The morning call., 1892-09-28
ALL KINDS ARE THERE.
And the Town Of San Diego ReJotcss
With Exceeding Gre.t Jnv.

And the Town Of San Diego ReJoicss
With Exceeding Great Jov.
SAN DIEGO. Sept. 27.-They have finished
the great conical roof of the plaza tonight,
and at this writing 1900 persons are sitting
or standing beneath il listening to the music
of the Twenty-fourth Infantry band Of he
Mexican army. We have met the enemy
and we are hsn. The headquarters of Cen
eral Torres, Governor of Lower California,
are at the Horton House, Immediately op-
posite the plaza, and the playful cit could
throw a cracker from the balcony Of the
hotel right into the most OF the crowd in the
plaza. If General Torres could experience
a single regret amid the torrent of invita-
ti0ns or friendly greetings showered on him
it would surely be that the pleasant remi-
niScent visions Of Mexco's old-tlme sover-
eighty are so soon to pass away.
IL is a Mexican night In every respect
SOmbreros discount derby and stovepips
unequivocally and completely. am wear
ing sOmbrerO, or an imitation OF one. my
self, not merely to be in the fashion, but
because l do not want TO revive the record
of the man who had not a wedding gar
ment on certain important occasion OF
scrptural record and suffered accordingly
and then, too, the night is warm, soft.
balmy, altogether suggestive OF climes that
are not suited to the cold in the blood and
the cold in the heart.
Just at this moment the band is playing
the air Fair Shines the Moon Tonight" :"
from "Rigoletto," and i rub my eyes and
ask If / am In the United States of America
or in Salvador, Guatemala or sweet, sunny
Italy itself. Beside me stands a Mexican
vaQusro, who looks astonshingly like old
Lambro, In Don juan
The mildest hammered man
That ever scutted ship or cut ; throat.
But he is enraptured by the music
Perhaps he has played that air on the
Marimba many time and often when he
has not been rounding Up cattle or killing
somebody. Another OF my near neighbors
is an Indian. There are any number OF
stray, wandering indians in town, and
they are expected to give trouble. But this
Indian Is just now silent, impossible, ap-
parently s!only indifferent. as Indians are
won't to be.
In striking contrast Is the m0mentary
working of the features OF a lively Amerl-
can girl who is evidently measuring with
her little feet the rhythm of the music to
see If the air could be waltzed as we'll as
sung. lively German blonde is beside
VINO says he would go to bed IL the band
would just play "Swanee Ribber" once to
remind him Of the old folks at home. L
see. too. the stolid features of an old Mexico
Californian, who came down on the Santa
Rosa. got pretty full at the start and woke
UP VII Out COUtfptlOu W hoh IL tutlc W Nae
time 10 get look at Acstraz Island.
1t is cosmopolitan crowd, assurediy.
veritable "omnium gatherum," and / give
these little scraps merely as a sample.
The knights Templar and Knights OF
Pythias organizations OF Los Angeles sent
strong delegations on this evenings train.
They ere on the street, adding to the pic
ture,;.s confusion of uniforms. Members
Of the naval battalion, sailors from the
Charleston, cowboys. Indians. Mexican va
aueros. summer girls, in white dresses,
Mexican girls, with the omnipresent
man;ila, naval officers, military officers,
tramps, old time ranchers, Chinese.
Greek and American boatmen, Ethiopians
and down-east Americans with lank
faces jostle y0u at every step. The
tOwnspeoplc are resting easy now. They
began with q golden vision of 10000 visitors
at $50 head to bestow their dollars on the
town. They came down to $4,000 and now
to 5000 or 10000, which will probably be
the figure tomorrow. But even S3OO,OOO
spent in the town must not be despised,
and the people OF San Diego are going to
bed happy tonight
1t Is quite warm, not to say hot. 1t may
not be exactly good form to sit down and
pen descriptive record Of the Cabrillo Gel.