The San Francisco call., 1896-08-28
Minstrel Entertainment for the
Benefit of the Water Car.
nival Fund.
THE Two.DAY PROGRAMME
Magnitude of the Celebration Taxes
the Endurance and Resources of
the Management.

STOCKTON, CAL, Aug. 2.-The gen.
eral committee having charge of the COM
ing Native Sons celebration met tonight
and listened to the reports of the sub
committees.
The arrangements are complete for the
minstrel performance which is TO be given
at the Yosemite Theater next Wednesday
night for the benefit of the water canival
fund. There was e splendid rehearsal to.
night. The box-sheet will be open at 9
o'clock next Monday morning.
The following is the programme for the
celebration adopted:
September S-Afternoon: Reception to
incoming parlors. Evening: Grand torch
light procession on the arrival of the San
Francisco parlors.
September 9-Parade at 10 A. NJ. literary
exercises at the Yosemite Theater i'm
mediately after the parade; bicycle races
at Goodwater Grove at 80 P. NJ; cham
pionship regatta on Stockton channel at
500 P. NJ; water carnival on Stockton
channel at P. NJ. ball at the pavilion at
9:45 Pm.
Chairman Grunsky of the entertainment
committee reported that the programme
for the literary exercises to be held in the
Yosemite Theater had been arranged.
This will consist of music by Rltzau's
band, prayer by Past Grand President
Frank h. Dunno, the presentation to the
audience OF Grand President Gesford by
Grand Marshal Nutter, song by clever
quartet, an address of welcome by Mayor
Baggs and the response by Grand Presi-
dent Gesford. There will be number of
other selections by the band.
Tonight another special committee was
appointed to raise more funds, for the gen.
eral committee has found that the cele-
bration is going to be carried out on such
a great scale that more money will be re-
quired TO properly put into effect the
numerous schemes that have been decided
on.
Chairman Grant of the carnival COM
mittee reported that :he parade on the
water would be so long that the end of it
could not leave McLeods Lake until the
first part of the pageant had reached the
head of Stockton Channel on lis way back
from the Hghtship that is to be stationed
far down the channel below the lower
warehouses.
This means that the parade on the
water will be longer than any that has
ever DScu S6eu Ou Luc water III lHIS CLdle.
The taGnery, which is located near the
head of the lake, has offered to furnish
power for operating the hundreds of cleo
trio lights that are to be placed on the
bulkhead at the head of the lake.
The street department mas been busy
cleaning up all the streets and avenues,
that the city may have q cleanIy appear
ance when the Native Sons visit it.
Already decorations have been placed
on a mum Der of the big main str cts and
stores and the city is now beginning to
look in gala attire.
The Native Daughters are busy COM
pleting their arrangements. They will
parade with the visiting brothers and will
look very pretty in their white duck
dresses, sailor hats and white parasols.
The decoration committee has added
another feature to the illumination of the
courthouse.
Every room in it is lighted with natural
gas, and all the globes will be colored red,
white, blue and yellow, and every window
will be opened so that the entire building
will be one blaze within and without of
colored lights. With the hundreds OF in
candescent lights on the dome and the
strings of Japanese lanterns reaching from
the roof to the archways, erected at the
six entrances of the square. the big granite
structure will present a decidedly beauti-
full appearance.