The San Francisco call., 1908-09-04
BURLINGAME FFTf
BUSI[S CLUbWOMEN
Society Matrons Toll From
Morn to Night With Booths
and Bunting
Elaborate Preparations Indicate
Fair Will Be Thing to Be
Remembered

BURLINGAME, Sept 3.-Burlingame
clubwomen easily earned the title to-
day of being the busiest women in
California. for they were at, work
from the wee small hours of the morn
ing until late tonight in their prepara-
rations for their carnival. which Will
be held in Burlingame avenue Friday
and Saturday afternoons and even
ings. Already the avenue has taken on
festive appearance, the booths and
workers growing more carnival like
as the momentous hour for the OPEN
ing of the fete approaches.
Twenty-six booths and sideshows
have been provided by the clubwomen
for the entertainment of the thousands
of visitors that are expected at the
fete, and even the most staid citizens
of the town are evincing interest In
the proceedings in common with their
more blase brothers of the hill sec
tiOns. Wherever possible each one of
the 20 booths and sideshows will be
in charge of -cIubwomen costumed In
the various garbs of the nations that
they represent.
Dame Fortune and her merry assist
ants presiding at the wheel will vie
with austere and staid colonial DANES;
dusky Hawaiian maids will glance
askance at their equally dark sisters
in the Turkish booth. while the al
mond eyed beauties of Japan will no
tice everything that is going on. not
withstanding their duties at the tea
garden. Indians, confetti girls, pop
corn and flower venders promise to
make a riot of color and sound UP and
down the avenue and through the sur
rounding gardens strung with care
fully shaded Japanese lanterns that
will make the sight in the evenings
of each fete day one long to be re-
membered.
The formal opening of the fair will
take place at 1 o'clock Friday. when
the finest and cleanest of the infant
population of all the surrounding cities
will be entered in the baby parade by
their fond mothers and fathers. The
most careful computer with regard to
entries in this portion of the carnival
has placed the number at 100 The
judges. upon whom the wrath of the
parents is sure to fall no matter what
the decisions may be, are Mrs. +. w.
Merrill of San Francisco. chief judge.
assisted by Mrs. +. NJ Seibert of San
Mateo and Mrs. George III. Probasco
of San Francisco The babies have
been divided into three classes-those
and between and years. For the
winners in each section bautiful prizes
have been awarded. by merchants OF
the surrounding towns. and in addition
a number of special prizes have come
in at the last moment, so that the baby
parade promises to be one of the most
successful sections of the whole
carnival.
The various booths will claim the
attention of the visitors at the con-
clusfon of the parade and among those
that promise to be especially well
patronized is the Hawaiian village,
where a miniature volcano will squirt
forth fire and ashes at irregular inter-
walls, while soft eyed island girls are
casting sleeps eyes at rich and poor
alike. As an added attraction for this
booth a number of college glee club men
and stunt artists have promised to ap-
pear each night with their latest ISL
and songs.
The Dutch village, which will be one
of the largest of the booths, will un-
doubtedly claim the attention of the
throng time and again, for. in addition
to the curious garb of the land of dikes
and canals. a delicious Dutch supper
Will be served at all hours under the
directions of Mrs. e. A. Bannerot. one
of the officers of the club. and an earn
est worker In their undertakings. In
order to save themselves many useless
steps. the women have put up an
ministration tent, where Mrs. George
B. Miller, president of the club. will re-
ceive reports and issue such directions
as will be necessary for insuring the
successful running of the carnival
Mrs. Miller will be assisted by the Of
ficers of the club in her general super
visorial work: Mrs. I. H. Chapman,
vice president; Mrs. Henry Gervais,
secretary; Mrs. Phillip Hans. treasurer,
and Mrs. /. Reardon. financial secretary