The San Francisco call., 1910-12-06
CELEBRATION Will
COMMENCE TONIGHT
Grand Parade Will Open Gay
Festivities and Queen Will
Meet Her Subjects
Pageant Followed by General
Rejoicing and Merrymak-
Along Decorated Streets

Gay with thousand flags and PEN
nants, the Mission is all in readiness
for the opening of its % day carnival
tonight. Flaming arc lights, five to
every block along the thoroughfare
where festivity will reign supreme,
! will shed their radiance on the merry
makers who will take part in the mill
tary parade and on the hundreds of
people who win watch the pageant
| pass
Nothing has been neglected to make
the acair an overwhelming success, and
the general rejoicing in the air was in
evidence yesterday from Fourteenth
to Twenty fourth along Mission street
Small boys on the verge of eXpec-
fancy were watching the electricians
and decorators at their work and a
crowd of them was clustered around
/ Nineteenth and Mission streets waiting
for the big tent to be put up, the tent
! that is to house the industrial exhibits,
and also, more interesting to them, the
animal show with it's troups of trained
beasts.
At nearly ever side street opening
into Mission street in the blocks
/ bounded by the carnival district booths
are in readiness with all sorts of car
nival attractions. A Ferris wheel, a
cave of winds, a merry -go-round, a
human roulette wheel, shooting gal
/ leries and fortune telling stands are
! included in the number. After the
parade tonight all of these attractions
viii be opened to the pleasure seekers.
| 1t is expected that several thousand
| people will be in the Mission tonight
to watch the inaugural parade and to
learn who won in the carnival queen
contest.
The parade, under the command of
Grand Marshal McEnery, will form at
Twenty fourth and Mission streets at
SIS o'clock and march to Twenty sixth
street, countermarching to Fourteenth
street. Countermarching again to
Twenty fourth street. 1t will pass in
review before Mayor Mccarthy, Sylvan
J. Lazarus, president of the Mission
| Street Merchants association, and
other prominent men of this city. An
extra squad of police, under the COM
mand of Captain Henry Gleeson, will
be on hand tonight to keep the crowds
in order. Headed by a Gordon of
mounted police, the parade will ira
verse the principal streets of the Mis-
| sion.
Interspersed with the drilled com
panies from various organizations will
be masqueraders, Indians, cowboys and
other groups, all of whom will COM
pete for the trophies offered by the
committees. Entries for this parade
may be made up to 6 o'clock tonight
and those desirous of competing are re-
quested to send their names to Meyer
| Clark 2435 Mission street
The final details of the banquet in
| honor of the queen have also been ar
ranged. W. R. Davis, NJ. Schneider
and Gus Lachman are working hard
/ for its success. This promises to be
one of the most spectacular features of
/ the carnival and much interest is CEN
tering in it, well as in the automo-
/ bile parade on the night Of the 18th.
The main interest at present is cen
! tering on tonight's procession with its
floats from every district of the city.
And it viii pass under a flame of light
from hundreds of vari colored electric
| bulbs. With its close and the formal
announcement of the name of the Mis1
sion queen the pageant will begin and
| the entire length of the carnival dis
trice will be given over to one free
| revel.