The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-05-31
RUhamah'S Resume Of What the PrGSi-
dents Party Said Of Their Visit.
Secretary Rusk's Enthusiasm-H Has Be-
come a Raging, Shouting Advocate of
the Glorious Climate of California"
srscial TO THE SUNDAY CALL

some enchanted spring. Everything went
like clockwork, the ladies say, from the
the President stepped down upon
California soil at Indio and was greeted by
Governor Markham. Like magicians' work
was the illumination of the harbor on the
night of their arrival. 'fShe began to go the
instant Mrs Harrison touched the BUTTON
they say concerning the launch Of the Mon
terey, and it was like another touch of the
button when a perfectly appointed lunch
table appeared to them during the seven
teen-mie drive around Monterey and with
out an instantS delay they were seated and
served as if indoors. Like clOckwOrk, too,
were the arrangements elsewhere, and
everything in San Francisco followed the
programme to the second without jar,
delay or break.
Very proud are these tourists of the SOU
venirs gwen them, and Mrs. Harrison has
caused them to be displayed like wedding
gifts on long tables in the private corridor
of the White House. The spoons bestowed
upon Mrs. Harrison make a collection in
themselves, and the Presidents gold and
silver cards Outshine them. San Francisco
silyersmiths and jewellers fairly outdid
themselves on those superb cards and trays,
and here in the East, where slabs of gold
and silver bricks are not so often seen or
handed round. these trophies receive most
admiration. If there is not free coinage on
the Slope it looks little as if there were
free bullion, when the precious metals usurp
THE FUNCTIONS OF PAsTEBoARD
To such an extent. While these plush, and
leather, and channels cases were handed to
Mrs. Harrison, one tor nearly every city and
town they visited, the Younger ladies of the
party made their collection OF souvenir
spoons in the commonplace, commercial way.
They had many amusing experiences in
their shopping, as, when they slipped away
from the platforms, professions and speech
making ceremonies 10 do a little shopping,
they found the shops closed, the streets de-
serted, and even the policemen gone 10 cele-
brate at the center of attraction. 1t was
the j0liieSt sort OF a family party on
the special train, all of them good travellers.
sOciable and cOngenial people, and all care
was laid aside for the holiday. OF CalifOT-
MIA people, its Governor Markham, its trio
of eX-GOveTnOTs, and all the agreeable San
Francisco people who did SO much for them,
the ladies cannot say enough In praise, and
when they try to tell OF California flowers
they soon declare it impossible To give any
idea of the thousands of Gala lilies, the tens
of thousands of roses, the acres of oranges,
the acres Of eschsch0ltZia, and that canopy
Of Gold OF Ophir roses which still glOws in
memory.
But it is Secretary Rusk who has the
most to say about California. and some pO-
ton or philter must have been given him,
some gold dust thrown in his eyes, to make
him such a wildly enthusiastic, raging aud
shouting advocate for the glorious climate
and all its products. Gone is all his pride
and glory in the lawn and the flower beds
ffaau qffa-f I'm tlata arf
ment Of Agriculture and he does not want
any Californian to see those puny hOriicult-
ural efforts That Pasadena rUSe-b bush with
its 2500 blossoms and that Riverside orange
grower who was sitting under a tree and
getting S1700 an acre from the man who
bought picked, packed and
CARRIED AWAY
His oranges, stand out distinctly in Secre-
tary kuSk'S memory. Everything was
garden of Eden and paradise of flowers
Tor the august patron of husbandry until he
took that severe cold on Puget Sound that
so nearly became pneumonia and greatly
alarmed the rest of the party. Secretary
Rusk was vel! used up with this cold when
he arrived, but he soon rested and picked
up, and was able TO narrate his travels in
his own vigorous and characteristic man
uer Ii would be the only consistent thing
for this enthusiast TO go to California to
live when he retires from public life, and
if he keeps on Wanting the superior attrac-
tons of that State there ought to be a large
colony of new citizens out there VINO will
owe their choice Of homes to Secretary
Rusk.
The Presidents private secretary joined
him few days after his return home, and
both Mr.. and Mrs Haford are much I'M
proved by their little trip across the ocean.
Many things were deferred until Mr.. Hal
fOrd'S return, and but little was given 10 the
press during the first days after their return.
When the New York Herald sent to have
an interview concerning his triD-and this
was the newspaper which printed the most
meager skeletons of the partl'S dOings, aud
only outlines of his l40 speecheS-the Presi-
dent, with a grim humUT, penciled on the
back Of the card Thanks; / am not talk
ing now. B. Harrison" Surely. after all
those speeches and with three representa-
tiyes of the press at his elbow day and night
Tor a month, he was entitled to rest from the
interviewer and the stenographer
Secretary Blaine'S continued absence re-
tards many things. Senator Blair waits and
chung up, as they call III bangles uncOm-
fortably until something can be done with
him. Meanwhile the promised sensation and
deuOuement in Behring Sea affairs does Il OF
denOuo, and pOacheTs sail and things 90 on
as usual. Secretary Biaine's illness has been
GREATLY EXAGGERATED
In the papers. one run0r even having 1T
that the President had been summoned TO
New York to the bedside of this ailng
adviser Secretary Blaine's extreme care
of himself leads him to view more seriously
than any one else would the slightest ache
or indisyositiOn. He means to live as long
as possible, and he cOddles and cottons and
considers himself always with lis good
health in view At the first symptom of
being out of sorts he sends for his doctor,
and he is what the doctors call a good
patient. He minds implicitly. goes to bed
at the first order, stays there until he is told
he may rise, and neglects nothing that will
help his recovery. All his. family guard him
jealousy, and forget everything else in the
one first consideration Of his good health.
knowing this, few here believed the first
rumors of his illness being such serious
one, but his prolonged absence, his remain
ing away for week after the President
return, when Chinese. Chilean, Spanish,
Italian and Behring Sea questions are
pending, makes many believe that it is
something serious after all, and that the
Secretary is obliged to consider himself
more than ever.
Summer really came this week, aud for a
few days the asphalt was soft and Springy
to the tread, and cases Of heat prOstraton
occurred. The straw hat, the white gown,
the flannel shirt and the yellow shoe are out
to stay and Washington is to all appear
ances a Southern city in its summer garb.
The President and his family will go to
Cape May within the next ten days, and the
Cabinet families are preparing TO scatter.
Closed houses, boarded doors and windows,
are becoming sadly frequent along the up
town streets. and there is every evidence of
the long duh season that is coming TO the
capital. To-day there was to have been an
informal tea at the White House, when
official society would have gathered together
TO watch the children of Washington en-
JOY the lawn party that should have been
theirs on Easter Monday, but for raiu and
cold weather. But the rain descended, the
grass was soaked, and the children's play
day has to be postponed for another week,
much TO the little folks disgust. The Ma
rine Band would have played at its
FIRST oPEN-AIR CooCERT
OF the season. aud after its triumphant con-
cert tour this band is enjoying high favor
and esteem in the community where it bad
been taken too much as matter of course.
The Ladies Club was a real club this week