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City fathers decided to rebuild\nthe civic center in Renaissance styles. And billing the new Santa Cruz the \"Florence of the West,\" they jumped at an idea\nproposed and sponsored by James Philip Smith, who had recently converted the Kittredge Hotel on Beach Hill into his\nprivate home. His wife named it the \"Sunshine Villa\" and gave him the idea to create a lagoon on the lower San Lorenzo\nRiver and host the weeklong \"Santa Cruz Venetian Water Carnival.\" The 1895 event would be an extension of the floral\nfairs that were an annual event at the 1883 Fair Pavilion, on fairgrounds bounded by Pacific Avenue, Laurel Street, the\nriver and Beach Hill.\nA floral pavilion with French lattice facade was constructed for costume balls and the\ncoronation of Anita Gonzales (the sponsor's stepdaughter) as carnival queen. Anchored\nin the harbor were ships from the new all-steel Pacific Fleet, which replaced the wooden\ngalleons and were seen by many for the first time. At the opening of the fair, the ships\n\"bombarded\" the city in a mock battle and sent launches ashore, only to be met at the\nbeach by Queen Anita and her attendants, who pelted the invaders with flowers until\nthey surrendered to this gentle monarch. Anita proclaimed: \"Peace shall prevail this\ncarnival week!\" She led a floral parade down Pacific Avenue to band music called \"The\nSanta Cruz Carnival March.\"\nBleachers were constructed at the Beach Hill river bend, and a \"Rose Regatta\" of\ndecorated boats paraded to music and entertainment from the River Stage, which was\nbuilt on the opposite bank. The \"Aquatic Sports of the Water Olympics\" was held—a year\nbefore the first modern Olympics—and included swimming, diving, canoeing and\nyachting. At a West Cliff Drive athletic field, a velodrome was constructed to host a major Miss Anita Gonzales, 1895\ncycling event.\n\n1\n\n�The day before the carnival ended was \"Hi-Jinks Day,\" featuring\nmasquerade and burlesque. A fat man in a dress was crowned\n\"hobo queen.\" He entered on a garbage scow and was hoisted\nonto the throne by rope and tackle while bloomer \"girls\" sang\n\"The Hobo Queen of Santa Cruz!\" And everywhere, yellow and\nwhite bunting and banners brightened the burned- out town in\ncarnival colors. Fred Swanton ran strings of electric lights over\nthe river for evening boating and outlined downtown buildings\nin lights. Bands gave \"illustrated concerts\" to slides projected on\nthe river stage, which ended with fireworks displays. These\nincluded set pieces on the riverbank, such as \"The Eruption of\nMount Pelee\" and \"Bombardment of the Castle Fort.\"\n1895, Queen Anita's Barge and Gondolas Coming Up the River\n\nAuthor Ambrose Bierce was among the journalists nationwide\nwho spread the fame of this event, helping to make the Water Carnival an annual festival and California's \"social event\nof the season\" for the 1890s.\nPlans were made for improving Waterfair Square with neoclassical facilities and a Laurel Street bridge, based on designs\nat Chicago's 1893 World's Fair. But disputes over extending Front Street through the fairgrounds, and who controlled\nthe fair association, scuttled these plans.\nOn his own, Swanton created the 1903 \"New Santa Cruz\" plan for Schooner Flats, which is today's Beach Flats, and the\nwaterfront. This included a Moorish-style boardwalk, a tent campground and \"Neptune Park\" at the last bend in the\nriver. These were to be the permanent fairgrounds for the water carnivals and included an onion-dome boathouse on\nthe island at the first river bend.\nHowever, when the boardwalk opened in 1904, so did Venice, Calif. Santa Cruzans feared the fame of the local event\nwould be eclipsed by a superior development of the theme to the south. So in desperation, a Methodist syndicate\nbought coastal property in 1905, overlooking Wood's Lagoon, today's yacht harbor, and announced plans for \"Venetian\nVillage.\" The 1906 earthquake brought an end to that dream, but Twin Lakes Beach was known as Venice Beach for\nmany years.\nSwanton rebuilt the casino and plunge after the quake in even\nmore elaborate Moorish style. He moved the water carnival to\nNeptune Park in 1912, with a stage built on the river island.\nCarmen Edington recalled singing in the chorus of Gilbert and\nSullivan operas there, with her friend Zasu Pitts, who grew up to\nbe a movie star. This was called the \"Opera Island\" until the\n1950s, when the levees made it a part of the boardwalk parking\nlot.\nSwanton revised his Neptune Park plan to incorporate what the\nVenetian Village plan attempted to do, though without\nduplicating Venetian landmarks. In 1912, projections suggested a\nMoorish version of Coney Island's Luna Park. But Swanton sold\nThe Elks Float, 1912\nthe boardwalk a year or two later to the Seaside Co., and the\nMoorish towers of the Auto Racers and River Bathhouse were\nthe only part of this plan executed, shifted beachside by the river mouth.\nThe 1927 water carnival was the last, although Skip Littlefield kept the spirit alive in his famous \"Plunge Water Carnivals\"\nof the 1930s. Capitola began its begonia festivals in 1954 on much the same premise as the Santa Cruz water carnivals.\n2\n\n�Today, the last echo of those early water fairs can be heard in the theme song \"Floating Down the San Lorenzo River,\"\nrecently released on the tape album \"My Heart's in Santa Cruz, 100 Years of Old Songs About Santa Cruz County.\"\n\nSources\n\n\n\n\nThis article originally appeared in the San Jose Mercury News, March 9, 1993, p. 1B. Copyright 1993 Ross Eric\nGibson. Reprinted by permission of Ross Eric Gibson.\nThe photograph of Anita Gonzales is from the book, Santa Cruz County, a Faithful Reproduction in Print and\nPhotography of its Climate, Capabilities and Beauties, published in 1896.\nOther photographs are from the Santa Cruz Public Libraries' collection.\n\nThe content of this article is the responsibility of the individual author. It is the Library's intent to provide accurate local history\ninformation. 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The ride from the city had, of course, been long and hot and very dusty.\nPerhaps you had been asleep for the last third of the way, and had awakened too suddenly to the consciousness of an\nindefinable sensation of grit and fine cinders, and the suspicion that your collar was limp and dirty. Then, before you\nwere prepared for it, you were hustled from the train and out upon the platform of the station.\nThere was a glare of sunshine, and the air had a different taste that suggested the sea immediately. The platform was\ncrowded, mostly with people from the hotels, come down to meet the train, girls in cool, white skirts and straw sailors,\nand young men in ducks and flannels, some of them carrying tennis rackets. It was quite a different world at once, and\nyou felt as if things had been happening in it, and certain phases of life lived out, in which you had neither part nor lot.\nYou, in your overcoat and gritty business suit and black hat, were out of your element; as yet you were not of that world\nwhere so many people knew each other and dressed in white clothes, and you bundled yourself hurriedly into the\ncorner of the hotel bus before you should see anybody you knew.\nIt was a town of white and yellow. You did not need to be told that\nthese were the carnival colors. They were everywhere. Sometimes\nthey were in huge paper festoons along the main street of the town,\nsometimes in long strips of cambric wound about the wheels of the\nhacks and express wagons, sometimes in bows of satin ribbon on\nthe whips of the private drags and breaks. The two invariable color\nnotes sounded, as it were, the same pleasing monotone on every\nhand. It was Thursday, June 18th. By then the carnival was well\nunder way. Already the Queen had been crowned and the four days'\nand nights' reign of pleasure inaugurated amidst the moving of\nprocessions, the clanging of brass bands, and the hissing of rockets.\nNothing could have been gayer than the sights and the sounds of\nThis photograph shows the Santa Cruz Union Depot, on\nthe town of Santa Cruz, as that hot afternoon drew toward evening. Washington Street near Pacific, in 1898. Next to the depot\nare several wagons. These are the \"hotel buses\" Norris\nThe main street seen in perspective was as a weaver's loom, the\nmentions.—RAP ed.\nwarp white and yellow, the woof all manner of slow moving\ncolors—a web of them, a maze of them, intricate, changeful, very\ndelicate. Overhead, from side to side, from balcony to balcony, and from housetop to housetop, stretched arches and\nfestoons and garlands, all of white and of yellow, one behind another, reaching farther and farther into the vista like the\nreflections of many mirrors, bewildering, almost dazzling. Below them, up and down through the streets, came and went\nand came again a vast throng of people weaving their way in two directions, detaching against the background of the\ncarnival colors a dancing, irregular mass of tints and shades. Here and there was the momentary flash of a white skirt,\nagain the lacquered flanks of a smart trap turned gleaming to the sun like a bit of metal, a feather of bright green\n1\n\n�shrubbery overhanging a gate stirred for a moment in the breeze very brave and gay, or a brilliant red parasol suddenly\nflashed into view, a violent, emphatic spot of color, disappearing again amidst the crowd like the quick extinguishing of a\nlive coal.\nAnd from this scene, from all this gaiety of shifting colors, rose a confused sound, a vast murmur of innumerable voices\nblending overhead into a strange hum, that certain unintelligible chord, prolonged, sustained, which is always thrown\noff from a concourse of people. It is the voice of an entire city speaking as something individual, having a life by itself,\nvast, vague, and not to be interpreted; while over this mysterious diapason, this bourdon of an unseen organ, played\nand rippled an infinite multitude of tinn, staccato notes, every one joyous, the gay trebble of a whole community\namusing itself. Now it was a strain of laughter, hushed as soon as heard, or the rattle of stiffly starched skirts, or bits of\nconversation, an unfinished sentence, a detached word, a shrilly called name, the momentary jangling of a brass band at\na street corner, or the rhythmic snarling of snare drums, as a troop of militia or of marines passed down the street with\nthe creaking of leather belts and the cadenced shuffle of many feet.\nAnd then little by little the heat of the afternoon mingled into the cool of the evening, and the blue shadows grew long,\nand the maze of colors in the street was overcast by the red glow of the sunset, harmonizing them all at last, turning\nwhite to pink and blue to purple, and making of the predominant carnival colors a lovely intermingling of rose and ruddy\ngold. Then far down at the end of the street a single electric light flashed whitely out, intense, very piercing; then\nanother and another. Then as rapidly as the day darkened the little city set its constellation. Whole groups and clusters\nand fine nebulae of tiny electric bulbs suddenly bloomed out like the miraculous blossoming of a Lilliputian garden of\nstars. The city outlined itself, its streets, its squares, its larger buildings in rows, and chains and garlands of electricity,\nthrowing off into the dark blue of the night a fine silver haze. Then all at once from the direction of the lagoon the first\nrocket hissed and rose, a quickly lengthening stem of gold suddenly bursting into a many colored flower. A dozen more\nfollowed upon the moment; where one was twenty others followed; a rain of colored flames and sparks streamed\ndown; there was no pause; again and again the rockets hissed and leaped and fell. The lagoon glowed like a brazier; the\ndelicate silver electric mist that hung over the town was in that place rudely rent apart by the red haze of flame that\nhung there, fan-shaped, blood-red, distinct.\nLater that same evening, about ten o'clock, Queen Josephine made her\nentry into the huge pavilion and gave the signal for the opening of the\nball. The procession moved up the floor of the pavilion toward the\nthrone (which looked less like a throne than like a photographer's\nsettee). It advanced slowly, headed by a very little girl in a red dress,\nresolutely holding a tiny dummy trumpet of pasteboard to her lips. Then,\nin two files, came the ushers, Louis Quatorze style. They were all in\nwhite-white lace, white silk, white cotton stockings-and they moved\ndeliberately over the white canvas that covered the floor against the\nbackground of white hangings with which the hall was decorated.\nHowever, their shoes were black—violently so; and nothing could have\nbeen more amusing than these scores of inky black objects moving back Queen Josephine and Her Court\nand forth amidst all this shimmer of white. The shoes seemed enormous,\ndistorted, grotesque; they attracted and fascinated the eye, and suggested the appearance of a migratory tribe of\nBrobdingnagian black beetles crawling methodically over a wilderness of white sand. Close upon the ushers came the\nQueen, giving her hand to her Prime Minister, her long ermine-faced train carried by little pages. Pretty she certainly\nwas. Tall she was not, nor imposing, nor majestic, even with her hair dressed high, but very charming and gracious\nnevertheless, impressing one with a sense of gaiety and gladness—a Queen opera comique, a Queen suited to the\noccasion. The Prime Minister handed her down the hall. He wore an incongruous costume, a compound of the dress of\nvarious centuries--boots of one period, surcoat of another, a sword of the seventeenth century, and a hat of the early\n2\n\n�nineteenth; while his very fin de siecle E. & W. white collar showed starched and stiff at the throat of his surcoat. He was\na prime minister a travers les ages.\nWhen Her Majesty was at length seated, the dancers formed a March, and, led by, Lieutenant-Governor Jeter, defiled\nbefore the Queen, making their reverences. Directly in front of the throne each couple bowed, some with exaggerated\nreference coming to a halt, facing entirely around, the gentleman placing his hand upon his heart, the lady sinking to a\ndeep courtesy, both very grave, and a little embarrassed; others more occupied in getting a near sight of the Queen\nmerely slacked their pace a bit, bending their bodies forward, but awkwardly keeping their heads in the air; others\nnodded familiarly as if old acquaintances, smiling into Josephine's face as though in acknowledgment of their mutual\nparticipation in a huge joke; and still others bowed carelessly, abstractedly, interrupting their conversation an instant\nand going quickly on, after the fashion of a preoccupied priest passing hurriedly in front of the altar of his church. The\nmusic was bad; there were enough square dances to the ball something of a provincial tone, and the waltz time was too\nslow; yet the carnival spirit-which is, after all, the main thing-prevailed and brought about a sense of gaiety and\nunrestraint that made one forget all the little inconsistencies.\nFriday afternoon brought out the floral pageant on the river. What with the sunshine and the blue water and bright\ncolors of the floats, and what with Roncovieri's band banging out Sousa's marches, it was all very gay, but, nevertheless,\none felt a little disappointed. Something surely was lacking, it was hard to say exactly what. The tinsel on the boats was\ntinsel, defiantly, brutally so, and the cambric refused to parade as silk, and the tall lanterns in the Queen's barge\nwobbled. The programme-that wonderful effort of rhetoric wherein the adjective \"grand\" occurs twenty-two times in\nfour pages-announced a Battle, a \"grand\" Battle of Flowers, but no battle was in evidence. True, I saw a little white boy\nwith powdered hair, on the Holy Cross float, gravely throw a handful of withered corn-flowers at an elderly lady in a pink\nwaist, in a rowboat maneuvered by a man in his shirt sleeves, and I saw the elderly lady try to throw them back with her\nleft hand while she held her parasol with her right. The corn-flowers fell short, being too light to throw against the wind;\nthey dropped into the water, and the elderly lady and the little white boy seriously watched them as they floated down\nstream. Neither of them smiled.\nAt about half-past eight Friday evening the rockets began to roar again from the direction of the lagoon. The evening\nfete was commencing.\nOn one side of the river were the Tribunes, two wings of them stretching out, half-moon fashion, from either side of the\nGovernor's pavilion, banked high with row upon row of watching faces. Directly opposite was the Queen's pavilion, an\nimmense canopy-like structure, flimsy enough, but brave and gay with tinsel and paint and bunting. Between the two\npavilions was the waterway where the boats maneuvered. The Bucentaur, the Queen's barge, came up the river slowly,\ngleaming with lanterns, a multitude of floats and barges and gondolas following. It drew up to the pavilion-the Queen's\npavilion-and Josephine disembarked.\nIt was quite dark by now, and you began to feel the charm of the whole affair. Little by little the numbers of boats\nincreased. Hundreds and hundreds of swinging lanterns wove a slow-moving maze of trailing sparks, and reflected\nthemselves in the black water in long stilettoes with wavering golden blades; the rockets and roman candles hissed and\nroared without intermission; the enormous shafts of the searchlights, like sticks of gigantic fans, moved here and there,\ndescribing cartwheels of white light; the orchestra was playing again, not too loud. And then at last, here under the\nnight, the carnival was in its proper element. The incongruities, the little, cheap makeshifts, so bare and bald in an\nafternoon's sun, disappeared, or took on a new significance; the tinsel was not tinsel any longer: the cambric and paper\nand paint grew rich and real; the Queen's canopy, the necklaces of electric bulbs, the thousands of heaving lights, the\nslow-moving Bucentaur, all seemed part of a beautiful, illusive picture, impossible, fanciful, very charming, like a painting\nof Watteau, the Embarquement Pour Cythere, seen by night. More lights and lanterns came crowding in; a wheel of red\nfireworks covered the surface of the water with a myriad of red, writhing snakes. The illusion became perfect, the sense\nof reality, of solidity, dwindled. The black water, the black land, and the black sky merged into one vast, intangible\nshadow, hollow, infinitely deep. There was no longer the water there, nor the banks beyond, nor even the reach of sky,\n3\n\n�but you looked out into an infinite, empty space, sown with thousands of trembling lights, across which moved dim,\nbeautiful shapes, shallops and curved prows and gondolas, and in the midst of which floated a fairy palace, glittering,\nfragile, airy, a thing of crystal and of gold, created miraculously, like the passing whim of some compelling genie.\nWhile the impression lasted it was not to be resisted; it was charming, seductive—but it did not last. At one o'clock the\nfete was over, the last rocket fired, the last colored light burnt out in a puff of pungent smoke, the last reveler gone.\nFrom the hill above the lagoon on your way home you turned and looked back and down. It was very late. The streets\nwere deserted, the city was asleep. There was nothing left but the immensity of the night, and the low, red moon canted\nover like a sinking galleon. The shams, the paper lanterns, and the winking tinsel, were all gone, and you remembered\nthe stars again.\nAnd then, in that immense silence, when all the shrill, staccato, trivial noises of the day were dumb, you heard again the\nprolonged low hum that rose from the city, even in its sleep,--the voice of something individual, living a huge, strange\nlife apart, raising a virile diapason of protest against shams and tinsels and things transient in that other strange carnival,\nthat revel of masks and painted faces, the huge grim joke that runs its threescore years and ten. But that was not all.\nThere was another voice—that of the sea—mysterious, insistent; and there through the night, under the low, red moon,\nthe two voices of the sea and of the city talked to each other in that unknown language of their own; and the two voices\nmingling together filled all the night with an immense and prolonged wave of sound, the bourdon of an unseen organ,\nthe vast and minor note of Life.\n\nSources\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFrank Norris, author of McTeague and The Octopus, grew up in Oakland and San Francisco. He attended the\nUniversity of California for four years, but failed to graduate because of poor grades in mathematics. After\nspending a year studying literature at Harvard, Norris left for South Africa to report on the Boer War. Two\nyears later he returned to San Francisco. From April 1896 until he moved to New York in 1898, he was the\nassistant editor of a weekly periodical, The Wave. On Thursday June 18, 1896, Frank Norris took the train to\nSanta Cruz where the Venetian Carnival was in full swing. His evocative piece appeared in the June 27, 1896\nissue of The Wave.—RAP ed.\nNorris, Frank. Frank Norris of \"The Wave\". San Francisco, The Westgate Press, 1931.\nWalker, Franklin. Frank Norris. New York, Russell and Russell, 1963.\nThe photograph of the depot is from the Santa Cruz Public Libraries' collection; the photograph of Queen\nJosephine is from Santa Cruz County, a Faithful Reproduction in Print and Photography of its Climate,\nCapabilities and Beauties, 1896.\n\nThe content of this article is the responsibility of the individual author. It is the Library's intent to provide accurate local history\ninformation. However, it is not possible for the Library to completely verify the accuracy of individual articles obtained from a\nvariety of sources. 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