The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 9, 1896, Page 1

VOLUME LXXX.—NO. ' to This Paper not be taken from the Ll'brary, PR 101. PRICE FIVE CENTS STOCKTONS | GATES AR Crowds of Native Sons| and Daughters Enter the City. MET BY BANDS AND GAY PROCESSIONS. Visitors Marvel at the Superb | Accoutrement of Streets | and Dwellings. { UNBOUNDED HOSPITALITY TO GUESTS, 0!d Acquaintances Are Renewed and the Era of Festivity Begins. STOCKTON, CaL., Sept. 8.—Stockton is to-day the hostess city of the Golden State. Her citizens, oneand all, from the Mayor to the humblest urchin that roams the streets, have busied themselves in wel- | coming the legion of strangers within her gates. Henceforth “Stocktonian hospit- ality” will be a phrase accepted as syn-; onymous with the most hearty, whole- souled neighborly entertainment man can extend to man. At least it will mean that to the thousands who have to-day fel: tne clasp of the glad hand that the people of the Mill City have so generously extended. From early dawn, when a company of | Sonora's sons, arrayed in the victuresque garb of the days of '49, and mounted on burros, filed into town, to long past mid- | night, when the last of the revelers who | participated in the parade sought their beds, the city was in a state of feverish | excitement. Reception followed recep- | tion; parlor after parior was welcomed, | and joyous greetings were exchanged be- | twe rested upon one another since last year in Sacramento. The first trainload of visitors to arrive bailed from Amador County. There were five cars 1n the train, all of them filled to overflowing. A crowd, whose numbers | were twice those of the Native Sons and Daughters and their friends, from the ad- | joining county, weited at-the depot. As| is usual on such occasions the train was | late. The crowd, good natured and hapoy, | filled the platform, overflowed into the | station and impeded the movements of | the baggagemen. Stockton's fair daugh- ters. who equaled in numbers their male | relatives in the crush, were annoyed at '’ the delay, Little feminine expressions of | vexaiion escaped them as they craned | their necks and strained theireyes looking for the longed-ior train. Of course the small boy had to get in his little joke. When the crowd had become almost resigned to a long wait a childish treble piped, ‘‘Here she comes.” Persons | who had secured comfortable seats on a | number of trunks scattered about in front | of the baggage-room leaped hurriedly to | their feet. The ladies smoothed their locks and tucked away stray wisps of hair that siraggled. Some inguired, “Is my | hat on straight?” while others made haste | to gather their traps. When everybody | | direction of the crowd that thronged the | = 3 fi&:—"-—é»—;“\ SN OUTPOURING OF STALWART YOUNG CALIFORNIANS. San Franciscd Native Sons Passing the Corner of Market and Mason Streets on Their March to the Ferries to Take Their Departure for Stockton. All things must bhave an end. Even al rive, so finally the Amador delegation rot | in. They were greeted with cheers—three | times three, and a tiger. Escortea by the | Sixth Regiment band, the Sonora miners and the reception committee, the delega- tion marched up town. At the head of the parade a tall man wearing a white som- brero Iaboriously piloted a refractory black bear cub. The applause with which he was greeted seemed to nonplus little bruin, and he tugged viciously at the rope wi restrained him, varying the pro- gramme by occasional wild sallies in the sidewalk. People laughed and scattered | and bruin and his master had the street to themselves. The 1:10 o’clock train from San Fran- cisco, bearing the- visitors from that City and from Antioch, arrived at 2:20 o'clock. | Fourteen day coaches and three Pullmans | discharged over 1000 people at the depot. Agein the miners, thereception committee | and the Sixth Regiment band came to the front. The visitors were made welcome. | Most of them marshaled into line and | marched to the Courthouse, where the | parade broke up and the different parlors | repaired to their respective quarters. | i g STOCKTON AT NIGHT. letters of rooms. Prices have risen until old friends whose eves had not|delayed Southern Pacific train must ar- | 1t costs §1 to think of a bed, $2 to look at a bed or $3 to sleep in one. At 9 o’clock the belated 8:30 train arrived. Twelve crowded Pullmans and several day coaches composed the train. Nearly everybody aboard was from San Fran- cisco. The new arrivals were escorted from the station to their quarters in the courthouse, the nsual reception commit- tee members, all of which carried torches, making a torchlight parade of mammoth proportions. Oakland and Stanford parlors were si; ilarly received, the flaring lights carried | by the marchers throwing strange and fantastic shadows on the liberal decora- tions with which the principal streets are | festooned. Too much praise cannot be given the committee having in charge the decora- tions of the city. All the principal streets are spanned by strips of red, white, biue and yellow bunting, the carnival cofors. Along the electric-car line incandescent lamps of these four colors depend from the stringers that support the trolley wires. Asfar asthe eye can reach down the narrowing vista of the street the lamps flash and gleam, their soft-shaded hues bringing to the eye a sense of soothing harmony. The great dome of the conrthouse is ablaze with the combined refulgence of was on the tiptoe of expectation and bad | Visitors Marvel at the Beauty of the | almost 1000 electric lamps. Tt is visible for crowded forward to points of vantage | the boy laughed merrily. ‘‘Now, she's‘ | gone back,” said he. Tnen he made him- seli scarce to escape annihilation. Decorations. | STOCKTON, CaL., Sept. 8.—To-night| Stockton is filling up with a rapidity that | makes glad the hearts of the avaricious | many miles and to the Knigits of the Golden Bear, who are hastening to this city to honor the anniversary of the ad- mission of their State to the Union, it 1s the beacon that warns them that they are approaching their journey’s end. Long before the train reaches Stockton the great cone, shining like burnished | gold in a summer sunset, grebts the eye. | The little cluster of lights which sur- mounts the whole resembles a crown,and is a fitting pinnacle to the mountain of light beneath. ©On the bank of th’h.mne! the electric light company has erécted a tower, which is studded with lights ‘of red, white, blue and yellow. A number of business houses have also put up electrical dis- plays. All the stores are gayly decorated in tne prevailing colors. In the window of one enterprising firm’s business-house is a life-sized grizzly, whose glaring glass eyes frighten the chil- dren who stop to gaze upon it. Bt MUSIC AND RED FIRE. Incoming Parlors Accorded Gal- lant Demonstrations. STOCKTON, CaL., Sept. 8.—The streets of Stockton were literally jammed to- night. The atternoon train from San Francisco brought sixteen carloads of visiting natives and their friends, includ- ing 200 members of Antioch Parlor. They were met at the station by the local par- { lor, headed by the Sixth Regiment band, | and escorted to their quarters. With this | crowd in the city and the thousands who | have been coming here for the past few | days the number was augmented .at 7 | o’clock to-night by the arrival of the train from Sacramento. It brought an im- The Steamers for Stockton, Laden With Enthusiastic Native Sons, Left in a Bunch From the City Front. Yesteraay mense number of natives from the Cap- ital City and other points, and so when the throng gathered at the railway station to-night to witness the coming of the special cars bearing Oakland and Stanford parlors, ana of the torchlight procession that had been arranged to greet tho in- coming natives, there was not a foot of standing room about the depot or for blocks along Main street. The streets were briltiantly hghted by electricity and near the railway station on Main street was a huge, illuminated sign, bearing words of welcome in eleotricity. It was expected that the special train would arrive shortly after 7 o’clock, butits |arrivai was delayed ' until neariy 9. The crowds waited patiently, however, the band plgying from time to time, and fora half hour before the arrival of Stanford and Oakland parlors anvils were fired from in front of the railway station. As the | train came in and car after car passed | Main street, near the station, the throngs on that sireet sent up cheer after cheer. Oakland Parlor had been prepared to turn' out in parade, but owing to the death of young Wilscn, who was drowned while on the way to Stockton to partici- | pate in the celebration, it was decided not to march in regular procession. However, several hundred of the members paradea, headed by the Presidio band, which after- ward gave a concert on the plaza. < The procession was headed by Marshal | McNobie and his aids, C. L. Ortman, | Frank Esbbach, Walter A. Morrissey, W. E. O’'Connor, M. L. Cady, J. McCann, J. W. Kerrick, George Biawell and C. T. Bekstrom. Stockton Parlor No. 7 fol- lowed these, and at Main and American streets, in front of Native Sons’ Hall, the local natives halted. There they were pro- vided with Roman candles, and as the visiting natives marched down Main street they passed beneath an arch of col- ored fire. When they reached the grand arch on the plaza. which had been lighted by electricity and calcium lights, the fire- works which had been prepared for the occasion. were set off, and the sky was | filled for an hour afterward with rockets and bombs. After passing under the arch and dis- banding on Weber avenue the members of the visiting pariors went to their head- quarters in the Yosemite building. Many of them attended the reception that was given in the rooms of the general commit- tee, This was an informal affair, but was very enjoyabie. Steele’s string orchestra discoursed pleasing music, while the ladies of Joaquin Parlor No.5 served reiresh- meiits. 2 E ¥ The Courthouse dome was a blaze of light to-night, for, besides the 1000 col~ ored incandescent lights on the dome, every window of the big structure was lighted, and the effect was strikingly beautiful. Besides the lights within the building and on the dome the strings of Japanese lanterns about the edges of ti:e main structure were lighted. Out EI Dorado stre t all the.large residences were illuminated, and from Main street to North, a distance of over a mile, was one continuous line of lignted lanterns. In the trees on many of the residences eol- ored electric globes had been placed, and the effect was worderful, nothing like it having ever been seen in this part of the country before. Numbers of the Naval Reserve arrived here during the day. More reached here to-night, »nd ail will take part in the street parade to-morrow morning and in the water carnival at night. The regular train from San Francisco, due here at 8:20 o’clock, did not get in until 10:55, with fifteen coaches filled with unattached members of the Native Sons and their friends, Los Politis Parlor of Livermore being the only organized parior on board, It brought the Livermore band, and was escorted to its headquarters in the same manner a3 the pariors coming earlier.. The local men turned out in force to receive them, each man burning a stick of colored fire, the colors being those of the car- ADDING TO THE TAXES San Francisco Assessment Increased Twenty Per Cent. CHESEBROUGH PROTESTS IN VAIN, Equalizers Arnold, Beamer and Morehouse Vote for the Raise. OTHER COUNTIES ARE LET OFF EASILY. Five Per Cent Added to the Alameda Roli—The State Rate Fizxed at 429 SACRAMENTO, CaiL, Sept. 8.'— The Btate Board of Equalization has raised the assessment roll of San Francisco 20 per cent. It claims there was no other course for the board to pursue. In vain the mem- bers requested San Francisco authorities to appear before them and show why the assessment should not be increased. Their summons was ignored, and the mass of evidence in the possession of the board justified it, say the Equalizers, in making the raise.. The members of the board claim that, after careful consideration of the values returned by the County Assessors through- out the State, the assessments of at least five out of the nine cited to appear before them were too low in comparison with the other counties of the State, and they also claim that San Francisco’s assessment was Flow Soo abitier San: Feanchs Nty Soke. Taskid ax They Left for the Stockton Carnival. tingent from San Francisco reached here shortly after 1 o’clock. The visiting na- tives were so tired that they were merely escorted to the courthouse by the recep- tion committee and there disbanded, go- ing to their respective headquarters. The streets were thronged with spectators in anticipation of the arrival of the San Fran- ciscans and the crowd was kept in good humor: by one of the finest pyrotechnic displays ever seen in this section. For hours the sky was filled with rockets and costly pieces of fireworks with which the committee had arranged to entertain the crowd and celebrate the arrival of the largest portion of the visiting natives. There are many beautifully decorated buildings here, but the Commetcial Hotel is probably the most lavishly and taste- fully decorated building in the city, with the exceptior: of the Courthouse. This morning Policeman Quigler of San Francisco, who is here on pleasure bent, mnarrowly escaped being arrested. Quig- ley is proud of two things in this world; one is his splendid plysique, the other is hisdog." This morning his desire to have both photographed in a fetching attitude induced the policeman to pose on the of the grand arch. H- sat at the feet of the statue, his eves turned heavenward, with the dog on hislap. Artist Kohm, who designed the figure, did not appre- ciate the languorous abandon of Quigley’'s position, and neither was he slow to anger when the weighty policeman - broke through the slight covering of -the pedes- tal. Harsh words led to hard blows, and only the intervention of friends pre- vented both being arrested. The baseball game at Goodwater Grove this afternoon resulted in a victory for the local team by a score of 7 to 5. e guad w SAN FRANCISCO’S NATIVES Animated Scenes on Their March to the Ferry. The Native Sons' of San Francisco started for Stockton literally in a blaze of glory last evening. ‘Rockets and red fire illuminated their march down Market nival committee—red, white, blue and yellow. The train that brought the large con- street and'thousands of citizens lined the Continued on Fifth Pace. the lowest of all, in comparison wlth its monetary interests, At the opening of to-day’s session, Equalizer Beamer moved to begin proe ceeding by considering the assessment of San Francisco County. Chesebrouzh im- mediately secured the floor and said that he did not purpose making turther de- fense for his county. He thought he had made all the defense necessary, and did not wish to take up more time. San Fran- cisco, he said, had come before the board with an increase over last year’s assass- ment and he thought her roll should be allowed to stand as returned by the Audi- tor. He declared that he had done all that he could for San Francisco County, and moved that the board accept the Audi- tor’s returns from all counties as the properly aszessed valuation of the counties. Coigan seconded the motion, and Ar- nold said he thought there was a motion before the house already in relation to San Francisco. Beamer bhad moved to take it up, he said, and he had seconded the motion. Beam- | er’s motion was then put and carried, Ar- | nold, Beamer aud Morehouse voting aye, | and Colgan and Chesebrough no. steps of the paper mache statue in front | Chesebrough then moved to pass San Francisco, and this motion was lost by tke same vote. Arnold moved to raise San Francisco’s assessment 25 per cent. 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