The morning call., 1891-07-15


THE GARDENS AT NIGHT.
Between and o'clock the ticket-issuers
at the Mission street entrance began to have
busy time, and by o'clock they were
taking in money as fast as Sacramento
boodler under cover OF half dozen cinch
bills 1t had been given out that the fire.
works would commence at o'clock and by
that hour thousand persons had taken
possession of the seats in the section of the
gardens devoted to the animals But it was
fully three-quarters of an hour la ter before
the first rocket went up, the tenants of the
thence and good behavior. AT last the cleo
trio flights were turned off and the calcium
light of the stereopticon man was turned
on big screen twenty feet square.
This exhibition. which was under the
care of T. A. Andrews, was given in the
Intervals between the fireworks, and fully
divided the honors with the pyrotechnic
display. There were four set pieces, repre-
Z senting respectively the seal OF California,
Washington and Lafayette. the French ship
Dnhourdieu and the Fall of the Bastie.
While these were in full glow the band
played the Marseillase. Hail Columbia
and other patriotic airs. the Marseillaise
being sung by majority of those present
At this time the number Of spectators IN
this part OF the grounds had been swelled to
nearly three thousand.
The stereoptlcon views were of the same
International interest as the set pieces :;
they included scenes from the home life of
Washington and Lafayette, the triumph of
the American flag on the waves, the action
between the Bon Homme Richard and the
Scraps, the taking of the Bastile, and
many other scenes.
Just while the fireworks were in full
blast, toward half-past nine O'clock, the
police and the ticket-men were having a
hard time at the gates. There was terri
Bile crush for about twenty minutes and it
looked lit one moment If the GATES wOuld
be bodily carried away by the rush. On a
moderate estimate two thousand persons
passed in between $50 and 10 o'clock. The
police detachment was equal TO its work,
however, and the few Representatives of the
boodlum element who thought to run the
machine to suit themselves were brought
10 terms IN delightfully."- summary manner.
Probably about two-thirds of those who
passed in after 8 O'Clock were not connected
with the French colony, and whatever ten
dency to toughness" was manifested
thereafter was developed among these out
siders.
The effect of the colored lamps on the pa
vlilon slope was particularly fine. The de-
sign was the shields and flags of France and
the United States worked out on tiny gla sses
colored red, white and blue, each glass hav-
ing wick floating like an island on a sea
OF grease. The dates 17S9-1S91 surmounted
the whole. Calcium lights with cplored
screens Illuminated the fountain and the
Arc de Triomphe, and hundreds of Chinese
lanterns were suspended from the trees and
from every accessible point The climax of
effect was reached when changing colored
fires, red, white and blue, were displayed
by signal in different parts OF the gardens
The affair concluded with grand ball to
the strains of an orchestra drafted from the
Third regiment, Walcot's and the Gaulois
bands. Dancing was kept up with spirit
TILL an early hour this morning.