The San Francisco call., 1910-09-10
HOLIDAY MARKS
GOTH BIRTHDAY
Of CALIFORNIA
Flags and Bunting Fly From
Buildings While Thousands
Watch Natives March

Ana's army, and who, by bullet and
bayonet conquered California for the
stars and stripes.
There were no dramatic pictures of
the bear flag incident. But in a
carriage was one Of the men who
helped TO raise the bear flag at So
noma in June, 1916. There were no
trudging OK teams to recall the reso-
lutte trains of emigrants who with
wondrous courage penetrated the
plains and the desert and reached
their haven in California. But, wrinkled
and bent. in carriages, where some of
those dauntless men and women
whose brave pioneering transformed
the California Of '4s into the California
Of 1910. The parade might have
lacked a historian, but it did not lack
the intrepid souls who give the his
tOrian his theme.
Gold Discovery Represented
There was one parIor of the order
that went 10 the past for its expression.
That vas Marshall parlor No. 2O2. Ma
tive sons Of the Golden West. of San
francisco. Among the scores Of par
-ors in the pageant. TO Marshall parlor
should 80 the greatest credit It did
not have q neat and braided uniform
and dangle pretty canes. II marched
scsrdiiv in red flannel shirts and blue
o,-a~a11s end - -r-ae 1,n.sa5 - a..
on which James Marshall, pictur-
esquely impersonated by John E. Nc
DoUgald, continually discovered gold in
the millrace Of Suffers mill. to the
continual establishment Of his con-
freres in the tableau.
There was a picture Of California
history. There was reproduced the
scene that was the inception Of Cali
fornia's glorious prosperity and won
derful development
Inspiration for Marchers
There was the defnate inspiration
for the well paved streets over which
the legions marched yesterday.
There was the first cause for the
tall buildings between which the par
lors Of pretty daughters and the par
lors Of natty sons paraded. CaIifor-
MAS glory was first rocked in min
er's cradle and there was reproduced
the scene of its rude nativity.
Marshall parlor was the most patri-
otic parlor Of all the scores in line
yesterday, and the parlor understood
most clearly the significance of the Ad-
mission day celebration.
Viewing the pageant as a drama,
John E. McDougald, impersonating Jim
Marshall, was the real star of the
show. excepting, Of course. the heroic
men and women who appeared in per-
son. All the rest Of the 10000 were
the supporting characters.
Girls With ShoveIs and Guns
Argonaut parlor No. 1s6, Native
Daughters Of the Golden West had
also the spirit of the day. They left
their fluffy rufhes and their Maypole
decorations at home and came ont
picturesquely in blue flannel shirts and
khaki skirts. with shovels and guns
on their shoulders and showed how
pretty and picturesque the pioneer
mothers looked when they were pio-
neer maidens.
Other parlors OF Native Sons and Of
Native Daughters suggested here
and there the history of the state and
the dramatic features of CaIifornia's
development, but those representative
parlors Of the two orders gave them
selves over to the spirit OF the day.
CongratuIation for California
But after all, it was a birthday party
and it is the graceful thing TO dress
in ones fanciest for a birthday cele-
bration and TO take the year as it
came without a glance back to Tire
travails and troubles of childhood. Call
ifornia was so years old yesterday and
three score years merit clean faces
and best clothes Viewed as a Jolly
and multitudinous birthday party yes
terday's celebration was splendid