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Show I COLORADO SPRINGS 1 MECCA YESTERDAY ill COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., July 6i. Thousands of visitors, in add!-1M;. add!-1M;. tion to the usual rush of summer Jm tourists, are here today to participate H Id the opening of the sixth fete to Ml celebrate the fortieth anniversary of HI the birth of the city. The streets are Ht ablaze with brilliant colored buntings, H;.1he decorations being on a scale gtff ; never before attempted here, and at H . night ihe thoroughfares will bo ii H ' , lnuiined by a blaze of incandoscent H lights placed at every point of van- 1 R The star attraction today was an " automobile parade with more than S00 gaily decorated machines in lino. Many of these cars belonged to summer sum-mer visitors, which led to muchri-valry. muchri-valry. Gov. Shafroth of Colorado opened the festivities of the week with a brief 'address at 1030 o'clock, nfter which 'Mayor Avery ' of Colorado Springs gave the keys of the city to King Carnival. |