Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-20
CITY EAGER FOR
RISE OF CURTAIN
ON FASHION SHOW
Thousands Await Chance To-
uight to ''Oh" and "Ah" on
Brilliant Streets
PRIZES FOR WINDOWS
Judges Will Be Busy; Fantastic
Parade and Great Dance
in Square Friday
"To- nights the night'!n

Word and deed to-day were surely
obedient children to that big thought
that was expressed in every business
house and store in the city's CONNER
cial section, central. Hill and West
End.
Proprietors and fioorwalkers glanced
more frequently at watches; the girls
behind tho counters were an evening
or two ahead in their thought; clerks
were secretly thankful that the weeks
of preparation were all over to-day;
window decorators added the last
touches behind the curtained display
windows of scores of stores and went
home happy and hoping.
1t is 1.-THE Night
For tonight the big three-ntght cele-
bration of Harrisburg's first uniform
merchants Fall opening begins--and
the curtain will rise at 7.30 o'clock on
the window dressing contest.
Tomorrow night there will be infor-
NAL ''doings," the crowds will just
stroll about the streets and look at
the windows. The board of judges
window dressing experts from out OF
town-will be the busiest of busy men.
They'll be Judging windows tonight
and tomorrow night Just a word to
you. Mr.. Merchant If you haven't op-
tanned a display card from the Cham
ber of Commerce. These cards, which
announce the fact that the store in
which the card is displayed is an en-
trant in the dressing competition,
must be in the window; the judges
will not consider a window which is
not so marked.
On Other Evenings
Briefly speaking, the program for
the three evenings is this:
At 7.25 o'clock tonight the city
white way" will be darkened, when
the street lights will be turned off and
the electric signs and window lights
will be turned down behind the deeply
curtained windows few minutes
later the clamor of the fire bells VIII
give n city-wide notice of the fact that
Harrisburgs merchants are about TO
show what they can display in the way
of the very latest in Fall coats ana
suits and stockings and hats and shoes
and other things.
AZ 7.s0 o'clock the lights will flash
on again and the scores OF curtains
And the Crowds-Whew!
Ry that time il is safe to say that
Market Square, Market street and the
other streets upon which the Saliy
lighted stores front will hardly be able
to hold the crowds. In Market Square
in the meantime there Will be pano
concert This has been arranged by
David Kaufman in front of the kauf-
man Underselling Stores.
Tomorrow night, it's true. Will be
more or less "show night" But then
on Friday evening-oh! my, that's
to be tho finale.
That whole southwest section OF
Market Square is to be turned into
gigantic open-air dance floor where
hundreds of gaily costumed dancers
will frolic for hours in mad pre-Hal-
lowe'en capers to the music OF the
Municipal band.
On With the Dance
r--z.. O o'o1ocl- until midnight the
dance will go on. A grand march Will
be the first number. To enter the
march one must be costumed and
masked. The unmasking will follow
the grand march, after which every
hodv can slip into the great roped-off
enciosure and dance. Handsome sill
yer cups will be awarded to the wear
ers of the most original and the most
connical feminine and masculine cos
+urnes V. Grant Forrer, assistant
mark superintendent, is to be the chair
man of the board of judges.
Costumers will be here from New
York on Friday to distribute costumes
at a reasonable figure. They Will make
the Commonwealth their headquarters
The Marshals
Plenty of policemen, it is true, will
keep the crowds outside the ropes and
in addition to the officers there Will be
the following gaily costumed mar
shals.
A. TT. Kreidler, Otto w. Plack. Fred
s. Lack, S. S. Eberts, Frank b. Bosch
Joseph Claster, Joseph WallazZ, John
s. Musser, F. F. Davenport, O. G
Bickel. Mercer B. Tate, W. 5; Esslck
J. NJ. Delaney, II. r. Long, John Grey
D. L. NJ. Raker, Ross R. Seaman
James P. Mccullough, Ira RombergeI
and Stanley G., Jean.