The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-29

the evening of the carnival. The northern
shore has no growth of any kind upon it to
hide the view of the lake, and SO this has
been selected for the grand stand, which is
fast nearing completion. 1t is designed to
seat 1000 people, and near it will be drive
way for those viewing the scene from their
carriages.
The eastern end OF the lake, at the end of
Lindsay Point, will be given up to the
landing-place and throne of the Carnival
Queen, who is now being balloted for by
the people. Her float will also land at
this point, and her retainers escort her to
the high throne, that can be plainly seen
from all parts of the lake. On the south
ern side will be the barge from which the
fireworks will be discharged. All about
McLeod's Lake are hundreds of house
boats, arks and catamarans. These will
all be decorated with colored and japanese
lanterns. From the grand stand west to
the junction of the lake with Stockton
Channel will be hung strings of lanterns.
The electrical committee, under the di-
rection of Frank Adams of the Electric
Light Company, is arranging for COR
geous display. Among other things it will
have an electric fountain on the lake shore,
which will be a feature of the carnival.
The Queens barge will be brilliantly
lighted by electricity, as will also many of
the large floats that are to participate in
the parade upon the water.
H. G. Bender has been elected director
general of the carnival. He is a profess
sional decorator as well as clever business
man. and will devote his time to making
the affair huge success. He is being as
sisted by several hundreds of the leading
men and women of Stockton, who are
thoroughly enthused over the coming
event and who are laboring very hard to
make every feature of the affair attractive
H. r. McNoble, bright young Stock
ton attorney is chairman of the carnival
committee and is laboring hard to keep his
various subcommittee alive to the
amount of work that is before them. A
number Of floats have already been planned
by the committee. That for the Queen of
the carnival was designed by Kahn, the
scenic artist, who is here arranging the
scenery for the production of the "Chimes
of Normandy" by the Euphonie Club.
Fred Urban, the stage director, has also
lent his services, snd is planning the ar
rangement of various floats. One of these
will represent Washington crossing the
Delaware, another the throwing overheard
of the tea in Boston harbor in the pre-
revolutionary days; still another will rep
resent the landing of Columbus, while the
representatives of the American Protec-
tive Association are preparing little red
schoolhouse for their float.
Stockton is intensely American and the
chief objects for illustration will be events
marking eras in the history of this country
Many other very pretty and some decided
ly unique designs will be carried out A
very large catamarar that is capable of
carrying some seventy people will be con-
verted into the likeness of an immense
flower, while seated amidst it's petals Co.
lumbia will rule over the merry throng on
board. This will be one of the probable
floats and will be one among many sim
ilarly prepared. Several wealthy gentle
men are arranging one to represent the
Army and Navy, which promises to be de-
cidedly attractive.
The contest for the queen of the carnival
is creating lively interest among the bet
ter classes here. To-day Miss Grace Welsh
leads the contest She is the daughter of
the head of one of the large flour manu-
facturers here and is charming girl. Miss
Gertrude Elliott, who is second in the race,
is regal beauty and highly accom-
plished girl, who will make an ideal queen
if chosen. She has splendid figure and