Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-11-12
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
Hotsl Life in San Francisco - Social PHASES
Of the Metropolis Cosmopolitan Habits
More Of the Sentiments Of the Workingmen
on the Approaching Presidential Election.

Francisco. This fact explains the
multiplicity of hotels here. The
ambition of many a Frisco wife
and mother seems to be to estab-
lish herself in hotel, where,
amidst the blare and hurly-burly
of an exciting and feverish life,
every particle Of the bloom of
childhood may be brushed from
her children before they have en-
tered their teens. The number of
families domiciled in the leading
hotels is simply marvellous. They
are supplemented by legions of
other people who live in apart
ments and patronize the restau-
rants, in the genuine Partisan FASH
ion. The hotels are so many and
80 large as compared with the size
Of San Francisco, that families of
means are able to practically die
tate their own terms at the Palace.
1t is very doubtful whether 1t is
possible to make first-class hotel
pay here. Sharon owns tn Palace,
the Grand and the Cosmopolitan.
1t is understood that they have all
been elephants on his hands. The
Palace during the present season,
however, made money. The Grant
excitement helped powerfully to
bring this result about. The Lick
House and the Occidental belong
to the estates of decedents and it
probably don't make any odds to
their managers whether they pay
or not. Gossip assigns to the
Baldwin p loss of forty or fifty
thousand dollars year. When we
come down to the second-class ho-
tells, however, the story is far diff
ferent. The proprietors of the
Russ House divided eighty thous-
and dollars amongst themselves
last year as the profits of their busi-
ness.
SOCIAL PHASES IN SAN FRANCISCO.
The large European element in
San Francisco is beginning to as
sert itself In very pronounced
way. The number of resorts to
which both sexes 60 to drink a
glass of beer or wine is increasing
every day. After the places of
amusement let out in the evening
you are certain to see representa-
tives ofthe elite of the city quaf1ing
Schlitz's beer and eating a sand
wich in the Fountain, the ladies
being as practised hands at the dis
sipation as their male escorts. EN-
inently respectable women do not
consider it beneath their dignity to
attend the Tivoli, where little
groups are sitting around drinking
beer and smoking cigars. AS in st.
Louis and Cincinnati, Sunday has
here come to be recognized as the
day on which excursions and con-
vivial assemblies shall fall, of
preference.
1t is astonishing how the estab-
lishment of place like the Foun-
tain or the Tivoli begets rivalry
in the business. This spirit of COM
petition seems to characterize every
thing in San Francisco. A year or
so ago there was hardly a place
where poor person could buy a
cup OF coffee and doughnut. Now
there are about fifty of these re-
sorts here.
will mention, in order that your
local bootblacks may profit by the
excellent example, that there is a
boot-black in this city who blacks
your boots, brushes your clothes,
removing all stains and grease
spots, pins button-hole bouquet in
your coat and puts cologne on your
handkerchief, all for the modest
sum of ten cents.
At the Tivoli they are running
the "Sorcerer," another amusing
burlesque by Gilbert and Sullivan.
It is capitally mounted, acted and
sung and is listened to nightly by
large crowds.
THE woRKINGMEN AND THE DEM
oCRACY.
In former letter I stated that
the Workingmen hereabouts see
the hopelessness of third party
movement in the approaching
Presidential election, and are dis
posed to cultivate an alliance with
the Democratic party. My in
formants In that instance were hos
tile to Denis Kearney's continuance
as the ostentatious and domineer-
ing chief of the Workingmen's or
ganization. have since had sew
eral conferences with persons deep
In the confidence of Denis Kear-
ney. They say that Kearney is
unreserved in avowing that If the
Democrats nominate an electoral
ticket composed of good men,
against whom nothing can be al
legged, the Workingmen will en-
lorse it. OF course Republican pa
pers are very much disgusted at |
Gov. Irwin's recognition of the
Workingmen in the appointment
of White. They are fearfully out
ragged at his sacrifice of dignity in
such an appointment.
rhis is all leather and prunella.