The Alaska citizen., 1914-03-02

Last Mondays railroad celebration was all that il was planned and not one disagreeable incident marked the Ges iyities. The general sentiment most notab thing of it's kind tha. ms ever been held in Fairbanks.
 As a preliminary to the regular pro gram. the members of the Farthes forth Shrine club. in fancy dress and many in masks. went about the
 usiress district causng much merri- ment, ani la'er took the lead in he first bis parade of the day, which started a, 2:30 o'clock in the after noon.
 The parade was headed by the Shrine imitation locomotive propell- d by two men in costumes. This vas followed by the Reformed Pi-
 ate and two men representing Then came ;he members of the shrine club in ridiculous cos tunes.
 The remainder of the parade was made up of masked people, some on foot and some in the imitation cars lrawn by an automobile truck ike ID to represent loc motive. The 'ars of the train were sleighs with 10th sides, made to look like passen- ger coaches. These were filled with
 eople, nearly all of whom were asked
 There were other imi ation loco notiyes and cars following, though rn a smaller scale. The procession started from First avenue and Cush man street and went east on the former to Lacey street, then it turn d south on Lacey 10 Second avenue. following the latter back to Wick
 rsham. On Wickersham the pro ,essicn returned to First avenue. md went east almost to Lacey a second time. At that point a par If it countermarched and returned Wickersham, where it disbanded, md the remainder went to Second venue and disbanded.
 Along the route of the parade were arge crowds of people. S me masked nd some in citizens dress. Many eople with cameras took pictures of he procession. Ore of the features f the parade consisted of members of the local aerie of Eagles in their N1gn paraphernalia.
 The second parade was the torch ght procession held at 8 o'clock in he evening. At this parade the 'hrine club did not appear as a body, I'll. the masked pedestrians were
 umerons. There were the "locomo- ives" and the fake cars and many f the ~ther features of the after
 7on parade.
 The torchljght parade was led by he starvation Army dressed to oNresent tho regular Sa'v9tion Army n this was a number of voung men resse1 0 represent women. while thers were dressed in the regular '0lvatio9 army garb, except that Acir cans bore rihhons en which was
 tinted "Starvatfon Army"
 Not lone after this parade ende7 Ae dancinq beoan at both the Audi orium ana Fae'e hall The halls ere reH e' and the music paid for " tho snecla7 celebration fund that lad been subscribed hv he neon'e of he city, and visitors were at no vnense Between the two halls was operated a line four automobiles Harrying dancers free of charsp from 10 hall 10 the o'her tho the crowd might be changing continually
 At the Auditorium the orches ra as dressed to represent minstrels, the members having their faces There was considerable conservation ir the hall when there 9aVH1nnl1 what for o tir.o, onnparnl 10 be a dispute be ween Victor Du- and the leader of the orchestra and Gene Huckins. the drummer.
 The music stopped and all eyes were turned to the stage where he tWo musicians were facing each 1-her in an attitude of hostility.