FLOWER DAY.

Aug. 5, 1898.

For several weeks preparations had been going on for a grand Flower Parade on
the Exposition Grounds.  This parade was one of the decided successful features
of the Exposition period.  The women of the Bureau of Entertainment under the
supervision and direction of Mrs. H. McCall Travis, assumed full charge of the
decoration of vehicles that were to take part in the parade.  The pageant
formed in the afternoon at the Horticulture Building, those participating with
the 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 white
chrysanthemums, 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 smilax
and 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 of
tarleton.
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 satin
ribbons.

The judges were Mayor Moores of Omaha, Mayor Jennings of Council Bluffs and
Mayor 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 management
were tendered to Mrs. T.M. Orr and her assistants for the superb and artistic
spectacle their parade had afforded.  In particular recognition of the work
done by the women in putting on this elaborate pageant it was decided to
present each of the participants with a souvenir exposition medal.