Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-10-18
EXCEEDS ALL EXPECTATIONS
OVER THREE HUNDRED FLOATS
WIND THROUGH THREE MILES
OF STREETS AT ONCE.
I HR. 20 MIN. IN PASSING
Dozcns of smaller Towns Represented
in Throngs-Parade Grandeur TO
Have Lasting Effect.

The gorgeous, glitterng pageant OF
the original Durbar festivities at
Delhi, India, in 1876. paled into in
significance when compared with the
monster three mile parade yesterday
that commemorated the opening of
the First Annual Tulsa Durbar.
Actual statistics show that 1t was
the greatest parade from every stand
point ever staged in Oklahoma and
few IN the entire country have ex-
ceeded II In point Of numbers. 1t was
estimated that fully 10000 persons
were on the down town streets AT
1890 O'Clock yesterday morning
when the harouche Of Her Majesty,
Miss Ann Black, Shahzada of the
Durbar, in which was seated Miss
Black and her maids Of honor, the
Misses Margaret Crosbie. Gertrude
Connolly lean Connolly and Edith
Copen. started from the corner of
Main and Archer street. going south.
one Large Cheering Crowd.
There we're more out of town vis-
itors in Tulsa yesterday than on any
one occasion before in the history or
the city. The down town streets
were literally packed with seething
mass Of humanity. The parade was
the biggest thing Of the kind ever
held in Oklahoma. There were nine
bands. comprising a total Of 1876 mus
icians in the line of march. One nun
dred and seventy five factories
wholesale houses and merchants were
represented In the parade. Three
hundred and twenty floats and deco
rated vehicles We're in the parade, az
well as nineteen automobiles and one
hundred pedestrians.
Had all the bands In the parade
been massed, it would have constitute
ed the largest musical ORGANIZATION
that ever played in the United States.
Over 500 Horses in Parade.
There were $50 horses in the pa
rade or as many as is carried by any
circus or wild west organization ex-
tant.
The Annual Industrial Tulsa Dur
bar and the big parade were first con-
ceived three short weeks ago. In less
than a month E. r. Tucker and the
loyal Tulsans who assisted him. made
possible yesterdays monstrous af-
fair.
All Nearby Towns Represented.
Every town in this entire section
was represented here yesterday In
large numbers. Collnsville sent 235
people, and had the biggest out Of
town band in the band contest. Large
crowds came from Broken Arrow.
Skiatook, Red Fork, Owasso. Daw-
son, Sapulpa, Keifer, Glenn Pool.
jerks, Muskogee and many other
towns In the state. a party of mill
lionaires and multi mililonaires, in
terested in big Oklahoma oil deal.
were here. The party included Cliff
ford B. Harmon, the famous million
aire balloonist and Mr.. and Mrs. Err
nest Thompson Seton, the world fam
Gus writer's and lecturers.
Exceeded All Expectations.
Grand Marshal w. N. Robinson, to
whose efforts was due the excellent
management of the parade, Btatod
Yesterday afternoon that he consider
ed the pageant the biggest thing ever
accomplished by an American NUM-
cipality.
at exceeded our fondest expecta-
tions," he said. "and its effect will re-
sound upon the wall of time. 1t was
the most gigantic display Of indus
trial achievement ever conceived, and
the memory of II will long live in the
minds Of every one of the vast throng
that witnessed the grand representa-
tion of Tulsa's Industrial interests"
Tucker Greatly Pleased.
"T am pleased, delighted, simply
tickled to DEATH" exclaimed Edgar
4. Tucker, the man with the collosal
ability Of doing things that no one
else has the nerve to attempt. when
asked his opinion of the parade. THE
knockers. OF whom there were many.
were surely converted into the most
radical sort OF optimists by the ele-
CANT display. and on every hand the
news of Tulsa's original and only in
dustrial Durbar will spread until by
next year we can stage a parade and
.-toh~atton that will rom ma ra and or /
eel anything Of the kind in the whole
country"