The morning call., 1893-06-20
GOSSIP OF THE HOTELS.

Editor C. Machda OF the Daily Hochi Shin
bun OF Toxic, Japan, the leading newspaper OF
the japanese capital. is a guest at the Palace
Hotel. He arrived on the City OF Peking, and
is accompanied by valet. Editor Machida Is
the wealthiest newspaper man In Japan. His
hobby is agriculture. and during the next two
weeks he Will visit the wheat regions OF the
Sacramento Valley and make a thorough IN
specion of the Napa, Santa Clara and other
valleys hereabOuts.
DR.. j. R. Curnow OF San Jose. was in the city
yesterday on his way home from Los Angeles.
Dr. Curnow is greatly Interested in the subject
OF cremation, and has been investigating the
crematory at Los Angeles preparatory TO estao-
fishing like institution in San jose. He Will
make long report on the subject to the San
Jose City Council.
DR.. Luis Arriaga of Guatemala. who is at the
Occidental, an extensive coffee planter, SAID
yesterday: The coffee crop is unusually large
this year. and the business Of coffee growing is
rapidly increasing. Foreign syndlcates have
been buving up large tracts of land during the
past few years. and a railroad is being con-
strucied which will carry the products OF these
new properties to the seaport towns. from
whence they can be sent to the markets OF the
world. This new railroad is something Ike
200 miles in length, and will be OF untold value
to our country"
When Mr.. and Mrs James II. Robinson OF
Redwood City arrived from Japan on Sunday
morning and took apartments at the California
Hotel they received for the first time the
startling intelligence that their residence at
Redwood City had been totally destroyed by
fire a few weeks since The house, which. with
lis contents, was valued at $4,000, was In
sured for only $4,000. Not thing was
saved from the burning building, and Mr..
Robinson's loss was complete.
Governor Rafael Reyes of Manila the
capital city of the Philippines. who is at the
California with his pretty wife, Is a Spaniard.
He is young man, only thirty years OF age,
but has amassed a fortune estimated at
S1O,O0O,00O. He is greatly interested in
mechanics, and yesterday visited the Union
Iron Works machine-shops of various kinds
tire-engine houses and other places where he
could learn more OF the mechanical arts. He
Is delighted with the buildings OF San Fran
cisco, and says that In his ci OF :Manila, with
population Of 100000, there are nothing but
one-story structures. An upstairs room is
unknOwn In the Philippines.
Randolph E. Hartley OF Denver, Colo, who
is one of the officers and leading stockhold-
ers of the Denver Water Company. an institu-
tloD equal to the Spring Valley IN wealth and
importance, is guest at the Grand Hotel. Mr.
Hartley is a capitalist, and is planning 10 inter-
est himself in several Pacific Coast enter
pIises.
The Nawab OF Rampur, like other Indian gen.
tlemen of rank, is an lnVeterate cigarette
smoker. He called at Turkish tobacco store
on Montgomery street yesterday afternoon and
purchased 600 Turkish cigarettes, which sup
ply he calculated will satisfy his habii until he
returns from Alaska. For these cigarettes the
Prince Of India paid Sc per 100. The entire
Nawab party left last evening on the Northern
overland train for Vancouver.
w. w. Gillett OF Palermo is atthe Occidental.
MIR. Gillett is the pioneer orange. grower of the
Palermo District. Besides his California in
terest he has extensive orange groves in
Florida. He expects 10 develop the Butte
County orange section TO such an extent that it
will rival the Riverside District of Southern
California.