Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-09-28

"OIu udS COluS LII Ou6A mysterious
but absolutely reliable channels from
the Den of the Yelled Prophet that he
will spend on his thiry-eighth annual
street pageant at St Louis the night OF
Tuesday, October 5, and the ball i'm
mediately following it, between $50,
600 and $4,000, the largest sum that
he ever devoted to one nights amuse
ment.
According to the Yelled Prophets
courier, himself mysterious figure,
who differs from most press agents
not only in that his writings have
genuine literary merit but also in
that all his announcements are ultra
conservative, the total cost of Yelled
Prophet visit in former years has been
between $4,000 and $4,000.
His Mysterious Majesty has been
guided throughout his long reign by
a spirit of the utmost generosity, each
year spending his entire income to
treat the public to one big night. As
Stunning that he finances his pageants
by taxing his Subjects" his larger
expenditure this year than previous
years would seem to be accounted for
by an increase in his following.
Twenty-Five Electric Floats.
Legends and Myths of All Nations"
will be the theme of the Yelled
Prophets 1915 pageant, which will
consist OF % electric floats, each
manned by group of men in appro-
pirate costume.
Besides the fair-sized fortune that
the Prophet has set aside for the en-
joyment of the people attending the
St. Louis Fall Festivities of 1916, prob
ably as much again will be expended
by St. Louisans on various other fea-
lures of Yelled Prophet Week, includ-
ing the st. Louis Agricultural Fair,
October 4 to 9, which is regarded as
a revival of the famous fair that until
recent years was held in st. Louis
during the week of the Prophets
visit; the st. Louis Automobile Show,
with its first display in America of
the 1916 models; the Mississippi
River Carnival, the afternoon of Sun
day, October 10, with its parade Of
more than 200 decorated motor boats,
speed-boat and rowing races, balloon
ascension from midstream and other
aquatic events; the Buy-in-St. Louis
displays, whereby St. Louis manu-
facturers, jobbers and wholesalers, in
accord with proclamation by the
mayor of the city, will try to prove
St. Louis the foremost of the central
markets of the United States; special
exhibits at the Jefferson Memorial
(home of the Missouri Historical So
ciety), Shaw's Garden and the City
Art Museum and concert the even
ing of October by the Boston Sym
phony Orchestra. Another event of
much interest to music lovers will
be the grand opera October II, II and
-, by the Boston Grand Opera Com
pany in conjunction with the Pavlowa
Ballet Russo, under the auspices of
the st. Louis Grand Opera Committee.
The Float Titles.
The titles of the floats of the Yelled
Prophet Pageant will be as follows:
/, The Yelled Prophet; 2, Title Float,
Myths and Legends; 3, The Second
Labor of Hercules; 4, The Golden
Fleece and the Argonauts; 5, Second
Voyage of Sindbad; 6, Cyclops; Z,
The Three Golden Apples; 8, Ger
berus; 8, The Wooing of the Maid of
Beauty; 10, Kambalu; IL, Pandora; Il,
Cinderella; 10, Beauty and the Beast;
IA, Blue Beard Is, Good King Ar
thur; IL, The Star and the Lily; Il,
Puss in Boots IS, The Fair One with
the Golden Locks; 10, Evangeline; 20,
Hiawatha; q, Rip Van Wrinkle; %,
Hansel and Grethel.
Theme of the Pageant.
From Hercules to Hiawatha runs |
the theme of the Yelled Prophet |
Pageant of 1915" says the V. p. |
in his official prophecy. THE |
subjects have been taken from many |
classics of childhood. Ferocious |
beasts, terrifying giants and wicked |
witches in long procession will pass
the streets of st. Louis on the |
night of October s. But with them !
will be the heroes who performed |
prodigies Of valor, whose bravery was
more than a match for the monsters
of evil Cerberus, the Hydra and the
Cyclops lose their powers to alarm
when with them appear Ulysses, ia
son, Amiable Avenant and those other
brave men of ancient times.
Not all of the myths and legends