Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-11-05
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New Idea
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New Idea
SAN Francisco, November 2, 1851
Passing down Market street this morn
ing the bare ribs of the Mechanics' Pavilion
startled me, the skeleton Of mammoth
girth looming up in bold outline against
the sky, like something almost weird
They are taking down the rough, old barn
OF building preparatory to something
permanent in another part of the city, but
rough and barn.like as it WAS, we
yet must speak of it with respect,
tor 1t has witnessed many scenes.
The last conversation l had between it's
walls was with the gardener, VINO had in
his care the gardens attached to the far.
l was looking mechanically at the plants
when he called nay attention to peculiar
blossom called g the baby flower" bearing
iuclosed IN its petals a very good idea of
the sprawling infant. l Immediately felt
that he was the man to know" and
asked him how he kept slugs from his .
plants. | do not know whether these
Shiny creatures are pests to other gardens
or not, but here we fight them day and
night with pepper, tobacco juice or any
other thing recommended, and then the
tender shoots In our little gardens are
regularly eaten off. Our damp climate
creates paradise for them. In the pres
ent instance was bidden to get pair of
Young ducks, after the manure was laid on
in the spring, and turn them in among the
fowera. The prophecy added was, "The
flowers will bloom, the ducks viii fatten
and the slugs will mysteriously disappear"
l give the advice for the benefit OF other
flower lovers. But we are to have
FINE NEW PAVILION
Pretty soon, out on Larkin street-one not
quite SO cold, barren and devoid of pretti-
ness as the old one always was. There are
many fine buildings talked of out Of the
heart of the city-one on the site Of the
old Gates Gardens, out Lone Mountain
way, already approaching completion. 1t
is called the Crystal Palace, and Is to be
warm and bright place OF resort-some-
thing after the manner of the many beer
gardens already in existence in town.
How well these beer gardens pay is attested
by the number OF them. They give good
stage, if you go, you will hear the
one of them that Ida Mohrig's voice was
discovered and from the moment of dis
covery destined for more aristocratic aU-
respectable people there, and some though
not all of your aequaintances. The at
mosphere is blue early in the evening with
cigar smoke, and later thick and heavy
with the same, bnt there is attentive 81
lence during the music and, to sum the
matter up. you may go or you may stay
away, in either case being equally respect
able. On the day of the Garfield obsequies
| met hungry family who had rented
| window on Kearny street from which to
view the procession. But the procession
had passed, and hundreds, ike ourselves,
famished and tired, were
IN SEARCH OF FOOD
And chair. Most of the restaurants were
still closed, and the others were so crowded
that people passed in and out like fies At
last it was suggested by tired man with
his arms full of baby that we go into an
adjacent beer cellar-not even a garden,
but cellar, you will notice, which ladies'
do not frequent. Our condition and the
day, we concluded, furnished sufficient
provocstion, so we sWarmed down the stair
way and found ourselves on clean sanded
floor in very quiet, busy place. Lit
tie tables were everywhere, and men
eating, or drinking beer, or smok-
ing, sat about them. a billiard
table was at one side and bar across the
end. Gas was burning, and the walls were
hung with pictures of actors and actresses.
We were the only ladies, but we ate some
very good sandwiches quietly, and no one
gave US any attention. It was our first
experience of q beer cellar, but we agreed
that we didn't see nything so very naughty
about it, though we suggested TO ourselves
in darkly suspicious manner that perhaps
we hadn't seen it all. The same day, by
happy chance, we explored the new and
vast
PHELAN BUILDING,
On Market street, which has risen slowly,
brick by brick, over the spot so recently
occupied by the row of rickety frame
shanties whose counterpart the observer
may find in various portions of the city, as
relics Of old times. The new block is still
in an unfinished state, and when we looked
it through, with its splashes Of mortar, its
| piles of debris, and its new, undried odsr,
it seemed impossible to people 1t with the
hundreds of tenants who are sure TO find
lodgment within it. The street floor will
be occupied by stores, other rooms viii be
let to doctors, lawyers, dress makers, etc,
and photograph gallery takes part of
the upper floor, to which the patron will
ascend, fight after flight, by a gss-lit el-
evator. The problem which wealthy pa
rents find it great trouble to solve is How
shall we mate our daughters suitably
But Mr. Phelan has answered it, probably
to his own satisfaction. and some little
time since allowed the announcement of
the engagement of his daughter, Miss
Annie, to young Sullivan. Mr.. Phelan,
in spite of his estimated wealth, is
GRUMBLING TAXPAYER
Zone of many, and it was in "poor"
tone OF voice that ne said to Clayton, the
restaurateur, who fell from that high posi-.
tion so far as to deliver lecture. swell,
Clayton, we have all lost money F" The
known pompous air: "No, sir did not
lose my money, sir. spentit; Iapent it,
Mr.. Phelan." Mr. Clayton, in his heyday,
stood out as a character among the conf
mon men of San Francisco, and he was
Claytons were all great this Clayton won
such an honor and that one such another,
''and l, gentlemen" he would conclude,
&c am great in my line, such as it is. 1 am
Clayton the caterer" But his fame is now
departed, the last OF his prestige deserting
him at the beginning of the lecture ne
essayed to make, and he is now even as
common men, who are as like as peas IN
pod.
NEW IDEA.
We were taught of old that if we wished
our hair TO grow, it must be cut with the
scissors and l remember certain girls,
ambitious of heavenly eyelashes, who
trimmed them to the present appearance OF
stubble, in hope of the beautiful hereafter.
Unfortunately our acquaintance ceased be-
fore the result was obtained, and have
ever been in the dark as to the SUCCESS OF
the experiment. Bat l have ALWAYS un--
derstood that TO burn hair was to ruin 1t,
yet the other day I was told, as new
idea, that it had been soberly and scientific