The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-17

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Majesty and the orange, the wine
:. J\ and the oliye-may their reign be
as merry to its end as the be-
ginning was auspicious. The Queen has
r-come to her own, and her own are reioic-
ling nightly. The Queen, let it be said in
] the beginning, is all that great Queen
should be- and her own people are great
people, all of them.
With the sun scarcely point beyond its
zenith in the west, the full blaze of his
glory looking down upon the scene, null
titude not easily to be numbered filling the
tribunes which extend all around the park
where sat her sheltered throne, and she in
the splendor of her royal robes and retinue,
. the Mayor of the city with many low
obeisance approached and laid at her silk
clad feet the key of the city. The multi
tude greeted this happy result of a merry
revolution with wild cheer, and the
boom of cannon gave notice that the mill
tary stood in.
The fiesta is all right. 1t has kept faith
with the handbills. To be sure the local
papers have said few mean things about
the revolutionary proceedings at Hazards
Pavilion last night which were not alto
gether undeserved. They promised if the
visitors would do little quick forgetting
in that matter no further excavations
would be asked and to-day the pledge has
,beenTedeemed. A magnificent queen has
been set in splendid style to preside over
the City of Angels for a brief period, in
which all her subjects are required to have
as much fun as they can.
The ceremony took place at Central
Park, beginning at , o'clock, and the end
of the pageant of the Pacific had not
passed the Queens throne until nearly 5
O'Clock. All the morning hours were filed
with the liveliest kind of hustling to get
ready, and that famous finishing touch
was not delivered until the last minute.
AT sunrise this morning there was the
throne yet to be built and, artistic and
elaborate as it is, the work was done in
time. The throne stands high above the
ground on the park side of High street
and midway in the square. 1t is reached
BY an inclined walk extending half the
way up where steps begin and lead to it.
The approach and steps were laid with
crimson cloth and the throne itself covered
with rich robes of her Maiesty's colors.
The back of the throne is high and square
and of the most approved patterns in
thrones. A wine-colored silk canopy with
gilded supports and gold tassels, ample in
dimensions, spreads protectingly over it,
insomuch that the sun after all had but a
yery poor view. On each side of the ap-
proach to the throne were the reserved
seats for invited guests, some of the fiesta
managers and the press. On the opposite
side of the street, facing the park and the
throne, stretch away the tribune where sit
the populace those being most favored
who secured seats SO near the throne, so to
speak. These tribunes extend all around
the park, which comprises one big square,
bat only those on the Hill-street side have
this view OF the Queen and her court. The
others must be contented with the pro-
cession in her honor and the view of the
park itself, which is beautifully dressed in
the Queens colors.
The Queen some time ago relinquished
all idea of riding in her car in the process
sion, but ordered a special guard of honor
to accom- pany her in her tour of inspection
and greeting to her people. All along the
route every point of vantage to witness the
display was made the most of. The man
who had front yard twenty-five feet
across built it up with benches on large
poles, and sold privileges thereon at from
25 cents to 81 per privilege. Windows
looking into the street where the display
was advertised to pass set value on it
straight away. Campstools were sold to
sit along the curbs and doorways, and the
steps of public buildings that might be oc-
cupied were appropriated SO early that
those who did not take their lunch with
them will probably look upon this as one
the longest days ever fixed in calendar.
All the morning hours were filled with
hustle and hurly burly, the clatter OF
horses hoofs, the: sharp sound OF busy
hammers, the jostling of the good-natured
and sun-burned crowds on the streets, ana
the surprising scream of the small tin
whistle that has spread itself from end to
end of the city like the sudden visitation
OF a plague of locusts coming from nobody
knows where
The arrival of the big train of the Hall
million Club was the special event OF the
early morning. A procession of citizens
in carriages trimmed with the everlasting
orange, wine and olive was there to meet
and entertain them with brass band and
drive through the city. They made it
short and brought up at the Chamber of
Commerce at Fourth and Broadway, where
there was a little informal greeting and a
request from the Jonathan Club to come
and see them and feel at home, and there
the august Half-million Club, as such, got
lost in the crowd. They went their several
hundred ways as groups and individuals
This was the experience, too, OF the State
Press Association, for to get lost in the
crowd was the easiest thing possible to-
day, and with this crowd moving through
the highways, a characteristic holiday
crowd in gay clothes, sun umbrellas and
straw hats, the man of family with all of
them about him, peanuts and popcorn
everywhere, the cry of the cool lemonade
man always within hearing, the great pro-