Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-08-09


dinner for 81. Dinner table d'hotc, with
wine, Is served at the Palace for fl.25.
At the restaurants one may imagine
himself In Paris One may breakfast
Ia fourchette for almost any sum up TO
$l.e5, oil with wine. Tho sD.ccnt dinner
at the French restaurants Is really
good ono, with led or white native
ordinary wine you will get soup, fish,
| an entrce, u joint with vegetables,
salad, a sweet cheese, coffee and ccgnac;
service and attendance by FrcncAmen,
and is good. OF the better California
wines. II you want them, you get half
bottle of Zinfandel, or Riodling, or
Mont Rouge or Sauterne for so cents;
good red Or white Burgundy for as
cents; native champagne, 10 cents. l
doubt if true fermented champagne,
| strange as it may appear, is yet made in
| California. The foreign wines sell for
about the same prices they do the world
over, aud the Californian Is much given
to them, to the exclusion Of the native
wines. Notwithstanding this, with ex-
perience, with the timing and refining Of
the soil, California Is bound to become
great wine country. Beer still fiounshcs
there TO q greater extent than one would
/
II is the drink Of the masses; wine may
be aristocratc. know Of no better
reason.
PLENTY OF FISH.
The markets are fine. Probably the
meats are not so good generally as we
get in the East, but the game, fsh, fruits
and vegetables are not excelled any
place. Fruits have not as line a flavor
as in the Middle and Southern States,
nor have the vegetables, but In the
beauty of coloring and in size are
grand. The oysters are revelation, y
pass by the little coppery natives, which
sell at 40 or 80 cents per hundred opened,
while the Eastern oysters sell for about
tho same price per dozen. They are not
successfully propagated here, but are
brought MS small ones from the eastern
waters, transplanted here in good ground,
and soon are better or certainly not in
feri0r to the best Chesapeake oysters.
, The fish are tlno and in all kinds and
, varieties Here we see the coed work
of the United States Fish Commission.
In early days no silad nor striped bass
, nor catfish were to be seen here; now
the very finest sbad can be gotten every
| month in tue year at reasonable prices.
+ So the striped bass, the catfish and the
. carp. The only criticism | heard on
the Fish Commission was that they had
l introduced carp. Tho fishermen call II
a hog and accuse IL of destroying the
), spawn OF other more valuable food fish
q This may be libel on the carp, but IN my
4 own opinion no man wants TO eat il
= when lie can get suckers.
q SAN FRANCISCO SOCIETY.
y In old days there was good ant
n select society augmented by the repre-
}, sentatives Of foreign countries and thei
Il families, officers of our own army ant
l. navy and of foreign naval officers anC
II Others. The Union Club in the Parrot
o Building, at California and Montgomer!
y streets, was select and hospitablc. Their
!, were lavish entertainments given il
houses sometimes SO small as to max
B. dancing very inconvenient, but nothing
daunied, the only needful addition beinI
y young unmarried ladies, who were scare
10 on the coast in those days. To-day Sa
S. Francisco keeps up her well.earne
D. reputation for hospitality. Some of til
n private residences are among the fines
Or in the world and arc the scenes OF LAWS
or entertainment Strange as it may ar
~ pear, great majority of the fine
" houses are built Of wood, the Californi
" redwood. There are probably three rea
w sons for this: expense, heathfulness c
re the wooden structure, and fear of th
IN effect of earthquakes on the more ma'
ty sive buildings. The San Franciscan wi
ID not acknowledge that the latter hold
r. true now, but the other two reason
10 probably do. The dwelling section {
in San Francisco is frame town. The fiji
nd limits for frame structures are bein
ep curtailed every year, yet very slowl.
lie The redwood is not intlammable; it burr
In very slowly and fire in IL is very easil
let subdued. Yet with the high winds an
q dry weather the fire department must
RS very efficient TO serve the people as su
Tor ccssfnlly as they do. 1t is grand d
M partmeut and owns q half million
est real estate, many steam fire engine
II cisterrs where necessary, with mar
nd horses and men. Seeing it in service oil
en- notes the perfect discipline of men al
It'll horses and absence of the hurry al
, is buster too often seen in this service, NJ
lb. one learns to contide in II sincere
on when 1t comes out triumphantly from
ed roaring fire famed hy bowling gale
on "a district crowded by frame buildin
m where rain has not fallen for months.
en-, PARK THAT rs A PARADISE.
car Golden Gate Park is the pride of I
lla city, and great reason have the people
TO- be proud Of it. One thousand acres ha
lds already been improved, reclaimed fire.
,tef the sand hills where nothing grew
ing first but the scrub oaks, and where
Die sand grass and lupine were planted,
proved better soil than 1t looked. 1t "
ent only necessary to haul little soil an,
ent little long manure and use plenty
OF water in this alkaline soil, plant, a
lllc nature did the rest. The soil looks ster
rs, If not sterilizcd, and probably add
ne soil in small quantity starts up nitrifi
The ton and all nature expands US thou
,er- struck By the maeician's wand. Ill
mi the heritage and the arborage and
am flora are superb. No description can
w. them justice. 1t is paradise for
ear, weary, the horticultural and the b
Iher anist. The Eucalyptus tree, Eucalyp
car, Globulus, by Its rapid growth has uiC
Itcd the authorities much in rapidly devel
an ing the park, but am sure as the OF
trees grow they will have to remov
great many Of them, for by It's power
ing absorbing aud evaporating moisture ,
al sec the effect on all surrounding 81
sed and foliage. To some its balsamic o
mo is agreeable and it is undoubte
= - health. giving and | trust as many