Show SAN thi tha celebration of cali fOr fornias Dias golden jimlee aflee street decorations features cf the parade stati mormons cormons the sole survivors of tha party who discovered gold at erg mill orientals Orient als and o san francisco the beautiful queen of the pacific coast is dressed in her gala garb today and her two hundred and fifty thousand people are merrymaking in honor of california a fiftieth golden birL birthday hilay market street from the ferries to vari van nes is ia the most quarantined looking street in the world because its golden jubilee dress is made of hundreds of thousands of 0 f yards of cloth yellow aa Tion fion and gold digs and banners bAi iners del defend end from its many thousands of windows and from ropes crots crossing the famous thoroughfares li fares every fe leir IV yards spinning spanning the street from the balan hotel to the par parrott rott building is an arch of most beautiful deai design an and of the regulation buird and sheeting he eting construction watch iv isab until the rain come lent to the city cm a clas ic appearance but a aka ow a as and afif fifty wr ears ago cd today a Jani n WV marshall atre a 3 six Mor Morn niona ions veterans vei erans ot the ba tallion which hid h ad been must mustered ercil ont dut at los angeles 0 and rome bome indians indiana were at work on what has since become celebrated as Sut utters lers mill they were in the little valley of coloma forty tive five miles from sacramento and tor for and mouths months had held tho tha even tenor of their way without interruption from the outside ont side they had cut the timber and sawed the lumber arid and now the mill was just about completed the race had been constructed and a day or so before water had been turned in to wash out some looe dirt and suid and then turned out again and on the afternoon of the day of ofa january nuary 1348 as 18 mr marshal who had tr fl tr fl overseen work through the tailrace tail race on u tour of inspection and in doing doin so discovered gold at first they tried to keep the discovery a secret and succeeded for a while fur for there was but one woman in camp and the fort was forty five railed away but bat one day a teamster stopped at the little cluster of log a houses there and at last the womans comans chance had come she told the man of course in strict confidence of the wonderful ful find and gave him a nugget to assist aist his big faith in her story that was enough before the year waa gone every little town in california had bad emptied its population out into coloma valley and during the next nest year over eighty thousand people started from differ different rit parts of america and europe for the golden west A hilf balf a century has since rolled away and san francisco which was then a village with a tion of two hundred people has bag grown crown to be one of the capitals of the e world and her celebration at this time marks a period in the cevelo development P went of the state slate and in such a way as to cause her native sons sona to pause and reflect on tile the past and speculate on the future the parade this morning while a grand affair must have licen been dis dia appointing to every one nh ali had the pleasure of attending pioneer jubilee at salt lake last july for while it was moro inora gigantic in a way it lacked inn heart find and ent enthusiasm winch which va anva life to that thai ever memorable event in history in fact the C golden jubilee of california cannot be considered otherwise than a very poor showing ing lor for so grea great and gra grand ill a state it lacked sentiment its promoters were not so much interest interested td i in n the vold gold marshall discovered fifty 3 years 0 cars ago as they were i in it lie he gold they were and are trying tu to discover in this year of our lord merchants who contributed of their dollars to tc the election eie clion of an extremely flimsy arch which the first gust of wind is liable to topple pl e over on the heads of the ilie people e from which the tha drenching rain of this evening has robbed of all thecla the da tie tic beauty it ever possessed did so not cot from any deep rooted sentiment their hearts entertained for the california of the past but aiom a baseness like desire to turn the klondike from its steady march to seattle the true gate of alaska a and nd bring it some hundreds of miles out of its dav way to their own city the golden jubilee is ia a colossal ad for sin fraucisco in her role of b bet st outfitting outwitting out fitting point for the gold fields as an adwill ad will undoubtedly prove a great success one of the most interesting features of the he parade was the presence of the only survivors of the camp at slitters mill at the time of the discovery of gold in california these bur survivors are IV J jonnston Job J 8 brown II 11 W Big higler lerand and azariah smith all utah Mor mons and at the pres nt lit time lime guests attests of the city of san sail Fr francisco incisco I 1 he camile was an immense pageant in which over twelve thousand people are suppo td to have taken part it was all of three hours passing the palace hotel its great length however r was anything a but a pleasing feature because so naw macar of it was made up a of uniformed nc all any total totally ar uninteresting sling bocie ez 0 f the S stale late rha floats were few f but artistically gotten up an and 11 t the he parading of the national buirds and regular soldiers was of course interesting but to me the best feature of it all was the heathen chinee who li cough up the reir in all the barbaric bir baric splendor of the rat batin eating 0 orient at san F francisco ran cisca the occident and the orient meet and josile each other in the streets every day dav and to the new comer the chief chel attraction of this one of the meat attractive citi cities es of the world is the almond eyed pig tailed y yellow ellow faced mongolian who has brought the east to the wet yie t where in spite of insult aud injury he thrives fattens fatt and grows rich lie ile may cease to be an attraction as ono tees more of him hut but his presence yesterday in the parade dressed in his mot gorgeous colore color playing i 1119 his most earsplitting ear splitting music and holding aloft his most eacret banner was an appreciated novelty and repaid many for the torture they underwent in witnessing all the rest C V RES SUM san francisco jan jail 21 |