Pacific Gas and Electric magazine . misedto favor us with selections on the greatorgan, but there was no help for it. Fes-tival Hall was too small by half for thecrowd that did honor to Pacific Serv-ice that day. Everything was carried out with clock-work precision. Our Mr. E. C. Jonesworked like a Trojan on the parade,drawing plans for the assembling of thevarious divisions at various points, lin-ing up his aids, doing all that a grandmarshal sliould and then some. The re-sult was that when live thousand persons,by actual count, passed in through theFillmore street entrance six abreast theypr
Pacific Gas and Electric magazine . misedto favor us with selections on the greatorgan, but there was no help for it. Fes-tival Hall was too small by half for thecrowd that did honor to Pacific Serv-ice that day. Everything was carried out with clock-work precision. Our Mr. E. C. Jonesworked like a Trojan on the parade,drawing plans for the assembling of thevarious divisions at various points, lin-ing up his aids, doing all that a grandmarshal sliould and then some. The re-sult was that when live thousand persons,by actual count, passed in through theFillmore street entrance six abreast theypresented all tile ai)pcarance of a well-drilled little army; and lliey kept in linellie entire way through the Ivxpositiongrounds to the scene of Ihe exercises. The parade was formed in four maindivisions, Ihe first of which fell into line(in Lombard street, east of l-illiuore. Intliis were President Dnun, ollicers and<lire(t(irs nf •Paeilic Service, stockhold-ers and speiiallv invited guests, among 364 Pacific Service Magazine. of the Panama-Pacific Exposition from the Presidio hills. these latter the mayors of most of the in-terior cities and towns in the companysterritory; then came heads and membersof departments. The second main divi-sion formed on Webster street, north ofLombard, and was made up of all theout-of-town districts with the exceptionof Alameda County District; twenty-fivedistricts in all, stretching from Chicodown to Fresno. Alameda County, up-wards of twelve hundred strong, formedthe third main division on ^Yebster streetsouth of Lombard, while the fourth maindivision, gathered on Lombard street, eastof Webster, consisted of San FranciscoDistrict, numbering upwards of two thou-sand. Engineer Paul M. Downing of theO. and M. Department, Hydro-ElectricSection, was marshals aid in charge ofthe first main division: Ralph Elsman ofthe Electric Distribution Department andSherwood Grover and W. M. Hendersonof the Gas Department took charge of thesecond, while Fra
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