The Prescott daily news., 1915-10-05

Word has come through 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 s50,- 900 and $60000, 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 $40,0O0 and $5O,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 suming 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-two 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 a group of men in appro- priate costume.
 Besides the fair-szed fortune that the Prophet has set aside for the en- joyment of the people attending the St Louis Fall Festivities of 1915, 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 to g, 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- lecturers, jobbers and wholesalers, in accord with a proclamation by the mayor of the city, will try to prove St. Louis the foremost of the central
 4I, tot.N Tal exhibits at the Jefferson Memorial (home of the Missouri Historical SO ciety), Shaw's Garden and the City Art Museum and a concert the even- ing of October 3 by the Boston Sym phony Orchestra. Another event Of much interest to music lovers will be the grand opera October Il, 12 and Is, by the Boston Grand Opera Con- 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: 1, The Yelled Prophet; 2. Title Float, Myths and Legends; 5, The Second Labor of Hercules; i, The Golden Fleece and the Argonauts; ,, Second Voyage of Sindbad; G, CYclops; I The Three Golden Apples; s, Ger berus; g, The Wooing of the Maid of Beauty: 10. Kambalu; II, Pandora; F, Cinderella: 13, Beauty and the Beast; 14. Blue Beard; 15, Good King Ar thur; 16. The star and the Lily; r, Fuss in Boots Is, The Falr One with the Golden Locks; 1y, Evangeline; 20, Hiawatha; 21, Rip Van Wrinkle; 22, 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. courier 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 through the streets of St. Louis on the night of October 5. But with them will be the heroes who performed prodigies of valor whose bravery was more than match for the monsters of evil. Cerberus, the Hydra and the Cvclops lose their powers to alarm when with them appear Ulysses, Ja- son. Amiable Averant and those other brave men of ancient times.
 Not all of the myths and legends which the Yelled Prophet ne5 chosen