Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1885 — ST. LOUIS’ BIG EVENT. [ARTICLE]

ST. LOUIS’ BIG EVENT.

A UriUlant Street Parade and a Grand Bail. (St. Louis dispatch.] The seventh annual parade of Veiled Prophets took place to-night, and was a very brilliant affair. It consisted of twenty-two floats, representing and illustrating about a dozen Arabian Nights stories, and was witnessed by an immense throng of people, who densely packed the sidewalks and every available foot of space along the line of march. The usnal ball in connection with this affair is now in progress at the great hall of the Merchants’ Exchange and is attendee} ,by, th® cite and fashion of the city. Over one hundred thousand strangers were in the city to-night.