New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-09-10
CALIFORNIA; GREAT DAY.
CELEBRATING FORTY YEARS OF STATE
HOOD.
A BIG PARADE IN SAN FRANCIsCO-MANY EE.
M,NDrE, OF PIONEER DAYS IN TIE
BEAR FLAG STATE.


Try TELEGRAPH TO TIE rRIaUJE.1
San Francisco. sept. 0-Thc parad" If native SONS
and pioneers today to cclehT,t" IKE f1ricth ami
vcr.v Of the admission q the Sat", was The greatest
.trcct paccant that San Francisco ha' ever s"cn cX
ccllirc all previous professions in number wealth
NJ c,,,r md in variety If devices 10 represent the
,,,,ocr III, OF forty years aco. sixteen thon>and
n,n ,hc greater part If whom were under dhirty
,o,r. ~ ,~c marched for three hours between sO,d
lines of spcca or, drawn from all parts of California
and fine Pacific Coast The pac" OF hon wa gwen
t Tho u;onocrs Il, this state and of Nevada. who dc
in carriages Nj were gray BEARDED but nearly al ~
,,o, had bright eyes, and seemed still vicorou
promin.nt among them was Colonel Jonathan d.
Stevenson who celebrated last wear his nnct'cth
,ir.,d,v stevenson brought regiment here from
Xo,y Work round Cape Horn. and his troops when
di.hand.d furnished laic" number OF cd mechanics
w,or artisans were sorcly needed. Following the
niorcors came float represent ny Indian If' DiT"
Ircu,n;.s arrival and in it, train was an OK team
h,up, one Of the large "p!;ir!c S"l"nncr'' lalcl"
r., california or Bust" IchiNd this wa Il Mexican
cor,,., drawn hy two huge oxen. Tn" car'tta was
,. az tbc Gr.t vehicles in vogue here, and consists
~ large hickory crate. with wide oakcn Wheels. 1t
wac driven By Mexican cowboy. in bright Nonihfcro
and ecincs Tic oNcn according y III" Oh st'le hao
mn vo,cs but drew the rude conveyance by means "f
hickory tongues attached to their h"rn' tn" carc''a
vos ocronrnicd Ivy band OF swarthv vaqicr''
tunes.
Scattered throughout the procession were many
old WAGONS With battered covers. tho sam" aS
tic vehicles in which families crossed the plains IN
the carly DAYS several Labelled From old Mis-
souri and the men who drove them were arrayod
In tlc regular costume Of the plains in those Gays
rouolly picturesque were hcatS representing placer
,,;,crs ,t work with cradl"" and Icing tom" wash
in- ont the dirt In precisely the same way ire
Arc,nauts used 10 do when the Sacramento Valley soil
manned ont 500 or 5000 a day to each miner.
Two figures In the prOcc~ sion attracted great at'
tcnon. one Harry Eec III" scout who eros eh
the plains in 1880 and served As an early guide Tor
Fremont. The other was Captain DINO W. lump
son of Sautl Barbara who was mounted on superb
chcstnu: hors, and rode in silver mounted sa'ld!"
that cost $4,000 The saddle Is the finest spec linen
~ spanish work u It, Mind in the country and silver
worth over - 900 is lavl>hc on tn ornaments Otf
r,tr:.ctvc features the hears and Indians. VINO
we're numerous enough to delight the HUE '""''
MnrS, than dozen grizzlies from the ScrraN l'n'tn "
,ln SIM Some were we'll under control that they
we're not Gagged. while large number OF small 'iha
mon and black bears weir carried III the lines VI VII
torcut compauic. Of native sons The most striRihs
Indian. came from McCloud River i'll the 'had'" VI
Nor,t shasta Two CT these braves stripped u u"
,,.,i. and in t,n war paint and feathers. wcT mag
,inc..t sDcrmc,.S # physical ma.h""d. bong Over
SIX feet high The snail boys wcrr a>" o"Hc'"F' WV"
the numerous cowbnv> in their pir'uiTHl" "apP."''
,,re hundred lnd one divisions or pa , -, ,'r
.hcv orr called Of Native Sons formed me b'ik o! tc
,,,,.,,,,nv hey ali v"un- i'I' porn III tu
.;a,c They w"r' pic'u!e>'lu" costumes az" ,,n
81, " h,nun.. and varin. Gcvic"> scattered 'Er''utn
,, ,hcr ranks were many huge hoa'N rp'c9eHtnS
podnc,, OF Ca.orna RE p",>,"', ni'V .Sv W ana
fT break, for tire" hours. indrr r',',, hc min
i.Icaih lines of iars ard hamper tiro"-" 'he PF"
j. formed climax Of III" crrIcn Of the , i"'' nn
hrmich; to tie city at leas, 10000 people.