The San Francisco call., 1910-05-04
Queen LILLIAN
To reign over
ROSE domain
Beautiful Monarch Will Rule
From Perfumed Throne With
Petaled Scepter
Magnificent Parades and Bril-
liant Social Functions to
Feature Festival
Especial Dispatch 70 The Call


now in the chrysalis state. as it is pro-
crossing from the toiling, crawling.
caterpillar condition of a democratic
municipality into the glorious. winged
freedom of a butterfly kingdom
on Thursday the subdued officials of
the city VIII go away and hide. and
queen Lillian and her maids Of honor
VIII assume their sovereignty over the
rosy city of Santa Rosa. From Thurs
day until Sunday Santa Rosa will be
kingdom-or a "queendom'-and the
boast Of heraldy and the pomp Of power
viii be rose.
MILLIONS OF ROSES
Omar Khayyam, dwelling in the
cramped oasis of the Persian desert,
wrote Each morn d thousand roses
brings" Had he lived in Santa Rosa,
in the reign of Queen Lillian, the "Ru-
biayat" would have read Each morn a
million roses brings.
That is the difference between the
roses of Persia and those of Santa Rosa.
While Queen Lillian is ruling in
beauty and a bower Of La France roses
over the folk of Santa Barbara, Queen
Jeffreys VIII be ruling in demurety and
q bower Of baby roses over the chill
dren OF the Sonoma county seat The
city has fully enough roses TO make
Two Kingdoms, so there are no hostili-
lies expected between the naughty fol-
lowers Of Queen Lillian and the proud
supporters Of Queen Jefreys.
DARKEHED QUEEN
queen Lillian, under the democratic
nomenclature which obtains in Santa
dow
Rosenberg, a girl with dark brown hair
and dark eyes, slim and pretty, and
without trepidation in the face OF the
powers that are to come.
Queen Jeffreys is, in the prosaic for
mula Of democracy, Miss Jehreys Mar
Iorie Jacobs, age 5 years, also with
dark brown hair and with summing ways
that go well with I'VE years and a
pretty frock.
Queen Lillian has surrounded herself
with three Of Santa Rosa's prettiest
high school girls. The maid of honor
is Miss Gertrude Cnopius, a handsome,
bTOwnhaired girl. and her maids in
waiting are Miss Ruth Overton. a slim
girl with a dainty gossamer Of golden
hair shading her gray eyes and franz
ing her pink cheeks, and Hiss Engelina
Ward, whose hazel eyes are delicately
atched by her prOfusion OF blonde
hair.
There are to be other beautiful girls
iu the royal party and pageant, but
those are the ladies Of Queen Lillian's
personal encourage.
COURTHOUSE DEDICATION
Queen LfUian's reign is not to be de-
voted entirely TO frantic merry making
and the gaities Of carnival over Santa
Eosa's million roses.
On Friday night, the second day of
the queens reign, the new county
courthouse Of SOnoma county viii be
dedicated. There are to be some pub
lic men, Judge Albert g. Burnett Of the
california district court Of appeals,
former Congressman Thomas J. Geary
and Others whi viii make wise and
eloquent addresses. to carry out the
illusion that the men Of the city and
the county have not relinquished all of
their emoluments, but those exercises
VIII be vague and ina ginary. II viii
be Queen Lillian who viii dedicate the
courthouse and hold sway over the
county government.
My reigdn." said the prospective
queen today. will be memorable be-
cause during its period the county viii
secure 4 new courthouse. Isn't that
nne2' spoken like a queen indeed.
POsTERITT WILL NOTE
Thousands Of years from now a citi-
through the tangle of rose bushes which
viii make Of the streets a perfumed
Jungle, viii pause before the colo
naded building and say impressively,
That glorious pile was dedicated dur
ing the reign Of Queen Lillian"
And the stranger, extracting pro-
phylactic thorn from his thumb. will
respond, DO tell? What fine queen
she must have beenn
With the olOriOls reign of Ouaep
Lillian on the tapis and many other at
fractions. Santa Rosa is counting this
wear on having the most splendid floral
carnival il ever held, and it has been
holding them rath Ar consistently and
10 greater or less extent. these last 25
Eesrs-snd before that Santa Rosa was
an inevitable rose carnival, in spite Of
the fact that there may have been no
queens.
VALE OF FLOWERS"
Sonoma county has always been an
cXtcmpOraneous flower show. and even
the Indians called its most beautiful
valley "SotOyome, which may be
hsrshly translated into vale of
Queen LuIian's pages will be Billy
Bowers and Gordon Pomeroy. Little
Bessie Goldman will act as crown bearer
and Genevieve Borlini as key bearer.
Janet Smith, Efie Potter, Geraldine
Grace, Marion Belden, Mildred Wright
Virginia Gregory and AIuriel Yeager
VIII be the pretty little flower girls to
her majesty.
Beth Yeager. Margaret Forsyth.
Olivia Smith, Ruth Anderson. Nadine
Donovan, Thelma Donovan. Mildred
Turner and Zelma Carithers will be the
garland girls.
YOUTHFUL RULERS COURT
The attendants of little Queen JEFF
freys, who must have as splendid a re-
rinue as her illustrious contemporary,
will be: Maids in waiting Lucille Full
wider and Bernyce Rogers; pages. Yer
non Silbershield and Alex Frachman;
crown bearer, Genevieve Bo1ini.
Queen Jeffreys viii be the first gra-
cious monarch to teach Santa Rosa to
shed the dried cocoon Of its democratic
state and to soar as a festive butterfly
over ther oses and other blossoms of
May time. At 1870 o'clock on Thursday
afternoon the little queen will be
crowned at Grace Brothers park be-
fore the most extensive collection Of
babies that was ever assembled in So
mona county. And there Will be others
beside the babies there, but the baby
show is to follow the coronation Of the