The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-07-07
SUMNER PLEASURES.
Washington Not the Warmest
Place in the Country.
Removal Of the Ruins of the Tracy Mansion
President and Cabinet - Engagement
Of Miss Mildred Fuller.


worst place in the country. The capital
has been very summer resort as compared
to the cities between the Alleghanies and
the Missouri; and Chicago has had very
bad record for city that is to have the
Worlds Fair. Farther South, and lying in
a river valley, only few feet above tide
water, Washington has never experienced
anything like the heated horrors of Chicago,
and those who dress properly and keep in
doors during the heat Of the day can easily
stand this June weather.
The blackened walls of Secretary Tracy's
house have disappeared this week. Ever
since that gloomy February morning, when
the whole city was aghast with the tragedy
happening in its midst. the Tracy house has
been one of the city sights. Every visitor
asked TO see it, and hackdrvers took their
sightseers past it. Every head was turned
in the street-cars when one passed near it,
and no one could 60 by without looking at
the black walls. with the gaping roof and
boarded windows. 1t remained
A SAD REMINDER
OF the horrible event, entailing, as II did,
the death of three people, and the miracu-
lous escape Of the rest living in the house.
Many offers were made and considered be-
fore the property found purchaser. Secre-
tary Tracy only wished to be rid of it, and
it is said has not passed within sight of the
walls since the fire. The Meridian Club
thought of buying it for time, but it was
finally sold to Lieutenant A. G. Tyler of the
navy, who bought it as it stood for some
thing between $4,000 and $4,000. The
sale was of so many feet of ground, the
walls and materials not being considered of
VaInp n Snt
pense of their taking down. On the old
foundations Mr.. Tyler will build resi-
dence which it is expected will greatly sur
pass the one burned. Mrs. Tyler is patent
medicine heiress, gay young matron
whose gowns, equipages and doings are
of great interest to the particularly smart
set to which she belongs. Although the
Tylers were living within sight Of the
Tracy house at the time of the fire and saw
all the tragic happenings, they had no pre-
JUDGES or superstltions. and a wholly new
and differently arranged house ought not TO
have any grim associations. Agents and
inventors OF patent fre-escapes are besetting
the builder, and this house will be in no
danger of boxing up its inmates again. if
such genluses are only allowed to decorate
its front and back walls with iron platforms
and ladders, pulleys, shoots and boatswalns'
chairs.
A TRIP TO ALASKA.
L
POstmaster-General Wanamaker are the
only ones of the Cabinet whose famil les
have deserted them for the summer. The
Others are holding out br Hvely here, but
except for showing themselves on the even
ing drive, make no social show. They, with
the President, are all waiting upon Con-
gress to let them free for q vacation, and
The ladies of Secretary Mobiles family are
anxions to carry that worthy off to his par
ish of Alaska. Secretary Noble Is anxious
TO see the wonderland of the North-north-
west, and, familiar as he is with Norwe-
gian coast scenery, convince himself that
Southern Alaska does actually surpass it.
1t will be a very fortunate thing for that
skeleton territory to have that chief con-
tr0ler of lands and mines go there, and i'll is
to be hoped that nothing will prevent his
carrying out the plans as made.
The Pacific Coast ought to look sharp and
capture the President and half the Cabi net
for the autumn. They will all need long
trip after staying on duty all summer, and
there are wonders enough out there to more
than Guido eight separate parties. Where
Is your State Fair and all the agriculturists
that they do not capture this first, most
popular and picturesque Secretary Of Agri-
culture, our
UNCLE JERRY RUsK.
To say blessing over the 100-pound water.
melons, 5-pouGd punches of grapes, etc.
Secretary Rusk has never been to the Pal
cihc Coast, and while his predecessors have
addressed State fairs as far away as Kan
sas, | think that none of them have helped
shake the horn of plenty of its amazing
contents at any California far.
Mrs. Harrison is still enjoying the sea
breezes with her family at Cape May and
the President is ending fortnight's soli-
tude at the White House. The activity of
Congress has kept him here over each Sum-
day, but like every one else he will flee the
town for the Fourth of July and the follow
ing Sunday. After that brief respite comes
the hardest work of the session, and with
the Federal Election Bill actually under
discussion warm and exciting debates and
bitter warfare has begun. All the word
from the Cape May cottage speaks the in
creasing delight Of the family in their sur
roundings. The air, the bathing, the drives,
tue beach and the woods are delightful, and
Mrs. Harrison has tempted number of her
friends to Cape May Point. Yesterday the
Railroad Company gave its
ANNUAL EXCURSION
To the newspaper people of Philadelphia,
Washington and Baltimore, and a special
train took more than three hundred people
to the Stockton House at Cape May. All
of them will have a look and say word
about Mrs. Harrison's cottage, SO that the
country is likely to know very much more
about the place than ever: The vigilant re-
porter is now laying for" the President In
his bathing suit, and if The President ex-
poets TO evade him during his Fourth of
July stay he will have to rise so early or
dip so late that it will be too dark for the
man on guard to see him.
Every evening the President may be met
on the drive, either taking a friend tor
spin in his buggy, or enjoying a more
steady talk ia the Victoria He drives at
0'c lock. and makes the dinner a short one,
in order to have his long drive, and after
"a nj in,
and have smoke with him on the cool
south portico of the White House. The ex-
cursionlsts still hold out, and with the man
who east his first vote for William Henry
Harrison" come to shake his hand by bat
talions on three days of the week. The
Saturday afternoon baud concerts bring
crowds to the lawn, and now that white
dresses and white clothing for men are so
nearly universal, it is a wonderfully pretty
summer sight at the sunset hour each week.
MISS FULLER's ENGAGEMENT.
The engagement of Chief Justice Fuller's
daughter Mildred to Mr.. III. A. Wallace of
Tacoma, Wash, has been recently an
nounced, and it is believed that they are to
be married very quietly in the fall and go
out to grow up with the;coun.ry. Mr. Wal
lace is young, capable and enterprising and
has been in the City of Washington grea
deal this winter ON business. He is a rela-
tive Of Senator Cockrell's wife and was
seen much in society. Miss Fuller is one of
the blonde daughters of that large family,
and like all of the Chief Justices daughters,
more than ordinarily clever and very indie
pendent In her views. None of
the Fuller girls have cared much
for Washington society, one el0p-
ing and another voluntarily wintering
in Denver to avoid it. The rate at which
young people and middle-aged people have
been going out to Washington as State and
Territory must have pretty well crowded
the region; and If all tile young lawyers
who have gone there find clients there must
be something in the air to provoke quar-
rels, wrongs and litigation. The same with
young doctors. They must be either starv-
ing or working on the roads. or else that
marvellous climate is not what it is claimed
to be. A positive celebrity in town last
winter was man who was introduced as
formerly OF Seattle" He insisted that
the emigrants had not crowded him over
the State line, but he had to endure much
fun at the expense of his leaving his last
popular place of residence, to whose neigh
borhood all the East seems t1ocking.
SUMMER OPERA
Holds its own and nightly draws audiences,
and singers put themselves into winter
costumes and toast themselves before the
glowing footlights. Amateurs have not
even hesitated to exert themselves, and two