The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-06-28
CALIFORNIANS
IN new YORK.
Dorothy Q'S Gossip About People Who
Are We'll Known Here.
Kate Douglass Wiggin May Go Abroad in a
Yacht-Fred Emerson Brookes Becomes
Favorlte-Mrs. Edna S. Poulson.
Special TO THE SUNDAY CALL
NEW YORK. June %. 1901

NEW YORK, June %, 1891.
Editor Sunday Call Just picture it-an
immense room 80 by 90 feet without pillar
to get in the way of your eye and mar the
charm OF full look at the floor of polished
oak and the handsome ceiling of nut-bro wn
tuts. enriched with heavy bands of gold.
The wainscO,ing of bird s-eye maple six
feet high contrasts with most telling effect
with the Lincrusta Walton above it, The
frirze of tapestry effect, picturing gay
scenes Of rural pleasurings, is wonderfully
appropriate Tor this particular roOm-whieh
is ballroom when tie $4,000 orches-
trion swells out the inspiriting measures
Of dance music, and the gay world in full
dress merrily awirI to happy tunes; and it
is a "dining-room during the race meet
ings, for 1t is in the handsome fye-storied
vialalike cub-h house just completed at Nor
ris Park, where you know is one of the
fuest-if not the best racetrsck in America.
The private reception-roOms for ladies are
all attractive, but one papered with jap
anese material OF silk and linen, OF rich,
creamy ground, decorated with great misty
locking pink roses and paneled with split
bamboo sticks, giving the effect Of screens
above the light, high wainscOting, is the
most pleasing Of all. The rich, airy furni-
ture and furnishings, dainty artistic and
elegant, give the room a wholly delightful
and enchanting feminine personnel "a room
can be said TO have personality, can't it?
Let's have it so, anyway, from this time
hencefOrth)
The forty-two bedrooms, spacious and
CHEEKY, with polished floors, handsome rugs.
imposing beds sumptuOusly poised upon
handsome brass bedSteads, and the private
dining-roOms attached to many-all OF which
rooms can be made into one long, long hall
suggested comfort as satisfying as sleep
when you're sleepy and can biissfully slum-
Der, aud ease as wholly delightful as luxu-
Tious tastes and wealth can make it.
The entrance to the main floor is through
porticO. which opens into immense halls,
chaTmingly decorated - the rich. dusky
red tints of the outer hall contrasting in a
most color gratifying way with the soft blue
be-sllyered tints Of the inner hallway,
balcony runs the full length of the house,
and it affords most enjoyable place to
while the hours away looking at the thor
oughbreds win and lose on the undulating
track just in 'front.' within easy view.
THE RACES.
This was the day that Nomad, Arnica
and Rey del Rey won praise aud game.
Bess their clean limbs, arched necks, verYe
-and-jockeys OF course, 1t would not
have been loyal for me to be other than
prim,ned up with majestic pride that these
California colts won laurels.
hat a record for California girl,
never 70 have been TO a race beforew ex-
claimed the wise men Of the turf. You
COME from betting people and a country
daily growing famous for its bloOded
horses" And before / could make reply a
little Yankee maiden said: What pretty
names for stables, Rosemeade and Santa
Anita like the California Names" And
thegeUDon an English gallant aired a dis
coyery he had made, TO wit, that the women
of.Califcrnia have very musical voices. and
attributed ii to the fact that the oft-repeated
uames of the prominent cities, towns and
counties are Of the melodiOus Spanish Ian
gulge.
great deal away from home about ones
ONB native land
Gilmore the delightful, the ineOmpar-