The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-01-10
THE TOURNAMENT OF ROSES.
HELD ATPASADENA, CAL,. ON NEW
YEARS. DAY.
A Mile or More of TaIly-hos, Drays.
Traps, Floats, Phaotons and Other
Carriages Buried Under Millions Of
Flowers of Every Kind.

| Flowers of Every Kind.
| Pasadena, Cal, Jan. 2.-Perhaps some
| day the ones who have the manage
ment of transportation lines in this vi
! cinity will find out that when Pasadena
has Tournament of Roses" it will
be well for them to wake UP, get up
steam, and fix things so that the peo-
pie of all the country around can go to
the show.
Just at present these good men are
hiding somewhere, contriving excuses,
and wondering why SO much should
have been expected Of them; meanwhile
their very locomotives are putting
dreadfully, almost overcome by un-
heard Of exertions. There is good
deal of room in Pasadena, which is for
tunate, for somehow the sightseers ar
rived--cars or no cars-such crowds OF
them that every avenue OF approach
and the roof of every trolley car was
black with them while all the vehicles
that have ever been imported into this
country since the time of Don Pho Pico
were apparently pressed into service,
and every quadruped that could draw
anything was obliged to draw it, no
close inquiry being made as to pedigree,
or previous condition of servitude.
If one could have been aloft in bal
loon a continuous procession might
have been seen covering without inter-
val the whole nine miles of avenue
which connects Pasadena with the an
Gent Angel City. and every other road
from everywhere would have been
found to be in much the same condi-
ton. But the show was well worth all
the trouble, a mile and more Of tally
hos, drags, traps, floats, phaetous, and
carriages, every one SO covered with
decorations as almost to hide the horses
and the occupants, made indeed a
brave display, while bicycles whose
wheels apparently grew and blossomed
in some flower bed 1anked the process
sion, and carried overhead all manner
of floral devices. There We're millions
Of flowers of every kind and sort, they
were everywhere in heaps and loads,
and though the vehicles Were buried
under chrysanthemums, callas, poniset-
tas. roses of every variety, smilax and
what not, there were plenty left with
which to lombard the passing floats,
littering the streets and pertaining the
air.
Among so many notable ones what
can be said in detail, or to which be
given most praise, the school displays
were wonderful in variety, and prodigal
- ~ n 49,
and confreres--among their imitation
English scenery-were amusing, the
music from a travelling floral arbor
whose support was but bicycle, and
whose motive power was the musician.
was as good as could be expected from
one who had so much on his mind and
still more on his head.
The perambulating landscapes were
seemingly sections of some summer
posy garden gone astray, and all the
high dignitaries had rose petals by the
bushe poured on them, and into their
carriages.
Such good natured crowd, with no
fault finders in evidence, presumably
they had gone to see the Mississippi
river freeze over, but pioknickers were
ubiquitous, every convenient tree had
circle of them, while those who like
the foolish virgins had neglected to
bring supplies with them besieged the
hotels and restaurants, which were sim
ply overrun with them, and could only
serve the hungry ones by squads
and details. Truly it was
great show, well contrived, skill
fully carried out, and magnificently
to the delight and perfect
Of everybody, without the
least mishap.
And afterwards the thousands reach
ed their homes as best they could, on
trains that were cast away by mere
weight of numbers, by electric cars
which travelled under the good natured
of the travellers, with little
assistance from the bewildered conduc-
tors, by horse, mule, and pony power,
and best and safest of all on foot.
J. r. B.