The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 1, 1897, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 1, 1897. LIGHTING UP THE Ciny ON NEW YEAR'S EVE How the Fiesta People of Polk Strest Speeded Away the Departing Year of “ Ninety-Six.” The Merry King, Surrounded by His Royal Court, Was in the Parade. FATHER TIME IN BURLEfQUE. Fourth and Sixteenth Streets Have Wheeled Into the Line of Light and Progress. Polk street “rang out the old, rang in | last nigit in a merry carnivalin | the new celebration of electric lights and coming prosperity. It was a riot of flaming lights, flaring red fires and bursting bombs. The thoreughiare from Sutter to Pacific was a brilliant avenue between two lines of | colored lanterns and decorated windows. | On the last day of the fiesta every bright bit of bunting tinted in the yellow and rea was brought out and flung to the breeze. Then was Polk sirest in her glory. All day yesterday the sidewalks were crowded, and last evening there was a | perfect jam. The cable-cars only with | difficulty could make their way along. | Several squads of merrymakers gro- tesquely arrayed moved here and there | around the street, stopping at different | localities 1o give an impromptu entertain- ment. Funny visaged fellows appeared on the roofs and at upper windows and | highly émused the passers-by with their clownery. An old man appeared marching with a stately tread down the street, and this enerable personage seemed to be the real King of the carnival. If this was not his role he was either a Father Time, a Cupid or a Mercury. -His tall hat was ornament- ed with several large feathers, as were alsv the lower part of his trouser’s legs, which [ATHERTIME @ § 0B MERWRYE WH.BENSG SECRETAR! o T2 made the likeness to the quicksilver god quite complete. However, on his shoul- ders were ia-tened a big pair of turRey wings that fluttered in his movements quite biralike, The graceful pinions savored of Cupid, but the old chap’s gray whiskers madq the Father Time manifestly apparent. At 8 o'clock the scream of a bugle an- nounced the coming of an important per- | sonage, and the King of the Fiesta rode | into the street. His majesty’s charger was inclined to jump the contract of uphold- ing @ monarchial instintion and scurry back io the stable, but was persuaded to remain with the circus by & tight rein. The sovereign looked every inch a king, according to the piciures of those individ- uals, and fitted into his place in the carni- val rigiit royally. He was attended by a troop of mounted courtiers and guards in mwask and followed by a military band of music. Then csme carriages containing the offi- cers of the fiesta and the players of the court. There was also a long line of dec- orated yehicles representing the business firms of Polk street, During the parade rockets, bombs and Roman candles were let off, filling the air with brilliant flashes of colored light. Every other person was armed with a fish- horn, and the noise they made was deaf- ening. ‘When the clocks told the end of the old year preparations for firing the pyrotec- nic pieces were made, and all stood ready to witness the display. At the stroke of midnight the entire | street was a blaze of glory and the mani- pulators of the fireworks began to make preparations to fill the sky with creations grlorious to behold, among them many em- blems of purely local significance, yet many emblematical of the passing of the old year. Tie pieces displayed in the variation of powder-colors were three striking pictures. First, that of *Old Father Time, 1896.”" As it burned away a vigorous young Cupid marked *1897" came bounding -into view, after which there came like a benediction the old, old ereeting—generous, yet ever new, “*A happy New Year to you!” There were many incidental pieces of note among the fireworks,.one of which read in flaring letters, “Patronize Polk Street.” The filteen or twenty dancers and street performers attracted considerable atten- tion and app'ause. They were distributed | along various parts of the line of march at | proper distances, so as to amuse specta- | tors and break the monotony of the cele- | bration. Marshal Heintz, the king, and his cour- tiers and the many carriages conveying | the fiesta committee made an imposing appearance. ‘Among the noted guestgowere the mem- bers of the Larkin-street Improvement Club, chaperoned by President Kohn and Secretary Dross. 3 The business wagons extended for many blocks, the line of march at night being substantially the same as that of the ernoon. The procession moved from Van Néss avenue to Eddy street, thence down Eddy to Larkin, Sutter, Polk and | Jackson, with a cuntermarch to Sutter., | "It was the general impression of all that the lighting and improved methods of business will attract general attention-and stimulate local pride in business, so that merchants will begin business in 1897 with renewed hopes of substantial prosp erity. fm et GLORIOUS SIXTEENTH. | The Thoroughfars a Blaze of Light and Splendor. Sixteenth street, from Valencia to Fol- som, was as much another part of the City last night as an avenue from Chicago or a bit of Central Park. The fiesta of the Sixteenth-street Im- | provement Club, beginning shortly after | nigntfall, impressed upon all the fact that | they have a seciion where brains, energy, push and. business acumen thrive amid solid home comfort in the “warm belt of { Mission.” There are no less than six iines of ears that tap this locality, carry- ing a popuiation of over twenty thousand people through the arteries of commerce and traffic. Last night the merchants along either line of Sixteenth street hung t'eir places of business with the stars and stripes, S B SN = P \.. SN S\ Tz g g Y 507 /’}%;f 2 = Ve Sixteenith Street As It App:a;red Under the Electric Lights Last Nighf. bunting of blue and gold, pennants, Jap- anese ianterns and evergreens. They did it with such earnestness that Sixteenth street last night looked like an arched | passage-way of wide dimensions, - bril- liantly illuminated with electricity and bonfires at every corner. Von der Mehden’s band of twenty pieces headed the parade of merchants, discoursing music along the line of march, while the hir:d men in charge of the py- rotechnics sought spots in the multi-col- ored canopy to send up shells and rockets, that the outside world might know -that it was *'a night in Sixteenth street.”” The men whose personal endeavors brought abour last night’s celebration are J.J. Moran, T.O'Dwyer, W. H. Benson, and L. Goldman; the executive commit- tee being Grorge Center. F. Warbel, T. O'Dwyer, F. Ragbe and F. L. Griffith. The honorary members of the celebra- tion are Claus Spreckels, John Center, H. J. Mangels and Captain W. H. Taylor. Those who subscribed most liberally in the premises, aj subscription, by the way, which ‘continues 1n force for six months, are: Clats Spréckles, $20; John Center, $10; N DR o SR FiesTA STREET CHARACLTE 72 RS The Characters, the Throng and the Fireworks That Closed the Polk-Street Fiesta Last Night. Bruns Bros., $10; W. H. Taylor, $5; J. H. Mangels for C. H. Mangels’ estate, $5. The merchants in the block between Folsom and Howard subscribed $9 75; those be- tween Howard and Mission $21 50, and those between Mission and Valencia $60. No subscriptions have yet been reported | from the block between Valencia and Guerrerc, though some are promised. A number of liberal subscriptions were also reported from Mission-street merchants. Those who decorated their establish- ments along the line of parade were: T. O'Dwyer, John J. Moran, McCoy & Nes- bitt, J. Leichier, G. L. Center,.J. P. Meany. George Jager, Fred Reppe, W. Brusker, G. Graff, 0. Doyle & Co., S. Friedenan & Son, D, B. Beaurer, H. Partman, Jacob Harris, R.’ C. Griffith, John F. Bruns, Bruns Bros., Waibel's Bazaer, G. Van der Mahden & Bros. E.' Adams, W. H. Benson, J. F. Wiel- wan, F. Brandt, C. A. Taylor, Fred Winters, Goldman & Son, O. H. Jentzsch, F, C. Straven, F. R Musgrave. J. Peter- v uther, T. O'Hars, An- Stoever, N. G. Webolo- , J. Linnegar, C: . Brace, J. T. Kin- dred, W. J. Pattosien, R W. Coffin, J. Fleish- man, Anfon Stier, A. Schau, James Boyle, D. Schweizer, A. B. Balaban, E. K. Aldrich, Guit tos., Sperling & Stoizenwald, James Fricdbofer, W. A. C. Smith, Charles V. Levy, Gus cox, Ed Butzbach, J. Nichols, quardsen, Charles Relin, A. Fischer. R = NINTH-STREET PROGRESS. Now the Solld Business Men There Want Good Pavements.* The progressive business men who were in the van of street lighting by electricity and illuminated Ninth street from Market to Mission are one and all satisfied with their work. Such an improvement as they bave accomplished did not fail to have its effect, for already Nintlp street is crowded at night. And it has encouraged the merchants on that thoroughfare to make a stand for still further improvement that cannot fail to turn business in that direc- tion. They are preparing to make a concerted fight for bituminous pavement on:the principal blocks, and_that much secured, will endeavor to make the brilliant elec< tric lighting-permanent. “The new lights have made all the differ- ence in the world,” sad Maurice A. Owens, who started the movement #nd made it a compiete success. ‘‘Where for- merly Ninth street was black when viewed from Market, it is new all.light. The difference is that between day and night, There are six arc lights in each tlock, and no other street has done better. But that is not all we want. “Immediately after the holidays there will be a meeting of the metchants in the Ninth-street Club. The object of this meeting will be to try to get the Super- visors and landlords on the street, at least as far as Howard,-if not to Kolsom, to come together on'a proposition of taking up the present pavement and laying bitu- men. Ninth street is level and could easily be made a part of the Folsom-street boulevara, in which case teams and veni- cles of all sorts would take Ninth street in going to orfrom the Mission, This would bring mote business to-us all along thé street, and it won’t be our fault if we do not have a street equal to any in point of newest improvements. - ° ““We have sixty-eight subscribers to the lighting fund in two blocks, find they are ready for progress. We intend o keep up with' the rest of them, and “as the solid business men of the sireet are all in line there is no fear that we won't succeed.” o ey . FUN ON FOURTH STREET. Merchants Hold High Festlval Under the New Lights. - Fourth street—*‘old Fourth ‘street”’—the only pathway that led from the plaza to the Mission Dolores and the Willows, over which the ancient bus rocked and jolted with the happy pioneer in the early | 50's, underweut a complete transforma- tion last night. s Under the management of John T. Sul- livan, president; G. Gall, vice-ptesident; King, secretary, and John Shay, treasurer, of the Fourth-street Improve- ment Club, that street presenied a new Fh.«. by the introduction of electric arc ights swung over the center of the street from Market to Folsom, and with the ad- dition of thousands of Japanese lanterns strung 1n front of stores and along both sides of the street, with bonfires and rocketa and roman candles sent high up into the sky. Y These, with a continuous, racket of bell- ringing and the blowing of tin horns, with the swester notes of a band of music, were all in joyous harmony in celebraing the illumination of this street by electric lights, which means an 1ncrease on the right side of the ledger to the benefit of the plucky merchants. The extra lighting of Fourth street goes no further than Folsom at present, but it | | | | display of Japanese lanterns: is the intention of the members of the club to stay with the work until toe en- tire street has the benefit of arc lamps And in addition to t! endeavors will be made to have the old round-ieaded cob- bles taken up and the street brought up to grade ana repaved with bitumen, mak- ing it one of the best business streets south of Market. The following business men had their stores handsomely dressed with flags and ‘bunting and ornamented by a generous | 18, John'T. Sulllivan, shoe house; Tominski, the * Stern, the Moder: 0, Theo apitol” liquor store; 34, S. | Baths; 28, G. Gaul, coftee 40, Ciuff Bros., ston: Henry erockery snd_glas Pacific Straw Works ) H. . furnish’ | ing goods; 118, Bon & Weisgerber, wines | and liguors; 128, Albert Wolff, the ‘People’s” saloon; 134, New Golden Gate Hotel; 142, Joim Baader, New York Casino; 148, M. Holden, Catholic goods; northwest coruer Fourth and Howard, H. L. Ledd & Co., drugstore; morthwest corner of Tehama and Fourth, Frederick C. Kaufman, wines and liquors; 240, F. Demartini, froft- market; 115,. Collins Bros., dry goods; 248, | Union Cendy Worl 0, M. Stockwitz, fur- nishing oo 25! Roseincrantz, goods; 258, ciothing-store; 227, B. Engler, pork-| 244, C. Giovanett), Goldeh Palace Mer! putcher; 213, M.'J. Dempsey, grocery: Heffernan & “Driscoll, Jiquor-store; 19 Kohlbecher, boots and shoes; 111, Califor Het Works: 109, H. 8. Jacobs, merchant tailor; 105, Schmidt Bros., barbers; ‘southeast corner of Fourth and” Mission, P. Donuelly, saloon; 75, 1. M. Strauss, loan office; northeast corner of Fourth and Mission, Dick von der Mehden, groceries; 41, A. Bergstrom, Capitol saloon 25, Joseph Jacquemet,- florist; 9, Fritz Rode: feld, oyster saloon; 13, James H. K store; 3, King Bros, bookstore; 1734, -W. A. Field, ‘Allisnce saloon; 31, Buriey & Mo- Sweeney, liquorstore; ‘13, Reliance cigar- store; Fourth and Market, Hornlein Bros., Cafe ‘Royil; southeast corner of Fourth and | Market, Peter McArdle, saloon; 801 Market, Aug M. “Aubin, Cafe Royel cigar-store: 1. E. Schmalz & Co., jeweify-store; 7, Arthur Manderlein, shaving parlor. AS T0° BULLETS. Some Inventions That Are Decidedly Novel. A Briageport (Conn.) inventor has patented a ‘‘mushreoming bullet.” This is designed to fill a very important want in' modern warfare, thé new-styled rifle projectile . having proved too humane, The troublé with the iatter is that, having only the diameter of a lead-pencil and traveling with a velocity of half a milea second, it is apt to pass clean througha man without disabling him. 1t lacks what is technically called “stop- ping power.” The buliet’devised by the Bridgeport man has a cavity near the point which causes it to “mushroom’— i. e, spread—on striking so as “to pro- duce a large and lacerated wound, accom- panied by great stock.”” Intime of peace ! 1t may be employed for killing lions, tigers and elepbants. The very newest thingin this line, how- ever, is the aluminum bullet. Of course, it is very light, aluminum being only about as heavy as chalk. Itisnot intended for use in war, but for hunting and shoot- ing at targets. 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