The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-07-26
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT,
Cardinal Manning is So.

odiuillol o.
Chicago will erect Hugo monument.
Edgar Saltus and AuguStin DAILY are in
Paris.
Andrew Carnegie has started on another
coaching trip.
Walter Damrosch is at Baireuth to study
the Wagner rehearsals.
Mrs. Thomas c. Pratt and Mrs. Stanley
Matthews are In London.
Cornelius Vanderbilt has left London to
Join his family in Vienna.
The Prince of Naples will be the guest of
the Italian ambassador at London for q
month.
The Nestor of the German composers for
the organ, MoritZ Haupt, has died in Ber-
lin, aged 81
William Whitlock, the artist, of Brooklyn.
is one of the most enthusiastic yachtsmen Of
the City of Churches.
John D, Rockefeller has given $4,000 for a
new building for the SuperiOr-street Baptist
Church of Cleveland.
Harry C. Duval, Chauncey NJ Depew's
private secretary. has the reputation of be-
ing able to turn off more work than any man
in the employ of the New York Central
Railroad Company.
The oldest ex-Senators Of the United
States now living are James w. Bradbury
of Maine and Apheu5 Fetch of Michigan,
who entered the Senate in December, 1S47.
Hannibal Hamlin took his seat in the SEN
ate in June, 1913.
Duprez, the tenor, is reported to be well
and comfortable in Paris at the age of So.
He goes to rehearsals of the Grand Opera
and first nights, and has something of his
voice left, which he uses at the monthly
gatherings OF certain club.
Mrs. Carrica LIE Favre is trying to estab-
lish societies of yeSetarlanS in New York,
Chicago and Boston. She believes that a
diet OF fruit and cereals promotes health
and longevity. and condemns meat intem-
perance as worse than whisky intemper-
ance.
The King of Belgium has not succeeded
in making his Congo investments pay very
well-sO badly, indeed. that they have well
nigh swallowed mp his own fortune, if not
also the vast property that he holds in
trust for his sister, the ex-Empress Car
lotta' of Mexico.
Colonel John Hay, one OF the joint
authors OF the famous Lincoln biography,
has trim figure, closely cropped gray
whiskers and mustache and an elegant
way of handling his glasses which be-
speaks the man of leisure. Colonel Hay
married a large fortune.
Ex-senator Warner Miller is pushing his
Nicaragua work with great vigor, in the
hope OF getting away TO Europe before the
summer is over to see his wife and daugh-
ter, who have been abroad for year.
They are now in Paris, after having spent
sOuie noutnS III 1taiy anu 0erinauy.
The Dowager Countess of Shrewsbury Is
one of the most prominent philanthropist
in England. She has spent most oil her
time and money in improving the condition
of the poor on her estate, and has estab-
lished several l0dging-houses and ''con-
valescent homes for the INDECENT and sick.
Postmaster General Wanamaker has a
large plate glass instead of the usual cloth
top on his 0ffice-deSk. Beneath the glass
is map of the United States, showing
parts OF Canada and Mexico. The map
shows the counties in each State, the prin-
cipal cities and towns, the lines of railways,
and when visitors talk to Mr.. Wanamaker
about the post routes and postoffices he
can follow them on the map which is spread
out before him.
During his long public career Hannibal
Hamlin never made scrap or note of his
history. Again and again he was urged to
do so, but he invariably replied: TOO late.
When the war was going on | was too busy
for such work. After the war reconstruc-
ton was the topic,i aud Iiforgot to make
notes, so am practically without record.
save that Of my public career as recorded in
Congress aud in the memory Of my friends
and associates"