The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-06-14
SEE SANTA CRUZ.

The GREAT convention at St. Louis and
the less important but not less noisy one
to be held at Sacramento will engage the
greater part of public attention during the
coming week and will fill most of the
space of the newspapers. This, however,
should, not cause any one to overlook the
festival at Santa Cruz, which, beginning
on Wednesday, will close the week with
DAYS of pleasure and nights of revelry and
merriment.
The Santa Cruz fete is unique among
the newly established festivals of the State
and is destined to become one of the most
famous as it is already one of the most
enjoyable. Conducted mainly upon the
water it has all the giamor of beauty and
poesy inseparable from that element.
Launched upon the waves, whether of
lake or river or open sea, man seems to
leave behind with the land more than half
the heaviness of life. Borne up on buoy
ant waters that yield everywhere and yet
everywhere give support there comes that
sensation of floating which is one Of the
most delightful that mortals know. Thus
it is that festivals upon the waters have
been more attractive TO the Imagination,
more often pictured and more often sung
than any other. 1t is the subtle charm of
her canals and lagoons more than her art
or her history that has made Venice dear
to men, 1.-The sweet spot of all festivity,
the revel of the earth, the masque OF
Italy"
At Santa Cruz the charm of water is to
be heightened by every accessory of adorn-
ment and of pleasure that is known TO
the holiday-makers of our generation.
Flowers, flags and maidens fair, bands OF
music, parades and dances, far-fashing
lights of thousand hues and rockets that
will fill the air with a rain of fiery stars
all these will combine and blend 10 form a
glittering panorama around the central
scene where over the crystal lake will
sweep the stately pageant of pleasure as
the Queen of the festival moves amid the
plaudits of the crowd to take her place
upon her throne and rulethe joyous realm.
OF what occurs at st. Louis or Sacra-
mento the average man and woman can
learn all that interests them well enough
by reading THE CALL, but we advise every
body to see Santa Cruz. The exultant
harmony that swells along the Mississippi
and the noisy chin music that will make
discordant echoes on the banks of the Sac
ramento can be we'll enough expressed in
our reports, but it will be but poorly in
deed that the eloquence of words trans
lates the raptures of the low, sweet strains
that float in the perfumed air above the
softly gliding currents of the San Lorenzo.
Those who go to the convention cities will
pant with heat and fret and fume amid
the dust and uproar of clamorous crowds,
but those who go to Santa Cruz will dwell
amid delights and pant only with Joy as
they 'chase the glowing hours with fly
ing feet"
Soon there will be enough and more
than enough of political excitement for
everybody. Before the GUNNER passes the
whole United States will be a political
convention with every voter a delegate,
and half of them rearing on the stump or
the street-eorners believing for q hearing
Before that time comes it will be well for
all who can afford it to recreate them
selves. The Santa Cruz festival comes at
a most apt and fitting time for that pur-.
pose. 1t viii relieve the tension of the
popular mind over the conventions by it's
present pleasures and its suggestions of
good times to come. 'TThere will DE lifting
there" as the old song says, and for every
one who comes welcome, a frolic and a
California time.