New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-09-29
HUDSON TON .FETE

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Great Pageant Of Light to Form
Climax Of Celebration.
FIFTY HUGE FLOATS IN line.
Carrying Beautiful Allegorical Tab
leaux, They Will Be Thanked by 49,
900 Members of $50 Distinct organi-
zations-Ten Months Spent In Build-
ing Them.
King Carnival will stand sponsor for
the last grand land pageant that will
mark the Hudson Fulton celebration
in New York city on the night of Sat
urday, Oct. 2. This parade. with it's
moving allegorical tableaux, will be
participated in wholly by members of
German, Austrian and Swiss societies
Of New York city, and the $50 distinct
| organizations which have arranged to
+? take part will have from $4,000 to 15,-
600 members in line. In view of the
time and effort expended on this cere
monial project, predictions are conf
IDENTIFY made that this pageant will ex-
eel in magnitude, beauty and gorgeous
ness any similar spectacle ever pre-
sented in the United States or in Eu
rope.
! The carnival parade will be the only
pageant that will pass through the
city's streets at night, and the fifty
floats which have been constructed es-
pecially for this spectacle have been
built with view to rejecting their
glittering gorgeousness under the spar
kle of the thousands Of torches which
will attend it's passing.
Though King Carnival will act as
sponsor of the marching host, it should
be understood that his subjects will
not be allowed to run riot in the
streets. All throwing of confetti has
been prohibited, through special orders
issued by Mr.. Baker, police commits
sioner, and any carnival high jinks
will be confined solely to the marching
army's maneuvers.
Floats Tower High In the Air
The fifty great floats, which were
completed after almost ten months of
labor by a corps Of picked artisans,
were designed and built under the di-
rect supervision of Albert II. Stoddard,
the captain of pageantry for the COM
mission, who for twenty-one years was
associated with the great Mardi Gras
festivals that have drawn visitors from
every quarter Of the globe to New Or
leans each year.
Captain Stoddard, too, perfected the
plans which will be followed by the
various organizations in manning each
float, many Of which tower forty feet
in the air with their PAPER mache fig.
: ures. He has held regular schools of
instruction for the captains and squads
Of persons who will people each big
car, and these floats are expected tt
7 surprise those who have witnessed
, similar parades in Cologne, Paris. Der
lin, the various Italian cities and New
) Orleans.
l AS planned, Theodore Henninger
7 president of the carnival parade com
: mittee, will ride in carriage imme
3 diately behind the platoon Of mounted
s police that will head the carnival col
: umn. Then will come the vice presi
J., dents of the committee.
+ Constant Explosions Of Fireworks.
In all there will be about forty band:
of music in the moving column, which
will start from One Hundred an(
l.. Tenth street and Central Park Yves
, about s o'clock in the evening. Through
. out the entire parade route to Wash
: ington square there will be constan
> explosions of fireworks and burning O
I, red fire.
| The problem of getting the big float:
!. across the river from the northerl,
r shore Of the Harlem was solved BY
}. Captain Stoddard, who will keep tn.
bridge at that point turning for hours
taking over one car at time, as TIT
big floats are too large to be hauled
beneath the upper framework of tn,
bridge.
L The Hudson Fulton celebration com
mission has planned for music on |
g large scale at the official dinner to b.
held in the Hotel Astor in New York
Professor Gustav Hinrichs has pre-
pared the program, and Lemare,
famous orchestral organist, will b.
the chief performer. He will have
magnificent instrument for his use
q With one exception it is the larges
!, in the world It contains 102 speak
. ing stops, which represent all the or
: chestral instruments in the world
i Even chimes have not been forgotten
+ It has four distinct divisions, and al
> the parts Of the great instrument vii
a be hidden from the view Of those i!
the big ballroom.