The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-04-22
SAN FRANCISCO LETTER.
WHAT is GOING ON IN THE
COAST METROPOLIS.
A Melange Of News and Gossip from
the Stars Special Cores
pondent.
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL,


lights Immediately upon the personal"
column, when the owner decides to
try the mind-improver embodied in
city daily. Now the following seems
to SAVIOR of polygamous intent, and
ought to be suppressed instead of en-
Outraged by further circulation; but,
candldly, what do you think of it:
Wanted An elderly gentleman
wishing to marry respectable, wealthy
ladies. Send 10 cts. for details"
This may be an ofshoot of the re
cent completion of that grand temple
of Mormondon, dedicated mid chaotic
cries of the elements in Salt Lake
City on the 9th inst Forty years have
been consumed in its constructions;
10000 900 dollars of good Mormon
lucre have been offered at the shrine
of Saint Brigham to build an edifice,
which to Salt Lake City and the Nor
mons, is what ST. Peters is to the City
of Rome and the Catholics. 1t is said
that the willy Brigham 0han whom no
wilier ever lived) spurred on the some
times quiescent religious spirit of his
followers, and at the same time. picked
their pockets by bis utterance, that at
the completion of this temple, Christ
would come again to earth, and all
would be harmony, and heavenly bliss
and crops would never fail; in short,
there would be a "heaven at hand,
society realized in the city by the saline
lake. Brigham had large and ten
anted brain. He knew well that in all
human probability, he would be gather
ed to his fathers (more literally speaking,
mothers, according to Mormon prac-
tees and precepts), ere the completion
of the temple, and his rash prediction
would have to be met by some other
saint not so full of years. Now at this
appointed time, when his disciples
meekly ask why the revelation of the
sacred parsonage is still delayed, Brig
ham Young's successor MILFORD Wood
ruff, is called upon to parley with the
specifically inclined, and in common
with less sanity persons when in a
box, asks for time. The temples in
terror is said to be a thing of beauty
hitherto undreamed Of This your
readers will have to accept on trust, as
your correspondent is one of the per-
dition-bound Genties, one of the pre-
scribed whose feet shall never profane
even the holy threshold.
The venerable William Ingraham
Kip, Protestant Episcopal Bishop of
California, most beloved and revered
of all the clergy on this coast, has pass
ed to his eternal rest. He was born in
1871, and after his graduation from
Yale college in 1885 he devoted his
days to the priesthood. His home on
the corner of California and Powell
streets in this city was the scene of his
death, just after midnight on April 9TH,
Blindness had come to him in his later
years, and in enforced idleness of body,
though with mental faculties ever alert,
he awaited the end.
Eastertide in this city brings forth
all the flowers of the field, all the fruits
of the loom, to bedeck the fair devotees
who on Easter-Sunday reverently bow
their heads in their dainty cappings, il
on no other day in the year. Beauty
was out in force on that day, anc
though a gentle shower just at the close
of morning services caused anguish tC
be depicted on the pretty faces under
the prettier bonnets, it was only ar
April shower, just make-believe tC
show what the rain god could do were
he disposed to be disagreeable. The
churches were beautifully embowereC
with flowers and tropical plants, ascen
sion lilies predominating in the decor
atoms. At Trinity, as is usually tht
case, standing room was at premium
for half the service which lasted two
hours, and those who expected to maxi
a sensation with their new Easte
gowns were as ANONYMOUSLY thrust t
the wall as were those like your cor
respondent who came to see-not tt
be seen. The music of course was eS
ceptionally fine. Mrs. Marie Wymal
Williams, S. FPS favorite, was in eS
cellent voice and her ofertory from
HandePs oratorio of "The Messiah,
81 know that my Redeemer liveth,
was something truly beautiful. Do
hear your fair reader murmur, "and sh
never says word about the bonnets2
Religion first, my dears, and milliner
afterward. All in good time Their
really was not much opportunity 70
close observation lin one sense,
When people are huddled together lik
cattle in a pen, effects are unknow
quantities. Near my square inch c
space was a tall graceful woman wit
dark eyes and hair. She wore hand
some pearl gray cloth costume, mad
to fall in long straight lines and yC
with the fulness that is so essential
this springs toilets A white chip hs
on her black hair was trimmed entirel
in their hideous but ultra -fashionabl
shade between heliotrope and crimso
which we used to call magenta. 1t al
peared in flowers massed under tn
brim which was raised trife on tn
left side to admit them, and as in tn
case of most Easter millinery the flow
ers depended from the back of the ha
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