The San Francisco call., 1909-09-05
NOVEL FEATURES
FOR CELEBRATION
San Jose Promises Merry Fes=
tivaI for Native Sons of the
Golden West

Much pleasure is to be crowded into
the four days celebration in San Jose
commencing September s. The Admis-
sion DAY celebration committee of the
Native Sons is planning to entertain
thousands of the members of the or
der and their friends. The festivities
will continue with unabated gayety
from Wednesday, when the delegations
arrive from all parts of the state, un-
til the close. of the grand ball and
masQue street carnival Saturday night.
THE BIG PARADE
1t is estimated that 5000 gayly uni
formed Native Sons and Daughters will
participate in the Admission day pa
rade next Thursday, September 8.
There Will be 25 bands and so drum
corps. Grand Marshal Fitzgerald.
Chairman BelloH, Frank r. Ross and
Dr. CASTOR of the parade committee
are busily' engaged in assigning places
in the line to the parlors.
The Native Sons of San Francisco
are to make an exceptionally strong
showing in San Jose. Fifty Native
Sons who are members of the San Fran
cisco police department. will head tthe
big parade. All the San Francisco par
lors viii have members IN line In uni
form The joint committee in this city
arranging for the participation of San
Francisco parlors in the celebration is
composed of James Mcbride. William
d. Hobro Jr., ]. H. Nelson, Roland M.
Roche, Henry Dahl Jr. and E. E.
Fisher.
n Adv EXERCVGES
The literary exercises Thursday
afternoon have been arranged by a
committee consisting of Fred H. Stanle
of San Francisco, w. c. Muntz of San
Leandro and F. A. Haas of San Fran
cisco. Grand President Joseph X.
Knowland will be the president of the
day and Judge Frank ]. Murasky of
San Francisco the orator. The opening
address of welcome will be made by
the mayor of San Jose.
Elaborate Entertainments
Especial Dispdich 10 The Call
SAN JOSE. Sept. 4.-Perhaps no fea-
ture of the great Native Sons Admls-
sion celebration next week will prove
more interesting to the visiting thou
sands than the fancy horse show which
win be held Friday. September 10. Sew
eral hundred horses of all grades have
already been entered and from the In
terest that horsemen throughout the
state are taking in the show it is prob
able that many more viii be entered
before the event.
Sheriff Langford who has been elect
ed grand marshal of the big parade of
fancy horses, which is to be the prin-
cipal feature of the show. has an
nounced that the parade VIII start at
10 o'clock Friday morning and will be
/ ~, d;x-iC Of MT classes
of horses. After parading about the
beautifully decorated city the horses
will be lined up and judged on Market
street in front of the city hall. George
Theurkauf, DR.. James Boyd and w. G.
westlake. all well known horsemen
will act as judges.
Special prizes will be awarded for
best decorated rigs and special judges
will be appointed to pass upon them
Fifty-one cash prizes will be awarded
according to the schedule furnished by
the committee in charge of the horse
show in the following order:
Draft horses-Teams, four in hand
eorE year 0ids' stations and mare an'
Roadsters-Single team, yearling, 2
year oIds, stations and mare and colt
Carriage or coach horses-Single
team, four in hand, yearlings, year
olds, stations and mare and colt
Ponies-Ridden or driven: X
I
For saddle horses; for most graceful
horse; for most graceful lady rider; for
/ best decorated rig in parade.
There will be a sweepstakes prizes
for the best individual horses in the
parade. Doctor Browning, county vet
erinarian, has offered a beautiful cup
for one of these prizes. No prizes will
be awarded where there is no competi-
ton or for inferior animals in COM
petition.
Many business. firms are entering
their finest horseflesh and owners of
! fine animals in all parts of the state
are listing them with Sheriff Langford.
The line of parade Will be kept clear
| of rigs and automobiles to prevent
accidents during the parade and the
horses in the parade will be kept 100
| feet apart.
Mrs. Eleanor Gates Tully, the well
known writer and horse lover, has en-
tered her beautiful Arabians in the
show. These are kept on the Tully
ranch near Alma and are the pride of
the valley. These horses, the commit
tee in charge thinks, will constitute an
attraction in themselves.
HORSE AND BABY SHOWS
The horse show Friday morning will
be highly pleasing exhibition of fam
cy stock. Sixteen grades of horses
will be paraded through the streets,
and prizes awarded to the winners En-
tries are open to all horsemen and own
ers of riding. driving. draft and saddle
horses. A large number of fine horses
of all grades have already been en-
tered with Henry Doerr of San Jose,
who is in charge of the horse show.
Another great feature Friday morn
ing will be the baby show at the Audi
torium rink. This promises to eclipse
I'll axhfhifions of fha hind ever ofyo,,