Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-09-20
HISTORICAL PARADE
TO Be ONE OF THRILLS
Grand Pageant October 8 Will
Faithfully Depict Life of
This Section.
LAVISH FLOATS ARE READY

A new experience, new thrill
awaits Nebraskans who will be fortu.
nate enough to see the historical pa
rade in Omaha October 5, when the
history if this section of North Amer.
ica will be cast up before the aston
ished eyes OF the multtudes in one
magnificent caravan of floats and his.
torical groups.
Those who have for twenty-one
years witnessed the great electrical
parade have yet greater spectacle to
see in this historical parade.
The electrical parade comes every
year.
May Be First and Last.
The historical parade comes now
for the first time in history, and will
perhaps never come again.
For, if the figures on expenses cur
rying out the Ak-Sar- Ben festivities
could be properly classified it would
be found probably that the production
of this historical parade cost some
tlliliS iihC YSJ,oou.
Thirty-one costly floats and fifteen
historical groups will go to make up
this grand affair.
The floats are completed and most
of them are now stored in the great
fireproof balloon house at Fort
Omaha.
More study, more labor, more pains
and more artistic headwork have been
expended on the production Of these
floats than on any electrical parade
ever staged in Omaha.
Starts in Dim Ages.
Why not? For this historical repre-
sentation begins in the dim past, per-
haps 100000 years ago, perhaps
longer.
Prehistoric monsters of the tropical
age, the tertiary period in which
aquatic and semi-aquatic monsters
flourished, is represented in the first
float. Giant rhinoceri with many
horns, fierce dinosaurs, lizard-like
monsters larger than freight cars are
represented, snarling and swapping at
one another as they drag their fetid
bodies about in the hot slime of pre-
historic seas.
Then comes the ice age when ava
lanches of ice rolled in upon this trop-
ical life, from some unknown cause.
The gigantic mammoth or mastodon
is seen, a tropical animal, hopelessly
around in all avalanche of
ice that is slowly bearing him to earth
only to overwhelm him, bury him and
roll on its destructive way.
Primitive Indians Appear.
Again the icebergs disappear with
succeeding ages-and human life ap-
pears. The primitive Indians appear.
On foot and on horseback come
now Coronado and his cavaliers, the
early Spanish explorers who roamed
over this territory, slew Indians and
enslaved others.
Indians in groups will follow in the
costumes of the time.
The Mandan Indian hut comes next,
a float representing the type of will
low hut covered over with clay, which
the Mandan Indians used in Corona
dos day.
After group of modern Indians
will follow the tepee of the more mod
ern Indians, with the bucks reclining
in the shade of the tent while the
squaws pound corn and scrape buffalo
hides. Real Indians from the reser-
vation will fill these parts.
Indian Hunting Buffalo.
A float representing the vanishing
races is another of great interest. 1t
is float with life sized buffalo chased
BY an Indian on his pony. The Indian,
the broncho and the buffalo alike have
or are rapidly vanishing.
These are but few of the floats OF
interest in the very foremost part of
his magnificent parade. The parade
will probably be nearly two miles
ong. The whole hisotry of the terri
tory will be covered and faithfully
represented, even to the first inaugu-
al bali, which will be represented by
persons actually in the costumes Of
he day and engaged in dancing while
he parade moves down the streets.