Evening star., 1925-10-01
STREET CARNIVAL
: TO START TONIGHT.
Parade on Fourteenth Street
win Be Opening Event Of Co.
Iumbia Heights Festival.

The Columbia Heights section will
be host tonight and tomorrow night
to all Washington at the Fall street
carnival to be staged on Fourteenth
street between Columbia road and
Monroe street.
Through streets lined with great
white pillars. resplendent with decora-
tions and ablaze with colored lights
and powerful flood lights, II parade
will move at s o'clock tonight. In
augurating the event. The members
OF the community and celebrators
from other sections participating In
the parade will form at Fourteenth
street and Park road, move north on
Fourteenth street to Monroe. then
double back on Fourteenth to Colum-
bia road. then turn north again on the
bedecked highway to the speakers
stand which has been erected at the
corner of Kenyon street.
Given by Business Men.
The carnival will be charged and
lumbia Heights Business Mems Asso-
citation.
No admission will be charged and
no entrance fees for contests--in fact.
no charges whatever. Nothing Will
be sold in the street and takers will
be barred President William F. Dis
mer Of the Columbia Heights Busi-
ness Mems Association said.
The public is especially invited TO
attend in costume. All In costume are
eligible for the parades and for the o0
prizes awarded for costumes. To
nights prizes will be for adults cos
tunes, and tomorrow nights prizes
for children's costumes.
Free souvenirs, caps. funmakers and
all sorts of festive paraphernalia are
to be given away.
The police will be assisted by about
500 Boy Scouts in maintaining order.
Headed by the police and a band,
the parade tonight will include officers
and members of the Columbia Heights
Business Mems Association, delega-
tions from the Columbia Heights Citi.
zens Association and other neighbor
ing citizen and civic bodies. the car
nival queen and her court, Boy Scouts
and costumed revelers, including all
the public present in costume.
The parade will disperse at the
speakers stand where. after invocation
by Rev. George +. Dudley, General
Chairman Frank j. Sobotka will intro
duce District Commissioners Cuno H.
Rudolph, j. Franklin Bell and Fred
erick A. Fenning, who will make brief
addresses. Other speakers will be
Lieut.. Col Clarence 0. Sheriff., Will
liam F. Dismer, president of the CO.
lumbia Heights Business Mems Asso-
citation, and w. l. Swanton. president
of the Columbia Heights Citizens AS
sociation.
Crowning of Queen.
H. Z. Lohmeyer, entertainment
chairman will then conduct the cere.
mony of crowning the popularity Sc
lected queen of the carnival. Miss
Louise Sobotka, who will be attended
by her court of "a attendants. She
will receive a loving cup, and each
of her court an appropriate token.
specia! parade for the judging of
adults costumes will follow, with dis
tribution of prizes.
The United States Navy Band will
play throughout the evening. Fred
East. baritone: the Montrose Quartet
and others will give selections, and
the Boy Scouts will provide a drum
and bugle corps.
Tomorrow evening will be more
especially children's night. and will
include a parade. costume contests
for children and awarding of prizes.
Spanish dancing. clowns. etc. The
United States Army Band will play.
The general committee of the Co.
lumbia Heights Business Mems Asso-
citation in charge of the carnival is:
William +. Dismer. president: Frank
]. Sobotka, general chairman; J.
Sanders, vice chairman, and the fol-
lowing committee chairmen: Harry f.
Lohmeyer, entertainment: Alton B.
Carty, reception: John c. Mulford.
prizes: Charles T. Beaumet, finance;
Irving S. Hall. parade; II. C. Phil
lips, publicity: Dan o. Miller. music:
J. w. Smith, decorations: w. F. Scott.
illuminations; w. B. Hargett, conces-
sions; ]. Clinton Hiatt. cooperation,
and Police Capt. Lord Of the tenth
precinct, public order.