Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-08

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geosity of color riotous in hue and bewderg in beau
N the first of the night parades of Fiesta week wound
~ its sinuous length through the downtown streets yes
terday evening, and ten thousand Shriners and many
times that many visitors and townsfoll were lost in
lIIll marveng wondering its glory and loveness
|l For miles the marchers and the floats meandered
through the thoroughfares and every succeeding
division seemed but bedm that which had just passed.
perfect of color and glory of hues its glory
aected from millions of lights which hung in eoon from the
buildings and flashed in clusters the ecoe while
garands beauty and ecrossed the right of giving
back in and blue and yellow and the rrdescnt t OF
louder and emphatic chromatc displays of
the marching cohorts. ass
And the bae many tunes
the rumble of the drums ntermngled with the shrek of the es
of umres and the call of the fish horns The
cheers and shouts the onokrs were lost in the of sound
which hurt the and cogged the BRAIN the cooful
dazzled the eye made the mind ache in trying comprehend
Lit all. 5ttf
gorgeous glorious inspiring and bedaz-
ling that imagination could have
dreamed seemed vision Of beauty inermnged with hashees
nightmare of nconguity It superb startling sensational
was a Los Angeles Fiesta at its best.
THE CREST WAVE OF A SEA OF SPLENDoR
The first of the night pageans has been given. 1t
taste of what There will be another tonight still
another night and they will be this equal in effective
grouping and pndor but they will equal glory be-
this the primal showing 1t the high in
Los Angeles pageany and it's record will be till the
Fiesta de las Flores Friday morning which will anything
created by the hand of
kaleidoscope color All and conditions Of animals
floats and bands went to make it and would be difficult
policemen headed glorious float it was
panorama of changefuness and bewilderment.
Came the guardians of the public of them spick
and ceavng through the packed
Came band blarng strident march Came George Fmer and
his cohorts of aides Came bands and Arab
trolls sun-bedmmng in variegad uniforms Came bands
and still ranks squads regiments
ez-crowned fdressbecad Shrners again
patrols Thousands thousands them along
scntant snake changefu beautiful again
again the bands baed and marched
did the A but the parched
the the hot scorched aching
the shade of the palm and the pung waters of the oasis
PAGEANT GREATEST EVER SEEN HERE
then the edtopped horde faded into the distant light
blaze of glory showed the first float moving sereney
steel highway oeys gleng, bediamoned entrancing
with pretty girls and sturdy boys, clad fairy
calling renewed cheers from all beholders
the floats and floats with bands and horse
ouders and police and the sugng trongs gave
prolonged applause and pushed against the wires that
held them back touch the creations and
reality Fifteen in all there of them,
each seemed more enhancing than its predecessor
pageant such seldom has city attempted and
it for the first time opennothed wonder
impossible how could have been construcd
brain of could have evolved perfect delight
into the night passed. and the bowling crowds if
the last of it, fed onvulsvey from street to street. that
a final glimpse might be had of its beauty
wondrous spectacle this first pageant OF the Shrine
MARVEL and all too brief though miles long How
wait till tonight those floats again?