The San Francisco call., 1896-04-05

baseball between picked mines of Stanford
and the University of California. The
festivities of the day will end with an en-
tertainment at the pavilion in the evening
by the Stanford musical organizations.
The Stanford Glee Club. the Mandolin
Club, the Ban 10 Club and the Ladies' Man
dolin Club will take part, this being the
first time that these organizations have all
united in one entertainment. There will
also be typical college rush on the stage.
On the afternoon of Saturday, the closing
day of the carnival, there will be a blue
ribbon bicycle meet under the auspices of
the Garden City Cyclers. This will be the
grand opening for the season of bicycling
racing events, and all the cracka jacks of
the State will take part. Seldom have
cyclers generally looked forward to a meet
with so much eagerness. and there is an
assurance that it will be the most notab bic
affair ever given under the auspices of the
Garden City Cyclers on their famous track.
The carnival will close on SATURDAY.
night in fitting manner with season Of
mlrth and mystery. There will be masks
and music, and pleasing spectacles will oe
lntermingled with grotesque in a be-
wllderlng manner. 1t is in ontemplauion
to have a burlesque Queen parade that
will furnish no end of wild amusement to
the multitude. There will be mum Der of
comlcal floats and characters. The line of
march will end at the pavilion, where will
be held the carnival mask ball. In this
manner the great fete will be mirthfully
closed.
The San Jose Turn Verein is taking an
active interest IN the great festival. twill
take part in the parade and have a mag
nificent float in line. During the four
evenings of the carnival the Turner's will
give entertainments at their hail.
On Wednesday evening there will be
grand vocal concert, in which three of the
glee clubs OF San Jose, representing, with
the chorus, over 100 voices, will partici-
pate. On the second evening there will be
gymnastic exhibition by the classes un-
der the physical director, Professor H. Rit-
ter. On the third evening number of
farces will be rendered in English and
German by the best talent in the CITY.
Saturday, the closing evening of the carni-
val, will be All Fools night at Turn We
rein Hall. 1t will be a season of unadul.
terated enjoyment such as has seldom or
never been experienced by the fun-lovers
of San Jose.
The big pavilion IN which the carnival
exercises will be held is 125x2OO feet in di-
mensions. The seating capacity in the
gallery will be 240O. The main floor. ex-
elusive of the space allotted to booths, will
seat $500. This will make total seating
capacity OF 5000, with good standing room
for at least 500 more. When the pavilion
is used for convention hall and the booths
are not occupied and that space can be
utilized for seating purposes, the structure
will have seating capacity of 1000 per-
sons. This, with the standing room, will
give the hall a capacity for 75U0 people.
The decorations in the pavilion will be
magnificent Evergreen boughs will form
the background of the decorations
Immense quantities of the beautiful red
wood foliage will be used. Upon this the
floral decorations can be changed daily
This effect of green as a background for
the other colors is the same seen in nature
and could not be improved upon. The
pillars and other portions of the building
will be profusely decorated with roses on
the opening day. On the other days there
will be decorations of sweet peas, mari
Colds and other flowers. To make impres.
sive effects there will be great masses of
the same kinds of flowers in all available
positions. Banks of flowers of gorgeous
hue like marlgolds, for instance, will pro-
duce striking effects.
The great ceiling OF the pavilion, 125x2OO
feet In size, will be wide expanse of ever
green and floral display. The effect can
be better imagined than described, and the
reality will far exceed all expectations.
Around the great stage beautiful sun
burst effect will be produced with flowers
Of different colors.
The officers and committees under whose
direct supervision the advancement of the
carnival is being prosecuted are as follows:
Director-General-J. H. Henry.
President of the carnival = Hon. B. d.
Murphy.
Executive committee-A Greeninger fchair
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