Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-19
NIGHTS REVELRY
TO END FESTIVAL
MARDI GRAS TO BE HELD IN
SAN FRANCISCO
DANCING WILL CONTINUE UNTIL
STARS GROW DIM
From Twilight to Dawn Streets Will
Be Gay with FroIickers in Fam
tastic costumes-Market
Street the Center

SAN FRANCISCO. Oct 1S-With
the termination of the monster his
torical and electrical carnival pageant
Saturday evening, the last night of the
Portola festival, San Francisco will
resolve itself into a monster Mardi
Gras, in which thousands of Don Gas
par de Portola's subjects will revel
with abandonment throughout the
night in a manner that will go down
in the annals of the city's merrymak-
/ ing as a distinct triumph.
There viii be seven of the largest
/ floats ever constructed, located on
| Market street at the various intersect-
/ ing thoroughfares, which will each
have a band or orchestra. Space will
be cleared off at each of these floats
and music will be furnished all night
for the gay dancers.
Besides the million or more incan-
descent lights which will be employed
in the resplendent illumination each
of these floats will be decorated with
1000 lights. The scene Market street
will present, with its red and yellow
colors of the Portola and its veritable
maze of electric illumination, will be
one of magnificent glamour, surpass
ing in splendor any effects ever at
tempted in the fun-loving city of the
Golden Gate.
ReVeIry viii Be Supreme
Beneath this bower of dazzling color
and light and casting aside dull care
and worry the merrymakers will aban-
don themselves to the spirit of revel-
ry. There will be piquant grisettes in
gorgeous and striking costumes,
clowns. buffoons and other horribles.
There will be fantastic and grotesque
masks of bizarre and original design
by the thousands.
Trumpets will blare in continuous
and discordant manner, and every
where there will be noise, and more
noise, and a constant warfare of con-
fetti will be waged. The night will be
one of the gayest that gay San Fran
cisco has ever known. Around the
monster electrical floats the frolicking
subjects of Portola will dance to the
enhancing melodies of the orchestras.
Everywhere there will be color and
life.
The red and yellow colors of Portola
will predominate in the motley crowd
There will be red and yellow hats and
costumes, and red and yellow stock
ings will move gracefully to and fro
dancing in rhythmic regularity to the
seductive strains of music.
Grand Ball Planned
The spirit of revelry will reign ssu-
preme, and San Francisco will add a
new page to its fame as a place of
amusement. Funmaking and merri-
ment will continue until safety shall
come stalking along, and then Don
Caspar de Portola, bidding adieu to
his loyal subjects. will ascend in his
spectacular aerial fight over the fes-
tive city.
Probably one of the most important
events scheduled for the week of fes-
tivities is the official Portola mas
querade ball, which will occur Thurs
day evening, October 81 Every one
who joins in the dance will be re-
quired to appear in costume, and $4,000
worth Of prizes will be awarded to
those attired in the most beautiful,
bizarre and picturesque costumes.
Twenty thousand tickets have been is
sued, and it is believed that it will
prove one Of the most successful af-
fairs of it's kind ever witnessed in San
Francisco.