Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-10-11
a GRAND SPECTACLE
To BE Witnessed in Kansas City on
Nioht of October Z.

Night of October 2.
On the night of Tuesday. October
z, the people of Kansas City and sur
rounding territory will witness the |
grandest spectacle in the shape of |
street parade ever unfoIded to the eyes |
of man. For months past the Priests |
of Pallas, the well known entertainers
of the Southwest, have been at work
building the pictures for this sequen-
tial panorama of delights. Electricity
is being harnessed to the car of Pallas
for this occasion and a banquet of
beauty and light is being prepared.
The people of the Southwest know
the Priests of Pallas. For fifteen years
they have been entertaining the tens of
thousands of visitors with their won
derful parades. Like all men the
Priests of Pallas have profted by the
knowledge gained in experience. While
the parades of past years were far
ahead of those given in St Louis by
the Yelled Prophets, and in New Or
leans on the annual celebration of
Mardi Gras, the coming electrical dis
play will pale to a secondary place
the most brilliant of them all. New
Ideas, new inventions, and a new field
are combined in the 1902 parade. Elec-
tricity with its gorgeous colors and
endless possibilities are the dom1n<2-
ing features. The parade will be moved
by this force, and cars passing along
the lines of the electric street rail-
ways through the principal retail SEQ
tions of the city.
There will be fifteen animated pic
lures in this parade. Each float will
be a scene of life and many colored
lights. Mystery has interposed it's
hand between the public and this par
ade since the day the ground work
| for the first picture was laid. The
priests have refused to divulge the
most slender clue regarding the nature
of the coming show. None, save the
| priests and the artists who designed
and furnished the pictures, knows
what it is to be. They will only say
| that it is electrical. The dominant
feature of every part is electricity and
the scope of that volatile power is in
finite
The priests determined to make the
| parade the most notable in their his
tory when they set about building it.
| More money has been spent On it than
ever before on a street exhibit in Kan
sas City. 1t will be a revelation to
| all who are so fortunate as to behold
| it.
The impersonations of the several
| characters in the parade will be by
| young women and girls, the daughters
| of Kansas City's first families. They
| will be arrayed in the most gorgeous
costumes ever seen in a spectacular
production off the stage. On the night
of the Priests annual ball in Conven-
ton hall, on the night of October s,
| these graceful creatures will present
a ballet as the opening feature.
Unprecedented inducements are be
| ing offered by the railroads to people
living in all parts of Kansas, Okla
homa, Indian Territory, and Western
Missouri to visit Kansas City on the
occasion of the parade. Merchants in
the territory named know that Kansas
City is the logical base of supplies for
them. Experience has schooled them
in the valuable knowledge that job
bers in Kansas City can give them
better values for the money expended
than any other market within their
| reach.
The stockman who has herds to sell
knows that Kansas City is the best
market for his comodities and the best
place to buy machinery and supplies
for his ranch. 1t is due the wives,
sons and daughters of every farmer
and rancher in the big sweep of coun-
try within ten hours ride of Kansas
City that they be accorded the priv.
ilege of seeing this memorable parade.
| It would be break in the heavy mo.
notony of their lives.
Tickets at the reduced rate of one
| fare for the round trim will he on sale
| by all railroads as follows: From all
points in Kansas and Western Mis-
souri,, October to z, inclusive, final
return limit, October ID; from all
points in Oklahoma, Indian Territory,
| and Northern Arkansas, October 3, 4.
6 and z, final return limit October IL.