The herald., 1894-02-22
q FIESTA DR. Los ANGELES.

Ne merchants OF this city have hit
upon holding a season of carnival holt
days in April, which. if carried out
according to the programme they have
in view, will be series OF the most att
tractive pagesnts ever seen on this
coast. They propose to have a success
sion of specta ,ulav PROFESSIONS, with
floats deliberately decorated to represent
historical or fanciful scenes, with char
acters dressed in the costumes of the
era in which they are laid, or gorgeously
bedecked to represent the fancies Of the
poet or the NEUROLOGICAL scenes 30 splen-
didly celebrated by the ancients, The
extent and gorgeousness of the spec-
tacles will only be limited by the amount
of money subscribed to meet the ex-
pense of 30 novel an attraction.
No one can deny that fiests provided
for in the style of msgnifcence coutem-
plated will bring to this city forty or
fifty thousand spectators from the out
side. When the cities OF New Orleans
and St. Louis give their yearly csrni-
walls, people flock to them from all di-
rections. and several days of the most
delightful enjoyment are experienced by
hundreds of thousands OF visitors from
all parts of the country. If the pro-
posed carnival is given here with pro-
portionste elsborateness and equal
picturesqueness and beauty, it will be-
come a permanent institution, and
people from ell parts Of the coast will
flock to Los Angeles every year to en-
Joy the fiesta of our queen city.
The committee of business men who
have taken this matter in charge are
now wrestling with the problem of rails
ing sufficient means to make the spec
tscular effects worthy of our city and
attractive, to visitors. There should be
no insupersble difficulty in getting the
amount Of money wanted. The hotels
and restaurants would be the recipients
of great benefits from these contem-
plated exhibitions. The various trans
portation companies, both inter and
extra-mural, would increase their bust
ness immensely during the days of the
fiesta. and all the retail houses in the
city would come in for trade that
would be necessarily more than usually
lively from the presence of the great
throngs. The places of liquid refresh
ment would coin money faster than the
mint on bimetallic basis.
If the cost OF the pageants is limited
to $40, 000-little enough in all reason -
there should be no difficulty in raising
that. or even a greater amount. 1t
would be money well spent, and would
come rack to the subscribers MANIFOLD.
But just think what prestige such a
gorgeous display of pagesntry would
give us abroad. The New.Orleans yearly
carnivals are.now looked forward to by
people all over the country with the
anxiety that the average boy locke for.
ward to Fourth of July. If we start out
right in orr first efforts in this line, and
give the visitors illustrated psrades,
such as it is in our power to give, OIL
April festas will be anticipated with the
same impatient anxiety as is caused by
the two great carnival festivities OF the
great cities of the upper and lower Mis-
sissippi.
No city in the United States is so hap,
PLY situated for such display as Lor
Angeles. We can count with almost alb
solute certainty on our westher-or
rainless skies and genial sunshine. Lei
the preparations for the Fiesta de Lot
Angeles" go on.