Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1898 — A GORGEOUS SCENE. [ARTICLE]

A GORGEOUS SCENE.

The Floral Parade the Greateat Feature of Carnival Week In Milwaukee. Milwaukee, June 30.—A parade of Milwaukee’s fire department headed by a platoon of police and Fire Chief Foley, was the interesting feature of the forenoon exercises of the jubilee carnival. The procession brought out all the firemen and apparatus in the city with the exception of a small emergency reserve By far the greatest feature of the semi-centennial carnival to date was the floral parade, which moved at four o’clock Wednesday evening. It was the first pageant of its kind ever witnessed in any Wisconsin city, and was a success beyond all expectations. It was the contriffiition to the carnival of Milwaukee’s “four hundred,’’ and the floral decorations of the different vehicles harmoni/.ed with the handsome gowns of the beautiful women who rode in the procession. Ex-Gov. George W. Peck was grand marshal of the parade, which moved through the finest residence streets, of the city. Mayor and Mrs. D. S. Rose beaded the long line of equipages in a pure white victoria, which was completely covered with

| white roses and drawn by a span of white horses. Other conveyances in line consisted of English carts, surreys, pony traps, a tally-do and numerous other handsome turnouts, all of which were decorated in roses, chrysanthemums and carnations of various hues, violets, poppies, sunflowers, stuilax, etc. The procession was viewed by many thousands of people, and cheer after cheer went up all along the line. At night the Milwaukee fire department gave an exhibition fire run through the 1 center of the business district.