Arizona republican., 1914-04-17
Displayed in Pageant at the Second Annual Sun Fete. Well Drilled Indian Schol- ars March Through Con tinuous Cheers
EVERY DIVISION WELL MANAGED
Immense Crowd Waits an Hour While Marshals Are Getting Floats Lined Up. All Features of Parade Described

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 Yesterday was just Thursday every place but here. In Phoenix is was the day of the second annual Sun Fete pa- peant
 It was the day on which a crowd estimated at 15,OOO saw the march of the tradition preserving cohorts of Az teca through the streets of the city. Rather shorter than last years pa rade, but with just as much dazzle of colors, was this feature procession. Again il is to award the best praise to the Indian boys and girls. Not only did
 the United States Indian School furn- ish all the Aztec characters. supply the Indian fife floats anG one Of the bands but it put in the best display of
 evenly marching, well drilled young sters. When the two squads of Indian girls and boys broke into fours squads right at the first corner, took the side
 street that way and then bent into Washington forming company front.
 the military man had to say, "Hah, that
 was well executed"
 Without the Indians there would have been lacking another valuable feature-the floats representing the dwellings and modes of dressing of the several Arizona tribes From the brush hut Of the Pima to he hogan of the Navajo, this section was complete. On the Pima float made by the Salt River
 Indians was A woman grinding real corn on real rletate, and cooking real
 tortillas from it. The Navajo float carried an Indian boy silversmith, and on the Hopi was d craftsman in leath- CT embroidery.
 Historical
 4 great historical value attaches to the pageant in connection with the Az
 tee, Spanish and early Mexican feat
 urcs Details, which are worked out
 long in advance. are executed with as
 much care as possible that they may
 be historically accurate. The histori- cal and traditional division may be di
 yided into the Aztec, Conquistador and missionary First came his august ma
 jesty. Montezuma, the melancholy man of the last dynasty, in fact but for his cousin Guatemozin, the last of the na-
 tive rulers of Anahuac. Then came the high priest, Azteca, on earth, the spe
 cial representative of Quetzal the white god of spring and flowers. The sacri-
 ficial float was this year more true to
 it's aged models than that of last year.
 The priests clad in brown sack-cloth robes stood about watching the victim. who was stretched out on the black stone. At each corner of the float burned a censor, to carry the victims life Up to their smoking counterparts where the deities could see, accept and gloat over it.
 About Montezumas float rode the guards-Spanish horsemen, garbed as i the conquistadores of Mexico in bright armor and leather trappings.
 The Franciscan Pardes, of which there were over a hundred, were rep resented by members of the Knights of Columbus They wore the dead black robes, with the vigorously un- decorated wooden crucifixes at the belt The float representing the Tumacacori Mission. in it's present semi-ruined state brought to close this most in teresting Of historical pageants. Late History
 1 The iater history of the state of Ari- zona was portrayed in the caravan of prairie schooners, the ancient stage coach, the miners pack outfits, the 1 body of AriZona's finest, the cowpunch -
 CTS and cow-girls, the Moose hunters and the other minor floats and groups. i The saving of Captain John Smith by Pocahontas was represented by the ! Order of Redmen, on a very Credtablc float The amiable captain. was con- strained by bonds of rawhide and a real bonfire was ready to touch off at his feet. It may have been consum- mate acting but it was more probably ! the discomfort due to his tied down
 position and the heat that made him 1 look so worried
 Spanish American
 There was another demonstration of Spanish American love of color in yes | terday's parade. Members of the order 1 of the F'raternal Brotherhood marched l two and two. attired in the glarv vel |! lowered costumes, carving those mag nificent serapes. that are worth sc much in good American money.i The serapes were loaned by Graves
 The feature of this section was little Antonio Redondo. the two-year- old sor
 of 4. R. Redondo of The Republican print shon. The chquito was dressed just exactly like his tall papa and wore
 q serape of just the right snaallness tc fit his sturdy shoulder. By actual fContinued on Page Eleven.)