Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-28
SAILOR MEN
ENHANCED
SANTA BARBARA'S PAGEANT
MAGNIFICENT
VIVID coLoRs FLASH UNDER
cLouDLEss SKY
cayly Arrayed Holiday Throng Enjoys
Battle of FIowers-Jack Tars
Dance in Open Air
Ball Room
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Evans in command, sails for San Fran
cisco. anchoring outside the Golden gaze
the night of May D.
Elaborate Spectacle
Today's floral parade and battle OF
flowers was the most elaborate spec
tacular flair of its kind ever attempt
ed in Southern California. Inc com
mittee in charge of the entertainment
here concentrated all it's efforts ana
made lavish expenditure OF money III
carrying out the artistically piahileu
display. .,,,4
Stewart Edward White, the novelist
was chairman of the committee IN
charge of the parade, and associated
with him were number OF wen KNOWN
artists and critics who make their VIII
ter home in Santa Barbara. In the
long line of passing vehicles there were
rose-laden coaches, blossom-peue
automobiles all but hidden in the pro-
fusion of flowers, jaunty little pony
carts all in white. victorias in gay
reds and yellow, and floats that ranged
in variety from a floral repfoductloh
in miniature OF the famed Santa Bar
bars mission to an immense battlesnlp
of flowers fashioned on the chassis OF
an automobile with bouquets peltlng
from a pneumatic gun in the forward
turret.
II was after the procession had
passed entirely down the long boule-
ward of palm trees and densely peo-
pied tribunes and started counter
march that the signal to open fire was
given, and the battle of the flowers be-
gan in earnest. Thousands of bouquets
of soft petaled and fragrant blooms
were hurled from the tribunes, and the
fire was bravely returned by the heaV-
ily armed forces in carriages and on
floats The rain of floral missiles was
naturally heaviest in the vicinity OF
the tribune occupied by the officers,
who entered into the spirit of the 1ght
with characteristic energy and enthu-
siasm.
Little girls dressed in white acted
as powder monkeys for the naval con-
tingent, and as soon as the first sup
ply of ammunition gave out as a re-
suit of the efficiency in rapid fire at
tained at Magdalena bay and other
practice grounds they would bring
fresh armfuls of bouquets from nearby
warehouses temporarily converted into
floral magazines. At times the air was
completely filled with flying missiles.
Heavy Fire of Roses
The heaviest firing was done with
rose bouquets of many varieties. There
were also asters, carnations, sweet peas
in a wealth of varying colors gera-
NUNS. nasturtiums. California pop
pies. Shasta daisies, marguerites,
fuschias lilies, genesta, bachelor but
tons or corn flowers, lupin. acacia,
bridal wreath verbena, Spanish broom,
marigold and orange blossoms.
The battle ragged with intensity for
half an hour. The invading force of
equipages which ran the long gaunt-
let of tribunes finally escaped badly
battered by the concentrated fire of the
land batteries.
The parade attracted a countless
multitude to the seashore. All of the
tribunes were crowded to their utmost
capacity when shortly before o'clock
Rear Admiral Charles M. Thomas, the
guest of honor, was whirled in a rose
covered coach from the landing wharf
at the foot of State street TO the cen-
trail booth on Plaza del Mar. The
coach was drawn by four snow-white
horses, and in advance there were six
outriders, white mounted and cos
TUNED in Spanish fashion. Behind the
coach was en- escort of honor, COM
posed of forest rangers in from the
mountains.
The progress of the coach was her
aided with enthusiastic cheering. Rear
Admiral Sperry and Rear Admiral
Emory and members of their staffs
came in a second equipage, whose
structural lines were completely hid
den In a wealth of purple sweet peas.
They, too, were cheered most heartily.
Coach of Flower Queen
The coach which had taken Admiral
Thomas to the official tribune, where
he was greeted by Mayor Boeseke and
by Admiral Bowman II. McCalla, re-
tired. chairman of the local reception
committee, returned Immediately to the
parade rendezvous and became the
royal equipage of the flower queen.
Miss Ynez Dibbee. who was attended
by court of pretty girls and young
matrons. Twelve hundred sailors in
immaculate white duck uniforms and
caps were landed from the sixteen
ships, and with a relocated marine
band at their head formed the first
feature of the parade, They were d-
Vided into sixteen companies and had
been met upon arrival by a committee
which decorated their small caliber
rifles with a variety of blooms, big
bouquets protruding from the muZ-
zles.
Each succeeding company was sup
piled with different blossoms, and the
effect as the long column swept up
the Ocean boulevard in rhythmic step
with the stirring music brought spon-
taneous cheers from all who saw.
FollOWlng the sailors came mounted
bodies of horsemen with steeds gayly
caparisoned; forest rangers i'm green
uniform and carrying mountain floral
pieces, automobiles phaetons and
floats
Just in advance of the fiowered We
hicles twenty little girls in Spanish
costume strewed confetti of flower
petals along the boulevard. The strik-
ing features of the parade We're many
The Old Mission float was accompanied
on either side by Franciscan brothers
from the mission, who chanted in con-
sonance with the tolling of chimes.
A shower bouquet effect was formed
by a bevy of little girls, all in white
and bearing armfuls of flowers. They
were all attached to a central figure
by long bands of white satin ribbon.
An old stage coach decorated with wild
mustard and the floral battleship
mounted on an automobile attracted
widest attention. The ship was twenty
seven feet in length and was CON-
plete as TO turrets. superstructure, fun
nels, masts and fighting tops. 1t was
made of calla lilies.
A farmyard float of the time of Joan