The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-05-10
IPkTHWAY STREVN WITH FLOWERS.
Ths Presidential PTtY'S Letters Home De-
@TiDilg Their Reception in California in
General and San Francisco in PaTtiCU-
la-ClUBS and Club Life-Ths Worlds
Fair MANAGEMENT.
Special TO THE SUNDAY CALI.


Francisco over the Presidents visit The
dispatches are fairly smothered in flowers
and the whole Western edge OF the con-
tinent seems to be strewn with blossoms.
Few personal letters or messages have
come back from the travellers since their de-
parture. and the families of the two Cabi-
net officers who are touring with the Pres
dent derive nearly all their information from
the newspapers. All of them have sent
word that the arrival in San Francisco with
the illumination of the city and harbor was
the most magnificent sightof all, and alone
worth going across the continent to see.
The travellers will soon be home and then
their tales will make the rounds of the
town, and bring all the incidents of the trip
to the front again.
Going seems to be the order Of the day,
and every one seems to be just about setting
forth on a Journey. All the shoppers are
buying their hats, their gowns, their gloves,
trunks and bags for some prospective jour
ney. Mr.. Truxton Beale was given r fare
well dinner at the Metropolitan Club this
week, and starts on his journey to Persia.
Poor Senator Blair had only started west
ward to catch the steamship China on his
trip to the Celestial realm when little eX-
elusiOn act was passed at his expense, Now,
that great educational reformer and sup
porter of so many reform theories and
measures returns 10 the scene OF his fare
well dinners. about as Notifying a position
as any one eligible 10 q frSt-class diplomatic
position would care TO fill, and the news
papers have resumed the guying that fol-
lowed the last weeks of the great Educa-
tionai Bill.
Society. or that circle which considers itself
a rad a
tiDguished selection of the fittest-haS or
gained a ladies' club, known as the Wash
fngtOn CLUB. 1t is formed on the lines Of
THE METROPOLITAN CLUB,
To which nearly all the husbands belong,
and il occupies an isolated suite Of rooms IN
the Richmond Hotel, diagOnally across the
corner from the Metropolitan Club. The
members of each club can keep an eye on
the windows and doors of the other eStab-
hshment and either much trouble or great
advantage IS going to result from that ar
Tangement. The club Is purely social IN its
objects, but IN comparatively small city
like Washington, with fashionable life
pretty well centeTed in one neighboThOod,
the want Of such an establishment is not
apparent All the members are women who
have beautiful homes where they can enter
tain their friends; the club-rOOms are too
far up from the business part of the city TO
be Of avail for shoppers luncheO1s and the
set, that IS constantly meeting in season and
out of season at the luncheOnS, teas, dinners,
balls, receptions ana IN the busy WhiTl Of
afternoon calling. The entrance fee is SIS
AMI the dues are So year, ana the club
begins with 10 members. The wife Of Ad-
miral Lee, who is daughter of the late
Montgomery Blair, is the President, and
fourteen governors and two Nice-Presidents
assist. The wives of the President and
Vice-President OF the United States are
always to be eX-cfficiO club members, and
cards will be sent the wives of foreign
Ministers To that degree is the affair
touched by the official circle. Not all the
wives Of the Cabinet officers were invited to
join the new club, ana only one Senator's
wife Is 50 lar cOnsplcuOusly h0nored. Start
ing it at this season, when Congress had
adjourned, the ladies were able to keep out
the Congressional circle, and the official
world plays small part in this social con-
claVe Of the resident and Winter-Tesident
families. a room Of whist-tabes and a
reading-TOom are she actual attractions Of
the club chambers at the moment An in
Rugural tea will be given next for the club
members only, and meanwhile the women
who belong to it are being
MUCH CHAFFED ABOUT
What goes on in those corner rooms, and
the women who do not belong to it, were
not asked TO belong to it-well they take a
lofty aud puritanic view and condemn the
enterprise altogether. But there are ma
irons who were asked to Join who strongly
disapprOye and whOdo much earnest talking
against it. The men have discussed it too,
and the mutual interest in each others
members and affairs entertained by the two
clubs on opposite corners is an amusing
part of IL all.
At the Country Club there have been
many afternoon teas given of late, and So
eiety has gathered on its lawn TO eat straw
berries and cream, sip tea and punch and
group Itself IN many pretty tableauX under
the old apple trees and beside the tall lilac
bushes. Spring gowns were never so
charming and simple nor the hats so
rational and becoming, and the grand defle
Of carriages out Woodley lane and the
TenallytOWn road proves that society is
still here In full strength. Mrs. Nellie
Grant SaTtoTis came to this country some
weeks since and was present at the eelebra-
ton on General Grants birthday in New
York, when the cornerstone of the River
side monument was actually laid and the
enterprise sent off, by great banquet
and many speeches. Mrs. Sartoris is ex-
pected here this week to pay visits to sew
eral of her old friends, and her attachment
20 Washington, where she passed her school
days and enjoyed her first social seasons, is
very warm. Many Of her giTlhOod friends
are here still and several Of her brides
maids, and number Of entertainments
are being planned for her, including a tea at
Tic OOuuuy OluU REDuuNS. Inc ciuD
itself is to give tea on each Wednesday Of
May, and by the second week of May Mrs.
Harrison will have returned to the White
House and instituted her Saturday after
noon teas, when the Marine Band plays on
her lawn. The band has just now returned
from four weeks concert tour.
PLAYING EVERY NIGHT
And sometimes twice day. and covering all
the large towns from New England to the
Missouri River. Everywhere they made a
great record and popular opinion may help
Professor SOusa In his next appeal to Con-
gress to put the band on the same footing
with the official bands of other great nations
and capitals. Local pride has been i'm
mensely stimulated by the golden opinions
Of other cities, and Washington really never
knew what fine band 1t had in its midst
until the encomiums and the envy of other
communities emboldened it to a real belief.
The horse has drawn his admirers to race
track and circus tent both this week, and
the city enjoyed more than its usual carni-
val. At the races every one went, swal-
lowed clouds Of dust, cheered and enjoyed
themselves on each Of these most perfect
afternoons for outdoor enjoyment. To the
circus every one and his mother-in-law and
all the children went, and that fairyland
palace OF the tented roof, with the three
rings, was set up almost In the shadow OF
the Capitol dome. But the hand played and
the elephants ambled round and the braZen
goddess on the dome never changed her
metal shield upon the flags and canvas as
any derogatOn to her.
That most unfortunate spectacle, quar-
rel among women, which has stirred the cir
eles of Worlds Fair management, has partly
transferred its scene from Chicago to WASH
iugton After April 8th. when the Execu-
tive Committee of the Board Of Lady Mana
gers unseated Miss Phoebe Couzens, appeals
were made to Secretary Foster by Mrs. Isa-
bella Beecher Hooker, Miss Phoebe Couz ems
and Colonel G. II. Jones, the Missouri Com
missioner, all at once-Secretary Foster says
that the Pribyloff seals have caused him
more worry and taken up more time than
all other questions before his department.
but he temporarily forgot the Worlds Fair
imbrogli o. Mrs. Hooker wrote him In wrath
% know how the EXecutiYe Committee could