Milford chronicle., 1917-01-19
LETTER FROM CALIFORNIA.
-uIs' Anna \. Davis Swan Writes In.
terestlng Description of aTourn.
ament OF Roses" Pasadena's
New Year Festival.
Dear Chronicle:

Dear Chronicle
III 1t may be that some of NV Milford
friends would like to hear from the
If crown City as beautiful Pasadena
/ Is called, for | count all the dear Mil
l. lord folks as my especial friends so
-, often you are all in nv thoughts and
4 prayers. '''0D "'S anu
e A Happy New Year to All
we nave Just witnessed the great
of Roses" - 80 ~ cut
2 Queen Flora was on her royal
throne. She there review the royal
subjects, the flowers OF the fields. gar
e den, and home, as they passed in mag
5 nidcent pageant before her. 1t was
such a day as only Southern Cali
fornia can boast of at this time of the
year-warm, still. sunshiny. Back
east ice, snow, biting cold-here. gen
/ lal warmth, greenery, fiowers-roses.
, roses, roses.
ABOVE, snow-crOwned, sunlit noun
tains, with feecy nantes of snow
clouds wrapped about their shoulders
calmly looked down on Pasadena
streets, alive with humanity waiting
in expectancy the miles of flowers |
soon to appear.
1t is estimated that over 100000 !
people from outside the city Witness |
ed this 2Sth annual Tournament of |
Roses, on New Years Day. Six years
ago the writer saw it for the first time
and each succeeding year it is said to
be a little finer than the preceding
one. The people came by steam cars,
electric lines, autos, and on foot.
Forty-thOusand autos, with the home
autos, congested the city streets, but h
good order prevailed and no accident
was reported, thanks to the efficiency
of the city police, assisted by an able
force from Los Angeles, nine miles
distant. The pageant of flowers was
about two miles long, consisting of
110 beautiful floats, flower be-decked
autos, rOse-harnessed horses, char
lots, trucks, bands of music, fire de-
partment equipment, all covered with
flowers and greenery in various de-
signs. 1t required the pageant one
hour to pass a given point, amidst =,
the plaudits of tens of thousands of
delighted people from all over the =
United States, thither many tourists I
have come for the winter
Fine street decorations were seen h
all along the route of the pageant n
store fronts, public buildings, lamp
posts, fire escapes, doors and win 4
dOws, being elaborately trimmed with .
flags, bunting, ribbons, greenery and C
flowers without stint, making it YER
table fairyland of flowers. Hotels =,
from Tokyo Japan, to New York,
Manila, Portland, San Fran d
cisco, Chicago, all had their floats in d
the parade. One from Atlantic City
was a fine representation Of coast b
scene in which one could almost see
the old ocean roll in shore all wrought b
IN flowers shading from dark to light b
blue, and then to pale sea green, the o,
crest of the waves being white carna- .,
ions. traced with other delicately
inted flowers. The float bore the Ci
MOTTO: THE Atlantic Greets the Pa
life" The Hawaiian float. a magni- 81
icent one, 25 feet long was made up b,
# 5000 marigolds, 5000 viOlets, 1000 bi
White carnations and 5000 roses, with a
nyriads of narcissi. Imagine such a he
colossal floral piece if you can, NOV
ng along without sight of wheel, or
,ower, as were all of them, Sc
No where else in all the world can nj
uch a mid-winter floral display be an
cen. 1t would more than fill your
aper to describe them all, but few sp
more might be mentioned. All the Fl
olors of the rainbow were seen. beau
fully contrasted as if real rainbow wi
f the heaven had been broken into a Of
Million fragments and shOwered down
pom the earth. W
One most beautiful piece-"The re
Iarden of Allah showed great taste
n color selection in its arrangement an
f flowers and greenery. II was an
lIegorical float of Oriental splendOr. tn
and thousands OF flowers
nd more than three miles OF green .e
smilaX-used in this en- m,
v alone, made it one Of great beau ev
=. We
"A Ship of Dreams" by the Pasa-
ena High School, was most beauti- or'
II dream worked out in flowers and n
as one of the largest and finest OF Da
,e floats. Thousands OF viOlets, pans No
s and other purple and blue flowers Hc
ere used in making up this immense ne ur,
lip. in
one float represented huge rose, orc
ade up of roses, on which We're elght ~
,ildren. veritable rose-buds, from II,
le of the city schools. The little pla
rls wore light blue dresses, while oeo
ght little boys in pink suits walked IN
side the float with its lattice o;
ailing roses.
Riding in a dainty Dresden cOlored OF
sket of greenery and fioo ers were
-elve little girls of Amanda Park
hool. who drew forth exclamations cal
admiration and praise Huge bas tal
Is of flowers on wheels from other for
hools. in which were pretty little FOR
lidens in white. with foOtmen of thi
VS. in blue, carrying garlands of Ing
ses. which made another very pret- nos
scene. tiol
From the rear of float, by the
sadena Military Academy, cadets II