Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1913-10-30
YUMA GETS PUBLICITY
 THRU EXAMINER GIRLS
OOOOOOO OOOO COOO ) FIGURES ON PORTOLA (
 ) PARADE SHOW 100000 (

) Q ) Here are some of the esti- c ) mates of the big street pagent Q ) compiled by the Portola~ Festival o ) committee: . ) Number of persons who saw o ) the parade, 65O,OO0 to 100000 o ) Number of persons in the Por- o ) tola parade, .......... .l2,OOO L ) Route from Embaracado to ( ) Van Ness avenue, 314 miles C
 J Time taken for parade to pass C ) given point, 21s hours ( ) At the gores along Market 0 ) street the crowds were banked c ) a hundred deep on the pave C ) ment, and some 5000 automo- c ) piles and wagons were stretch ( ) ed along the line of march. In ( ) addition to the sightseers on the ( ) streets nearly 10000 persons c ) viewed the parade from win C ) dows and building tops. ( 100000 OOOOO COOO (
 Maybe Yuma wasn't advertised al San Francisco! Mayor Rolph and the leading. Portola officials certainly die ut Yuma on the map!
 Yuma at San Francisco was the .eal thing for a week. Yuma made 10 mistake in sending the Examine delegation. It was YUMA" iron the tap of the gong until the last O. the great Portola Festival on Satur- day night.
 Yumas girl delegates carried the aonors with modesty and grace, anc now the people of the great West have learned that Yuma is always to the front The girl delegates from Yuma. with their Yuma project and Yuma Daily Examiner badges and streamers, were the center of all eyes. They received nearly all the newspaper publicity and all the pic lures worth the mention.
 In Saturdays San Francisco Examl ner the Yuma delegation is pictured exclusively on page 2. and of the grano Portola parade the Examiner says:
 Poetry took imperial possession oi San Francisco yesterday. The Por tola parade was a poem put into the actual rhythm of human life. It was epic. Also it was narrative, humor our, lyrical, historical, dramatic, and it even had a touch of the didactic.
 And this was quite as it ought to have been, because it was American and Western American at that. Ever IS this city is the most cosmopolitan place on the continent, so yesterday pageant wa the Synthesis of all races all ideas, all dreams, all the hopes and ambitions of America. Nothing 50 truly romantic, nothing so really imaginative, nothing so idealistic ir the best and most lasting form has been accomplished in the Western world.
 True imagination conceived the those responsible for yesterdays pro idea. Authentic artistic ability exc cuted it. And let us remember that il poem had the best of all material to handle, which is human life itself, so also this same material is the most difficult and precarious.
 Piece of Vital Art
 To take 12,000 human beings, men 1 and women and children, of all ages and all sorts and conditions of life, | and with them to trace through the | heart of a great city a line of royally fantastic beauty, a gesture of splen- did and creative thought, a plan of l the past, a panorama of the present | and a prophecy of the future-to dec 1rate the path with opulent color, and devices of riotous fancy, and to re ieve it with plentiful fun and frolic md then to gather together by the sheer magic of it's popular appeal l multitude numbering hundreds of thousands of souls-here is a tremen- lrt."