Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-30
PASADENA TAKES
ON GALA ATTIRE
ALL IN READINESS FIR TOUR
NAMENT OF ROSES
cHARloTEERs OUT IN TRIAL
SPEED DASHES
Streets Are Decorated in Tournament
coIors of Red and White, and
Residents Are Requested to
Assist In Scheme

PASADENA, Dec. 29.-Both Of the
charioteers who will drive on Tourna-
ment day in Pasadena-E. S. Leaven-
good and r. L. English tried out their
fours today in speed dashes on the
new dish-shaped half-mile track at
Tournament park. and some remark
able time was made. Those who held
their watches on the trial refuse to say
what the time was, but 1t is believed
that either four on the new track can
make better time than was ever made
on the old track, which was about 200
feet short of a full half-mile.
There will be three heats between the
two fours on New Years day, and the
brushes should be very exciting. Here
tofore the races have practically been
decided by the four drawing the pole,
for it has taken horses obviously su-
perior to those running against them
and q better driver to handle them to
take the lead from the pole team. That
was because there was no chance to
drive around on the turns. Now this is
all changed, for the turns are banked
and the fours can circle the track at
full speed.
Streets Being Decorated
Decorators started out this evening to
hung from all the cross guy wires OF
the Pacific Electric along the line of
the parade, and the posts will also have
standards. The job of making the
streets look bright and attractive with
the official Tournament colors-red and
Whites a big one, and the crews of
workers will be at it all night. The
directors have also issued an appeal to
the people living or doing business
along the line of march, asking them
10 decorate their residences or stores,
and many of the more enterprising are
complying with the request.
This evening at Tournament head
quarters it is possible to compile an
official program for the formation of
the big parade. 1t will form like this:
Divisions of Parade
Division 1-Grand Marshal F. F.
Rowland and aids, squad of mounted
police, Crown City band, officers and d.
rectors of the Tournapent of Roses in
autos, and the mayor and city council,
also in automobiles. In this division
will be a quartet Of buglers to herald
the approach of the parade with blasts
upon their instruments.
Division 2-Capt. w. c. Johnson, u.
S. A, marshal; Seventh Regiment
band heading the Seventh regiment,
other military bodies, Grand Army of
lit tNepuDllCI tSCOIllHB bOulcS anu
marching clubs.
Division 3-European Concert band of
Los Angeles. e. j. Sheehan, marshal;
school entries, including the beautiful
high school float, the grade school alle-
CORY. historical and representative
floats and individuals, tandem horses,
driving and tandem ponies driving.
Division 4-William H. Magee, mar
shal; Whittier state school band, floats,
two-pony vehicles, one-pony vehicles,
novelties and burros.
Division 5-Charles Baxter, marshal;
Long Beach municipal band, coaches,
tallyhos, six-horse vehicles, tallyhos or
drags drawn by four horses, tandem
saddle horses, tandem saddle ponies,
and the fire department, including the
handsome new combination automobile
fire engines.
Division 6-Victor L. Ward marshal;
Gregory's Italian band from Ocean
Park, saddle horses, woman riders:
saddle horses. man riders; saddle po-
nies, boy or girl riders, and the out
West club of Los Angeles will probably
be in this division.
Division IS. S. Spaulding, marshal;
Rykert's military band OF Los Angeles,
automobiles for four and automobiles
for two. 1t is anticipated that this di-
vision, which has been rather small in
the past, will be much larger this year
Ezra Meeker's OK Team
One of the probable novelties in store
for those who witness the pageant will
be the famous oX-wagon Of Ezra Meek
er. Meeker drove this rig from Wash
ington state to Washington, D. c. He
is now stopping in Pasadena, having
reached this city today, and he plans
TO deck his outfit with flowers and en-
ter il in the parade.
This year there will be two bands at
Tournament park instead of one. The
Crown City band and the Whittier band
will play at the park, while the Long
Beach band will give a concert in one
of the downtown parks.
Judges were named this evening by
the Tournament officials for the floral
parade, as follows; Miss Margaret
Tuell, Mrs. A. p. Spenser, ]. p. Graves.
Mrs. Artemus Lamb, Mrs George II.
Lincoln, Mrs. II. D. Rockefeller G. II. |
Merrill, Mrs, c. II. Merrill. /. C. Sea-
man, j. b. Johnson, II. w. Barnes. /
Duane Armstrong, F. A Titus, Mrs. F.
A. Titus and George A. Burrows. The
Judges were picked from the guests at
the three largest notes.-the Raymond, |
Greene and Maryland
The parade viii start at 10:3O o'clock |
and wind up at Tournament park about
noon. The exercises at the park start |
at 2.30 o'clock
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