Steve and Kay Phillips were King and Queen for 1998 and dinner was moved to Jose’s.  The Billy Zydeco Band fell prey to confusion and dissent in the ranks.  Dan Kerlin turned up, bravely, washboard in hand, prepared to go on alone.  Like the cavalry, the visiting Springfield musicians of  “Big Smith” arrived in the nick of time and joined Dan, leading the Krewe out to the waiting throng.  Spectators on the street were estimated at 3,000 with perhaps 200-300 in the procession.  This was the first year for street vendors, the first volunteer street corner band, even a fire eater, in the inestimable person of Harmless T. Jester.  The crowd poured out into the street and the police scrambled to block it off to traffic.  The second line had become a many channeled river winding its way through the masses.