Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-04-11

FESTIVAL
OF ROSES

Plans for Portland's fourth an
nual rose festival are now complete,
and the approaching celebration bids
| fair to eclipse all previous events OF
the kind, both in point of elaborate
spectacular features, and in the
volume of outside attendance, Many
brilliant and unusual attractions
| have been arranged, and the festival
management has been notified that
special round-trip excursion rates
will be made from all points East
and along the Coast, beginning just
previous to the festival period, and
with the three-months limit and
stop-over privileges.
The week will open with a royal
welcome to the Home Corners" on
Monday, June 6, and a feast of lam
terms and general illuminations.
with reproduction of the battle of
the Monitor and Merrimac on the
Willamette, and an elaborate pyro-
technic display at the Oaks Park.
On Tuesday the main feature will |
be the competitive exhibit of roses |
at the Exposition grounds, with mill |
lions of choice blooms in the con-
test for silver trophies and ribbons.
There will be a brilliant parade
of automobiles, decorated with roses
and other flowers-probably not
less than five millions of roses being
used in this parade alone. And In
the horse and carriage parade an
even greater number will be shown.
In the Spirit of the Golden
West" pageant, there will be great
of elaborate and costly {
floats, showing the products, re-
sources, and manufacturing indus
.ries of the Northwest. Skilled ;
artists are now at work moulding l
he designs of these floats, each of '
which will be illuminated with cleo S
.ric sparklers, red fire, and refleo- t
i've torches. {
Another interesting and impress {
i've parade will be of the ten thous- c
md school children who will march C
through the flower-strewn streets,
,oing through intricate evolutions @
nd making a Kaleidoscope perspec- C
i've along the line of march. The c
lectric parade, covering historical, p
llegorical and NEUROLOGICAL sub a
ects, will probably, in beauty and p
laborateness, surpass any similar "
ageant ever given in the United
tates. E
In addition to these features, the S
.unt Club, Portland's famous soci- o
by organization of skilled horsemen CT
nd horsewomen will cooperate I'll
ith the Multnomah Amateur
thletic Club in giving a three-day o.
,ciety circus during the week. m
Aeroplanes, dirigible balloons, and OF
rships will be on the ground, and a.
sviatiOn events will figure in the I
stival sports. There will be inter- NJ
ltional road races of famous auto
obile speed record makers. The 81
wing Club, Yacht Club, the Motor
rat Club, and other organizations at
g enthusiastically arranging for I'll
-ents for the festival regatta, in re
hich the entire West Coast will Is
Irticipate, During the regatta a e'
arine pageant and water carnival Is
III be given. W
The Riverside Driving Club will OF
We a light harness matinee at the w
,untry Club race Course tn
More than twenty prominent fra te
rnal societies and organizations co
we arranged to meet here in CON
ntion during festival week, June
to II.
The Court Of Honor on Sixth
rect from Ankeny street to the Sc
ltel Portland, a space of seven so
ocks, will be ornamented with Iir
ses eight feet high and kept filled, Co
roughout the week, with fresh, ''
tural flowers, AT the intersection
Ankeny and Sixth, the tourists co
d visitors coming from the Union Or
pot will be greeted by a huge sign NJ
,rked out artistically in electric 20
ters and flowers, bearing the SUI
,rd Welcome" stl
the downtown dis stl
CT and in the residence portions, ~,
the city elaborate decorations, In w
Itch roses will be the leading fea- IN
re, will lend fete atmosphere fo
the week, at