The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 17, 1896, Page 1

.of the native beauties, * “As You Like It.”” This Paper not | ‘to be taken from the Library. ++++ I | I VOLUME LXXIX.-NO. 139. PRICE FIVE CENTS. SANTA BARBARA'S GREATEST DAY, Beautiful Is the Pageantand | Bloodless Is the Battle. | SCENES OF SPLENDOR.| Never Has a Carnival of Rosesi Presented Such a Grand Display. MOVING MARVELS ON WHEELS Floats and Equipages Profusely Laden With California’s Choicest Flowers. SANTA BARBARA, Carn, April 16— This is the day of the parade and the bat- | tle of flowers. The long rows of grand- stand seats line the State-street pavement. | Opposite the vress gallery is the judges’ stand, with a hundred distinguished-look- | ing guests of honor. The background of a green field, from which rise majestic eucalyptus trees and here and there a cedar. The pavilion tent and the huge Arlington Hotel are gay in color at the | left. Long poles rise in the air at all points of the grand stand and bear aloft the carnival banners, which snap and flut- ter in the wind. “Banners yellow, glorious, golden, on its roof did float and flow,” racites a lady | teaches school at. Baltimore. The | grandstand is faced with white and yellow and backed with palm boughs. Toward the left of the judges’ stand is a large man with a clerical collar. His broad, smooth face beams with good nature. He is surely a bishop. The sun is blazing fiercely, and e spectators not reached by the breeze beginning to swelter. The carnival band near the press gallery has struck up a patriotic air. The bishop likes that. - He pulis his silk hat down over his eyes on account of the sun’s glare, and gazes in- tently through his spectacles. Far down the street and through the floral arch the head of the procession is seen.. The aniouncement comes as the | music ceases. Somebody on a gravish horseis leading the march, and the dens: column following looks much like a body of troops as like anything else. There is the flag of the Nation, and those gleams are of the bayonets. Theline comesnearer; it bas reached the arch near the Arling- ton. A brass drum marks time, and those gleams are the gleams oi bayonets. The horses of the officers are prancing, and all are bedecked with flowers. The troops are | in a guise of peace, but still the bayonets | flash. Cheers go up from the immense | throng of spectators, and the bishop gives approval by a gentle clapping of his hands. A military march has grown out of the beating of the drum, and the music is of the naval flagship band. Three hundred marines in their blue are following the red-caated musicians. An officer shouts something uninteiligible and the troops break into & maneuvering run. The ma- rines have bouquets in the ends of their muskets. Four black horses are drawing into view the first of the floats. A wagon is con- cealed beneath the floral decorations. The design is the shield of California, grizzly bear and all. The principal flower is the | marigold and the general effect of the float is in orange and biack. The girls are pretty, like all the girls in Santa Barbara. Rapidly the floats and the carriages are coming, to the music of a second band. Four young ladies in a car- riage of daisies are drawn by gray horses. La France roses, instead of daisies, ex- change adornment with a second quartet Touchstone, bow- ing and gesticulating, is certainly the character represented in the second float, and with him are all the characters for is who are The Bishop, who is evidently a Metho- dist, smiles in conditional approval upon this stage representation, and bis faint side whiskers go further than ever apart on his broad good face. A load of hay, the next looks like, but it is covered with roses, and it bears a floral canopy under which a young woman stands, all glorious in pink satin and rose-figured organdie and with six little girls about her. A two- horse buggy is coming as a rose basket, another is a basket of daisies. Here are the caballeros, the gorgeous { men on horseback. One has coat and sad- dle of flowers that resemble violets, and here comes a genuine load of hay. There are six Maud Mullers on it, each holding a wooden rake. Nowonder thatthe Judge, {in Whittier's poem, rode sadly down the lane as he thought of his “‘might have been.”” Even the Bishop seems in love with these, but the Bishop isn’t sad about it. These girls on the horses ride as girls should ride in this Spanish region. And what an orchestra, for four Spaniards of the olden type; they have only three orses, but three are pienty for four such riders, and tlie eight hands all twanging way at an old Castilian melody. Three white horses in tandem with harness of broad yellow ribbon are guided by mounted borsemen attired in colors to match. The fashionable drag is covered with white ribbon and the soit yellow mustard blossoms. Two men and two women in white and yellow throw white and yellow roses into the crowds. “White and yellow for me,” says the Bishop, as plainly as his good full face can speak. A Roman chariot is in the line and a windmill of green and roses, | “The Santa Ynez mull,” in floral letter- ing, and a boy and girl, wee Spanish chil- dren disguised as a humming bird and a buttercup and drawn by an Angora goat. What an idea that is. A troop of boys from some school, riding like cavalrymen, next. Then olive-pickers come with their ladders on wheels and all decorated. Then a Spanish family in a_genuine old Mexican ox wagon. It does the Bishor's heart good to see the oxen representing as do the ola pastoral days. The parade bhas passed and countermarched. People is | are pelting each other with reses, though the battle has not commenced. There are strict ordersof managers, but this prelim- | inary skirmishing cannot be prevented. A bunch of lilies strikes the Bishop squarely in the face, and the good man laughs, “They toil not,” he seems to say, “‘but | they certainly do spin.” That is the Phiiharmonic band that has just begun to play on the music-stand. The paraders are returning. The bands stop. The soldiers of the flagship go marching by, and however the roses hit them they give not even a glance to the side. A frightened Forse has thrown its rider, and with a leg that dangles uselessly | the man is borne away through an open- | ing in the grand stand. Fioats and the other vehicles are getting mixed up. The Bishop adjusts his spectacles and rises to locate the cause of this confusion. A marshal bolts the coiumn. Now sounds a bugle-call, and the battle of flowers begins in earnest. Dashing girls in the decorated buggies seem to risk their lives in throwing the missiles of color. Touch- stone isin glory now. Everybody throws at him. Rapidly the pavement is becom- ing strewn with the gore of red roses and the carnations. A Spanish girl almost leaped from her saddle to catch the bou- quet hurled by a dark-eyed youth. She takes the missile from the air and throws it back with suddenness and precision. The Bishop smiles, but his iace sobers and he turns away as the mischievous | wind tosses the olive-green skirt of the an- dacions maiden and reveals a ballet-like vision of yellow. The senorita gallops | away. The marines break and face the unceas- ing fire of the roses. They are without ammunition except as they can pick it up on the pavement, but the Maud Mullers came to re-enforce them with their hig load full of flowers, and now the fight is fiercest, the bands playing an inspiration for the fray. Through a break in the column the windmill float comes at a gallop like an artillery piece. The double line of parade is surging about. Bouquets are - flying like the snow in a Truckee blizzard. The horses are prancing, the men on foot are dodging, the floats are fluttering and sway- ing, that Spanish guitar man’s horse is like an untamed bronco, but the dark face of the rider is absorbed in the melody ALLEGED CONGRESS1ONAL COMMITTEE I /77 iz Row ~ 0 BREAKING THE WORLD'S ELECTION STUFFING RECORD. and the dusky fingers never miss the strings. During the lull the band plays ‘*Annie | Laurie.” Love is in all this war, the marines renew the action. They may be | thinking of other Annie Lauries, but they | are devoting enthusiastic attention to the | | Santa Barbara beauties on this occasion. | That George Washington in pink and blue | atiempted to shout to somebody, and now he is getting the daisies out of his mouth. A bugle sounds, the marines step into | line, a word of command and away they g0, no attention now to the ladies they love for 2 summer carnival day. No mat- | ter how the roses are hurled at them, they are in oblivion except as to the duties of | their march. | | Hereis a man with a great wocden pen- | cil. He is as dignified as the Bishop. He | is trying to establish order among the ve- | hicies, and people say that he is the judge. People deluge him with blossoms, but he seems obstinate in his endeavor to | straighten out the lne. It is useless; so he stops the float of the marigolds and de- livers to the driver a blue satin banner that bears the words “First prize.”” The Bishop stands right up and takes off his | glasses. He certainly believes in the yel- low and white, but the man with the big | pencil is bigger than the Bishop to-day. l Two mornks on one of the floats get a third prize, the red banner, and the Bishop : smiles. | The ladies in La TFrance roses are \’ awarded a blue banner; a biue banner is | carried away by the girls in the daisy | basket. | The girl in satin and organdie wins only | a white banner of the second place. | The Maud Mullers take a first prize and the Bishop is happy again. He is happier still when a banner of blue | was over the yellow and gold and he understands now that the decisions are according to class. Banners are gener- | ously awarded to the little girls on horse- | back, the blue one goes to the maiden | | of which nobody can hear in the commotion. | whose agility shocked the Bishop. Nearly | four corners of the base, stood Miss Hope everbody of prominence, the guitar man | Doeg, wearing a Greek tunic of pink silk, included, is rewarded with a banner. The Bishop gets up and closely buttons his | coat. He is ready to go. The parade is over and so is ths t.t*le of roses. T. E. NUNAN, o 50 gl ay SEEN IN THE PAGEANT. Beautiful Moving Displays of Daz- zling Splendor. SANTA BARBARA, CAL., April 16.— The Native Sons carried off the first prize | $150 with the float representing the great seal of California. This exhibit was ablaze of marigolds, shading off at the | base of the bronze of the Grevilla robusta. Miss Lucy Ruiz, a beautiful Spanish girl, with lustrous dark eyes and flowmg hair, gowned in a flowing yellow robe, holding a shield of marigolds in her hand, and with a shining gold helmet, impersonated the Goddess Minerva. Behina her the sun formed a blazing background with rays of marigolds dipped with yellow mar- guerites, and below were a plow and aship wrought in the same flowers. At her feet an admirable g 1y crouched, fashioned of pampas plumes dyed black and brown. Charles Gilchrist, clad as the miner, sat below, and the driver, Alfred Ortega, wore the colors of the fioat. Four black horses \wxm yellow harness and marigold colors drew this float, and tbe four outriders at- tending it, mounted on black horses with marigold trimmings, clad in black cos- tumes with golden sashes and trimmings of the flowers corresponding to the deco- rations of the vehicle, were E. 8. Cordero, A. Arrellanes, Asa Loomis and C. Covar- rubias. The very original idea of this float must be accredited to Charles Thomp- son, while Alex J. Harmer, the artist, furnished the design and the scheme of color. The exquisite float, “Primavera,” en- tered by R. Radcliffe Whitehead of Monte- cito, carried off second honors in this class. Tkis was a painstaking reproduction of Botticcelli’s famous picture of “‘Spring’’ in the Uffizzi Gallery at Florence. Wild oats and olive branches with pink stock covered the sides, and beneath a tall arch, its columns wound with pink roses and with pink garlands dropping to the Float of the Native Sons of the Golden West at Santa Barbara, Black and Yellow Being the Predominating Colors. [Reproduced from a sketch by a “Call.’’ artist.] and overdress of faintly figured pink gauze. On her head she wore a crown of myrtle, and her pretty brown hair, unbound, flowed over her shoulders. The five tiny wirls, “one in a white gown and the rest wearing green silk and wreaths of pink marguerites, gronped at the feet of i the goddess, were:. Amy Martin, Mary Frances Otto, Dorothy Otte, Edith Lord and Dorothy Easton. Cyril *Dontton, wearing a Florentine costume of the fif- teenth century, consisting af green silk jerkin and tan tights, drove the four sor- rel borses, and: Don von Neumeyer, in a similar costume, acted as footman. By the way, it is interesting to note that this same youngz Von Neumeyer is said to be the identical young New Yorker who has served as a model for the famous artist, C. D. Gibson. Rivaling both of these exhibits in beauty of design and elaborate decoration came | the Bythinia float, a massive looking structure, its sides trimmed with wild oats, on which the name of the birthplace of Santa Barbara appeared embroidered in yellow marguerites. Beneath a stately arch stood Santa Barbara herself, imper- sonated by Miss Paula de ta Guerra, whose costume and pose were copied faithfully from the famous picture of the saint painted by Palma Vecchio early in the sixteenth century, and which hangs in a great Roman gallery. Her flowing gown was of brown cash- mere, her mantle of purple, and twined about her shoulders and through her dark flowing hair was a white cashmere scarf. She stood on a raised d and the broad steps descending from it were carpeted with marguerites, with margins of wild oats. In a kneeling posture below a Fran- ciscan monk was posed in the somber garb of the brotherhood. The driver was richly costumed in a Roman dress of white and purple, and the float was drawn by four of the largest bay horses in the State. har- nessed with yellow and decorated with yellow marguerites, This was enterea by D. Hirschler of San Francisco. The float which it has always been cus- tomary for the flower festival to enter without competing for a prize, this year presented a picturesque group of char- acters from the cast of ‘*As You Like It,’’ produced last Monday. The decorations were simple, representing a scene in the forest of Arden, Rosalind and Orlando, Celia, Touchstone and Audrey. The senior duke, Sylvius. and Phebe and several of the foresters were all in costume and in characteristic attitudes and the great Percheron horses were harnessed in yeliow and green with decorations of wild mustard. Three of the foresters in russet and red acted as footmen and driver. The exquisite carriage entered in the name of Miss Bessie Cooper, which took the first prize in its class, was completely covered with pink duchess rosebuds, the globular form and pl'iable stems of which lend themselves raost¢ readily to decora- tion. The seats were upholstered in pink, and the black horses were in pink harness with collars of rosebuds. The occupants were Miss Cooper, Mrs. E. H. Sawyer, Miss Evangeline Nixon and Miss Kathleen ‘Wheeler, all wearing dainty pink tarlatan gowns, pink tarlatan hats with long black princess feathers and black gloves. There was a whole family in John Percy Law- ton’s mail phaeton, which won second award. {7 Mr. Lawton and his wife occupied the front seat and the three Lawton babies, all clad in white, filled the rear seat, alap robe of white tulle, dotted with margue- rites, being drawn over their plump hittle Jimbs. ' The phaeton was covered ' with white marguerites, gracefully arranged in clusters about the top and solidiy applied to the body of the vehicle. The shaits were covered with white satin and the single- tree with pale biue, and the two whits horses were harnessed in pale plue satin. The Dresden coach entered by the Hon. Rowland Hazard represented an idea, and this idea was that beautiful flowers may sometimes be effectively used so as to ex- hibit their own delicate formsand colors instead of being sacrificed in furthering a a general effect. In this instance the intention wasfto imitate the decoration of Dresdea china, and the entire vehicle was draped in white, clusters of La France roses of ex- ceeding beauty being applied on the white ground with an artistic hand, while gar- iands of the same flowers bordered the vehicle. The two snow-white horses were harnessed in pink, and Mrs. C. O. Feiton and her daughter who occupied the car- riage wore pink gowns, with clusters of roses in {heir hats and on their gowns, A pretty white marguerite basket filled with prettier children was entered and designed by Mrs. Frank M. Whitney, wife of Santa Barbara’s Mayor-elect. The horses were in white harness decked with daisies, and the six little girls in the basket were clad in white muslin. . Wearing white hats trimmed with vel- low ribbons and wreaths of daisies were Loms Whitney, Paula Wright, Bertha Gregory, Margaret Edwards and Adell Voorbees. If it had not been for the children it would have been hard for the judges to decide between this and the vehicle en- tered by Alexander Sedgwick, which re- ceived the second award. This was covered with pale yellow banks of roses, intertwined with smilax, and the scheme of decoration was extended to the spirited black horses, which had collars covered with the delicate flowers and wore yellow nets dotted with the blossoms. Mr. and Mrs. Sedgwick, Mrs. Roberts and Mr. Campbell occupied the vehicle, all | wearing yellow and white, in harmony with their decorations. That somewhat aristocratic organization, the Santa Barbara Club, is accountable for the delightful hayecart banked with the golden blossoms of wild mustard, thinly carpeted with oats, pretty maids in cool white muslin gowns, wearing Maud Muller bats with yellow ribbons and carrying rakes bowed with yellow satin ribbons. The conception did credit to the club- men and there was a murmur of applause when it was handed the bine banner rep- resenting the first prize. The occupants were Miss Gunn of San Francisco, Miss Mabel Rowe of Los Angeles, the Misses Georgiana and Madelaine Lacy and Miss Kirby of San Francisco. Miramar, that poetical little settlement by the sea, in Montecito, furnishea the farmwagon in shape like a huge basket decorated with pink geraninms and filled with a gay party, all of the Jadies wearing pink and green gowns, with charming little caps modeled after theblossom. The | occupants were Mrs. Daggett, Mr. and Mrs. Mower, the Misses McDonald and filled with | Brown, Mr. Dormer, Mr. O’Brien and Mr. | Moore, who officiated as driver. This was drawn by a pair of immense white horses, harnessed in pink and with pink ribbons. Mrs. D. H. Sidebotham and Mrs. Worth- | ington chose an original scheme of decora- tion for their low sheafs of barley with - marguerites chaste effect. They wore thin mull gowns, and the large white parasol they carried was flounced with mull and quaintly decorated with barlev-heads. were harnessed with white. peared in the euntire procession than the Dailey phacton, occupied by Miss Mary Lord and Miss Lacy, which carried off an- | other first premium. The body of the vehicle was covered with cloth-of-gold roses, and the wheels were | twined with yvellow banksias. The ladies wore gowns of pale vellow, mull hats trimmed with the same material, and carried parasols of white dotted muslin bowed with yellow mull. Their horse was harnessed in yellowand liberally decorated Their sorrel ponies | phaeton, combining | in | PROSPERITY OF GREAT BRITAIN, Finances of the Nation asg Qutlined by Chancellor Hicks-Beach. BIG SURPLUS ON HAND, Vast Strides Made in Reducing the Debt Due to the War of the Crimea. REVENUE GREATLY INCREASED Heavy Sums to B: Expended for De+ fenses and Improved Educational Facilities. LONDON, Exa., April 16.—In the Hounse of Commons to-day Right Hon. P. W. Hanbury, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, stated in reply to & question by Mr. Patrick O’Brien, member for Kilkenny City, tuat the Postmaster-General was at the present time in communication with the Postmaster-General of the United States in regard to the future transmission of newspaper matter trom the United States to England solely by American vessels, and was now awaiting an answer from the Postoffice Department in Wash« ington. “But,” he said, “it should be re- membered that the Postmaster-General of the United States has the liberty to make his own arrangements.” At 4:25 o’clock Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, Chancellor of the Exchequer, rose amid | Conservative cheers to deliver the speech introducing the budget. He began by saying that despite the fact that the ex- penditures of the last fiscal year had been larger than that of any year since the last great war, the surplus in the treasury was the Jargest that bad ever been known ana the credit of the country was never so hich. The yield of consolsto the pur- chaser, he said, was just about half what it was a century ago and a larger sum had been applied to the reduction of the national debt than had ever before been applied to that end within a similar period. The deposits in savings banks and permanent .accounts in ordinary banks had amounted to an unprecedented point, and the production of gold through- out the world has been the highest ever known. The amount of bullion in the banks of England was £49,000,000 and the reserve fund in the bank in proportion to s liabilities was the highest on record. Continuing, Sir Michael said that the | conditions of workingmen were never so No more perfect scheme of color ap- | with ban as. Miss Eleanor Colt and Miss Ethel | Vaugban drove in a low cart, which | boasted the most unique decoration of the day and won the hearts of the judgesin | their class, their ‘vehicle being hidden from sight beneath sprays of the rumex, a wildflower growing in Ventura County | and shading from lemon yellow and cream to old rose and dull reds tinged with brown. The ladies wore gowns and hats of pale green mull, Miss Auna S. C. Blake was represented by Miss Beryl Lord and M Couteilenc, the occupants of the phaeton, whose decorations of pink and white car- nations and roses won the second award in this division. The canopy was covered with the same sweet flowers, and the ladies were gowned in pink mull with pale green silk sleeves. Arthur Dauwe, wearing olive green with a pink sash and cap, accompanied them in the province of a footman. The gracefnl little phaeton, drawn by four thoroughbred Shetland ponies, and occupied by George P. Mack and Miss Jes- sie Nelson of Naples, was entered by Mrs. Continued on Fourth Page. satisfactory as at present, but he feared that the condition of agriculturists was worse. The issue of produce stamps supplied the best possible measure of ascertaining that business transactions had never reached so great a volume. Al- together, he said, the past year had been a wonderful one. The great triumph of a chancellorof the exchequer, he said, was when receipts and estimates were equal, but the figures of this year become remark- able by the fact that the receipts exceed the estimates. Everything, he said, had had an upward tendency, esvecially during the latter half of 1895. The increase in the value of exports, imports, railway earn- ingsand bankers’ and clearing-house re- turns showed a continuous expansion of trade. The revenue for the fiscal yvear had been £101,974,000, while for the year 1804-95 the revenue had only been £92,684,- 000, showing an increase of £7,290,000 and making an excess of £5,812,000 over the estimate. A great feature had been in the increase of the revenue from tobacco, wine and tea, the latter having steadily driven coffee out of the market. British and Irish spirits had also driven foreign spirits out of the market. The imports of spirits had de- | clined 19 per cent and the popular taste for rum was greatly lessening. Tea had yielded £120,000 over the estimate, im- plying an increased consumption of 10,000,000 pounds of that commodity. In connection with this, he added, there was | a large and welcome transfer of the tea ‘trade from China to British India and Ceylon. The receipts from wines, he said, had | been £1,256,000. This seemed to be largely due to an increased consumption of vinous liquor by members of the Stock Exchange and speculators, who, it appeared con- ‘Window Decoration on State Street, With Bas Relief Worked in White Banskia Roses on the Background of Pink Duchesse Roses of Colossal Size