The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 24, 1895, Page 18

18 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1895. Are you going to the horse show “Have you been to the horse show 2" will | be the questions that will ve asked oftenest | in the next few days. Seldom hasany event been more talked of than this com- ng exhibit, the second of the kind in San ran 0, but which will likely become in | future one of the prime social func- | 1s of the City. In New York, where *for half a dozeni vears the show has been a regular open- | of the society season every autumn, it | noticed each year it is more popular. | The same result in all probability will | follow here, for our people are more'and | interested im all outdoor life and in | questions of every kind. Then so | many of the smart set will have their own | favorites on exhibit thatone really hears now of no otaer topic. Enthusiasm, too, is so contagious that even when one takes o0 | mor a great deal on the sub- | ject soon spreads the tement abou i, | the horse show, it is safe to ence phesy, will be a great suce: Quite a large number of suppers will be given | ter the horse show performance at the iversity Club, the Palace Hotel and nd’s. s ols p‘q The kettledrum at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. M. H. de Young next Tuesday, | for the benefit of the Polyclinic of San | Francisco, will be one of the brilliant so- cial events of the season. The genial | host and the charming hostess are mas- ters of the gentle art of entertainment, and their guests will be welcomed in royal fashion. The generous action of Mr. and | Mrs. de Young in transforming their | beautiful residence into reception apart- ments in behalf of so worthy a cause calls for the highest praise. The lady patrons ! announce that there will be a continuous | musical and variety entertainment. Tea | will also be served by the young ladies, | and a grand tombola. Tickets can only | be procured from the lady patrons and the medical staff. The affair of the week and season was the Wallace ball, given on Thursday last at National Guard Hall, when Miss Romie Wallace made her debut. It was certainly the most successful ball ever given on the coast. Chrysanthemums were the favorite flowers on the occasion and the gorgeous- ness of the flower in these days surpasses anything in the past. We ask ourseives, When will the flower stop growing, both in beauty and in size, for each year it gets larger and shows greater variety of color? Several weddings of interest will occur this month, and then there will be a cessa- tion for a while of marriage festivities un- til f'ust before Lent, when many couples will decide to keep the penitential weeks as a honeymoon. There seems to be cer- tain times in the year when it is thought good form to marry—just after Easter, early in June and the autumn, as well as before Lent. But this season there has been a perfect rush into the holy estate of mat- rimony. One becomes very skeptical about the hard times once so much talked of. The matches, too, this autumn, with one or two exceptions, have not repre- sented any large amount of wealth on either side — simply dear old-fashioned love marriages, small houses and cunning little fiats. The wedding at Grace Church on Wednes- day of Miss Lfary Franced Breeze to Lieu- tenant Harry Coupland Benson will be a very pretty affair. Miss Eleanor Wood, Miss Ethel Lincoln, Miss Schngdy and Miss Forbes are to be bridesmaids, with Mies Louise Breeze, the bride’s sister, for maid of honor. Thechurch is to be beauti- fully decorated. There will be a wedding breakfast immediately after the ceremony. Yellow wili be the predominant color, and the bridesmaids’ gowns are to be combina- tions of yellow silk and chiffon. Mrs. Breeze gave a dinner on Thursday evenin, last in their honor, to which a number of young people were invited, In regard to wedding days the fashion has quite changed in the East and now decrees that Saturday is the day of all others for the nuptial ceremony. The rhyme, Monday for health, Tuesday for wealth and Wednesday the best day of all, Thursday for losses, Friday for crosses and Saturday no luck at all, is evidently obso- lete, for certainly the brides now laugh at it as an old superstition. e th e This week will be as last, another danc- ing week of this early season, and although leau balls are to be very few, Mrs. allace’s on Thursday evening last for their daughter, Miss Romie, being the first large private entertainment of the kind, the subscription dances are so many this year that two will fall every week, and for those who love it there will be plenty of this kind of amusement. i The day of the debutante is at hand, and her season of delight is fast approaching. She will now be the subject of conversa- tion for some time to come and her sway in the world of fashion has already begun. Ban Francisco never fails to have on hand each year a charming lot of girls who are ready to sustain the City’s reputation for grace and beauty. This year the list presents the names of the most attractive young women, most of whom will be for- mally presented to society at the first meeting of the Monday evening dancing class and Friday Night Club on Monday and Friday evenings next. Some have and will make their debuts at home at tea or reception and are all in a state of great #gitation. Among the debutantes are: Miss Romie Wallace, Miss Mary Kip, Miss | between Mason and Taylor. | Hannah Williams, ss Gertrude Forman, Miss Elna Grave: Ethel ’l'nmpkins,\\[ ss Bertha Foot: Mi: Miss Jessie Hooper, Miss Rose Hooper, Miss Bessie Zane, Miss Moody, Miss Fran- ces C'urrey, Miss Alice Master, Miss G trude Bates, Mi: ve Carolan | Mamie Stubbs, N race Clark, Mi Quita Collier, Miss Louise Harrington. | not & success. These balls taking place in Pioneer Hall | do not seem the same at all as when they | were held at the e Hotel, and every | vear there is a greater contrast to the time when society was smaller and the charity | bail a social event. There will always be a number of well-known people present at | the charity ball, for the managers of the | Woman's Exchange, for which charity the | ball .is given, are fashionable women. | Many of them make a point of being present and inducing theix friends to do so | also, but the larger outside element, who | can get all the ing they subscription danc public ball, and > s stamp of approval set by society generally | on this event. There were very few of the | dancing set present. ! To-morrow wiil be the first meeting of the Monday evening dancing class. They | have changed the place of Ineeting from | Lunt’s Hall to Golden Gate, Sutter street, | Much to the | delight of the men the hours are lately from 8:30 to 12 o’clock. | The patronesses are: Mrs. W. H. Tay- | {rs. James Carolan. Mrs. W. R. Mrs, Southard Hoffman, Mrs, . utt, Mrs. Jerome Lincoln, Mrs, Thomas Breeze, Mrs. Pelham Ames, Mrs. T.C. Van Ness, Mrs. Sidney M. Smith, | Mrs. William M. Gwin, Mrs. George A. | Pope, Mr3, George H. Lent, Mrs. Paul R. Jarboe, Miss Ella Goad and Mrs. W. E. Lester, and who are the principal organ- | 1zers of this class. These Monday evening | dances have been very successful the pass | two years, and there xeems no reason why | there should be any change this season, , although several people who were promi- nent then have dropped out, being either abroad or in mourning. The third meeting of the Friday Fort- nightly Club was held on the evening of the 22d at Lunt’s Hall and was a brilliant and fashionable affair. General dancing was inaugurated at an early hour, and at | 10 o'clock four figures of the german were danced under the leadership ot E. M, Greenway. Refreshments were served about 11:30, and shortly after the party disbanded. 'The reception committee was composed of Mrs. Lloyd Tevis, Mrs. Ira Pierce, Mrs. Blanding and Mrs. Monroe Salisbury There were also present as chaperons Mrs. Jobn S. Hager, Mrs. A. H. Voorhies, Mrs. Davis and Mrs. W. F. McNutt and many others. On Thursday evening last Dr.and Mrs. E. B. Perrin gave a dinner in_honor of their daughter, Mrs. Lee Robinson of Louisville, Ky., at their home on Clay street. In addition to the meswbers of the family were present Samuel Boardman, Mr. Cook and E. M. Greenway. Mrs. Rob- inson will leave in about ten days for her home in Louisville, and will be accom- panied by her sister, Miss Addie Perrin, who will be her guest during the winter. Dr. and_ Mrs. Perrin will winter at the Palace Hotel. Next Saturdav Mrs. Frank M. Wilson and the Misses Masten will give a tea at the Masten residence on Clay street. Miss Rose Hooper will entertain a num- ber of friends at lancheon on Wednesday next at the Occidental Hotel. On Tuesday evening last the marriage of Ernest A. Mehnert and Miss Mamie J. Waters was solempized in Oakland at the homse of the bride’soémrents, the Rev. Mr. Beatty of the Methodist Episcopal Church officiating. The groom is the manager of the Alaska North American Trading Com- pany and the bride is the daughter of Mr. and’ Mrs. Robert Waters. The young couple leit on a wedding tour through the southern counties, after which they will make their home in St. Michael, Alaska. Next Saturday a tea and musicale will be given in aid of the Nursery for Home- less Children at 2118 Pacitic avenue at the residence of Mrs. Asa R. Wells, who has donated the use of her home for the occa- sion. This worthy charity has brought to the front many well-known ladies and gentlemen, who will heartily assist the managers to make this enterprise the success it deserves. There will be dancing in the evening from 8 until 10 o’clock, and refreshments will be served by a bevy of pretty girls. Other entertaining attrac- tions are promised. The Friday Night Club will give the first dance of the series at Odd Fellows’ Hall next Friday evening, the 29th. This will be in the nature of an assemblg dance, as also will be the final one, the three inter- mediate ones being cotillons. Dr. and Mrs. W. L. Dickinson have is- sued invitations for a bal poudre, which is to take place at the Occidental Hotel to- morrow (Monday) evening, and is given in honor of their daughter. care for any | Smedber, . Mo |ent to assist | Biair, | McKinst manager of the Occidental Hotel, left on last Thursday’s steamer for Australia, to be away five or six months. g: Mrs. E. L. Hutchinson has returned to her home on Telegraph avenue, Oakland, from the East, where she has been since August last visiting relatives. A Dr. and Mrs. H. Alfred Potter and Miss e Potter of Australia passed a few weeks with friends in this City and Wednesday last continued their trip to visit relatives in Indiana. > 5 Dr.and Mrs. E. B. Perrin, Miss Perrin and Mrs, A. Lee Robinson have given up their residence at 1935 Clay street and are at the Palace Hotel. ; The Misses Clark of San Jose will return’ to their residence on Broadway this week for the winter season. Yesterday's receptions kept every one busy, but, of course, the greatest crowd col- lected at the Newhall residence, 1206 Post. Fortunately, the house was large enough to accommodate most comfortably the numbers of people who were present. Miss Elma Graves, in whose honor the tea was given and who is one of this season’s debutantes, is a vretty graceful girl and is very bright and attractive. The house was beauntifully decorated with the choicest roses and ferns, and quite a bevy of beautiful girls were pres- the hostess in the duty of receiving her many hundreds of guests. During the reception-hours solid refresh- ments were served. After the reception hours Mr. and Mrs. Newhall gave a dinner to the receiving part Among the ladies who assisted in receiving were Miss Kip, Mary Kip, Miss Ella Hobart, M Taylor, M isch McBean, M s I 53 e Bowie, Miss Tilden, Miss Jennie Miss Henrietta Allen, Miss Mary Bowen, Miss May Friedlander, Miss Lanra Miss Bertha Sinith and Miss Alice Hager. Miss Minnie Houghton gave a tea yes- terday in honor of Mr. und Mrs, Samuel Knight (nee Holbrook) at the Houghton residence, 1414 California street. She was assisted in receiving by Miss Jessie Cole- man, Miss Ella Goodall and Miss O'Connor. o ENGAGEMENTS. Jndge James G. Hayden of Tibnron and Bel- vedere has issued invitations for the marriage of his daughter, Miss Mary E. Hayden, to Jo- seph Collins. The marriage ceremony will be held at high noon at St. Mary’s Cathedral on Wednesday next. The bride-elect s one of the most promising and popular young ladies of Marin County, and the groom 1s generally known in this City. He is the nephew of the late ex-Supervisor Loberts, & well-known capitalist, and the assistant superintendent of >rfl5xinu B, the principal branch of the Post- office. Edna Marguerite Harley wll be the flower girl and bearer of the wedding ring. Miss Hayden, sister of the bride, and Post- tress of Tiburon and Belvede maid of homor. Miss Etta Bender will be bridesmaid. and James Emmett Hayden will &ct as best man. The ushers will be Charles R. Heverin, M. J. Prendergast and J. P. Bride. The reception which will follow at Mrs. W, Bender’s house at the Mission will be ex- clusively confined to jhe relatives of the con- tracting parties in cohsequence of the recent demise of the grandfather of Miss Hayden, Michael Heverin, the well-known pioneer. nnouncement is made of the engagement of Miss Agnes P. Briggs, daughter of Edgar Briggs, & pioneer of this State, to Dr. G. | Brackett of this City. The wedding will 1ake place December 18. THE RIVERS-ADAM WEDDING. The most brilliant wedding witnessed in Hayes Valley for years was solemnized at sacred Heart Chureh last Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock, when Catherine Adam became the wife of T. W. Rivers of the firm of Rivers Brothers. The church was crowded with guests, among them being several promiment people of San Francisco. The chancel was ap- propriately decorated for the occasion, and the music was especiaily impressive. The bride was gowned in a beautiful creation of changeebie heliotrope and duchess lace, with earl trimmi The groom, attended by his rother, C. C. Rivers, met and received her at hancel. The cefemony was performed by ev. Father Flood, assisted by Fathers McCue, O'Brien and Dillon. After the wedding the bridal party and guests sat down to a sumptuous wedding din- uer prepared by Caterer Ludwig. Among those present were: Miss Mary Adam, Misses Anna and Gertrude Rivers, Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Rivers, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Holland, Mrs. E. Galvin, Mrs. B. McCarthy, Mr. and Mrs. T. Murphy and family, Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Herman, Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Baughman, Colonel ana Mrs. Thomas F. Barry, Judge ahd Mrs. M. Cooney ter, Harry Rivers, Mr. and Mrs. r. and Mrs. Thomas Ashworth, Dr. Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Donne. T cCulloch, Thornton Kibbe, Miss E. PMcCulloch, Miss H. Galvin, J. Satch well, Dr. A. Maguire, Mrs, J. Quinn and the oflichtm'f clergyman, Mr. and Mrs. Rivers took the afternoon train for Corosado for an - extended honeymoon trip, after which they will reside at their own residence at 814 Hayes street. PRIVATE GATHERINGS. A delightfu) party given by Mrs, Hesthal on Wednesday evening at Beethoven Hall in Hotel Savoy. Shortly after 12 o’clock an elab- orate supper was served in the hotel dining- room, which was beautifully decorated with smilax and chrysanthemums. Dancing was continued until & late hour by the guests and iheir invited friends, Huber’s orchestra fur- nishing excellent music. A very pleasant plnr was given last Satur- day evemng by Mrs. H. R. Carles at her resi- dence 120 Twenty-sixth street, corner of Capp, in honor of the anniversary of her Dbirthday. A large number of friends from Oakland and Alam¥da attended. In the early part of the evening some pretty vocal and instrumental s0los were rendered by Messrs. I. Sproston, L R. Carles, R. Leavenworth, W. Price, James B. Brown, Miss Cohen, followed by dancing and games, until late hour, when & sumptu- oussupper was enjoyed by al Among those present wes Mr. and Mrs. John Rogers, Mr. and Mrs. F. Oelrich, Mr. and Mrs. Oeblish, Miss Jacobsor, Mr. and’ Mrs. W, Price, Mr. and Mrs. E. Murphy, Mr. and Mrs. Peterson, Miss Minnie Moore, Mrs. Newman, , will be Yeuurdxiv afternoon a tea was given by Mrs. John I. S8abin at her residence, 2828 California street. Mrs. W. I. Kip entertained a large num- ber of friends on Tuesday afternoen at a tea at her residence on Eddy and Franklin streets, in compliment to her daughter, Miss Mar,v Kip. Mrs. and Miss Kip were assisted in receiving YV Miss Juliet Wil- liams, Miss Hannah Williams, Miss Mary Belle Gwin, Miss Louisa Breeze, Miss Frances Curry, Miss Elma Graves and Miss Mary Mercado. Mrs. Eemi Chabot and her daughters, who have been visiting in Oregon an ‘Washington, returned to their home in Oakland last week. Colonel and Mrs. E. E. Eyre, Miss Eyre and Robert M. Eyre will close their Menlo Park residence on December 1, and will :eplend about two months at the Palace Ho- i Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Eyre will spend the winter in this City. They have taken up their residence at 2312 Clay street. Mrs. A. Andrews, wife of Colonel An- drews, will leave for New Orleans next week, where she will spend the winter. Selden 8. Hooper, son of Major Hooper, Mrs. McNeill, James B. Brown, R. Leaven: worth, Mr. and Mrs. Kingle, Mr. and Mrs. A. Rogers, Mr. and Mrs. Cohen, Mr. and Mrs. Nor- rington, proston, Mr. and Mrs. Drewes, Mrs. Moore, Mr. and Mrs, W. Harison, William and Albert Newman, Miss Minnie Brown, Joseph and Eugene Carles, Miss Adelaide Carles. A very enjoyable party was held at the resi- dence of Arthur T. Gee on McAllister street last Wednesday evening. spent with music, music was renderes The evening was ames and singing. ~ The by the Friday Evening ' Musicale, and some charming selections were Eiven. There were also 8 number of songs. he soloists were Fred Gee and Miss Delia Haake. At midnight an elegant supper was served h[y Mrs. Gee. Among_ those present were: Mrs. Tilton, Richard Leonhardt, Mr. Doran, Mr. Barrett, Miss Fallon, Miss A. Leon- dt, A. T. Gee, Miss Dm{‘Huke, Miss Delia Haake, Miss m}r Haake, Miss Spencer, Miss Hickman, Miss Harrington, Mr. Clarkson, Miss Guedette, Miss M. Leonhardt, Miss E. Gee, Fred B. Gee, G. Haines, Mr. Wiley, Dr, Winter and many others. . Miss Annie Windeler was tendered a surprise party on the 17th inst. in honor of her eigh- ieenth birthday, by her associating friends. The evening was a most successful one, being smgd in singing and speaking. After a most elicious supper, which was not expected, and were: Miss Lonisa Bamman, Miss Emma Bruns, the Misses Minnie and Annie Bamman, Miss Emma Roschcorb, Miss Alma Wieboldt, the Misses Meta and Edith Windeler, Miss An- nie Schwartz, Miss Anna Wust, Miss Bertha Vortman; Messrs, William Remensperger, Ed Ritter, Willlam Wieboldt, Gus Ritter, john Ritter, Fritz Huber, Eggert Peters, William Holsten, William Krahn, Henry Bucking, Au- ust Meyer, Carl Geilfus, William Ste; 8 enry Schwartz, Henry Windeler, Dick Wul- ¢hen, Heary Bonneman, Louis Ritter and Will Windeler. CLUB PARTIES. The Welcome Social Club gave 8 successful and well-attended masquerade ball at Califor- nia Hall last Tuesday evening, the 19th inst. The grand march, in which 150 couples par- ticiputed, was led by the fioor manager, Mr. Adolph Gudehus,and his sister, Miss Addie Gudehus. The floor committee consisted of Messrs. Keyser, Westphai and Holmes. The club will inaugurate the New Year by givinga leap-year party gt the same hall on the even- ing of January 16, ° A surprise party. was tendered to Martin J, Murphy by his many friends at Bersagalieri . Hall, 608 Union street. on Saturday evening, November 16. The ball was handsomely decorated. Those present enjoyed themselves with singing and dancing until 1 o’clock.when luncheon was served. M. J. Hodge acted as toastmaker. After leaving the table the guests assembled in the darcehall, whereJ. J. Hillard sang a song, followed by M. J. Hodge, George Glover, Joseph A. Murphy, and Maxziin J. Mur- EhY: \Those present were: Miss May IHillard, igs Maggie McIntyre, Miss Katé Sullivan, Miss Maloney, Miss Mamie Manning, Miss Annie Blakey, Miss Nora A. Ryan, Miss A. Woodman, Miss £. Herbert, Mrs. M. Jackson, Mr.and Mrs. Ryan, Miss M. Coyle, Miss Rose"Carlan, Mrs. Smith, Mrs. George Ryan, Mrs. Anderson, Miss N. Pal, Miss A. Marinj, Miss K. Marini, Miss Amanda Werner, Miss ‘May Quirk, Miss ‘Lena Schellenberger, Miss R. Schellenberger, H. Schellenberger, Mrs. and Mrs. A, J. Glover, Miss Lena Schlitter, George Glover, Miss Anple Tannian, Miss Mamie Tannjan, Miss Addie Godkin, Miss A. Lavin, Miss Jeffers, Miss M. Dillin, M. J. Hodge, T. B. Hillard, T. J. O'Brien, Samuel Sullivan, T. W. Loner- gan, Mr. and Mrs. Jnaegh A. Murphy, Joseph A, Mm?hy Jr., Professor John_Quirk,J. J, Hil- lard, Miss May Lowney, Miss Nora Meyers, Mrs. C. Mevers, Mrs. H. Peterson, Miss May Cuneo, Miss Annie Morelli, Miss Jean Ryan, Professor James Hearty, Mr, White, Mr. and Mrs. M Rhiy, Miss Kate I, Murphy, Miss May Muzphy, tartin_J. MurKhy, Thomas R. Murphy, Miss Lizzie Smith, Charles A. Riley, H. Iberg, George . Mur- Woods, J. J. Corbett, Mr. and Mrs. M. J. White, Robert Luhman, Charles A. Bizlon, Eugene 3 J.P.L James Hale, John F. Hale, Con. E. Manning, Richard 0'Claire, George A. Bardet and David J. Earle. 8 The party was under the management of J. J. Hillard and D. J. Earle. A pretty incident was witnessed at the Hotel del Coronado swimming tanks at Coronado Beach the other morning. A lady whose name attaches to literature in the current magazines was an interested spectator as the plump and yollngm‘t pet of the bathhouse swam salone with bold strokes, Little Chubbins Healy, the daughter of wealthy Cincinnatians who now reside at Coronado, celebrated her fifth birth- day anniversary by making her way unaided across the big tank, and her swimming master classes her as one of the youngest proficient swimmers on record. Thé literary lady at once conceived the idea that Miss Chubbins, properly pictured and described, would make & charming sketeh for juvenile readers. So the little girl’s photograph was begged and her {umm-iemvy recorded, and some day it may all be read in the pages of the “Youth’s Com- panion’” or “Harper’s Round Table.” HAD I BUT ENOWN. BY SAIDER LOUISE GERARD, 0, tender, loving heart that loved me so, And whose love T accepted 10ug 420, As does & King accept the homage paid By 10wly subject! O, sweet, gentle maid, ‘Whose love 1 counted as a thing so light! Not dreaming of the breadth and depth and height Of love as pure, unselfish, true as thine; A love that now I realize divine. Ah me! T little recked then what such loving meant, My heart knows now that it was heaven sent. O, little heart! O, careless, thoughtless 1! I glanced & moment at the priceless gem, and passed it by. Only the present lives, the futurs is unborn, the past is dead: And now o'er me kind Fortune's beams are shed, FFor wealth surrounds me, and at my right hand Fame and her sister, Honor, smiling stand. Oh! sweet the'r radiant eyes that look in mine, And sweet their words, *“We are forever thine!” Ab, me! not Fame and Honor, not wealth the n G, standing all that's mine my life seems empty still ! And when with Memory T sit down and we ner searchlight throw On the past till it brings ont clear and sharp the days of long ago, A cry goes up from the depths of my soul, and with ail I have T would part— Yes, 'd give upull once more to hold thy love, O tender heart! THE FUTURE. Mrs. Asa R. Wells has generously volun- teered the use of her elegant home, 2118 Pa- cific avenue, for a tea and musicale to be given in aid of the Nursery for Homeless Children on Saturday, November 30. A number of ladies and gentlemen well known in society circles will assist in this good cause and help to make & most interesting programme during the hoursof 3t0 10 ». M. Young folks can amuse themseives in the dance hell from 8 til110. A bev?' of charming young girls will serve re- freshments atd help to brighten the joyful scene. Further announcements will be made later on. The Franklins, Company D, First Regiment, N. G. C., will give their annual complimentary reception and ball on Wednesday evening, November 27, at their armory, 1527 Market street, - One of the most notable events of the near future in the social world, and which for the past few weeks has been the chief topic of in- terest in society circles, Is the german to be iven by the Quarterly Cotillion Club in the aple room of the Palece on December 13. It is known that on that evening several de- butantes will make their first Sppesiante tin society, and they certainly will do so under the most favorable circumstances, as the club is exemngmuch energy to make the affair a success. Twenty-four of our prominent society people will lead in the first set, introduein some new and effective figures. The limite capacity of the Maple room has made it neces- sary to limit the invitations. Society has been preparing for some time for the event, and many most handsome gowns will be worn to grace the occasion, Bay City Parlor No. 104 is making extensive preparations for its complimentary ball to take place on Friday evening, January 6, 1896, in Armory Hall. Dancing to be followed by en elaborate supper. Invitations, which will shortly be issued, call for strictly full dress. The laaies of tne First English Lutheran Church serve a fine hot chicken lunch on Wednesday and Thursday, December 4 and 5, from 1 A. M. to 2 P, M., at the hall formerly occupied by the Y. M. C. A., 232 Sutter street. These ladies always give excellent luncheons and it is hoped that the convenient location will induce a large patronage. PERSONALS. Among those registered at Paso Robles are George Carroll and wife and Mrs. W. Kelly of San Franeisco. E. P. Colgan, Controller of State, and wife, will spend the winter at Paso Robles: Mrs. Mary P. Lloyd and Robert H. Delfield are still at Paso Robles. Mr. and Mrs, Jonn Lee Jr. of 614 Steiner strect will leaye on the 23d inst. for Fresno, where they will spend a couple of weeks on the ranch of Mr. Lee’s father. Colone and Mrs. Samuel D, Mayer are lo- cated at the Wenban, corner Sutter and Mason streets, for the winter. o Mrs. F. H. Stahle, wife ot Dr.F. H. Stahle, superintendent of the City and County Hospi- tal, who met with a_severe accident while out driving with her husband, is convalescing slowly. Dr. Morse and Dr. Sharpe of the Ger- man Hospital are the attending physioil Dr. and Mrs. W. L. Dickinson will roudre at the Occidental Hotel Monday even- ng, the 25th inst., in honor of their daughter Thama. Mrs. Allan Manvel and Miss Manvel of Chi- c-%o are still enjoying life at Hotel del Coro- nado. . P. Dorsey and wife of Grass Valley have been down to Coronado the past week. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Luning and sonof Oak- land have been at Hotel del Chronao lor“-l month past. They propose remaining uni after the holidays, o Mr. and Mrs, J. C. Hampton of Oakland went to Coronado early in the week. Mrs. K. H. Wade is still oocu%yin Casa Abara, her home at Coronado Beach. Mrs, E, C. Bumpus of Boston 1s visiting her m;:‘n:r, Morris Upham Bates, at 403 Clayton Mrs. Leon Bories of Portiand, Or., accom- &lnled by her daughter, is visiting her mother, rs. Silverstone, and will be pleased to see her friends at 1922 Ellis street. Mrs, Jacob Heyman will receive the third :z:ient‘udny ©of each month at 2705 California Miss Clara Heyman will receive the second Wednesday of each month et 2705 California street. b e e An indignant Baboo objects to “the bloody massacre that took place this year in the battlefield -of the High Court ex- aminations, in which thousands of healthy, short-sighted, weak-brained, cod- liver oil and Fellowes’ syrup drunkards are sufferers.” The Craving for Novelty a Characteristic of Life in New York. OPERAS WILL GO ON TOUR. The Season’s Dances—Death of the German Cotillon and Return of the Quadrille. NEW YORK, N. Y., Nov. 2L.—“What is the peculiar characteristic of the New Yorker, man or woman, if he has any?” a newly arrived foreigner asked me at the Lotos Club a few evenings since, and I promptly answered, *The craving fornov- elty and sensation.” And having that idea in mind it was which years ago tempted Joseph Pulitzer here to well- found anew the World then fairly found- ered by Scott, Gould, Hurlbert & Co., and which has recently tempted the scholarly journalistic millionaire, Hearst of the San L‘rancisco Examiner, to pour his income upon the journal founded by another Pulitzer. # Herein the New Yorker differs from every other metropolitan in our land. Your Bostonian, for instance, takes novelty leisurely—not so leisurely, however, as a Briton—and he absorbs sensation gently. Your _ Philadelphian does not exactly ‘“cravé” novelty, but he relishes it as a gour- mand relishes a bonne bouche after dessert. Your Baltimorean quizzes novelty. Your Washingtonian boasts of supplying it. Your Cincinnatian—very natty of late, too—doesn’t crave it, either, but hg can di- gest it. Chicago emulates New York and Washington in both craving and supply- ing novelty and sensation, so that of late New York has in that respect grown jeal- ous of the lake city. Just now New York craves novelty without temporarily getting it. Autumn opened with an embarras de richesse of it. Was there not a ducal flit- ting to and fro and a ducal wedding (sand- wiched with a brace of society divorces); then an exciting election_battle between the Republican eagle, the Democratic star tiger and the factional rooster; next another trans-Atlantic wedding between the younger son of an English peer and the daughter of a peerless statesman (Whitney); again a portrait show and a society fashion bazaar, mis- named a horse show; succeeded by a cattle show, where a Governor—Moarton— emulated Queen Victoria’s favorite role of taking vprizes for milch cows and for woolly mothers of the little lambs of Brit- ish Marys. True, we have the opera, with some show of novelty in scores of perform- ers; but that is an expensive sensafion, and New York is growing economical lately in its cravings. 2 My tourist friend was a medical man, who came over to investigate the high air of Colorado, our hot springs and the Floridian Riviera; thinking that his pa- tients were weary of European health re- sorts; so that, hearing my frank and per- haps unpatriotic criticism of my metropo- lis, he responded, “What a_lot of fever- ishness, nervousness, hysteria and brain disorders there must be here for my pro- fessional brethren to look after.” He was right, and Dr. Pardee, a fellow club mem- ber—dean of the medical university—soon joining in the conversation, remarked, ‘It is this feverish characteristic of the New Yorker which stamps the word ‘nerves.’ There is more folly to be shot as it flies in New York in one week than in any other city during a month; and more gos- sip afloat in it than twenty interior Yan- kee villages can furnish. Buf detachments from the very large opera troupes of the experienced ~ impressario Grau and the ubiquitous and enterprising Abbey, as- sisted by the lustrous-eyed Marcus Mayer, will ere long visit the cities and places where this epistle is read, and therefore their performances make suitable topics. After preludes and prefaces of music the magical fingers and well-thatched brain of Paderewski—whom the Eastsiders of Irishmen insist upon calling Paddy Roosekee—and from the violin of close- cropped stunted Frenchmsn Marsac, the opera season opened, and began with “Y{omeo and Juliet” in French (but what matter, for music has its own language), and introduced a bit of carved novelty in the Capulet heroine of Mme. Saville, a new soprano comer, with Jean de Reszke, as the hapless Montague. The singing was so excellent and the orches- { tration so perfect that there were mo- ments during the performance when the buzz of conversation in the boxes fairly ceased. Memorandum: Opera-boxes m New York are grnctinlly devoted to social receptions, and listening to the perform- | ance is only an_incident. Moreover, half the occupants of the stalls practice their lorgnettes more upon the belles and matrons and toilets in the boxes than upon the performers, unless by some hlppg accident a fresh and pretty face or two should have been injected into the time-worn chorus by way of counter-at- traction. The second bpera night brought Calve, New York’s pet, as Carmen. No craving for novelty in that; but then even a New Yorker doesn’t object to a second help of terrapin soup or of the breast of a canvasback duck. I forgot to add that there was novelty in the Romeo opera through _the apgeannca of a bright young lady who has had the good taste not to Italianize her name—thereby fol- lowing the example of Ohio, Cleveland’s contributior_to the ranks of prima aonna- dom, Ella Russell—and she accordingly sang as a page under her baptismal cog- nomen of Clara_FKunt—a native of cold Northern New York, where her sweet though not strong voice was never frosted. My memory can only recall the stage lady of that prosaic yet sportive name, and she was an Knglish actress of years ago at the old Knickerbocker Park Theater apout the time Dickens had in it a reception ball. But our real operatic novelty comes in a few evenings with the presentation of “Tristan and Isolde,” with a Swedish compatriot of Jenny Lind or Nilsson in it, named Marie Brema, as the heroine, and the aforesaid masher tenor again as the hero. How time and Wagner have conquered New Yorkers. Irecall the first evening in the long ago, when the man of Bayreuth’s music was first heard in this city; while the auditors accustomed to Rossini, Auber and Donizetti listened wonderingly at what they deemed a jargon of sounds— reed, striug and brass running a confused tempo race—and when the critics all went to their editorial dens to sneeringly write, “This may be the music of the future, but we hope that future is very dis- tant.” The veteran Capoul is again on the programme, and he has a younger competitor in M. Lubert, who is one of the sweetest tenors that my memory holds a comparison of. Nordica, who never had the sad pleasure of burying her husband, is again in the troupe, with Maurel, whom other cities know, both of them singing for 1250 apiece at the ‘Whitney wedding. That myth called society promises soon to begin its dancing season and bring the old-fashioned quadrilles again into vogue. 1t is time that the old sociable quadrille replaced the tortuous german—begging pardon of fashion and good form, for that name is now cotillon. "It was that dance which jilted years ago the polka, and now its own turn has come to be jilted. I was present at the first ball, in my college days, at which the polka was danced in this country. It was given at the Parker Mansion, afterward the Manhattan Club- house, on upper Fifth avenue. Fancy now upper Fifth avenue ever be- ing at Fifteenth street. . The figure was then called pulka, mean- ing a.short-step dance. Park Benjamin, then a local poet, sharing that distinction with Poe, Willis, Halleck and Bryant in society, was present as a wall-flower. He had a deformed foot like Bryant, and like the latter was fond of being a looker-on at WHAT IS NEW IN GOTHAM. balls, and without a spark of jealousy. Nor had Byron_ that green-eyed. monster, for although incapable of ~waltzing he wrote the only Iyric on the waltz which | literature knoweth. Benjamin was then editing ans evening paper named the'Sig- nal, and on the next day appeared a poem on the pulka, from which I recall these lines: Pulka, pulka, pray how came ? T've asked ten dandies and the ton qon't know. One reason for the disappearance of the german or cotillon is that the old regime of leaders here is falling through years and corpulence; and that the new young men of the period are too lazy to fully learn and direct its intricacies. To this dny_Llspe_nard Stewart, who, although a! semi-millionaire, is a hard-working ournalist and has been a conspicuous egislator, is pointed outin the park and at the opera as *‘that lovely man who used to lead the german.” Such is fame. A?— other reason why this dance is destinéd to exile is its expense. I have attended private balls ‘where the favors _dis- tributed cost thousands of dolflars. Yes, our society is getting v eco- nomical. For the first time has been introduced this year in the opera- house the London fashion at Covent Gar- den of sharing purchased boxes on differ- ing nights. Indeed, I do not despair of seeing the Virginia reel brought into favor at the Patriarchs or charity ball. And if it should be, then Ward McAllister’s ad- mirers will actually rejoice that he did not live to see the vulgar quadrille and reel of his youth revived nmonihu heretical Four liundmi‘ Are we to have a conservative fin de siecle? The prominence of the Whitney wed- ding so soon after the election results bad struck a signal blow at Democracy re- vived the question whether the father of the bride would become a Presidential candidate. I have it from one of his most intimate friends, whatever ex-Secretary Whitney’s views may have. been before Maryland, Kentucky, Iowa and New Jer- sey deserted the colors which he flies, that he is certainly no candidate now. ‘“He does not,” said this friend, ‘‘intend to waste his chances and his money as sweetness on the desert air. He is, as beretofore, for Cleveland, and his inti- macy with Editor Bennett, with whom he 1s in constant correspondence, doubtless dictated the cable message ifrom Paris that in the Herald astomished the poli- ticians not long ago, commanding an edi- torial in favor of a third term. The Her- ald’s inconsistency is consistent with its ‘history, for was it not in 1876 that it daily berated a third term for Grant as Ces- sarism ? Mr. Whitney is cautiously shrewd. He was so as a lawyer. When District Attorney, in my fourth term, he had his first law case with me, in defending a newspaper proprietor against an indic ment for false pretenses. He had only been then admitted a month on his Boston diploma. The then Recorder, a very brusque judge, in_interrunting @ novel but puzzling proposition made by young Whi ney (and he looked very boyish and dandi- | fied), said to me in what he presumed to be sotto voce over the bar, “Whois this man?”’ But the Recorder was a son of | the great Falstaff actor Hackett, and had inherited his sire’s deep stage voice, so that Whitney heard the observation. Straightening himself proudly he said: “If your Honor Elease, 1 am as you are, an officer of this court—my name is ‘Whitney—a member lately of the Boston bar and a graduate of the Harvard Law School.” ~ Whitney succeeded in his motion, and as accident produced it bought soon afterward a residence adjoining that of the Recorder, in Park avenue, where the two became hobnobbers; for the Judge respected courage and presence of mind. Whitney then dashed Into Tam- many politics, in time became Corporation Counsel and a municipalist, and after- | ward, having become, first officially and | next personally, intimate with Grover Cleveland, became President Cleveland’s Secretary of the Navy. The political friend referred to—a practiced Democratic politician—also believed that Whitney, get- ting New York delegates and becoming one, would kill off all State competitors and nominate Cleveland as he did the last time. ' “That may be the case of pro- cedure, also,” concluded the politician, “in the Republican Convention, w}mrt‘.1 Reed, Quay, McKinley, Allison, etc., may ki?l e'ngl otyfier off, a fall back on_Fiarri- son, with the two other duels of the Pal-_ lots all over again.” New Yor:n:vn never more full of stran, and visitors_than it is at pres- enr. ~And although New York has be- come like Pgris, a metropolis, more of nofils and apartment-houses than of resi- dences, these are insufficient to accommo- date all incursionists on its hospital- ity. And yet nearly every block be- tween Bleecker (or First) street and One Hundred and ,Twenty-fifth street, upon one avenu¢ or another, con- tains a hotel or a ten-story apartment- house. Some of these hotels are very motable, and the peculiarity to them is that each one seems to have an_especial local clientele. Thus, old Bostonians rush to the ancient Astor House, which in architecture is a replica of their torn down Premont, and the younger Bostonian af- fects ;the. Stewari Hotel—named after the late A. T.—and .now kept by the boniface who last kept that same Tremont. Phila- delphians affect tne Fifth-avenue Hotel; Southerners the Hoffman; Westerners the ‘Waldori, Holland House, Plaza and Savoy or New Netherlands, or the Hotel Empire, which is probably the largest and most commanding hotel building in the world, and therefore well named. It is owned and run by William Noble, who realizes Pope’s lines: i Who Noble is may laugh to scorn y The man who is but nobly born. ! Mr. Nobleisa man of great affairs, for he has another hotel—more of a family one —named the Grenoble—a species of inci- dental pun upon bis own name, and is pro- rietor of the one-cent daily newspaper, the ercury, which, since he bought it, has trebled its old Democratic circulation. And there ‘is #ven room yet for more hotels, and especially for one that shall be open all night, precisely as in the daytime, for those guests who arrive by sleeping- cars, and ‘who will find the halls lighted, the elevator runnm%. the s}upg)er-ropm ready at call, with fresh night service, whereby the arriving guest will lose that wretched feeling which he has now when he enters a gloomy, dimly lighted corri- dor, finds no appearance of welcome, and can get neither bite nor drink, but must go to bed hungry on ice water. Sucha hotel that will turn night into day with equal comforts can soon be made a go, notwithstanding the present competition. What enterprising outsider will try the lan ? , 2 New York, like Paris is 'to Europe, has become a World’s Fair in itself toward the whole United States. It is the landing place for Europeans, who are finding that westward the star of tourist empire should take its way; and therefore New York also sustains West and South with traveler food for all their joint subsequent profit. The Western lakes and mountains, the natural wonders thereabouts displayed— rander than even Europe can boast—the %acific Coast, the Southern climate, the enterprise of Western cities, areall attract- ing old country tourists, and in time will cure our own people of the glamor which past ages and antiquity threw over attrac- tions across the water. The now land-renowned young Duke has gone over the water. To this day survives a Flemish and French song of the era of tbe first fighting Duke, known as begin- ning ‘“Malbrook va t’eu guerre,” and trans- lated into the English of the period and then sung, along with “Rule Britannia,” in the theaters and coffee-houses of Lon- don, as ‘“‘Malbrook has come over the water.”” The tune survives to the merry chorus heard at post-prandials, when the sober and the li&)sy join in howling ‘For he'sa jolly good fellow, which nobody can deny.”” There is current at the Lotos Club now a parody of the original song, and the parody is accredited to the pencil of Mem- ber Chandos Fulton, as traced on the back of a dinner menu, as follows: Malbrook came over the water To wed an heiress grand; He captured a Vanderbilt daughter To take to his native land. 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