The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1915-09-17
BIG PARADE FOR
The FAIR WEEK
Merchants to Give Burlesque on
Circus Mcknight Program
Arranged.

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tainment during fair week.
1t will be burlesque on a genuine
circus parade and if the success SIM
liar pageants have met with in other
cities is any criterion, it will be better
than genuine circus parade.
The parade feature was definitely
decided upon Sunday morning at a
joint meeting of the Entertainment
committee of the Commercial Club and
a committee of the Board of Directors
of the Fair and Park Association,
which met at the Commercial Club.
Those who were present We're:
Charles Blattner, president of the fair
association; A. NJ. Tinsley, J. T. Num-
Sr., c. w. Stehr, J. T. Num- Jr., secre-
tary of the fair; w. H. BOhnsack Jr.,
David Glenn, President J. II. McPher-
son, of the COMMERCIAL Club; Clyde
Vandivort, of Jackson, and John Mil
Ter
The Commercial Club at its meet
ing had authorized the Entertainment
Committee to prepare some night fea-
lures for entertaining the crowds in
town. The proposition of obtaining
carnival companies and placing them
on Spanish street, Broadway and Good
Hone street first came up.
The fair directors pointed out that
such features would draw crowds away
from the fair at night when it is plan
ned to have the midway going full
blast and free show put on.
The business men thereupon began
planning for different entertainment
stunt, and the parade was selected as
being the best for working up in a
short time.
Costumes will be brought from St
Louis and it is probable that an expert
will be imported from St. Louis to
train the Cape Girardeauans in pre-
senting the parade.
The costumes of papier mache will
represent elephants, tigers, horses, gil
raffes, serpents and animals of vari-
Gus descriptions found in a real circus
parade. These will be accompanied by
many clowns and floats interspersed
that will carry out the idea of the bur-
lesque. There will be a lady Gagged in
with a den of man-eating lions. In all
probability, the lions will be poodle
dogs rugged up to represent the king
of beasts.
The snake charmer will be on deck
and A. H. Tinsley. who is at the head
of the Commercial Club Committee
which is staging the parade, is plan
ming to have "phony" calliOpe to
wind up the affair.
Tinsley last night declared that
there will have to be several capable
young men who are willing to make
heroes of themselves offer their serv-
ices to become beasts for the night of
the parade.
A feature of the parade will be a
float with a large, smOOt platform. A
troupe of acrObats will be engaged to
put on a series Of stunts on this plat
form at various stops the parade will
make enrOute.
A parade similar to the one planned
for the Cape was given on July 3 in
Anna, ILL.,, where it met with great
success. The Cape plans to have 4
pageant about four or five times the
size of the Anna affair.
The parade will makeup" in a
rock quarry out on Broadway west of
Pacific street. 1t will march east on
Broadway oMain, stopping for a pc
riod at Broadway and Fountain for the
acrobatic stunt, and also at Main and
Broadway.
1t will go south on Main to indie
pendence, west on Independence to
Spanish, South on Spanish to Good
Hope, west on Good Hope to Frederick
where another acrobatic show will be
staged, then west on Good Hope to
Pacific. north on Pacific to Broadway
where the last acrObatic show will be
staged and from that point the parade
will continue on out to the Fair |
grounds.
1t is planned to give the parade on
Wednesday evening, September %,
and Friday evening, Oct. 1.
A canvass of business men in all
parts of the town will be made to raise
'unds for the parade, and it is under
stood that many of the business men
ave indicated their intention of Civ
NO literally toward the stunt.
A. r. Ponder of San Antonio, Tex,
md ]. A. Harrell, of Pasadena, Cal,
were in the Cape attending
O business interests here before de-
,arting for st. Louis. Both men for