The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-01
The Return of Their Delegates
to the Grand Parlor Is
Awaited.
UNIQUE FEATURES SUGGESTED.
To Be the Grandest Celebration of Its
Kind Ever Held in the
State.


day evening the Native Sons will hold a
meeting in their hall in the Austin build
ing to hear the formal report of the dele
gates to the Grand Parlor at San Luis
Obispo. These are District Attorney Nut
ter, George Cats and H. R. McNoble. At
that time the matter of arranging for the
entertainment of the crowds that will be
in this city on Admission day will be
brought up, and probably an executive
committee of six or more will be appointed
to carry out whatever plan of entertain
ment that may be decided upon.
L. E. Frankenheimer has been one OF
the most active workers in securing guar
antees of funds to carry out the Admls-
sion day celebration. He said this morn
ing that the members of the executive
committee would probably be made the
heads OF the various subcommittee to be
appointed on decoration, reception, enter
tainment and the Ike, so that there will
always be some one on hand to report
what the subcommittee are doing When
the executive committee meets.
ut Is very hard just now to say what
the main feature of the celebration here
will be, said Mr.. Frankenheimer. ''There
have been several suggestions made,
among them that of holding another car
nlVal on very large scale. Sacramento
had an electrical carnival last year, and we
could use electricity to great advantage
here IN decorating the city. We shall
probably do this wherever we can within
the amount of money we have for the pur-
nose of display. An immense electrical
arch at the head of the channel would be
pretty feature, while clear down the
channel the heads of the piles could be
utilized by stringing lines of electric-lights
along the banks. There is no end to the
display that could be made here on the
water.
81 understand that Sacramento is going
to hold regatta there on Admission day.
We will see if they will not abandon the
idea and let us hold one on larger scale
than has ever before been attempted. We
did all we could to aid them last year, and
L think they will do this to aid us this
time. They are too near Stockton to do
anything to detract from what entertain
ment we have here, and besides We have
the finest body of water in the State for
rowing. We may ask the Stockton Ath.
letic Association to take in hand the
arrangement of a monster field day here.
and get State meet of the clubs belong
ing to the Pacific Athletic Association.
All these matters will be discussed by the
members of Stockton Parlor lust az soon
as our delegates return from San Luis
Obispo.
There will be an immense amount of
work, and for that reason we will proba-
bly, get to work without delay to plan
what TO do on Admission day. The parlor
is open to any suggestions that NAV be
made as to what would be fitting enter
tainment TO provide for the thousands
who will be in the city on the 9Th, 9th and
10th of next September"
There have already been a number of
very valuable suggestions made as TO what
sort of demonstration to hold. Among
them the idea of another water carnival
has been advanced, with tableaux on the
waters of McLeod's Lake depicting scenes
from Shakespeare and other dramatists'
and poets works, such as Cleopatra barge,
and other things of a like nature
Electrical fountains can be easily ar
ranged in the lake, whose waters are
never very deep, and the shores, which are
wooded on one side, could be turned into
as pretty scene az can be arranged any,
where. Last year the Fourth of July COM
mittee, with only few hundred dollars to
operate with, made 2 very creditable dis
play on the night of the Fourth. for the
reason that this city has natural advan-
tages over nearly any other for any dis
play on the water.
Mr.. FraDkenheimer suggested to-day
that all the launches from Belvedere could
be brought up here, as those who partici-
pated in the carnival held there some
time ago had all the araphernalia yet that
was used in that display, and could utilize
it here on Admission day night.
1t is very probable that the Board of
Supervisors will undertake the work of
decorating the courthouse, and if this work
is done properly With electrical effects 1t
can be seen for twenty miles about, as the
country here is so level.
That the citizens will unite with the ma
tives to make the celebration the greatest
thing of its kind that has ever been held
in the State there can be no doubt, and the
work will be mapped out very soon by the
committee from the local parlor.