Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-02
JACK|ES WILL
L|VEN SCENES
DURING FIESTA
Presence Of Squadron
Is Assured
Decorations with Flowers Promise to
Be Most Beautiful Thing of the
Sort Ever Attempted in
America

Senator Frank P. Flint's telegram to
Admiral Swinburne of the Pacific
squadron, in which California's repre-
sentative to the upper national house
asked the sailor to try and have his
warships anchored off Los Angeles
during La Fiesta de las Flores, Is hav-
ing the desired effect. Yesterday Sem
ator Flint received the following tele-
gram from Admiral Swinburne:
Thanks for invitation. Will be
pleased to be present at Long Beach
or San Pedro May as requested. Will
telegraph date of arrival later
That the jackies will play an m
portant part in the Fiesta parade IS
not to be doubted. Admiral Swinburne
will give them permission to enter the
important events, and their we'll or
ganized ranks will be used to adj
vantage in entertaining the Fiesta
crowds.
With so many attractive features to
help the Fiesta along, however, the
representatives of the Pacific squadron
cannot hope to have things much their
own way. Hundreds Of entries have
been received for the various events
and the most successful and brilliant
Fiesta ever held in Los Angeles is an
assured fact.
Work of decorating the city is pro-
crossing with unusual rapidity, and
long before the advance guard Of Wis
iting Shriners arrives the city will pre-
sent a holiday appearance. All the i'm
portant business houses have already
put their men to work celebrating upon
the natural beauty of their structures,
and bunting and flags confront the eye
at every turn.
Hotel Men Are Alive
mt
committee, of which F. w. Blanchard
is chairman, is rapidly assuming
definite shape, and their plan of beau
tifying the city is reaching promis-
ing termination. Nearly all of Los An
geles' larger mercantile and business
houses have responded with alacrity TO
the call for more flowers in fitting their
establishments for the coming of the
Fiesta throng, and Los Angeles will be
the veritable flower garden which her
reputation in the east calls for. y
The Rosslyn hotel, of which the Hart
brothers are managers and proprietors,
will be most profuse and lavish in its
use of flowers. Yesterday Mr.. Hart
telephoned Mr.. Blanchard that he
would use the beauties Of the field to
tie exclusion of all else in fitting his
hostelry for the reception of next
weeks Visitors, and that those who
BtOO at his hOLels WOuio pO hN'hS Al q
swarden of exquisite loveliness all dur
TVng their stay in Los Angeles.
The work of getting together suffi-
cient palms and greenery to form
fitting background for the geraniums
and mustard blossoms that will be
used on the ornamental street lamp
posts along Spring, Main, Broadway
and Hill streets, is progressing with
much satisfaction. Yesterday there
for Mr. ~ rd
in which the sender donated willing
ness to contribute greens by the whole
sale, and also to use his or her aid in
procuring mustard and geraniums for
Use in hiding the street lamps behind
a sheathing of brilliant colors.
Merchants Promise Decorations
Opening or Monday in their new
quarters &c Sixth and Broadway, the
Jevne company will combine their
Fiesta decorations with those of in
s,allation week, and the firm promises
something out of the ordinary when
the workmen finish their labors Next
to the Jevne concern the Central de-
partment store will also direct unusual
effort toward presenting a handsome
exterior and interior, and their use OF
flowers will be most lavish.
Further up Broadway the Boston
traction of flowers by liberal use of
electric lights in decorating the front
of their building. An immense Shriner
emblem will occupy most of the space
across the front of the Boston's Broad
way frontage, while inside the store
the sweet fragrance OF roses and car
nations will hold sway
California's chief executive, Governor
James N. Gillett, will be in attendance |
h{c ri r |
urday will be welcomed to an appro-
priately bedecked city. The governor
is at present in San Bernardino county, |
hut his intention is to come to Los |
Angeles and remain until the festivi-
ties attendant on next weeks gala oc-
casion are over.
Venice to Be Wide Open
There will be no All Fools night in
Los Angeles this year, and those who
wish to participate in the confetti
throwing and other forms of amuse-
ment attendant on the first night Of
the Fiesta will be forced to go to
Venice for their fun. The Fiesta COM
mittee has decided that confetti throw
ing and masks develop more or less
ruffianism and lawless acts when prac-
t:ced in Los Angeles, and the use of
either will be prohibited.
in town, Venice will be wide open to
the revelers on the Saturday night
which terminates the period of Fiesta.
The Venetians will wind up the week
with a monster carnival and ball at the
and the whole town, as
we'll as the thousands of visitors, are
expected to migrate to the seaside town
for the occasion.
Entries for the floral parade are still
coming in to the committee in charge
with a rush. and the outlook for an
long and brilliant parade
is promising indeed Society will be
out in force, and the swell equipages
of the elite will vie with each other
when the judges make their awards of
prizes for the most fittingly decorated
rigs No expense has been spared to
make both the floral and the electric
parades unrivaled in the annals of
Fiesta, and next weeks visitors are
assured of unusual AMI beautiful
scenes to repay them for the long jour
ney to Los Angeles.
vAQUERO CLUB, IN