The San Francisco call., 1909-10-08


Waltzes," which are soon to be pub
lished.
The proceeds arising from her Por-
tola march will be given by Miss
Cooper to the festival fund Com
mencing Sunday afternoon and contin-
uing throughout the week Leader Ros-
ner of the Orpheum orchestra will play
this march. which he has pronounced
the best of all the Portola pieces which
have been brought to his attention.
Prizes for Ball Costumes
Perhaps the most thoroughly joyous
event in the whole. Portola festive pc
riod will be the great baille en- mas
cara or Spanish mask ball which is to
be given at the Auditorium Friday Oc-
tober %. Prizes of the value of more
than $1,000 will be awarded to the
maskers for the handsomest, the most
original, the most striking and the
most picturesque costumes. The dis
tinguished visitors from foreign pow
ers-the naval officers, the ambassa-
dors with their staff and others-will
be there as the guests of the king
and queen, and there will be 80 boxes
for spectators.
Promptly at 10 o'clock Don Gaspar
de Portola, king of the festival, will
lead Queen Vergilia to the floor and the
orchestra of so instruments will play
the grand march. Only maskers in
costume will be allowed on the floor.
No dominoes will be admitted.
The first two prizes will be awarded
to the man and woman wearing the
handsomest costumes. In selecting the
winners for these prizes beauty of de-
sign, of fabric and of arrangement will
be considered as well as harmony of
color.
The second pair of awards will be
for the most original costume, serious,
comic or burlesque. for man or woman.
The third pair of prizes will be for
the most striking costumes on the
floor. Bizarre combinations of color
and unusual and striking design in
these costumes are likely to attract the
attention of the judges. but there is no
barrier to the execution of original
ideas.
The seventh and eighth prizes will
be awarded to the two maskers, man
and woman, who have the most beau
tiful and perfect costumes of the pc
riod of Don Gaspar de Portola and sus-
tain the characters.
These prizes will be awarded at mid
night by the judges and the prize win
ners will then be presented to the
king and queen. After the awards
have been made the music and revelry
will continue and only the lack of life
limit their participation in the festivi-
ties which will last until dawn.
The exact nature of the prizes will
be announced before the opening of the
baille en- mascara and the price of
boxes will be announced in few days.
Funds Are Still Needed
The largest single contribution do
mated to the PortoIa fund was received
yesterday from the United Railroads
in the form of a check for $4,000. The
finance committee believes that with
this donation as an example more con-
tributions of large sums should follow,
thereby insuring the success of the fes-
tivai.
The work OF installing the myriads
of incandescent lights which will form
part of the decoration scheme of the
city during Portola week and which
will cost $4,000, is rapidly nearing
completion, and nothing can prevent
the success of the Portola festival ex-
cept shortage of funds. There is a
large amount that has not been COW
cred by check and the finance commit
tee asks those who have not handed in
the amount they subscribed to do so
at once.
The committee is somewhat handi-
capped by this shortage and asks every
citizen to contribute his share to the
Portola fund in order that the festival
shall be of such magnitude that it will
be one of the most memorable events
that ever occurred in San Francisco
The window transfers of the official
Portola posters, which are being gener-
ally used in the decorative schemes
throughout the city. are also under the
official sanction of the committee, and
the proceeds from the sale of the trans
fers help to swell the program fund
Fire Department to Parade
The fire department will take an ac-