The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 10, 1895, Page 1

VOLUME LXXVIL—NO. 151. PRICE FIVE CENTS. SANTA ROSA SWARMS, Never Has There Been Such a Gathering There. FLORA’S REIGN SUPREME. The Carnival Queen Leads Her Beautiful Battalions Through the City. PARADE OF GREAT SPLENDOR. Scenes of Dazzling Magnificence In the Streets of Sonoma’s Metropolis. k. line of march packed with p g up into the highest pinnacle of the Courthouse tower, peering from every window and balcony, forming a solid bank of humanity down its long wide steps and over its sloping grounds, and so from every other point of | vantage, along the line Queen Flora led her b iful battalions through the car- to-day, greeted with cheers and ons at every step. The festival stepped distinctly in ad- vance of every previous demonstration of the kind in this upper part of the State, and made a strong bid to be classed with the first floral displays of the c The city has been thronged with visitors, g to the very limits the ability of its zens to make provision for them. All the morning before the parade and all the efternoon after it had dispersed and the excitement of the time was at an end men and women, especially women with chil- dren, thronged the streets, resting upon the steps and doorways of stores and dwellings. The halls and stairways of all the hotels were peopled in this way, women and children were crowding into those lit- tle greenrooms that are ordinarily given over to the quiet game of poker, which game was forced thereby to suspend. All of this indicates the tremendous descent upon the little city and an overflow be- yond the capacity to accommodate. But the entertainment has been of such an or- der that no one thinks of complaining. When the sun rose this morning it found the city fully dressed for the festival. Bunting and flowers and green things streamed over and bedecked everything, softening the hard lines of business blocks kening the long stretch of the th lively color. The Courthouse, which is the center of things in Banta Rosa, and in front of which the chief spectacle of the day was to take place, was arrayed in long, ample and dig- nified folds of the orange, wine and olive. | floated above it and fluttered from | ines stretched from its cupcla to the four corners of its grounds. Residence and business houses were dressed with a floral prodigality and taste in d n. The individual citizen enters into the epirit of the festival and explains the suc- cess that attends as a whole. The carnival | headquarters on Fourth street were turned into an arbor by vines trailing up to the | awning, while the vines were made to | blossom with flowers.: Entire fronts of houses were covered with moss, and the moss relieved with roses and carnations. Fourth street is spanned with several arches, under which the Queen and her fra- | grant following pass in triumph. The Democrat has erected an arch spanning the street in front of jts office in Court- house square. The futter of pennants and banners is in the air everywhere and the thrill of music, as brass bands move | from place to place serenading distin- guished visitors or escorting them to their quarters upon the arrival of the morning trains. Governor Budd and his staff and Mayor Butro arrived from San Francisco before noon and weré met by members of the re- ception committee and conducted to the Occidental Hotel. Twocompaniesof young cadets from the Mount Tamalpais Military Academy also arrived this morning. They present an excellent appearance in their gray uniforms and white caps and despite | their average age of 15 years march and drill like veterans. The first number on the long programme of the day was billed for 10:30 o’clock in the morning. It was a bicycle drill, in which the representatives of etubs from all over this seetion of the State took part, to the number of about 150. It took place op- posite the Courthouse in Fourth street and was a very graceful and pretty affair and drew to the square the earliest con- tingent of spectators, and a big one, that maintained its place during the balance of the day. ALL HAIL THE QUEEN. She Great Acclamations of Joy as Leads Her Willing Subjects in the Pageant. SANTA ROSA, Car., May 9.—Now, an hour past midday in the full flood of sun- shine, fittingly, for it is meant to typify this land of sunshine, fruit and flowers, the pageant in broken but orderly fragments has arranged itself at Fourth streetand Douglas avenne and the streets near by leading into Fourth. Chief Marshal Pye gives the word and Parks’ band strikes into a triumphant march. A platoon op- posite leads the way to keep it clear and behind come the battalion of bicye- lists, their wheels done up in flowers and ribbons. The grand marshal’s place is; next with his aids: W. H. Underhill, George McCallum, W. Falconer, Dr. An- derson, D. McKinley, W Dorman, Miles Sherman, Oscar Matthews, Ed Hall and M. Spencer. Then come the Tamalpais cadets, in their gray and white uniforms, marching as steadily as the men who are setting the time in front and forming a very soldierly escort to the Queen. Now comes Queen lsabell Donovan, the beautiful white rose of the festival. She in her high car looks quite royal under a canopy of flowers. On her right and leff are her pages, and about herand in their chairs in the four corners are her maids of honor, the personification of pink roses that set off the Queen’s l SCENE NEAR THE COURTHOUSE IN SANTA ROSA YESTERDAY, WHERE THE QUEEN OF THE PAGEANT APPEARED. (Sketched by a “Call” artist.] pure white with the prettiest effect. The color of the car is pink also. The Queen’s throne is covered with roses and the car is carpeted with blossoms. four corners the arms for the support of the canopy reach up to the center, where a great bunch of flowers is susperded. The Queen’s approach is hailed with de- light and she acknowledges the greeting with gracious smiles. Following behind is a guard of honor on horseback, a company of ladies and gentlemen, all of them wear- ing the festival colors and garlands of flowers. These serve also as an escort to the Governor and his staff, who follow in carriages properly caparisoned in flowers. In the carriage with Governor Budd are Paymaster - General Chadbourne, Mayor ‘Woodward, President and Director-General Hardin. In a carriage following are Colonel I. E. Doolittle, Colonel J. F. Bergin, Colonel John 8. Young and Mayor Sutro. and Adjutant Smith of the Fifth Regi- ment, Colonel W, J. Younger, Colonel D. B. Fairbanks, Commodore Con. O’Connor i and Colonel N. T. James; and in a fourth | carriage, Lieutenant Follis of the Second | Regiment and Colonel H. Kowalsky. | And now come the flowers themselves, | typified in an infinite variety of beautiful | conceits on wheels. The line is led: by | Grant O. Richards, city editor of the Re- | publican, with his wife and her sister ana | Miss Edith Brooks. He is driving two | white horses and his rig is buried in flow- | ers all of 2 delicate tint of yellow, accord- | ing nicely with a great canopy of the same color, fashioned like an Ymmense lamp shade. The occupants are all in white. Next is a surrey with two white horses driven tandem. It is a beautiful little thing, and calls out a spontaneous applause all down the line as it moves on. The sur- rey is built, seemingly, of delicately tinted yellow roses, the trappings of the horses are covered with them and swinging from the hubs are two butterflies made of them. Sitting up behind in the character of & footman, nestling down behind, rather, in a nest of roses, is a little dark-eyed .boy in livery and a plughat. This is very cute, and the first prize is-instantly awarded to it for its class in the minds of the mass on the sidewalks. In the surrey sits Miss Ade- laide Elliott, who is driving, and with her Next is a very beautiful turnoutin white | flowers, driven and occupied by Miss Porter and friends. A two-horse surrey, done up in white ané pink with mosses, is driven by Miss Jennie Marshall, and with herare the Misses Min- nie Weymouth and Sallie Hall, all of Clo- verdale. And now comes one of the most daring conceits in the line. It is “Sunshine’’— one of the glorious triumvirate of sunshine, fruit and flowers. Standing high up and alone on an immense float isa tall and beautiful girl, dressed in simple *Greek garb of white, with her light hair un- loosed. Back of her is a white and gold sunburst, and spreading before and beneath her is the same. Lying in the flood of light in the center of the float is the earth. A bril- liant light effect, under the blaze of real sunlight that beats upon it, is gained by a network of gold threads that extend from above and about the maiden to the shining brass uprights at the right and left corners of the float forward. It is a dazzlingly beautiful thing, but must be very trying to the fair figure who personifies the sun— Miss Grace Tuttle—unprotected as she was by even so much as a fern. Miss Holman is driving a very tasty rig done up in grasses, ferns and flowers. Master Freddie Hedges makes a hitin From each of its | In still another carriage comes Captain | | tricolors. his class for juveniles. He is driving a pair of little donkeys tandem, with a cart very prettily smothered in roses. And little baby Edith Ford does the | same thing in a toy cart made of the color of the poppy, to which is harnessed a little dog, the harness being made of yellow ribbons. Here is the next of our glorious trium- virate, ‘fruit.” It is opulent, prodigal, generous in its wealth. It is like the oth- color. | mona, goddess of the orchard.and with | her are two sprites, Miss Nellie Smith and Miss Trembly. They are clad in rich col- | ors, and strewn around them are oranges, | apples and other fruits. The goddess sits under an orange tree. Vinesand other | green things give the float a cooland in- viting look in contrast to the glaring white brilliancy of the sun float. The body of the car is pink, which, however, is well covered with cool, gray mosses. The carriage of Mrs. McCallum, very tastefully trimmed in grass and mosses, follows the float, and in close succession come others, each wearing some special de- sign in greens and flowers and the festival Now comes California herself, the land to which these three fair sisters have given so much, California sits in the stern of a boat, which is built of rich gar- net plush, sailing upon a green sea of drooping grasses spangled with white flow- | ers. Miss Harriet Maddox sits as the fig- ure of the State. She is dressed in the color of the poppy, and above-her is a canopy of the same color, while two young girls, dressed also in the clear gold of the poppy, stand in front and direct the course of the craft. They are Mabel Kennedy and Mamie Geer, of this city of the rose. The float is very effective in its strong rich color—the deep garnet of the boat in the soft green bed of the sea and the yellow figures of the poppy. The grand military band of Petaluma heralds the approach of the prettiest float 1 the line not sent there by the festival committee. Even these need not be ex- cepted, for the applause of the people keeps exact pace with its progress down the line, showing how it invites a verdict at the hands of the judges. The float represents another open boat. It is built of grasses and snowballs, and rests in a bed of the same, and above it isalso a canopy all of cool green and white snow- balls. The boat is called “Venezia.” It is very long, and seated in it are ten pretty young girls, each with a mandolin upon which they play as they go. Those from the Petaluma ladies’ or- chestra and their names are: Misses Marie Brown, Margaret Grant, Addie Brandox, Margaret McKay, Pearl Scudder, Edith Brown, Anna McKay, Lillian Lewis ahd | Mrs. James A. Parry. The conception of “Venezia’’ and its execution are in com- plete sympathy and without fault. The float is drawn by four white horses, driven by W. E. Bowen, and led by C. E. War- field, Bud Schofiela, J. W. Studdert and Thomas Denny. 5 Following a line of carriages, phaetons and drags, all of a high order of decora- tion, comes the personally intfiduced float of President Amos Hardin of the Carnival Association and one of the prettiest of them all. It repre- sents a fairy child seated in a shell made of red roses and driving a pair of butterffies. The float is a bed of grasses, and raised above it at the rear is the rose- red shell, in which sits the little fairy child with outspread wings of golden gauze. Away to. the front of the float, as though just rising from the grass, are two butterflies - ers—gmple in proportions and rich in| Miss Rose McMahon sits as Po- | made of roses in proper variety of colors. This float excites the live- Nest enthusiasm all along the line The Vinehill School float comes next and presents something of a novelty. It represents an old-fashioned school- | house built of grasses throughout, and open front and rear. Swinging behind, is an immense globe of grasses which revolves on its axis, and upon which is figured the Western contingent in carna- tions. Above the old schoolhouse is a bell which is rung and rings cheerily asit runs. The Hearne School also represents a school in session, a class of children busy at their studies in a float done up in bright-colored bunting, grasses, vines and floaters. Mr. Trembly and family are in a beau- tifully decorated carriage, and then comes the float of the Grangers of Pomona. It is built of grains and is stacked in the sheathes of grain and decorated on its sides with the implements of the field, the scythe and sickle. Cloverdale’s float has a number of beaun- tiful girls in white with a wealth of fruit and flowers spread about them. Mrs. Overton and family are ridingina | beautifully decorated carriage and behind them comes a float with two Jerseys in their stalls. The Cloverdale band in a covered wagon sets the pace for this end of the line. | Here comes Mrs. I. W. Burris in a blood- red, two-seated rig and with her are Miss Annie Matthews and the Misses Wood and | Seawell. The rigis covered with red car- nations and the ladies are dressed in red, but are carrying white parasols. The effect is very striking. Misses Clara and Martha Hahman are driving in a phaeton which is completely covered with buds. Josie Byington is driving a strikingly beautiful floral phaeton and Mrs. Metzger a carriage that provokes constant applause as it moves down the line. A little boy dressed in the Newton mor- tar-board cap and gown of Harvard is riding a little donkey, and driving ahead of him is another still smaller one, over which is spread a blanket of flowers upon which is lettered in other flowers “The blue and gold, 96.” The crowds along the sidewalks and hang- ing over balconies and banking up on the seats that have been erected at every available place along the line had evidently heard of blue and gold for they laughed and cheered the queer little turnout con- tinually. Miss Julliard and Miss Porter are driv- ing a very beautiful cart, and close behind her comes Miss Florence McDonald with another. The Fire Department, shining brilliantly in the sun, with its polished brass and cop- per arrayed gorgeously with flowers, brings up the rear of the procession. Among the equestriennes and eques- triansin the parade are: Mrs. Sanborn, Miss Mabel Surrhyne, Miss Lulu Greson, Miss Emma Sullivan, Miss Mabel McDonald, Fred Johnston, Fred Harrison and William Falconer. The parade moves down Fourth street under the arches and flags and lanterns that span and wave over it to the San Fran- cisco and North Pacific Railroad depot at its extremity and there countermarches to Courthouse square, circles it and moves on out Fourth street again, then returns and passes the stand of the judges again, just opposite the courthouse. = - “ “Then moving forward again, they coun- termarch, and at a given. signal the battle of the roses begins. For many minutes the air is fairly filled with flowers as the participants in the parade ride past each other and siorm with | | blossoms the occupants of the rival rigs. It is all very beautiful, and the fragrance | of the merry war is wafted over the whole | | city. Then the line breaks up and these | dreams of Flora go their many ways. | while much of the procession is repeated through the streets. Chinese lanterns swing with a soft glow suspended motion- less in the air across Fourth street as faras | the eye reaches every way from Court- | House Square, or trace the lines of bal- | conies and buildings on both sides the | street and in the square. | From the square the sky is being lit with {fireworks, and ‘the music of Roncovieri’s | band, which is givingits initial concert {in the Athengum, reaches to the | crowd outside and lends itscharm. It has been a great day and night for Santa Rosa. | Governor Budd and staff and Mayor Sutro | attended the grand illustrated concert of Roncovieri’s band at the Atheénmum to- night with the Queen and her court, the Governor being the escort or perhaps the especial guest is a better way to put it of the Queen. The party filled two boxes. Governor Budd is enthusiastic in his de- light at the beautiful spectacle in which he took part to-day. He says it is a sign of returning good times that cannot be mis- taken. “A couple of years ago,” he said, ‘‘no such thing would have been attempted. Now, every city in the State is vying with every other in arranging gala days that must soon advertise this State to the | world as a most happy place to live.” Mayor Sutro is equally pleased with all and Mayor Woodward is the proudest man in the State to-night. The programme for to-morrow is one of sports. Open-air concerts, a balloon ascen- sion and a grand ball at the Athenzum. Governor Budd will lead the march at the ball with the Queen, to be followed b; the Queen’s court and the Governor’s staff. ‘The Governor will employ the day in a visit to the Deaf and Dumb Asylum at Glen Ellen, while Mayor Sutro will run over to his ranch near Calistoga. WINNERS OF PRIZES. Those Who Had the Most Attractive Vehicles and Floats in the Street Pageant. SANTA ROSA, Carn., May 9.—The win- ners of prizes in the parade were: Best float—Petaluma, carriages, Miss El- liott first, Mrs. Metzger second, Mrs. Trembly third. Farm wagons—N. Bugbee first, J. Smith second. Single buggles—Miss Byington first, Miss Holman second. Carts—Miss Julliard first, Miss McDonald sec- ond. Juvenile carts—F. Hedges first, D. Ford sec- ond. In the bicycle races the winners were: One mile—Williamson, Santa Rosa. Time, 2:16%4. One mile—Bates, Oakland. 2:14}4. Quarter mile—Hayne, Petaluma, :3624. Invitation, half mile—Clark, San Jose, Two miles—Williamson, 5:42}4. Half & mile—Terrill, Bay City, 1:1724. Half a mile county—Williamson, 1:10. One mile, tandem against time—Clark and Smith, 2:09, breaking the coast record. Walter Foster rode a mile in 1:56, breaking his record. Jones of San Jose rode a half-mile exhibition in 574 seconds. IN :CARNIVAL COLORS., Active Preparations Progress for the Véetian Celebration at Santa Cruz. 1:07. SANTA CRUZ, CaL, May 9.—A very im- To-night the city is ablaze with light | portant business meeting of the executive committee for the Venetian Carnival was held last evening. J. T. Sullivan acted as general manager and Vice-President Lo- gan presided in place of J. P. Smith, who was in San Francisco. The main matter before the committee was the consideration of the report of the committee on rules, which was adopted. Itoutlined the object of the carnival, gave the titles of the offi- cers and of the twenty-four committees; also stated that the power of the associa- tion shall be vested in the executive com- mittee, which' is composed of the officers and the chairman of each of the several committees. The duties of the officers were outlined, and of each of the twenty-four committees. The committee on promotion is hard at work in ‘extending invitations to all the prominent men in-the State. The ladies’ auxiliary committee, whose duty it is to interest the ladies of the county of Santa Cruz and throughout the State in the aims and objects of this association and to lend all aid possible to the executive committee, with Mrs. Lucy McCann as chairman, are very active and have secured headquarters on the second floor of the headquarters building, opposite the Pacific Ocean House. The hallway and rooms in their depart- ment have been decorated in a very artistic manner by the ladies. Yellow and white bunting, palms, ferns and the most beauti- ful of flowers are used to good effect. Some of the interior of the private offices in town are being decked in the carnival colors, and the wearing of the carnival colors as a button-badge or hatband is be- coming universal. A large yellow and white striped flag is flying from the Liberty pole on the lower plaza. The general manager has been assured by those in a position to know that a TUnited States man-of-war would be in the bharbor during festival week. Messrs. Chace of the Pacific Ocean House and Sul- livan of the Sea Beach Hotel are receiving telegrams from people from the outside who wish to engage rooms during the fes- tival week. The Postal Telegraph Com- pany has kindly given the use of its lines free of charge to the president and secre- tary of the association. The name of Morris Newton has been placed on the letter-heads as San Francisco corre- spondent. A letter of acceptance has been received from the City Council, in which it says: “The Council sends greetings, and wishes me to assure you of their hearty co-opera- tion in making this carnival the $rnndest success of the age. 0. J. Lincoln.” The local people are bringing quantities of flowers to the headquarters to be used as decorations for the windows and inte- rior of the rooms. CONTEST FOR THE CROWN. No Abatement in the Merry War in Selecting a Queen for the Healdsburg Fiesta. HEALDSBURG, CaL., May 9.—The con- test for the floral crown of Healdsburg’s fiesta will close to-morrow night at 8 o’clock. The suspense will be over then, for nearly every Healdsburger has a friend in the contest, and is deeply interested in the outcome. Not such a heavy vote was polled to-day, for the different candidates’ friends were busy gnthennq their forces together for the closing day’s vote. Miss Mary Livernash received enough to lace her once more in the front rank, and er friends hope to have her name there at the close, but those who favor the other fair contestants say nay, and cast a know- ing smile when interviewed. No one can Ket name the Queen. Miss Emma Meiler as second place, Emma Widlund third, Lena Zane fourth, THE PACIFIC COAST, Fire Destroys the Van Alen Fruit Cannery at Healdsburg. CONTENTS NOT SAVED. No Insurance Carried Either the Plant or the Building. on SEATTLE’S BIG SHIP CANAL, Money Raised for It and Work to Be Commenced Within the Month. HEALDSBURG, CAL., May 9.—The Van Alen fruit cannery was destroyed by fire this afternoon together with-all its con- tents. This big cannery was located half a mile from town on the line of the S. F. and N.P. R. R. Itwasthe first fruit packing- house e shed in the Russian River Valley and ‘was well fitted up. Just how the fire started is not known, although it is thought that a spark from a passing engine caused the blaze. The plant and building, belongiug to Mrs. A. Cohen, was valued at $5000; no insurance. Joseph Fiege, whose dwelling is near by, suffered a loss of $200. SEATTLE'S SHIP CANAL. Subsidy Cowpleted and Work to Be Com- menced This Month. SEATTLE, WasH., May 9.—The subsidy of $500,000, to be given by the people of Seattle to the Seattle and Lake Washing- ton Waterway Company, which is to fill in the tide flats and excavate a ship canal to Lake Washington, was completed to-day, and work will bezin by May 23, the date set by the contract with the State. The work to be done is the excavation of two water- ways, connecting the Duwamish River with the sound, the excavation of a canal from the harbor to Lake Washington, a distance of two miles, and the filling of about 1500 acres of tide lands. This work will open Lake Washington as a fresh-water harbor to the largest ships, will add eighty miles to the available water frontage and give the city abundant level space for business purposes. The work will cost about §7,000,000 and occupy about five years, and the money will be furnished by St. Louis parties, represented by the Mississippi Valley Trust Company. The lake canal has been advocated by many authorities for forty years, and after much effort an_appropriation of $25,000 for ite construction by another route was obtained from the last Congress, but the work has now been undertaken and will be carried | out by private enterprise. g ATTACKED BY AN FEAGLE. Serious Injury to an FEight-Year-0ld Boy at Ukiah. UKIAH, CaiL., May 9.—News was re- ceived this evening of a serious injury in- flicted on Eddie, the eight-year-old son of J. B. Briggs of Bachelor Valley, by an im- mense bald eagle. The bird had been re- cently destroying lambs on the ranch of Mr. Briggs, and while the wounded boy and his elder brother, Wiilie, were climb- ing to a mest on the summit of Rocky Peak, the bird attacked the younger boy with great fury, destroying the sight of his |left eye and seriously injuring the other. Had not the father arrived when he did the boy would have undoubtedly been much more severely hurt. I Santa Cruz Burglar Sentenced. SANTA CRUZ, Can, May 9.—Frank Wells, who pleaded not guilty in the Superior Court on Monday on the charge of burglary, committed in March at the house of John Crawford near Watsonville, was up before Judge Logan this afternoon and asked to withdraw his plea of not guilty and pleaded guilty to the charge of burglary in the second degree, wishing to receive his sentence. The Judge gave him two years in San Quentin. e Tacoma Cnristian Young Men. TACOMA, Wasn., May 9.—The Young Men’s Christian Association bought a handsome permanent home here to-day. The purchase was a large three-story brick, formerly the Eldridge Hotel, on St. Helens avenue. The price was $18,000. For Additional Pacific Coast News sce Second Page Keep Your Blood Pure And you will have good health. Serious diseases will not be able to find a lodgment in your system. Read this: “I have been troubled with ca- tarrh for 15 years. I have been treated by physi- cians, but derived no permanent re- lief. 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