The San Francisco call., 1896-04-21

masked men will assail the city, surging
in from Hazards Pavilion to capture and
carry away whatever natives may COM
mand ransoms. The police will be power
less and the marines who survived last
week 8 battle of the roses have not arrived
from Admiral Beardslee's flagship, the
Philadelphia.
huge cage will be hauled along, and
IN that the prisoners will make up a
strongly assorted collection. 1t is said
That one corpulent and equally VIOLENT
member OF the police force Is determined
to face and resist the pirate horde, and, of
course, he will ride in the cage when his
fight is ended. Modern pirates need a
Typewriter to take care of their diplomatic
correspondence concerning ransoms, and
fair young maiden of the key board letters
Will be among the captives.
The intention is to make the invasion
realistic as may be, and apparently serious
resistance will be offered by the hurrledly
organized squads of citizens. Not all the
maskers will be in the guise of pirates, and
the costumes will include some of the most
elaborate of the old time English court.
In the maskers' party, led by Ron
covieri's band, will be several local organ
izations and body of 200 or more COM
mercial travellers who are in the city. The
great fear on the part of the citizens is that
the commercial men will take everything
in sight.
A Chinese band has been organized for
the parade, and on this or some succeeding
occasion a Chinese dragon will be dis
played. The dragon is 800 feet long, and
its power of locomotion will be supplied
by $50 Chinaman concealed within the de-
vice.
The fiesta queen will arrive at Hazard s
Pavilion tomorrow evening. After the
opening selections by Roncovieri's band,
R. L. Del Vale will greet her majesty in
loyal speech.
The Mayor OF Los Angeles will present
a silver key OF the city, which will be ac-
cepted by the Prime Minister, T. E. Glib
bons. After the ceremonies Roncovieri's 8
band will give it's first illustrated concert
of operatic and patriotic music. The
different numbers will be illustrated upon
large canvas by the aid of electric
apparatus.
The fiesta parade of Wednesday after
noon will display the military bodies, fire
departments and fraternal organizations
OF tnlS SectlOn.
The Spanish caballeros, or horsemen,
will be as picturesque as at Santa Barbara,
and more numerous. There will be large
tribe of Arizona Indians and Chinese
section.
The concert at the pavilion on Wednes-
day will be by an opera of fifty musicians,
with a chorus of 800 voices. Harley
Hamilton is the director and the soloists
are Andrew Bogart, Mrs. Maude Berry
Fisher and Mrs. Charles Dickman.
There will be athletic games on Thurs
day.
The "Land of the Sun" parade on
Thursday evening promises to combine the
dazzling nature of the Admission day cleo
trio display at Sacramento with the beauty
of Santa Barbara's floral pageant.
The Friday celebration will be patriotic.
Fourteen thousand school children, after
saluting the Fiesta Queen, will march to
Sixth-street Park, sing National airs and
hoist the flag. There will be display of
fireworks in the evening. The other events
on the programme are the ball on Friday
evening and the floral parade and battle of
roses on Saturday.