The San Francisco call., 1913-10-25

BIG PARADE
TONIGHT To
END FETE
Cannons to Boom Confetti
From Warships in EIec-
trical Pageant

incandescent bulbs viii cruise up Mar
ket street hurling big confetti bombs
at emergency fortifcations erected
along the way. and forming scene
far SURPRISING in brilliancy any of the
pageants yet held in celebration of
Don Gaspar de Portola's discovery of
San Francisco bay
Mock battleships cruising through
the crowds at the head of feet that
reaches back in history to the oar
banked triemes which routed the
Persians at Salamis will lead the ma
val battle of Portola, while peace is
relegated to The Hague and other
effete old world cities.
VICTORY CERTAIN IN ADVANCE
The California armada. commanded
by Portola and Balboa. is not des-
tined to suffer the inglorious fate Of
its distinguished predecessor OF the
year 1888. and it's red. blue, green and
purple lights swinging from mast
head down the stays to the deck are
expected to blaze forth in victory after
Market streets fortifcations have.
been knocked into the proverbial
cooked hat
few more peaceful ships will fol-
low in the wake, to make a truce with
the San Franciscans when the battle
is done Balboa will ride in a glare
of light he never saw on the isthmus
of Panama in 1913. and Miss Avia
Tietjen, queen OF pageantry, will at
tain the climax of her Portola career.
RECORD CARNIVAL EVEN FOR US
In between the wooden and steel
walls of the invading squadrons will
be fought, also minor confetti battles
Queen Conchita's command, Let rev.
elry reign" will be carried out to the
fullest extent within the power of the
city, and San Francisco will witness
street carnival such as she has
never known before.
Men from Uncle Sans famous navy
will man the Portola fleet. as marines
from the naval training station at
Yerba Buena island will take charge
of some of these trolley floats. Others
viii be manned by Spanish war vet
Grams and some men from the cruisers
in the harbor may be on hand.
Confetti is the ammunition. the
gun cotton carried inside the Portola
bombs. In rainbow colored showers
it will rain against the forts and the
crowds In volleys that would do
credit to a sure-enough dreadnought.
FLOATS OR TROLLEY TRUCKS
The floats will be mounted on troll
in carbarns and railroad yards
around town for days, waiting for the
grand occasion. Some will have the
cage masts, the IA inch guns, the re-
volving turrets and the armored
decks of the present day battleship.
Others will represent ships such as
fought in the revolution and in the
war of 1912, with towering wooden
sides. masts festooned with rigging
and rows upon rows Of portfolios in
their Sides
1t is estimated that the fleet will
discharge $500 shells an hour, and
the bombardment Will last for an
hour and a half Market street for
it's entire length will be the scene.
Revelers in costume who have no
fear of shot and shell will make the
occasion fantastic as well inspir
ing. The start will be at the ferry
building and the battle line will start
up Market street with broadsides
ready for the defenders.
FORTS TO BE ON JOB
Inside the forts will be gunners
desperately defending their city from
the invader, and many high mast
is doomed to go by the board and
many a gallant sailor due to be car
ried between decks into sick bay be-
fore the evening is over.
All the steam vessels in the parade
will have real smoke pouring from
their stacks, and details of this kind
will be faithful to fact all the way
through.
Behind the steam warriors will fol-
low the ships of the eighteenth cen
tury and then other medieval war
vessels. Turkish triemes of the mid
rle age type will be there Vikings
ships that sent terror to France and
all western Europe in the dark ages
will be represented, and the crazy
cockleshel1s'' of Sir Francis Drake
and Balboa's time will show their
towering bows and sterns.
Spanish galleon or two with win
dowed sterns will be manned by brass
cuirassed Castillians and Catalonians
Roman and Greek rowing ships will
have their place. manned by legion
aries and the sailors of ancient Athens
and Thebes.
Throughout the parade the costumes
will be appropriate to the vessels.
The confetti showered from the Is
inch bombs will be of asbestos.
After this part of the carnival is
over fireworks more brilliant than
any yet displayed VIII be shot into the
sky above Union square and the
streets will be given over to general
carnival
At $3.50 o'clock scout ships, torpedo
; boats and automobile floats viii set
out from the ferry westward, and at
the same time the rest of the fleet
on trolley fat cars will start from
Van Ness avenue eastward down
Market The ships of the feet will
be as follows:
Taireme. Japanese junk, viking
ship. Santa Maria columbus ship.
Golden Hinde (Sir Francis brakes
ship, Savannah (first steamship to
cross the Atlantic in 1922, Portu-
guese sailing craft with Lateen sails,
Indian war canoe, old fashioned side
wheeler Orizaba- American man-of-
war-revolutionary period, early nine
teenth century American warship,
Monitor Monterey, cruiser San Fran
cisco with wireless apparatus), Mis-
sissippi stern wheeler, the Oregon
with wireless apparatus), torpedo
boat. queens float (with queen Of
pageantry and retainers), supply
ship.
The forts will be situated as fol-
lows: North side of Market street at
van Ness avenue, south side of Mar
ket at Eighth, north side at Sixth.
south side at Fourth, Post and Mar
ket and Fremont and Market These
will be defended by the light artillery
of the national guard, Colonei Schas-
tey commanding. sKsT q
Three-quarters of an hour after the
start from Van Ness avenue the first
of the floats will be due at the. ferry.
The parade will be reviewed at the
Van Ness avenue stand, as the others
have been The final rally of revelers
vvf11 ha at Valencia and Market