The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-18

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- did just as they pleased. Very
many of them pleased to go to the
races, much because she and her ladies in
waiting and maids of honor and their
escort OF the Gentlemens Riding Club and
the Spanish riders went there. The Queens
maids of honor drove out over the city this
morning on their own account, attended
by the Gentlemen's Riding Club, present
ing dashing appearance.
The State and Press associations, which
went to Echo Mountain yesterday, did not
return until late this afternoon. The
majority of the members of San Francisco's
Half-million Club many of whom were
entertained the night before at the Jona-
than Club, attended the reception this
afternoon at the Chamber of Commerce
held by the State Press Association, but
the great mass, the throng, lived in the
Streets, as they have done all the week,
srowding the sidewalks and hotels, enjoy
Ing the hustle and quips and merry-nak-
ing, content in the anticipation of the great
p demonstration tonight.
As the Queen and her gallant retinue
drove and rode through the streets little
after noon on their way to the races, and
again on the return, the loyalty of the
people was made apparent in constant
cheers and greetings. The Queen was
Accompanied in her royal carriage by her
ladies in waiting, and her maids of honor
rode in carriages of state, all properly
dressed in the royal colors. In advance
tode the buglers, announcing with the
tam-tam the Queens coming. Following
rode the Gentlemen's Club escorting the
carriages of the Queen, while the Spanish
riders, with their picturesque costumes
and prancing horses, attended the maids
Of honor.
TIE erect was as inspiring as any festi-
val Queen might desire. Special prepara-
tions had been made at the racetrack for
the Queen. A throne had been built over
looking the grand stand-a very proper
throne, designed IN old Egypt, with
spreading canopy of scarlet stretched
above it, through which the sunlight fl
tered to lend new color to her gracious
Maiesty's dark beauty or the pure white of
her beautiful court.
The staircase leading TO the throne was
tarpeted also in scarlet, and all about it
tropical plants lent their artistic effect and
perfume. The Queen, surrounded by her
maids in pure white, with their white
parasols and their graceful wide-b -brimmed
and lower-bedecked hats, wore a new and
still wonderful gown an indescribable
gown-robe, perhaps, is the word for
a queen. 1t was of pale lilac satin under
a cloud of Brussels net, spangled and en-
broidered with pearls. A violet velvet
bodice was treated in the same mysterious
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blossoming viOlets, that were as especially
becoming as dresses can only be to a
queen. Long lilac gloves and big and
beautiful hat, from which the flowers of
her native land nodded in their happy
pride, completed the costume. But this
does not describe, this only indicates it.
As the gracious queen of the Angels festi-
val her Majesty showed every interest and
pleasure in the races. encouraging the
horsemen in their best efforts, while the
maids of honor clapped their hands and
waved their white parasols to every win
ner.
The return to the city was made little
before sunset, when the deepening shadows
discovered the arc lamps burning in the
streets. Tonight reyelry grew bold, for
revelry after all has to be educated like
everything else, and each hour of the reign
Of the great Queen brings additional joys.
She learns new tricks and drops the old
that hampers her. She has learned to
blow this strange tin whistle by instinct
but the cap and bells, it seems, and the tin
horn and that easy abandon under the
mask without which revelry is i'll at ease
and cannot thrive, that must be acquired.
But these southern subjects of the fiesta
Queen are quick TO learn her merry ways.
For revelry rose to her full height tonight,
put off her high-heeled boots and let slip
her strings in bunch.