Omaha daily bee., 1905-09-04
YOUNG BLOODS ON PARADE
Picturesque Majesty Of Asbury Parks
Justly Celebrated Baby Show.
HOUSEHOLD Joys IN FLORAL BOWERS
A Week Of Unbroken Festivities in
which Youth and Age Heartily
Unite-sOme Details of
the Parade.

democratic spirit which is found there dur
ing the other 1853 days disappears as
by magic and the city revels
in all the pomp and ceremony by
which royalty is surrounded. The robe OF
simplicity and liberty is hidden under the
rich folds OF a regal mantle The mayor
and his staff and all high officials dom their
badges OF authority and pass the rule OF the
city over to the dainty little sovereign
whose power is absolute. whose slightest
wish Is az q law unto the citizens Of AS
bury Park for the six carnival days of her
reign.
Her majesty is Titania, Queen Of the
Fairies, I'm whose honor many festivals are
given, the climax OF which is the great
baby parade Asbury Parks unique pa
goant, which was inaugurated fifteen years
ago and since then has grown out OF all
semblancs to the simple little procession
OF babies In psrambulators inaugurated by
FOUNDER" Bradley About four years ago
the drst T1tania was chosen and enthroned
90 review the parade of infants as they
fwsrO wheeled by the royal box erected on
the boardwalk. Now Titania's visit has
been heightened year by year until It covers
practically a whole week, every minute Of
which is filled with festivities prepared in
her honor.
To be chosen queen Of the baby parade
carnival is the greatest compliment the
city Of Asbury Park can confer upon any
Individual. 1t IL not an honor lightly
bestowed. On the contrary, the crown is
proffsred only after long and serious con-
slderation of the qualifications Of the many
candidates for the exalted position. Her
majesty is always a resident OF a summer
visitor to the shore resort, and she is In
variably tho prettiest bit OF femininity to
be found there during the gay season. For
weeks previous to the date set for the
annual festivities, the Queen committee
studies features, pose and bearing Of all
Z the young girls who attend the dances and
!. social functions in Asbury Park, for 1t is
there that the future sovereign is most
likely to be discovered. One year she is an
exquisite blonde, another she is Of the
opposite type. Variety Of beauty is liked
by those who have charge Of the selection.
and this gives all of the prettiest girls
chance to occupy a throne for one week
at least.
Tftania, ruler for 1905, is a strikingly
beautiful girl, with dark eyes and hair,
rather petite, perhaps TO meet the popular
idea OF royalty but with all the daintiness
and loneliness supposed to be possessed by
wearers of jeweled crowns. Miss Clara
Belle Logan, of Brooklyn, is this years
ruler of the baby parade carnival. She is
Just 20 years of age and has spent
all her summers in Asbury Park. where
her parents own enc of the handsomest
cottages in the resort
Authority of the Queen.
While choosing the queen is the most i'm
portant feature of the preliminaries TO the
baby parade carnival arrangements, 1t is
by no means all that the committees are
called upon to do. There are maids Of
honor courtiers, pages, flower girls and
officers to be included in the royal party,
Ia.
participant must be a summer visitor who
Is TO remain In Asbury Park during the
festivities and who will appear in official
capacity at each of the series OF functions
arranged for the children's festival. This
year there are to be ten maids of honor,
Princess Cinderella. Prince Charming, lord
high chamberlain, court Jester and host
Of minor subjects, who will accompany the
queen whenever she makes her royal ap-
pearanos in public.
In order to eliminate jealousy, which
might spring up in the hearts of young
girl visitors, the maids who wait upon Ii
tania are selected from the largest hotels,
the individual choice Of the royal represep-
tative resting with, the master OF cere-
monies of each hostelry.
When Queen Titania makes her entrance
into the city OF Asbury Park her approach
will be proclaimed by heralds and trum-
= peters, clad In velvet and gold and mounted
upon pranoing chargers, who will ride UP
and down the shore announcing the glad
tidings. The royal court will be established
at Coleman Castle. which will be gaily
decorated In her homer throughout the en-
tire fete week. Hero she will hold sway,
setting forth each day and night for the
royal functions in a golden coach shaped
like q huge shell. lined with delicate vel
vet. and drawn by six white horses in
golden trappings. She viii have outriders
and uniformed guard to protect her from
mishaps whenever her majesty appears in
public.
The first entertainment OF the carnival
will be the coronation. at which the golden
crown OF the fairies will be placed upon
the head OF the youthful queen by the arch
bishop. the royal scoepter put into her slen-
der hand and the ermine trimmed robe
draped over her white shoulders. When
this is done, attended by all the pomp and
ceremony OF a real coronation, Titania
waves the magic wand. her subjects. young
and old. bow down anil pay her homage,
and the six days carnival reign over AS
bury Park is begun, Following the corona
ton an entertainment is given in her honor.
one In which hundreds of little children
take part, many of them representing fair
les. This occupies the time up to midnight,
when Queen Titania, like Cinderella, dis
appears until the next night
Some Royal Functions.
The second entertainment is TO be in tho
form OF n queens drawing room, where
reception viii be held and distinguished
personages will be presented TO her royal
highness. The coronation usually takes
place in the Beach auditorium and the
drawing room will be held in the Royal ar
.eade, a pavilion standing at one end Of the
boardwalk
on the third day there viii be a festival
in which the volunteer and paid firemen OF
the resort will participate, parading before
the queen and counting her smiles of favor
and her glsnces OF approval. Then. on the
following night. one OF the unique features
Of the carnival and a comparatively new
one. the masque fete, will take place. Here
high reveiry will reign and the whole city
will be given over TO merrymaking. As
soon as night falls TitRnia will be driven
= I'm her golden chariot TO the royal pavilion
erected In Ocean avenue From this point
for nearly a mile southwark the avenue has
been closed as a public thoroughfare, II
has been fringed with electric lights and
made gay with border OF hutterlng ban