The San Francisco call., 1896-06-17
FINE WEAT HER
IN SANTA CRUZ,
Everything Is in Readiness
for the Water
Carnival.
CROWDS ON THE BEACH
Hundreds of Visitors Are Arriv.
ing On Every Incoming
Train.
THE CITY IN GALA ATTIRE.
Everybody Is Looking Forward to
Season of Joy and
Pleasure.
THE CITY IN GALA ATTIRE.

the main thoroughfare of Santa Cruz, has
been a gay promenade. There is an ab-
sence of the hustle of business day and
none Of the quiet of a Sabbath. But a
jolly, happy, careless throng of citizens
and visitors, full of the spirit of the carni-
val season and dressed as only this beauti-
ful June weather permits.
Young ladies' in bright summer frocks,
their elders in less snowy and perhaps
more substantial fabrics, but all of them
gowned in happy harmony with the bright
sunshine. Such weather as it is and has
been for three days just passed has never
been known in Santa Cruz, and yet this
city boasts of the miIdest and most appre-
ciative carnival weather in the whole
great State of California.
Down on the warm white sands of the
beach people have been gathered all day.
Indolent people they are, to be sure. But
Incidence is their pleasure. They are
idly waiting for the morrow-waiting to
see the beginning of the carnival,
waiting TO see the grand parade of
the blueiackets from the Philadelphia
and the Monadnock, waiting for
the miniature of the battle of Bunker Hill
that will form the concluding feature of
the celebration of that bit of revolutionary
history, to be introduced by an address
from Irving M. Scott the man who has
builded warships that would have been
impossible in the days of the revolution or
even in the late War of the Rebellion.
Mr.. Scott came here at noon to-day and
is enjoying quiet, restful outing. This
afternoon. in a cool. darkened room at the
Sea Beach Hotel, lounging comfortably on
couch, with nothing to do but rest,
without an apparent care, he expressed
the opinion that Santa Cruz was greatly
favored city to have SO advantageous
location on the lazy San Lorenzo for
series of water fetes.
"And the crowds are coming" he said.
''The train l came on over the narrow
gauge was loaded and all along the way
from Alameda pier to Santa Cruz the
people are talking of the carnival"
| Mr.. Scott drifted slowly from the carni-
val to the subject of warships, and con-
graduated the Naval Reserve of this City
on the opportunity afforded TO learn from
practical men much that will be valuable
to them in their training.
Besides the pleasure that shall be every
bo6y's when the gallant officers and blue
jac KetS from the warships appear on Pa
cifc avenue in the grandest of all the
grand parades this city or any other In
California has ever seen.
A number of the officers of the vessels
were on the streets to-day and blueiack-
cts were plentiful and good-natured. en-
| ioving their leave of absence from ship
duty, mingling with the citizens and ex-
pressing their good wishes for the success
| of the carnival
GNv,a Iay. Iv,cr oil O1R
| geon Steele and Chaplain Edmonson of
! the Philadelphia came ashore and were
i entertained informally and introduced by
! Lieutenant Governor Jeter and Judge
Logan to a number of prminent people.
They chatted pleasantly of the event
which is honored by the presence of the
shins in the bay, and watched with inter
est the inspection of the floats and barges
that were lined up near the Queens s
throne. Alongside lay the Monitor and
! the Merrimac toys in miniature of the
once great sea-ighters of the rebellion.
The visitors smiled at the contrast be-
tween these toys and the great white ships
! lying in the bay.
Tomorrow the gallant officers and Jolly
nluejackets of the Philadelphia and the
Monadock will come ashore. and with a
! seriousness and skill that will produce q
realistic color in the picturesque parade of
the afternoon.
| The parade will form at the foot of Pa
cifc avenue, and will move at P. NJ. The
! line of march will be from the foot of the
| avenue to Lower Plaza, countermarching
to the arena for review by Grand Marshal
Rice.
The order of the parade will be: First
division-Grand marshal and aids, bat
! talon from United States cruiser Phila-
! delphia and Monadnock Lieutenant- Com
mander Ingersoll, United States. navy,
f1I,.o 8 Nfol.x NnEf Il
tant Ensign e. III. Campbell; ordnance
officer, Gunner H. +. Eihlers; chief
ofpioneers, Carpenter Otto Barth; surgeon,
! Passed Assistant Surgeon +. K. Hesler; |;
Sergeant Major, Paul Hermann, chief
quartermaster. Pioneers = Chief Car
penter, Mate Richard Hastrich and
eighteen petty officers. Band - Band
master. Carr Grosskurth; chief musician,
Gustav Liese; and sixteen musicians.
First Company of Infantry = Thirty
| six non Commissioned officers and
privates e. S. NJ c., Captain
Rudolph Dicken, commanding; Lieu
tenant H. S. Lemore. Second Company
infantry. thirty-six petty officers and sea-
men, Ensign r. y. Coontz commanding !;
Third Company Infantry, forty eight petty
officers and seamen Ensign e. w. Hay
ward commanding; Color Guard, two chief
petty officers, first class; chief boatswains,
mate, +. Locke bearer of National col
ors. Fourth Company Infantry s thirty-six
petty officers and seamen, Naval Cadet P.
M. Bannon commanding. Fifth Company
Infantry. thirty-six petty officers and
seamen, Lieut.. M. H. Beecher command
ing. Seventh Company Infantry Uni
ted States Steampship Monadnock, thirty
six petty officers and seamen, Ensign NJ.
| NJ Caldwell commanding; Hospital
! Corps, Apothecary Dietz and eight
stretcher- bearers; Fourth Gun Division,
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LAD.
] EINIl.A Nm this city. Innc is. 1896 Henry ]