The San Francisco call., 1909-10-18
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be a show place. a playground, a
| dresses of the streets and buildings, the
| foreign warships riding in the harbor,
the fetes and pageants and varied ath-
| letic events will make of these five days
a holiday.
But most wonderful of all. most as
! founding to those who have not lived
| and labored in San Francisco during
the last three and half years. will be
the city itself-this San Franciscans, in
| the pride of the festival they have
| made, must not forget. The new born
| city builded on rock, shaped by it's
citizens hands amid the waste fields of
ashes, is more than five days wonder.
CITY ITSELF THE MARVEL
| Should there be no fete San Fran
cisco has an attraction that thousands
would delight to view. San Francisco
itself is the most wonderful sight TO
which San Francisco can call the world
| to marvel.
| Draped in carnival robes San Fran
cisco awaits the morrow. in all readi-
ness to click its heels, swish its skirts
and with tinkling tamborine enter upon
/ the dance of the week. 1t has been
/ pr1nked and puffed and painted: it has
| been beribboned with countless flags
! bejeweled with multitude of colored
| lights. 1t stands ready today, admiring
impatient for the coming dawn, when
| the first crash of music will awaken
! it from its fitful slumbers and send it
! to dancing to the merry tune OF it's
! own ehabilitation.
| From the ferry to Van Ness. once
rhymed forth deity -forsaken mess,
! there are lights. flags and bunting;
! long lines of color. heaped on color
| red and yellow, and white and blue.
| Every building in the downtown dis
| trict flashes with it. Commerce walks
| forth under a canopy of banners and
| flags. Never before in it's history has
the city been adorned with such splen-
| dor as on this occasion, and never did
| it shine forth in greater beauty.
Beginning at the ferry building are
a group of stately columns with strings
of colored lights climbing to the ferry
| clock--for all the world like a bridal
veil. From there the rows of color
stretch out like the ribs of fan,
! finding its way up alley and side street
and Haunting in brave display along the
main thoroughfareS. The new bricks
| of the Palace hotel are clothed in color
| and light. Many of the buildings along
Market street are almost completely
hidden beneath the bunting and many
more bear on their walls paintings
| and other allegorical devices.
SYMBOLS OF BEAUTY
mense paintings fash their symbols of
beauty from the walls of Alfred Lilien-
field & Co The paintings are typi-
cal of California, telling the tales
of Don Gaspar and of the priests and
missions, of the wheat fields, of the
fruits, and the events that followed
after
At the entrance Of the Flood building
is another painting, showing a galleon
of Spain with colors of blood and gold,
sailing up the placid waters of what
was later to be known as San Fran
cisco bay. Standing out in prominence
among the myriad lights of the st.
Francis hotel are two others-the one
representing the pioneer of 1S49 scross-
| ing the prairie to the land of promise,
and another of yPortola's discovery ex-
pedition gazing upon the bare beaches,
meeting the kisses of San Francisco
| bay.
The Emporium, S. N. Woods and
| Roos Brothers are heavy with color.
Thousands of lights line their fronts
and hundreds of flags drape their walls.
Most prominent, however, is the re-
| splendent bell of lights at Third and
Market streets. Its lighting pales into
insignifcance the brilliant illumina-
| tions round about, and its glow throws
| tfnts for block around.
CHINATOWN ALL AGLow
Fillmore street is decorated also. The
| arches of lights which have been stand
| ing there for the last two years are
now colored, and to these have been
added several thousand more.
Chinatown, as in the days of the city
| that was has entered upon the moment
of fun with all the splendor of the ma
tive born. Josshouse, tea shop and
store are swathed in lights and bunt-
tings. 1t was Illuminated again last
night, and the luster Of a thousand
lights crept up the crooked little alleys
and down the usually dark cellar steps
of its underground abodes.
The very shipping In the llarbor,
srfmy launches and low lying tugs are
clothed in bunting and ships. along the
wharves, vessels of every nationality,
have touched their hats TO her majesty
the queen of carnival, and display her
colors of red and yellow.