Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-12-08
SAN FRANCISCO LETTER.
PAST FESTIVITIES AND PREPARATIONS
FOR COMING HOLIDAYS.
THANKSGIVING Dinner for the Eewsboys
and oIhers-orange Blossoms with
much Attendant Ceremonies.
sAN FRANc1sco. December 5, 1883.

san Francisco, December 5, 1888.
We are fairly started on the Christmas
month. The mornings are foggy, the days
are short, the shops wonderfully pretty,
and the owner of hearts that are bigger
than their purses, just little puzzled how
TO tame their desires or stretch their re.
sources. The prettiest thing l have seen
is a chandelier whose six arms and main
pipe are all horns of South American cat
tie, highly polished and showing the most
beautiful blue-gray tones The globes are
entirely modern in design, and fora petroom
where everything was quaint and unique
this would be an appropriate finish for the
center of the ceiling. 1t is late to tell you
of Thanksgiving Day bounties, but 1 saw
two of it's most characteristic features-the
dinner given to the newsboys at the
Young Mems Christian Association rooms,
and the dinner given at the Roman Catho-
lie Creche, or Day Home for children-a
place where poor working women may
leave their little ones while they go about
their daily duties-and such feasts are al
ways interesting. The tickets for
THE NEwsBoYs' DINNER
Were given out the day before, and there
was some fun over the frauds that boys
that were not newsboys perpetrsted in
order to procure tickets. On Thanksgiv-
ing Day l saw many a little fellow alto
gether too SNUG and we'll dressed even to
have carried a newspaper over his arm or
called them for sale on the street, and
swinging on and off the street dummies in
the reckless fashion peculiar to these lads.
They looked more like the children OF
small shop-keepers, determined to have the
fun, but a little doubtful about the COM
pany they were in and about being found
out. The boys were first assembled in a
large hall on she first floor, where some men
entertained them with speeches and sing
ing. The sense of this was that it is easier
to marshal them to the table after first cor
railing them in one space as it were. A
man named w. H. Barnes-not the Cen
eral-frst addressed the boys and then
sang to them. He said in the course of his
speech that he was Southerner, and his
songs were somewhat after the manner OF
the Jubilee slave songs. His imitation of
sounds in nature-the bullfrogs, cocks and
parrots-were wonderfully true to life and
called forth immense applause from the
boys, while his rendition of the noises
made by locomotive, the sharp squirting
of the escaping steam, the shrek of the
whistle, growing fainter in the distance
and the continuous 80 chu-chu" of the ma.
chiuery as the train gets down to work, :"
- h. Io
groes themselves, who often have a great
aptitude for that sort of thing, 1 recall
LITTLE DEAF AND DUMB BOY
Who made the delight of some children in
New Jersey one winter by just such per-
formances he could not learn to articu-
late one Ineligible word, but all noises of
toll and trade, street and forest, were In his
repertory. To return to the newsboys.
After the songs they filed up stairs two by
two to the six tables set out with the reg
ulation good things of the great American
holiday-to think that the Puritans should
have originated national feed and very
well the boys behaved and immensely hap
by they looked. Some of them were gen
uine little sons OF the pavement one of
them had the true Dickens look, shock
of blonde hair, pale face and mouth
from ear to ear, which furthermore turned
up at the corners. Il exit" Christopher
Nubbles, had turned newsboy he would
have been that boy AMI no mistake. Aa.
other was the Irishmsu of the stage in
miniature, ready grin and ready word,
blarney for the ladies who waited on him,
and slangy humOr for the men who chaffed
him. There was not much beauty in the
crowd, but there were hath and high
spirits and good will, and those in the face
of good dinner make a very bright en-.
semble among young people Out at the
Creche, more properly
ST. FRANCIS DAY HoaE,
Archbishop Riordan was presented with
some flowers by tiny tot "jus; as big as
her speech, as a gentleman said and the
speech was about six words long There
were some little darkies among The chill
dren, and their little black faces and beady
eyes flashed out comically among tie white
children. These young feasters were none
of them over five years old, and there was
great array of high chairs by the well.
spread tables. The kindly sisters and the
visitors joined in cutting up turkey and
providing everybody with candy, and so
the nursery Jared well. One distinctly
Thanksgiving emblem. devised by restsu.
rateur for his window, was a turkey of
ostrich.ike proportions, stuffed to rotundi-
ty, all plucked except his head, wings and
tail. The latter was spread like a pea
cocks, and on his bill, proudly elevated,
had been stuck pair of eyeglasses He
reminded one of the French nursery
rhyme Of the turkey:
Moi ie rue pare
MOI je me carre
Moi je suis gras ct belu,"
81 plume myself, square myself, l am
fat and handsome, and more about his
&" solennel glou- glou,n and demand for
space that he may strut, triumphing, down
the barnyard From uewsboys and turk
eys to the swell wedding of the season the
step is far, but, as cheap philosophy runs,
it's all in a life time.
ORANGE BLOSSOMS.
On Tuesday evening Miss Belle Eyre and
Mr.. Pinckard were married. 1t was a
very beautiful and stately affair." San
Francisco is SO cut up into cliques that it
is difficult for girl to be belle in any but
her own particular circle generally speak.
ing, but Miss Eyre was among the few who
attained the pleasant position of univer-
sal favorite in all the lotteries of what is
known as society. Mr.. Pinckard, neph-
ew of Mrs. DR.. Gwinn, was we'll known as
a member of that hospitable family, and
also on his own merits, as an admirable
dancer for one accom- lishment. Everyone
therefore was at the church, and everyone
was well dressed, those who expected to be
at the reception at the house afterward,
was without bonnet, and the church pre-.
sented brilliant appearance, although the
gas hickered provokingly. The aisles, at
the pews that were kept for the immediate
families Of the two people most interested,
were rallied off with fences of flowers that
swung upon hinges of white ribbon An
arch of white flowers was over the space at
the inner ratings before the altar. The
marriage bell swung in this arch, which
supported a shield bearing the monogram
+. P. surmoun5ed by two horns of plenty
yielding flowers, while above all was