The Cairo bulletin., 1907-06-23
CAIRO is AHEAD
ON DECORATIONS
BREAKS RECORD FOR HusTLERs
OR ANY OTHER BIG DEM.
oNsTRATioN.
STREET ILLUMINATIONS
Surpassed Anything Ever Seen in This
Section--House Dressings
Also Grand-PartiaI
Description.

The people of Cairo and visitors to
Cairo Will probably wait long time
before they see another such demon.
stration here as that which marked
the meeting of the Hustlers last week
There has not been an occasion In
iCairo when the people were so gener-
tally aroused TO show honor 10 visitors.
( Much was expected OF course, but
few expected SO general and so expen
siye a display, and the best of all Is
! that citizens and especially the bust
ness element made this demonstration
from purely patriotic motives. primar-
! lily to show favor to the visitors and
! secondly for the good name of the
city, II took a great deal Of hard
work by n comparatively few men
to do what was necessary to be done,
and to arouse public enthusiasm and |
these few hard workers deserve to be
era ef Nv remembered by the peopl |
tf Cairo; they had many d1icnlE les |
TO meet and overcome, and it can be
said for them. that taken as Il whole
the demonstration was a grand sue
cess.
Il Will probably not he questioned |
the mcst conspicuous feature of til
occasion. aud which will probably be
more talked Of than any other was the
grand street illumination ana iecora
tlons by the business men and citizen
generally Speaking Of this a Pada {
cab citizen who was visitor here lc
Ii quoted by the Paducah Register us t
follows Z
Cairo may be behind Paducah in h
civic improvements and in other ways In
but there Is one thing she excels In, Iii
and that is in decorating for public
celebrations. declared Paducahan
who returned this morning from the
Ifustlers celebration at Cairo. THE d
way Cairo is decorated and illInmin fl
lted would make Paducah citizens 10
EEL ashamed Of themselves. Cairo at q
night ID ablaZe with electric light. On ID
the principal streets incandescent Il
lights are strung at intervals of IS b
inches all along the pavements on
btAH NlbNr- anu a many StiftA iHA6t- /
sections there are arches of lighl
Cairo in fact decoraes and ilnmin ii
ates properly and Paducah will have D
q hustle to keep up with her sister L
city in this line 81
AS matter of fact. Cairo surpassed 81
herself en- this occasion in this re 7
ipset The Illumination was never be
ore attempted here and it was The
,randcat ever seen in this section of
he country outside of ST. Louis. Over ltf
hree thousand incanieseent ligh s I'm
we're used and many Of them We're hl
ncased in Japanese lanters, which Oh
owever succ mbed to the rain OF r
evening; and there were aN
ags and banners in festoons by the
thousand
But the house decorations also we're
more general and richer than were h
YER seen before. A detailed descrip pr
ion of these. or even a full list Of ca
lem would be impracticable, A few "
the more conspicuous are referred IN
, in The following list.
The Finest Residence. WI
The first prize. for the best resi- CO
ence decoration was awarded to 81
rank f. Schoemhs whose residence M
at 1913 Seventh street II is a two CO
DRY house with a long porch and pa
rye columns-in itself a very at. n
active residence. The decorations o.
insisted in part Of star in the li'
ustler colors. flags we're drapei over "a
e front in artistic form. ami heavy
'lden rope was looped from column
column on the porch. Under the
'rch mass of white and red paper ef
hes were arranged with beautiful IN
feet. Mr.. Schoembs was justly pli
'oud of his home, but is more so co
Nv with a bright $40 gold piece in IN
s pocket we