Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-26
STREETS WILL Be
BOWER OF BEAUTY
CLUBW0MEN TO AID FLOWER
DECORATION
Prominent Society Leaders Working
70 Make La Fiesta Most
Notable One from Floral
Viewpoint

Flowers. flowers. even the club
women have adopted the word as
slogan for Fiesta time and are doing
their utmost to make Los Angeles a
floral paradise instead of a conven-
tional bunting decorated city.
Several of the most prominent
women in the city are passing their
time in organizing flower committees,
in urging business men to use the
blossoms in decorating their stores and
IN searching for people who will do
nate flowers to adorn the streets.
Mrs. e. X. Foster, president of the
Friday Morning club, has expressed
her willingness to cooperate in the
good cause and to interest the one
thousand women members of the club
in backing up the movement.
Mrs. p. G. Hubert, president of the
Ebell club, one of the strongest or
ganizations in the city, said concern
ing the project:
"I am very much in favor of it
and think 1t will be distinctly Cali
fornian and will impress the eastern
visitors much more If we use the
natural instead of artificial decora-
tions."
Mrs. Matthew Robertson, chairman
of the outdoor art section of the
Civic association, and Miss Bessie
Stoddart, have talked the matter over
with F. w. Blanchard, head Of the
decoration committee, and are both
enthusiastic over the plan, declaring
that they will do all in their power to
make the streets bloom.
Many Beautiful Floats
F..TT-
decorated floats, carriages and other
vehicles to assign to the several di-
visions of the floral parade when the
lists in possession of the Fiesta COM
mittee are finally ready for final clas-
sif1cation. Already far more numer-
GUS than on any previous occasion the
entries are likewise declared to pos
sess more of artistic design and merit
and to involve a more lavish use Of
the choicest flowers than were dis
played in the parades of Fiesta's past.
Success has attended efforts to in
sure the participation of several
features heretofore regarded as doubt
full and the Fiesta committee promises
that the splendid show will include
all 1.-the divisions that were arranged in
past parades and some additional nov
elites that will further contribute to
its popularity.
AUTOMOBILES TO Be Feature
Through the executive committee of
the Automobile club of California as
surances have been received of a
splendid division devoted exclusively
to the display of decorated automo-
biles. Among the machines 70 be en-
tered are several calculated to sur.
pass in beauty any feature of the pa
rade.
Yesterday the committee was graft
fed to learn that the park department
will be represented by a float, as in
former years, and that the fire depart
ment will have two-thirds of it's mem
bership and apparatus in line. The
firemen will have their own division,
in order that they may start for a
fire, If necessary, without sustaining
interference by other features.
The Pasadena board of trade will
this year enter a tallyho, beautifully
decorated, drawn by six horses and
attended by a force of outriders.
The Chinese merchants of the city
will be represented by two large floats,
lavishly decorated, and carrying thirty
five Chinese children in full native
dress.