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The be ¥ 1 2 SUNDAY CALL. i 1 &= B SRl — — quarters They were bix and gray then, just as wound around in a sort of corkccrew phan asylums of the city. The large B, We they are now, men used to sit in the style, and th ion-room, on the f dining-room was in R I=T o /= AT T O L, Wel lobbles and watch passing furbelows floor t at the landing, soon becama \ «\/ /=l | € P S Lawto the st as they do now. Those hotels rendezvous of thosew \WAY/ P N N | S \ i it Q : n little Bohemian, don't e Ban Francls- wn private gas bilis »r, who goes to t his own and r ft—sometimes busies her own Their ¢ of sight or stand w g0od feal that g San Francisco As far back as ere we had s have Alsap- Ancade were on the south- Sansome streets ~ rters the army and e ™ , the junction of b " The inconvenlenos ot A 2t a Alstance of Aty feat thr Rl perhaps the charms of hearing a Was more T z the etirr s of the Vigi- lenc was the home Itam 7. Coleman e presifent—a strikingly bandsome m e 2 seat at the hend of ? es in the Ain- ing n proximity could be & Seer saac Bluxome, with ot ' f the guests at the hot TS, Jewett, the well- o Sllow rs 53 the man who eb. “ B 2% o Amor oarders of this hotel v ~ . family M- @ Mre F Mrs k Ogd M - Gov- m Alvord Phil h such as a dwelling ar. The ing with 1 the equally frequently used e ladies of the ces, and some nS were also held er the large Mrs. W €lped to enter- There were some 1 the daughter Tony Pollard (now Miss Liily Hitch- Dewey took leading parts, and there was a fancy dress ball £iven on the = ? Lilly Hitcheock's eixtéenth A is sald that Lilly eppeared as either Morning, no- ol s . er which; but at any rate s charming The International was less formal, and 1t ¥ citfes that have gone kfast table pre- pented e One of the permar lers sometimes appeared at meal yed in a semi-decollets mond necklaece, s ad. lib, while seen a quiet calico gown One of the e nal was the late Hon. ' John F. Swift. then a gay 1 was his invariable f to and consume a Iberal glice of ple while walting for his S0up to be brought to him at dinner. The cust of those days was to have the table et with fru't and ples, meats and vegetables being brought to one as order- ed. Colonel end Mrs. Swords, 1. 8. A., made the Inleroational thelr head- v nan Hc Among t} - P. C. Landers, George McMul near Jackso Tow 4ol Judge rang up in thesixties and offered Hitchcock come « d span accommodations to travel- self expressed it, ers and residents were the American Ex- and keep my change, the Russ, the Lick, the Occiden- Occidental that the celebrated ball was der the m tal and the Cosmopolitan. To the Oriental given by G ’ 3 succeeded the Occidental as the fasilon- Dowell in Jan able hotel of the city., When opened In John F. Swift in his 1863 it occupied about a third of the spaca it now does on the corner of Bush and ned hotel life be- Montgomery, the rest being added whea n lignified outside. the ground leases fell in, in the spring of Admiral Pearson and the officers of the were s up in this 157, Lancaster 3 In the beginning its principal stairs ade ball. Av Mrs. Irwin a numbe there. Mr. and talized I stlands were her permar M Mrs. Chainshot. Th the subscri and the masquer- street Robert Great- family occupled roc and b i y\,wh‘ amail e A e SR A . A Ball at the Cosmonolitan In the Good Old Davs. gement of J. H of prominen ms on me Mor snable promer lock of the - o Harde Hort the corner cDowells appearing therein Pine and Montgomery streets and at t e, other end of the long hall on ball to the rooms of Dr. \\\» opened w7 ’RI A \V7 N ! Y { \W AV J \ 7\ AN A NS WY 5 8 was no unt st r the hotel at L 1 r Bush or Ptn and & the hall on the floor v rathor sot 1 ia he 1.4 under the geme ten and among those who r hat h their h g0 He AT r. Miss a Lyons: Mr v r o) W. Leonar ¥ . of San r-tn-hand afterward and Mrs. Jim as one of the finest In tt and it was fre Banuets 48 1} » g ception 2 Hughes, for merly Betty Jones, w R low, N Grand and anecdote 1s re pald San Francis was_young Laird build of a vens Lord berry and others. M Ing at a tion, gty guests brother Robbers Read Society Notes It has been long a matter of wonder how thieves le Jewels are most val to make profitable raids efth ing. porches or b 1 The secret, how been discovered that by f the w studious readers of the soclety columns ot has got to do,” said a ternity rece sonal the r outings Ha 1s then nces that he 2, or only & serv; “Ther: to get th house d emooth tr not finding ask perm note, and much as a « Then he wil get him a will do it to oblige ‘suc tleman.' Meant!me the easant gent man’ will quletly slide several pleces of valuable bri rac into his pock into his vallse. if he is foxy enou carry one With him to carry out hig pre- tense that he Is an old friend of the fam ilv just arrived in the ¢l unexpectedly.” ant to ki ..and the serva ant 1 ple