The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-05
Sixth Street Will Be in
a Blaze of
8. Glory.
Rockets and Red Fire Will
..:. :: illuminate the Air
Brightly.
Banners Will Wave, Stores Will Be
Decorated and a Band Will Play
TO Thousands.

Sixth street will be in blaze of glory
tonight. That important business street
Will be as light as day from Market street
to Folsom. The public spirit Of the mer-
chants and property-owners will be mani
: tested conspicuously. Flags ana banners
will wave, fireworks and red fire will
brighten the sky, dense and enthusiastic
crowds will gather, stores will appear
handsomely decorated, and a street cele-
bration, which viii be memorable, en-
bracing all these and other features, will
signalize the illumination OF the thor.
oughfare with electric lights.
The preparations have been made on q
lifting scale. Already there are strings of
flags and banners suspended overhead.
extending the full width from curb TO
curb between Market and Folsom streets.
Today the merchants will work busily on
the decoration OF their stores and tn e
adornmeut o. their windows. Thousand
OIL lanterns Will be placed on lines already
prepared. In addition to the collective
:. dIspiay OF fireworks there will be indi-
yldual.displays provided by the enterpris-
. ing rH erchants, who have determined to
'sfsdo:the thing up brown"
Nothing but bad weather can prevent
. thousands from all parts OF the City from
e ~. We" i0C Ol4AllduL ana Sl2NlIcant
: Spectacle. 1t will be significant in that it
MARKS the first important step in a pro-
: gTessIve' series. All the merchants have
:; CON trlbuted TO provide that the street shall
: :be.thoroughly lighted for period OF sig
months az least. They are determined as
amt Ihat the street shall be properly
paHed: also, and be brought fully abreast
05:the march of improvement in every re-
= spect: Paving will not be ALL The street
needs an electric car line to supersede the
spreseht ANTICIPATED and ramshackle horse
car :line, which Is an eYesore to the pro-
? gTessiTe.
:: Last night the street for the last time
seemed 'd1ngy. compared with the other
.Eraat business streets OF the City Last
hight. every one was gleeful by reason OF
" :qfeaseq antlcipatlons that a change of an
In Portant nature was about to come.
President Merle, Vice Presidents II. Els
b&ci aRd ID. Plant, Secretary Jacobs and
D.. Treasurer Wolf of the Sixth la
sgTorement Club, were in high spirits. for
Ehe work OF the improvement club was the
!: popular theme OF conversation and the de-
sire:Tor Improvement and the determine
LION TO have Improvement was in the air
:: Lhe' prediction was freely made that
: SIXTH street Will be the most brilliantly
Aghted OF all the City streets. Every one
viii pave chance to see all that there is
IL? BE seen and to be delighted. The elec-
tElc:lignts over the middle of the street
viii be only IS feet apart, there being
Nineteen ina distance OF three blocks
D.. The band will move up and down the
street, drawn by four horses, the band
wagon being electrically Illuminated and
the, horses will be decorated. Red and
other colored fires and the pyrotechnics
will.be stationed in various places. Every
one should see the show. which will be
worthy of general attention. The follow
ing merchants will illuminate and dec
crate their places of business in honor Of
the occasion:
First bloek-W. B. Cluf, grocer, No. II; Mrs