Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-24
FLORAL COMMITTEE
MAKES PLANS TO-DAY

press"
Clear Up Yards
Mr.. Harper was also very urgent
that the people of Los Angeles clean
UP their yards and lawns for the com
ing of the visitors as well as the
vacant lots that are overgrown with
weeds.
Active work on the scheme has begun
In earnest. r. W. Blanchard spent a
large part of his time yesterday in
interesting merchants and other prom
inent citizens in the plan His idea
Is to have every lighting post wound
with asparagus plumosus and a fern
sphere pendant from each globe of the
electrolier. This Is an opportunity
the city cannot afford to lose" he said
yesterday, "and I think the attitude
the business men are taking assures its
success"
Miss White, a professional decorator,
has been called into consultation with
Mr. Blanchard. Her plan of using the
electroliers is to have them clothed
with the foliage of live oaks, and hang
ing from each globe wire basket
filled with mustard bloom, red gerani-
ums and wild oats. These decorations
would, 1t is thought, last throughout
the entire Fiesta, and would give three
distinct color schemes. These plans of
the art decorators would be in addi-
tion to the private decorating which
many of the more progressive mer
chants are contemplating.
With only two weeks, or to be exact,
thirteen days, until the opening of La
Fiesta de las Flores, plans for the deco
rations Of the city and features of the
gala week grow apace. Never before
have the preparations been so extensive,
the prospective number of visitors so
great, nor the appropriations for deco
rations so large. In addition to the
vast horde of visitors who will throng
into the city during the next week
$4,000 Shriners will be in attendance for
the giant conclave of that organization, |
and everything must be made ready to |
receive them.
That the rush to the city during the |
carnival week will be unprecedented in
the annals of former Fiestas is shown
by the fact that nearly every hotel in
Los Angeles has already been besieged |
for rooms and apartments, and the full
quota of lodging places has almost been
exhausted. The surrounding towns
have been burdened with the super
huous numbers, and Hollywood, Glen
dale and the beach towns are to be we'll
patronized by the visitors.
Already the workmen are deco
rating the streets and are at work
stringing the wires which will support
the electrical canopies to be placed Mt
all intersections of the downtown
thoroughfares. Officially no flags or
bunting will be used in decorating, and
while the electric display will be suffi'
cient after night has fallen, flowers will
be the features of daytime displays.
Floats Are Ready
Most of the floats which will take
part in the parades, the first of which
is to be held a week from Monday
night, are already in readiness to go
forth on the streets and dazzle the
visitors with their splendors. The elec-
trical features of the different exhibits
in the parade will be novel and
innovated for the occasion.
While the decorations placed by the
city will not include flags or bunting
many private individuals and corpora
tions have decided to conform to old
ideals and embellish their establish
ments with the time-honored red, green
and yellow, as we'll as the national
emblem. The Angelus, Westminster
and Hollenbeck hotels will be lavish in
their use of bunting, and the Pacific
Electric building, as well as Levy's
cafe, several of the Spring street banks
and other downtown places are already
giving orders to the decorators.
At Third street and Broadway a 20 |
foot flag, wrought by red, white and |
blue incandescents, will shine forth in |
the night, and at Fifth and Spring, in |
front of the Alexandria hotel, a |
Shriners emblem of magnificent pro-
portions will make night into day at
that point. At Fourth and Main streets |
another Shriner flag will emblazon the |
sky, and with it's prevailing colors of |
red and white will present a lively |
kaleidoscope of flame.
Reviewing Stands Being Erected
Reviewing stands will be constructed
in all parts of the business district |
where the parades will pass, and al
ready work on some of these has conf
menced. A huge stand is we'll under
way at Fifth and Main streets, and
wherever space is to be had similar
structures are being erected. Between |
Seventh and Eighth, on Broadway, and
in the like block on Spring street. huge
stands will provide plenty of room for
spectators, and even the air is being
utilized in front of the Catalina hotel |
on Broadway to erect a stand over the |
sidewalk.
The appropriation from the city coun- |
ell, which was held up by Auditor
Mushet because the budget had been
exhausted, will be forthcoming in plenty |
OF time to be used in the work of pre-
pairing the city for the big feature of
the Los Angeles year. While the sum
has been granted it will not be charged |
to the city until the next fiscal year, |
as the $2500 to be appropriated cannot
be legally allowed at the present time.
Flowers from the city park depart
ment viii be forthcoming in abundance
for decorating purposes on all public |
buildings and on some of the streets. |
While the parks are enjoined from en-
tering the floral parade because of the
expense attached they will be able to
render valuable aid in beautifying the
city through the floral contributions
which are expected.
Fire Engines Not Entered
1t is also improbable that the fire de-
partment, which in years past has
played such a prominent part in all
Fiesta parades, will be in line when the
review of floats is made. The city APP
propriation. cannot be made to help the
iremen in their preparations, as the
uuOipinaI funds for adVartiainp t1t1r-