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Drama 9 I SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 2, 1920. II. 14 PAGES PfTDTTT A'PTOMf federal Ceiwutnrte Tri rurUJJiUlUl'll Br toe Cltjr JUIrcetorr (mil I man 1. 1 101. AiiV.

ONE DEAD AND 250 HURT IN COLLAPSE OF ROSE FETE STAND iJEAUTY'S QUEEN I REIGNS AT FETE Sudden Tragedy Transforms Scene of Mirth to One of Terror NEAll THOUSAND FALL TO EARTH Southern California Interests. 1 lou Sku Second of Victims Succumbs; Others in Danger i i. i 1 -T i it 1 ivy; 7 1, 7. i 1 "vs 1 UST OF DEAD AND f' INJURED IN CRASH Marry Crr-' HERE'S what's worrying me now: It will be only twelve short months until another festive holiday season Is upon us. With all this damn noise and confusion and traffic congestion.

A TRESS-AGENT QCLEN Prince Carol of IlumanU has disappeared. Which wiil help a little. But, unhappily, his fond m-ma, the Queen Marie, still absorbs the limelight. She contests with Isadora Duncan for the distinction of bein? the most tiresome old lady in the newa. On the whole, it is about a atand-ofT between them.

As a Queen Marie has a better atrangle-hold on the center of the stage. But she la not so free In the matter of marrying and casting off fervid young poets. Incidentally. I don't wonder Carol ran away. 71TXAINS Under the leadership of Mexico the Latln-A merles.

countries have struck. They refuse to supply villain for the movies any longer, Tho next movie with a Mexican a the "heavy" will be excommunicated, as It were. Also the director who made it will never be allowed to show any more plcturae in that country. Even though his other pictures may show a Mexican as a regular Pollyanna. DUCK ItCBS OFF For movie authors the embarrassing predicament Is that none of these villain countries eeems to pan out.

They are painted black; but the color is not "fast." The Mexicans, on close examination, turn out to be gentle, poetic, tender and honest. Just so, they had to drop the Italians in despair. The Germans were grand and satisfactory villains during the war. But now that the fracas Is over we remember the sentimental and tenderhearted old delicatessen man who gave us dill pickles. THE JAPS, TOO At one time there were the Japs.

Wre told each other about the Japanese banks which had to employ Chinese tellers to get th cash counted honestly. But some brutal realist discovered that these Chinese clerks wers merely there to take care of the Chinese customers Just as in our own banks. Then we began exchanging Christmas presents with our Jap neighbors and householders found out that their Jap servants could be trusted on sight because they were Japs. And of a.11 nations, perhaps, thy were most highly trained in standards of almost Quixotic honor. So they had to be pajised up as villains, too.

COME ON, VILLAINS If anybody knows a raes of people who beat little children, kick the dogs and chase pure young: ladles around the rooms of deserted "dens," they confer a great favor on aU matlsts by telling of thex. TILE BLACK HAND Perhaps the most awful blow to the "mystery-tale" a u-thors was when It was disroverd that the Sicilian black-hand societies of New York were headed by smart American crookj. Looking at the 'question this way and that, I guess we are the only satisfactory villains thland Blossoms Flame in Myriad Hues loats, Bands and Oddities in Brilliant Ensemble 'asadena Provides Its Most Gorgeous Parade BTHE ALLEN A weirdly commingled re-embrance of beauty and sor- pw, of joy and apprehension a scarnea apy Dy me who yesterday celebrated asadena's yearly feast of flow- rs, the world-famed Tourna- ent of Roses. There before ie crowd was the fresh, youth-d' loveliness of their Queen of eauty, embowered and en-ained by the fragrant offer-gs of a thousand gardens, for-ard borne in graceful prog- ss. tint the seconds were aced by the direful passing ambulances.

In every ear sounded the strains i mualo discoursed, by a score of knds of musicians. But always nere was another sound, rising times so as to drown the muff, altogether sirens shrieking, ke tortured bansnees, meir stria- ht message of terror. Through the ranks that lined tne reets so densely that it was im- irssible to move, rumors passed and fro, rumors of things more rrlble even than the event tt-lf. And always passing before ie eyes of the thousands were auty and youth ana loveliness. SURPASSING SCENE Tor despite the tragedy that arred the day, the Tournament ol oses surpassed itself yesterday, rom mountain and from sea, cm sun-flooded desert and from fredy swamp, from wood and mea- nw, from garden and rrom, neici, lora had sent her children to maze men witn meir in ately pageantry the flower-decked oats progressed, mile after mile them, until It seemed there uld not be any flowers elsewhere.

fid yet from gardens behind the wng that lined the streets more wers peered out. spectators them-Ives at the Feast of Flowers. Vying with blossoms in a close- drawn contest was the Queen the Tourney, Fay Lanphier, who jnme to preside, wearing the Iaur- awarded her as America's pretest girl. She rode in a great iach. massed high with bloom, nd was attended by a retinue of ages and maids of- honor.

The keynote of the Tournament esterday was remembrance of by-ine days. Annually for thirty- I'ven years, Pasadena has Invited he world to come and see Its iiwers. The feature section of yes- Tday'a pageant consisted of floats "producing as nearly as possible rtain entries of former years. then, was the largest as- f-mblage of horse-drawn vehicles tat has been seen In a parade nywhere, probably, for a long me. For Pasadena's Tournament Roses was a national event long efcre anyone had even seen an itomob'ile.

JMost of the years from 887 to 1905.werf represented witii "productions of floats displayed in hose years, ring girls garbed i the costumes of the periods, here was even a bicycle squad, heluding a tandem and two an ient "high wheelers." The weather did its duty scrupu- nusly. The sunshine was brilliant. ie air was balmy, and fleecy white ouds puffed Up from behind the lountain tops, to sail majestically cross a blue sky. Everywhere ere motion-picture camera op- rators, recording the scene for ie benefit of the inhabitants of sa favored climes. Practically every community ie county was represented by its oats of varying pretension.

There as an innovation this year, San rancisco entered a float, a great ilp, with a glowing golden sun at ie stern, bearing a cargo of girls. Besides being a Feast of Flow's, the tournament was something se. It was a Feast of Plug Hats. is doubtful If such a display of liny headgear was ever before lumlnated by the sunshine of outhern California. Men on orses wore plug hats.

Men afoot ore plug hats. Men on floats nmed out from beneath them. here were ble-gums of every con-Mvable cut and design, some plain nd some exceedingly fancy, what ith plumes snd ribbons and routes. It hard'y seemed possible ist Los Angeles county really 'vs as manv plug hats as were iown yesterday. There having en considerable conjecture over lis matt-r along the line of the irade, the general opinion seemed le that, a substantial propor-on of then must have been 1m- orted from neighboring counties.

PLEAS EI) BY QUEEN There was another matter upon liich the throngs agreed. That as as to the perspicscitv of the udloiis gpmlemen who assembled Atlantic City last summer to Hect Miss America. When Miss janphier first came upon the I ne, shortly before the processor! started, she immediately- was surrounded by reporters and pho- "craphers, everyone of whom j'isned right away ihat 'h had ut on his new hard i-ollar. and aaybe bis Christmas necktie. Word iiai she had arrived spread ran- Contlnucd on Taee 3.

Column "11 everyone of rot! so love his wife even as himself; and the wife pee that the reverence her honband." Fphesiaus Tragedy Comes at Height of Brilliant Pageant All Agencies Join in Effort to Render Succor Death and human misery yesterday struck at Pasadena's brilliant Tournament of Roses festival at the moment of its peak and when the wreckage was cleared away from a street stand that had collapsed, hurling about 1000 men, women and children beneath a snarled mass of splintered wreckage, the toll exacted, summed at the latest hour, was two dead, almost twenty in a critical condition, and fully 250 injured, more than 236 names of victims beingr recorded at the various hospitals. Mrs. Caroline Sherman. BO years of aae. wife of B.

C. Sherman. 88 Carroll Park street, Long Beach, and Mrs. Bessie a Barish. 86.

623 North Berendo street, Loa Angeles, are dead. A list of the Injured is given In the adjoining column. Brilliant floats, beautiful girls in multlhucd costumeK. magnificent steeds and the wealth and flowery splendor of the Crown City and neighboring communities were passing before the stand at Madison and Colorado streets when It sagged, quivered for a moment and then folded up like a stack cf cards. FALLS DEAD AT SCENE The fall of the structure waa accompanied by a deep undertone of sound that resembled a thousand sighing voices whispering In a vast coliseum; the screams of crushed humanity, trapped and torn beneath Its Jagged fragments, burst forth for a moment in a crescendo above even that of the shouting thousands marveling at the luxu rlous pageant, and then gained In volume with a weird, eerie plaint that stopped marchers in their footsteps and caused universal gasps of horror.

Mrs. Sherman, stricken by the horrible sight before her eyes as she stood within a few feet of the scene, collapsed and died a short time later at the Pasadena Hos pital. The transition from the moment before of gay happiness to tragio woe proved too great for her. The parade was hatted Los Ange-It and Pasadena police, sailors. coldiers and the citizenry led -by anxious Pasadenana began immediate rescue work.

Private cars, ambulances and strong arms carried the injured to hospitals and private homes, to Los Angeles and to Glendale anywhere that relief of the suffering could be alleviated. The tiny emergency hospital at Pasadena was overcrowded at once and officers standing In front waved arms and pointed toward the Pasadena Hospital further on. as the vehicles carrying their crushed burdens came on In increasing droves. Drivers slackened their pace none and continued on to another haven only to return for more and more as additional victims, lege and arm dangling helplessly, were pulled from blood-spattered timbers. ALARM SPREADS The alarm spread.

A car bearing a bull-throated man with a megaphone in hand dashed up and down Colorado street, appealing for doctors and nurses. Waves of sufferers rolled to the hospital nd from all points of the compass mtnistrators Joined them at the one common point. Within an hour every doctor and nurse on the staff of the Paja-fiena Hospital was at work, but tlu more victims arrived, their fores tightened anl drawn In soul-shattering pain. The floors were used when the bedg were filled. Cognizant of the great reed for cveii convenience half a score of maternity patients at the hospital yielded their cots to the more eerlously hurt.

In another half hour 100 nurses summoned by the megaphone courier from the ranks of watchers along the parade route were at hand; then came more doctors, a half-hundred strong they rallied In the face of disaster. Tae Pasadena Furniture Company waa unlocked by the management and every mattress In the Place ruhed to the hospital to ase the pains that had been nngmented by the cement floor. MORE AID SENT The General Hospital at Loa Angeles rrepared for a portion of the patients and sent every am-bnlance in Its garage, with the exception of one, to aid transportation to the Pasadena Hospital and. If neosry, tq Its own building. It sent nearly a dosen Internes and nurses that could be spared.

One of Ita ambulances wss loaded to the roof with gauze and cotton dresstrgs and extra surglcsl Implements. Tajtleabs were commandeered by the city and joined In the trips to and fro to the hospital, some bearing the Injured, others relatives besides themselves with grief and fear all served without compensation, their "Hired" signs sticking upright the drivers hatiess and flushed with the exertion of their dutls. The Pacific Electrlo swung into line and sent several motor bupi to the hospital, there to assist In removing th more slightly hurt to their hornet and ty perform any errand of mercy tht might arise. COMTSIOV THRF.ATF.NS In the complete eonfu- (Continued on Tage Colmiw 5, if 5 -v is 1 I -3 i L. -x I rV 5 1 (f 5 I i f-- -r A 1 KCataB" i E' 'H i i rwn 7 i i i MM -W.

i sW- -1 x' 'T iF" LMi When Stand Hurtled Hundreds to Earth The list of dead and injured in the collapse of the grand stand at Colorado street and Madison avenue at the Rose Tournament parade at Pasadena yesterday follows: THE DKAD Mrs. Caroline Sherman, 60, 886 Carroll Tark. Long Beach, heart dlsense produced by shock. Mrs. P.8le H.

Barlsh, 65, S2S North lierendo, Los Angeles, internal Injuries, Body taken to VV. A. Brown mortuary, Los Angeles. THE INJCKEO At Pasadena Hospital: Miss Kannle Adams. 18.

1178 East Mariposa etreet, bruised left eye and Injured Instep. Mr. and Mrs. G. Adams, cut and bruised.

Mrs. Margaret A. Adams, 109 East Lexington lrlve, Glendale, 147 South WllMon, Pasadena. Mr. and Mrs.

W. Adams and baby, 60 South Templeton street. Huntington Park, bruised and cut. Mr. and Mrs.

Bert Adams, Knld, brulRes. J. Altman, Hollywood, right leg bruised. Ruth Anderson, Sierra Madra, possible fractured leg, Mrs. Hamilton Bee, 48, 807 Ocean Front.

Venice, left ankle hurt. B. Partelson, 2081 Windsor Boulevard, rut neck. Mrs. Bartelson, 2081 Windsor avenue, fractured left leg.

Miss Josephine L. Beach, 2879 West Twenty-second street, fracture and dislocation of right ankle. Mrs. O. C.

Beckwlth, 74, North El Mollno avenue, Pasadena, probable fracture of ribs on "eft aide. Mrs. Ruth A. Beckwlth, BB0 North El Mollne, Pasadena, scalp and. internal.

Mrs. Lizzie I. Escheller, 187 North Meredith avenue, Pasadena, resident of Lynn, bruises and sprain. Miss C. J.

Boggs. 80, 1618 Fremont avenue, south Tauadena. broken right ankle. Mrs. Croft Bliss T.69 South Los Robles venue, Pasadena, bruises and shock.

Mrs. James R. Brown, It East Pine street, Paradena. broken ankle. Mrs.

3. B. Brown, broken toe and sprained foot. Mrs. Babcock, 282 South Marengo.

Miss Jessie Lou Babcock, 8218 Monte Vista, Pasadena, fractured ribs and shoulder. Mrs. Barlck, Injured right shoulder and ehock. Mr. SnRca Beach, 3379 west Twenty-second strret, Los Angeles.

Mrs. Maude Bell. 4S Magnolia, San Bernardino, injured back and ho1der. Marie Brehm. torn acAlp and sprs'ned left Teg.

M1s Modna lacerations of the knee arid sca'p. Miss Mary Jant Burns. 1071 O. street, San Bernardino, bruises and nhcck. Q.

B. Burdlck. 941 Palm Terrace, fractured nose. Miss Mary Buckley, It? Oak Knnll, fractured ribs. Howard Pann.

Cincinnati. In the top photo, taken immediately after collapse of tructur yesterday Jn Pasadena, rescuers are shown frantically seeking to extricate those imprisoned In In the lower picture Is a view of tha twisted timbers after the catastrophe. ROSE FETE DRAWS HUGE THRONG GLENDALE MAN HERO OF CRASH More Than 500,000 Make Pasadena for Annual Tournament; Two Hundred Floats Parade From her aun-basked shrine baneath th purple of the towerinff Sierra Madrea, Pasadena, California' Crown City, boomed her annual New Tear's Day greeting yesterday, a reetins that rose to th canopy of a cloudless ky and re-echoed to the rest of tha world holiday message of tha Southland, a message of prosperity, peace, happiness and food will toward men. LONG BEACH FLOAT WINNER NO TRACE FOUND OF ailSSINTr CHILDREN Although all roads from Moja were guarded yesterday, no rlrw had been discovered late last night of the whereabouts of the thre children of Mrs, Mary A. Thompson.

They are believed to have been kidnaped by a Mexican, following a New Yesr's Eve dance. Mrs. Thompson told Fleers she sent the Mexican with cr to bring hr children honi front -watch party, but tht they failed to return. Tney wre seen to en'nr the automobile. Th car imported travfli'i? south from M- jave.

onmaoie i. iai'on. or hall, posted guards, were stlil on duty la.it night. LIBRA It SPACi: SOVt.HT City Librarian Terry has requested the to assign spai-e in lh fcrn. Venice City Hail, now ud t-y the Los Angeles cry government, for the Venice Branch Public Ltbi ry.

Bn tri cks nfw rvit; rre-perty owners on Vir.eieir.l avenue wh stent rim a lhn 00,009 fir pavip i .1 rfrttg th.it i i that I eavy hite'l on fcad by the t'ommiss on. Pilgrimage to Third division. cWo bodies. Class Long Beach, flret; Pan Francisco, spcond: Glendale, third. Class A-l.

AlhanVbr Chamber of Commerce, first: Sen Chamber of Commerce and National (Continued en Paga t. Column Saves Daughter Whih Pinned Under Wreckage; Later Rescues Others Presence cf minij and an al molt iuperhuman atrength In the moment of peril on the psrt of J. E. Zaremba, dl- rector of the Glendale Mortuary, Jll South Central avenue. Glendale, made him one of the outstanding heroes of the Pasadena disaster, yesterdav.

His right leg pinned under a heavy timber, end several injured persons piled on the other lg, Zaremba eavd hfa S- i I year-old daughter. Helen, from dfth or serious tnjurr by lifting her high abv the wreckage as the big tfmhprs and boardi tumbled about Mm, Holding the girl sbeve his hsd. (Conttnuctl Pncc cvtuma Grand Sweepstakes Prize and Silver Trophy A warded to Beach City, in Parade The occasion wss that of the- thirty-seventh annual Tournament of Roses, which was witnessed by more than 600,000 persons who made pilgrimages to the New Tear's Kay fete from all parts of the Ir'tate and nation. A more Ideal day for the carnival of flowers could not have beeu given Southern California by the kindest of weather prophets. A blue sky.

pierced by a warm sun which bathed the city with the splendor of a sprtng day, "greeted the thousands of visitors who early Long Beach annexed first honors for the most beautiful float entered in the Tournament of Roses parade yesterday, winning the grand sweepstakes prize, a huge silver trophy and blue banner. Special awards also were mads by the toumamnnt officials to the entries from yesterday morning motored thelrithe cities of San Francisco and Portland, Or. nay to the Crown City over paved boulevards rr obtained transport- tion on the steam and electric lines thai run tntn lh The nseant. confuting of morei than 200 flower-decorated floats. bantjs and individual entries, was tContiuaed oa Tagc 2.

Column 1) The prize winner In the various wttm announced officially 8S fOllOWSl Second division city depart tment, flrst ijInt department, flrst: Con-Toller's office second; water department, third. (Coetlnned Tag 1. Column I).