The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 7, 1903, Page 11

THE SUNDAY CALL. 11 (ARMIVAL { | WEE, g 4//7:75 77 Mistress Sacramento has just dis- gled feelings of pleasure with n zement Mistress Sue, as you may know, een of the big electric carnlval street fair at the capital city a week oo apt st though California ‘has ival queens and carnival queens before, all noted for their rare ms and wide popularity, there have een none quite like unto Mistress Sue for ndry reasons, not the | t Mistress Sue's face and fig- are so vastly different from all her predecessors of the royal robes. Whether or not California women are ger on the average than their sisters North, South or East, the ideal ard of beauty that has gone forth the qualities starn cult West is almost Ama world at large has come he belief that all our carnival q ast, are of regal stature, tall tall—and divinely fair, and that forms are magnificently pro- ps we too, accustomed though we feminine beauty in abundance— beauty as varied as the changing hues i a Western sunset—have come to ac- this standard unquestioningly as t typical of those stanch and sturdy that wrought the conquest of fic, utterly forgetful that a new d I8 growing up wherein grace, and delicacy are the predominant s rightly they should be in a shall soon be the gateway of the P: Therein lies much of Mistress Sue's dis- tinctiver is as far removed in appearance from the tall, statuesque, Amazonian type, as one so small, sle and petite as she very well ¢ Moreover she is as chis but withal, as dignified as an QuEEn JVES FRVIRITE PUTVEE w EVevme Lown MevSoW pere old world court beauty, with a gréut wealth of dark hair, against which the jewels of her crown of state took on an added brilliance, as if in a sudden out- burst of new light to rival the clearness of Mistress Sue’s sparkling eyes. All her friends, and there are over a hundred thousand of them, if one may judge by the heavy return of votes that made her tbe final choice of the whole people of the SBacramento valley, will tell you that she is just the sort of person to reign as queen. At any rate she had emall choice in the matter. Such beauty as hers was not to be denied. She was elected by a very big majority over the several other fair maids whose popularity made of the contest a long, hard race. But when she bowed to the general —“The Pilots,” Haqu clamor and accepted the scepter wat was to sway the destinies of the great electric festival for one whole week of revelry unconfined she had no idea of what fur- ther honor fate had in store for her. Calmly and graciously, as befits a queen, she went about the arduous task of selecting maids of honor whose beauty and accomplishments ghould give an add- ed luster to her sway, and to the credit of her good taste and generosity be it #aid that she chose eight of the most lovely girls in all the country thereabouts —girls who not only looked the part, but who could dress themselves with all the richness and splendor that the occaslon demanded. Next she must needs bestow her at- tention upon her own wardrobe, which, as any woman who reads this page can tell you, is not the least difficult of all the dutfes that devolve upon a queen. And ‘here it was the pretty Mistress Sue so cleverly accomplished her task that all the fine cut laws of dimensiong were set at deflance and the eager shiffling, ad- miring thousands who watched her as- cend her throne in the brilliantly {llumi- [ Lo A GIANT AMONG OCEAN cific Mail followed suit with the Korea, N March of this year the two largest steamships ever, until then, con- structed in America were launched on the Delaware and turned over to a trans-Pacific steamship company for service on its Pacific Coast Hong- kong line. In April the largest steamship ever built anywhere in the world was launched at New London, Conn., and she, too, is destined to ald in the advance- ment of our Oriental trade. So rapidly has our trade with the Far East grown within the last decade ‘that two Japarese and several American com- panies are spending millions up6n mil- lions in} their efforts to outdo each other in the tonstruction of the most capacious carriers. Japan set the pace by laying keels for half a dozen 6000-ton vessels destined for trans-Pacific trade; the Pa- nated Stadium saw a carnival queen who had added inches to her height and deep- ened the imoression of her regal splen- dor by the’serene dignity of her bearing. Thét same Stadium, whereon the throne had been erected on the highest pinacle, was not the least impressive feature of the whole spectacular display. Copled in exact representation of the ancient Ro- man, court, its semicircular form outlined with towering columns, entwined in gar- lands by day and thickly studded wita scintillating lights by night, it formed an open throne room the like of which for *beauty and splendor the stars have rare- 1y shcne down upon. Here from the grand court to which she rode twice a day in a landau, artfully decorated in wav- ing pampas plumes and drawn by four milk white horses guided by postilions and escorted by gayly uniformed outrid ers, Queen Sue ascended the broad stair- way that led from the carriage steps of the grand court to the very foot of the throne itself. To the left and right of her the maids of honer, who followed her two by two and paused to crook the knee in courtly obeisance, were ranged in a R e the Siberia, the Minnehaha and the Min- netonka, of double the capacity of the Japanese boats, and the Great Northern Company immediately raised the capa- city of its proposed vessels from 10,000 to 28,000 tons. It was the Minnesota of this line that was launched at New London, to be followed in sixty days by her sister ship, the Dakota. The carrying capacity of the Minnesota makes the Cedrics, the Oceanics and the Cymrics of the Atlantic fleet appear liliputian by comparison, for either of the Great Northern boats will carry one-third more freight than could any vessel that has ever crossed the Atlantie. Freight rates, it is promised, say Col- lier's Weekly, will be cut in two, so that no European nation need hope to comperte with us in the Orient. That smaller ves- Y QUEEN DVE I | R EoyAL HoBLES PHOTO BY SUIHNELL . I semicircle, while in serried ranks behind them were her courtiers and the pages who carried the train of her royal robes when she descended “to her carriage again. Directly beneatn her and to. the left as she faced her merrymaking sub- jeets the royal band. discoursed martial strains, until she waved her scepter for the’ festivitics to begin, when the strains were changed to music less' measure® It was in the very midst of just such a scene as this during: the midweek re- jolcing when the festival was at its height- that the rumor first began to spregd that honers. such as these:that were now Dbe- ing bestowed upon Queen Sue, and which she in turn was gracfously disseminating among her subjects,” were but a.small part. of the glory that was to be thrust upon her as a result of Ler.election to CRAFT.. sels will be unable to compete with thess vast carriers is demonstrated by the fact that although Japan gives large subsidies, and the Japanese pay their sailors less than one-tenth the wages of American sallors, not even the new 6000-ton boats will be able to carry freight profitably in competition with the American Paeclfic liners. With both our transcontinental railways ending at San- Francisco and Seattle, building the largest steamships in the world, and the trans-Siberian pre- paring to follow suit, it seems [nevitable that the day of great achievements musc. soon set upon the Atlantic to dawn again upon the waters of the Pacific, tributary to the shores of which live nearly a bil- lion humam beings who are rapidly learn-. ing to feed on our Western flour, clothe themselves in Southern cottons and utflize the inventions of the Northern Yankee. i 7. > e l_{‘/ IS SYE FIER Pporo. Rk the-throne: “ It was nothing less than the we!l authenticated story that a letter had been received from the managers of the St. Louls Exposition by the members of the carnival committee asking them to promise to send their beautiful queen as an accredited representative from Califor- nia to the Congress of Beauty that will be organized at the St. Louis Exposition —a Congress of Beauty that is to rival that held in Buffalo during the world's fair times there, when Maxine Elliot was so highly honored a year or two ago. Though the news spread with incredible rap.ulty ber gracious majesty was almost the very last to hear of it and when word did finally reach her ears, she was by far the most surprised. “Why, 1 don’t know what to think of it all,” she sald when interviewed upon the subject. “It is all so sudden—all so surp:ising. “To be elected queen of the carmival quite carried my breath away when the votes were counted and it was found that I had won, but to be sent to the World's Fair at St. Louls, as the representative of California, just because I am queen of the festival here is quits overwhelming. “Of course everybody Is congratulating me and telling me what a grand thing it will be to be sent upon such a pilgrim- age, and all because of my beauty or pop- ularity or what you will, but to me thers is something very formidable about it all. 1 tremble at the very prospect of all the comments and the comparisons that will be made, bacause I shrink from notoriety of every sort, the mores so because I have received more—far more—than my v share of attention lately. But it will be such grand fun to go to the Exposition in any way, that I'm all eagerness to find out more about it “No, I'm sure I don’t know how I am golng to dress Womanliks, of course that is what troubles me most—the rest 1s easy, after the reign that I am now go- ing through. My robes for this festival my friends all tell me are simply gor- geous. 1 think myself they are very pretty. I have two court gowns of satin and lace and royal plush and ermine, both of them heavily weighted with jewels from the high standing pearl collar to the very edge of the sweeping train. Besides that there is a dainty May day dress of shimmering white, with a picture hat to thatch. Were I to be tempted into a de- scription in greater detail I'm afrald you'd be carried to the danger point of weari- someness. Of course none of these gowns will be worn in St. Louls, but just what I will wear is as much of a mystery to me as it is to you. But tell me, does it all see real t& you? To me it seems like a bit from fairyland, it is all so new and wonderful. Perhaps Mr. Elkus could tell you more about it all. Ask him—do." Mr. Albert Elkus, to whom Mistress Sue made referenc nd who is one of the fore- most members of the citizens’ committes that originated the Electric Carnival and made it'such a big success, could not add much to Mistress Sue’s knowledge at that time. “Yes,” heé said, “the committes has re- celved a létter of Invitation from the St. Louis” Exposition asking us to send a properly reédited beauty to represent California; and of course Miss Sus Pler= son will be that fortunate young lady, though in what manner she will be sent cannot be determined until it is definitely known how much will be available after all the expenses of the carnival have been paid, but that she will be sent in sumptuous style as befits the honor and repute of this State thers can be no man- ner of doubt, The idea Is certainly unique, and our queen ought to win sig- nal honors.” From all of which it will be seen that she who in future is sought out to reign supreme at any of California’s gay festi- vals, knows not what added glory may hold In blissful anticipation. Just see what wonderous fortune has come -to Queen Sue. JoN THE CARYINAL QUEEN 17 STREET VrTIiMCE ette’s Prize¢ Art Supplement. Frec--Next Sunday Call ——p -