Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-02

out from the foothills Of the snow
clad Sierra Madres, winding through
| the cool recesses of the fragrant orange
! groves, scattering a flood of brightness
and beauty wherever it went, the roya'
blossom parade of the seventeenth an
| nual Tournament of Roses Of the
! Crown city swept down upon the beau
tiful settlement of the hills yesterday
| morning.
Winding through the avenues like o
! glttering dragon and heralded by n
| joyful blast of golden trumpets, the
| pageant was welcomed by a mighty
| throng which had assembled at Pasa-
| dena to pay homage.
| And there, while her subjects sent
| their plaudits echoing clear to the dark
! canyons OF the frowning mountains.
| the queen Of beauty and grace, who
| will rule for the coming year as the
| tournament regent, held her gentle
court, and, with her many attendants,
watched the chariot races.
The day, however, proved far from
satisfactory, and many were the cold
and weary merrymakers who returned
to Los Angeles last night and has
tened to their homes to thaw out.
The crowd began to assemble at the
Pacific Electric station at Sixth and
Main streets at O'Clock in the morn
ing, and from that time on until noon
the crush was intense. But the Hunt
ington employees conducted traffic
splendidly and very few accidents oc-
Cured to mar the day.
At 8 o'clock the crush was at it's
worst and men, women and children
lined the streets for blocks in a vain
attempt to get n seat in the cars. Many
took chances by jumping aboard be-
fore the returning cars had reached
the barns. These people cheerfully
paid an extra fare and were contented.
During the heavy rush OF traffic
Henry L. Huntington, the railroad
nagnate, took UP 81 prominent position
outside the railing at the Pacific Elec-
trio depot and personally conducted the
work of filling the cars.
Fully fifty thousand people were on
the streets of Pasadena yesterday
morning at the time the parade left
headquarters near the foothills Of Alta
more, until every available inch OF
space along the route was taken.
Plenty Of Beautiful Flowers
The city turned out in gala attire to
welcome the new year and another
magnificent epoch of the history of
tournaments. For Pasadena, fully ap-
preciating the fact that the only New
Years pageant of it's kind in the world
is held there, never fails to add won-
ders to its tournament, although with
each year the directors are put to
greater effort to secure variety.
Thousands of banners and streamers
f1oated from every house top. Great
streamers of red and white, the tourna-
ment colors, We're attached to tele-
phone and telegraph poles, and. with |
a stiff breeze behind them. Haunted out
their welcome. Festoons of smilax and
terraces of flowers decorated the show |
windows of the stores and the steps of |
many churches, SO that it looked in |
many places like a carpet of blossoms |
had been laid there.
A recent report that the flowers had |
gone back on the tournament and that !
there might be q tournament without |
roses caused many of the visitors some |
but their fears were soon dis
PEELED with the first sight of the Crown !,
city
AS far as the eye could reach the
terraces of the Hotel Raymond were
simply covered with blossoms and
great floral beds shone forth bravely in
holiday attire.
The week preceding Christmas with
far too cold for California had
given an extra color to the many fow-
ers, but hundreds of rosebuds refused
to burst. The past week. however,
with bright skies and a warm sun
brought out clouds of flowers. and yes
terday there were more blossoms in
The parade than ever before in the his
tory of the tournament.
Great bells of Marshal Ney roses.
thousands of marguerites. boughs and
of holly berries, showers of
lilies and streamers of smilax. set off
oy arches of fan and date palms, made
beautiful effects, and the crowd was
lot slow to appreciate the wonders of
asafs .11s. l
carriages, tallyhos and automobiles, all
oaded down and smothered with blos- ,
SONS. rolled by. ,
Following the parade there was a
general rush for the street cars, and ,
While thousands returned to the city, ,
'atistied with having seen the distinc-
i've feature of the day, many others
ook advantage Of the bright day to go G
o Tournament park. (
Lemonade Man ChiIIs Crowd
But they met with deception and :
ruel cunning on the part of old Boreas,
nd before the throng had fairly en- r
cred the park wild. fierce wind from ;
he mountains swept down across the /
ow and causing many of them to re- :
urn to their homes for wraps :
The dust was so thick that the many /
,e cream venders around the park
ooked as though they might be selling +
aud pies 1t spoiled much of their =
took. but there was a corner in ice :
ream and the price went up accord
lgly Sandwiches and pastry were
erved in the grand stand but no mat
er how imploringly the lemonade sell
RS shrieked their wares. telling the =.
eople that the lemonade was so warm =
melted the ice. the crowd refused /
bsolutely to have anything to do with :,
nese merchants. and women shook !,
18th the cold and men shivered as the y
,monade men passed by, clinking the
% in the glasses.
Pasadena was dry town and those
'ho with an eye to comfort had. slipped
flask Of something into their pockets :.
efore they left Los Angeles were fair
7 besieged by friends who had known {
lem or their far1ilies somewhere back a
l Virginia or Arkansas. =
The features of the sporting events =
ere as ever the chariot races, and the ',
ne mar to these was an accident in y
ne first heat. when the four horses
riven by Eddie Off ran away and %
recked the chariot, throwing the y
river to the ground. :
A special force of expert riders and =
owbovs patroled the course. and in I
'Veral instances runaway teams we've y