The San Francisco call., 1909-10-19
SPLENDID MILITARY
PAGEANT ORDERED
Great Army of Many Nations
Will Lead PortoIa Through
Streets of City
Presentation to the Carnival
Queen Will Take Place in
Union Square

Don Gaspar de Portola will enter the
harbor on the revenue cutter Golden
Gate and will be greeted by the boom
ing of the guns of the international
fleets. At the foot of Mission street
he will land and will be received by
the Portola reception committee. His
escort of dragons, under the command
of Colonel Ritter, will form guard of
honor about him and conduct him TO his
place at the head of the troop. Here
his orderly will await him with his
charger and assist him to mount.
Grand Marshal Paul T. Carroll has
arranged and organized the forces so
that when the signal is given the vast
army will begin the march. First will
come the regular troops under the COM
mand of Colonel John A. Lundeen.
These will be followed by the repre-
sentatives of the navy of the United
States and the foreign blue Jackets and
marines These divisions will have
their own bands. Next will be the
Portola dragons. a company of so
mounted men in the armor and trap
pings of the Spanish soldiers of Por-
tola's time.
LINE OF MARCH
Leaving the ferry at 10 o'clock the
international army will march up Mar
ket street to Marshall square in front
of the old city hall, where the army
and navy officers and diplomatic rep
resentatives of the various powers will
review it from the stand. The route
of march thence to Union square will
be via Market street to Van Ness ave-
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to stockton, to Post, to Powell, to
Geary. On arriving at Union Square
park a hollow square will be formed
around the court, where the mayor
and the city officials and officers of the
Portola executive committee will be in
waiting.
When Portola arrives at the grand
stand he will dismount and will be
welcomed by P. T. Clay. chairman of
the Portola executive committee, who
will introduce him to the mayor. Then
Will folIow,a brief but impressive cere-
mony in which the mayor will present
the golden key of the city and bid
Portola rule as king for five days.
WILL MEET THE QUEEN
At the conclusion of this ceremony
Queen Vergilia, escorted by the Por-
tola dragons, will arrive at the court
and the formal introductions will be
conducted by the chairman of the exec
utive committee. Following these cer-
emonies Don Gaspar viii conduct Queen
Vergilia, escorted by her pages and at
tendants, TO the st. Francis, where the
tables will be prepared for them and
the invited quests of the Portola COM
mittee.
Don Gaspar de Pertola Will be es-
corted by a military parade which both
in size and composition will surpass
anything of the kind San Franciscans
have ever witnessed in their city. Every
branch of the American army will be
in line, our blue jackets and the sea
fighters of five foreign powers. Be
sides these there viii be Don Gaspars
own guard, the Portola dragons, the
League of the Cross cadets and the
national guard.
Following is the assignment for the
parade:
THE ARMY
Thirtieth infantry-colonel Lundeen. Captains
Brady; stcpford and Wheeler, Lieutenant Colo
Thirtieth infantry band.
Second battalion-Major o'Neil, Lieutenant
and Anderson; Company F, Captain Shaw, Lieu.
tenant Ord: Company G, Lieutenants Goodrich
and Guild; Company H. Captain Reams,
Wade adjutant. Company A, Lieutenant Hat
field; Company B, Lieutenant Hunt; Company
Y. captain Dougnerty; company d, Captain
Coast artillery corps-Lieutenant Colonel
Brooks, Captain Murphy adjutant, Third band
coast artillery corps. First battalion, Major
Ruckman. Lieutenant Ellis adjutant. Thirty
second company, Lieutenants Thornton and
Meyer; Sixty-frst company, Lieutenant Council
man; Sixty-seventh company, Captain Chappe-
lear; Sixty-eighth company, Captain Waldron.
Second battalion-Major Stevens, Lieutenant
Parker adjutant. Twenty-ffth company Captain
Goodfellow. Lieutenant Crussy: sixty-fourth
company, Captain Connally. Lieutenant Knight;
Twenty-ninth company, Lieutenant Schwabe;
Thirty-eighth company, Lieutenant Loughry.
Third battalion-Major Lameraux, Lieutenant
Molten adjutant. Tenth company, CAPTAIN
Steele, Lieutenant Stephenson; Twenty seventh
company. Captain Casey, Lieutenant Guthrie.
6eventieth company, Lieutenants Crissy and Cur.
rier; Seventieth company, Captain Robinson
Lieutenant Koenig; Company B, hospital corps,
Captain Bevans, II. c., commanding.
First field artillery-Captain Faulkner Liet-
tenant Cruise adjutant. Second battalion Battery
D, Lieutenants Browning Pritchet and Randall:
Battery E, Captain Langdon, Lieutenants Neal
and Burns; Battery F, Lieutenants Potter Pfeil
and Naylor.
Signal corps, Company E-Lieutenants Beck
and Megill
Fourteenth cavalry-Major Scott Lieutenant
Pierson adjutant. Second squadron Troop r
Lieutenents Lynch and Bans Troop F, Lieuten,
ant Eixson; Troop G, Lieutenant Lane; Troop II,
Captain Adams.
Full dress.
THE NAVY