The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-04-17
THE CARNIVAL TRI-COLOR
Some Notable Features of the City's
~ Decorations
The Red, Yellow and Green, and Their
Varied Combinations of
Color

There is not a metropolis, city or town
in the United States this week that is a
pumpkin patch as compared to the great
and only City of the Angels. Anybody
who is not in Los Angeles during the
week of La Fiesta, is not in it at all
that's all lu oe bar
points begin to show their establishment
as they get into the hacks. busses, Oh. street
cars that are to convey them to their
hotels, and their surprise goes on becom-
ing lntenser as they behold the festive
decorations, ever increasing in number
and gayety that meet them on all sides as
the center of the city is approached.
''Ohl my, how can they do it?" these
visitors inquire. These things cost
minis of money!"
Yes, indeed, these decorations cost a
good deal, but there is nothing that the
.enterprlsing Los Angeleno will not do to
sgressive and lovely city of the Pacific
coast. La Fiesta is Los Angeles holiday
and La Fiesta must be celebrated regard
less of money, regardless of trouble, re-
CARELESS OF toll. that it may be a dream.
both to the visitor and the inhabitant;
that the word Fiesta de Los Angeles may
become byword for all that is pleasur-
able and beautiful, and that in years to
come its utterance will be sufficient to fiat
ter with delightful anticipations the
hearts of those who can afford to see a
whole week of unequaed rounds of pleas
ure under climate with which none can
compare.
The decorations are splendid. No other
word will fill the BILL unless it be superb
While they are scattered over the whole
territory of the city they are at their best
of course in Its center Starting from the
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uninterrupted one of the colors of wine,
the orange and the olive, waving pal
'metto leaves. cypress branches, Chinese
lanterns, flags and festoons, STEAMERS and
verdure. From the junction of Temple
and Spring streets up this main thorough
fare up to Sixth street the eyes are again
bewildered by the variety of the festoon-
ings. Broadway from First to Seventh is
also in magnificent gala attire, and all
the lntersecting streets between these
great arteries of traffic are dazzling pic
lures OF colors that caress the eye and in
fuse one with the joy of living.
Everything that will lend itself to
aid in identifying the streets has been
cunningly. utilized for that purpose. For
blocks and blocks ugly telegraph and tel
end date trees. and the decorators have
done their task so we'll tn there is need
of but little fancy to believe oneself in a
waving forest OF the Pacific islands YER
uure.
This is more particularly noticeable at
the street corners where the number of
posts is so much greater.
The little tri-color flags strung across
the streets are SO numerous that when
one looks up the main thoroughfares the
deep blue sky is lost sight of in the twin
kle of yellow, green and red. Then the
Chinese lanterns hanging in diverse di-
rections above the curbs add to the gen
eral gay aspect.
1t is at night. however. when these are
lighted up. that the view is magical. Peo-
pie may talk OF oriental scenery the bazars
at Cairo or Constantinople. the Midway
Plaisance. and all that but the Herald
ventures to say that no traveller who be-
holds the principal streets of Los Ange-
les during Fiesta week will deny that in
all his peregrinations and globe trotting
he has beheld more enchanting sight
either in the effete Orient or in old and
artistic Europe.
l-These flags and penn0ns. these palm
leaves and green festoons, these Japanese
lamps and Chinese lanterns. all these
bright decorations, may remind one of
these assumed in some old Catholic city
with its Gothic churches and medieval
houses. in the North of France. the low
lands OF Belgium or the green region
OF Rbenish Prussia. upon the anniversary
OF its patron saint when the church peo-
pie head the procession which contains |
all there is of mark in the district; but in
the United States there is nothing that |