Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-30
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ARE DECORATED
BY COMMITTEE
Floral Effects Show
Great Beauty
MRS. WilIouohby Rodman Plans Lavish
Use of Orange Blossoms and
Branches, and Asks
Contributions

If the merchants of Los Angeles and
others of this vicinity who are in
terested in making the approaching
Fiesta de las Flores an unprecedented
success will cooperate with Chairman
Blanchard of the floral decoration COM
mittee In executing the plans he mas
formulated the City of Angels will pre-
sent a Garden of Eden appearance to
the visitors who will throng the streets
next week.
Mr.. Blanchard. acting on The Herald's
suggestion, has arranged TO make of
every lamp post along the principal
streets tower of floral tribute to
Southern California's reputation for
being the garden spot Of the world, and
with the help of those who should be
Interested the plan Is assured Of sue
cess.
Yesterday Mr.. Blanchard and his
corps of enthusiastic and efficient as
sistants took possession of two of the
street lamp posts on North Broadway,
and in a few minutes had transformed
the dingy plainness of the light sup
ports into q maze of colors. Palms, red
geraniums and mustard blossoms, ap-
propriate in their very simplicity, car
ried out the prevailing Fiesta color
scheme of red, green and yellow, and
gave to the street an appearance of
brightness never hitherto enjoyed.
Lamp Post Decorations
Against the main support on the
POSTS were arranged two palms, spread
ing from within three feet of the base
until they entwined their tops among
the light globes at the top. Grouped in
wet moss, geraniums, their vivid red
offset by the somber green background
of the palm leaves, hung from the for
ward arm of the lamppost on one side
of the street, while on the other walk
mustard took it's place. Thus Is the
. red, green and yellow symbolic of the
Fiesta, to be used along the street,
every other street lamp being adorned
with either the mustard's yellow or the
geranium's scarlet.
Work for the committee, which has
been pressed with unceasing vigor for
some days, will begin in real earnest
next Saturday, when the actual decorat-
ing of the street lamps will commence
In order to assure themselves that the
malicious hands of those who have
nothing better to do will be kept off
the decorations the committee yester-
day asked Chief of Police Kern to af-
ford them protection in this regard,
and the chief complied with the request.
A bulletin ordering patrolmen and
special officers to arrest any person
molesting the street decorations has
been issued, and the decorations are
ian a dneasure safe from vagrant hands.
w Most Merchants Generous
While some of the downtown mer-
chants have exhibited a spirit of par
simony and declined on the score of
expense when approached by the COM
mittee and asked to fall IN with the
floral decoration scheme to beautify the
city, most of those asked have replied
that they will do all in their power to
use flowers and green in embellishing
their establishments The larger stores
along Spring street and Broadway have
already given sanction to the lavish
plans advanced them by the committee,
and with the gardens choicest products
meeting the eye everywhere the city
will be a thing of beauty indeed.
Mrs. Willoughby Rodman, one of Mr..
Blanchard's most enthusiastic assis-
tants, will make much use of lemon
and orange tree branches, their buds
and fruit, in her plan for Transforming
Broadway. To most of the visitors the
fruit of the citrus tree in itself is
luxury, but when the tree itself, with
the sweet smelling blossoms still fresh,
is seen adorning the streets, they will
cease to wonder at the reputation
Southern California enjoys. Any per-
son who is desirous of helping the cause
along by contributing the branches or
blossoms of either the lemon or orange
tree can communicate with Mrs. Rod
man and at once be relieved of the
burden.
Plans for Parades
Plans for the big electrical and floral
parades are rapidly nearing completion,
and the prospects are that these fea-
lures of the Fiesta will be more mag
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