Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-02
ROSE TOURNAMENT PROVES
SPECTACLE OF RARE BEAUTY
VAST THRONG WITNESSES CHARIOT RACES
Grand Pageant Sweeps Maestcally Down From Foothills
Through Avenues Lined With Eager Spectators-PrO-
fusion OF Flowers Decorate Beautiful Floats

) tivity. Persons desirous Of having 3
! place In the parade hurried to the
: street and made their entries up &c
! the last minute.
Half decorated vehicles took thei,
places pell nell and eager hands went
on with the interrupted work of pre-.
paration. Belated participants prahoed
UP with all sorts OF excuses.
| Messengers We're SCurrying In all di-
rections in an effort to have the line
start on time
The waiting crowd Of contestants
We're gradually whipped into shape and
the true state of affairs became APP
parent There were more entries on the
ground than at the opening of last
years magnificent parade There were
more flowers and the croakers who ha q
insisted that the frosts and freezing
weather OF the past weeks had ruined
the floral feature of the day were
promptly relegated to the rear The
one thing which seemed missing wa :
In the line of private equlpages. Here
the number was small. But the elab-
! orateness of the floats and school
| equipages more than made UP for this
one lack The management was satis-
fled.
Record Breaking Crowd
1t was shortly after ii O'Clock when
| the watchedLfor signal was given for
the parade to emerge from tho hal
| lowed precincts of Orange Grove boule-
ward and set out upon its triumphal
! march through the city on its way to
| tournament park.
1t was good-natured crowd which
| awaited the gittering pageaent, lining
| In solid phalanX both sides of the street
! and flooding into the roadway when
ever the police momentarily relaxed
their vigilance. Today's crowd came
late and glance at the streets at 10
o'clock was productive of chill which
did not come from the cold breezes
from the mountains.
1t was fear that the day of DAYS
for Pasadena was to be frost. But
in a little While the crowd began to
come and by the time the head of the
parade topped the West Colorado street
hill it was all there.
Seventeen years Of New Years day
tournaments have led the people to ex-
pect big crowds but today's was lit
tie larger than they had counted on,
being freely estimated at 10000 more
than last year. AS the head of the.
parade came into sight the monster
crowd began to shout, and the roar
grew as it went eastward along the
crowded street and the people in the
u'SGhhce TedllHeu IIldJ tnelr walt was
over.
Autos on Right of Line
Profiting by last years experience
the automobile section of the parade
was given the right of way and Mar
shall Tracy G. Drake In his own hand
somely decorated machine led the hale
dozen beautiful automobiles which
made up this division. Every few hum
cred feet the motor machines would
countermarch and thus keep within
reasonable distance of the slower NOV
ing vehicles behind.
Master Linnard. son of President Lin
nard of the board of trade the Col
umbia school auto aud the big touring
car loaded with Representatives of the
Los Angeles chamber of commerce.
each of these entries were greeted
with applause. In the Los Angeles car
were President J. o. Koepfli, Secretary
Frank Virgins. Directors r, Ii. Her
ron, Niles Pease, j. j. Storey w J. |
Washburn, A. b. Cass. Dan Murphey,
a. w. Skinner and Willis Booth.
The first division. so called. was |
headed by Chief of Police John A. Pink |
ham and seven patrolmen. all mounted |
and making very creditable appear |
ance. The Crown City band was the |
musical escort of this division and was |
followed by number of carriages con- |
tanning representatives of the local |
board of trade and the Merchants as
sociation. The vehicles were modestly
and tastefully decorated.
Firemen Are AppIauded
Grand Marshal Miller and his aides
and the officers and directors of the
Tournament association were next in
line and rode spirited horses, decora ted
with bands and saddles of flowers. The
men wore uniform hats of white with
flower boutonnieres.
The second division was given over
to the several wagons, engines and
,arts of the Pasadena fire department..
The floral decorations of the several
equipages being on a scale of mag
1ificence rarely If ever excelled in like
oarades in this city. Chief Clifford
lrove at the head of his men and was
,verywhere greeted with applause. The
Ire laddies dropped out of the parade
1t Hudson street and hurried back to
heir respective engine houses to be
eady for any emergency or fire alarm.
Chiaffrelli himself rode at the head
II his splendid band of forty pieces,
leading the third division and provid-
ng some most delightful marching i,
music. In this division came the !
ournament master, F. S. Allen, on
whose readiness and quickness of
'ended so greatly. With him were a
lalf dozen heralds, attired in Roman I
ostumes and frequently enlivening
he march with their trumpet calls. !
Cowboys on Hand {
The aides to the tournament master ;
nd a number of horse tanners, these r
asst intended to assist in stopping the 7
unning fours in the chariot races, the q
abelleros who were entered to race in 4
ypical Mexican fashion, and the sleek T
boxing polo ponies, which have a place I
II the race program with the others.
Then came the beautiful float upon {
Ihich sat the queen of the tournament.
This was an autocar covered with
milax and white and yellow marguer-
les. The queens robe was of white
satin and with 1t she wore
cloak Of white satin trimmed with
ale gold. Her coronet was of yellow
oses. The maids We're gowned in
White with touches of violet. and in
heir hands they carried white rods
pped with punches of violets. The
utriders wore costumes of Louis XIV.
me, in white and violet and white
attn hats. Miss Elsie Armitage was
he charming queen and Miss Beth
'arrows was her maid of honor. The
ther maids We're Helen Canright,
Iaria PutnaYa Tannia Cornantor |