The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-15
sun WAS KIND.
Gave AtchinsOn Carnival an
Hour for Parade.
Was the Finest Affair Ever
Held in the City.
A SCENE OF BEAUTY
Everything Passed OFF as Pro.
motors Had Scheduled.
Along the Line of March Were
10000 jolly Spectators.
And After the Big Feature the
Rain Poured.

AtchlSOn, KAN, Sept. 14.-The corn
carnival parade marched through
town Thursday afternoon during the
one single hour when no rain fell and
the sun was shining. It was triumph
of stage management. The parade
was a riot of bright flowers, a dream
of fair women.
81 thought the corn of Kansas WAS
fine" gurgled a robust and rubicund
farmer, "but the beauties of Kansas
are finer
1t rained all the morning and looked
early in the afternoon as though it
had set in for all day, but about 2
o'clock the clouds broke away and the
sun peeped through the clouds for
about fifteen minutes.
A high wind from the east whistled
through the streamers and festoons of
colored bunting and left them a little
faded. but still brilliant in the sun. AS
the day wore on the corn throwing
became, at times, somewhat vicious,
but the seventy policemen on duty
kept order well. The parade assem-
bled at Second street, marched down
Kansas avenue to Eighth, wheeled into
Commercial street, counter marched
at Second street and traversed its out
ward march to Second street again.
And just as the last floral curricle
reached the starting point, rocket of
red lightning shot across the sky and
the streets were flooded once again with
binding rainfall. but the storm held
off long enough for the corn carnival
parade to march amidst the cheers of
10000 persons and after that nobody
seemed to care if his clothes We're
sopping and his shoes awash.
A Beautiful Affair.
At o'clock Ellerys band marched
into Commercial street, headed by a
platoon Of police. 1t swung along the
lane left for its passage by thousands
of cheering, enthusiastic people. Then
followed a battalion of the Eighteenth
infantry, the Sixteenth battery of field
artillery and the second squadron OF
the Ninth cavalry. After them came
the great parade. No description has
exaggerated the beauty of this spec
tacle. There we're one hundred and
ten features OF all sorts and every one
of them a masterpiece. Chrysanthe-
NUNS, snowballs, morning glories,
pink and yellow roses, aSters, poppies
and. every flower of every color. from
field and garden swept past in re-
splendent glory. Every vehicle of
every age, from Roman chariot to
English carryall, from swinging rick
shaws to bicycles, was ordered into
service and made by floral decorations
a thing of beauty.
A great black eagle perched high up,
a minatory figure, guarded brood of
nesting children. who smiled from a
nest of yellow corn blades. The coach
that bore them was drawn by four
white horses, decked out in white kid
harness. Twelve bands marched at in
tervals in the parade and the music
from one of them was always sounding.
The air was misty with the tramp of
feet, the pattering hoofbeats OF horses
and the rolling cheers : from 10000
throats. The spirit of a great triumph
seemed to possess the people
Parade Features.
Among the most pleasing features of
the parade, for artistic decorations were
the following:
Gocart, decorated in white ehrysan-
themums-Baby Hazel Smith.
Bicycle, decorated in pink and white
poppieS-Hazel CreSs.
Bicycle tandem, decorated in purple
and white chrysanthemums-H
Smith and Harry Sprague.
Woodmen's circle feature: Row boat,
decorated in purple poppies on a float of
water lilies and cattails-Myrtle and
Bessie Hancock. Hester Brainard, Liz
zie and Minnie Shears, Ethel and Ber-
tha Mcdonald. Blanche Ashton, Willis
and Charles Dillon, Howard Connor,
Ernest Brainard, Elsie Dent, Pauline
Griffin, Rebra Benton, Muriel Moss,
Helen and Inez Wright, Mary Girls
void.
Mrs. Charles Wilkes feature: '"The
Beauty EXPRESS" decorated in white
and pink chrysanthemums = Lillian
Wike, driver: BeuIah Bliss, Alice Brown,
Clara and Edna Alexander, lone Man
rose, Heliorme Eyman, Clara Griffin,
Helen Hooper, Viva and Helen Bost-
wick, Pauline Ritner, Dorothy Cheese
man, Helen Cove, Mabel Corrigan, Le-
ona Billimek.
Mrs. B. P Waggener's trap decorated
in white poppies-Occupied by Miss Vir-
ginia Burns of ST. Joseph, and Misses
Henrie Walker, Lulu Fletcher and
Grace King.
Miss Effie Synns' trap, decorated by
the Independent Telephone company in
violet chrysanthemums- Dena
Lovean and Effie Locker.
Miss Isabel Walkers automobile dec
golden butterfly. Occupants: Miss Isa-
bel Walker Miss Mary MacLennan and
Miss Henrietta Alexander, of Topeka
and Beatrice Frazier.
Feature of the Atchison fire depart
nent: king Corn and His Court" Dec
orations: Pink and white chrysanthe-
NUNS King Will Crosse, attended by
Misses Elizabeth Grice. Mabel Balcom,
Florence Compton, Katherine Allen and
Bernice Low.
Feature of the Priscilla club: May
pole float, decorated in snowballs and
Isabel Roth, Myrtle Kelly. Hazel Lytle,
Marie Englinger, Genevieve and Mar
guerite Langan, Katherine Nearman,
Josephine Huoine and Laura and Myr-
tie Ham.
Feature of the Atchison Manufactur-
ing Co.: A low watermill. Decorations:
White. red and yellow roses. Helen
Mishler and Alice Higgins.
j. B. Browns carriage decorated in
lavender chrysanthemums. Misses Alice
Brown, Helen Hackney, Mary Collett
and Lucille Good.
English carryall decorated in white
and black peoples Members of the
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