New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-13
Conveys Mardi Gras
Will Open With
Ceremony Tonight
With Transportation Facili.
ties Assured, Island Ex-
poets Record Crowds Dur
ing Its Week of Carnival

When the sun sets this evening a
dryad, with peaked cap and peaked
shoes, will scamper forth from the
depths Of Luna Park and cry out
shrilly: ''This is Mardi Gras; hear
ye! hear vel" And then he will
scamper back and Coney's great carni-
val Of fun will begin.
Concessionaries, who have been look
ing forward to the mid-year festival
to pull them out Of a financial hole,
due to Indictment weather in July and
affect Of the 3. r. T. strike, announced
last night that they were confident Of
replenishing their losses.
Special trains will be run over the
Sea Beach, Culver and Brighton
Beach lines, as we'll as numerous troll
legs along Smith Street. The Iron
Steamboat Company has guaranteed it's
strike service of boats every twenty
minutes and bus operators have
pledged themselves to a lower fare.
Puts on Holiday Attire
AS a result OF these assurances
Coney Island took ongsats holiday APP
pearance last night. Surf Avenue was
bedecked in multi-colored sfreamers
and flags, and dainty lanterns ilfumined
every path to New York's .fairyland Of
joy.
There are to be the usual divisions
silver sets, bracelets, pins and neck
laces to winners, and to add to the
attractiveness Of the pageant o gro
tesque and comic division has been in
cluded in each nightly parade. In ad-
dition to the dozen handsomely deco
rated floats, a part of each evening
pageant, nights have been designated
to different civic, fraternal and semi
military bodies for places in the pa
rades. !:
The Loyal Order of Moose floats will
be the feature this evening, while to-
morrow night a division of Pocahontas
will participate.
Governor to Attend Tomorrow
Governor Smith and his military
staff will be on hand tomorrow, as
will Mayor Hylan and city officials
and after they have been dined and
toasted in Feltman's they will ride in
state along the aag-bedecked avenue
of confetti.
On Wednesday the Lifesavers and
Woodmen Of the World will have q
program, and on Thursday the Volun-
teer Firemen Of Coney will parade in
their crimson shirts and black helmets.
On Friday veterans, able and dis
abled, Of foreign wars will follow q
tife and drum corps through the Island
streets.
Saturday will be Children's Day. Fol-
lowing baby parade in the afternoon
the prize winners will be selected in
Steeplechase Park.
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king and a. boy queen and together
they will mount foat Of crimson and
gold and become the observed Of all
observers.
A detail of 200 uniformed police,
with hundred detectives, will be on
hand under the command of Inspector
Joseph A. Conboy, Of the 10th Inspec-
ton District, and Captain Byron r.
Sackett. Sergeant John Bryan will be
in charge of the detectives.
100000 at Resort Yesterday
An unusually large crowd fiocked to
Coney Island yesterday. 1t was esti-
mated that, despite the transit strike,
at least 100000 persons were present.
Ihe beach again was crowded and
upyard Of $4,000 went in swimming.
NO drownings were reported.
One arrest was made. Charles Re-
sixth Street and Seventh Avenue, Man
haitian, was charged with visiting the
Home Yor Children at Eighteenth
Street and Cropsey Avenue, where he
10 said to have quarreled with his wife
and two children living there. He had
been separated from his wife and was
endeavoring to effect. a reconciliation.
Magistrate Geismar, in the Coney U.s.
land Court, sentenced him to three
m onths in the Workhouae