Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-03
THOUSANDS Of
LIGHTS READY
TO ILLUMINATE
Night to Be Turned
Into Day
City VIII Be Flower Garden While
the Sun Shines and Brilliant
with lncandescents After
Sunset

lights, strung in graceful lines and ar
tistic designs, will be ready for the
touch of the button at o'clock Sun
day night, when the weeks celebration
will be officially inaugurated
Roofing the streets and overhanging
the intersections in the shape of fes-
toons or canopies, with each light
made beautiful and subdued by an en-
closing guard of colored paper, the IL
Elimination will turn night into soft
ened day in the business section Of the
city, where the majority of the Fiesta
visitors will spend most Of their stay
in Los Angeles. The work of stringing
the lights has already progressed so
that Main and Spring streets from
Temple to Ninth are all ready for the
magic switch that will cause the pave
ment to reflect many colored bril-
liancy. The work on Broadway is fin
1shed from Second street to Ninth and
Hill street could tonight be Illuminated
from Third to Seventh.
Each street will have a distinct pre-
dominant color. Tests have been made
to use the colored globes to the best
advantage, and the desired artistic eff
feet will be developed to the best pos
sible advantage.
Big Light Designs
Three beautiful and gorgeous de-
SlBIlS, SdCIl COIldlulllS lullutSuD VI SOi-
ored incandescents, will blaze through
out the week on each of the principal
streets. At Third and Broadway the
Stars and Stripes will blaze out upon
the night in a huge glow of red, white
and blue. At Fifth and Spring streets
the fez and the Shrine emblem will
hold sway, while at Fourth and Main
streets another Shriner emblem Will be
reproduced. Each of the designs will
ha oh in hnipht and the
work Of fitting them in place will entail
no small expense.
While the electrical illumination will
hold sway after nightfall and Will
doubtless be a marvel Of beauty in its
own way, the decorations with which
the streets will be garlanded will un-
douptedly be the main attraction for
the visitors. particularly those from the
east A lavish use of flowers, such as
has never been before attempted by
the directors of any carnival in the
country, will enhance the natural lowell
ness of Los Angeles many times, and
were it not for the fact that they oc-
cur every few feet throughout the en-
tire downtown district each lamp post
,yould he the certev of attraction for
an admiring throng.
' Added to this generous display of
flowers out on the open street will be
the decorations planned by the busi-
ness houses which represent the COM
mercial supremacy of Southern Cali
fornia. Show cases and counters
banked with the choicest products of
the gardens will be overtopped by long
streamers of garlands suspended from
the ceilings, and some of the plans
advanced for the decorations of both
interior and exterior of some of the
business houses calls for an enor-
nous outlay of both flowers and work
Decorate Posts Saturday
Chairman Blanchard of the floral
decoration committee has everything
in readiness to begin the actual work
of ornamenting the street lamp posts
on Saturday. Thousands of palms and
hundreds of baskets of geraniums and
mustard blossoms will be used and in
a day the city will be transformed to
a garden Of fragrant and perfumed
beauty.
Already the advance throng of FL
esta visitors is in Los Angeles and the
hotels which had anything left after
the Shriners made their reservations
have already been beseiged for ac
Communications beyond their capacity.
While the first figures advanced pre-
dicted that at least $4,000 strangers
would take advantage of the Fiesta
period to pay visit to Los Angeles
later returns and computations show
that these figures are underestimate
by many thousands. Railroad men and
others who are in position to esti-
mate with fair degree of accuracy
state that the lowest possible esti-
mate must be placed at 100000 and that
If this number were swelled another
ten thousand it would not be at all
surprising.
The Floral Parade
While the electrical parades of Tues
day, Wednesday and Thursday nights
will undoubtedly be most pleasing to
the natives, Fridays big feature, the
daytime floral parade is what the
eastern visitors are anticipating. En-
tries to the monster feature have been |
pouring in on the Fiesta committee
until the number scheduled to form in |
line far exceeds that of any previous
year by many score. Endeavors to win |
first prizes for the best decorated
equipages in the various divisions will |
be unusually strenuous and no expense |
will be spared by the decorators in
their work.
In addition to the floral supremacy |
next weeks floral parade will long be |
remembered for it's grand marshal,
considered by most of Southern Cali
fornia as the handsomest man who
ever led the line along the downtown
selected to do the high honors this
year, and as Billy especially when
mounted on the spirited and blooded |
horse he is sure to ride, is a figure
of man which cannot be overlooked |
anywhere, the visitors will have one
more pleasing impression of Los An
geles to take home with them when
La Fiesta de las Flores is a thing Of
the past.
Rules for Judges
Truman Cole will act as the grand |
marshals chief of staff, and the twen-
ty-two divisions which will parade for
prizes will be under his direct com
mand. The winners in the different di-
visions will have their choice of eth
er money, loving cups or silver plate
of equal value to he prize given bv
the awarding committee.
The rules for the judges, to be fol-
lowed in making their awards, are as
follows:
1.-THE most artistic arrangement (or
harmonious blending) of natural flower
decorations shall constitute the stand
ard of comparison, together with the
general effect of the entry
II.-Natural grasses, ferns, brakes or
trailing vines shall be admitted for
decorative purposes; nevertheless. in