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The fourteenth float, called "Mahommed's
Hegira," represents Mahommed sitting on a
The twentieth float is "Lafayette and Fo
camel before the cave where he took refuge in
eign Generals. 1778-1824." On a high peder
his flight from Mecca just after he had begun
tal in the centre is a marble ststue of Lafayette
his doctrine. By him in front of the cove
At each of the four corners of the base fou
under the shade of a palm tree, which is at
bronze statues representing De Grasse, Roch
the rear of the float, stands his friend and
ambeau, Steuben and De Kalb.
color-bearer, Abou Bekir. Following this
The twenty-first float is a comprehensiv
fioat will be a guard of fifteen mounted Mo-
scene from Kane's Arctic expedition in 1853
hammedans.
The fifteenth float presents the crowning of
and will be readily appreciated on sight.
]
Charlemagne by Pope Leo III. At the rear of
the car is a small temple with raised floor. In
needs no other description.
it stands the Pope. On the steps leading into
The twenty-second Hoat is a veritable enig
the Pope's sanctum stands Charlemagne. The
ma of Time. It is called "The Khedive's Exti
Pope is surrounded by a bishop and atten-
A. D. 1878." Under a ernopy, supported b
dants, and the king is accompanied by cour-
beautiful green pillars, at the Year of the floa
tiers and warriors. who remain below and in
sits the khedive, Ismail Pacha smoking hi
the front of the ficat. This occurred about
pipe, and surrounded by harem and slave 8,1
800 A. D.
tendants. A smaller canopy 18 in front. Un
The sixteenth float, entitled "Peter, the Her-
der it plays & fountain, Between the tw
mit," represents the soldier hermit as stand.
canopies stand two eunichs.
ing before & rough wooden cross erected
The twenty-third float is "The Man of York
among rocks towards rear of float. Clad in
town, '81. George Washington, mounted on
rough garment and holding a heavy cross up-
magnificent horse, is bowing to the people as
lifted, be is preaching the crusade. Peter was
the victory.
a soldier of the Counts of Boulogne, and was
The twenty-fourth float, which is the las
serving in Flanders in 1701 A. D. In 1095 after
is called 'Baltimore to-day." A locomotive i
a pilgrimage to the holy land, commissioned
balf emerged from a tunnel. On steam ches
by Pope Urban, he began to preach the cru-
of engine are the letters B. & 0. R. R. O:
sade.
top of the tunnel is & telegraph office, 11
Following this float will be twelve mounted
hich is an operator. Front of float, at ORO
crusaders, following the great hermit.
corner, are two telegraph poles, with wire
He traveled the greater part of continental
running into office.
Europe riding on an ass, his head and feet
Thus we have the enigma of time solved. I
bare, his body clothed in the coarse garment
began in a sphinx and ended in a steam en
of a hermit, girded around the waist with a
eine and all that great improvement i
rope, and bearing a heavy crucifix in his
meebanics means.
hands. As he was clothed about 900 years ago,
so does he appear in the pageant.
The seventeenth float, according to the offi-
cial programme, is entitled "Magna Charta"
A. D. 1221. On the tented field at Runny-
mede in his own apartment sits King John at
a table surrounded by three retainers.
Before him stands Langton, arch-
bishop of York, attended by two British
barons. Outside the tent at the front and
towards the forward part of the platform
stand two sentineis. That the official pro-
gramme should have missed the date of this
great act of wresting liberty and a charter of
its right from tyranny is annoying. Instead
of being in 1221, A. D., it occurred, as every
school-boy knows. in 1215.
The eighteenth float is the Landing of Co-
lumbus. Columbus has just stepped from the
boat and is raising on high the cross, the sym.
bol of Christian faith. A monk is in the
act of getting out of the boat. In the stern
are two boats. On shore are two trees; an In-
dian man stands behind one, a woman behind
the other. The official has the date of this
scene correct-1492 A. D.
The nineteenth float is the "Declaration of
Independence, 1776 A. D." John Hancock sits
at the table in the act, of signing the great
deed of freedom. Around the table stand four
other signers. High over the table is sus-
pended the famous bell from Liberty Hall
At each corner of the float are the outposts of
official power. the forces, The date is correct.
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