The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 11, 1895, Page 21

SU 3O CALL, AY, AUGUST 11, 1895 21 We were all boys in those days and it was | great fun being a boy. This was before the advent of the middle-aged, when the gray vas as seldom seen as Santa Claus In those days we boys diligently ed the empty tincans that were heaped behind the kitchen and smelted the solder on sunny Saturdays among the e heights of Telegraph Hill. | the spirit of speculation en- in the Chinese quarter, was an arrangement in scarlet and gold that beggared description. Day unto day uttered speech highly nnintelligible,‘ though so familiar, to us all, and night | unto night showed knowledgeof a life that went merrily enough to the iingle of | the cash of the players of fan-tan. There | were no facades to the halls of chance in those d. It wasas if the curtain had been up upon a stage where the game s that gave a sphin: too often expressionless face of the Mongol. | When the play was ended the porteullis fell T all the distinguishing features were ashed out of the faces of the players. was the center and the soul traditior one, and et undeveloped architectural es the old catbedral at the north- corner of California and Dupont reets was vainly thought.a temple and a er of beauty. The town—so young, so led with weird eyries hang- the almost inaccessible hill Py were not alwaysat 1 the eye irequently such furnishings as only the and often in those days r a peristyle of rob eli among carved ebony i velvets hanging in heavy the roof that sheltered despised by the lowest- n the land. were not surprising then, The ked streets bristled with slivers as big javelins and warped themselves like fringes of spring-boards on rchance, the day after, T in for them, y buried themselves ou: alanches of gray sand s r a stumbling block to the 3 ng stretches s that were on the to as cradles, with a gray sex fog delu is my dr g it at interva, m of the past! A great desert— between us and. the coast used to make long pil- to that desert lying between nrise and the sea. Mountain was the sweetly solemn v whose aid we crossed and re- | ahara, and Lone Mountain, r it, was the one greenish- | vn towering height that seemed to be more or less in shadow. Weall tind of superstitious love for it,a | that found expression in casional pilgrimages 10 the Joot of the | ss that so long sanctified its summit. If we found it wearisome retracing our | ross the sand dunes we could re- that boys’ ideal highway, the hley flume—a primitive aqueduct t wasa kind of cornice to the north re and afforded a safe, though at times zy, footing, and nearing town we could board the stranded hulk that so long | made a semi-marine picture of itself at the | Po ot of a buge sandhill ‘this side of Black | er in the desert were the ever-lean- iveoaks, pressed almost to the earth, backs clipped clean as an Italian hedge by the keen-edged gales. These sis at - long intervals, and at | als there were traveling creep- green fleshly leaves enameling the | aste. How it pexppered us—the | nd that swept in from the west- now it wrinkled and ribbed the | Is that flowed 8lowly but surely | the wilderness lying between the | kers and the bay. Ifaintly recall one | hollow where the brackish water lodged all ‘the year. round, but for the most part | &ll that region, now transformed by magic BY CHARLEJ WARREN STODDARD. v was being played with an earn- | haps by reason | 8| 1’. S S ricane; we outstrip the thunderholt, but | dore?” It came rather stingily the day I only for a moment or two; the highly de- | corous and decorative mounted police, whose duty it is to check the hare-brained | in their headlong career, salute us with a | courtesy that for the time being makes life | worth living twice over. way that most attracts us; highways are for all the world, and all the world is wel- come, not too strait and driven slapbang into the de{uhs of glades where lovers play at hide and seek ; through But it is the by- | Give me the byway, provided it be | narrow, where few | | there be who go in thereat, and let me be | winding ways “bedded with fern and heather, and out upon baby bluffs that | pretend fo frown but in reality only smile upon the children sporting at their base. Why are we not headed off by “one of the finest?” Are we inyisible? Isno one conscious of our intrusion? trusion? On every side not one only_but | and Is it an in-| sought 1t out with my heart in my throat, | that poem on my lips and a shilling in the alm of my hand to pay for a sight of it. erhaps it was not turned on full head when I looked at it. I was the only spec- tator at the time. A leke girdling a little mountain like a silver cincture is a novelty worth going far to see: a lake with islands in the air, and from whose winding and wall-like shores one may look down upon a sea of waters that bathe the hem of the far East—where will you find its equal? “‘Artificial!” I hear some one cry. Great Jove! what would civilization amount to but for its artificiality? We could not long tolerate one another were we mnot artificial in our dress and our manners and our morals. It iscnly the undiscov- ered isiander who is not artificial, and all his natural tendencies are doomed. The | world is passee—we must be artificial or | every one of the finest touches his helmet | eams upon us as if it gave him allthe | nothing. ~Artificial! There is a nook in Golden Gate Park | pleasure in life to see us doing what no | where a poet might “loal and invite his NEAR THE FOOT OF THE CATARACT, GOLDEN GATE PARK, [Sketched for the “Call” by Strong.] one else under any circumstances would be allowed te do. Nay, listen! It isHaroun- al-Rascid who disports himself in his pleasure garden, and your humble servant 1s the most favored of his friends. *“Well!” exclaimed the Prince of Goodfellows, and the spanking span tore through the park at a pace that made the blood tingle down to my toes. “That used to be a pool of water,” said Joe. It was the very puddle of my youth. We were on a terrace above it looking down upon_the playground of these rosily beautiful California children. It was a charming sight and one that filled one’s heart with gratitude to Sharon for his Joving kindness in providing so hand- somely for the coming men and women. Some day they may rise up and call him blessed—perhaps they do so even now. Two highly distinguished features of the ark must at once strike the eye of the resh observer—these are the lake and the waterfall. Of all the parks in the world there are few possessing such remarkably advantageous environs. Perhaps none— 4 soul.” I wonder that it is not necessary to hedge this nook about in order to keep the throng from overcrowding it, for your poets are as many as musical. There deli- cate arbors invite one to repose upon beds of chrysanthemum, while tiny rivulets, iike silver threads, weave a pattern that spells a poem amonF the next-to-impossi- bie bridges and the almost improbable islets that float between them, and the liquid music thereof is fainter and sweeter than air bells, and it touches the heart even as the fingers of Israfeel swept the chords of his own heart strings, which were a lute. We run uphill in a minute, and down dale in another minute, and pause where finy pinnacles are towering just overhead with tinier temples and pa- godas perched upon them, and all the while the softly lisping waters are flowing hither and yon, and the weird tracelets are looking like giant dwarfs a_thousand years old, and the drowsy lotos is nodding on its stem, lost in a deen da{‘ dream. The daintiest of bamboo houses invite one to an elysium that seems hardly ac- « 50 PLEASED TO HAVE MET YOU. into the famous Golden "Gate Park, was as dry as bonedust and not to be thought of without a delicate shudder. This, please bear in mind, was before the Vigilance Committee had committed virtues as yet unknown in the history of California, and while yet steamer day was the chief festi- val of the month. * s After long years I find myself again in the misty city where I passed m, yonth. Are there changes to be noted? Yes, changes on every hand, but of all these changes the most striking, the most start- ling, I find yonder in Bahara, where we boys plodded ankle deep in sand and felt a8 adventurous and romantic as if we were Mececa-bound pilgrims. I was to see and to explore a modérn marvel. I was to do this under the most tavorable auspices. Joseph Austin Esq., my guide, philoso- ber and friend and the ‘most_popular of gark Commissioners, took me in charge. I was driven where my _vquthful feet bad toiled, .yet looked in vain for one faint trace of the wilderness I had known of yore. Hisis an enchanted ‘“turnout’—a span of Pegasus in a fairy car, with Phaeton-on the box, could hardly outdo it. Picture the pleasure it must be to delib- | erately and witgz the atmost impunity bre;k' | every known law and break it in public! 1t is forbidden to drive faster than & hur- [Sketehed for the “Call” by Joseph Strong.] not even excepting the reclaimed grounds which furnished the foundations for the World's Fair at Chicago—has had such difficuities to contend with. Here at Strawberry Hill, for example, a huge mound of sand has been solidified, covered with a green mantle, variegated foliage, crowned with an observatory that through hali-shut eyes suszgests a colosseum, flanked by a waterfall that might have tumbled ont of the heart of Japan, and girdled with a lake that is itself suspended in midair. 5 The Golden Gate Park is in inception and execution one of the most remarkable pleasure grounds that I have knowleage of. The lake and the waterfall are among its most surprising features. Poor Keats sighed his epitaph upop his deathbed, “fisra lies one whose name is writ in water.” Mr. Huntington and Mr. Stow may boast as much and literally, for so long as that waterfall continnes to tumble out of space and make a delicious picture of itself and so long as that airy lake bears upon fts placid bosom a host of swans and sweethearts, their names shall live. I have made journeys to famous waterfalls in the Old World and got less water for the money than comes tumbling down the brow of Strawberry Hill for nothing. “How does the water come down at Lo- HOW DO YOU LIEKE OUR CLIMATEP” climated as yet. Yet this suggestive vision—this palpable Japanese garden in the Golden Gate Park—should: preach an everlasting gospel of repose to the very ople who stand most in need of it—the aliforniani “But 1t is not businesslike,” says some one. No, thank God, it is not businesslike, and is all the better for that. But the gentle and artistic little people who in- vented the refined tea garden, and who go thither from time to time to restore their souls, have thrown down the great wall of China, and they may yet E‘n the big bear of all the Russians in pi Tea- en dilettanti are not to sneered ai it impunity. Please bear in mind that it is vain to m'r{ and worry, and that they make a fatal mistake who take life too seriously. Speaking of bears, it was the great bear who cast a condescending eye on me—he probably knows a Parl mmissioner when he sees one and for Joe’s sake I was half recognized. The buffalo came out of the bush and posed a moment, the elk and deer assumed Landseer attitudes, the birds and the lq‘nimll did their several tribes great credit, and even the kangaroo .F' roached with a dude-like gait and with Hrooping wrists turned toward me, as much as to say, “So pleased to have met you. What do you think of our chmate?”’ To here in San Francisco. No man can be it for some years and returns to find that he doesn’t know how to take it. Your City lackscolor; I was half para- lyzed when I rediscovered the fact, for I had quite forgotten it. You are always a damp or a dusty gray, with occasional touches of dull brown.” There is not one bit of color in- all your feniusu]a outside of your splendid park. There you get it in great splashes of gorse, and in the rich em- broidery of flowers that beautifies miles and miles of those park highways and b ways. There is color ofa sunny Sunday when the rich lawns are dotted with hun- dreds, perbaps thousands, of pleasure- seekers, and where the pleasure sought is rational and Christian, for it is written that’ this shall be a day of rest, and there is nothing more restful than an out- ing in uch a flower land. : There is color iuthe fiying hosts of plump little bloomers on wheels—at least in the faces of some of them. There is color, by contrast, even in the naked sands that sweep on to the ocean, south of the park, and T, for one, would delight to see a Teal pyramid erected there and droves of camels wandering at its feet. There is color in the infinitely varie foliage, and the judicious thin- ning out of the too densely pianted trees is sure to encourage the fuller development of those that are reserved to us. seems to me the most original, the most varied and in some respects the most in- wide world. Something for San Fran- cisco to be proud of, and somethin, of which she is destined to be stifi more proud. “Well!” cried Haroun-al- Raschid, and at that moment the imposs- ible steeds, who seem as much interested in the park and its development as if it had been laid out for their especial benefit—at that moment the steeds took a header, car- riage and all, and we landed in a whirl- wind of sand and sagebrush, that at once carried me back to those dear old desolate days—the days of about ’55. Part of a house stood on the brink of nowhere-in- particular; the litter that surrounded this pathetic ruin was the last remnants of the late Midwinter Fair; the place seemed as if it bad been recently struck by lightning. The ruin itself was perched upon lts preparatory to taking a final leap into the hollow that was being prepared for it. 'Will the fowls be glad of the rest, 1 wonder, down under the sand hili? the fowls whose feathers were blown all the wrong way, and who were caught up at intervals and merrily hurled out over the roof by the gentle zephyrs of the mild Pacific. There was a door and it opened tc us, and within there was shelter and consolation and traditions enough that have gone with this old land- mark, and will ever go_with it so long as one shingle of its sagging roof rests upon another. Alas “Chaddy!” we have all seen better days, for we were all younger once upon a time! This thought was a little too much for me and, not caring to have Joe Austin see me forgetting my Eastern dignity, I went to the door under which the sand was drifting while the wind wailed at the keyhole, and, looking forth, lo and behold ! the whole park was deluged with a cloud of vapor so dense, so damp and so all-per- vadi that not a trace of its beauty was left visible to the naked eye. I said noth- ing of this to Haroun-al-Raschid, for he was lost in a deep dream of the great gar- den he loves and glories in; and, behold! even I had seen with my own eyes how, verily, the desert has blossomed as the rose! CHARLES WARREN STODDARD. San Francisco, August, 1895, —————————— e e ———— tell you the truth I think it beastly right | SWONG THE AX AGIN. quite sure of this until he has been out of | S A | Take it all in all, the Golden Gate Park | p¥pr Wi g . | James O'Kane. teresting pleasure ground in the whole | NEW TO-DAY—AMUSEMENTS. Columbia Theatre FRIEDLANDER, GOTTLOB & CO., Lessees AND MANAGERS - Twenty New Appointments Made by the Board of Health. San Franecisco, Cal., Aug. 10, 1895, To the Publie: On Monday evening and every evening during the week, including Sunday, and Sat- urday Matinee, the Stockwell Season will begin with a magnificent produetion of Shakespeare’s most beautiful comedy, “TWELFTH NIGHT.” The “Great Star Cast” inecludes Henry E. Dixey, Maurice Barrymore, Rose Coghlan, L. R. Stockwell, Wm. G. Beach, Maude Winter, Inéz Knowlton and a carefully selected com- pany. The appearance of such celebrated artists will be the most notable dramatiec event that has so far occurred in the history of the Columbia Theatre. Reserved Sesats are now on sale at the following prices: Night--Orchestra, $1.00; First Four Rows, Dress Cirele, 75c; Last Six Rows, Dress Cir- cle, 50c; First Seven Rows, Baleony, S50e; Last Seven Rows, Balcony, 25e¢; Gallery, 15e; Box and Loge Seats, $1.00. Matinee--Orches- tra, 75c¢; Dress Circle, 50e¢, Balcony, 25e¢; Dr. Hart Read the Slate and it Went Through Without Oppo- sitlon. The Board of Health met yesterday and swung the ax all over the office until not a vestige of the old administration was left. There wete present Drs. Morse (who pre- sided), Hart, Fitzgibbon and Williamson. The Mayor lost nothing by staying away, for no one needed his vote to get out orget in. It wasall unanimous. Dr. Hart, who seems to take the greatest interest in the removals, made most of the motions to de- clare vacant and to elect. The .slate was as follows: For Health Inspectors—A. B. Kinney, A. T. Patton, David Fay, Ottd Luhders, George H. Stout and W. H. Durand. For clerk of the Almshouse, James Marshall. For matron of.the County Hospital, Mrs. M. For superintendent of the City Cemetery, For Chief Plumbing Inspector, J. J. Sullivan. For assistant plumbing inspector, Thomas H. McGrath. For Receiving Hospital “stewards, Joseph Mogan and Joseph Fogarty. For messenger to the Heaith Office, J. J. Brier. For janitor of the Health Office, H. Isaacs. For Receiving Hospital internes—Frederick Renno, George L. Helms, John J. Flood and Tyre H. Stice. For deckhand of the quarantine boat, J. F. Gately. All these positions were declared vacant by the vote of the board, and then those on the slate were appointed. A special meeting of the board will be held on the 15th inst., and hereafter the regular meetings will be held on the third Wednesday of each month at 11 o’clock in the morning. .- ARRANGING A RACE The Elia May Be Matched With the Sappho and Queen. A yacht race which will cause an im- mense amount of interest among Corinthian as well as other yachtsmen is being talked of to take place soon. Gallery, 15¢; Box and Loge Seats, 75ec. A Though the owners of the Sappho and (AL MAYMEN & Queen lfave often declared the superiority " INA:":HCP o TO MORROW! f their boat: r the Elia, owned by the ;}ngl:‘%ro;,s &vee matter has never been HEATRE "\ PROPS. MONDAY, AUGUST 12 decided to the satisfaction of the latter, and they have made repeated attempts to get a match race with the two crack racers. Recently a prominent Corinthian, who has much confidence in the prowess of the Elia, issued a challenge on their behalf, offering to wager anything from a French dinner to $100 that the Engle boat would win.. All he asked was that the Corinthian course in the channel be used, and that the challenge be speedily accepted. The challenge is open to any yacht in the Corinthian fleet, barring the Volunteer. The money is now on deposit at Engle Bros.’ place, at the foot of Market street, and the friends of the owners of the Queen and Sappho are urging them to accept the defi and have the race come off during the regatta of the 25th inst. = 0. AST WHEEEKE — Encomiums of Pralse from the Press. Unlimited Laughter and Applause from the Public Have Indorsed T00 MUGH JOHNSON ——WITDEr WILLIAM GILLETTE. The Brightest Farcical Production of the Era. *Just what the people want.”” —Chronicle. Weels Commencing Monday, August 122, ILLIANT VAUDEVILLE COMPANY! -NEW ARTISTS!-S8 FARNUM AND SEYNMOUR, The World's Greatest Acrobats, Originators of the High Somersault and Pyramidal and Jumping Act. CRIMMINS AND CORE, Grotesque, Eccentric Comedy Duo. THE SAVANS, ‘The Champion Man and Woman Equilibrists. CUIBAL AND ORTIZ, The Wizard and Psycho-Hypnotist. THE JORDAN FAMILY, METROPOLITAN THREE, | HORWITZ AND BOWERS. MATINEE TO'DAT—(S.UN—DAY), AUGUST 11 ADEqnlpmunt, and also the first to charge the same prices West and E Parquet, any seat, 25c; Balcony, any seat, 10c; Chiidren, 10c, any part of the house. A BR (= NEW TO-DAY—AMUSEMENTS. SAN FRANC\SCO. "7, GREAT ORPHEMM CIRCULNT WITH A= MONOPOLY N:yAUDEVILLE DENVER g&a Eol.. ESTARLSWED \887. ; BEGINNING AUGUST 19 MR. - AND HIS AMERICAN COMPANTY, ND SEAT SALE THURSDAY, AUGUST 15. € MOST STUPENDOUS EVENT In the Amusement Annals of the Pacific Coast is the Advent of the GREATWALLAGE SHOW MATUD ADAMS, Now the Leading Circus and Menagerie of the Western Hemisphere. The IN MR. DREW’S VARIOUS SUCCESSES, FIRST PLAY Best Equipped Circus in-the World, with the Finest Horses of Any Show on Earth. *“One of the most successful productions at the Baldwin for a long time.”—E xaminer, “When the play closed there wasn’t a smileless man or woman in the house.”’ —Call, By HENRY ARTHUR JONES. Management.....coeuineiniinaiiaioniinasesinannse...CHARLES FROHMAN CAPITAL $3,000,000! 10 ACRES OF CANVAS! SEATING CAPACITY 20,000! 4 TRAINS! 1000 PEOPLE AND HORSES! Positively the First Big Show to come across the Rocky Mountains with its Entire STINSON AND MERTON, MISSION, 50 CENTS; CHILDREN, 25 CENTS. ‘Will show the principal cities of California in August and September. TIVOLI OPERA-HOUSE Mrs. ERNESTINE KRELING Proprietor & Manages —TO-NIGET— ——LAST TIME—— Flotow's Lyic Opera, “MARTHA” ——TO-MORROW NIGHT— Genee’s Comedy-Opera, “THE ROYAL MIDDY !” Popular Prices—25c and 5 CENTRAL PARK, SUNDAY, AUGUST 11, 2 P, M, HORSE TAMING EXHIBITION. Handling and Driving Wild, Viclous Horses. BASEBALL GAME. OK’S (of Sacrament®) vs. ASSEMBLYS (of 8. F.) BICYCLE RACES For valuable prizes. Admission toall........ ...25 cents. Reserved Seats, 25 cents extra. MACDONOUGH THEATER (OAKLAND). 3 Nights and Wed. Mat., begluning next Tuesday, Daniel Frohman’s Lyceum Theater Co. Tuesday, “The Case of Rebellious Susan”; Wed. HM.,’ ‘The Wife' ‘Wed. E'F n Ideal Hus- band"’; Thur., “The Amazons.” Seats on sale to-day. TWENTY-EIGHTH INDUSTRIAL EXPOSITION MECHANICS' INSTITUTE . Opens August13, Closes Septemberly Special Attractions in_ Manufact peclaly it ‘ana Natural Products. Machinery in Motion Will Be a Promi- nent Feature. Gmflbxsnn! Each Afternoon and Evenin; an Orchestra Atternoon aod Evenlng by of PROF. FRITZ SCHEEL, CONDUCTOR. THE ART GALLERY will contain the Finest Collection of Paintings and Statvary Ever Exhib- ited on this Coast. admission, dsytime, 15¢; evening, Season Tickets to Members of the Institute, rates, Forsale ot Library, 31 Post SUNDAY, AUGUST 11, AT 1:30 P. M., (=] i Aquatie Exhi o R et A WO B SEk St Cooking, Eating, Walking, 2:00 and P. M. % 11:15 A, 2., 1:00, $:00 and 5:00 2. M. COMMENCING SATURDAY EVENIFMy SEPTEMBER 7. m SAN FRANCISCO NINE DAYS! Abtio FRICOLANDER.GOTTLOD & - ATDHATAGERS +++ 5 ageR- | e MO ees-ee.S0l0 Lessee and Manages, ZATTRACTIN > ATTRACTIVES PAVILION EXHIBITS EMBRACING DISPLAY oF ELECTRICAL POWER TRANSMIT TED FROM “HARBORLIGHTS!” MECHANICS’ FAIR TUESDAY, AUGUST 13th OPENTNG EXERCISES AT COLUMBLA THEATER “THE SENATOR.” “BY ORDER OF THE CZAR” ——— G TUSTAVUS LEVICEK. EVENING PRICES—25¢ and 50c; Family Circle and Gallery, 10c. “=0i-OPEIN S~&#- TUESDAY AFTERNOON AT 2 O’CLOCK. CIIN G . GREAT AMERICAN HENEERY BAND FREE TRANSPORT ATIO™ TOR. }XX\\B\‘\'B - BEXcu A" z CVISITORS, F - firmgfim. CM.CHASE | BALDWIN THEATER. |RUNNING RUNNING © SECT! PRES. TO-NIGHT RACES! RACES CONRIED'S GERMAN COMEDY CO,, FROM THE IRVING PLACE THEATER IN NEW YORK, 1In Felix Philippi's Big Sensational Play, WOHLTHACTER DER MENSGHHEIT. (Benefactor of Humanity.) SPLENDID MISE-EN-SCENE. ORIGINAL CAST. Sunday, August 18. Die Orientreise~The Orient Express. PICNICS AND EXCURSIONS. EL CAMPO—EXTRA. CALIFORNIA JOCKEY CLUB RACES, SPRING MEETINGI APT. F. HANSON BAY DISTRICT TRACK. Sy on— Sitting and g, ALL IN THE WATER! Boats leave Tiburon Ferry at 10:30 4. &, 13:1¢ a iesuraing leave il Campo 3t Races Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday—Rain or Shine. Races startat 2:30 sirees cars pass Five or more races each day. P. M. sharp, McAllister and Usuals e thie ga Fare, 35¢, at