The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-06-22
While the Streets Are Still
Alive With People 10th
TO Leave.
COURTEOUS NAVAL OFFICERS.
Played an Important Part in the
Fiesta-The Calls" Enterprise
Praised.

SANTA CRUZ, CAL, June N.-Every-
body in Santa Cruz to-day is tired but
happy-tired from the energy expended in
keeping up with the procession, happy
over the full week of innocent enjoyment.
he trainloads of visitors who returned
TO their homes to-day have scarcely made
q percephble diminution in the vast
concourse of people who saw all the great
events of the carnival ard who partici-
pated in the various pastimes that were
not an actual part of the big show. A good
proportion of the visitors came for their
summer outing and are now ready for a
dip in The surf and an enjoyment of visits
to the warships. There was too much to
see, think and talk about during the past
week for every body to have enjoyed to the
full the bathing.
To-Day the pretty beach has its full COM
plement OF visitors, and the hshermen's
boats are busy carrying folks across the
half mile OF water to the ships and the
yachts. Hundreds OF people were gathered
in the early forenoon on the broad veran-
dahs of the Sea Beach Hotel or rolling in
the sands of the beach, admiring the finest
marine view on the coast. 1t is, indeed,
a beautiful picture formed by the Phila-
delphia, the Monadnock, the Lurline. the
Rover and the Ramona standing cut on
the broad surface of Monterey Bay, bathed
in glorious sunshine, the ships launches,
the yachts rowboats, the tishermen's sail
boats dancing over the water like things
of life, bearing their burdens of happy
people.
On the streets the sailors have seemed
to become part of the resident populace.
Their leaves Of absence have given them
equal privileges with the masters OF the
ships, and they have been so devoted to
getting all there is of ioyousness out of it
that they seem to have forgotten there are
cares and duties to perform. The officers
themselves have had one grand holiday,
both aboard shin and ashore.
Admiral Beardslee was an attentive
auditor at the carnival and expressed him.
self as particularly pleased with the mimic
battle between the Monitor and the MeTri-
mac.
There could have been produced" he
said, mo finer miniature of the two ia
nous gunboats that played so eventful
part in the civil war"
The admiral complimented Chairman
Lamb on the excellent construction of the
two boats and declared the mimic engage
ment between the two boats to be one Of
the best features of the week.
Admiral Beardslee, Captain Cotton and
Captain Sumner, with their stats, have
been so generous in their approval of the
carnival and so devoted in their hospi-
tality to all Santa Cruz and the thousands
OF visitors that they have won the hearts
OF everybody.
The citizens of Santa Cruz have not
been outdone either in their efforts to en-
terrain all visitors. While the hotels have
been crowded there has been a generous
disposition shown by the home people to
make the stay of the visitors pleasant in
every way. Their latch strings have not
once been taken in, and many words of
praise have been spoken by the great
throng OF visitors of the hearty manner in
which they have been entertained.
Captain c. C. Bruce of Sausalito has won
the admiration of hundreds OF Santa Cruz
ans during the two weeks stay here of his
Yacht Rover Coming before the carnival
BEGAN, the Rover seemed lonely Oh the
broad bay, but it is pretty boat, and.
compared with the small craft of the fish
ermen, was a big fellow until the ships
came in. But the appearance OF the Lur-
line and the Ramona enhanced the i'm
portance of the Rover, and the presence of
the three yachts added a great deal to the
picturesque scene on the bay.
Governor Budd did not come, but he
was represented by one of his staff,
Colonel Frank A. Vail of San Francisco,
who expressed considerable pleasure with
the fine showing made by the carnival
folkg Colonel Vail introduced to the at
tentIon of the Santa Cruzans a young
man who came here from the East repre-
senting the Newspaper Writers Union, F.
Z. Webb. Mr.. Webb spoke very highly
this morning of the great fiesta, and said
he could write nothing but good words.
both for the enterprise Of the carnival
committee and the hospitality of the
people of Santa Cruz.
Indeed, there have been no words other
than OF praise spoken for the delightful
entertainment of the visitors. In return
for its enterprise in sending THE CALL to
this city at early breakfast time during
the carnival the residents and visitors
have been liberal in their patronage of
the paper and unstinted in their COM
mendation of the effort made by that
iournal-that acts as well as speaks for
all.
That was a bit of enterprise" said
Frank w atterson OF the press committee,
that Will long be remem bered,
Judge Logan said THE CALL had en-
deared itself to the people OF Santa Cruz
by its enterprise.
W H. Lamb, who designed the Monitor
and the Merrimac, remarked that THE
CALLS early visits were equaled only by
its graphic pictures of the events OF the
carnival And thus one might repeat the
words OF hundreds of citizens of Santa
Cruz.