The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 9, 1898, Page 1

I his Faper not to be taken from, the Library.+++* - The VOLUME LXXXIV.—NO 101. SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9 1898. PRICE' FIVE CENTS. WELCOMES THE SONS, AND \ -~ DAUGHTERS OF CALIFORNIA SAN JOSE BEGINS THE GREAT NATAL DAY CELEBRATION Natives of the Golden State Garden City in Throngs. Invade the Vast Spectators by the Thousand Are Also- on Hand to Join the Festivities and View the Big To-Day. SAN JOS Sept. 8 —Some |bursting high in the air, their months ago San Jose extended |multi-colored balls of fire blend- 1 ition to the Sons and |ing in dazzling beauty. A few—very few—people are trying to sleep, but they are only perfecting themselves in profan- ity. They may as well get up and )aughters of the Golden West to | come down and help themselves to the The invit®tion was | accepted, and to-night they came | city. Parade |join - their tormenters on: the streets, for there will-be no sleep |in the Garden City to-night; it and its guests are suffering from a bad attack of insomnia. About 10 o’clock the streets became somewhat deserted, and strangers thought there was not going to be a hilarfous a time as they had been promised. But the people were not going to bed, they were merely packing themselves into the two depots to wel- come the late comers from San Fran- cisco and Alameda counties. The tirst section of the San Framicsco train arived at 10:30, closely followed by the second section. While they were being emptied of their freight, the Ala- m-dans rolled into the narrow-gauge depot. Then there was a great mix-up. The San Jose parlors, with their band were on Market street waliting to es- cort the visitors up to their headquar- ters, but the other sections of the San Francisco special kept filling in, their occupants made a rush for the street, and the Alamedans and San Francis- cans became Involved in a hopeless tangle, which no mortal could straighten out in a week. Visiting del- egations crowded past the local parlors and started up town two and three parlors abreast, leaving the escort to become the escorted. Here a band vainly struggled to make “There’ll Be asHot Time” sound above a vigorous drum corps marching along- side of them and the cheers, whoops, shouts and screams of ten thousand people lining the streets. The tune was appropriate, even though it could not be heard, for the “hot time"” arrived'all right as per schedule. Stanford marched with Golden Gate; Niantic' became tangled up with' EI' Do- rado; Sequoia wished those infernal drummers attached to Rincon .would get tired or drop dead or something, go they could keep step with their own music. Members lost their parlors, ladies.lost their escopts and there was all kinds of mischief to pay, but with it all only the greatest good humor pre- vailed. ' Any man who lost his temper in that crowd would have had a hard time of it. The girls probably had the hardest time of it in the rush and crush. Each Continued on Second Page. NATIVE SONS FOR SAN JOSE WITH ALL FLAGS A-FLUTTER Youths Representing Parlors From This City ‘March Through the Streets to the Strains of Martial Music. Spectators of the Parade Are Moved by the Carnival Spirit With Which the Proceedings in the Garden City for the Next Three Days Will Be Enlivened. \ ‘With blare of brass instruments and | some city within a short distancs—ot]“'flmflflhmfl of the State. Both repre- with their way illuminated by red fire | the metropolis. | sent the generation of sturdy miners and by rockets bursting high in the air| The conditions-all seem propftious |and their helpmeets who built up the the San Francisco parlors of Native | this year for the success of the annual | country and now one by one are being Sons of the Golden West marched from | gathering of the organization for which | athered to their fathers. their headquarters last night and em-|the people of this State have so great | The close of the war finds the people barked for the Garden City. .his was|an admiration. This sentiment is|bubbling over with patriotism. This the first part of a long programme of | shared equally by the sister organiza- | Was shown in the cheers that greeted festivities which -annually marks the | tion—the Native Daughters of the | “Old Glory,” which was carried proudly pllgrimage of members of the order to | Golden West—composed of the budding | at the head of the procession and by . representatives of every parlor, and helped themselves. What | they did not want may be found | floating somewhere out in the bay, but it is not worth looking for. This voung California’s | night, and young California is| not letting anybody in Santa| Clara County forget it to any ap- preciable extent. He and she are all here; it can’t be possible that one is missing, and one has only to fight one’s way for a block | along First street to readily be- lieve that two or three envious sister States have sent large, ro- bust delegations of their hope and pride to swell the throng. Judging from the crowds on the streets at midnight there ought to be not less than 5,000,- 000 votes cast in the State at the November election, even though the girls have not been granted the right of suffrage. And what a noise! Everybody | is trying his or her level best to | drown the uproar of all the| others, unmindful of the fact that glittering success does not seem | to crown their efforts. But they do manage to increase the din. | Brass bands tramp down the| street, every mother’s son jam-f ming wind into his instrument like mad; at least his cheeksl bulge like a toy balloon, but not | asound of melody reaches the| sidewalk. Standing close beside | them one might hear something | resembling the feeble piping of tin whistles, that is all. San Jose has been lavish of electricity, and all the principal streets are ablaze with light; every man and most of the women are armed with Roman candles, while the skies are faifly | aglow with countless rockets is 7 The war spirit has given way to the carnival spirit. Yet the sight of the Native Sons last night brought tears to the eyes of many as they carried them back in memory to that spring day when the gallant boys of the First California Velunteers marched down the main thoroughfare of the city. Their country required thelr services in far away lands. They were Native Sons and under the burning skies of the tropics they are surely celebrating the holiday so dear to all Californians. The tears that dimmed the eyes of spectators last night could not be tears of regret as the flower of the city’s young manhood was en route to the fruitful valley of Santa Clara. Here preparations have been under way for weeks for the prcper reception and en- tertaining of the hosts of young men and young women. The gardens have yielded their richest biossoms; the orchards their luscious fruits and the vineyards sparkling wines equal to those of the sunkissed hills of France. All these are offered upon the heavily | gaden tables of the hospitable Garden [ ity. It is not necessary to hand the | golden key of the city to representa- | tives of the order, as nothing is locked. The city, noted throughout the land for the beauty of its women, will add its quota of pretty girls in organdies | and duck suits to carry out the spirit of carnival time. Flags and vari-col- | ored bunting have brightened the | streets and transformed the city into a fitting background for the festivities | whick were inaugurated last night. The Native Daughters were not in evidence last night. It was not deemed expedient for them to parade, but they will be seen in all their glory in the demonstration at San Jose. For an hour before the parade started last night Mason street, in the vicinity of Native Sons’ building, was a seeth- Ing mass of humanity. Grand Marshal Daniel A. Ryan established his head- quarters near the building and soon his aids were hurrying=to and fro assign- ing the various parlors to. their proper stations. The Twentieth Kansas band played several concert selections, while in the distance could be heard the mar- tial music of a drum and fife corps. In the big Huilding all seemed in- extricable confusion. Men were shout- ing to their fellows, inquiries as to tickets and impendimenta which they were to carry. Exactly upon the stroke of a quarter past 8 a rocket went up- ward with a long drawn ‘out hiss and then exploded high in the air. This was the signal for the advance. The confusion was stilled, and like well-drilled soldiers the men of the first division stepped off to the music of one of Sousa’s marches. Twenty men of the mounted volice, Corporal Shannahan commanding, led the way. Following them was Grand Marshal D, A. Ryan, accompanied by his chief of staff, L. F. Sericano; Chief Ald Ed- ward L. Head and aids, H. G. W. Dinkelspiel, Charles Heverin, Emmet Hayden, William_Milton, S. V. Cos- tello, Ed Oelrich, John F. Tyler, Miiton R. Hall, F. H. Kerrigan, Frank Mor- decai, M. Claratz, Thomas H. Casey, J. H. Wiiliams, Nathan Rogers, Edward TREAS RER RECEPTION. L 3 v TE CHAIRMA N FINANCE _ComMm. S$FCRETAR JOWNT COM |