Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-06
FREEHAND NOTES.
sEow-PARrIEs AND SOCIAL EVENTS
A SOCIETY RUM0R.
A Musical Treat = visit to an Organ
Pactory-In the Bowels Of
Great organ
lcorespondenoe Of the RroOaD-UmOs-i

San Francisco, January 3. 1888.
On Sunday it showed. In the year OF
grace 1857 it appears the same dismal
phenomenon occurred. Let us hope an
other twenty-five years will elapse before
we are similarly betrayed by our glorious
climate again. The piled up snow on the
Gala leaves was pleasantly homogeneous. and
the effect OF the pink balls OF the by.
drangea and the stiff rosy spikes of heath
under the fixes was very good The
horse. play Of the lower class, which the
storm eemeds'unduly to exhi,arate, was
less charming than the bowed blossoms,
but robust and bracing 10 doubt. More
energetic than the builders of impromptH
sleds were those who secured the services
of the gay photographer, and had their
homes I" fixed forever" like Mr.. Picksnif g
great thoughts, in black and white, to per-
petuate tne frigid abomination. The pretty
custom of
NEW YEARS CALLING,
Which has served for the text OF SO many
social homiIies, is less conformed to every
year in Saa Francisco. The English fash
ion of going into the country for the holl-
days has been adopted by great many
families, and Monterey is favorite with
drawing place. The first month OF the
new year is TO be full OF hospitality, how
ever. Notably Mrs. Gwin is to give a
kettledrum on the 6sb, from 3 o'clock to 4
The house on California street lends itself
admirably to arrangements for such re-
ception, the rooms opening into each other
SO cannily that it is always fresh surprise
to make the tour OF them, and the dancing
room is what the dancing room at Mrs.
Owns is sure to be, whether on California
or Harrison street, that is, perfect. There
ia to be
CALICO BALL
At the Grand Hotel on the Ssh, sort of
ball which is a good study as the outcome
of much thought on the part Of the guests
upon the serious consideration how &c make
q costume of foulard as costly as one of
satin. Mrs. Hopkins ball was the great
event it was expected to be. The electric
Hight in the ball was the yellow Edison
light, and therefore an improvement on
the white light of last year, and the
picture gallery hall was used as the dane
ing ROOM Mrs. Hopkins, nee Crittenden,
was fair in bridal white and pearls, Mrs.
Mark Hopkins Respondent in the much
talked of diamonds. The appointments of
the supper room were as choice as last
year. Whether truly OF not, rumor in
sists quite firmly that our legal San Fran
cisco Mercutio has captured your Sacra.
mento beauty whose name means Frienc.
She is said 20 be as witty as he. Ii so
their life will be one duet OF soprano and
tenor laughter over each others good say
ings. Not bad outlook. Mrs. Hubert
Bancroft's cards are out for an sat home .
January 9th There ia TO be dancing, and
the name Of Miss Bancroft, returned from
her European wanderings. appears with
her mothers.
MUSICAL PEOPLE
Profess themselves in possession OF great
treat in Weber's "Oberon as it is put on
at the Tivoli. There ia always such a
Saharan drought of opera in San Francisco
that springs seem sweet to US that might
be intensely brackish to the worlds tired
denizan. Hinriohs is also going TO do his
best for music Friday afternoon. With an
orchestra of sixty pieces he proposes to
give Beethoven's "Heroic Symphony"
composed in honor of Napoleon, selections
from Wagner's new opera, "Parsifal, and
the ride of the Valkyrias, from Wagner's
NiebeluDgen," so wild and impetuous
that it seems like the Emusic that makes
mad which beat in the ears Swinburne's
Thalassius, compelling him to guide his
panther car "whst way the music babe. :"
AN ORGAN FACTORY.
Tuesday went to visit an organ factory,
Iu.ally remote from the business centers,
80 speak mildly. We came quite to the
acot of some suave green hills, with scarf
of snow thrown negligently on their breast,
and after some interested exploring among
detached tin-shops, we discovered the
building we sought. A small organ was
being repaired in the outer room in the
next, more of work. room, was voicer-
that is, an organ consisting merely of wind
chest, bellows and keys, wherein newly.
made pipes are applied and brought to the
proper sound and pitch. A pile of graded
square wooden pipes lay on bench.
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British Columbia. A small space at the
base is boxed in for reservoir of air, and
some delicate scratches on the edge met
BY similar indentations in the cap that
covers the reservoir constitute the voicing
of the pipes, and are the most important
process in an organs construction. As the
workman picked up and blew upon several
of the wooden pipes as one does upon a
whistle, the sound was
PECULIAR AND MELLOW.
The factory had just finished an immense
organ, of which the firm was proud. It
was erected in St. Francis Roman Catho-
lie Church, and was being adjusted. st.
Francis was exactly at the other end of
town, but we were upon organs intent, and,
nothing daunted, crossed the city. and "by
st. Francis Church and Francis, too,
we were repaid for our voyagings. The
church is gothic, and very pretty. Itwas
rapidly growing dark, and the Christmas
evergreens were still up, wound round the
pillars, while the little red lights before
the two principal shrines twired-the word
is obsolete, but expressive-and a more
aggressive gaslight glsred in the choir, to-
ward which we lifted our desirous eyes.
Besides the great new organ to give
picturesqueness to the view, there was an
old priest leaning over the railings-a priest
with wide.open gray eyes, and wearing
velvet cap mitre.shaped. After a few
preliminary inquiries we climbed up the
winding stairway, and found ourselves in
the midst of much carpenter work. Then
we went inside of the organ itself, up a
"cHIcKEN LADDER"
Aud in among the pipes and crackers. 1t
seemed very large instrument to our
provincial inexperience. "Twenty- eight
stops, beside the mechanical ones" sound.
ed numerous when they said it. and that
one stop should control seventy of the
graduated cornucopia tin pipes, IS was the
case with one, gave an idea of a strong full