The Cairo bulletin., 1907-06-22
T R|OAY BANNER
DAY OF BANNER
HUSTLER MEET
BIG LIST or ATTRACTIONS AND
CROWDS MAKE DAY HUGE
SUCCESS.
THOUSANDS SEE RACES
On Ohio River Between Fast Motor
Boats and Cheer Couple Publicly
Wedded--Mardi Gras Par
ade Big Feature.

ade Big Feature.
II With smiling skies and thousands
upon thousands of merry visitors
4 thronging the streets, and with the
best and most attractive program ever
offered, yesterday was easily the ban
ner day of not only the fifth annual
NEE Of the Egyptian Hustlers but was
also the most successful day in the
/ history ef the association.
Hustlers and others who have at
/ tended their meets S nee the associa-
I tion was organized without exception.
junite in saying that this years meet.
/ ing has proven the most successful in
! the history of the order and declare
! that it is better than any travelling
mems celebration ever given in the
state.
In spite of the showers Thursday
evening the crowds of visitors was
larger than even the most sanguine
had hoped for. Every train into Cal
ro yesterday brought large crowds and
by noon fully $1,000 people We're here
The days doings commenced short
ly after 8 o'clock when the special
Illinois Central train from Centralia
arrived with nearly thousand enthu
siastic boomers and headed by an ex
celien military band The delegation
armed wi h attractive souvenirs and
bestowing carnations and smiles upon
the HustIers Immediately paraded
through the down town streets in
successful effort to create favorable
impression for the next years meet
ing place.
The Mardi Gras parade, while not as
pretentious as 1T should have been
was never he less one Of the mos
ans sing and pleasing features OF the
whole meet. Over 200 Hustlers at
tired in comical and grotesque cos
tunes marched through the down
town streets and up Washington ave
nue. to st. Mary's park where the field
day events, contests and base bal
game were pulled off.
The costumes of the Hustlers rang
ed from that of Little Annie Oak
lev to a formidable looking kind and
a Queen of the Harem." Clowns, |
rubes, ballet girls, country yaps, Irish |
policemen and negro characters were |
all in evidence.
Grand Marshal Claude Winter, to
whom much of the success OF the par |
ade is due, was an active participant,
his costume attracting considerable at
tention and amusement from the thou
sands of people who lined the streets
along the route of march. Edward T.
Fitzgerald, and Ray Hosmer, the
grand marshals assistants, had charge
of the parade.
Bob Brown, we'll known Hustler,
Of Terre Haute, clad in a green SILK
minstrel costume and looking all the
wcrId like Lew Dockstader, was in
charge of the parade which was head
ed by Culver's Military band and
which was interspersed by bands and
boosters from Centralia. Harrisburg
and Belleville. A feature was the
rube band from the latter city.
Following the parade were a bunch
Of advertising floats, one of the most
attractive of which was that of the
e. Bucher Packing company and
Rhodes -Burford's elephant
The Hustlers bunch of two dozen
beautiful sponsors. not in the least
iaunted by the accident to their float
Thursday. appeared in yesterdays
parade and while not set off with as
,rettily decorated vehicle looked
hone the less charming.
The attractions at The park we're
witnessed by a crowd of nearly 5000
persons and consisted of the usual
aces. field and track events, amusing
contests and a base ball game be
ween the Hustlers and the merchants.
The base ball game went to the
iustlers after a hard fought contest
~ a score of ) to 4. The travelling
men are justly proud of their 1907
cam as yesterdays game was the
irst they have ever won, the mer-
.bants of other cities always defeating
hem by unusually overwhelming
cores.
The track events resulted in several 4
,ood records and were watched win
much interest Numerous handsome
md valuable prizes donated by various
irms doing business in Egypt were
Ivarded. The winners were each Civ
N a ticket bearing the name OF the
,rize and the house donating IT, These
ickets should be sent to the different
oncerns with the O. K Of the proper
nieials and the prize viii be imme-
lately forwarded e
The events lasted until nearly ]
rclock but long before the time fcr
he starting Of the boat races thou