The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-02-04

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men at different points along Pala-
fox street laughed in twelve different
minutes when they saw themselves in
convict stripes on board the float rep
resenting a bastile-otherwise jail,
lookup, prison or penitentiary-and Ia
beled "The Only Safe Place For An
Aldermanic Government"
THE PARADE GOOD.
The parade comprised seven floats.
two score men or horseback, two
bands and host Of masked marchers.
1t was viewed by thousands of people
stretched along Palafox street. the
Garden street parkway and about the
plaza. 1t was declared by all who saw
it the best comic parade ever seen in
Pensacola.
They formed about 1880 o'clock at
Baylen and Romano streets and, head
ed by q bugler, riding q dwarf donkey,
began their march with the head OF
the column at Baylen and Garden
streets They marched to Palafox
street, turned northward on the west
ern side of that thoroughfare, march
ed as far as Wright street, crossed
Palafox there and marched southwark
on the eastern side of Palafox street TO
the plaza, which they marched around,
coming back on Palafox street to the
armory, where they held their annual
bail.
KINGS FLOAT.
King Pan, who is generally digni-
fed citizen respectfully hailed as r. M.
Wells and content to run a mattress
factory, rode last night on top Of a
huge ball representing the earth in
laughter.
The globe was mounted upon a
square platform and upon each corner
stood one of the four beauties of the
harem. They proved to be:
Gaby Deslys Shocke, Mrs. Nat
Goodwin Clarence-Avery, Miss Lima
Cavalier Motta and Miss Moochee-
Rag-Ed- Swayne. They acted as dis
gracefully as possible and set lot OF
good folks to wondering how King
Pan kept from suing for divorces on
the ground of LONELINESS. The harem
wore signs around its necks with the
following invitation:
kiss me Kid; nothin' makes me
sick
And there was nobody there that
would take a chance.
THE OTHER FLOATS.
Directly back of the Kings float
came the Investigating Committee
float. 1t reminded onlookers of the
pictures of the temple after Solomon
threw it-over. BY the remains of two
shattered pillars in the foreground was
the serpent of graft trailing over the
rock of "rottenness." At the foot OF
the rock stood "Semmes'' with his hit
tie grubhoe. Across from him stood
the members Of the investigating COM
mittee mixing whitewash in a golden
barrel and dabbing it over two pill
lars that remained standing.
Next came the only. Safe Place For
An Aldermanic Government float and
| fourth in line was THE County Treas
ury," featuring Senator John P. Stokes
calling for his $4,000 fee and CIerk
James Macgibbon telling him Nothing
doing" while taxpayers stood about
discussing the situation.
THE Recorders Daily Vaudeville
came next and showed the city police
court, wherein Judge Welsh" did his
best to get court over in record time
by turning the arrested over to Bonds
man Joseph Johnson or Judge Kirke
Monroe.
Next in line was the steam roller OF
the Pensacola Commercial Association
with rear to a big rock that it had
/ just run over in its progressive course
The rock bore the names of corpora
tons and individuals against which
some of the darts of the advocates u
municipal docks were recently Ioosed
| The float was manned by President
! C. E. Dobson'' and Secretary Leland
J. Henderson,
The steam roller came to grief on the
| first leg Of the journey, however. and
f1oundered on the shoals near the ONCE
| of J. n. Andrews, at Palafox and
| Chase streets. Dobson and Hender-
son were forced to abandon it but