Los Angeles herald., 1890-04-25
THE FLOWER FETE.
1t Still Attracts a Large
Number Of People.
Several New Designs Prepared
n by the Ladies.
The Wheelmen Give an Exhibition
of Fancy Riding.
The Booths All Doing Large Business.
List of Those Who Gave Flowers.
Interesting Notes.

yesterday was again very large, Uuerc
being at least $500 people in the pavil-
ion in the evening alone, and the very
respectable sum of $941 was taken in at
the doors. Though the printed pro-
gramme contained nothing more salts
factory than a number Of interrogation
marks, in its announcement of the
amusement for the third night of the
festival, very interesting entertain
ment was provided by the members of
the Los Angeles Wheelmen's Associa-
ton. The entertainment consisted of
fancy trick-riding, exhibition drill man
euvers and series of tableaux. A
clown and Chinese impersonator
created good deal of amuse-
ment by their curious antics with
safety bicycles and were enthusiastically
applauded. The cyclists who partici-
pated in the exhibition under the direc-
ton of S. G. Spier, were Messrs. Stew
art, Henwig, Allen, Covey, Burke,
Baker, Olds, J. Tufts, W. Tufts, Noble,
Kinney, Smith, Tuthill, Rice, Perry,
Abel, Scofeld. Bell, Bickford, Reed.
Hitler, Scheidler, Gordon, Mcdonald,
Kinney and Randall.
During the evening the orchestra of
twenty-six pieces, under the direction of
H. E. Hamilton, rendered the following
selections: March, "Apollo," (Moses) ;
overture "Jolly Robbers" (Suppe) !;
Awakening Of Spring." (E. Bach !;
medley, "Wise and Otherwise" (H. E.
Hamilton); waltz, "Ball Klaevge,"
Numbye) Turkish March," (Mozart) !;
selection g Falka," (Chassaigne) polka,
''Papacoda," (Strauss); "War March
from Athalia," (Mendelssohn).
The booths and various designs were
entirely renovated yesterday, and almost
as many flowers were consumed in this
work as on the opening day, owing to
the rapidity with which the flowers
fade when exposed to the gas-laden
atmosphere.
The purple booth gave evidence OF
more hard work in the direction OF i'm
provement than perhaps any one of its
fellows, probably because it contained
so many new designs. A special feature
for last night was full-sized floral
bicycle, the tire and backbone being
composed OF marguerites, the spokes OF
smilax, the saddle of very dark pansies,
and the handles and treadles OF yellow
pansies. In addition to this are ship,
hOrseshoes, Maltese crosses, anchors and
a number of other beautiful designs, in
which thousands of pansies have been
used, by Miss Belle /. Smith and her
corps of workers.
Mrs. Mary T. York of the lemonade
booth, reports splendid receipts from the
sales OF her refreshing beverage, and
such has been the rush upon her corps
OF assistants that the members of the Y.
M. 9. A. have been pressed into service
in addition to the regular committee.
The newspaper booth under the super
intendence of Mines. Spencer, Millard and
M. A. Snyder, has been fairly we'll pat
ronized; but the fair occupants of this
pretty bower have not been overworked.
In addition to the local periodicals.
photographs of the features of the festival
will be on sale today, and number of
souvenirs have also been placed at the
disposal of the ladies.
The fair attendants at the hat and
cloak booth have been doing Gland
office" business, and their receipts COM
pare very favorably with any of the
booths. On account of the somewhat
limited space allotted to it, and the fact
that every inch of room in it's interior is
needed for the purpose of slowing away
articles of apparel, but little attention
has been paid to the decorations of this
booth; but it appears to have as much
attraction for many of the visitors as the
most beautiful of its fellows.
The boutonniere booth is in charge of
the young ladies of the Oxymel Club,
musical and literary organization, COM
posed OF twenty-five young ladies and
gentlemen, who must be single to obtain
admission. The young ladies of the
club, which has been in existence since
1883, without break, are most becom-
ingly attired in white costumes, and
form one OF the most attractive features
of the festival, Under the superintend-
ence OF Miss Fanny Lockhart, over 5000
roses were yesterday placed in position
IN decorating this already charming
booth.
The candy booth is decorated with the
orange and gold colors of the G. Cooking
Club, the members of which organiza-
ton are in charge.
This is a club composed of unmarried
ladies, twenty in number, limited. They
cook at home, bring their results to-
gether for lunch and reception, to
which they invite their friends to test
their skill. They now invite all to test
their candies. Miss Lena Forester,
president; Miss Mary Brown, secretary.
The rush upon the soda water booth
has been such that it was found neces-
sary to make an addition to its quarters
yesterday, the grotto being too small to
accommodate the thirsty visitors.
In the wild-fower booth are no fewer
than 300 varieties of California field
flowers, and those who are unacquainted
with the bounties showered by nature
upon the Golden State should take this
opportunity of seeing them all at once.
Mrs. j. Q. Newton has already sold four
OF the immense yucca blossoms which
added so much to the beauty of the
booth, at $3.50 each. Ia
In addition to the regular corps of
workers at the festival, reinforcement
consisting of the following ladies was
called into requisition yesterday: Mes
danes A. i. Lynn, F. r. Warner, E. S.
Moody, Clarence Warner and Miss Sadie
Symonds.
The Good Will Lodge No. 313, 1. O.
e.. T., assisted by members of other
lodges, has charge of the ice cream booth
and will be glad to see good customers,
that they may swell the receipts of the
flower festival. They have left nothing
undone to accommodate patrons of-their
department. The committee having
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