Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, January 15, 1915, Page 8

| PREPARE FOR GASPARILLA | Tampa, The “Payroll City,” Getting Ready To Receive Ye Mystic Krewe Next Month Tampa, Fla, Jan. — —Cosmopolitan Tampa, known throughout the country as “The Payroli City,” is making elab- orate preparations for holding the tenth annual Gasparilla Carnival, nam- | ed for Gasparilla, one of the most desperate tes that ever infested the Gulf Coast of Florida and the Spanish Main during the closiug days of the eigiiteenth and opening days of the nineteenth centuries. The dates | of the Carnival, which is patterned af- | ter the New Orleans Mardi Gras, with i many amusement features peculiar to | the semi-tropics added, are February | 12 to 16, inclusive, and in honor of the celebration the railroads have offered | extremely low round-trip rates from all | points east of the Mississippi river. Every attraction of the Carnival will be free, and Tampans are preparing | to care for 100,000 visitors during the ! five days of festivity. Gasparilla was not as widely known | to fame as Captain Kidd and LaFitte | the French terror, but he was their equal in cruelty and daring. He and his crew robbed and burned many merchant ships, securing millions in Spanish gold and taking captive many women, whose husbands, fathers and brotters were made to “walk the plank” and find graves among the cor al beds beneath the blue Gulf waters. “Qverboard with the men, but capture the women,” was Gasparilla's com- mand to his crew, and he held many ‘beautiful but unfortunate women for « long time in an immense but crude and well-fortified castle on Gasparilla Isle, on which the thriving port of Boca Grande stands today. He and his crew were finally captured and danged by the fighting men of an American gunboat in 1800, since which time peace has reigned in the Gulf wa- ters except during the filibustering and troop-embarking days of the Spanish- American War, For ten years, though, the ghost of Gasparilla and his phan- tom crew have attacked Tampa, and their coming is marked by a festival such as people of the semi-tropics are alone capable of producing. This year the Carnival will be more attractive than ever, and particularly to residents of winter-bound states. | Among the features offered for their attraction will be monster pageants, in which allegorical floats of great beauty will pass through the streets ' of the city; manenvers of war vessels ' fn the harbor and of United States troops, aeroplane flights, day and night fireworks displays, yacht and motor | boat racing, street dancing by thou- | £20 sands of gaily costumed people of 3 many nations, music by famous Amar-‘ 5 fcan and Cuban bands, balls in the ' ] American, Spanish, Cuban, Italian and | (¥ German clubs and other brilliant lol . QPSRN B AN B J - ou clal features. To the tourist and homeseeker the ; principal attraction will be a “Garden of Eden” exhibition of fruits, flowers, , vegetables and other semi-tropical ' products on the court house square in' Tampa. This exhibition will surpass | anything of the kind ever prepared by any semi-tropical or tropical state or country. President Woodrow Wilson is belng urged to attend the Carnival and make South Florida his winter home in future years, and noted Americans and for- elgn diplomats have also been invited. Tampa has in the past ten years enter- tained a larger nuinber of distinguish- ed Americans and foreigners than any other Southern city, these delighting to visit the section while other states are winter-bound. Preparations have already been {5+ made for housing and feeding a larger pumber of people than a Florida city e has ever entertained betore. | S \Tf\ COPY BELGIAN STYLES MODISTES QUICK TO SEIZE THEIR OPPORTUNITY. With That Country So Much In the Limelight It Was Perhaps Inevi- table—Collars of Many and Pretty Designs. There is no doubt that we will have an epidemic of Belgian styles new and old. Callot has already sent over & gown of velvet trimmed with tiny white porcelain beads and fur, which she calls Belglan, and the Flemieh peasants will surely furnish much that is colorful and pictorial in the new faghions. | Everything contributes to this domi- nation of fashions in the near future by the country and the people who have stirred the minds and hearts and A imagination of the people more than any other factor in this world war. As one writer has sald, Germany may have occupied the place where Belgium was, but ite soul has escaped \ to all the peoples on the planet. One has a thrill of pride in even wearing a REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS wed by the Security Abstract (Fur | and Title Co., Bartow, Fla. | Florida Development Co. to E K. i | Hershey. . \ l C. L. Morrison and wife to Mary / | .Holliday - | Clarence B. Horr to Amy A. @mart Black Silk Beaver Hat, With no: Long Qulll Ornament, Modeled on the Belglan Soidier's Cap. W. L. 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