Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-04-26
Parade Of
All Nations
ENTIRE GLOBE CONTRIBUTES TO
THE GORGEOUS PROCESSION,
A FEATURE OF PIKE DAY
At THE WORLDS FAIR.


ST. LOUIS, Mo-, April 26.-The
wonderful parade Of peoples and
beasts, on Pike day at the worlds
fair. June 4th, will be the greatest
of modern world ~spectacles. Its bar
barrie magnificence and human inter
est far oyershadow the queens jubilee,
triumphs of Rome ~conquerors or the
visit .of sheba to solomon.
Amid a babel Of untamed music, the
murmurs of thirty-iye different ton,
CUES and the simmer Of myriad col
ors, a huge caravan, the like of which
has V been seen in all the history
of the centuries, will drag its serpen-
tine length through the city Of palac-
es.
Six thousand natives from clinaes,
far and near, and two thousand ami.
mails of nearly every known species
will moyeYin the strangest procession
since the II that sought refuge in the
ark.
It will be a living color page Of
storylani, OF nursery rhyme Nd the
days when tales were y~ The
Arabian Nights will flash in the noon
day sun. Ancient religions with all
their glamour of mystery and heather
splendor give the solem& note 70 the
pageant. We will behold types of these
different peoples:
Chinese, japanese, Russians, Tyro-
lese, Irish, French, Italians, Persians,
Turks, Burmese, Singalese, F%ilipinos,
Esquimax, Spaniards, Egyptians, In
dams, Hindoos, Beers, Zulus. Kaffirs,
Jews. Bohemians, Assyrians, Bedouins,
Hawaiian Islanders, Kanakas, heal
hunters Of Borneo, Crecians. Negroes,
Arabians, Germans. Patagonian Giants,
African pigmies, hairy Anus, and sew
eral Americans.
Curious conveyances will be employ
~ -E
ed in this march Of nations. Some
will ride in Irish. jaunting cars, in the
jinrickashaw, the Persian kajavak,
golden cars of the Indian rajahs, Alas
kan dog sledges, sulkies drawn by
ostriches and giraffes, stylish modern
traps hauled by zebras and fat-tailed
African sheep. LayishlN caparisoned
elephants, camels and dromedaries
bear on their backs howsahs with lofty
p~innacles, Arabian steeds carry tur-
baned children of the desert. The
American bronchos support famous In
dian chiefs and the rough riders Of
the world. Dragomen of Carlo ride
the historic donkey.
Dancers Of all nations reflect the
Schuhblatter, the real, the fling, the
clog, the Nautch, the Jar, the Cas-
tenet, the sword and the devil
dance, and behold those who whirl
as do the iervishes. those who do the
fandango and the geisha dance, the
flute, the snake, and the Kachina or
the dance of masks, the Buffalo, and
the Manitou dance and the cannibal.
istic revels of the far South Sea ISL
ands.
Industries of the earth will be por-
trayed in the procession by the poly
glot population of Jerusalem, the
thrifty natives. Of the Alps, the weay.
ers of Ireland, the wood and ivory
carvers, the gold brocade weayers and
Benaries brass makers ami the jewel
ers Of Hindostan; the tea piekers and
rollers Of Geylon, the brass chiselers,
candy makers, fortune tellers and
fakirs Of Persia; Japanese of Japan;
Rommanys from Spain; street vend.
ors, from the Bazaars Of STEAMBOAT;
old-time plantation darkies OF the
south. expert fire fighters Of the mod
ern city; Russian serfs and deep sea
divers; the potters, basket makers and
blanket makers Of the Zuni and Moki
tribes; Chinese silk weayers plying
ancient looms, the Boer housewife
fresh from her lager and many other
types.
Wedding ceremonies and burial
rites, native festivals and annual sac.
rificial feasts have their vivid por.
trayal in this streaming ~pulsation of
life as il moves over a mile along the
hard smooth ~bouleyards Of the expo
sition. II IS estimated that the page.
ant will represent an outlay Of thirty
thousands dollars and 1t Is intended
to make of II one of the greatest edu.
cational and amusement features of
the worlds fair.