The morning call., 1890-06-08
PRETTY PROSPECTS
NEW OWNER.
Francis G. NewIands' Home at
Washington.
Mr.. and Mrs. acknowledgement of Miss
kldricE-Senator Stanford's Trip-Ths
Mount st. Elias Expedition.
Special Correspondence MORNING CALL.

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present real estate boom. Every day a new
suburb is heard of and free excursion
trains and coaches carry would-be lot
owners to the spot. The civil engineers are
having a good time plating, subdiyiding
and grading these suburban tracts, and
whole page advertisements in the news
papers help along another worthy class.
At one of the excursion and picnic sales a
bunch of day fireworks was set off. deed
for one of the best lots was tied to one stick.
and the finder of that lucky stick was
little girl of years, in whose name 1t was
promptly recorded. Property everywhere
within the city has been rapidly advancing
during the last year, and Denver aud Los
Angeles hardly had the building lever
worse in the days of their b0oms. The con-
fdent people who have been waiting Tor
the boom to collapse have lost hope OF that
calamity coming to pass and things are
moving steadily on. MIR. +. G. Newlands,
who so recently purchased the Cleveland
country place, has had all that tract sub
divided and is enlarging the Cleveland
house for his own summer residence. MIR.
Cleveland realized profit of 100000 by
holding the Oak View property for three
years. and it is said that the land is now
paid for It, The opening Of an electrician
line has made the land accessible, and villas
are being built here and there all along the
roads between it and the city's edge.
MIR. AND MRS. DAMRosCH.
The Damrosch-Blaine wedding remained
the talk of the town for the early part of
the week, and the splendid presents re-
ceived by the bride dazzled all who could
listen and read. The young couple went
from here to the house of Mr.. Emmons
Blaine in Baltimore, which was put at
their disposal for the honeymoon. On
Tuesday after noon they came over very
quietly to dine ana spend the evening with
the Blaine family, and their presence in the
city was not known nor suspected until
they were recognized at the station as they
were taking the train back to Baltimore.
To avoid attention they kept away from the
Pullmans and travelled in the day-car, and
the bride wore her oldest and plainest
clothes, so that no one would have dreamed
of her being the recent owner OF gold and
silver, diamonds and pearls, and treasures
| only equaled in Aladdin's cave or Tiffany's
showroom. The next day they left Balti-
more for New York, and the following
morning sailed for Hamburg in company
with MIR. and Mrs. Andrew Carnegie.
Caliiornians have been quite to the front
in the general interest and incidents of the
past week. Mr.. John W. Mackay spent
last Sunday in the city and took in its
beauties with sightSeer's interest during
! a long drive. In the evening he dined with
Sanator and Mrs. Jones aud the following
day left for the Coast.
Senator and Mrs. Stanford are finishing
their preparations for leaving the city and
spending their summer abroad. When Sem
ator Stanford left Carlsbad two years ago
he engaged the same apartments and at
tendants that he had had in 1883 for this
summer of 1890. and he has kept with him
| the same written regimen and all that he
| went through then to repeat this year.
| Freed from much of the responsibility that
| he has had to carry with him heretofore
| this summer will be even more one of rest
and relaxation than any that he has mad for
| many years. They will be accompanied
| abroad by Senator StanfOrd'S confidential
secretary, Mr.. Nash, who was the tutor and
| friend of their SOD, and has been nearest
| them ever since. MIR. Nash will spend
part of the time with his father. who lives
at Florence, Italy. Mrs. Peter Donahue and
Mrs. L. Martin and her son OF San Fran
cisco arrived at the Shoreham this week,
and their Pacific Coast friends quickly
gathered to welcome them and make their
stay agreeable, with dinners, drives and
numberless attentions. A number OF Cali
fornians have touched here during the last
fortnight, who are to be in San Francisco
in time for Miss Fairs wedding, among
them Mr.. John W. Mackay and Mr.. John
FldHE, anu llldHl OtuSLS dlO SOiuS llOlu
New ork, in addition to Mr.. Oelrichs' own
contingent. The community here having
enjoyed the gorgeouSness of the details of
the Damrosch-B Blaine wedding are await
ing the splendors of the Oelrichs-Fair we'd
ding and its array of gifts.
MUSIC AND FETEs.
Music and outdoor fetes have been the
diversion of society this week and in those
lines there has been sufficient variety.
The Foundlings' the Children's and the
Garfield Memorial hospitals held the first
place for the afternoons and evenings with
their successive teas and lawn feteS. The
Garfield Hospital fete was held in the
grounds and house of Mrs. Logan, at Calu-
met Place, on the heights above the city.
The weather was uncertain for the first
day and the next ones threatenings culmi-
mated in dOwnpour at night that scattered
visitors and managers from the lawn and
condensed the affair within the house.
Mrs. Harrison attended on the first after
noon and made purchases and cOntribu-
ti0ns, in addition to the porcelain plaque
that she painted and gave 10 the fair, and
that realized 800 as ratified eff in chances of
dollar each. The Carleton Opera Com
pany finished a six weeks engagement of
summer opera with an enthusiasm never
witnessed here before. AT the end of the
last opera there We're recalls beyond count,
flowers, speech from Mr. Carleton and,
last of all, the orchestra started and the
the curtain rung up again and the whole
house sang together.
On the last day of the meeting of the
Mount Vernon Board of Regents, Mrs.
II arrison, with the Cabinet families and
number of invited friends, made trip
down to Mount Vernon ON the Dispatch.
The Marine Band accompanied them and
played on the lawns, and rendered SOL
emn dirge of honor before the sacred tomb,
and in its beautiful May foliage and ver-
dure the old place was more charming than
ever. Each years meeting of the Board OF
Regents brings more relics of the house
and its great owner back to its original
place, and this week several books that
were destined for the library of the first
President were at last placed on his shelves.
Much furniture, silver, glass and china that
once belonged to the place have been pre-
sented to or bought back, and the board is
slowly realizing its idea of restoring the
interior of the house to the exact appear
ance that it wore in Washington's day.
THE MARINE BANDS CONCERT.
On Saturday afternoon Mrs. Harrison
had quite a company to listen to the
Marine Bands weekly concert on the White
House lawn, and to drink tea with her in
the red parloT and on the portico. The
same evening the ice-President and Mrs.
Morton gave a small dinner to the Presi-
dent and Mrs. Harrison, the Russian Min
lister and few others, and later all went to
the concert of the Strauss Orchestra. There
crowded and enthusiastic house greeted the
son of the greatest composer or dancing
music the world will know, and the blue
Danube" as given under his graceful and
inspired leadership, set the audience quite
wild.
There was a furry in scientific circles
few days ago at the chances of failure for
the expedition to Mount ST. Elias, planned
by the National Geographic Society. The
society had long planned this feat, and the
cooperation of the Government had been
secured to the extent of having its two best
men picked from the Geological Survey to
conduct the expedition. AT the last minute
the socety's funds were short of the re-
quired amount and an heroic effort was made
TO raise it. The official delegated to get
permits for the party to be taken from Sitka
to the foot of the mountain by the man-of-
war in Alaska had not done it, and there
was quick work needed to save the day.
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