The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-11-16
HOBO DAY WAS BIG
EVENT SATURDAY
PARADE OF HOBOS AND SQUAWS
FEATURE OF AFTERNOONS
STUNTS-1,OOO IN LINE
SHOW VISITED BY THOUSANDS
Best Display ever Seen In West-Other
Events of Day Were Enjoyed
BY Visitors

A SliSht fall of snow and a Snappy
November air ushered in Hobo Day.
but did not prevent thousands of visit
ors from being with us TO witness the
pageant put on by the enthusiastic stu
dents of State College. All trains
brought in large numbers but the auto
was the popular conveyance, and by
noon our streets looked like Michigan
Avenue in Chicago on a busy after
noon.
The feature of the forenoon'S pro
gram was the hobo and squaw parade.
The line of march was south on Me-
Diary avenue from the campus to Sixth,
west on Sixth t Main, down Main to
the depot, where all sorts of stunts
were pulled off until the trains from
the north and west arrived. The par
ade was headed by a large Jack Rabbit
mounted on horseback. The band
came next and then the hobos and
squawS, interSpersed here and there
WIN OiiSllIdlly uCIOl dltu hOdlS. n
bunch Of cowboy girls, armed with AS,
held up the crowd at several points of
the march and the restaurants and
stores experienced the same thrills and
cold shiyers which people of the past
generation knew when Jesse James
and his gang went after fat bank de
posits. Another bunch of girls dressed
as clowns caVorted around to the great
amusement of the laughing by-stand-
erS. And the hoboS and squaws, in
their fantastic and peek-a-boo raj
ments, their blankets and their paint,
their hungry and d~own-and-out d.
meanOr, was a sight not to be witness
ed this side of the Jungle" in old St.
Louis. There was a thousand of them,
no two dressed alike. and not a single
One envying his or her neighbor. for
each had an individuality and a style
peculiarly personal and original.
Perhaps the greatest feature of the
parade was the funeral procession
with North Dakota as the corpse. The
North Dakota University goat led by
mourners headed this section. Then
came the band in evening dress step
ping slowly to the sad strains of a
funeral dirge. The mangled form of
North Dakota was g borne in a
- ratahpt nv blood ,nI,,p,J nt,,,,J,ntr
followed by mOurncrs, sympathizers
and d~own-hearted rooters.
The parade was the greatest in the
history of the hobo idea in this city.
About 11:30 ranks were broken and
the good housewives of the city ex-
perienced a raid on their pantry sup
plies which made them think that
Coxey's army of memorable fame had
come out of the past and was making
headquarters in Bookings. Every
body gave to the hungry, and smiled as
they gave. No down-and-outer or
dumb looking squaw was refused a
handout, and the feed" at the campus
Jungle" was the most elaborate and
diversified affair in the short and I'M
eyentful history Of the hobo and
squawish aces
The election of Hobo King and In
dian Chieftess resulted in the titles
being conferred upon Verne Collinge
and Miss Mildred Peterson, and Presi-
dent Perisho crowned them before An
immense audience on the athletic field
at 2:15 p. m. just before the beginning
of the foot ball game.
The cross country run of three miles
was won by Scott, Drew Faulkner sec
ond and Jas. Faulkner third. The
time was IS minutes and % seconds.
The crysanthemum show was visit
ed by thousands. It was the greatest
flower show ever seen anywhere in the
middle west, and the vast throngs
seemed to appreciate the beauty Of the
setting in which 10000 blossoms and
5000 plants were displayed. A repre-
sentative of the botanic gardens in
Chicago was here and said the show
was one of the finest, if not the finest,
in all America. Prof. F. G.. StOlten-
berg is therefore to be congratulated
upon his work and upon the pleasure
he afforded the visitors. He is GER
tainly an artist with flowers and
shrubs.
Another center of attraction was the
10000 art collection on the third floor
of the Administration building. Many
beautiful paintings by Americans are
in this collection and some of them are
priced as high as $4,000.