Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-08
City Plans a Gorgeous Series of
FeteS for Admission Day
Celebration
TO HOLD GAY REvEL
Fifteen Hundred Red and Yellow
Devils Will Dart About in
Night Parade
Especial to The Heraldl

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 7-Drunk-
ard, repent!
Fifteen hundred red, green and yell
low devils, each burning fire of his
own, will dart in and out of the long
! line of the Admission day parade Sat
urday night, giving it the general ad-
! monitory aspect of a gargantuan illu-
minated serpent. For the first time in
| the history of carnival warfare a corps
Of artillery armed with mortars will
| discharge bombs at the crowds along
the streets which in exploding will COW
er their targets with confetti. The
throngs that line the sidewalks will
| reply to the assaults of these invaders
with volleys Of confetti, serpentine pa
| pers and flowers, and the battle will
| never have a lull until the attacking
| parade is driven into the Auditorium at
Page and Fillmore, where it will try
to hold its own during the immense
masquerade ball, at which thousands
of picturesquely garbed revelers will
slaughter the hours that will mark
the termination of the biggest revel
ever held in the state of California.
Ten huge electric floats, symbolizing
the future progress of humanity, and
a gorgeous fantastic pageant which in
color and dazzling brilliancy will out
shine the gayest of all the former af-
fairs of this kind will be among the
most important of the features of this
bizarre procession.
A burlesque section, following the
serious efforts of the parade commit
tee, will poke fun at everything that
dares to be dignified on the final night
of revelry The floats, parti-colored
retinues and other elements of this
section will be under the gracious pa
tronage of a queen that tips the scales
at 300 pounds
The Saturday night parade will form
at Sutter and Steiner streets about Z
O'Clock and will proceed along the fol-
lowing route: Sutter to Fillmore, Fill
more to McAllister, McAllister to Van
Ness, Van Ness to Market, Market to
the ferry, then countermarching on
Market to Van Ness. where the first,
second and third sections will fall out
of line. The masque carnival Fourth
division) will proceed on Market
street to Duboce avenue, on Duboce
avenue to Fillmore, and on Fillmore
street to the grand masquerade ball
at the Auditorium, at Page and Fill
more streets.
The committee has requested those
who intend to mask and participate
in the carnival to report to the COM
mittee not later than o'clock in the
evening for assignment to positions.
Those reporting later will be assigned
to the rear, and maskers unable to
reach the rendezvous may fall into line
at the intersection of Van Ness avenue
and McAllister street and at the ferry.
The carnival committee reserves the
right to bar any mask or character
which it considers offensive, and will
insist upon maskers keeping in the di-
vision to which they are assigned I'M
der penalty of being barred from the
parade
The result of the hard work which
the artists and the members of the
committee on decoration have been do
ing for the past months is apparent
in the decorations which are now go
ing up along Market street. around
Union square and on the principal
thoroughfares of the city.
The electric poles of the United
Railroads are being covered with
greens, creating the effect of a sylvan
avenue in one of the vast forests of
California, and festoons of green will
extend from pole to pole, the entire
length of the principal streets. The
electric globes of these decorative
poles will be enveloped in huge red
roses, resting upon green leaves, Great
ing, particularly when Illuminated at
night, an unusually beautiful effect.
The COrosiO Sisters will give an ex-
hibition half-mile race on Saturday,
the last day of the festival They
will start from the Dolphin club house
at the foot of Van Ness avenue, and
this feature is expected to prove one