Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-28
OASIS Los ANGELES is READY

OASIS LOS ANGELES IS READY
This Is the week wherein Los An
geles primps herself, puts on her best
paint and powder. preens her feathers
and prepares for the great day coming
the advent Of the shriners.
Already are the half hundred OF
more special trains starting from the
benighted and snowclad east for the
land Of flowers and sunshine; the cam
els are humping themselves across the
burning sands Of the desert toward
the oasis under the real live date palms,
and the red fezzed heads of the droop-
ing and weary shriners are lifting as
the odor Of the roses and the scent OF
the zemzem are brought TO their nos
trlls. The final making ready Is now
in order; one week hence the actual
event will come or.
Los Angeles has done much for the
coming of the Shrlner host few cities
ever did as much; none ever exceeded
her plans. She has spent money law
ishly and will throw wide her gates
with the ful confidence that In every
way her welcome will be unusual,
unique and lavish.
In several respects Los Angeles has
been blessed by nature with possibili-
ties accorded no other place on earth.
One Of these is her vast profusion of
flowers with which God has blessed
her. The earth is carpeted with floral
beauty in the most wonderful profu-
sion and very wisely Los Angeles has
decided to make use of this great gift
and to give visitors a decorative scheme
utterly impossible to any other place.
At the suggestion of The Herald,
made q week ago, plans have been
formulated and are now all ready to
be carried out whereby every electrolier
in the city will be embowered in palm
branches and flowers, and most of the
store fronts will be hung with festoons
and garlands OF blossoms. Through
the courage Of one of it's public spirited
men, who assumed charge OF the work,
and the generosity of one Of it's mer-
chant princes, who guaranteed the
finances and offered cups as prizes for
competitive designs, the flower deco
rations are to be made magnifcently
unique and the assurance is given that
every eastern visitor will gasp with
amaze at the glory he beholds.
Professional decorators have been de-
tailed by big stores to help suggest
and carry out designs; conventional
bunting schemes have been abandoned
by others for the floral idea, and it
is absolutely certain that Los Angeles
coming Fiesta will more truly than
was any ever held before be a festival
dence.
And the displays to wind through
the flower laden streets will be we'll
worthy Of the glorious settings. The
great night electrical parades will be
bewilderingly dazzling, and the day
flower parades will be entrancingly
gorgeous. The march of the red topped
Shriners will be odd and bizarre, and
the displays Of the vaqueros will be
reminiscent Of the olden days now for
ever gone. Some parades will be evil
dences of the Los Angeles of today,
some of the future, some of the past;
the whole panorama will be grateful
to the eye and a delight to the soul.
That the visiting host will enjoy the
week of fun goes without saying. Plans
for entertainments are so numerous
and so elaborate that events sadly over
lap, and a man cannot finish one days
program till another day will have
been well on it's way, and sleep will
simply be an incident which no one
will heed till tired nature compels. The
round of pleasure will be measured
only by ones capacity to endure, and
when the hordes leave it will be with
their memories clogged with good
things, high old times and jovial af-
fairs, surrounded with the balmy at
mosphere and the flower garlanded en-
virons of the great city of the south
west.
The Fiesta will be a success; that
admits of no doubt. The visitors will
be here; they are already on the way.
1t is only up to Los Angeles now to
put on the last finishing touches to
make everything perfect, then to throw
open the gates and bid the world en-
ter and enjoy.
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