Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-03-20
CORRESPONDENTS.
PALACE HOTEL, SAN FRANCISCO,
March II, 1879.
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[ am con vinced, my fellow tramps, that we
who have been boasting of our pioneerings
have made light of what is coming upon us in
the way of something serious-something to
make us bit thoughtful and reflective.
Hobble along Montgomery street with me,
oh pilgrim of the ancient days of diggin's and
gold scales, pack mules and river-huming,
long toms and p-jacks, and note how few
faces you will see that you know and how
griNlsd and wrinkled and worn are those
which know you. "The town is strangely
dull" you say. Rather is it not more strange
than dulll Aren't you behind this age and
time which see the streets of San Francisco
teeming with men and women who were not
even born into this breathing world when you
and set sail by ship or prairie schooner for
the land of goldi Come down to this busy
city by the sea, with its new houses, its new
people and its new habits if you, would know
how far off in the dim perspective of the past
are the days which saw you first aoquainting
yourself With the sights and thoughts and
prospects of California Oh ! but $50" was
many year ago! These old men, the rich
as we'll as the poor ones, who loom up out of
that gray distance to come and greet their
half forgotten fellows, how these nigh thirty
years have taken the gay celors out of them!
How sobered they are and how gentle and
kind withal They never talk loud any more;
and somehow they seem to shrink from the
new glare and the assertiveness of the young
faces which have an apparent right to look
theirs ont of countensnce. 1t is a new city
but it's kindly sea breezes are not new !; but
are as fresh as when the Golden Gate stood
for the entrance to the Land of Romance,
and all the wild Sierra, with its boundless
treasures lay before our young hope and un-
faltering ambition
THE FRENCH FLOWER MERCHANT. ::
Somebody who writes very charming things
for the magaznes-Henry James, Jr., most
hkely--heads paper with the words, con
being born away from home" In the body
of his article he expressed the fancy, in way
of his own, that some people who were born,
say, In New England, should, by rights, have
been born in France. | think so myself. At
all events, / like to expend now and then
quarter and even sometimes a half, dollar,
with yon polite and very patient and unob-
trusive elderly Frenchman in the battered
plug" hat, in the purchase of bouquet for
my sweetheart. like to do this because |
have a pleasant experience in my Gallo
friends quiet enthusiasm over his business.
He is too true artist to make any fuss over
his tradings. He waits for his customers,-
parting with his nosegays as from a sad sense
of duty-for | am sure he looks upon each |
composition as a true poet, with the loving, |
longing eyes of a parent, fond, tender and
admiring. | approach him with bow and |
delicate hint of my desire to be possessed of |
one of his floral efforts. Our consultation |
(not by any means to be called a trade), is |
done in whispers. When | have selected a |
bouquet, then comes of impressive
silence. Monsieur takes up the dainty thing
with an unmistakable air of .affectionate in
terest, as it were pet whose little tendrils had
been growing about his heart. He envelopes it
III soit "niIe paper, plnnlilg IL III from the rude
air, and placing it in my hand with the most
careful! handling. There is whole lesson in
botany i'll his manner His French nature,
true to the art into which it was born, and of
which itself is part, beams in his quiet but
noue-the- less enthusiastic smile; aud there is
the Incompatible grace of true and native
gallantry in the tone and manner with which
he makes his everlasting debtor by
supplementing my purchase with the unex-
pected present of button-hold boquet of
heiiotrope and rose geranium leaf. 1 mutter
a bit of broken French and move away,
touched by this most excellent and graceful
politeness which has come to me and YOU all
the way from L
Thy csrndelds green and sunny yines Ii
Oh pleasant land of France.
THE PALACE BAND.
There has been organized and trained for
two years past a band of musicians, twenty,
i've in number, comprised of colored men who
work in this greatest of hostelries. (Some