The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 14, 1906, Page 10

THE SAN FRANCISCO SUNDAY C€ALL. i 7 FLACE y LT AR B d VA /5 AR bt N ANad ¢ m | ArIONG T % | AT (ARBIEL T T’ VING oorT v FHOUSE OF /62/- FHRWK 2. PowEL, bove the river was of this ailt. A rock extending two »m_the fireplace armer device for that erling’s home in Pied- 1 center for a coterie ople has his new oy 1y become a focus, g without some w m. ) or vicinity tance from a cleared m skull and f some Carmel cow or horse - sibly; who shall say? With- s of old campfires of “ji and s ire to be summer ghted with Carmel considerable part e will build this chosen a beauti- of the Fresno little house. His and the stepstone chalk-rock of mission arthstone is formed of one ock and the replace is s and cobble stones of curiousl tled to- of pine, rough- In one .corner ing @ crayon of the old -cyfjress »bos. (PointCarmel locally bears name Point Iobos, but the point near Francisco known by that name has a rig it.) 1ort has @ pe- made of a piece 1 upon, which is 1 feet in width. nes and chimney, ex e ground up the roof side of the led Camino nd us state of preser- reet Stillman . a Alden— & & n 19 1 . ow completed. Dr. . e estat Since or Kellogg will build e s I believe, is at present e representation from Stan- e faculty of the University of Mogre and Professors and Lauson expect soon to fessor Moses intends to end his days rmel. He owns a half block of land ne house of Span- tsh type. v has the plans and is now awalting advices from Spain con- cerning some details of construction. 1s fact in regard to the soil in 1 is that, although close to the r's edge there is a beach of the finest sand, only a few hundred feet rom it there is found a rich loam, The native chaparral, ack very productive. HEN young Huggins showed up at the office Wednesday morn- ing an hour late he had a black patch over his left eye and a strip of court plaster holding his mouth in shape, and his air was more conform with the general atmos- pherg of Christmas peace and love than disposition had ever promised for What's the matter, Huggins?’ was the query from half a dozen volces at once. s lecting Ihi*? Something like a grin writhed under o by him a{the court plaster, and then a sudden loek of pain came into his well eye. gathered around him anxiously, had happened to him, anyhow? “Been studying human nature,” said Huggins sibilantly, because he could not open his lips wide, ‘“Where?" “In the Subway,” was the reply. He tried to escape then to his desk in o Mo n the corner, but the boss hadn't come yet, cefling are farnished in red.jso the others insisted upon explanations. of the room there is a§Huggins sat gown wearily; felt the court of chalk-rock and{plasters with his - fingers, adjusted the of holding four-foot logs. A chim-}black patch and 'proceeded as best he ney of the same material runs up the out-{could, considering the disordered con- The boys ‘What e living-room of Mr. Sterling’s house ng by 18 feet wide and its ap- < 30 feet and is having grown rank for centuries, has left a rich deposit which could hardly be equaled as a fertilizer. On account of this it is perfectly safe to .build close to the water-line, and, judging by the num- ber of houses in course of erection only a stone's throw from the beach I should say that this privilege has been duly appreciated One of these shore builders is Chris Jorgensen and very fittingly he has named his new home “La Playa.” There .is little more than its foundation to be seen at present, but from that with a little added explanation from ‘the archi- tect, who-is none other than Mr.- Jor- gensen himself, one gets a very accurate idea of the plan. i “La Playa” is to be built” after the fashion of the San Carlos Mission, with the exception of the roof which will be jow-pitched. The house, which coversan area eighty feet by eighty, stands on a slope facing the sea and, as has been said, not far from it. The living-roora will be thirty-four feet by thirty-eight and will extend through the house from the east to the west wall, the windows on one side commanding a view of the ocean and on the opposite side an equally beautiful woodland prospect. A great stone fireplace and chimney will stand out in the room ten feet from the wall 0 that one may walk all around it. At the mnortheast corner of the house will be a tower cighteen feet square and twenty-five feet in height. There will be two stories to the house, the upper one being divided into three large rooms—a billiard-room, a working studio and an exhibition studio. Mr. Jorgensen has made the plans not only for the house, but also for the iron and stone work, which will be very beau- tiful when finished. His stable itself is a fine structure built of logs and is now almost completed, the weather vane al- ready proudly veering aloft. For several years Mr. Jorgensen has spent his summers in the Yosemite Val- ley and he will continue to do so in the future, making La Playa his winter home. He is most enthusiastic over Car- mel. As he drove away from his place he drew my attention to the begutles of the evening scene one after another, to dition of his speaking “apparatus. “I was late for my train this morning at 185th street, and the man in the line ahead of me shoved a $ bill at the ticket man. Just then an express rolled in. Of course, I missed it, and as the fellow picked up his bills and sllver I remarked that the number of idiots running at large in New York was a severe reflection upon the State management of the in- sane. He merely turned a pair of mild blue eyes upon me, and went through the gate. i “It chanced that we got into the same car, he through one door and I through the other, and we met in the middle of it, ‘We were bound to mix, I reckon, for the things he did to me the next few minutes were enough to put the mint sauce on a spring lamb. He was one of those awk- ward duffers who go through the world like an isoceles triangle, bumping every- thing. His overcoat collar was gaping open at the back, his necktie was askew and kis hat was stove In like Riker's catboat when she went on the rocks last TS SEA. the deep shadings in the woods, to the gold-red sKy the sun had left behind it and the gold-red sea. “It is wonderful, wonderful,” he said. ~I spent two years in Italy, on the Med- iterranean, but I like this better. And it is remarkable how free we are from fog here. When I came down three weeks ago, Pacific Grove was immersed In fog and here it was clear as a bell.” In Carmel I met a man who is a great traveler and who has an artist's soul and he said to me, “There are other beaches as white as Carmel's in the world and there are other places where the rocks stand out as boldly in the sea and where the surf dashes up In huge billows; there are other skies as blue and other seas as blue; and there are climates as agreeable and pines as fragrant; but the remark- able thing about Carmel is that it, in 80 small an area, possesseg all these delightful things. A good beach ‘is €ummer. You won't see a more loose- jointed and homeljer specimen in a year. When he had jabbed his newspaper into my eye three times—we were hanging on to straps—and had stepped on my_foot and stuck his elbow into my side I be- gan to size him up scientifically. “Bver study phrenology and all that sort of thing? Any of you fellows think you know all about faces? Well, I did. Always had, an eve oven for unusual brows and for criminal ears and eyes set t0o close together and the rest of these infallible indications of character. This fellow, I saw at once, was easy. He had watery blue eyes and a weak chin. It was one of the weakest chins I aver saw. It began at the lip and slipped timidly away back to his thin neck and disap- peared. When I saw this I decided to re- sent his awkwardness. “‘Can’t you keep off my feet? I sald, ‘eyeing him severely, “ ‘Bxcuse me,’ he answered. ‘T'm not used to these New York feet.’ from the _ ““I thought you must be FRECERICK ! SRACELL FTRE OISR NSO NI "\ apt to be accompanied by long reaches of level, uninteresting country.” So it is not to be wondered at that this favored spot, having at last been brought into prominence, should be at- tracting lovers of nature. OO OO BSOSO 000005 SOOI OSSO0 NN IO NN00000 country,” I retorted with a good deal of sarcasm. “«Just a little way up the river,’ he sald softly. ‘We keep the hogs in pens up there.” “I hed. an answer for that, but just then we came into the Grand Central Station and he started out. But instead of golng out the way he had come in he shoved himself past me and gave me a final swipe with one of his sharp elbows. ““Not much! sald I, grabbing him by that sagging collar. ““‘Come out on the platform and let's talk it over. he said very mildly and gently. I thought he wanted to apolegize. * *Sure!” 1 replied. ““We hadn't mor'n got off the car when all the watery blueness went out of his eyes. He reached for me, and in about ten seconds we were all over that station. Great Mike! He was a hummer. His joints were all ball-bearing and his angles worked like a street sweeper. He rammed me against iron railings, spread me over the periodicals on the news stand, B LRIE OF LT.O.LANT. F Zvive Roors. Frank H. Powers, the San Francisco attorney, has large holdings in and around Carmel-by-the-Sea, and he and his wife are exceedingly anxlous to make the village beautiful, to pre- serve its historic interest and to make PTG By £ (oM CORNER OF GEORGE f 7erz.iNved rtistie of If a center for peopie of & temperament. A mile or so dow n the coast below eminences [hdt“ V::l-l some time become thie sites of“j,:.-”»gm’ ful sea coast villas. Mrs. Po e 5 chosen the spot that pagtioulariy S0 . her and Edgar Saltus Bas mace T cholce, awaiting tha good plm—“\:l = the present ownmer. He savys B Ty “This is one of three places WREFS = have beer in my life that has 3 te erament.” P 2 Mrs. Powers has a house z\n»l' flui](: in Carmel which possesses many POIR-S of interest. They are closla to ";;’ beach and the outlook 1s all thal‘ y be desired. The house s an old spln. ish ranchhouse. She has had the ::. terior restored in accordance With - original design, even in the matter 0- the doors and shutters, and has pre gerved the old rock chimney which has stood since 1846. Oa the door is a handsome brass knocker. h which {s connected a most inter ting Rl tory, and leading up to the door h'- pathway of tiles made under Mrs. Pow- ers’ direction in Imitation of those used in the floor of the mission. Along the front of the house is & pergola of the old style and at one sida at the rear in a sheltered Inclosure Mrs. Pow- ers hi breakfast served on summer mornin during her stay. In every room there are articles :“ furniture or of ornamentation which once belonged to old Spanfsh-Califor- nia familles—the Escobar, Gomes, Martinez families and others. There is an old chest In each room. Thers are anclent candelabra, 133 of them. Point Carmel are in brass, pewter, copper, irenm and other metals. There is an old roj wood bedroom set and a clook 3 General Caatro’t once told the time in been none mads home, like which have since 1830. The studio is in a barn of rough- hewn pine logs, which has been dullt and rebullt and still made to preserve its original appearance. Its door bears a rough iron knocker and is curiously studded with beaten spikeheads. Willlam Alexander Robertson, the old potter of San Francisco, has found fm Carmel nine kinds of pottery clay and among them the clay from which the tiles of the mission roof were made. M Powers is very much Interested in this matter and in all probability a kiln will be put up in the vicinity, where art pot- tery will be made. If this is done and it Chris Jorgensen, will take for instance. charge of the decorating, Sarmel-by-the- Sea will have another claim om peopls attention. Sydney Yard, notable for his landscapes. is building a home which he imtends ' occupy the year round. He has found in this spot Inspiration for & lfetime. Wii- S20000000000000550@ llam Keith has bought a site in Carmel wrapped me around three or four of those ‘white pillars and was rolling me over the platform on to the local track when a kind guard interfered, saying he would get into trouble if we wrecked a train. “They leaned me up against the white tiles and fanned me with a newspaper, and my friend from the country gazed upon me compassionately out of those mild blue eyes. * ‘Young man,” he said, ‘T know I'm awkward, but it's a natural, honest awk- wardness. I've been traveling on’ these rapid transits of yours some, and I've seen a lot worse things than awkward- ness. You don’t think o' nobody but vourselves, you New Yorkers. You're too anxious; you lack repose. When you're getting on the cars you've got your hands on each other’s shoulders like a proces- sion at Sing Sing, only you're grabbing, shoving, clawing for a place. I've seen more downright selfishness and Indiffer- ence in two days in this town than’ we see upriver in two years. The real thing in hog pens for mine, 'stead o' these sties on wheels. Good-by, and I hope your face ‘wor't hurt much.’ * “I was too done up to say a word. I Jjust watched him disappear up the stair- way—him and his weak chin. It's all a fake. There's nothing in studying faces, take my word.” and has made some beautiful sketches. Willis Davis spent the summer in the Willis Polk home and had as his guest John Gamble. Vetchel, brother of the writer, ! completing his house, which stands n est to the Carmel River, commandng 3 view of the Santa Lucia Mountains. with a glimpse of the mission in the foreground and a sweep of bay outlined by Cypress Point clear cut on the horizon. Dr. Ar- nold Genthe's house 8 In process of ¢ struction. Frederick S. Samuels’ summer home '3 a very beautiful one. White cedar 1089 from Oregon in varfous sizes are use! for porch pillars and raflings and feneing. There is a wide verands on thres sides. A large living-room faces west, 102 other rooms being disposed on the oppo- site side of the house. A massive ch ney-place and mantel oceupy the south end of the room. The material used 3 granite in the shape of cobbles and bow!d- ers very artistically placed. Another ‘o2 ture of the room is its spacious window- seats. It is certainly a very beautiful spot and one worth visiting. And for the prfs&” at least, the dweller there may say himsel#: With no T am hiaden, T am hapoy T And the peace I3 very great,