Show BOTH LEGENDARY AND HISTORICAL Gorgeous Night Carnival Pa Parade Parade Parade rade of Celebration the H New York Oct 2 A night carnival parade of many novel features was the concluding event of childrens day This pageant was of a generally allegorical and legendary nature Its Is bearing upon the events of the week was wa the representation representation it I gave of arts art and ad ideals that contributed to Americas present prent civili civilization and culture In the planning and construction of these the fifty floats the German Geran Austrian and Swiss societies lete of the city ci co cooperated cooperate cooperated operated operate with wih the carnival committee and the Teutonic mythology which the early colonists brought to this part of he the country countr was strongly in evidence evl enc But the classic legends of Greece Gre and Rome were not lacking and a a large lare number lumber of ot the floats represented ab at abstract subjects such as a Poetry Music Art War Humor Good Go Luck Free Freedom Fre Freedom I dom and Peace Pece Timely interest went with wih a shivery shiver scene sene entitled The he frost King Uncle Sam S Receiving the Crowned Crown Heads concluded the procession sion slon and provoked more applause than all aU the gorgeousness and tinsel of the themore themore themore more artistic conceptions that preceded reele Description of Floats Music Literature and Art led the pro procession procession cession This foremost formost float fot in n design deign and meant ment to prophesy the unconventional character of those tho to follow takes the shape shap of a dragon spouting flame fame and surrounded by lire fre Mars the th god go of war wr followed Next came a huge artists palette poised ready rey for its Is master muter The human fig figures fg figures ures ure on it i were an idealization of the blots slots of color clor squeezed sueze from the tubes tube as 8 they appear on his palette when he is ready ry to blend them in his work only to be stirred stilTed to life Ue by his brush to do his bidding Other floats were Song Anon Arion rion Crowning of Beethoven Bethoven Aeolian Harp Lohengrin Lorelei Death of Farner Queen of Sheba Sheb Got Die Seigfried Titania Origin of Poetry An Andreas Andreas Andreas dreas Hofer Hofe Marathon William Wilam Tey Nimrod Nimr Andromeda Fritz Reuter Hansa Hans Harvesting Dia Diana Diana na na nIt Europa Europ Helderberg Gnomes Bavaria Sirens Me Medusa Medusa Ie dusa dus Elves of Spring The Jungle Egyptian Art Music and Literature Father Rhine Rhin Germania Germania Mer Mor maids Fairies Cinderella Or Orpheus Orpheus hous Before Pluto God Go of ot th t the Alps Avalanche of ot Freedom Frem Blending of Legend and History The compilers of the official program pregnant say ay in speaking of ot this thin branch of of the celebration This parade pre is something more than a n Jollification and merry merrymaking mer merrymaking making maing It is designed deigne to recall the poetry of myth legend allegory and in Ina ina a few cases of historic facts which while whilo foreign in local origin have in Inspire Inspired spire so s much of the beautiful Imagery of f the poetry and song and drama of ofal al all 11 civilized nations American drill civili civilization mUon young as it i is has hs advanced avance to toa toa a stage where It I appreciates its Is Intel heritage from the old world and ind nowhere in this country is that heritage heriage more highly prized than in New York City or state The total cost cst of constructing and resenting presenting the two float fot parades prades of the he celebration is estimated when their repetition In different boroughs of New NewYork NewYork NewYork York and in towns along the Hudson Husn river has been accounted for at nearly The task of building the floats was a serious problem and finally forced the establishment of ot a school of construction with wih skilled skie New York sculptors and carpenters us as W pupils The carpenter carenter first built bui a rough skeleton of the figure intended padded into a semblance of or its Is final shape with wih lath and wire mesh On this the sculptor modeled in clay his figure From the sculptors model was taken taen a plaster cost cast cat upon which in turn was modeled mele the he papier mache cast cst which when painted and varnished were ready rey to t be beset b beset set st on the floats |