The San Francisco call., 1910-12-07
king CARNIVAL
TAKES throne
in The mission
Twelve Thousand Persons Pres
ent at Beginning of Twenty
five Days Reign
Great Pageant Moves Through
Deafening Din of Trumpets,
COwbeIIs and Shrieks

With cheers and laughter and shouts
of merriment and applause from 10000
throats. to the blare OF trumpet and
drum and them ore piercing sound of
tin horn and mouth organ and COW bell,
and amid q glorious glow of color and
light from the quantities Of red and
green fire started al both ends of the
festival district, the Mission street car
nival was ushered in last evening.
Twelve thousand throats shouted
their joy, twice that number of hands
clapped their enthusiasm, and with the
whistles and cheers and shouts of the
multitude the % days reign of revel,
Of folly and fun and marriment began.
Long before the appointed hours the
crowds had turned Mission street into
a great wide scene of rejoicing, where
trouble or care or worry had no place.
Above them the skies had cleared as if
by magic for their benefit, and the
great arc lights. the strings of brightly
hued lanterns and the hundreds of
many colored electric bulbs shone down
on an enthusiastic mob. whose members
halted before each side show and tried
their luck at each fortune booth and
wandered in and out of the various
tents and side attractions with their
many wares and temptations.
WILD BEASTS RAGE
At Nineteenth street the crowd
surged thickest before the entrance to
the great tent where the wild beast
show will be held during the entire
reign of King Carnival, and peanut and
confetti sellers wandered in and out
finding everywhere purchasers for their
goods.
For it was glad mad merry crowd,
ready for whatever came, looking for
ward to the jolly hours TO come and
putting in their time while waiting for
the big event of the evening to be un-
der way.
The main interest of the night CEN
tered in the parade, the brilliant
pageant, that has for weeks kept the
saucer eyed boys of the vicinity in a
continuous state of eager anticipation
And while they waited, ferris wheel and
magic swing, merry go round and
wheel of fortune were put into mo-
tion. fortune tellers wandered about
seeking clients and the temple of Bill
ken. the cave Of the winds and~the
other side shows We're full to over
flowing.
CROWD GOOD HUNDRED
And the crowd was a deliciously good
humored one, ready for anything.
Through its midst, with sedate pater-
familias and children out late in honor
of the event, piroutted maids and men
in costume, maskers with baskets full
of confetti. make believe monkeys and
dolls and appropriately clad representa-
tives of every nation and of every
cline, as all a part of the general
melee.
A group of make believe Chinese.
holding one another by the pigtails.
sailed down the street, paused for a
second to have their pictures taken,
and then. with joss sticks burning and
~ ,s- = lfe
appeared in the dense crowd. A group
of negro minstrels, banjos twanging,
replaced them, and each received an
hilarious welcome from the hundreds
drawn up on the sidewalk, waiting for
the real feature of the evening to
come.
MUSIC IN THE AIR
Martial music made the air rever-
berate, favorite songs were played and
the voices of the crowd took them up.
It was one big merry family waiting
for the carnival to break. And at SIS
o'clock it broke.
At o'clock Benjamin Katz the boy
mayor Of San Francisco mounted on a
gayly caparisoned Arab steed. dashed
madly down Mission street to notify
the thousands of people behind the side
lines that the great military pageant
was about to be set in motion. The
y.
every one of the huge throng was al
ready on the verge of expectancy and
the sound of trumpeUs and horns and
shrill cheers and shouts of anticipatory
mirth rent the festival laden air
PARADE STARTS
AT Twenty-fourth street the royal
credentials were delivered to Grand
Marshal McEnerey and then he sum
moned around him his bodyguard and
his hordes of military followers from
every walk of life. in uniform or mas
querade, and the grand, glittering in
augural parade was in motion Mounted
police under the command of Captain
Henry Gleeson cleared the way and,
headed by a Gordon of police in full
dress uniform, in command of Captain
Kelly, the columns of marching men
moved down the street to the music of
q score of bands. Chief of Police John
F. Seymour. Police Commissioners Sui
Ivan, Henderson, Spiro and OConneIl
were the next in line, seated in a gayly
draped touring car, and behind them
rode Mayor P. H Mccarthy, accom-
panied by Sylvan ]. Lazarus and other
prominent men of the district
ARABIAN CHARGERS. SURE
Next came Grand Marshal McEnerey,
escorted by his personal staff, mounted
on Arabian chargers and to the blare
Of the trumpets and drums of the royal
escorts band, marched detachments
from various military and commercial
organizations of this city, affirmed in
full dress uniform. Detachments from
the various parlors of the Native Sons,
from the Hibernia rifles. the Druids, the
Ancient Order of Hibernians, the Boy
Scouts. the Elks, the Red Men, the Mod
ern Woodmen of America, the national
guard, the Columbia Park boys. the
Knights of Columbus, the knights OF
Pythias and other societies were in line
with the gay floats from the different
districts that added color and light and
mounted companies and marching men.
In with the uniformed paraders were
hundreds Of maskers in competition
for the many trophies that have been
offerde, and Indians, and cowboys,
monks and nuns, clowns and devils,