Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-08
PLANS
ARE MATURING
FLOATS TO BE MANNED BY
HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
Floral Day to Be Revelatlon-Visiting
Shriners to Have Glimpse of
Coming DispIay-MarshaI to
Make Assignments Soon

All that pretty maids myriads of
electric lights and electrical effects can
effect will be done to make the electric
parades of the Fiesta grand success.
The evenings of May 21 and % have
been set apart for these gorgeous festi-
walls and young women of the POLY
High have signified their willingness
to appear on the floats, robed in gor-
geousness rivaling the fair Cleopatra.
One hundred and twenty-five fair
daughters of Los Angeles are needed
for the parades. Sixty-five young men,
attired in costumes to suit the floats,
will act as escorts. Already the young
people have begun rehearsals for the
different tableaux and all former at
tempts promise to be outdone, both in
number of electric lights and novelty.
Fawcett Robinson, the designer, has
had charge of the building of the floats.
and has spent much time in perfecting
the electrical arrangements. A. Petsch,
chairman of the committee, has been
assisted in the complicated details Of
arranging the floats by Messrs. Clark,
Henderson and Stephens of the Pacific
Electric railway, Prof. j. H. Francis,
Miss Cornelia Bruere and Miss Kather-
Inc d. Ross of the Polytechnic high
school.
Floral Day a Feature
Floral day will always appeal to the
people, no matter how many bushels
of flowers they may have seen, and es-
pecially for the fasteners. The floral
parade of May 20 will prove little short
of revelation. Flowers of every size
and hue under the Southern California
sun will be used in profusion and aftIe
1t seems as though all have been
picked, bushels more will be used for
good measure. 1t is expected there will
be nine divisions, the entries for which
will close Saturday. Already Alfred
Solano and H. c. Wyatt have entered
victoria automobiles. and w. Newhall
and Miss Eva Keating in the automo-
bile division promise to outdo all former
attempts.
In striking contrast to the up to date
and luxurious automobiles will be the
old Banning coach, which in the early
days carried weary passengers over
hill and dale to Wilmington. For this
event the old relic will be gaily deco
rated and will be filled with pretty
maids. Capt. w. Banning will be in
charge with Count Won Schmidt with
him ON the drivers seat
Begin Decorating Today
1t has been arranged to begin deco
rating the streets this morning and by
tomorrow night those arranged for will
be eaborately trimmed, and the visit
ing Shriners will have an opportunity
to see the scale on which it had been
planned to beautify the city in their
honor. In this way they will be able
to Judge the magnitude of the Fiesta
time and the beauty of the festival oc-
casion. Not only will the streets be
decorated, but the business houses
will have extra pieces and the windows
are now taking on the carnival ap-
pearance.
Grand Marshal Hammel of the floral
parade will call n meeting of his di-
vision marshals and aides sometime
this or next week, when all assign
ments will be made and the work of
organizing the divisions will be taken
up as soon as the entries close next
Saturday. Several unexpected entries
have been received at Secretary Zee
handelaar's office since postponement
OF the Fiesta, and these will go to
fill one or two of the untitled divisions.