The San Francisco call., 1897-01-02
Merry Thousands Gather to View
the Passing Column and
Applaud.
Under Sunny Skies the Southland
People Engage in Hold y
Festivities.

| houses along the line of parade were Law
| ishly decorated with streamers and pen
| dants of yellow and blue bunting-tour-
nament colors-and the fronts. of many
| buildings were covered with pepper
boughs, cyress and ferns from the arroyo
| Private residences showed tournament
| colors, and great variety of badges, yell
| low and blue, were worn by pedestrians
all of whom carried bouquets. Thousands
| of visitors from Los Angeles and sur
rounding towns taxed the capacity of the
railroads and electric cars.
! The divisions of the parade formed on
outlying streets at 10 o'clock, and the
pageant started at IL. 1t was headed by a
! platoon of police. followed by aides of the
| day, Chief Marshall Edwin: Sterns and
! directors of the tournament association.
| Ali were mounted on thoroughbred
! horses. Their costumes were of white
duck with yellow hats. They bore blue
banners, and their white saddle-cloths
were covered with rosebuds- of varying
| colors, blue and yellow satin ribbons and
rosettes decorating the horses, each Of
which wore a neck collar OF roses ana
| smilaX. .< =.
The Pasadena City band came next in
full uniform, followed by the :Americus
| Club in uniform of white duck, yellow
braid and decorations. OF yellow mar
guerites. Each carried a flag with mar
guerites on the end of the staff; There
were eighty men in line. This organiza-
tion was awarded first prize for the best
company entry Ii was followed by the
Knights of Pythias in full uniform, with
A. ct ms hr.r
ceived the second prize. ~
The four and six in hand division fol-
lowed, with Colonel L. p. Hanson as
marshal, mounted on a fine serrel. His
decorations were white daisies and ferns.
| In this division there were twenty entries,
! all elaboraiely decorated. The most note
worthy was that of Hotel Green, a six
in-hand English drag drawn by bays.
| The coach was covered with pink and
white carnations, the wheels being almos t
solid mass OF flowers. The harness and
| reins were wrapped i'll pink satin, and
white satin saddle cloths with the mono
gram III. G. in pink, covered each horse.
/ The coach was occupied by nine young
! ladies in white gowns and pink hats and
boas and carrying Gala. This received
the first prize tor six-in-hands.
The Spaulding coach, six-in-hand, was
and white La France roses and smllax
and on the vehicle rode nine young ladies
in pink and white gowns and white hats,
with parasols trimmed with pink roses
and white smilax. This coach received
the second prize.
The Throop Polytechnic entry was a
| six-in-hand drawn by bays. Its colors
were red and white. the flowers used being
red geraniums. The harness of the horses
| was covered with red. Twelve young
ladies garbed in white, with white para
soils covered with red chiffon, occupied
the coach, which was awarded first prize
for the best sclool entry.
Tue most elaborate four-in-hand was
one entered by the Los Angeles fiesta COM
mIttee, a drag occupied by the conf plittee
and drawn by bays. The body of the car
rage was completely hidden by masses
of red geraniums and green. This re-
ceived first prize for four-in-hands.
The Los Angeles Cham Der of Commerce
rig, decorated, with yellow marguerites
and yellow pampas plumes, took second
prize. The Painter coach, in yellow daisies
and smilax, was :nlrd. There were great
| number of entries in this class, all beauti-
| full with floral dcorations, the principal
flowers used being roses, geraniums,
fu .chias and daisies.
The equestrian division followed, with
| Dr. f. F. Rowland on q fine black horse
division included forty male and female
\ riders and the decorations were unique
and varied. Miss Lila Dalrymple. and
Mrs. Hooper won the. first and second
ladies' prizes respectively and ]. M. Schaf-
fer and Roy Peck the mems prizes. Miss
Dairy ymple, on the same horse, won the
same prize last year. Hers was fine
black steed decorated with scarlet gerani-
| ums.
The Seventh Regiment band followed
| this division and preceded the Valley
Hunt Cub entries. These included
twenty elegant turnouts of different varIe-
ties. Each of these victorias. drags, carts,
surreys, traps and coaches was elegantly
aad lavishly decorated. That of E. +.
Hurlbut, a victoria covered with red car
nations and smilax and drawn by two
bays; a spider belonging to G. b. Scoville
and decorated in red point cetia a surrey
owned by William Stanton and made
beautiful with marguerites, and spider
drawn by two blacks, tandem, owned by
Horace NJ. Dobbins and decorated with
yellow daisies, were the most noteworthy.
For the finest club entry the Valley Hunt
was awarded first prize.
There followed seven floats entered by
the Conservatory of Music. 0. Stewart
Taylor, the director, was awarded first
prize. His float was.decorated in Spanish
Mexican style, its colors being red, green
used. The float was partially covered
with bunting, and upon it was erected a
tier of seats accommo odating sixty sin rers
and guitar and mandolin players. The
men wore Mexican costumes, the ladies
black and yellow gowns and Spanish lace
mantilas. The latter carried fans and
during their progress through the streets
sang Mexican national airs, playing gui.
tar and mandolin accompaniment. They
were accompanied by six outriders in
Mexican costumes. This float received
first prize. On the Columbia School float,
seats were arranged in tiers and occurred
by children in variegated costumes ar
ranged to form a rainbow. Tn s TOOK Sec
ond prize. The high school float depicted
a scene from "Evaneelin The Wilson
Schools entry represented war and peace,
and the Garfield supplied the Old Woman
in Shoe, with other nursery characters
scattered about. The floral decorations on
| all of the floats were most beautiful.
| Evangeline was awarded third prize.
There were tandem, pair-horse and
single.horse divisions. III which there
were about forty entries. In the pair
horses, A. B. Post won first prize, B. O..
| Kendall second and the Painter trap
| third. Each of these entries was elaborate
| in floral decorations.
The parade included a bicycle division,
| first prize being awarded Mr.. and Mrs.