August 5, 1898

Gen. James Longstreet is visiting the Expo...40 years since his lastvisit here.

The captured Spanish Flag is suspended from the ceiling in Wattlesoffice... in the Administration building. It was captured by our boys fromFt. Crook, 22nd Inf., Company B.

One of the aides for Gov. Clough of Minn. drifted away lang enough tochase into a fake museum on 16th St., where for 10c the patrons wereregaled with delectable vision of tawdry chromos of uncertain value.After showing the party around, the lecturer informed the ladies andminors they were though, however for 15c the men could see their,"special bill". Most of the men stayed. "Are you ready, Maud",shouted the lecturer, metamorphisized into a stage manager with theeasy grace of an Omaha Chester. "Not quite", was the feminine reply.The crowd surged closer, eyes set forward in the pulled aside. Maudwas ready all right, and there was not a wrinkle in the brand newbicycle suit either, that had not been draped before the stagemirror.

A new pamphlet has been prepared by the Bureau of Publicity, whichincludes some of the best views yet issued...shows the buildings fromdifferent views...general views of midway...landscape effects...largeamount of descriptive matter.

The Indian Congress is the first gathering of so many different tribes inone place.

Flower Day

For several weeks preparations had been going on for a grand Flower Parade onthe Exposition Grounds. This parade was one of the decided successful featuresof the Exposition period. The women of the Bureau of Entertainment under thesupervision and direction of Mrs. H. McCall Travis, assumed full charge of thedecoration of vehicles that were to take part in the parade. The pageantformed in the afternoon at the Horticulture Building, those participating withthe decorations given below:

1. Mrs. F.P. Kirkendall; drag, with cornflowers and wheat.
2. Mrs. H.T. Clark; white chrysanthemums.
3. Mrs. George A. Joslyn and Mrs. C.C. Chase; scarlet and white poppies.
4. Mrs. George Mercer; La France roses and smilax.
5. Mrs. J.M. Metcalf; shaded pink hollyhocks.
6. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Franklin Smith; pink roses with natural foliage.
7. Miss Mary Mercer; pony cart with Easter lilies and white roses.
8. Mrs. Gurdon Wattles and Mrs. George F. Bidwell; shaded pink roses.
9. Mrs. John L. Webster; drag with white horses, pink chrysanthemums.
10. Miss Louis Squires; American Beauty roses.
11. Mrs. J.N. Cornish; royal purple chrysanthemums.
12. Mrs. Thomas W. Taliaferro; white roses and white lilies.
13. Mrs. C.E. Squires; pale blue tarleton and pink and black poppies.
14. Mrs. H.H. Baldridge; tandem team.
15. Mrs. J.H. Evans and Miss Amy Barker; victoria, heliotroop and whitechrysanthemums, design in Vandyke points.
16. The Misses Sharp; white roses and smilax.
17. Mrs. S.A. McWhorter; pale yellow roses.
18. Mrs. J.E. Baum; shaded yellow and black poppies.
19. Miss Elizabeth Allen; golden chrysanthemums.
20. Mrs. John N. Baldwin; pink poppies.
21. Mr. Al Patrick; the Patrick tallyho coach in the national colors in peonies.
22. Mrs. A.H. Noyes; Ak-Sar-Ben colors of red, green and yellow.
23. Mrs. Charles E. Ford; Marechal Niel roses.
24. Miss Mount and Miss Dickinson; burnt orange and amber chrysanthemums.
25. Mrs. A.J. Love and Mrs. Chas. Offutt; trap in morning glories.
26. Miss Bennett; canopy-topped carriage, various shades of violet.
27. Mrs. M.C. Peters; spider phaeton, pink roses and lavender chrysanthemums.
28. Miss Parrotte; water lilies.
29. Mrs. Downs; patriotic colors of red, white and blue.
30. Miss Shiverick; carriage upholstered in white, latticed with smilaxand with borders of pink chrysanthemums.
31. Miss Andreesen; spider phaeton in white chrysanthemums.
32. Mrs. Nicholas L. Guckert; yellow and black poppies.
33. Miss Gertrude Morand; pony cart, Marechal Niel roses.
34. Mrs. Arthur Brandeis; golden butterflies, tea and Marechal Niel roses.
35. Mrs. Jack Cudahy; spider phaeton; white bride roses, ruchings oftarleton.
36. Mrs. W.R. Kelly; trap in pink tarleton, La France roses.
37. Miss Alice Parker; trap in yellow poppies, latticed over in pale green.
38. The Misses Hamilton; victoria in lavender and royal purple chrysanthemums.
39. Miss Adelaide Nash; trap in white and yellow roses.
40. Mrs. G.W. Megeath; cart in La France roses and trimmed in white satinribbons.

The judges were Mayor Moores of Omaha, Mayor Jennings of Council Bluffs andMayor Graham of Lincoln, who bestowed prizes upon the equipages of Mrs. J.H.Evans, Mrs. Howard Baldridge and Mr. John N. Baldwin, in the order named.

At a meeting of the executive committee the thanks of the exposition managementwere tendered to Mrs. T.M. Orr and her assistants for the superb and artisticspectacle their parade had afforded. In particular recognition of the workdone by the women in putting on this elaborate pageant it was decided topresent each of the participants with a souvenir exposition medal.