Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-03

With 2 comb Of pearl J would comb my
And still as / combed 1 would sing and
say,
who Is It loves me; who loves not meY
And / should look like a fountain of gold.
Springing alone
But not alone was the golden mermaid
this time. She had been found by the
prince who had come out in the boat which
was the friendly wolf transformed. Shells
Of every tint and hue. lighted with electric
stars, with dolphins swimming through the
deep set OF the float upon which appeared.
Aubrey Potter. captain: +. G. Aulsbrook,
]. r.. Histed and s. S. Caldwell, while the
guiding knights were E. F. Bradley and
Fred Busch.
All BaBa.
"She was an Abyssinian maid
And on the dulcimer she played.
Singing of Mount Abarau."
But the dulcimer had given place to the
tambourine when she sang before All
Baba and his two friends. after the, latter
had solved the mystery Of the cave and
had mourned the brother whose cupidity
had led to his undoing in more senses than
one. None but the richest man in Bagdad
could have prepared such a conveyance as
that in which ALI Baba and his escorts
followed the person OF King Ak-Sar-Ben
On this float were w. o. Shane, captain,
D.. A. Johnson. D. Cowieson, A. E. Ander-
son, and William H. Lister, while II was
guarded by NJ. Cavanaugh and T. 3. Hol-
brook.
The LoreIef.
Above. the maiden sitteth, a wondrous
With jewels bright she plaiteth her shin
ing golden hair.
The. waters dark. have caught them, both
boat and bOatman brave,
It's Lorelei's song that brought them
beneath the foaming wave
There on the rock sat the Lorelei with
Rowing robes and golden hair. Supported
by her father. the ancient River Rhine, she
lured the v%enturous boatman to his doom.
Wild dashed the choppy waves, while
scenes from Rhine land reflected back a
hundred lamps. The boatman, was John
Drexel, the float being guarded by Mr.. Ket-
tering and Max Goldsmith.
The Spider and the Fly.
"will you walk into my p%arlor?' said the
spider to the hy;
IT'S the prettiest little parlor that ever
you did spy
And surely it must have been a fairy
spider, indeed, which spun the web. car
ried on peacock feathers, on the ninth
float. Flies buzzed around its treacherous
ohhAOs hOhC NtANhAVu ~ hOoN
on this float were: d. j. O'Brien, captain;
Ed Heyden, Frank Dunlap. Cd Yates and
George Toozer, the knightly escort consist
ing of p. A. Saxon and Mr.. Sampson.
Enchanted Island
Young hearts which languish for some
sunny isle,
Where summer years and summer women
smile
The tenth float presented the enchanted
island where men might live II they had
wisdom as they had luck. but which disap-
peared amid awful rumblings when the hu-
man who approached it had not wisdom.
Upon the front of the float stood the ring
which the fisherman found. which led him
self and namesake to the enchanted island.
The goddess of that happy land stood
ready to become the helpmeet OF the mar
who possessed not only luck. hut wisdom,
while the wise and lucky fisherman was
present with his escorts, consisting of Fl. A.
Clayton {. A. Mangan, c. II. Lieben, c. B.
Helmer, Ed Knapp, X. s.. Trimble and Ed
Peterson, the guards being 7. D.. Dakin and
w. r. 7. Belt.
Red Riding Hood.
THE wolf with wide, distended jaws
And b%ristling hair and armed paws
SdLht hSAbs IlufQB III VIZ. 10 iIDuf WHICH
it had taken the conference.-the Rec Riding
Hood. in the person ofrC. H. Mullen, stood
at the foot of the he'd, asking the questions
which preceded her final disappeafance into
the nav of the wolf which seemed to have
a fondness for the family. The escorting
knights were w. H. Elbourn and r. NJ. Rus
sell.
Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp.
by golden porches on the brim,
me costly doors, hung open wide.
Cold-giittering through lamplight dim,
And broidered sofas on each side
In sooth II was a goodly time,
For it was in the golden prime
or good Haroun Alraschid."
And this was the story of Aladdin and
the wonderful lamp, which as natural as
life and several times as large, stood on the
front Of the float. Thereon was the palace
which the wonder workers of the lamp had
made in a night for Aladdin and the daugh-
ter Of the emperor Of China. But the wild
est dream of Haroun Alraschid and his
visitors was out-stripped by the execution
Of the artist who contrived the float for the
King OF Quivera, for nowhere was ever
seen such a blaze Of glory and light as hat
which surrounded Aladdin, when the per-
sonnet of the tableau was: r. Z. Lucas,
captain; Harry B. Davis. George Frost and
John Jacobs, with H. F.. Daley and w. B.
Taylor as accompanying knights.
The Man in the Moon.
The man in the moon is beaming. love.
The glow worms lamp Is cleaning, love;
The best of all ways to lengthen your
days,
love-
And while the crowd was lengthening its
holiday, in the manner best approved by
Moore. here came the man in the moon.
Such a man as he was! Beaming with the
reflected brilliancy of a hundred lights.
Twas not a lonesome mar in the~moon, for
the sprites which love the moonlight-cheer
had one Of their number to keep him COM
pany, while the stars, which twinkled
| around the moon among the clouds which
we're peopled with mOrtals OF lesser rank,
shone like diamonds through the night.
The residents OF this moon zone were
George w. Sues, captain; Alfred Mead, ].
NJ. johnson, S. J. Potter, l. 8. Hunter and
Frank COlvin, with Otto SiemsOn and j.
H. Jones as guardian knights.
Fairy of the Dawn.
Now mounte We, mounte ye brave gal
lants all,