Unique Service of Easter Vespers to Be Held on Miller "Hights" This Afternoon The Cross of Trees, planted by day, where an impressive LAST DAY SWELLS CITY REGISTRATION Registration for the primaries on May 3 closed last night at 9:30 o'clock. Up until the closing. hour there were as many voters registered yesterday has beer. registered for the last week. There was a line-up at every registration place, and toward the closing hour there were as many as seventy-five persons in line at some of the booths, waiting their turn. There were some on the tail end of the lines at 9:30, and in some cases later, who will not voLe on May 3. Every effort was made to register 38 many as possible before closing, and in some instances the clerks worked until after 10 o'clock. Joaquin Miller on the Hights, program will be, rendered with the goal of the Easter pilgrimage toPyramid to Moses as the altar. Elaborate Choral Service Under Direction of Alexander Stewart Will Be Followed by Release of 500 Pigeons The famous sunrise service each Easter Riverside, day on where Mount thousands Rubidoux, 'at this morning will participate in the traditional ceremonies, will have its duplicate on the hills of Oakland for the first time. Instead of the sunrise service there will be a sunset service here that probably will be an annual ceremony. Thousands are expected to •make the pilgrimage to the Joaquin Miller Hights, where. Easter sunset vespers will be held at 4 p. under the auspices of the Community Service, Contra Costa Hills club and the Oekland Recreational| department. With the cross of• trees as its "back drop," in the natural amphi-| theater facing the Golden Gate, the program will be under the direction of Alexander Stewart of Community service, who received the inspiration for these vespers while directing the | Oakland, It's the Royal for Shoes PRICES LOWER IN THIS STORE $ .95 YOUNG LADIES' CORDO TAN CALF OXGREEN FORDS, low heels, leather Goodyear welted $6.95 soles. . . . . the and prevention of until a one all of the the Satla the the of a of by to music at the pilgrimage at Mount Rpbidoux last Easter. The Hights can be reached from the end of the Park boulevard car line or from the Hopkins or Fruitvale cars, thence: by an easy fortyfive minute work via Lincoln avenue.• Automobile bus transportation has been arranged from the terminus of the Park boulevard cars. Adequate parking space at the summit also has been allotted. The program of traditional Easter anthems will be opened, when an- invisible trumpheter plays the "Follow-On" melody which is the of - ficial watchword of the Contra Costa Hil siclub. At the close of the chorals 600 pigeons from the Pacific Homing Pigeon club will be released bearing Easter tidings. The program, follows: Chorus of seventeen voices, with accompanimeat of string orchestra and piano- Mrs. Alma Berglund Winchester. soprano; Mrs. Edna Fischer Hall, contralto; Herbert Mee, tenor; William Carruth, piano accompanist. Readings by Dr. William Frederic Bade, president Sierra club. Prelude "America the Beautiful' (Katherine Lee Bates), audience and chorus. "THE MOUNTAIN." Trumpet call from the mountain top-'Follow on! a voice is calling"* Theme -Mendelssohn. "It is the watchman on the mountain top." (Official watchword call of the Contro Cost Hills Club.) "Solitude on the Mountain'. Ole Bull, arranged by Svendsen. String Orchestra. Reading-' "The Mountains of the Lord' W. C. Gannett Hymn "How Firm a Foundation*. (The favorite hymn of the late Theodore Roosevelt. I H. 'THE CROSS." Chorns-•The Souls Rejoicing in the Resur: rection.** Traditional Easter song, sixteenth Century. Reading- (a) "California's Resurrection". Joaquin Miller (b) "Where Death Has No Sting' John Muir " Hymn- the Cross of Christ I Glory, Chorus- Joyons Easter Song." Traditional Easter song, sixteenth century. 111. "SUNSET AND EVENTIDE." "Evening Song' Bizet String Orchestra. Chorus Song of Rest" ..H. Walford avics Reading -"At Set of Sun' ..Ina D. Coolbrith **Are Maria' Saint Saens Duo for soprano and contralto. Chorus Through the Night." Traditional Welsh Air. Benediction. Release of five. hundred carrier pigeons. The leader, A famous war pigeon, winner of the Croix de Guerre decoration, bearing an olive branch, and the other messages of good will, which follow the sounding of **'taps.!!
