The San Francisco call., 1909-09-06
PRIZES TO REWARD
PORTOlA DISPLAYS
Decoration Committee Promises
Lights and CoIors for Fes-
tivaI Shall Eclipse Others
IIIuminations and Fireworks
Each Evening to Dazzle
Visitors and Residents

in san Francisco. which. before the
fire. was famous throughout the world
for its wonderful electric displays, are
now being planned by the decoration
and illumination committee for the
Portola festival. October 1s TO %.
Noted artists and skilled mechanics
are busy designing and executing ef-
fects that will dazzle not only visitors
but the Inhabitants OF san Francisco,
who are accustomed TO brilliant dis
plays.
LIGHT FOR SHIPS AT SEA
The committee announces that much &!
more money viii be expended for Por-
Lola- decorations than Tor decorations
upon any previous occasion. The dis
tsnce covered will be three times
greater than that OF any previous cell
ebrstion. BY night, during PortOla
week, san Francisco will glow with
more than 100000 additional lights.
Tire power plants OF the various light
ing companies viii be taxed TO their
utmost for the power necessary for
the illUnins tions About 1000 horse
power VIII be required 10 supply the
necessary current So brilliant viii be
the Illumination that il is estimated
that vessels Al least 80 miles out Z
sea viii be able 10 see the glow from
the city
At the foot OF Market street, in front
CT the ferry building, viii be erected
z colonnsde Of Spanish architecture.
consisting OF 20 columns. each 28 feet
n height. The columns will be three
and a half feet square at the top. The
cornices viii be decorated with egg
and dart holdings. on each side OF
the columns viii be placed the letter
p" made OF stucco and five feet in
height A FIVE foot Spanish flag will
float between each column and on the
pinnscles viii be placed four FIVE foot
carnival flags and six foot flag Of the
United States. The entire colonnade
viii be snow white
LONG STRINGS OF LIGHTS
Rsdisting from the ferry tower TO
the top Of each column will be loops
Of incsn ndescent lamps. Between each
. column other loops OF lights viii be
strung. forming an electric circle l20
feet in diameter. On the cornice OF
each column will be placed Il electric
lamps OF IS csndlepower each Fifteen
hundred lamps viii be used IN the col
onnade alone.
Beginning al East street and extend
inE out the citys main thoroughfare
10 Van Ness avenue. loops Of incandes-
cent lamps stretching from building
line 10 building line viii be Installed
every 25 feet. Each loop viii contain
a lights. making a total Of 1880
lamps OF 24s.2s0 candlepower.
MANY FLAG ARCHES IN STREETS
In the center Of each block along
Market street will be erected nag
arch 80 feet above the street line Eacn
srcb win contain e 6x10 Spanish flag,
.t,ss-fng portrait Of q dancing girl,
sxs United States flags. II 4X6 car
f,,sT es4e . 4xs United States flags
and AXIS Portola flags.
E,sc, arc, will be illuminated by fes-
toons OF electric lamps Every arc
light in the ornamental iron poles VIII
be. covered with red and yelioW ciotn
lanterns so as to throw the carniVal
colors on the merry makers below
nv dsv the city viii be an entranc-
syer boUer Of beauty. Thousands OF
miles OF bunting viii be used IN drap-
sno buffdings and hundreds OF thou
~snds OF Portola pennants and ban
ners will futter in the breeze
LAMPS TO FORM HUGE BELL
At the junction Of Market. Kearny
and Third streets will be erected what
r,robsblv viii be the largest piece OF
electrical display ever exhibited IN the
form OF huge bell 120 feet IN dam
efer 10 be suspended by large steel
csh1es E25 feet in the air. Hundreds
~ larops will be used in the construc-
ton Of this bell At the top Of the
he'll % eight foot carnival flags and an
immense United states flag VIII FORM
circle. From this circle loops or req
white and blue lights VIII extend 10 the
lips Of the bell.
For the first time in the history of
Third street there viii be an electrical
display in that thOroughfare. Begin
ming at Market street and extending
down Third TO Townsend festoons OF
lamps viii span the street at 80 1901
intervals Each string viii contain 30
lights and $4,000 candlepower viii be
burned constantly. Flag arches of the
same design as those TO be erected in
Market street will be placed in the GEN.
ter OF each block.
LANTERNS IN COLONNADE
At the foot OF Third street will be
erected yellow ornamental colonnade
so feet square. The columns will hold
in place colored Chinese lanterns, in
which will be inclosed electric lamps,
and from the center Of the colonnade
TO point 20 feet above the street. will
be strung festoons Of lights. Carnival
aags will give the necessary dash of
color.
Loops Of incandescent lamps at 40
foot Intervals will be strung across
Kearny street from Market to Pacific.
along Pacific TO Grant avenue and
across Grant avenue TO Market street.
There will be similar illuminations in
stockton street from Market to Sutter;
Powell from Market to Post; OFar-
reIl from Market TO Powell; Geary from
from Market to Stockton; Post from
Market to Stockton; Sutter from Mar
ket 10 Stockton, and Fillmore from
McAllister to Suffer. Arches and loops
OF flags viii also decorate these streets.
4 brilliant pyrotechnic display is be-
ing arranged for Union square during
the evenings of PortOla week. These
displays Will commence about IL o'clock
in the evening and viii continue until
after midnight. The ferry tower will
he outlined in colored lights, and a
large searchlight will play upon the
flag on the tower.
PRIZES FOR STREET DISPLAYS
To obtain the cooperation of the
merchants and property owners in the
decorating. the festival committee has
determined to award prizes aggregat-
ing $500 for displays. For the best
private display $500 win be awarded.
There will be second and third prizes
Of 800 and $50 respectively. For the
best private night display 800 will be
awarded and $50 will be given for the
second best night display. Prizes will
be awarded for the day displays at
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