The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-23
SUCH A PARADE!
EIks Have Completed Their
Line of March.
Marshall's Band TO Have PrOmi-
nent Place.
KEEPING 1T SECRET.
Details OF the Out Door Exhibit
tion Carefully Guarded.
Thousands of Tickets Already
Sold But There Are Others.

Several thousand tickets to the Elks'
Minstrel show have already been sold
but there are others to be had.
Rain or snow, hail or sleet, sunshine
or shadow, war or peace, on next Mon
day noon, just when the Old Sol is
climbing over the middle bar of the
zenith, the grand, Respondent, idyllic,
beautudinous parade of the Topeka Elks'
Minstrel show containing $50 people,
will be pulled off in this city, free for
every one.
Down in the dark basement of the
Masonic temple where the antlered herd
make their headquarters, secreted be-
hind a pile of old storeboxes and two
foot curtain of mysterious secrecy, the
plans for this monster exhibition which
promises to melt the asphalt on the To-
peka streets, are being made.
By dint of a. heap of Sherlock Holmes
work, ably aided and abetted by the
Topeka police force, a State Journal re-
porter was successful in ferreting out
the following skeletonized facts.
Here they come:
Grand Parade.
Elks' Minstrel Show. Topeka,
High Noon, Nov. %.
DIVISION ONE.
Director Donahue.
Twelve End Men.
MarShalPs Band of 65 Pieces.
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Dress Parade of Entire Elks Lodge.
DIVISION THREE.
The "Olio' in Automobiles.
DIVISION FOUR.
Grotesques.
Details of this avalanche of beauty,
wit, elegance, und so weiter, und SO
weiter, cannot be obtained, either by
force of arms or pleading. All that
is known is that the twelve end men
in oh five
inch standing collars, red, white and
blue neckties. long minstrel coats, a
Ia paletot, pear lgray trousers and
patent leather shoes. Each and every
themum attached to the lapel of his
coat. Each and every one will wear
white gloves and carry a cane, deco
rated with the colors of Elkdom, pur-
pie and white. Colonel j. w. F.
Hughes will be commander in chief of
this part of the agony. He is now
training the end men to swing their
canes according to certain motions
the latter also being a distinct secret,
and something altogether new in the
way of air cutting.
Marshall's band will appear in full
strength decked in their red coats and
will look like a sunrise. 800 sfi
In the automobiles will ride the
ladies of the Turnverein who will give
an exhibition of fencing at the show.
The machines will all be decorated.
But the piece de resistance will
come last. namely, the "Grotesques."
The blacklist and deepest part of the
whole mystery is mixed UP with this
part of the parade. 1t will be attend
ed by some features which will shock
the nervous systems of the onlookers.
But it will be worth going miles to
see. Barnum's, Ringlings', Fore
paugh's and al 1.-THE other circus pa
rades will be left in the cooling shades
to freeze to death.
The line of march of the parade
will be: Start from Elks' lodge rooms
east on Sixth to Kansas avenue; south
on Kansas avenue to Tenth street;
counter march on Kansas avenue to
Sixth street; east on Sixth street to
Quincy; north on Quincy to Fifth;
west on Fifth to Kansas avenue: south
on Kansas avenue to Eighth; west on
Eighth to Jackson; north on Jackson
to the club rooms.