The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-14
THE ELKS PARADE.
Emporia Visitors and Local Members
March on Kansas Avenue

There was a decided military tone
about the Elks parade which took
place as a prelude to the ball game. A
stranger in town got mixed up for a
moment and thought himself in Victor,
Col There was a good deal of skull
and cross-bone intimation and the au-
dience which so braVely stood along the
SIDEWALKS and nerved the ordeal
through, should be remembered in the
division of the proceeds.
First in order came the Emporia
Second Regiment band. This organiza-
ton knowing what it has to represent
did as we'll as it could under the cir
cumstanceS-and performed good
job. 1t is one of the best amateur mus
ical organizations in the state.
Next in line came a scene from The
Man In The Iron Mask" The hero was
Billy Drechsel, who sells shoes on week
days, and does dramatic stunts on red
letter days. In a big iron cage on a
was cooped up, with a catcher's mask
ON his face Behind stood guards with
wooden shOtguns- The whole business
was labelled Our Umpire"
The EmpOria baseball team marched
next in line, respondent in the borrow
ed suits of an amateur aggregation
that plays over there. The bunch did
look like horse-hide chasers. On the
shirts of the suits were inscribed: I'M
poria, A. L. T" What does that
mean?" was asked of an Emporia root
er. "A Live Town." he promptly re-
piled.
Then came DeMoss & PenweITs am
balances with a corps of Red Cross
nurses and special load of Wamego
OIL It was only with difficulty that the
marching columns We're restrained
from drinking the latter
The next float looked like four bar
bers working on Bert Lucas big label
was hung up marked Our Pitcher" Lu-
cas- is about feet inches by 4 feet S
@ fcs1T~ halo a
big stone wagon, especially bOlstered up
for the occasion. He was dressed in a
other things. To the west, the north the
south and the east of him stood the Wig
nantes trying to reduce his temperature
rolled down from his fevered brow and
the audience ran out with water buckets
ana caught several to keep as souvenirs
Of the day. Lucas was put under the care
Of doctors. but his terrible vitality is ex-
Palmer's ambuIances and a good stock
of Ife-prcserving provisions We're next in
line. Just behind his wagon marched
several butcher begOwned Elks with axes
augers, sledge-hammers, chisels and d
few circular saws.
The police interfered with the next float
and it was a measly shame On bis
dray were loaded 1856 eggs, 8 cabbage
This was marked Ammunition for the
grandstand." Had Alfalfa Stahl allowed
this act to go on, the players would have
looked as though they had been stored
in an incubator for week and had then
been used as the basis for a vegetable
soup in a. restaurant.
Then came the Emporia Elks. The only
thing that can be said against them is
that they are just half as good looking
as the Topeka herd. The local contingent
looks better fed.
Right behind came the Topekans. They
were Respondent in the decora lions OF
sombreros, B. P. o. f. handkerchiefs, tir
horns and Notwithstanding smiles.
There never was a parade without its
prominent citizens" in carriages. The
Elks had that, but they raised the ante
They had prominent citizens in automo-
biles.
Taken altogether the show was a great
one, and only just such a creation as
would find birth in the soul of an Elk
It did the antlered crowd good to lei
loose their spirit-and it was done with
out reserve, and today they went back tc
their work and filed away their fun re
gala. the lawyers would say, with
out prejudice"