The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1911-03-03
ROSE FESTIVAL IS
THE COMING EVENT
A NOVEL REVELATION AND A
SPECTACULAR DEMONSTRA-
TON AT PORTLAND

L he One urea CIVIC celebration OF
the West at Which the Tribune
Girls will Participate Special Fea-
lures for the Boosters on This Oc-
casion.
Portland, Ore, March 3.-Portland's
Fifth Annual Rose Festival which
takes place the week OF June 5 to 10
promises to be the most novel revela-
ton in the way Of public spectacu-
ar demonstration that has ever been
cid in the west Replete with con
tinuous run Of daylight decorated pa
rades and electrically illuminated pa
geants at night, the whole week from
Monday to Saturday will be one round
Of galety and merry-making abandon
mcnt. The spirit which the manage
ment has succeeded in instilling in
former festivities Of this kind and
which will be more strongly empha-
sized than ever this coming June, is
that everybody within the city gates
shall forget care sand worries during
their stay at the rose festival The
hospitality which is lavished without
stint on the citys guests at that time
has made Portland famous from the
Atlantic seaboard to the sunset slopes
Of the Pacific.
The rose festival is to be the one
great civic celebration to be held in
the west this coming summer and all
the leading railroads have announced
unusually low excursion rates so that
the affair is to be one of national pro-
minence Visitors will be here from
every part of the United States and
such notables as James J. Hill Of the
Great Northern and Pres. Howard
Elliott of the Northern Pacific have
promised to be here.
A great spectacle, in which the his
tory of the entire Oregon country,
embracing Washington, Oregon and
Idaho from before the coming of the
white man down to the present day
will be one of the respondent attract
ions of the week. This will embrace
scenes of discovery and conquest,
early Indian life, hardships and the
battles of pioneers in opening up the
primeval wilderness to make it a suit
able habitat for man. The great open
air ampitheatre of the Multnomah
athletic club will be the scene of this
spectacle. Floats actually depicting
historic scenes, parades and home life
of the Indians, professions and caval-
cades all will be Included in this fea-
ture.
An automobile parade in which
will be fully 1000 motor cars dec
GRATED with roses and driven by mem
hers of the Portland Automobile Club
in natty costumes and accompanied by
many bands is another important
event OF the week Last year it was
estimated that fully 100000 rose buds
and blooms, to say nothing of the in
Vulnerable other varieties of flowers
were used in dressing up the cars in
this procession.
The brilliant horse and carriage pa
rade more than five miles in length
held under the auspices of the Port
land Hunt Club and the Riverside
Driving Association brings out all the
smart and stylish equipages of the
city and in this turnout other cities
of the northwest will join hands with
Portland The several hundred men
and women who belong to the hunt
club appear on their classy mounts ar
raycd in the formal costumes so famil-
lar in such spectacles in England,
Thousands of dollers are spent annu-
a. ly ON this one parade alone.
The Battle Of Roses, in which the
Peninsula Rose Festival Association
sends a whole train of six carloads of
rose blooms and petals through the
streets during the morning is one of
the most beautiful functions ever put
into a floral festival program, One
hundred women and girls CARRIED in
| white handle the cars and lombard
the throngs along the streets with the
choice roses for which Portland is
noted.
Again there will be the big child
rens' parade in which anywhere from
5000 to 10000 little boys and girls OF
the public schools will go through q
series of fine gymnastic drills and
marches, all the participants being de,
corated with garlands, wreaths and
festoonS of roses,
The great electrical parade in which
| the long series of brilliantly illumni
ated floats carrying more than 2S.00(
vari-colored lights is an enhancing
spectacle, This parade has for it
theme subjects taken from mythology