The San Francisco call., 1909-10-24
By HARRY DAVIDS

dow ShapeS-NeS, Dut not laSl- HlSilt'
with a California moon smiling down
from Gods own Californian sky.
Followed then the goddess of the
cherry blossom bringing with her all
the beauty and wonder of the frag-
rance of spring. The dainty Japanese
float. gayly decked with the blossoms
of the oriental homes and surrounded
bv the demurest of little japanese
maidens and the fiercest of japanese
samurai was another picture in the
life Of San Francisco and, being beauti-
fuI, received applause, greater than
when it made its first appearance
hursday.-
The Franciscan fathers were next in
line. Toll was there shown, the toll of
the road of the cross in early days In
dians. tomahawk in hand, screeched and
yelled Strange figures darted across
the path. but never was the cross being
lifted to the top of the half tiled adobe
mission house lowered. Somber grave,
collected, the good fathers worked their
/ ends
LANGUIDNESs PERsoNIFIED
The float of the Spanish settlers COM
ing next in order was the one which
seemed to unloosen the heart strings
of the populace. There was something
kin in the reclining figures lazily smok-
ing the everlasting cigarette, some
thing in commond bond with he laugh
ing Spanish girls. 1t was a part of San
francisco-San Francisco the city OF
pleasure. The crowd evidently did not
anaIyze the sentiment. small time was
there for that; but it felt the little
ouch of he cali of manana and nodded
back with laughter at the lounging fig
ures, in tune with the spirit of the
time
The Spaniard passed and the Ameri-
can came Following in the trail of
the cigarette smoke was the picture of
the discovery Of gold The spirit
changed with vehement suddenness.
I Before, the scene was the absolute care
/ free of the big ranchero and now it was
/ the feVerish rush of the miners. Big
men and brawny, red shirted and bare
armed, they stormed into the rough
4 places of the earth and hauled forth
/ the precious metal. One character. 1T
ing nugget above his head, shouted
aloud. and the crowd shouted with him.
! A strike, Few were there in the crowd
who did not recognize the magic of the
hurled itword.
And then, finding the gold, the miners
I hurled it from them The picture was
/ complete in the act. As the float passed
came the vision of those days of 49,
/ What men-what wonderful men were
/ they Those men who dug the gold
and, having found it. tossed it from
them.
The flying nuggets fell among the
4 crowd. cast aside with the same reck-
4 lessness with which. the fathers of the
4 city had sought a reputation
PICTURE FROM BRET HARTE
In keeping with the picture was the
4neXt float, that of the early gambling
hall and the Bret Harte characters fol-
( lowing behind. There was Salomy Jane
and there the red gowned, hard voiced
women of the gambling hells. They
! passed as quickly as they passed from
J the life Of the city, strange men and
/ women, governed by vice, dominated by
4 virtue, and in the rear was the stage
I coach of old. IT also was a part of
the times, but it gave thoughts of the
joining Of the east and west and there
I was ringe of pathos in their passing.
The picture passed and new life was
! evident upon the passing screen. 1t
came with scream of fiddle and fife
and horrible clash of cymbal and drum.
I From the orient it came, from China.
Men with straw basket hats hanging
at the back OF their heads with
strange banners and strange devices.
3 appeared The fddles squeaked. the
1 cymbals clashed. the language Of Con-
fucius rippled through the burr of the
western Anglo-Saxon- Yet a part of
San Francisco, its strangest part and
4 perhaps its most famous
Tiny Chinese girls, serious Chinese
I boys. bobbed and bowed along the
streets. Into the din of China came a
new note-the sound of rhythmic smash
of drums and following in the rear Of
their elders were the native sons of
Chinatown.
NEW CHINESE ARE THESE
The gauze and glory of their fathers
was not theirs. Instead they were clad
in white and suits of khaki. and thoy
marched in company formation of the
United States army and their drum
mers hammered out the refrain of the
regular army posts. The east and west
! had met.
Then came a picture Of the dark
days, at least, picture which gave
rise to the thoughts Of the dark and
/ bloody days. A float was seen contain
+ ing some of the men who laid the
4 first rail TO be laid by Chinese labor in
] Calfornie. They were old and aged
these men. The memories of the an
( tagonism against Chinese labor came
Z rushing to the fore, but they were
I swept aside in the next picture
This was one depicting the driving
of the last spike. The figures, famous
in history, stood grouped around an
/ old fashioned railway engine. The
1 hammer rose. hats were uplifted, and
as it fell San Francisco had passed
from the age of its romantic isolation
and had Joined hands with its sister
cities of the east.
Other floats followed, allegorical
conceptions showing the fruit indus
try. flowers. sunshine and California
poppies. Amid the petals of the flow
ers sat beautiful maidens, making ex-
ceptionally beautiful pictures
QUEEN SMILES on CROWD
At the last. seated high on her throne.
| ..eas Nel,oiIia nlIaen OF beauty the