Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-10-20
SAN FRANCISCO
CELEBRATES
DISCOVERY
DON GASPAR De P0RT0LA
SAILS PAST GOLDEN GATE
City Brilliantly Illuminated
Warships from Half Dozen
Nations to Participate in FeS-
tivitieS in Honor of Voyager,

San Francisco, Oct. 19.-The fea-
began here today in commemoration
of the discovery of San Francisco
hay was a reception by the festival
queen and by the impersonator of
Don Gaspar de Portola, the discov-
erer, in honor Of the foreign ministers
and officers of the foreign warships
now in the harbor. The chief guests
at the reception were Jonkheer j.
Loudon, minister of The Netherlands
to this country, and Marquis de VII
lalobar, minister of Spain, both Of
whom were sent here as the represen-
tatives of their respective nations dur
ing the celebration.
The warships in the bay were il
Illuminated tonight and the searchlights
played over the city. The enormous
bell at the intersection of Market
Third, Geary and Kearney streets
formed from 10000 colored globes,
WAS the most striking feature of the
lighting. Although the day opened
under leaden skies and with q light
rain falling, the clouds broke soon
and the sun shone brightly on the
decorated city. Having boarded the
revenue cutter Golden Gate and gone
outside the bay at dawn, Don Gaspar
de Portola, impersonated by Nicholas
Coverrubias, a descendant of the
Spanish settlers of the state, with his
guard of honor, entered the Golden
Gate soon after 10 o'clock to the
booming of guns from the forts and
assembled ships Of war.
This naval contingent consisted of
the United States cruisers st. Louis
and Albany, the gunboat Yorktown,
the naval militia training ship Alert,
the revenue cutter McCulloch and the
torpedo destroyers Whipple, Truxton,
Hull, Perry, Goldborough, Predle and
Lawrence
Immediately south of the fairway
occupied by the American fleet lay
His Britannia Majesty's fleet, COM
posed of the arinorcd cruiser Bedford
and the sloops of war Algerine and
Shearwater.
Next to the British war craft were
anchored the Japanese cruiser Idzu
ma, the italian cruiser Calabria, the
Netherlands cruiser Noord- Bra bant
and the German cruiser Arcona.
Scarcely had the roar from the salut-
biE GUNS uItu away WifH DOIi bdofdi
was greeted by the deafening cheers
of the throng lining the docks. When
he set foot on shore at the Mission
street wharf he was met by the Por-
tola Dragons, the regular soldiers
and sailors detailed to act as his es-
cort, and the members of the POrtola
reception committee.
No more cosmopolitan parade was
ever seen on this coast. First came
the United States regulars. then the
American blue jackets leading the
sailors and marines of Great Britain.
Holland, Japan. Germany and Italy.
Don Gaspar's personal escort consist
ed of the Portola Dragons, a mounted
company Of sixty men in the giitteriug
armor and accoutrements of the time
OF Portola, the real. At the historic |
Marshall square the procession passed !
In review before the army and navy |
officers of six nations. The parade |
ended ut Union square, where the |
golden key to the city was presented |
to Don Gaspar. The toast proposed |
py President Taft to the rebuilt city |
was drunk. Don Gaspar was then |
presented to Queen Vergilia, who will |
reign during the festival.