The San Francisco call., 1909-12-27
CARNIVAL PLANS
NEAR COMPLETION
New Years Eve Celebration Ex=
peCted to 0utcIaSS All
Former Efforts

Prepa rations for the New Years eve
out and the prosperous and happy
new year in are rapidly nearing COM
pletion. The celebrations in the three
big business sections of the city prom
ise to outclass any former celebration
of the same nature ever held in San
Francisco. and when the three process
bile parade, the principal feature, the
largest turnout Of automobiles ever
known in the west viii be seem
The automobile parade viii start
promptly at O'Clock Friday evening
al Van Ness avenue and Market street
and will proceed down Market to the
ferry. to California. to Montgomery, Il
Pacific, to Grant avenue, to Post. 10
ockton, TO Geary. to Powell. to Fill
more street via Suffer- thence along
Fillmore street to Golden Gate avenue,
to Market. TO Valencia and Twenty
fourth, to Mission. to Sixteenth and into
Market. Valuable prizes viii be
awarded by the Downtown association
the Mission promotion association and
by the Fillmore street Improvement
club The auto parade will be under
the direction of Paul T. Carroll Max
RosenfeId and Fernando Nelson.
Besides the automobile parade the
downtown district will have its usual
amount Of fun. Good natured fun will
prevail. for Chief of Police Cook has
issued a notice that there shall be no
rowdyism. and has ordered the mem
bers Of the police department to arrest
all persons with paint. pots and busters.
In Fillmore street will be separate
celebration. The huge electric lighted
arches al the several crossings have
been decorated with evergreens and the
myriads of lights have been changed to
those of carnival coIors Every mer-
chant and property owner in the dis
trict adjacent to Fillmore street has
entered into the spirit OF the carnival,
and the main thoroughfare Of the
Western addition will have the time of
its life.
The Mission district will have a car-
nival to be proud Of 1t will be the ter
mination OF the Mission holiday fes-
tivaI. which began December Is and
promises to be one of the greatest cele-
brations ever held in any section of
San Francisco. The first feature will
be the coronation of Queen Esther,
which will take place next Thursday
evening. The executive committee of
the Mission promotion association is
also planning theater party in honor
of the queen.
James Rolph Jr-. prime minister of
the festival, will crown the queen on
behalf of the association. Meyer Clark
will be the court jester and Joseph
HoIle the announcer. The Mission pa
rade will assemble in front of the Mis-
sion Dolores. The masqueraders will
assemble at the Mission promotion hall,
where they will be provided with cos
tunes. confetti and noise producing
tovs. The merchants of the district Will
also distribute confetti to the crowds
that line both Mission and Valencia
streets. Colored fire will be burned all
along the line of march and the entire
district will be illuminated with thou
sands Of incandescent lamps. Five bands
have been engaged for the evening.
Among the features in the parade will
be the orientials and the Illuminated
floats, a special prize having been Of
fered to the orientals.
After the big parade on New Years
eve a coronation ball in honor of the
queen will be given. All representa-
tives of civic and commercial bodies
will be the honored guests.