The herald., 1894-04-11
THE CHILDREN'S PART.
EIGHT THOUSAND HAPPY KIDS
WILL BE IN LINE,
Director General Moybnrg's Appeal to
the Young Ladies of the Nor-
NAL school and What
Game OF 1t.

Thursday will be children's day. Per.
haps it has never occurred to you before
what fine sight it will be to see seven
or eight thousand school children march
ing in line. Many will be in costume,
and that will add pleasing effect. The
young ladies of the Normal school are
busy at work now preparing their rega-
lia. They will wear pretty shaped bon
nets made OF the colors of la fiesta.
sashes will be worn by them to match
the bopnets.e5 The scholars OF one OF the
schools will carry psrasols covered with
the col0rs. II 10 very safe TO assert that
everybody win be surprised at the pro-
ficiency which all OF this schools have
attained in the drill.
Forty uniformed cadets from the
Throop Poly technic institute OF Pasa-
dena will be in line and alao cadets
from Santa Monica, Downey, the busi-
ness college and all OF the high schools
OF the city.
The young lady students of the Nor
NAL school were at first not inclined to
participate in the parade. Director
General Mey berg heard of this and at
once requested that he be allowed to
address the young ladies. During his
talk he referred to them repeatedly as
girls and children and at first they
seemed to lack enthusiasm. Mr.. Mey-
berg's attention was called to this and
at once he told the young ladies
that if they would look ct life as he did,
searching for it's pleasures and past
times, they would be children for long
time yet, and he spoke of his own child.
hood, now running into it's forty fourth
year. The young ladies consented to
join the parade on children's day.
1t is not generally known that the pa
rade OF the children is going to be some-
what in the nature OF acompetitive drill.
The COMMITTEES has appointed board
OF review, consisting OF General John
son, Major Elderkin and Major Teed.
These gentlemen will determine 70
which school shall be presented beau
tiiul silk banner, appropriately in
acrihed.
That is only the entering wedge OF the
plan. 1t is the intention of Mrs. Mey-
burg to 80 arrange things that all the
more interested in calisthenics aud mil
itary drills than they have been in the
past. The board of education will be
asked to cooperate in the plan. and SO
will all the principals and teachers,
The children's day parade of la
fiesta will serve to arouse the en-.
thusiasm of the school children to
high pitch. There has never yet been
an occasion when all the school children
OF the city even were brought together
in one body, and now this is to happen
end that they will be joined by scholars
from other places feeling OF pleasant
rivalry will no doubt result which will
be beneficial.
The parade of the children will be led
by Chief OF Police Glass, followed by
platoon of 16 mounted police.
Director-General Mey berg will then
follow in the place OF honor--for wasn't
1t he who fathered the parade, and then
tho mayor and the merchants commit
tee. city council, board OF supervisors,
fire commissioners, police commission
ers, park commissioners. and others.
Leroy Brown will be grand marshal
and O. j. Rhodes chief of staff. e. E.
Gates will marshal the first division, J.
B. Willard the second, Charles F. Ennis
the third, and James A. Foshay the
fourth.
AT 10 o'clock the procession will begin
to form at the corner of Fifth and Main
streets and march down to Sixth.