San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-15
PARADES MAY
BE SEEN FROM
AMPH|THEATER
Seven Thousand Seats
Available in Pageant
Grounds.
CHANGE MARCH ROUTE
New Features Added This
Year to Fiesta de
San Jacinto.
CHANGE MARCH ROUTE
FIESTA WEEK PROGRAM
Monday, April Is.

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Monday, April is.
State Highway Conference, 9 a. m.
Kings entry, p. m.
Fireman's exhibition and display,
$50 p. m, Pageant Grounds, Romano
street.
Pioneer Ball, Q p. IN.
Tuesday, April IL.
State Conference OF Cooperative
Marketing, y a. m.
Dedication of swimming pool and
bath house at San Pedro Springs,
4 p. IN.
Electrical parade, S p. II.
School children's night, first per
Torrance pageant, Pageant Grounds,
Romano street, s p. N.
Wednesday, April IS.
Conference On flood control, II
rigation drainage.
Pageant at Pageant Grounds, S
p. m.
Coronation of Queen, Majestic
Theater, s p. III.
Thursday, April ID.
Pageant at Pageant Grounds, 5
p. m.
Attendance Of Queen and her court,
9p. m.
Friday, April 20.
Battle Of Flowers Parade, p. II.
Saturday, April II.
Air service maneuvers and display
of air service equipment at Kelly Field,
= p. M. sharp.
- - Dy,aopfc nara1a
s p, m.
THE House of the Three Maids"
presented by the Vienna Operetta
Company, $50 p. NJ, Pageant
grounds.
All parades may be viewed seated
from the Pageant Grounds.
Three conferences, three parades,
and three performances of the pageant
are the magic three of the Fiesta de
San Jacinto, which will begin Mon
day, April 16, and with much Utility,
some solemnity, and general beauty,
TO continue throughout the week.
Everything is ready, the stage is set.
Next week the city will b. turned
over to the carnival spirit, and to
thC FANAOAg VI AhN
Texans at the battle field Of San
Jaeinto, out Of which the elaborate
Fiesta Of the present has grown.
Every fiesta has its distinctive fea
ture. The fiesta Of 1923 has one
that stands out above all others, the
pageant grounds on Romano street,
around which ali the events of the
week revolve. Not alone will this be
the place to see the three performances
of the pageant but it will be a place
10 sit in comfort and view every
parade.
Heretofore people have had TO stand
on the sidewalk, craning heads above
the heads of others in order TO see.
They would be tired with waiting when
the parade did come along. But this
year all they will have TO do is go
down TO the pageant grounds iOn Ro-
mana street and sit in a comfortable
chair where every bit of the parade
may be seen to advantage.
Build a Tower.
At the final directors meeting Sat
urday noon before the carnival week,
everything was reported ready for
the biggest and most comprehensive
fiestas San Antonio has ever seen.
Monday morning, things will start roll
ing with the State Highway conference
at the Chamber of Commerce to dis
Suss a unified system of roads for the
state.
The King of the Fiesta will come
into the city Monday Light. He will
make his entry on the NJ. h. & I.
and will bet met by the directors Of
the Fiesta Association and will be
escorted by them TO the pageant
grounds where Mayor Black will de-
liver to him the keys of the city.
Massed bands will play for his entry,
and concert will conclude the cere-
mony of the delivery OF the keys.
Those who have passed daily by the
Romano or Fourth street side OF the
pageant grounds, have exclaimed at q
five-story wooden tower sticking up
above the trees. This was erected
for the fire exhibition and display TO
be given by the fire department at
s 80 D. m. The tower, filled with
hay, will be set afire and extinguished
by the firemen after scaling to the
windows to rescue imaginary victims.
There will be other stunning and
spectacular features, illustrating what
the fire department is prepared TO do
in case of real danger of fire. The
exhibition is for the benefit of the
pension fund of the police and fire
department.
Tuesday Children's Night.
The two other conferences to be
held during the week, dealing with
cooperative marketing and drainage.
irrigation, and flood control, will all
be held as announced in the auditorium
of the Chamber of Commerce. Present
problems and construct tive programs
for future cork will form the basis
Of the talks and discussions.
Tuesday will be children's night in
San Antonio, the first performance of
the pageant, when fifteen hundred
school children will present "The
Awakening of San Antonio" on the
vast stage of the pageant grounds.
This performance, sponsored by the
Battle Of Flowers Association and the
Fiesta Association, is a $4,000 pro-
duction, magnifieently arranged and
produced.
There will be three performances in
order that every one may see San An.
tonic. Miss Eveline Newton, sur.
rounded by the Texas birds. wild
flowers, and products. wax, TO the
beauties Of morning and spring. and
muse unon the old Spanish spirit OF
the past. Lighting effects, colors