The morning call., 1893-08-28
Close of the Country
Clubs Outing.
FESTIVITIES AT DEL MONTE.
Two Concerts, a Grand Display of
Fireworks and a Select
Clam Bake.

| 1hoSe VINO had breakfast at a Seas0uaDle
hour enjoyed the mornings band concert
from the balconies OF the hotel. This was
rather elaborate in detail and executed in
the usual style of the Park band. 1t lasted
| till luncheon was over and in the evening,
at O'Clock, Conductor Spadina led his
musicians through another excellent pro-
gramme. The numbers in the two con-
certs were as follows: Morning-Over-
ture. ''Stabat Mater" arranged by Merca-
dante; serenade. Schubert; "Aubade
! Printaniere." Lacombe; Scenes PittOr-
esque." Massenet-D Marche. ~ "Air de
Ballet" (9 "AngeluS." a. "Fete de BO-
heme"; grand selection, "Huguenots,"
Meyerbeer; prelude from "Lohengrin."
Wagner; fantasia. Faust" Gounod;
waltz, blue Danube" Strauss; overture.
"Tannhauser." Wagner; march. ''Salut
Lontain." Doring. Evening-Overture,
Light Cavalry" Suppe; selections from
robin Hood" DeKoven; Mosaic from the
opera of Lucia" Donizetti; overture.
"Orphee aux Enfers." Offenbach; ''Le
| Fills de Portheos." Henri Senee; overture.
"William Tell" Rossini; intermezzo siu-
fonico from "CavaIleria Rnsticana," Mas
cagni; waltz. 'Loin du Bal" Gillet;
'Lorelei' (paraphrase). Nesvadbe; intro
duction and bridal chorus from "Lohen-
grim" Wagner.
After the evening concert came fire works,
which brought crowd of gayly dressed
mOrtals to the margins of the placid little
/ lake to the north of the hotel, there to
witness a pyrotechnic display, the equal of
which is not seen every night in the year,
no, not every fete night or even every
! Fourth of July night. The Country Club
| laid itself out on this feature OF the pro-
gramme. 1--WE want soma new and novel
pieces" was the order given to the fire.
works importer, and they gave him carte
| blanche as to funds. In return the importer
sent out the following fire glories: lllu-
mination with one dozen mammoth green
torches, accompanied by a discharge of
| three half-pOund can non salutes discharge
| of three BON bshells of varied effects, fired
| from mortar; two pieces of water fire.
works. japanese school of goldfish, fired
/ simultaneously and accompanied by the
/ discharge of six-pound cannon rockets;
/ one piece. union fountain, and one piece,
/ gold fountain, fred simultaneously, dis
| charge of three Japanese b0mbshells of
assorted effects, fired from mortar; illumi-
nation with one doZ4n bags of red club fire,
accompanied by discharge of six four-pound
rockets of fancy assorted effects; one niece,
electric fountain and one piece whistlng
fountain. fired simultaneously discharge
of three bombshells; one exhibition piece
Fails of Minnehaha"-ten feet wide by
thirty feet high, accompanied by dis
charge of six siX-pound fancy rockets,
each one different from the others; two
pieces of prismatic cascade fouItain, ac-
companied by a bOmbette fountain, and
all fired simultaneously discharge of
three bombshells, Japanese effects; finale
motto. with candle battery. "U nder the
Greenwood Tree" Country Club" fol-
lowed by the discharge of an extra large
aerial bouquet consisting of 100 rockets of
| assorted eolored stars and effects, fired
simultaneously. There were not so many
of the pieces-just a round dozen all told
but each was a piece de resistance by
itself. and all were exhibited successfully
to the unbonnded delight of the outer
world from the town of Monterey, as well
as those in the swim at the Del Monte.
With the fireworks ended the entertain
ments afforded by the Country Club not
so with the entertainments of the night,
however. There was still that clambake,
that Rhode Island clambake. On the
beach near the bathhouse was the bake.
The fires were lighted as early as 10
o'clock. but out of consideration for the
religious scruples of the chief guest, the
Rhode Island part of the clambake was
n OF put into full force and effect till one
minute past midnight and the Rhode ISL
and part means the eating. of course. c.
A. Spreckels ana Fl. j. Crocker were the
hosts of the bake 1t was their little af-
fair, and though it was quite successful
withal and highly enjoyable throughout
there are not lacking those who deem it
trifls too exclusive in character and tone
to be entirely compatible with the great
est enjoyment of the whole.
or course these dissenters were among
those who did not care to attend the
Rhode Island clambake. or course, too,
there were reasons why they did not care
to attend, and the chiefiof thesei was that
they were skipped when the invitations
were given out. Not few of the oldest
and best known members of the Country
Club whose hospitalities have teen as free
as the air here were on that list of skipped
ones. Little things like these, unimpor-
tant enough in themselves. will occasion
talk. you know, at place like Del Monte.
And talk about them has been greater to-
day owing to the unwonted Quietness of
the daylight hours.
In truth. there has been considerable
gossip anent this and that. and one of the
things the gossips say is that hereafter
live pigeon shooting will be tabooed by
the Country Club in favor of clay pig cons.
The claim is made that the slo w-hying
doves do not offer as good test of marks
mauship as do the swift-fying clay pig
cons. There were 500 pigeons shot at yes
terday They cost more money and care
to handle than do the clays. Well. per-
haps there is question OF sentiment in
voyed in it somewhere. Ten certain very
rich young men have been discussed by
the gossips to-day; they are sons of their
fathers. and these fathers do not keep
tight hold on the pursestrings. These ten
sons are accustomed to cut dash and
make ten separate and distinct kinds of
Impressions wherever they go. About
A. NJ. this morning they made one hundred
different and distinct impressions at Del
Monte. They smashed the heavy earthen
cuspidors of 1.-The Club" on the hard