The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-04-17
LA FIESTA DE LOS ANGELES

| have been cut and arranged. and sewed
until yellow, green and red have become
so intermingled. so interviewer and
| blended or so dexterously arranged in solid
colors the one beside the other, and the
third in contrast to the other two. that
the vista down the principal streets is
bewilderngly beautiful and irresistibly
| infectious.
10 stand at the corner of First street
looking south down Spring or Broadway.
to stand at the intersection of Main and
Spring streets and look down both at
once cannot but make the most jaundiced
pessimist the most conservative Puritan,
glad he is alive and quicken his blood to
something like normal flow, while the
average man or woman with decent
amount OF national patriotism and public
spirit is promptly imbued with the car
nival fever and seized with an unconquer-
able desire to get behind the mask and
proceed to make luminous idiot of
himself or herself, as the case may be.
AS far as the eye can see from either of
the coignes of vantage above mentioned is
Il brilliant, restless food of color; flags
and pennants, loops, streamers and flip
perty gibbets of the tr-color, hung high.
hung low. rows ut right angles across the
streets and IN zigezag lines across the
fronts of buildings from flag masts and
window castings, swung between electric
posts and telegraph poles. cornices and
awning posts. anywhere and everywhere
that nail may be driven or rope tied.
Below the billows of bunting is the
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branches, evergreen and cypress, reaching
out in graceful sweeps and curves at once
Il foil and an intensifier to the warmer
colors above and about
The merchants and tradespeople all
along the principal streets running north
and south have We'd with one another in
their individual schemes OF decoration.
Bar sinister and bar dexter. vertical and
horizontal bands of bunting spread the
full Width. or gathered in generous and
ample folds, range over the face of the
buildings and creep out onto the awnings
in front of them.
Perhaps an impromptu awning is made
simply to display more colors, and at the
ends of these bands are rosettes and nets.
large, small and Indifferent. devices of
every kind known to the ingenuity OF
man. or woman either. for much of the
individual decoration has been superin-
tended by the gentler sex.
Buntingis is not the only vehicle used for
presenting the color scheme, either for
tin and pasteboard, fligree, braided paper,
and cotton. silk and satin, in any or all
of the three colors are introduced wher-
ever the effect will be heightened and the
result be made the more brilliant. In and
through and over all this, as a last nee
essary touch, and to give dignity to the
whole, are the national colors, the flag of
freedom. the colors that mean so much to
Us as a nation. and without the protec-
ton of which no fete would be quite COM
plete.
On the streets are butchers carts and
grocers' wagons, the delivery teams of dry
goods houses and even the trucks are
made radiant and gorgeous with bands
and flags and festoons of the wine, orange
and olive symbols.
Even the somber exterior of carriages