Show Magnificent City Rises From Ashes and Prepared to Entertain the World no SAN GREAT Discovery of the Bay by Don Gaspar Caspar de Porto Portola la 1769 to Be Celebrated Celebrate ALL NATIONS TO TAKE PART FESTIVITIES WILL WELL BEGIN OCT 19 AND LAST SEVERAL DAYS San Francisco Sept 21 San Fran Francisco cisco having put her house In order has extended an invitation to the nations of the world to come to the Golden oden Gate Oate in and see seeth seeth th results of ot her handiwork and be behr behr hr hr r guests at the big festival that is to the rehabilitation of the city elt The festival to be held heid Oct 19 to 23 js AS i alt also o to commemorate the discovery in 1769 of the Bay of ot San Francisco by byDon Inn Don Gaspar de Portola first Spanish governor of California From this the celebration has taken its name and is known as the Portola Festival In the latter part of April 1906 the greater part of San Francisco existed but as a memory Three thousand a ares alres res comprising the heart of the city ha had been devastated by fire in the greatest disaster of modern times More than thai 80 0 buildings had been convert converted ed into plies piles of smoking ruins and the loss reached the appalling total of More Beautiful Than Before Within forty months San Francisco has bas built herself out of oC herself A mod modem modern em ern city of marble and granite far more beautiful and substantial than the theold theold theold old city nty dt has ha been reared and but a scar i here and am there remains as evidence of th great fire The new buildings erect til hI exceed in value by b many millions those destroyed The invitation to the powers to in insist rrt the result of San Ia la labors bors hi 1 rs and amI to participate in the rehabilitation rehabilitation tation jubilee has been generally ac England will wilt send her North Panne fleet to San Francisco bay Warships will come from Germany Holland and Italy Ital It legations of or diplomats from France and Imil 8 Spain 13 In will participate in the Ice lor A cruiser r bearing a prince of the therl rojal ryal rl al blood is on its way from Japan From China will come come two cruisers ens es esi i orting Prince Tsai Teal Fu cousin of the emperor Many lIany thousands of visitors wit wil come from all parts of the United States tates and the world Planned on Grand Scale I To Li I fittingly entertain the nations of oC world and to be in m accord with the task of rebuilding the city the Portola F stival has been planned to eclipse e anything of its kind ever eer before under undertaken undertaken taken in the country The revels of the modern giants who the city will v ill be b titanic FIT Fir queen of the festival Miss MIM Vir Virginia Virginia VIrginia ginia Bogue declared by judges to be betin betI tin tI most beautiful woman in Califor California nia has been chosen She is 1 the daugh daughter ter of Virgil S Bogue vice president and chief hief engineer of the Western Pa the new ne transcontinental line that thatis is i rapidly nearing completion Miss lis Bogue is a truly trub western girl of tIll the highest type an accomplished ath 1 Jt te a magnificent magni cent horsewoman ho woman and splendid swimmer wimmer Though moving In tho thi th most exclusive society in this coun country countr country tr try and Europe she is a devotee of lit literature and a recent book by her The Strength to Yield has attracted con considerable considerable considerable attention By some The Strength to Yield has been characterized as torrid and risque But to her critics Miss MiM Bogue has replied that the book is a true story if lof f modern life and that there are only three kisses kis es in the entire volume Will Impersonate Impe Portola To impersonate Don Gaspar Caspar de do Porto Porte Portola Portela la hI whose discovery of the Bay of San Francisco the festival te is to commemorate commemorate commemorate rate Don Nicholas A of Santa anta Maria Cal has hail been selected He Hei Heis i is famous throughout California and it has bas been said that he was wa a delicious of and ami foreign ambassador such as only the west the Spanish west could produce Expert horseman former sheriff and States marshal Covarrubias is isone IsonE Isone one of the most picturesque que characters of lof I f the west Though past the allotted three score years and ten he lie bears bear his six ix feet of sturdy manhood as proudly at a when a daredevil in the years gone b hy by his exploits exploit took away the breath of his more sedate neighbors Famous Feat Recalled One of the most moat famous famo of the feats feat of Covarrubia was when he deposed Captain Waters king of the island of San Miguel and took possession Mm in inthe Inthe Inthe the name of the United States State It was one ne of those intense little personal tragedies or comedies that history passes by because of the lack tack of ot epoch making qualities in them Captain Waters Vaters claimed the island laland of ofSan ofSan ofSan San Miguel which lies a few miles from Santa Barbara because e of a Span Spanish Spanish ish sh land grant and maintained that as asit asit asit it had never been ceded to the United States his authority was supreme He Heas was as a adventurer and had at his back scores core of ot retainers ready to todo todo todo do his bidding He allowed no person per on to tJ land on the island without his pet per permission mission For years year the matter drifted along few caring to clash with the belligerent captain until it reached the attention of or Washington From President Cleve Clove Cleveland Cleveland t land and came orders to Marshal hal Covarrubias Covarrubias Covarrubias bias to take possession po of the l island land in inthe Inthe Inthe the name of the United States State In a small sloop with a 8 few deputies Covarrubias set out for the Island land l of ofSan ofSan ofSan San Miguel Captain Waters had been warned of his coming and attempted to prevent his landing There was a sharp conflict and ADd the king of San Miguel was vanquished Old Spanish Fiesta AH AU the delightful features of the old Spanish fiesta with Its rev revelry re revelry elry are ate aFe to be incorporated in the Por Portola Portola Portola tola Festival The old Spanish colors red and yellow have been chosen as the ofle of Jf the fete There will be a 8 buil bull bullfight fight and flower battles A great masque carnival with dancing on the Ule street corners and concluding with an Immense masque ma que ball will wind nd up the festival A half million dollars will be spent by b San Francisco Francl co in entertaining its guests The illuminations and decora decorations decorations decorations will be the most elaborate ever at attempted attempted attempted tempted in this country countr Spectacular pageants and parades will win follow one another closely closel during the five days of the celebration Many Special Features Lu j airship tournament with a flight across the Golden Gate a big athletic t meet a naval review an con concert concert j I cert by school children will bej be ber beJ r J I I i x xI I 4 I i I I 4 I w p c cI I w I 1 1 r M i 1 fH lit tK w mr U f I rw i it ii iiii i iA A r w wI 4 4 I r t 4 t t MISS HISS VIRGILIA BOGUE DOGUE Queen of the Portola Festival among the modern mo features of the fete State balls and banquets for the diplo diplomats diplomats diplomats mats and foreign naval officers will crowd one another during the Portola week The inauguration of the Ule Portola Fes Fee Festival Festival at noon Oct 19 will be observed throughout the world President Taft is to propose a toast to San Francisco that will be echoed around the world Portola day Oct 19 will be observed at all embassies legations and Ameri Amen American American can clubs in Europe and at noon San Francisco time everyone will drink the Taft toast Millions of school children throughout the United States will cheer San Fran Francisco Francisco cisco deco at noon on Oct 19 Hugh Mc McGowan McGowan Ic Gowan the street car magnate Indian Indianapolis Indianapolis Indianapolis apolis proposes to stop every ear car in In Indianapolis Indianapolis at noon San Francisco time on Oct 18 19 l for one minute and each conductor will be instructed to inform passengers PR n ers that San Francisco Is cele ceic celebrating celebrating brating Begins October 19 In San Francisco Itself on Oct 19 noon will usher in the Portola Festi Festival Festival Festival val A magnificent pageant depicting depleting the march of Gaspar Gasp r de Portola and his 1118 dragoons which resulted in the tire discover er ery of f the bay ba will inaugurate the fete From the first blasts of the trumpeters that will accompany until the thelast thelast last dance of the big carnival ball comes to an end five days later there will not be an idle moment |