The San Francisco call., 1896-04-22

folds, pennants and stars. The great
| golden eagle on the Times building has
his massive neck encircled by the tricol-
ored bunting. This bird seems to realize
that he is in the midst of gala days for
his adopted city and delights to contem-
plate in mute silence the animation and
hilarity going on below. The Herald s
double arch at Third and Broadway is not
complete, but, with the name in great
block letters all studded with electric
lamps and finished out with a pyramid
bedecked with the colors, festoons and
palms, it can readily be seen that the
whole will give very charming effect
at night. The Evening Express, the Jour
nal and the Record all deserve special
mention, but only few of the many su-
perb decorations may be mentioned here.
The Machinery Supply Company build
ing at First and Broadway is elegantly
decorated, the bunting being formed into
panels fans and stars. The Title Guaran-
tee and Trust Company, at 100 South
Broadway, must have employed real art
fists to superintend its decorations. They
are unique and highly attractive. So,
too, are the offices OF Easton, Eidridge g.
Co. at 121 South Broadway and Gardner &
Dow, real-estate agents, at 139 South
Broadway. At the City Hall pIumes, stars
and the American colors are blended in
pleasing and delightful harmony. An
elaborate arch greets the view at the en-
trance to the Boston Dry-goods Store,
while the building is immensely and pro-
fusely decorated. At the entrance to the
Bradbury block the name over the arch is
wrought in roses, pinks and poppes amid
trailing green vines, bordered with palms,
which give it charming appearance
Chinese lanterns, bunting and flags project
from its many windows.
The Chamber of Commerce building is
study for an artist. There are crescents,
folds, fans and scores of unique designs of
la fiesta and National colors and two
dozen fagpoies aloft, all supporting flut-
tering emblems Of nations. The arch is
ornamented with stalks of cane, festooned
with grasses and sections of ears of corn
attached thereto and strings of beads COM
posed of peanuts.
At different points along Broadway,
Spring and Main streets are huge squares
formed by means of wires, around which
are fastened the fluffy plume of the
pampas, the tricolors alternating. Strung
upon wires within these squares made of
charming plumes OF bright colors are /:
'Viva la Fiesta, 1896" Observation
stands, with seats at 25 and so cents, have
been erected on many vacant lots on all
the principal streets.
To return to individual decorations.
The most elaborately decorated store on
Broadway is that of the Los Angeles Fur
nit Thara &c VII
in colorIng rarely seen in street decora.
tions. The work was done under the
supervision OF ]. G. Bannister, head deco.
rator of the company. The colored fabrics
are punched so that the red and the vel
low and the green are distinctly separate
and>extend from the top of the building to
the sidewalk. The first story is a dream in
coloring, the decorations havoring of
Napoleonic times. The great show-win-
| dows of the store are also very tastefulIy
| decorated.
The Vile de Paris, on Broadway, be-
tween Second and Third streets, is gor-
geously decorated. The great canopy, ex-
tending the whole frontage of the store
room and covering the sidewalk, is rich in
its blending of fiesta colorings.
The Harper & Reynolds hardware estab-
lishment on North Main street was hand
somely decorated this morning, the fine
effect being produced by long columns of
fiesta-colored bunting and elaborate ar
rangements of the scarlet, yellow and
green in the windows.
One of the most attractive and artistic
displays in front decorations is that of the
/ Southern California Furniture Company
!, on South Main street The artist hare h as
not lost sight of National patriotism, but
with the fiesta colors, has also displayed a
commendable degree of regard for the EN-.
biems held dear by all lovers of.sUncIe
SAM" Over the entrance is a real eagle
with his pinions outstretched, covering
cannon and ball, as if ready for defense
10 the left is picture OF George and
Martha Washington, while on the right is
displayed likeness of Christopher Co.
lumbus.
The rich fiesta colorings in buntinp Q
create most pleasing effect on the build.
ing at the corner of Fifth and Broad way.
occupied by the Los Angeles Lighting
Company. At night the front of the
building will be illuminated by coIored
lights.
The courthouse is not upon one of the
main business streets, still its location i
such that the lavish fiesta decorations are
very noticeable even at great distance.
Leading hotels, such as the Hollenbeck
Nadeau and Westminster, are elaborately
decorated with fiesta colors.
Manager Pridham of Wells. Fargo &, Co
has given the pany's office, at the cor.
ner of Main and Third streets. gala an.