The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-10-03
ELIMINATE CARNIVAL
PARADE IF SUGGESTION
MADE is ACCEPTABLE
Public Meeting Last Night
Attended by a Small
Number, and While Many
Favored Usual Celebra-
tion They Decided Last
Years Debts Should First
Be Paid.

If the suggestion offered by DR..
Mallory Kennedy and adopted at a
public meeting held in the San Carlos
auditorium last night to hear express
sions on the subject of holding a
Mardi Gras celebration is sanctioned
by the Carnival Association, there will
be no carnival parade in Pensac cola
next year, but an effort will be made
to merge the Carnival Association
with the Interstate Fair and have a
grand street pageant at night during
the fair to be held next year. The
meeting was participated in by four
members of the board of directors of
the Carnival Association and a small
number of persons not connected with
the organization George II. Hervey,
president of the association, presiding.
President Hervey said the meeting
was called to discuss the question
whether or not there should be a 1914
carnival He said that the Carnival
Association was in debt approximate
ly $4,000, while the assets, consisting
OF the carnival shed, floats, costumes,
gasoline lights, etc, were about $4,000.
It was estimated he said, that in
order to have a carnival next year and
pay UP the present debts Of the as
sociation it would be necessary to
raise $500.
DIR. Kennedys suggestion to do
away with having the carnival on
Mardi Gras day and combine it with
the Interstate fair was made at the
conclusion of President Hervey's
statement of the financial condition Of
the association DR.. Kennedy's idea
irciades the erection of an auditorium
at the fair grounds and to have the
pageant SO arranged that it would
proceed to the fair grounds after pass
ing through the streets of the city.
He also said that the coronation ball
should be held in the auditorium on
the night of the pageant. DR.. Ken
nedy said that he is very anxious that
the present debts of the association
should be paid as quickly as possible.
and favored holding no carnival next
year in order that steps may be taken
to meet the Indebtedness of the as
sociation. DIR. Kennedy is a member
of the board of directors of the Car
nival Association.
DR. Louis DEM. Blocker, also a
member Of the board of directors Of
the carnival association, said he
thought DR.. Kennedy's idea was a
most excellent one and that he was
heartily in favor of it, but he said he |
was anxious to pay the debts of the |
association, as they worried him con-
Ed Forcheimer, another member of |
the board of directors, said he always !
favored a carnival and does so now, |
but that he favored DR.. Kennedy's |
idea quite a bit He said he consid- !
cred the idea a very good one, but |
thought, however, if Pensacola missed |
one carnival parade it would give the |
city a black eye He promised to do \
offered by DR.. Kennedy success.
n. J. LiIlard, general manager and |
secretary of the Interstate Fair As /
sociation and also a member Of the !
board of directors Of the Carnival AS /
ISOLATION, said that on this occasion |
he would speak as a private citizen |
and not as an officer of the fair as
sociation Mr.. LiHard said DR.. Ken 1
ledy's idea was a magnificent one and |
thought that If all energy were thrown |
toward carrying out the idea it would l
be the best thing to do, as he believed /
Il would be the means of drawing two
Or three times as many people to the
city than the carnival celebration |
would He said it was the desire of !
the fair association to secure perma-
nent grounds and that il such is done /
the auditorium could be rented or
used when the fair is not on for other
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