The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-09-13
MARDI GRAS IN FULL SWING
FEATt RES ar THIS IEAK'S
WINDI y AT CONEI ISLAND.
Parade That beats KinE Georges I'm the
Matter OF Drum CorpU Floats.
Lighted From the. Trolley wires. Arc
tway Ahead Of Hudson. lult on Trucks

AVA! &neau Of HuusOn.tuVOnI Iruchs.
The cutups at the second night Of the
Coney Island Mardi Gras last night
wearing on their hatbands gay ribbons
bearing the legend Il IN All Alone" weren't.
Those gracious rulers Of the fcstiva al King
Moe I. and Mrs. Moe Baron. the first
Noes wife. parsded at the head Of the
procession again with Surf avenue side
walks on either side hidden by humans
held back by brass buttoned fence of
cops.
Charley Stein. all dressed up in his
dinner coat latter q O'Clock and astride
fiery nag tnat was siill able to see with
out glasses, as Charley spurred the sorrel
up and down Surf avenue. more than kept
the crowd from growing impatient before
the bands and the floats came into view
Billy Gcary. in q white chowder cap and
sw6thed in committee badges. shot up
and down in an autombile with lust one
after another after another after another
important matter to straighten out. And
there was the scholarly .ook ing and
bespectacled Steve Jackman of Jack man s
ride. who in his frock coat and high hat
caused thousands upon thousands of
necks to strain a. the mob peered through
the haze Of confetti to get a glimpse Of
the man dashing by. who everybody exc
cept the old timers of Coney, was sure was
! Gov. Woodrow Wilson.
| One could get window seats last night
for the triumphat procession of King
| Moe and his queen az prices much lower
than similar seats at the coronation
pee-rade Of George V. In front of Luna
, Park two reviewing stands have been
erected that We're crowded. and almost
every one along Surf avenue was willing
temporarily to part with an upstairs
bedroom window. and from 25 to so cents
"A throw.
A French ball. with posters that sug-
gested all sorts Of wickedness. added i,s
attractions. How the trolley cars get
through Coney at all without getting their
trolley poles all smeared up with the
flags of the nations that form fiuttery
ceiling above the middle of Surf avenue
is a mystery And where the air is not
cluttered with flags il is awrithe with
streamers of colored paper. and there is
of course az least one good mouthful OF
confetti to each breath after the show gets
its stride
Moe Is parade has the Geory, V q.
parade looking paitry so far, as drum
corps are concerned. And where there
isn't a drum corps there is brass band
and float or six. and sandwiched in
among all these wonders are ever so many
grotesquely dressed comics" who make
simply the drolest faces Az in the ca Sc
Of Broadway drama just now. the fancy
dressed folk run largely to female i'm
personator makeups.
1t may he said for the floats. most of
them designed along floral lines, tha t
although they run very much to the
Coney showmen ! notion of art, they are
more imposing than the floats that trun-
died along Fifth avenue during the Hud-
| son-F,llton professions, il that's any
compliment. Half way out between the
south curb Of Surf avenue and the car
tracks the islanders have strung a copper
trolley wire. Each hoat is connected to
this trolley with an electric cable tha.
slides along as the float is driven through
the avenue and in this way the floats are
illumincd brilliantly with incandescent
lights.
Old Father Abbott Conev Islands
oldest citizen. is on hand again this year
to be paraded along in a lowneck hack
| while he bows his hite head TO the cheers
from the curb. As usual also last night
there Was the long trade display strung
ont behind the section given to the bands
and floats and back Of the trade display
a mob Of humanity that surged into the
avenue from curb to curb as the last OF
;he rear guard Of mounted cops clattered
bv. and the thousands made a s0ction
all their own and armed with enough
| GoisemakinS equipment to drown out all
| the bands further up the line,