The San Francisco call., 1896-04-28
BURLINGHAM At
FABIOLA FETE,
Society On Both Sides of
the Bay Working
for Success.
GREAT HURDLE RACE.
The County Club Passes Reso-
lutions Requesting Full
Attendance.
LADIES ARRANGING FEATURES.
Grand Marshal Daniels Appoints DR..
Pardee to Aid in Forming
the Procession.
OAKLAND OFFICE SAN Francisco CALL,

90S Broadway, April 81.
The Birmingham Club has decided the
Fabiola fete must be social as we'll as an
artistic success. At a meeting of the
board of directors Of the club resolutions
were passed laudatory OF the famous chari-
table institution from which the Mayday
festival takes its name and for whose sup
port 1t is given, and calling upon every
member OF the club to turn out at the fete
with as much decoration and eclat as pos
sible.
The polo-players and hurdle-racers will
be at the trotting park, and the great
hurdle race of one mile and half over six
hurdles. Among those who will ride are
Walter McCreary, ]. Talbot Clifton, f. W.
McNear. Walter Hobart Captain Vain
wright, R. NJ. Tobin, II. c. Breedon, Har-
old Wheeler. There will be several other
entries before the flag falls, and the race
for the handsome silver loving-cup will be
an exciting one.
The banks of the city agreed to-day that
they would close on Mayday, and, as the
merchants have already decided to do so,
the city will be given over entirely to
pleasure on that day. The bright sunshine
that has set in, and which gives every
indication of continuing, has given the
affair stimulus it could never have re-
ceived under the cloudy skies of the past
week, and now everybody is talking of and
arranging for the fete.
Many ladies are preparing special
features. Mrs. Varney Gaskill will drive
a three-seated carriage, beautifully deco,
rated, in which some handsome young
ladies will be seated. Mrs. Egbert Stone
will reyolutionize a farm cart and in it
will be seated mem bers of the Whist Club.
Mrs. Mclean, Mrs. Lieutenant Dunwoody
and others are preparing elaborate features.
The committees are in almost constant
session, and all the various departments
are making rapid progress. The entries
for the bicycle races are now in the hands
OF the handlcappers and will be published
Wednesday.
The whole of Alameda County is now
interested in the great festival. Visitors
from the East, from the southern portion
OF the State, and from every town and city
near by are expected. San Francisco will
send many large parties here, and it is ex-
pected that the great fete will surpass
that OF Los Angeles or of Santa Barbara.
The grounds and executive committee
OF the Fablola fete spent yesterday at the
Trotting Park planning arrangements for
the handling of the parade and the ex-
pected crowds. Grand Marshal &. B.
Daniels and DR.. George G. Pardee. chief
aid, accompanied the committees. Every
thing is being planned for the comfort and
convenience of the attending crowds.
Affairs will be arranged much more COM
fortably than they were last year and
shade and seats will be provided.
On entering the grounds a list of refresh
ment booths will be placed in each visitors
hands and the prices charged. This is to
prevent any exorbitant price being charged
by walters.
The refreshments will be served in the
new harness paddock, and the ladies in
charge of the booths are making final
arrangements for the accommodation of
guests.
Decorators are requested to name the
flowers they will use, SO the parade can
be planned with an eye for artistic beauty
and coloring.