The San Francisco call., 1895-07-20
FEATURES OF THE FETE.
An Excursion to the HarboK
Entrance Attracts Many
Thousands.
QUEEN sEQUo1A At THE BALL.
Her Prime Minister Reads the Royal
Proclamation and Awards
the Prizes.

EUREKA, CAL, July 19.-Excursion
trains between Eureka and outlying towns
were almost as much oyercrowded with
passengers to-day as on the first day OF the
carnival.
Thousands of people visited the 20O-yard
hose tournament, which took place at 10
o'clock this morning. The first prize or
SIS was won by Company in 36 2-6 sec.,
the second by Company in 401s sec., and
the third by Company in 40 40 sec.
An excursion to the governmental
works at the entrance OF the harbor was
the principal event of the afternoon, and
although thousands attended the crowd in
town was still dense.
An open air concert was given this after
noon by the Tenth Battalion band and was
largely attended.
Sharply at O'Clock this evening Queen
Sequoia, escorted by her prime minister,
and followed by her pages, maids OF honor
and armored knights, entered the magnltl-
Gently decorated ballroom and proceeded
to her throne, at the extreme end or the
hall. Over the regal chair projected an
orange-colored canopy.
After the Queen and maids had seated
themselves, Prime Minister Puter read the
royal proclamation and proceeded to name
the prize awards of his gracious sovereign.
Dancing was then commenced. Never
before had Armory Hall assumed such
lovely appearance. Every portion of the
walls and ceiling had been carefully COW
cred with sequoia boughs, and streamers of
cardinal and white, looped up in graceful
curves, radiated everywhere from the cen-
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pie were in attendance.
The decorations of the city for the Sc
quota carnival were on grand scale,
and never before in its history
has Eureka presented such a bril-
liant appearance. For week the people
have done little but decorate. Visitors
who have attended recent earnivals say
that Eureka's appearance has not been
rivaled, except possibly at Los Angeles.
The city itself is almost entirely hidden
beneath mass of evergreens and trim
mings. In places shady and picturesque
bowers, each extending the length of a
block, have been constructed. Long strings
of colored pennants extend at regular dis
tances across the streets. Bunting and
streamers, worked up in novel shapes, set
off to good advantage the dark green of the
sequoia.
The carpenters have quite outdone the
committee, and have constructed near the
corner of First and G streets an arch mod
eled after their own idea of what an arch
should be. 1t is forty feet in height
and built after the Romanesque style of
architecture. Walter E. Butterfield, the
designer, has superintended the work. The
labor and much of the material for the
handsome structure was donated. The
columns of the arch contain twelve
colored-glass windows of novel shape,
which omitted colored rays by means of in
candescent lights placed within.
The arch at the entrance to the E. R.
and E. Railroad Company's property,
through which the excursionists from the
valley towns entered Eureka, was also
extensively decorated with sequoia
boughs and streamers. The entire business
portion of the city is mass of evergreen
and bunting.