The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-31
GREAT TIME AHEAD
Carnival Headquarters in An
drewS Building,
Voling for The Gu en- Will Begin This Week
Main Voting Place viii be at Kings
Drug Store.

Carnival headquarters nave been es-
tablished in the Andrews Building. or
the second floor. over Hughes chin;
store. 1t was found that the office in the
Grimes Building was not large enough
The office is furnished with desks and
handsomely printed stationery, and the
walls are decorated with fiae specimens
OF the posters art
Nothing is being spared to make tho
great fete magnificent success. The
advertising Will be done on a mammoth
scale. Some idea of this can be gained
from this order that has been placed for
posters: twenty-five 20-sheet stands OF
paper, twenty-five 16-sheet stands, two
hundred and fifty 3-sheet stands, eight
hundred 1-sheet stands, one thousand
12-sheet stand, five hundred cloth ban
hers, two thousand spot dates or dodgers.
9x2O inches forty thousand heralds or
hand bills, and of course buttons and
stickers innumerable.
The voting for Queen of Carnival viii
begin this week. The principal balloting
place will be w. II. Kings Drug store.
But there will be other voting places.
1t has been decided to have some floats
in the parade on 'Mardi- Gras" night, the
night of the Carnival Ball
The official prospectuses have been
issued. They are gotten up in excellent
taste, wen printed on excellent card
board.
The coming carnival in this city
"Raleigh's' May Festival, Free Street
Fair and Merchants Carnival-gives
ample promise Of being the most elabo-
rate affair of it's kind ever held and the
local committee are busy arranging the
preliminaries. as it is their intention to
make the week in May gala week in
every sense of the word.
The local business houses will probably
decorate in lavish manner and the
electrical display on the streets and mid
way will be something grand Mr. Vic
tor d. Levitt, of the Gaskill Mundy-
lit Carnival Company which great ag-
gregation has been specially contracted
for as the amusement feature, promises
the finest lot Of shows ever seen with
any carnival company, each of which is
entirely new and novel.
Among them viii be the great Stadium,
which made such a hit at the Pan
American Exposition. the new 100000
Crystal Maze the world-famous Blake
Dog. Pony and Monkey Circus, the beau
tiful Garden of the Gods, the Glass
Blowing Palace. the magnificent Inter
national Congress of Dancing Girls. the
gay German Village Picturesque Japan
the Ferris Wheel A Night in the Orient
the House Upside Down. A Sioux In
dian Ynlege, the Great New Trained
Wild Animal Arena, the latest improved
American Biograph. with its marvellous
life motion pictures, a large array OF
wonderful free acts, including Kilpat
rick's death defying ride down a steep
flight of stairs on a bicycle and host
of other wonderful attractions, all of
which are the latest novelties brought
to this country especially for this aggre
Cation.
The shows will he honestly ADVERTISED
and honorably conducted and everything
will be of the highest moral and edu
cational order, Mr.. Levitt will co
operate with the local committee il
m king the carnival one solid week
unalloycd enjoyment, profitable amuse
ment and harmless recreation, and it is
safe to predict for ell the greatest TIM
10 their lives during that period. Thou
sands of strangers will be in the CITY
carnival week and the local hotels wiz
be taxed TO their utmost capacity.