The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-11

hall and the Princess of the "Rose City''
advances to meet her. California and the
Governor advance with her. But the
Queen moves round to the left, circles
about the Princess, reversing the positions
they had held and the court following,
separates, one couple going to the right,
the other to the left, and ranging them
selves back of the Queen and her court, all
now facing the audience, save the Princess
and her party.
California steps forward and addresses
the Queen in the language of very pretty
little poem, written for her by Mrs Stuart,
the mother of the Princess. As she con-
cludes she takes the Governors hand and
leads and surrenders him to the Queen of
the carnival. The Queen now ascends the
throne, where a seat has also been pre-
pared for the Governor, and her pages and
maids of honor range themselves properly
on each side Then her chosen subjects
pass before the throne, each in turn making
profound salute.
The band strikes into waltz, to which
the gallant company takes step. 1t lasts
but a few minutes, and then the dancers
also range themselves back of and about
the throne, the music changes to quicker
movement, and the little Princess Rosa
springs to the center of the floor Her dance
is her own full of grace and suppleness, a sort
of graceful invocation to the flowers to
which it is dedicated. She is enthusiastic
ally encored not only by the crowd gath
ering, but by the Queens party and in re-
Spouse to it dances the ''money musk"
Then as the music takes new measure
there enters through floral arch from the
wings company of little children-forty
of them-who take positions upon the floor
and perform the old-fashioned Oxford
minuet. The children, both boys and
girls, are dressed in white. They 90
through all the steps without word be-
ing spoken. They march away after the
dance, and also take their place about the
Queen, but no sooner have they done this
than the band strikes into the full round
cadence of the grand march.
The Governor rises and offers the Queen
his arm, and the mass about the throne
steadily unwinds as two by two they
follow their lead. Four. officers of the
Governors staff are escorting the maids of
honor, Colonel Chadbourne being with
Miss Brown of Petaluma, Colonel Choyn-
ski with Miss Sites, Colonel James with
Miss Markell and Colonel Burgin with Miss
O'Connor. Following came the gentlemen
and ladies of the court, fifty couples, and
behind these the children, forming very
noble company. In advance of all, lead
ing the way, is the Princess of Santa Rosa.
At the conclusion of the march which
leads through the intricacies of these
things the company forms for the royal
quadrille, and the ball is fairly begun.
The Queen is radiant in her ball gown,
and more beautiful at the end than at the
beginning of her reign, if such comparison
may be made. She is dressed in white
satin, with court train, trimmed with
pearls. The dress is cut low with sloping
neck. in the style of the Queens of 1880.
The sleeves are cut la Van Dyke, and she
wears girdle of pearls.
Her dainty slippers are of white satin
and the gloves long and white. On her
head is crown of nephetos roses and
large bunch of the same is carried in her
hand. She is a queen in very queenly
robes, but without jewels other than the
roses.
And how she can dance! In her set were
her three maids of honor and the colonies
of the Governors staff. Another set was
led by California Miss Maddux. Her
dress was another wonder. 1t was de-
signed to typify the poppy. 1t was of the
golden color of the eschscholtZia, with a
long train representing the petals of the
poppy, and was trimmed with yellow lace
and poppies.
The puffed sleeves represented poppy
buds. She wore a white wig to indicate
the sheen of the State flower, and above it
was a wreath of poppies, and about her
waist great sash of India silk of the same
color. She wore yellow slippers, and for
the stem of the flower her long silk gloves
were green. Her two maids in the same
set, Miss Mamie Greer of Windsor and
Mabel Kennedy, wore dresses in her own
color.
Opposite California, in the same set, was
the little Princess Santa Rosa. She is
dressed in white silk with puffed elbow
sleeves covered with lace. The neck is cut
low and the dress is short, showing her
white silk stockings and slippers. In her
hair are pink roses. Parks band is setting
the time for the flying feet with irresistible
music-music that teaches even the unac-
customed how to waltz.>
The bright and many-colored costumes
that shift and change, combine and recon-
bine over the white floor, present a living
picture of the gardens they typify. The
room is brilliantly lighted, and the audi
ence that fills the space in and under the
gallery is led to fragment burst of ap-
plause by the beauty of all, unconscious
perhaps of how much they, with their own
hril1;apf oostr1uoac add tO IL
The boxes are occupied by well-known
people from San Francisco and surround
ing towns, as well as with notabIes of the
city of roses.