Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-02
.HOLLYWOOD'S
FLORAL PARADE
MAGNIFICENT
GORGEOUS PAGEANT VIEWED
BY THOUSANDS
MYRIAD OF FRAGRANT BLOSSOMS
DECK EoUlRAeEs
Fiesta and Tournament Most Brilliant
in History of Beautiful Fcothill
city-Far queen Receives
Homage
TN flare Of streamers and flags

haunting across its fiower-decked
n streets, Hollywood celebrated it's
third annual floral fiesta and tourna-
ment yesterday with superb pageant
of bloom, winding in a glorious process
sional through the broad, shaded ave-
nues of the foothill city,
The queen in her magnificent car. at
tended by the fairest of maidens and
handsomest courtiers rode through the
streets of her city and received the
homage of her subjects-and they were
all her subjects who beheld her regal
beauty.
Fifty thousand spectators lined the
streets and eheered the paraders a.
they passed on their triumphal journey.
No such profusion of flowers has ever
been seen even in this land of blossoms.
One float alone, the magnificent Hover
basket of the Colegrove board of trade,
was covered with several thousand
pink and white roses. 1t was designed
by George Cole and executed by the
entire population of Colegrove
| Cahuenga valley turned out more
beautiful women, magnificent horses
and superb flowers than anyone ever
dreamed existed in Southern California
and this is the home of all those.
The bunting shown was mostly in
the shape of streamers of purple and
white with Old Glory draped tastefully
over windows. Not enough fabric was
! shown to cause distaste, but so well
| background for flowers and foil for
the deep green of abounding foliage.
In Rose Pereola
In a rose pergola of magnificent de-
sign, the white posts intertwined with
asparagus plumosus and pink roses,
| five beautiful young women tied be-
| meath their dimpled chins with bows or
satin the hearts of half a hundred of
the silk coated gentlemen riders of the
Hollywood Country club. On this float
| was centered the hopes of the Oily
wood board of trade. The pergola.
which was mounted on a touring cac.
| was driven by Miss Ruth Bek1nS Be
side her was Miss Helon Morton
| Young, Miss Gertrude Connen Miss
| Blanche Grass and Miss Florence Pal
mer This float divided the honors OF
the day with the Colegrove basket filled
with pretty girls from the sister town
to the south of Hollywood
Fast HOLLYWOOD, South Hollywood,
I,anlxershim and Colegrove contributed
much to the success Of the days cele-
| bration.
The out West Riding club turned out
a large number of riders, and every
| horse shown by these valiant vaqueros
| was a blooded and spirited animal. In
a mounted cotillion danced-or pranced
by the horses, guided by thelr peer
| less riders, the Out West boys and
girls showed marvellous skill and I'M
| ished horsemanship.
| The grandstands showed scenes of
rare beauty; the sea of waving color,
! the white lawn dresses, gay ribbons
| and breeze-blown bunting against the
deep green background of foliage made
a panorama that will long cling to the
memories of fortunate beholders
| When the queen of the floral festival.
| crowned and seated on green daS.
surrounded by her ladies, eourtiers and
| guards, signified that 1t was her royal
| pleasure that the tourney be begun, the
bugle blared a call, hoofbeats resound-
ed down the lists, host of handsome
knights, their long lances at rest
dashed forward and saluted their royal
ruler. and the equestrian sports were
on.
Never were riders more dashing. The
women Wed with the men in feats that
thrilled the spectators and sent thun-
derous cheers ringing across the tree
tops. Miss Emma Hoechlin brought
| the multitude up standing when her
| fiery sorrel saddler bore her down the
| linz, lance poised like knight of old.
while she skilfully clipped every ivory
! ring from it's resting place. Cheer
after cheer greeted her as she returned,
saluted the queen and delivered her
rings to judges.
| Mayor George Alexander of Los AM
geles was greeted with applause when
he entered. He acted as one of the
| judges.
the thousands who journeyed to the
beautiful city of homes at the foot
| hills of the Santa Monica mountains
were well repaid. They returned to
| their homes, the sound of inspiring
| music and the scene of rare beauty
clinging to their memories. 1t was
long day of triumph for the fair
| women and dashing men who partici-
! pated in the glorious pageant and
thrilling tournament of the flowers.
Promptly at l o'clock Miss Helen
! Somers, queen of the floral festival.
took her place at the front of the
| grand professional and the grandest
pageantry that has been seen in South
ern California started on it's rounds of
the principal streets of the city. Miss
| Somers was seated on her throne
which was the most elaborately deco
rated affair that has been seen in this
city, while just in front of her was her
little attendant, Gardner Lippincott.
She was attended by the fairies, Ida
Bell Potter and Annalou Piggott. Her
knights were Messrs. J. B. Irefeld, J.
Eugene Law, Frank Hoover and DR..
j. r. Alcorn.
Big Crowd Sees Parade
The procession passed east on San
set boulevard from Vine street, where
it formed to Hartford. On Hartford
it turned north to Prospect avenue and
on Prospect it passed west to La Brea,
where a countermarch was made to
Cahuenga, where the prizes were pre-
sented.
All of the cars from Los Angeles
were filled with people from early !
morning until 1 o'clock, and Prospect
avenue was lined from Vine street to
La Brea, more than 10000 being a con-
servative estimate of the crowd.
That Hollywood had done herself
proud is shown by the hearty support
of the neighboring towns. and the af-
fair marks one of the greatest forward
steps in the history of this city Aside
from the many beautiful entries from
this city, East Hollywood, South Hol-
lywood. Sherman. Colegrove and Lam
kershim were well represented in the
parade South Hollywood had a tally
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