Omaha daily bee., 1906-10-05

colors. Miss Helen Cudahy was the driver.
Miss Ruth Hitchcock drove a machine
decorated pure white, with no coloring.
Miss Hitchcock was accompanied by Miss
Ruth Hammer and both were dressed In
pure white. ,.u .....
Dimicks comic German band graced the
Balduff float, which was unique feature.
: I..i Creation of solid yellow. 81
Louis Nash turned out a creation of solid
yellow, in which Mrs. Ed Swobe and
Charles Smith rode, with handsome boy
BACKED to represent colored footman in
the rear. Both the occupants were dressed
In black and the colors made harmonious
combination.
The McKeen motor car was beautiful in
its magnificent covering of many colored
flowers, only the windows being visible
through which many occupants looked out
upon the multitude. The top was covered
with blanket of white roses, while purple
flowers were used to cover the caves of the
car The windows were encased in white
The effect was a mountain OF flowers,
most pleasing sight.
A perfect Niagara of rainbow -hued paper
! streamers greeted the appearance CT Miss
Ruth Brandeis at Sixteenth and Douglas
streets, where the employees Of ]. l..
Brandeis & Sons filled the windows of the
Boston store, accompanied by hearty checr
ing and hand clapping. Miss Brandeis re-
sponded with pleased smile and wave Of
the hand, and not until her automobile had
passed on up the street did the young men
and women cease their ovation.
, Beside Miss Helen Cudahy in her auto
were Miss Louis Brinker. Mise Z I.
Cudahy and Miss Spike Kennedy. That
these three were the happiest and tho most
entertaining people in the parade should
| go without saying. 1t should also 90 with
out saying they were "Miss' only for the
! afternoon, but their graceful forms were
adorned in the most beautiful costumes of
alfaifa paper and paper money, and other
things to match. They scattered smiles
4 and threw kisses to the joy of the crowd.
many people believing them to be the real
| goods.
Hard to Keep Same Rate.
| The difficulty OF maintaining the same
rate of speed along the whole line of auto.
mobiles resulted in drawing away of the
forward sections in the parade, causing at
times gaps in the line, often two or more
blocks In length. These gaps were always
! the signal for much cranng of necks to see
IL there was more to COME and a disposi.
ton on the part of the crowd to encroac n
the line. The occasional policemen were
! powerless in some instances to prevent the
! street from filling up and only for the
! perfect arrangements made for securing re-
Inducements for such emergencies the pa
rade would have found itself swamped in
/ masses OF humanity at several points
At Sixteenth and Douglas streets the peo-
| pie swept over the open space with a rush
when there was an apparent end of the
| parade, there being no automobiles in sight
/ to the south. The four policemen on the
! corner were unheeded and there was
pandemonium for some distance How
| ever IL was near the end of the line of
/ parade and many officers had been re-
lieved from duty at their assigned pos $.
A half dozen of these went to the scene
of the disturbance. and under Sergeants
Cook and Rentfrow succeeded in opening
a way so that when the Royal Italian band
came up at the head of the balance OF the
parade it WAS able to pass through without
] trouble.