Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1911-06-29
ALL READY
| FOR FOURTH
Committee Asks Property
Owners to Decorate for
National Holiday
AMERICAN 8 SPANISH COL0RS
DeVargas Pageant VIII Be Great
Feature of Next Weeks
Celebration.

, NCACDE0llOu.
| The Fourth OF July committee had
/ lts hhal innings last evening at well
attended meeting in the Chamber OF
| Commerce rooms. Impress upon the
people to decorate on the Fourth"
j said President S. G. Cartwright who
was in the chair. The Spanish col
ors, red and white, should mingle
with the Stars and Stripes, not only
from every building along the route
OF the parade but throughout the town.
There will be many visitors from Al.
buquerque, Las Vegas and other towns
and profuse decorations will demon
strate to them that all of Santa Fe
takes an interest in the celebration
of the National holiday"
Grand Marshal Fred Muller ex.
tplalned the route of parade and the
formation of the procession. The
| nHogram for the day was mapped
out in detail Dr. J. NJ. Diaz and H.
d. Moulton reported as to automobiles,
and Scoutmaster F. C. Wilson prom
ised that the Boy Scouts will be all
ready. Bandmaster Henry Alarid re.
celved his instructions and promised
that there will be no lack of music
all day long. Probate Clerk George
w. Armijo, who will be De Vargas, re.
ported that the pageant is well in
hand and that James l.. Seligman,
chairman of the De Vargas pageant,
had worked indefatigably to make it
great success The costumes are
here and the retinue of De Vargas has
had several successful practice meet
ings. The war chiefs from San Ilde-
fonso, Santa Clara, San Juan and TIE.
ssuque will arrive on the evening Of
July 3.
| At sunrise on the Fourth, the Gus.
| tomary salute will be fired.
At a. m. De Vargas and his retinue
of cavaliers and Indians will gather
at Rosario chapel and will start at
promptly ten o'clock for the plaza.
At the Catron residence, the caval.
cade will be met by the band and will
march between a double file of auto
mobiles and the rest of the procession.
from the federal building down Lin
coin avenue around the Plaza to the
front of the old Palace which will be
roped off SO that no one else can
enter that part of the Plaza while De
Vargas makes his Spanish address of
five minutes length. At that time
moving picture machines and came
ras will take the pictures into which
nothing but the De Vargas pageant is
TO enter. A huge cross in front of
the Palace will remind of the cross
erected by De Vargas upon his sec.
ond entry in 1893. The band in the
pagoda will play a Spanish selection
upon the completion of the De Vargas
proclamation. 1t is also understood
that it will play Spanish selections
as it brings the cavalcade to the Old
Palace, but that after the De Vargas
ceremonies, it will play only patriotic
selections.
The second part of the festivities
will begin with the reading of the
Declaration of Independence by Judge
| A. L. Morrison at the Pagoda in the
Plaza. Then the grand procession
Twill form, led by the band and the
militia. Then will come Governor
Mills and guests of honor followed by
the Boy Scouts who will be the
Guard of Honor for the chief exec.
utive. Then will follow st. Joseph's
Society of boys who will be the ad.
vance guard for De Vargas, his reti.
Inue and Indians, who will in turn be
followed by the automobile parade
: which will have an albuquerque divi.
sion. The Grand Army and such 9th.
'7r societies as well as the fire com.
pany will be given places in the
parade. The route will not be a long
cne.
Other Shows.
Tn the afternoon, from 1880 to 2:3O,
: Michael Stanton will give a free NOV.
ing picture show at the Elks' theater
for the children. At p. m. the base.
: ball game will begin at the base
ball park, where horse races and
other sports will also take place. Be.
ginning at $3.50 p. m. there will be the
! usual sports, burro, sack and Indian
} races at the Plaza for those who do
; not go to the baseball park. At the
same time. there will be band con
cert.
: In the evening at $3.50 p m. there
5 will be firewor1 on Fort Marcy. La.
s ter, two dances. one in the Armory by
) the Spanish-American Alliance, and
s the other in the Palace hotel by the
s Woman's Board of Trade, will CON
! clude the days festivities.
6 This is in brief the outline of q
! program. for the success of which
I the committee is working hard and
: which promises celebration Of un.
:. Dreceuted enioymant 8a