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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-25

PORTLAND, Or, Oct. "a. Professor
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the chair and stated the object of the
club was to promote and encourage horse
back exercise, and the ownership of gait
ed saddle horses, and also to aid in the
present movement for good roads and
boulevards, so much needed in our city
and county.
Each and every citizen is interested in
making the most of our great natural adj
vantages, and nothing will prove better
investment to the property owners
throughout the country, nor more attract
i've to the tourist land winter resident
than well-devised system of well-kept
roads. Eastern horsemen send their
finest and fastest horses here to winter,
are pleased, and will come again, but to
encourage riding, driving and fine turn
outs, you must first have good drive
ways.
William LIE Moyne, Wills was unani;
mously elected president and Mr.. Alfred
Solano ce-president.
Mr.. f. X. Rule was unanimously elected
secretary.
Mr.. L. A. Grand was unanimously
elected treasurer
1t was agreed to have meetings of the
club every Saturday evening at the Fiesta
Club rooms.
The following gentlemen have already
Ferd K. Rule, T: A. Eisen,, Alfred So
lano, William lie Moyne Wills, Fank, T..
d. Stimson, W. c. Bluett H. W. La
than, John Schumacher, Hancock Ban
ming, Guy Barham, G. W. Ford, John
Bradbury, George Sinsabaugh, R. W.
Pridham, M. H. Newmark, B. J. Hall,
James Slaus on, E. H. Lamme, Douglas
White, Major NJ. T. Owens.
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THE FIRST DOLLAR
THE STREET RAILROAD COMPANY is
THE FIRST DONOR.
A Gentlcmens Riding Club Organized for the
Fiesta, to Take Part In the
Parade-Notes.

The first subscription to the Fiesta
fund was registered yesterday. 1t was
written in great big, black letters, be-
cause the amount was pleasant surprise
to the finance committee.
The Consolidated Electric Railway
opened the list with $500. This gen
erous and liberal donation was the cause
of much congratulation among the men,
bers of the advisory board last evening
as it indicated the interest that is being
aroused in the celebration among the
business and financial concerns of this
city. 1t was considered good omen
that a railroad corporation should take
the lead in such liberal manner.
Messrs. f. X. Rule and Banning re-
turned from trip to Pasadena to inter-
view the leading society ladies of that
town on the Fiesta. AS a result of their
abors they were promised by Mrs. Sey-
mour Locke that Pasadena will be repre-
sented in the flower parade by at least
six large floral pieces.
The people of Redondo had also prom
sed the Southern California mittee to
take part in the collection and Redlands
has informed the committee that the mat
ter is being agitated there
The advisory board last evening ac-
Mr.. Bahre. 1t represents a scroll and is
highly artistic in execution. To the left
of the scroll is the form of an angel re-
presenting Los Angeles, and around the
scroll are different figures illustrative of
the Fiesta. 1t is intended to print 25,-
600 copies for distribute on
The following committee on secret So
cieties was appointed: William Meek,
man, L. b. Heyman, Edward Lloyd, A.
Z. Forester and e. A. Meserve.
Secret societies from adjoining towns
will be invited to participate.
Applications for labor will be referred to
the secretary of the Associated Charities
and the chairmen of the different COM
mittees will apply to him if any help is
required.
A FIESTA RIDING CLUB.
A gentlemen riding club was organized
at the Fiesta rooms Friday evening.
DR.. VIM. LIE Moyne Wills was called to
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quite popular during the present centu-
ry. As has been stated before it is diff
ficult to assign an origin to many, as
most have sprung up without any appar-
ent reason or historical significance.
At Nuremberg, Antwerp, Nice, Rome,
Cologne and many other European cities
the Mardi Gras is celebrated with much
eclat. Professions are held, public sports
are INDUCED in and general popular re-
joicing takes place. These festivities oc-
cupy from one to six days during which
time business is suspended and merrymak-
ing is the only occupation.
In the United States Louisville cele-
brates in October with feast called the
Satellites of Mercury" ST. Louis has
the "Veiled Prophets" Memphis has
annually the Mystic Knights" and Mo
bile the mystic Nymphs.
Kansas City has an annual celebration
in the first week of October, called the
Priest of Palis.' 1t was first organized
in 1887 by the merchants OF that enter
prising town, and like many of its con-
temporary feasts has no historical merit,
but is merely project to attract visitors
and advertise its advantages. The sub
jects represented in the floats and parade
are taken from grand operas. Last yeai
the Ranayana was illustrated in twenty
floats and the Epic Poem of India was
another subject illustrated. Governor
Mckinley and other prominent guests at
tended the celebration, that drew over 2OO,-
600 people to Kansas City.
In the early part of 1894 the idea
was suggested that citrus fair be held
in this city during the period that most
of the tourists enjoy the beautiful eli
mate for which Los Angeles is Justly
famous. The proposition was fully dis
cussed, but met with opposition from
certain merchants, who believed that an
annual festival of broader scope and of
annual repetition would be more benef-
cial to the city and would attract wider
attention.
This idea was strongly set forth by Max
Meyberg, and he agitated the matter be-
fore the Merchants Association, the
members of which fully endorsed the
views of the originator.
After some preliminary arrangements
the Merchants Association decided to
hold a carnival or celebration lasting five
days, and invited suggestions from the
public. A prize of $25 was offered for the
best name by which to designate the eel
bration, and Mr.. Harry Brook a we'll
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The pageants and feasts OF ancient
times were either semi-religious, semi
national or semi-historical in their origin.
All writers agree that the carnivals had
their beginning in ante-Christian times,
but they are unable to determine as to
the exact period when those festivities
we're first made part of the history of ma
tons.
The word carnival, as it is understood
in modern times, does not express, how
ever, the scope and intent of those cele-
brations of ancient nations that charac-
terize and reflect the religious and social
conditions with which they were inter-
woven.
In later years. and particularly during
the present century, carnivals and yearly
festivities have been called into existence
that are purely of local origin. Such pa
geants have no historical value or relig
ious significance, but they are the result
of that spirit that fosters every enterprise
for the advancement of commercial and
financial interests.
The festivities, such as have become
popular and famous in the United States,
are the creations of enterprising citizens
who seized the opportunity to attract at
tention to their respective localities as
means of advertising the advantages of
the country in which they are located.
In many respects these yearly feasts of
the present times bear a striking re-
sem blance in their character to those of
ancient history, but in character alone.
The football or baseball game or bicycle
race are some of the principal attractions
on the sporting programme of almost
every festival of the present age, the pop
ularity of which was entirely unknown
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AN ANCIENT ROMAN CARNIVAL.
Drawn by The Heralds Artist.

to the Romans or Greeks. The boxing
matches and other athletic events carry
with them the idea of manly sports, such
as were practiced during the time of the
Roman Empire.
1t would require, however, great
stretch of Imagination to compare the
istic combat of Tetriades in the Amphi-
theater at Rome, in the presence of a
quarter of a million people, with Cor
bett-Sullivan fight, to the delight of the
latter-day sports.
And it would be equally ludi crous to
find in the ancient chariot races prec-
edent for the bicycle contests Yet in
principle these sports come closer to an
cient pageants than the other features of
the day.
All nations have immortalized the
great historical events by REPRODUCED ons
in floats or tableaux wherever feast is
held yearly to commemorate some i'm
portant epoch in nations ext stence.
The characters and surroundings are as
nearly reproduced as possible.
In these main points the fiestas of
today are similar to the pageants of
olden times.
Among the earliest religious feasts is
the Passover, celebrated by the Jews.
The ancient Israelites were accustomed to
open the harvest season with a religious
thanksgiving. Before the new grain was
threshed the first sheaf was presented to
Jehovah, and then all the faithful hast
ened to enjoy the divine blessings by eat
ing unleavened cakes. 1t became fixed
custom among them and afterwards new
significance was added to it by the cele-
bration of the exodus from Egypt, when,
as tradition runs, the people had no time
to knead the dough already in their
troughs. This feast is still observed
yearly by the Hebrews and the ceremonies
are as nearly identical with those described
by Mosaic law as circumstances and sur
roundings will permit. 1t lasts for seven
days, during which time the Jews devote
themselves to such pleasures and enter
tainments as suit their tastes.
The Carnival of Rome dates from ante
Christian time. The Bacchanalian festi-
walls of antiquity were celebrated by the
Romans, who adopted them from older
nations.
The medieval celebration of the Festi-
val OF Fools was equally a servival of old
pagan reveling and the custom of using
masks and torches can be traced to an
cient practices.
Benedict XIV in an encyclical letter of
January LIST, 174s, attempted to moderate
the excuses practiced at the yearly carni-
val, but the custom of these festivities
had so thoroughly fastened itself upon
the people, that the church was powerless
to prevent the evil.
The Roman Carnival reached its great
est splendor, however, during the papacy
OF Paul III from 1884 to 1919, when Rome
was overlooking with wealth. The sports
consisted of races in the Corso, that were
open for men and beasts alike. Instead
OF the purse of the present day, the
winners were presented with banner or
flag. Races for asses and buffaloes were
main attractions, however, although the
fat mems races and sack races, now so
popular, find precedent in the loot race,
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The first games that were instituted at
Olympic were in honor of the hero, Pc
lopes. Sixteen women, representing towns
of Ellis and Pisatis, wove the festal
peplus for the Olympian Hera. The con-
testants for the games received a ten
months training at school specially es
tablished for that purpose at Ellis, and
before they were admitted to athletic
competitions at Olympia they were
obliged to pass kind of examination.
Young men from all parts of Greece were
admitted to the gymnasium.
Subsequently the four-horse chariot
races were included in the list of games
that were open to worthy competitors only,
and the fact that he had entered into such
race gave him at once increased social
standing. Afterwards horse races were
added.
Footraces were divided into three cate
gories-the single length, where the course
was to be traversed only once; the double
length and the long" foot race, the latter
somewhat go-as-you-please.
The Greek had religious belief that the
body of a man has glory as well as his
intellect and spirit, and that the body and
u.
belief added much to make the Olympian
games popular.
But aside from the athlethc sports, the
Greeks observed large number of festi-
walls yearly, some of which were commem-
orative of historical events but the ma
iority we're nature-festivals, to celebrate
the change of seasons, etc.
Although much of the Eleusinian festi-
walls are shrouded in mystery, some parts
of that old Grecian ceremony strongly re-
sembles certain features of the Fiesta,
principally the floats.
The festival has it's origin in the desire
to do honor to the goddess Demeter and
her daughter Persephone. In the yearly
professions were carried the yelled ship or
boat of Athens. The festival lasted for
seven days and each succeeding day added
to the pomp and mystery OF the proceed
ing. For instance the sixth day was the
most solemn of ALL when the statue of the
god Dionysus, bearing a lighted torch,
was carried from an Athenian suburb to
Eleusis, followed by priests in the cost
lest and handsomest garbs.
| But to trace the festivals of the world
| through all their variations would be to
| trace the entire history of human religion
! and human civilization. AS religion de-
+, velcped festivals developed with it and
| assumed distinctive characters.
F, So the Passion Play at Oberammergau
| in Upper Bavaria has become famous.
! The play depicts the sufferings of Christ
and is produced every ten years. 1t has
obtained such reputation that the most
prominent men of the entire world spe-
| cially travel to that place to witness the
production. Its dramatic representation
of the life of Christ, however, is not
a survival of medieval mystery
but took its rise from a vow made
by the inhabitants in 1888 with the hope
of staying a plague then raging. The
music was composed by Rochus Dedler in
1914 and the performance takes place in a
large 'open-air theater, holding 5000 per-
pons. Each scene from the history Of
Z hriU is prefaced by tableau from the
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for BOYS and men then on the programme
of sports.
At different times these carnivals were
forbidden by papal DEGREES, but under
one form or another they were revived.
The Roman gladiatorial games and
sports attracted as much attention in
those days as Corbett or Sullivan fight
of the present time. The fights then were
not recorded by rounds and no draws were
allowed, but they we're real, hard fights to
a finish. Purses were unknown, although
the victors received the homage of the
populace and were treated with great
honor.
During the Roman Empire it frequently
happened that 100 pairs of gladiators
were trotted into the arena, and history
records that Trajan celebrated his tri-
umph over Decebalus with an exhibition
in which 5000 pairs of gladiators partici-
pated and which lasted over a hundred
days.
The men who appeared in the ring were
not, however, of the social standing OF
Gentleman jim" They were generally
drawn from prisoners of war, slaves, or
criminals condemned to death. They
were trained in schools owned either by
the state or by private citizens. sue
cessful gladiator enjoyed far greater fame
than any modern prize fighter or athlete.
Instead of diamond belt, such as is
now the trophy of the champion OF the
prize ring, the conqueror OF old received
jeweled helmets, his portrait was burnt
on vases, lamps and gems, and the best
poets sang his praises in long verses.
The moral object of the gladiatoriaI
games however, was not merely the exqi-
bition of physical strength, but it was
as a discipline against fear of death and
suffering which were the principal ac-
complishments of good warriors.
Among the admirers and lovers of sports
the term Olympic games is familiar. AS
these games are now understood they
embrace almost every variety of sport and
athletic exhibitions, but the old Greeks,
from whom the name originates, attached
greater Importance to these events.
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known newspaper man, carried off the
reward, his selection being La Fiesta de
Los Angeles.
Mr.. j. T. Steward designed the colors,
characteristic OF the Fiesta, orange desig-
mating the oranges, green the olives and
red the wine produced in Southern Cali
fornia.
The merchants, capitalists and citi-
zens generally responded literally and no.
bly, to the call for financial assistance,
and ON April 10, 1894, the Queen of the
Fiesta, Mrs. o. w. Childs, received the
golden keys of the city from the hands
of Mayor Thomas Rowan.
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The Fiesta continued for five days,
when military parade, parade of floats,
and parade of all school children took
place. grand masquerade ball was
given at Hazards Pavilion, and the end
ing of the entire Fiesta was on Saturday
evening, when the populace enjoyed
themselves on the main thoroughfares,
disguised in costumes and masks of
every nature and description.
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golden mating and the display of the
precious metal was such as Europe had
never before seen.
1t is said that the greatest gayety pre-
vailed during that visit and numerous
contests were INDUCED in; the rulers
themselves engaging in a friendly wrest-
ling match.
The carnival festivities, though some
what similar in character, have become
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SPECIAL NOTICE.

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LIQTOR LICENSES
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City Of Savannah, Mayors ONCE Feb.
!, lS95-The following applications to re-
tail liquor during the year 1895 were read
at the meeting of Council Jan. 30, 1895,
ana referred to committee of the whole:
A. N MANUCX,
Clerk of Council.
Application of James McGrath & Co,
Tor permission 70 retail liquor at No. 10
Whitaker street
Application of Mutual Cooperative AS
ISOLATION for permission to retail liquor
at northwest corner Barnard and State
streets,
Application of P. Ryan, agent. to retail
liquor at the corner of Cuyler and Ander-
son streets.
Application of A. Luerssen for permits
sion 10 retail liquor at the corner of Gem
etery and Gwinnett streets.
Application of j. D. Curtiss for per-
mission 10 retail liquor at southeast cor
ner of Whitaker and Bryan streets.
Application of B. Crum for permission
to retail liquor at No. So Houston street
corner South Broad street lane
Applica ton of Brown Bros for permits
slo1 TO retail liquor at Anderson and East
Broad streets.
Applica sion of NJ. Shields for permission
TO retail liquor at No. 1919 Reynolds
street.
Application of L. A. Jaudon for permits
sion 70 retail liquor at southwest corner
Charlton and Jefferson streets.
Application of John T. Mcmahon for
permission to retail liquor at No. l Con
gress street.
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RumOrs That Point 10 a sIistriaI in
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Jasper. Fla, Feb. 10.-The entire week
has been consumed by the circuit court
in the murder case or VIII Adams. trans
ferred from Columbia to Hamilton county
About seyenty-fve witnesses were ex-
amined.
In January. 1891, Jim Moore. a white
man living near Lake City. was called 20
his door al night and shot. Ike Spanish, a
negro, and Win Adams We're arrested for
the crime. Spanish confessed that he and
Adams were hired TO Kill Moore by Russ
Bethea, that his heart failed him after
getting 10 the house and that adams nred
the fatal shot. Adams has been tried and
convicted two or three times In Columbia
county, but his counsel succeeded in get
ting d new trial every time. Yesterday
was consumed in arguments by the law
yers on both sides. The case was given
10 the jury about o'clock.
Both sides are confident At s o'clock
tonight the jury has not reached YER
diet and the rumor is that they stand 10
for acquittal and > for conviction.
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SPECIAL NOTICES.
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SUPPLEMENTARY NOTICE.
In Regard TO New improvements,
Etc, Made During the Year
1904

City Treasurers Office, Savannah, Ca,
Jan. "a, lS55.-The supplement to the as
sessment book, containing the assess
assessed within the taxable limits of the
city of Savannah, amounting to Sl3,470
(belng the assessment of improvements
and additions found after the first report
Of the assessors as per their supplemental
report dated January 10th. 1895, which
said supplemental report was received,
confirmed and adopted by council at its
regular meeting on the said 10th of jan
uary, 1895, is now ready for the inspec-
ton in this office, and notice IS hereby
given to all concerned 10 file their OBJ
jections, il any they have within thirty
days from this date; otherwise the as
assessments therein contained viii be final
and conclusive as establishing the value
by which to estimate the tax to be col
lected. Objection, if any. must be made
n n y writing Writ and addressed to the ASSESS
clerk of council. c. 5. HARDEE,
City Treasurer.
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invited. A. NJ & e. ". WEST
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The Windsor hotel, Jacksonville. Fla.
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CLINTON LODGE M. 81, p. a. III
4 regular communication Of this a
lodge VIII be held az Masonic TEN ~
pie this fM1ndayl evening. feU. IL NJ
at $50 o'clock. Members of sister
lodges and visiting brethren are cordially
invited TO meet with us.
GEORGE A. BRICK.
WARlNG RUSSELL JR-- Secretary.
DE KALB LODGE No. ., L. O.O.F.
a regular meeting Of this lodge will be
held this evening At clock in Odd Eel
lows Hall
The Third Degree viii be conferred.
Visiting brothers are invited 70 meet
with Us. A. T. CUMMINGS, y. G..
JNO. W. SMITH. Secretary.
GERMAN FRIENDLY SOCIETY.
The regular monthly meeting Of this So
ciety Will De held This (MOnoay) evening
IN X. Of Il. hall at As.
n. q. HELMKEN.
President
A HELLER, Secretary.
GEORGIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
The regular meeting Of this society will be
held al Hodsson Han THIS EVENING at 8
O'Clock. GEORGE T. CAM,
Recording Secretary
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FUNERAL INVITATIONS.

DENEAUX--The relatives and friends
Of AR. and Mrs J. II. DeVeauX are re-
specially invited 10 attend the fCneral OF
their little son. Charles c. AZ tnsir resi-
dence. q Taylor street, at $50 o clock this
aLr.ru-un.