The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-11

the struggle down to three-cOrnered ngnt.
The vote at present stands as follows:
Miss Haight 10,045.
Miss Matthews 7730.
Miss Evans 1905.
The neighboring towns are taking
prompt action in the matter of selecting
the maids of honor which they will ten
der to Queen Sequoia as hostages of fealty
to pleasures sway. This cooperation will
tend to concentrate the people of the
county within Eureka and. assures sue
cess for the carnival.
On Thursday, July Is, the carnival will
be heralded in by the firing of salutes.
Then comes the reception of visitors in
the handsome hall occupied conformity by
the Pioneers, Native Sons and Native
Daughters.
The parade will take place at 80 P. NJ.
No effort will be spared to make this
feature grand success. 1t will consist, as
far as known, of the director-general, ac-
companied by his aids, the Chief and
members of the Police Department, all
mounted and uniformed, and Federal
State, county and municipal officers. The
Queen of Beauty, attended by her eight
lovely satellites, will follow in regal splen-
dor. The floats, which will be, perhaps,
the most extensive and interesting feature
of the parade. will contain representations
of the leading industries of the county,
such as numbering, shipbuilding, COM
merce, dairying, manufacturing and farm
ing.
The more important neighboring towns,
Arcata, Ferndale, Fortuna, Bonneville,
Hydesville and Blue Lake, will each fur
nish an appropriate float
The Pioneers will probably be repre-
scented in the parade through floats repre-
senting Humboldt in 1850 and 1895.
The business men are sparing no pains
to have their individual concerns well rep
resented to the public on carnival day.
The uniformed societies throughout the
county will also participate. The Fire
Department, containing four companies
and hook and ladder company, are to
play an important part. The decorated
bicycle parade of about 500 wheels and a
large number of vehicles and private rigs,
handsomely decorated with evergreens
from the noble Sequoia, flowers and
cardinal coIors, will be additional attrac-
tons.
Five bands aggregatiug ninety pieces,
have been engaged to furnish music during
the festivities.
The line of march will be so arranged as
to end at the pavilion, where the corona
ton will take place, accompanied by ap-
propriate exercises.
In the evening, a grand fete on the
waters of Humboldt Bay, that lapd-locked
and picturesque harbor of northern Cali
fornia, will conclude the first day of Queen
Sequoia's reign.
Friday at 10 A. NJ. the firemen's COMPETE
tive hose tournament takes place. The
afternoon will be devoted to band con-
certs, battalion drills, and grand excur-
sion to the breakwater, the most important
Governmental work now in progress, and
to which the United States Government
has appropriated 81, 100000, with the result
that now Humboldt Bar has at the lowest
tides twenty-three feet of water.
1t is at the ball, which ends the second
day of pleasure. that the decoration COM
mittee will endeavor to display to the best
advantage its artistic ability. Armory
Hall will then be transformed into the
same bower of loneliness that so enrap-
tured the delegates of the Grand Parlor,
Native Sons of the Golden West, on their
visit to this city.
Saturday will be given up to field sports,
consisting of bicycle races, foot races, feats
of strength and target-shooting between
the rival gun clubs of Ferndale and Eureka.
An illuminated parade of all the wheel
men in the county, which promises to be
both novel and attractive is scheduled to
occupy the evening before the dethrone-
ment OF Queen Sequoia, sovereign of beauty
and dispenser of pleasure.