The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-01-24
HER GOLDEN JUBILEE.
San Francisco Arrayed in Her
Gayest Garb.
CITY DRAPED IN YELLOW
All Previous Attempts at Celebration
and Decoration Have Been Eclipsed.
A Monster Parade the Feature
of the Opening Day.

San Francisco, Jan. 23.-Having salts
factorily completed a fortnights en-
gagement with the decorators in honor
of CALIFORNIA; golden jubilee, San Fran
cisco appeared to-day to be afioat with
flags and bunting. Never has the city
looked SO well, from the critical stand
point of the carnival lover, as in the
gayest of Sunday garb she awaits the
weeks festivities, which will begin at
sunrise tomorrow. All previous at
tempts at decorating the city, all the
arrangements for former celebrations
and jubilations have been eclipsed by
the elaborate and artistic preparations
for the celebration of the 50th anniver-
sary of the day of gold in California.
On every hand are displayed large por-
traits of James Marshall, who picked
up the first gold nugget in California
In the year 1913. the paintings and
statues of this pioneer of the gold fields
being draped with the color of the pre-
cious metals discovered in the golden
state. Yellow, the shade of the state
flower, the golden poppy, as well as of
the precious nugget, is the civic color in
this week of jubilee. All the streets are
already a-fiutter with 1t, but tomorrow
there will be flowing, ripping, dancing
streams of the states own favorite hue.
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portion Of the city are stretched, at fire.
quent intervals, rows of many colored
flags. There are arches and pillars, in
scriptionss and devices, waving stars and
stripes, California bears on a white
background and the flags of all nations
displayed from every store and CONNER
cial building. San Francisco has out
dcne herself, and the visitors who are
crowding the hotels and filling the
streets are loud in their praises.
The publications will begin at sunrise
Tomorrow with the firing of the ma
tional salue of Fl guns at each of the
United States Notifications about the
bay. The day is legal holiday by
proclamation of Governor Budd, and
the principal feature of the opening of
the jubilee will be monster parade.
Fifty floats. illustrative of California S
mining history and mining prospects.
will be in line, and there will be 80
bands, and it is estimated that the pro-
cession will be four miles long, so that
the head of the parade will have been
reviewed by Governor Budd on Van Ness
avenue and dismissed before the end of
the line moves from its starting point
near the ferries on Market street.
A jubilee concert will follow the pa
rade; there will be literary and musical
exercises. ball under the auspices of
the Native Sons of the Golden West, a
banquet by the California Pioneers and
a fireworks display by the civic COM
mittee. On each succeeding day of the
coming week there will be some novelty
for the entertainment of visitors.
Games and athletic contests, flower
| show a sham battle at the Preside, a
| Wild West show daily are some of the
| features of jubilee week.
The elimination of the golden jubilee
will be the opening of the mining fair
where will be shown the mining pro-
ducts of every county in the state. yalu-
able nuggets. practical illustrations OF
every phase of mining life and all kinds
/ of mining machinery.