Salt Lake Tribune | 1913-09-21 | Page 17 | Five-Ply Carnival in Boise This Week

FIVE-PLY CAUL IN BOW WEEK Celebration Which Opens on Monday Greatest in History of Idaho Capital. Special to The Tribune. BOISE. Idaho, Sept. 20. With myriads of electric lights illuminating the streets, mile upon mile of 'brilliantly colored bunting festooned from building to building, build-ing, and with the laughter and shouts of thousands of carnlvalltes violng with the music of numerous bands, the third annual Rainmakers' carnival will be formally for-mally opened Monday night. The celebration cele-bration of tho annual carnival this year will be one of the largest combined events of Its kind ever held in the west. Five events are being held simultaneously. simultaneous-ly. The celebration of the fiftieth anniversaries anni-versaries of the organization of the territory ter-ritory of Idaho and founding of Fort Boise the beginning of tho city of Boise will begin Monday morning at which time a monster reunion of Idaho pioneers pio-neers from all sections of the west will begin. The Idaho Intcrmountaln fair the state fair and the Boise Stampede will begin at noon Monday. For the past week tourists and visitors visit-ors have been pouring Into the city on every train preparatory to attending the various events of carnival week. Among the early arrivals are many broncho riders, ropers and steer bulldoggers of national reputations from the roundups Rt Cheyenne, Pendleton and other noted frontier day celebrations. All the men and women who captured world's championships cham-pionships at olther of the other shows are on the ground or coming and tho 1 greatest aggregation of wild west performers per-formers ever seen in the west will be In Boise next week. Tho exhibits at the fair will be greater than last year and Boveral additional buildings were erected to accommodate the extra, exhibitors. Prize-winning exhibits ex-hibits from the county fairs throughout through-out the state, a better babies contest, exhibits of the sohool children of the entire state, races, band concerts, free acts and what 13 considered the finest livestock show held In the northwest, are among the features of the fair. Four spectacular pageants, nightly confetti battles, band concerts and concerts con-certs by the Boise symphony orchestra, free acts and carnival shows are among tho features promised by the Rainmakers. Rainmak-ers. The P.ainmakers' illuminated pageant pa-geant with thirty electrically lighted floats and 2500 people in line, the Industrial In-dustrial pageant with eighty floats demonstrating dem-onstrating the advancement of tho state In a manufacturing way, the pioneers' parade and. the masked carnival pageant and open air bal comprise tho processions. proces-sions. ,