The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-29

where every guest who does not expect to
take part in the grand march is directed,
the better to view the spectacle as well as
to free the floor and the corridors for those
who do.
A brass band is located on the upper
fl oor of the rotunda playing for the prone
naders, who, now relieved of their wraps,
begin to throng the corridors. Sentinels
are stationed at the doors of the Senate
and the Assembly, for the time has not yet
come when order shall give the nod to
splendor at her full. The secrets of the
dance halls are being kept from the dancers
as yet, and being revealed only to those
who seek them in the gallery.
Acknowledgement Aliens room in the
south wing, without any decoration, is in
the possession of Senators and Assembly
men and their wives and sweethearts,
lgniie the sergeant-at-arrnf room for the
Senate has been turned into hatroom for
there. General Wright's room in the north
wing is a general assembly room for ladies,
while the sergeant-at-arms' room has be-
come hatroom for the ordinary citizen.
The beautiful, softly tinted and mellow
lighted room of the State library, opening
from the upper rotunda and just opposite
to where the band is stationed, and which
is just now playing the overture from "The
Poet and Peasant, )" has been reserved for the
Governor and his party.
Governor Bmdd In HIS Pride.
The band has abruptly changed from the
gentle measures of "The Poet and Peasant"
and strikes boldly in tone of triumph.
The Governor is coming, his proud little wife
upon his arm, and back of him his equally
proud father and mother and all the others
of his family. There is fiutter UP and
down the corridors. The Governors per-
sonal party is quite following. Governor
Markham and his wife are distinguished
figures in it, and the gold-epauletted
colonies give color to it, while the ladies
add sparkle. The gallery of the State
Library room has long been crowded with
the expectancy of the Governors entree,
and clapping of hands greets him, to
which he smiles and bows, for there are
ladies up there, and official hauteur falls
before their welcome. 1t is a sign that the
time is approaching for the grand march
aud for a rallying to the several rooms
of the three divisions, as arranged by
the floor managers, for the start.
The strains of music come from behind
the closed doors of the Senate and Assem-
bly, rooms. The two orchestras had taken
their places within, but no one was per-
mitted to follow. The doors were closed
promptly and the sentinel remained at his
post. 1t would be tantalizing but for the
excitement incident to finding each his or
her place in the line for the grand march.
It is arranged that as the head of the pro-
cession shall start under the leadership of
Floor Director George H. Clark from the
State Library room, the division composed
of Senators and Assemblymen and ladies',
under the leadership of Floor Director
Frank D. Ryan, shall move from their
rendezvous in the north wing to the door
of the State Library, ready to fall in imme-
diately behind the Governors party.
In the Line of March.
The line shall move down the east side
of the corridors to it's end, cross over and
return southwark along the west SIDE AS
its end passes General Aliens office, where
the citizens division stands waiting, it will
fall in and complete the line. The march
will extend down the corridor southwark
through the rotunda and into the Senate
chamber, circling round it and back over
the same course as far as the Assembly
chamber, where it will enter and
march to the extremity of the big
hall, open order, and allow the Senate
chambers contingent to march through,
circle again and return to its quarters
in the south wing. For the watches along
the line will have counted the number
and it is intended to divert two-fifths of
the line into the Senate, the Assembly
chamber being much the larger The lines
are forming and the galleries crowded.