The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-21
EUREKA'S SEQUO,A FETE,
1t Is to Be Held for Three
Days During the Month
of July.
Balloting for the Queen of the
Carnival Is to Commence
To- Day.

EUREKA, CAL, June 20.-In response
to the call for the banquet issued by the
business men of the city, about $50 of the
leading citizens met in the dining-room OF
the Western Hotel to consider pertinent
questions relating to business revival, and
more particularly to formulate plans for
the grand land and water carnival to be
held here on the 18th, 10th and Goth of
July, to be known as the "Sequoia Car
nival"
Mayor Stafford served as POSTMASTER.
The speakers of the evening and their sub
jects were as follows: "Value of Trade
Organizations, ]. E. Jansen; "Our Man.
ufacturing Possibilities" J. F. Coonan
Railroad to Sacramento Valley" ]. H.
Lentell; Electric Railways" David E..
Vans; TRADE with Siskiyou and Trinity
Counties" J. P. Monroe; "Dredging Hum
boldt Bay" Lieutenant W. E. Dennison !;
High School for Eureka" J. tB. Brown /;
INSTRUMENTATION with our neighbor-
boring counties" J. F. Thompson; Home
products of all things to be preferred" A.
C. Dauphiny; "Our City Park" c. G.
Stafford Eureka as a summer resort"
United States Observer Mclean; 1.-The
Sequoia Carnival" D. K. B. Sellers
Civic PRIDE" F. A. Cutler.
Coupons have for several days appeared
in both daily papers, the Times and the
Standard. These have been carefully pre-
served and placed in ballot box. To-
morrow at noon it will be learned who are
the five successful nominees for the honor
of Queen. After this the real contest for
Queen of the carnival will take place. 1t
is proposed to charge small voting fee,
which will go into the general carnival
fund. Fully 5000 votes are believed to be
in the nominating box, both papers hay
ing been compelled to issue large extra
editions to supply the demand for coupons.
The subscription committee, after a
days solicitation, has succeeded in secur-
ing large sum of money, which will be
greatly enlarged before the weeks end
Enough has already been pledged to assure
a grand success for the carnival.
Free trains will bring people from the
extreme ends of the county to participate
in Eureka's great pleasure feast. Some
one of the magnificent battleships will be
asked to enter our harbor and add interest
and dignity to the coming festival, ann ap-
plication will be made for some field piece
from the Preside at San Francisco.
A greatly reduced rate will govern the
passenger service from San Francisco to
Eureka to all those who desire to make the
trip.
The affair has been placed in the hands
of the following committees:
Executive-D. K. B. Sellers, Willard
Wells, w. A. Littlefeld, DR.. G. A. DUNCAN.
Parade-Maior Crichton, w. P. Pratt, J.
III. Gysellar.
Exercise-A. J. Monroe, w. G. Bonner,
A. W. Hill.
Constructions. G. Loveren, J. P. Mon
roe, Rodney Burns.
Decoration - Ora Butterfeld, w. N,
Speegle.
Programme-E. E. Skinner, DR.. Cook,
Julius Jansen.
Music-L. f. Puter, H. D. Connick, II.
S. Stern.
Ball-Dr. Johnston, o. D. Stern. ]. R..
Baird.
Field sports-A. J. Wiley, Fred Hanson,
n. Kalischer.
Prizes-Ernest Sewer, Judge Wilson, c.
P. Soule.
Fletcher A. Cutler was chosen grand
marshal, G. A. Belcher secretary, J. E..
Jansen treasurer.