Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-16
LOS ANGELES DECkED
IN FAIRYLAND STYLE
CITY BECOMES "LADY OF THE
DECORATION"
Everywhere Royal Purple Blends with
Red, White and Blue in
Flags, Pennants and
Bunting

No longer may we speak of our fair
city as Los Angeles"--she has become
1.-THE Lady of the Decoration"
Never was she so beautiful as now,
never so daintily attired.
Everywhere there are pennants; bunt-
ing and flags, flags, bunting and PEN
nants.
From Postoffice square north to the
Plaza, south on Spring past the Elks
registration bureau, and down Main,
Spring, Broadway and Hill, further
than ones unaided eyesight can follow,
the city Is a-flutter with f1ecks of royal
purple and white, with purple sun-fad-
ed to palest lavender, with the Fiesta
tri-color, red and orange and green,
and crowning and dominating all, yet
blending happily into the distant color
maze, are myriads of American flags.
Like nesting birds thousands of the
tiny emblems cling to the facade of the
tallest buildings, endowing each with
life from sidewalk level to capsheaf;
at the secand floor strings of purple
and white Chinese lanterns and wires
to which are attached countless small
pennants and banners, reach from
building to building, crossing the
streets half dozen or more times In
each block; the great stands OF electric
light globes which line the thorough
fares show as clustered purple harvest
moons, while at the crossings festoons
of the purple and white Chinese Ian
terms spring from them In graceful
arches to a point of intersection far
above, and from the center of each
swing the facsimile of a square wooden
clock with the hands stopped at one
hour before midnight.
All Is Joy
Standing in front of the Los Angeles
Herald and looking south one might
easily imagine the street perspective to
be an immense phonograph, with the
records situated near Seventh or Eighth
streets, and the long lines of fluttering
colors which converge somewhere In
that vicinity, and which bear q faint
resemblance to the music scale as
sometimes written by a cartoonist, to
be the visible notes Of song whose re-
frain is, Hello, Bill, old chap. We'll
come to our city"
Everything in Los Angeles has stop
ped short except the fun, and that Is
going fast and furious and lasts the
twenty-four hours around At the ap-
pointed miunte when the gentle twi-
light would be due to arrive were the
CLOCKS not on a SITlkS, d S6lll lOuChoS
a button, and presto, change!
A thousand thousand electric lights,
asleep during the daytime, have open
ed at once and simultaneously, and
are winking and twinkling in mischieV-
Gus glee, putting the stars to shame.
In groups, in companies, in battalions,
these cleaning little points seem to be
everywhere, outlining business blocks
with chains OF light, forming in simu-
lated star shapes, flashing in vari-
colored circles, or like fountain fall
in radiant drops of light into marble
basin.
They are strung like ropes of pearls,
they glow like rubies and sparkle with
the deep fire of diamonds, and our
Lady of the Decorations wears them
as a queen her crown She Winds them
about her slender throat and in her
fair hair, they serve as girdle, as
bracelets and as rings. 1t is whispered
that one building alone on Broadway
carries more than $4,000 worth of elec-
trical illuminations in the chains of
lights which outline the great newell
posts and swing like anchor chains be-
tween.
Elk Heads Keep Watch
Watching day and night that the herd,
their human brothers, be not defraud-
ed OF one llOIlltlll Ol plSlouiO, SlSdt
elk heads have a place here and there
on the fronts OF the buildings, while on
the roof of one in a forest of branches
is a pair Dwell perhaps after all
these are deer. The manner in which
their heads constantly turn as II watch
ing the crowd below is suggestive of
the curiosity usually ascribed to the
weaker sex.
And below on sidewalk and street,
afoot, on horseback, in carriage or mo-
tor, continuously pass and repass thou
sands of that jolly good fellow, the
Elk, and there is not one too many of
him. Each wears the handsome badge
of his owp lodge. and as many more
as he has been able to beg, borrow or
swap. With him are groups of his
sisters and his cousins and his aunts,
and they too each wear badges from
one to dozen--but that's another
story.
Thoroughly down to date and appli- |
cable to our honored guest is the old