave their address
at the Carnival Office, on the third floor
of the Winnie building. Fred Van Duyn,
manager OF the Manhattan hotel, told
an Eagle reporter yesterday that he has
received more requests to reserve rooms
for the big week than he knows what to
do with. In fact, he has quit replying
TO these numerous requests.
Yesterday several Of the men connected
with the Paine's fireworks display ar
rived in the city and will begin work
today. Pictures of the queen, Miss Gil
more and President Roosevelt VIII be
exhibited. encircled in colored fire and
pyrotechnical display.
Inc DOOIlS are nearly AL BOi1S anu INV
Colonel Fitch is kept busy refusing Of
fers OF additional shows. Nothing but
the best shows viii be allowed on the
Midway, as Colonel Fitch has the choice
of hundreds from all over the union.
This morning the seats will be on sale
for the coronation, at Miss Howard drug
store, on North Main street.
Manager Dunbar announces that all Of
the 125 participants In the celebration are
in excellent condition and that the coro-
nation program will excel any of the past
years. The program is of a more popular
order than those previously given. and
besides the quaint japanese choruses
from the Afikado. there will be a stirring
comic opera scene from the "Sousa Girl"
which is prophesied to be the hit OF the
program. The latest moving pictures and
illustrated songs viii also be given as
an entire act.
Miss Montez Dunbar, Wichita's popular
soprano, will render. with fun orchestra,
Love is Tyrant," from The Singing
Girl"
The coronation scene viii be new, novel
and elaborate. 4 large company Of sol
diers, under Captain Kenocke, and the
Wichita band of thirty musicians, will
appear on the stage in connection with
the chorus and maids Of honor in the
coronation scene.