The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 18, 1895, Page 1

e VOLUME LXXVIL—NO. 129, SAN FRANCISCO, THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 18, 1895. PRICE FIVE CENTS. REVELRY NOW HAS FULL SWAY. Majesty, the Her GRAND EVENING FETE. Wonders of the Pageant of the; Pacific Viewed by | Torchlight. JOY NOW REIGNS SUPREME, Fhe Abode of Angels and Adjacent | Cities Unite in a Magnificent Display. Car., April 17.— | n went to the races to- al su sed. Very to go to the 1d her ladies in | taces, mu waitin psce the nd their lub and be Queen’s ove out over the city this r own t, attended ding Club, present- or accou k the 1 at the Chambe 1e State Press Assoc done all the wee and hotels, enj uips and merry-ma n of the great | ner gallant retinue | h the streets a little | way to the races, and | n, the loyalty of the pparent in constant | The Queen people was theers and greeting accompanied in her la i and her maids of honor | es of state, all properly | d in the royal colors. In advance | the buglers, g with the | m the Queen Following | the Gentlemen’s Club escorting the < of the Queen, while the Spanish | with their picturesque costumes | ing horses, attended the maids | as inspi t desire. had been made at the racetrack for | 1een. A throne had been built over- the grand stand—a very proper d ypt, with a stretched ht fil- ious et olor to her g beauty or the pure white of 1 court. T beautifu X 1e staircase leading to the throne was > in scarlet, and all about it istic effect and | rded by her ure white, with their white their graceful wide-br lower-bedecked hats, wore a new wonderful gown—an _indescribable | gown—robe, perhaps, is the word for a queen. It was of pale lilac satin, under a cloud of Brussels net, spangled and em- broidered with pearls. A violet velvet b ce was treated in the same mysterious anner, the e being made entirely of blossoming violets, that were as especially only be to a Long li 1d a2 bigand autiful hat, from which the flowers of her native d nodded in their happy But this ¥ licates it. een of the Angels’ festi- owed every interest and races, encoura best efforts, v ed n their e the and win- horseme maids of hon waved their white y ner. The return to the before sunset, when th ing shadows discovered the arc I urning in the | streets. To-night revelry grew bold, for | revelry after all has to be educated like everything else, and each hour of the reign | of the great Queen brings additional joys. | She learns new tricks and drops the oid | that hampers her. She has learned to | blow this strange tin whistle by instinct, but the cap and bells, it seems, and the tin horn and that easy abandon under the mask withont which revelry is ill at ease and cannot thrive, that must be acquired. But these southern subjects of the fiesta | Queen are quick to learn her merry ways. | For revelry rose to her full height to-night, put off her high-heeled boots and let slip her strings in a bunch. 1 VIEWED BY TORCHLIGHT. Glories of the Pageant of the Pacific Maugnified by Grand and Varied Illuminations. LES, CaL., April 17.—Great is the be: of the night of the grand illumination. With the darkness the lamps were lit. On both sides of Spring and Main streets for a mile, extending from the junc- tion of these two streets and for some blocks beyond down to First street, where Central Par veral blocks to the right, is located, are swinging Chinese lanterns by lines stretched from the tele- graph poles, and ten feet from the ground and but a few feet apart. Across the road- way for all this distance, but considerably higher, are strung electric light wires at the intervalsof the trolley poles, and upon these, a few feet apart, are swung incan- descent lamps in the alternate colors of the vine, the crange and the olive. These are sparkling over the Lieads of the throng like a canopy of stars, while the lines of mellow light formed by the Chinese lanterns stretch away so far as to almost come together in the distance. These form the groundwork from which the long procession of arclamps stand out LOS ANGE Queen of the Fiesta, Attends Races, Accompanied by a Daz- zling Escort. | roadway, | compan; | road. { on. | is a great boat and a worthy representative | a ship remarkable in its accurate detail. in their emphatic white, and the hotels and business houses blaze with special designs in colors, that sometimes vary from the prevailing hueoniy toadd greatly to the effect. Here and there these stretch across the and again, notably the light building on Broadway, is and outlined in light, with a con- | tly changing design. | The streets are not by any means as light as day, but one can recognize his | friend in the blaze of light half a block | ant. The streets had been crowded all | but to-night they are thronged, and there is little choice in the middle of the Everything known that makes a noise has found a champion, who is blow- ing or pounding it. Merchants have strung strings of bells from their awnings as an invitation to | every passerby who is without his own in- | struments. | It is the night of the great illumination ! eant also and it is for this that the peo- | ple are out. The pageant of the Pacific is to be marshalled again through the Queen’s | domains, thistime under the strange magic | of lamplight. There are to be many new features. A number of new floats have been brought from the surrounding cities, in their own particular glory to glorify the quegn. An army of people have been at ork all day at Athletic Park, where all the immense paraphernalia of the parade =as been prepared. Specially prepared were arranged with immense re- rs that the details of construction be brought out under them. is now something after 8 o'clock. @ It The Queen is again in her place—her throne in the park. Her people crowd the tribunes. The procession has been formed and stands ready at the entrance of the park awaiting the signal. It has just been given and, with the thunder of cannon and the blare of trumpets, the procession is swinging into the wide mall. | It was to circle the entire park before | eaching the throne of the Queen with her | court, her guests and her most favored people. The advance of the musiemay be heard and the progress of the line traced through the trees by the torch-bearers. With the order to march the sky is lighted with rockets and Roman candles that leap into it from every corner of the square. They have turned into the court of honor and are approaching the throne, the band playing “Long Live the Queen.” Director-General Meyberg, with hisarmy of aids, is in the lead with his escort of the Queen’s gendarmes. The director-general salutes the Queen and the cavalcade moves Now comes the float that give this fitting name of the pageant of the Pa- cific. It is led as so many discoverers were led by the ‘“gilded man.” Hooked men walk on each side bearing the torches that lighit up the float and bring out their | features with perfect distinctness and lend them if not an added at least a new beauty. As the floats pass the Queen’s throne | new lights are thrown upon them. They come in their regular order with the white- | hooded horses and men presenting a weird | appearance under the dimmed light, while | the floats themselves are brought out d tinctly by the torches of the attendants. There is the birth of the Inca, the gilded throne of Atahualpa in captivity, the of gold offered to Pizarro for the release of the great Inca, the brilliant court of Montezuma, the bloody Aztec sacrifice, the castled walls of Mexico under siege, the cliff-dwellers, the Zum Indians at Coronado, and the home of the Colorado River Indians, the found- ing of the Spanish missions, the old Spanish home life, the throne of Kame- hameha, the grand Aleutian and his icy | home, Robinsoe Crusoe, and the two scenes | from California mining history. Now comes the first of the new fioats | representing neighboring cities. It is Fresno, and the applause runs far in advance of its approach. It ig Fresno's steamboat, a most clever conception and complete bit of execution. Itisa steamboat with a double deck and tall chimneys throwing smoke, her big sidewheels revolving in water which she {es for the purpose, her walking-beam moving busily up and down, electric lights fore and aft and the colored lights of the cabin showing like a miniature ferry at night. She is loaded with a variety of fruit and is properly manned. The Fresno cell cell of a great town. They are all coming into line. San Pedro is next, and so proud of her harbor that she, too, has a moving representative, Two wagons follow with birdseye views of the town and of the harbor. There is also a hand-made locomotive labeled the ‘‘Los Angeles, San Pedro and Salt Lake Rail- road.” Now comes Orange County with an im- mense orange, surrounded by orange trees. On the float are a number of seats, occu- pied by as many ladies and labeled for the towns of Anaheim, Santa Ana, Fullerton and Orange. The float is excellent in de- sign. and execution. On the top of the orange sit the high priestess of the county. Long Beach comes now with an im- mense shell imbedded in the sand and half open. Within sits half a dozen little water nymphs, who have taken shelter there. Redlands comes with another giant orange, upon the top of which is placed an immense golden crown. All of these floats are properly and effectively trimmed with palms and flowers. The Redlands float is burning red fire, as indeed are many of the others that have gone. Some of them are firing rockets and Roman candles. Redondo beach comes with *another big ship on wheels. The beautiful white float of the Chamber of Commerce with its ex- ample of Greek architecture and California fruit, attended with four white-robed torch-bearers, comes next. It provokes even more enthusiasm than during the day- light parade. The float of the Grand Army is just be- hind it with an immense star of the army's badge, and stacks of arms and drapery of flags and shields and the names of Grant and Sherman, Hooker, Thomas, Logan and Sickels and their great batties. The float is manned by soldiers and sailors and is applauded all down the line. K ere is Pomona, With a float laden with immense vegetables and burning red fire. The representation is exceedingly credit- able. Mount Lowe and its wonderful incline railroad is coming and attracting all the attention that it did yesterday. It isa very clever thing, designed and executed by Superintendent J. S. Mills of the road. Here come the Caballeros, those sixty Spaniards sitting on those dancing horses as though they belonged there. The fire- works are bursting in an uninterrupted stream in the air all round them; the boom | cannon, the red fire and its stifling smoke aud the cheering crowds on the tribunes have set the horses crazy, and they are rearing, plunging against and kicking at each other, but the men manage to keep them moving forward withal, and as for the rest, a restless mass, One of them let fall his handKerchief just as he came opposite the Queen and, stooping from his saddle, picked it up and was rewarded with a volley of handclap- ping from the maids of honor and a mile and a nod from the Queen, while the populace opposite cheered lustily. The butchers, a perfect regiment t hey rather seem to enjoy it. | of | id tional Guard, and Company A, Naval Re- serve, to attend the fiesta. Fifty-five men will represent Company A, forty-five Com- pany B, and seventy the Naval Reserve. Colonel T. B. Spileman, commanding the Ninth Regiment, N. G. C., will also be a passenger, with his staff, as well as Major T. M. K. Smith, U. 8. A., Captain F. de L. Carrington, U. 8. A., and Captain W. R. Maize, U. 8. A., who will parti pate as judges of the military competitive drill. Major H. Sweeney, U. 8. A., will accompany the other officers. SANTA- ROSK'S CARNIVAL, Floats of Great Beauty That Will Appear in the Pageant. Roses and Blossoms to Be Liberally Mingled Among the Blue and Gold. ey | SANTA ROSA, Can., April 17.—At a meeting of the general committee of the Rose Carnival plans of some of the floats were submitted and adopted. The creation and design of the cars will ealize the puetic phrase by which Califor- hem, dressed in white, are coming behind | nia is known the world over, as “the land the float of the Master Plumbers’ Associa- | of sunshine, fruitand flowers.” This senti- tion. They have stopped to give the queen | me nt will be expressed by four floats sunshine, fruit and flowers. rocket has thrown a million stars in the | The California float will represent the fe- | three cheers, while at the same time the California, | kohama and will reach Portland about the 1st of June. BROOKS NO INTERFERENCE. Surveyor-General Arnold Refuses to Re- move a Republican Employe. PORTLAND, Or., April 18.—Some time ago Napoleon Davis, secretary of the Dem- ocratic State Central Committee, wrote to J. C. Arnold, Surveyor-General of this State, asking him to dismiss F. H. Brigham, his chief clerk, who is a Republican. Mr. Arnold in his reply says: “Any assistance offered from any source whatever within the boundaries of the State, so far as it pertains to the selection of my clerical force, will be firmly de- clined. My chief clerk will retain his posi- tion to the end of my incumbency of the office of Surveyor-General, provided he con- tinues to render honestand efficient ser- Viaan Joins the Board of Underwriters. PORTLAND, Or., April 17.—At a meet- ing of the Board of Underwriters this after- | noon the Phenix came into the union, which makes the local union intact. It was expected that the local union would go to pieces, owing to the demoralization | of insurance business in San Francisco. End of the (lrerlnp‘lmnd Case. PORTLAND, Or., April 17.—Argument in the overlap land grant case of the sky just above the throne. Red fire is| male figure, “California,” seated in her | United States Government against the lighting the entire horizon, for the head of ! royal barge, surrounded by her attendants, ! Southern Pacihic Company, involving . i 75 THE FRESNO FLOAT AS IT APPEARED DURING THE STREET PARADE IN LOS ANGELES LAST NIGHT, This picture is the second attempt.at delineating a scene three Tundred miles away by photo-telegraph. The picture was sketched by a ““Call” artist in Los Angeles and reproduced by an artist in the ofice of the “Call.” the procession has gotten well round into Spring street, and that has been the signal to let loose the last reservations of the night and fireworks are overtopping the houses in that direction, as well as behind in the park. The approach. of the line is evidently being anticipated by rockets in the mer- chant district and being answered back by’ the line itself. Here comes the head of the eignth division, with jts music and masks, on foot, on horse and on the wheel. ' The Turn Verein, dressed as clowns, are per- forming on the horizontal bars while their Wwagon moves. . The cyclers are dressed in infinite va- riety, one having his wheel rigged up as a boat, another asen immense wasp. The Los Angeles Athletic Club has a barge upon which half a dozen men in white, representing so many States, have stopped before the Queen and are perform- ing a clever act for her entertainment. They bow and drive on. Now comes the long line of advertising floats, all so well constructed and designed as to be scarcely less interesting than the others. Before the end is reached the people in the park anticipate it, and crowd into the mall to get a glimpse of the Queen as she 18 escorted to her carriage and driven away. The procession moving out of the park traversed nearly the same route as had been followed by the day parade, and at every foot of the way found a throng of people to crowd upon and cheer it. The maskers were not out in great num- bers, but they, it is said, reserve themselves especially for the grand masquerade of Saturday. The illumination was continued until nearly midnight, and the throng, though materially thinned out, of course, is still represented abroad and its tin horn and its tum-tum and, most of all, its sur- prising little whistle. To-morrow is children’s day, which is to be inaugurated by a grand parade of the little ones from the public schools. In this connection hasarisen theonly bit of friction developed so far. There was an offer to introduce a banner or float or something of the little red schoolhouse. There was some objection made to it and the commit- tee decided to bar it out. In the evening papers to-night a card is published signed by several councils of the A. P. A. calling upon citizens to forbid their children from taking part in the affair of to-morrow. What the effect will be upon what was expected to be one of the most beautiful demonstrations of the fiesta cannot be said, but whate ver it may be the feeling engendered is very unfortu- nate at this time. GOING TO THE FIESTA. National Guardsmen, Naval Resorves and Regulars Will Join in i the Revels. SAN DIEGO, CAL., April 17.—A special train will leave at 8 o'clock to-morrow wmorning with Companies A and B, Na- typical of the leading cities, of which Santa Rosa will be the guiding spirit at the helm. The prevailing color will be biue and gold, the State’s colors, and California poppies will constitute the floral decoration. The float “Sunshine’” will be represented by the goddess of the-sun, standing upon a monster orb from which radiate the golden shafts of sunshine that make our glerious days and mature our various fruits. The prevailing color will be white and gold. The float “Fruit” is represented by her goddess, standing under a_canopy of silk and fruit blossoms, surrounded by the products of the vimeyards and orchards. The prevailing color will be pink, yellow and light green. The float *‘Flowers” will be the richest in design, and the artist will lavish all his art in making it the crowning piece of his conceptions. Queen Flora is seated on a beautiful and daintily designed throne, in cream, pink and gold, enthironed with the choicest of blossoms, beneath a gracefully designed bower, surrounded by her royal attendants. The main arch is classic in design. The predominating colors will be blue, with rich gold moldings. The ar- rangement of the flowers will be simple and strictly on classic lines. The whole, though simple in design, will be rich in the blending of prevailing colors to retain the embodiment of simplicity. The carnival committees meet again on Monday evening and will consider the work of elaborating the street display. Reports from different parts of the State indicate that the town will be thronged with visitors from a distance. The people here fecl that the eyes of California are upon them, and that they must make the carnival a success. This feeling arouses enthusiasm. A meeting of the committee of enter- tainment was held this evening and the price of admission to the band concert was considered. A scale of popular prices was agreed upon. A special committee was appointed to arrange a programme for the first day. The result of the contest for Queen of the Roses to-day was as follows: 1—Miss Spottswood, 748. 2—Miss Donovan, 687. 3—Miss Matthews, 632, 4—Miss Bishop, 263. 5—Miss Solo‘non, 260. 6—Miss Denman, 255. —— - NEW SIEAMSHIP LINE, More Vessels to Ply Between Portland and the Orient. PORTLAND, Or., April 17.—Samuels, Samuels & Co. of Yokohama, who recently entered into a contract with the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company for the establishment of a steamship line between Portland and the Orient, to-day cabled Freight Agent Campbell that they had chartered the British steamer Chittagong as the first vessel of the new line. The Chittagong is now at Hongkong and will sail from that port for this city about May 15. She will make stops at Kobe and Yo- 200,000 acres of land, was concluded in the United States Circuit Court this afternoon, and Judge Gilbert took the case under ad- visement. 5 Committed to an Asylum. PORTLAND, Og., April 17.—Rev. J. C. S. Read, who was acquitted yesterday of the attempted robbery of the East Port- land First National Bank on the ground of insanity, to-day ordered committed to the insane asylum. L0 MGELES MYSTERY, Disappearance of a Pretty Schoolteacher From Her Home. Diligent Search Fails to Locate Her, and Her Relatives Fear Foul Play. SANTA ANA, Cav., April 17.—Word was received here to-day that Miss Mary Cowan, an attractive young schoolteacher in Los Angeles, mysteriously left her home early yesterday morning, since which time her whereabouts have been unknown to par- ents or friends. It was thought that per- haps she might has come to thiscity to isit friends, as she formerly lived here and taught school at Tustin, but diligent inquiry to-night fails to locate her, and her parents and friends fear the worst. Her home is at 824 West Tenth street, Los An- geles. el g SIGHTED A WRECK. A Derelict, Supposed to Be the Bering Sea, Seen Off Cape Flattery. PORT TOWNSEND, Wasm., April 17.— A report reached here from Noah Bay that two Indian sailing vessels arrived there and reported having sighted thirty-five miles west of Cape Flattery the upturned keel of an unknown vessel of about fifty tons. The derelict is supposed to be the schooner Bering Sea of Tacoma, owned by John Strand and E. E. Johnson. The ves- sel was on her maiden voyage to the banks for halibut. The schooner Dart, reported in last night’s dispatches from Vancouver as go- ing ashore at Carmanah Point, slipped her anchor at Ozetta Rocks, where she was at anchor while her Indian crew were visiting their families at Quillayate, drifted thirty- five miles and foundered on Vancouver Isl- and. —_— Stockton Republicans Nominate. STOCKTON, Car., April 17.—The Re- publican City Convention to-nigkt nomi- nated the following ticket to be voted at the city election May 21: For Mayor, W. R. Johnson; City Clerk, C. A. Campbell; Assessor, Colonel Lehe; Treasurer, W. M. Denig; Superintendent of Streets, C. 8. Eichelberger; Surveyor, George Atherton; Councllmen—L. -H | that he has often asserted that he did not | Special Events Precede t SANTA BARBARA’S GREAT WELCOME he Feature of Features, the Floral Parade and Battle of Buds. Lang, William TLonigan, Dr. Frank Bur- ton, C. E. Doan,J. R. Koch; School Di rectors—H. C. Holman and M. E. Gough. The Democratic nominations will be | made to-morrow night. “ Soneg s SUICIDE AT STOCKTON. | Dennis McVickers, an Old and Respected | Citizen, Hangs Himself. | STOCKTON, Carn., April 17.—Dennis McVickers, a well-known and respected | resident of Stockton, committed suicide this afternoon by hanging himself to a | rafter in the basement of his house. The old man was 73 years of age and had been | a resident of Stockton since 1868, coming | here from Tuolumne County, where he was | engaged in mining. During the last few years, particularly since the death of his wife two years ago, Mr. McVickers has been sick, and his ill- ness had affected his brain to the extent care to live longer. The inquest will be held in the morning | WRECKED NEAR SAN DIEGD, One Freight Train Crashes Into the Rear End of | Another. Narrow Escapes From Death—News | of the Long-Overdue Norwe- | glan Ship Fjeld. | BAN DIEGO, CAL., April 17.—The regu- | lar freight leaving this city at 4:55 .M., on | the Southern California Railway, smashed into the rear end of a special freight at the Rose Canyon siding this morning. The engineer did not see the cars lying in his path until too late. He jumped and the fireman followed him, just in time to es- cape death. The engine was turned over upon its back and five or six cars were | knocked off the track. Beyond a few | bruises the engineer and fireman escaped | unharmed, and the wreck was cleared by noon. FATE OF THE FJELD. | The Long Overdue Schoomer Thought to Have Been Burned at Sea. SAN DIEGO, Car., April 17.—Shipping | men here are inclined to believe that the | ship reported as burning in latitude 10 | south, longitude 113 west, is the Norwegian | ship Fjeld, bound for tnis port from Grims- | by, and now out 103 days. She was, in company with the Eritish ship Moresby, off the Horn on January 19, and the Moresby arrived at San Franecisco March 30. The run up the west coast is generally smooth and there should have been no great aifference in the time of the two ships. There is no other vessel bhound for this coast with coal, so far as known, that could have been in the latitude where the derelict was found. The Commodore Perry Coming. SAN DIEGO, CarL., April 17.—The rev- enue cutter Commodore Perry is due to ar- rive this week from New York via Callao and Acapulco. She will coal here and pro- ceed to San Francisco, and probably later to the Sound, where she will relieve the U. S. Grant. P MURDERED AT BURKE. The Mutilated Body of a Miner Found in the Mining Camp. SPOKANE, Wash., April 17.—A special to the Spokanesman-Review from Burke, Idaho, says: This camp was startled to-day by the | discovery of the body of John Wells. The affair is shrouded in mystery, there being not the slightest eclew to the murderers. His head was crushed by an ax, and by his side was found the blood-stained weapon. Blankets were strapped upon his back and his valise was near by, show- ing that when the murderers overtook him he was leaving camp. The murdered man had been a fireman in the employ of the Poorman mine for | four years. He was single, and about 28 years old. Two days ago he quit work at the Poorman, and since then has been gambling around saloons. There is no | evidence that he had any trouble with the | Miners’ Union or any of its members. PACIFIC COAST FIRE CHIEFS. They Meet in Los Angeles and Elect Offi- cers for the Enswing Year. LOS ANGELES, CaL., April 17.—The Pacific Coast Fire Chiefs’ Association met to-day and elected the following officers: President, Walter Moore of Los Angeles; executive committee—Chiefs Lawton of Oakland, Goodman of Pheenix, R. S. Chap- | man and Charles Towne of San Francisco and Ackerman of British Columbia. The choice of the place for the home of the convention in 1896 was left with the executive committee, with the understand- ing that it be held in Salt Lake if the na- tional association meets there, the com- mittee to report not later than January 1. SR WASHINGTON LUMBER-MILLS. Report of the Total Amount of Taumber Cut in a Single Day. TACOMA, Wasna., April 17.—The West Coast Lumberman of this city recently asked all'the lumber and shingle mills of the State to report their cut for April 1, if it was an average day’s work. Replies were received from a fair proportion, and, basing an estimate on these, it is found that the Washington mills have an ordi- nary daily capacity of 7,500,000 feet of lum- ber, 15,000,000 shingles and 1,500,000 laths. The Tacoma mill made the largest cut, it being 252,000 feet of lumber and 90,000 laths in twelyve hours, employing 210 men. The Port Blakely mills were a close sec- ond. There are 280 mills in the State, of which about 250 are in operation. R == Cherries Shipped From Vacaville. VACAVILLE, CaL., April 17.—The first thoroughly ripe cherries of the season to be sent East left Vacaville to-day. There was one ten-pound box from W. W. Smith to Porter Brothers Company of Chicago, and one from Robinson Bros. to the Earl Fruit Company of Chicago. Several more boxes will follow to-morrow. REIGN OF QUEEN FLORA. Decorations Everywhere That Bewilder the Charmed Beholder. JEALOUSIES ARE LAID ASIDE. All Are United in Making the Flower Carnival the Greatest Ever Held. ANTA BARBARA, Car., April 17. To-day the town opened her arms wide to welcome a host of visit- ors. They swarmed in from all sides, and the hotels are now put- ting guests in ““cottages’’—a rather elastic term for rooms as near to the parent sup- ply as possible. From cottage it is a natural subsidence to cot in passage, parlor or pantry. The main streets present a stirring ap- pearance to the many visitors arriving to attend the battle ot flowers to-morrow. Besides the more than ordinarily substan- tial arches along State street, there has been much individual decoration on the part of the various merchants. Vehicles are at a premium, and even flowers of spe- cial varieties have been imported. The Olympia, lying in the harbor, attracts many visitors, who are courteously enter- tained Special events of the day were the rose exhibition, a notable Spanish-American wedding and the first grand promenade concert by Roncovi San Francisco band of forty pieces. To-morrow the Half- million Club is expected from Los Angeles to witness the great floral procession, for, which already over 100 entrie recorded, comprising in many cases groups of twenty or more gayly costumed characters. There will be substantial prizes for the best cav- alcade, the best novelty, the best group of cyclists, the best children’s miniature equipage and a score of others. Old Santa Barbarans say the parade will eclipse any- thing ever seen on this coast or anywhere. Los Angeles’ carnival was of a mixed variety, and the residents of Santa Bar- bara pride themselves on the fact that they are keeping to the original idea which they conceived four years ago, and are giving a purely natural show, in which every class may join and which is based wholly upon the natural wealth of Santa Barbara in flowers. Henceforth for the pure flower festival Santa Barbara will be ranked first. No advertisements are tolerated, and to- morrow’s show will be as nearly Arcadian as possible. Considerable expectation is manifested over the coming of the Half-Million Club to-morrow. People are asking what the club is. One intelligent man was heard asking whether it was a club composed of people each worth balf a million dollars. Other equally absurd constructions are placed upon the tite. But people are beginning to understand that it means an association pledged to attract residents to California and so increase business for everybody. Gradually the utterances of the half-mil. lionites are permeating the people and the club is likely to find here a fertile soil for its seeds of progress and California unity. There has existed some antagonism in the past between the northern and southern portions of the State, and even lovely Santa Barbara has pouted rather petulantly over her shoulder at her elder sister, Los Angeles, for stealing some of her thunder in selecting this time and this copyrighted tioral festival. So the Half-Million Club could hardly have chosen a better time to spread its gospel of anity. It is beginning to dawn upon the com« munity that there is no use in wasting force in jealousies when the force could be much better employed in increasing business and making better times for the whole State, so that the Half-million Club, to judge from the way intelligent Santa Barbara people speak, is likely soon to become a great California institution and a nucleus of a greater California one and undivided in the future. It may have to change its limited name to adapt itself to these coming conditions, for Santa Bar- bara, at least, will want to participate in its work and there are other counties to hear from. As Cortez conquered Mexico with a handful of soldiers, so these new pioneers of progress are disarming prejudice and discovering, indeed, all along their route. Whether they will arrive to- morrow on time or not is a matter of speculation, but it is certain that they will come. Perhaps the full effect of their work will be seen after they have gone, but in the meantime it is curious to note the interest with which their advent is re- garded here. In the evening the new pavilion was crowded with auditors of the first promen- ade concert by Roncovieri’s band, consid- ered the best organization of its kind west of Chicago. The fact was appreciated by this music-loving people. When the pa- vilion was jammed to the doors the ap- proaches from State street were thronged with residents of every class listening to ‘Wagner, Ofienbach and Verdi with de- monstrative delight. To most it was a revelation. For to-morrow’s concert the rose exhibits will be removed, leaving a seating capacity of 1500. Among the prominent visitors expceted to-morrow are the members of the Cali- fornia Press Association. They are now at Los Angeles, and their itinerary assigns them to-morrow to Santa Barbara. So the battle of flowers may be chronicled as it deserves to be throughout the State. FROM WHARF TO TRIBUNE. Beautiful Decorations Along the Prin- cipal Street of the Flower City. SANTA BARBARA, Carn., April 17.— Driving up State street, from the wharf to the tribunes above the pavilion, which will form the course of to-morrow’s parade,