The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-01-11
MANILA TO HOLD
WORLD CARNIVAL
Philippine Capital Expects Thou
sands In February, 1911.
PRESS AGENT PROMISES MUCH

Exposition Of insuiar Industries to 30
spioed by All Sorts Of Amusemsnts,
From Confetti; Battles to Field Sports,
During Month In Which Many Amer
leans Are shoveIins Snow.
After three years Of experiment In
carnival making the inhabitants of
Manila, in the faraway Philippine Is
lands, are making preparations for a
festival In February, 1911, which will
surpass, they say, anything of the
kind ver before attempted in any city
of the world.
Although it Is to be presumed that
this oriental capital is far away from
the influence Of the Yankee circus
proprietor and his press agent, the
language used in the preliminary an
nouncements Of the carnival Is not un-
like that with which the American
pleasure seeking public is familiar, for
the world is assured that the week of
festivities, Feb. 21 to %, will mot only
far outclass and eclipse anything of
the sort ever given In the far east, but
1t Is proposed to make it the largest,
most gorgeous, most spectacular affair
OF the sort ever held anywhere"
Press Agent 10 Alert.
Something Of the smallness Of the
world as it exists in these days of
swift steamship and railroad travel Is
indicated in the statement that the
1910 carnival attracted Hundreds and
hundreds Of people from many foreign
lands" while the transpacif1c steam.
ship companies arranged their sched-
ules SO that their big passenger car
riers could be in Manila bay during
he carnival to accommodate excur-
sionists.
1t is both oriental and occidental. 1t
claims to be ''one of the most up to
date, bustling cities to be found any
where on EARTH" in addition to being
full of the remains Of a civilization
centuries old"
To pleasure seeking people no claim
could be more attractive, doubtless,
than that IN spite of the business and
the hustle Of Manila life out there is
delightfully."- easy. Everybody seems
to be happy and prosperous" says the
official announcement Of the carnival,
"and bent on securing the maximum
of pleasure and satisfaction from life
in the tropics, and this somewhat easy
going and luxurious style of living has
not produced in Manila the undesirable
conditions which usually accompany 1t
In other parts of the world"
In spite of Manila's being in the trop-
les all are assured that "the climate is
ideal" and the month Of February,
when people dwelling in the northern
part Of the United States are shoveling
snow or chopping ice from their side.
walks, lis the most delightful part of
the year." Rarely does the tempera.
ture go above IS degrees during the
morning hours. You will require blan.
kets every night Of your stay.
Real Carnival ls Planned.
For the 1911 carnival the city will be
given up to pleasure. There will be pa.
rades Of gorgeous floats, accompanied
by mounted heralds, with the king and
queen of the carnival seated In theil
Imperial cars, parades Of gayly deco
rated automobiles, battles between con
1etti throwers and international sport
ing contests as the main features
Among the athletic sports will be in
ternational polo, cricket, football, tral
shooting and tennis matches.
Music will be everywhere, for 1t il
said that the Filipinos are the mos
unsteady inclined people on earth. Thu
carnival costumes will be rich and va
ried, and many Of them made to orde
in Europe will cost, it is said, each
small fortune.
The famous hippodrome, which seat
$1,000 people, will be given over t.
special carnival features and militar,
spectacles. The stage of the hippo
drome holds more than 5000 peopl
and Is for big balls. All the perform
ances will be given in the open air.
On It's industrial side the carniva
will give visitors a chance to lear
about the resources of the Philippine
through extensive exhibits. But tn
keynote of carnival week will be pleas
ure, and Manila claims that by reaso
Of it's cosmopolitan character, its cl
mate and its great development sine
"Dewey did it" in 1898 1t can provid
more pleasure than any other city
the world.