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THE SUNDAY CALL $ FIRST SWELL SUMMER RESORT ANECDOTES - AND EMORIES OF THE VACATION PEQELE N THE DAYS OF GOLD. st ALFRED GODEFFR®Y S | AINGS? visit the ranches, but a trip to the sprinks : ‘ways sacred music. Miss Lucy Gwin (0w young officers to help keep the ball rolling e sounded b letters “back East.” Mrs. E. J. Coleman), Mrs. George Guth- VAR Howeve did not betake jtself rie and Douglas Saunders led the hymns Southern element prevailed in soc 5 . b = s erely because They werc beautiful Sabbaths and very ¢ those days, and the guests I “ e Mitih was king different from those of to-day at the sum- were usuall " o = A ek mer resorts. 1 ancestry ¢ te w s a ? rit of £ood comradeship Among the yearly guests at White Sul- was a$ warm and balmy as . . InSRaS phur during the heyday of its reign were 2 Thie ook ks fecae ¢ : o : B 5 BINET RS 15 18 Mrs, Gwin and Miss Lucy nd ¢ San Francisco, lived ; ge of ' “ t drawn so fine 4 Mrs. R. J.-Vandewater, i efface ki and “every ™MPRS ANNIE % 4 @nd Mrs. Haven, Goverr Irs. John L k The were no RAN@DM 4 . + 3, Mr. rd Brews 0 ” Quafm were wo fifty : Mis Miss 8 1ge, 2 s # 5 to the springs Murphy 2 cong < ) s little steamer an, Mis e - » ’ r inder charge of Captain ¥ Crockett and 3 S hecke Kt <'far as Napa and the de- mor stalked the decks. bay and then s Mrs, C. I an to turn A followed Creek to Addie Mills was the acknowledge the tc M. ss Mollie Creed (M reTagiey -sbertiany s g E er a bowling alley, shooting—before the heat ©of Mare Island navy yard before tne war F. Low). Mrs. A. G. Abell, Mre. J. H. Greenway at his best never wicided i ar of summer dried up the watercourses— and with his winsome wife was a yearly Redington, Miss Rosa Gore and ter half.so powerful. An affair without departed on the though the rommand to “&it well to the riding and driving. After dinner the chairs Visitor at White Sulphur Springs. The others. Billy Botts was flatter than an egg with- thankec . i right or left,” ‘as the caze might be, made Aand tables were pushed back, the violinist commodore could cut-Chesterfield eau Among the beaux were ¥ out salt. He was always gay 1 deb A e heart two-step. 1d harpist mounted a table, and presto, and was extremely fond of “who as the owner o air, a tireless dancer and an accom- the com- o stage I the hotel ange! A ballroom was made while you dancing the minuet and courtly waltzes, open bUggy was a gre: with tbe plished diner-out sadd ttan. 7 were always th waited. Saturday night the great which he danced with all ceremony, hold- ladies; John Wise, Geor en masse, to zreet the hether aboard. TFhose newcomers and r ‘a debutante was launched the social sea without the ai Sotts. He was the g friend who steered the buds night, for most of the elty beaux came up ing his partner at arm's length, circling Penn John Milton 8. h; stay over Sunday. round and round the room in the three- Logan, Aifred Godeffroy. Peter Wise carried off the honors of the Stcp of the long-ago. York, Douglass fehantied O room one season. He literally won When dancing grew wearisome, there Fiske of Sacramento. W. B. Dameron, snags that block social suceess daa out “at a walk. Noticing one of the was always room for one more in the ad- Judge McKinstry, Judge Macrea, Dr R. At White Sulphur Springs The hotel -was considered a fine one, and elderly ladies drooping among the wall joining parlor, where card games, gay or P. Ashe, Joe Lawrence, Joe McKibben, was King Carnival. He it it was handsome for those Limes. A two- flowers, out of kindness of heart he asked absorbing, held sway. A favorite diver- James Otis, Henry Norton, William C. planned lunches and moo frame building, it had long wings her to take a promenade around the ball- sion was to cry “bat!” and immediately Littlc, Henry Tricon, Lafayette Ham- who saw that all went s her side, surrounded by broad bal- Toom. She responded with alacrity and Mrs. Governor Johnson would gather up mond and the naval officers from Mare an axiom that if Billy Botts had his confes, upon which the windows opened. proved too much of a sprinter for Wise, her skirts and fly. Bats occasionally flew Island or a wearer of the buttons from ger fn a merry-making pie it was bound It stood on an elevation on the west side who finally exhausted from the number in through the open window, and some Benicla. nd then hie back to their own green of the expect outing. As a conseguern capital 8, has iaken a f houses. Summer- re ars ha hand. of ti s once popular res lgrimages to: the -fashion: jonable resarts r to be a success. He played le: art . " canyon, thickly wooded hills rising of “turns” and the heat of the evening, one had told Mrs. Johnson that bats had The army and navy contingent gave the in a serio.comedy that set soc agop, . honors from it bedges that hide them from hof poliol. on either side, and further down was the suggested that.she might like to sit down. a particular penchant for ladies’ tresses. place the splash of gold lace so dear to It was at a masquerade planned by Billy 0RcK number But during the reign of White Sulphur flower garden, through which rippled the “No, sir,” replied the dame, “I haven't Mrs. Johnson had very beautiful hair, the ladies. The naval officers could drive over for at least a day or two at a time. so that there was alw: a fair sprinkling oned ¢ himself, who wexnt as a court la o e rificing his mustache for the oc To-day California’s F.ow well he carried the part, how he was Sort is nothing but a parlor, where General Joshua Haven read of shoulder straps among the civillans. mistaken for a damsel and proposed to is those who visited Whi anthropist again. from a volume of quaint but wholesome Bericia was a more Iimportant station the star page in_the unwritten historygof - it is the most pile: able resort -1t was very delightful to . For amusement the men had billiards, Commodore Farragut was in command old sermons. In the evening there was al- then, and always sent & squad of gay White smpgm- Speings. book of summesr resorta Springs society beamed on the institution, Drook. The three sulphur springs which had any exercise for several days and which she wore in flowing ringlets. gave the resort its name were hot, tepid I'm going to make up for it to-night!” On Sunday the guests assembled in the It made them feel more civilized to know ang .cold, and were flanked by bath- Naturally Mr. Wise did not play the phil- that the State could boast of a fashion- houses.