Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-31
PASADENA READY
FOR BIG PAGEANT
BIGGEST CROWD IN HISTORY
PROMISED
Rear Guard viii Protect Parade, and
the Humlliatlng Experience of
Last Season Cannot BE
Repeated

Pasadena's eighteenth Tournament Of
Roses to be held next Tuesday will be
more largely attended than any pre-
ceding tournament. Crowds are al
ready arriving and the hotel registers
are showing the influx of those who
are coming early to see the g1ores Of
the pageant.
Despite the fact that yesterday was
Sunday the Crown City has not ceased
to robe herself for the event and deco
rators were busy all day flying ban
ners and streamers from buildings and
telephone poles. The city hall was
among the buildings dressed yesterday
for the big event.
One by one the entries of the parade
are becoming finished and turned from
the decorators hands beautiful beyond
the widest dreams. There are some
floats this year that will excel all other
efforts of the decorators skill in past
years to equal, If not excel.
The official announcement of the dis
position of the police forces. special and
regular has been made and it en-
bodies several new features not includ-
ed in last years arrangements, the
most important of which is the addi-
tion of a rear guard of two officers to
the parade line of march.
Last year the absence from the pa
rade of a rear guard was responsible
for a rush of spectators that came near
swamping the parade. The crowd, not
looking for rear guard, took IL for
granted that the first break in the pa
rade signified that the whole show had
passed in review before them. Owing
to a misunderstanding one of the Sec
tions of the parade was late in start
ing and a break in the line of march
of the pageant left an opening which
the crowd took for an absolute term
ination of the immense parade of floral
floats and swarmed through the ropes
despite the efforts of the special Off
GERS to hold 1t back. The parade was
spoiled and the experience has taught
the police and parade managers the
value of the rear guard, hence its in
stallation this year.
Will Wear New Uniforms
All regular police will wear uniforms
that are brand new. They were re-
ceived last week and every officer has
slicked up his wearing apparel to make
the best showing possible.
Special Officer Isaac Wolff and
Brandberry of Miller's express will
rope off the streets for the parade at
10 o'clock in the forenoon. No teams
will be allowed on the streets along
the line of march till the parade has
passed. Those in charge of the ropes
will pull them down after the parade
has gone by
In the parade Special OFFICER A. L.
Truo will "a Ol1fri66r
and will patrol the line of march before
the parade starts, acting with the spe-
cial police in keeping it clear of all
pedestrians and teams. He will also
follow the rope stringers and clear the
parade path of teams caught within
the lines by the officers detailed to
string the guard ropes.
Officers Coping and Schultz will act
as advanced outriders to Immediately
precede the police squadron. Following
them will ride Chief of Police Pink
ham, and after him, four abreast, will
ride Officers Green, Webb Reese and
Schnider.
The body of the parade will follow
and closing the line of march Will be
the rear guard, consisting of Officers
Nicoll and Slade.
During the day the regular officers
of the police force will be disposed or
as follows:
officer Bristol. police station: g. L.
Rice. special wheelman at police sta
ton to answer all calls throughout the
city; Officers Palmer, Hayes and Rey-
nolds, Fair Oaks and Colorado; Off
GERS Longley, Odell and Favor, Colo
rado and Raymond; Officer Pierce,
free lance policeman generally every
where. Officer Pierce will be assisted
by Special Officer James T. McCann.
Tho diSnOcitiOT Of the Snpcia1 officers
not already named will be as follows:
James E. Ayers, Bellview and Orange
Grove; V. w. Bailey, Vernon and Colo
rado; ]. A. Burge, Waverly and Orange
Grove; Sylvester Brackey, Fair Oaks
and Colorado; A. B. Case, Fair Oaks
and Dayton; Carl Coping. Elverado
and Orange Grove; E. B. Daniels. Ter
race drive and Colorado; Charles
Eaton, Vineyard and Raymond; John
H. Ferguson. Euclid and Colorado; j. A.
Gemmill, Colorado and Broadway; w.
w. Hill, Union and Raymond; A. w.
Harter, Los Robles and Colorado;
James Hanna, Orange Grove and Cali
fornia; M. w. Kellog. Palmetto and
Orange Grove; ]. d. Kelsen, Green and
Raymond; Charles Kipp, Los Robles
and Colorado; Thomas Lee, Delacy and
Colorado w. S. Liston, Oakland and
Colorado; Walter I. Lowe Holly and
Raymond; L. B. McNitt, Euclid and
Colorado; w. M. McGrath, Worcester
and Colorado; A. II. May Colorado and
Orange Grove; Hartley Newell, Hudson
and Fair Oaks; C. e. Peck, Hotel Green
special officer Vineyard and Ray
mond; ]. M. Ralston, Grove street and
Orange Grove; Harry D. Rutan, Colo
RADIO and Broadway: L. S. Randall,
Madison and Colorado John Sosey,
Fair Oaks and Green; A. G. Perkins,