The herald., 1895-08-25
GAY TIMES At CORONADO

CORONADO BEACH, Aug. 24.-The
summer girls never looked half so swee,
and dainty as they do on the beach and
yeranda at Hotel del Coronado. There is
a winsomeness about them-a breeziness
that's cool and fresh as the salt sea spray.
DR.. Dorothea Lummls well loved as O
physician and admired for her writings,
is down from Los Angeles taking much
needed rest at the Hotel del Coronado.
John J. Byrne, general passenger agent
of the Southern California and Atlantic
and Pacific railroads, is enjoying life at
Coronado with his wife and daughter and
Miss Mary Byrne.
Mr.. C. NJ. Rumball. an ex-officer of tho
British army, is out in California looking
into a colonization scheme that Easton &
Eldrdge of San Francisco are working
up for an English syndicate. He spent
few days at the botel.
Last Tuesday small boy hooked &C.
pound halibut on very light hook and
line, and only sa7ed his catch by the aid
OF grab-hook in the hands OF a bystand-
er. The boys eyes were as bulging as
| the halibuts before the whale" as he
called it, was landed.
Miss Lille Crowell and Miss Henrietta
Andriot, two charming young ladies OF
Sacramento, lunched at the hotel We'd
nesday.
d. ii. Burks ana bride of Los Angeles
are at Hotel del Coronado enjoying their
honeymoon.
K. W. A. Godfrey, whole-souled or
ange grower from Riverside, is down on
his tenth visit to the hotel.
Miss Garvey and the Misses Rossing-
ton. who are summering here, are back
from a trip to Albuquerque, and in con.
sequence the hotel is brighter.
Mr.. NJ. ]. A. Biornson, the genial polygl lot
host OF Hotel del Coronado. accompanied
Mrs. j. A. Cobb and party, Of Colorado
Springs, who have been spending the past
month at the hotel. on their trip through
the eIiowstone park and Selkirk noun
tains.
Miss Beatrice Harraden and Miss Held
have charming cottage at La Jolla
which they call the Green Dragon. The
sign which decorates the door was
brought from England by Miss Harraden.
and is the original OF the Sign of the Green
Dragon. BY the way, why is it everybody
seems to have read Ships That Pass i'm
the Night at least they talk about it, but
seem to have passed by that charming
Story by the same author, Things Will
Take Turn?
Mrs. ]. d. Hooker of Adams street, Los
Angeles, was at Hotel del Coronado with
Mrs. DR.. Lummis, ana has gone to visit
friends at FL Cajon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will C. Garner are bot
ting up some salt sea air to take back
to San Bernardino with them.
Lieut.. ]. C. Gregg, U. S. A., who looks
every inch a soldier, is making tour Of
the coast before going to his new post at
Folt Leavenworth. He has boen stationed
at San Antonio, Tex.
Mai. c. Ewell, L. S. A., stationed at
Fort Walla Walla, is in Southern Califor-
MIA on sick leave. His charming wife and
daughter are with him at IL otel del Coro-
nado.
Lieut.. Charles L. Potter of the engineer
| corps, L. S. A., is down from San Fran
cisco inspecting the work being done
| on the jetty at Zuninsa shoals.
Arthur b. Calder, travelling passenger
| agent for the Canadian Pacific and al
| lied lines, IS at the hotel for breathing
| spell.
The hotel corridors, waiting room and
veranda were all deserted Wednesday
night. every body having gone over the
| bay to see Too Much Johnson.
q. Holterhoff, treasurer of the South.
ern California, has bought his wife and
| child down ,or an outing.
! Among the late arrivals at the hotel
are: Mr.and Mrs. Duncan Fillmore, ii. L.
| Abbott, st. Louis; Mr.. and Mrs. }. &.
| Hopkins, Clifton, Ariz. G. W. Hutch
| cliiie, Los Angeles; c.. II. Eager. San
| Francisco; Alphonse Quesmiester, Pitts
| burg; q. F., and Edwin Tomin,, ,P Pleasan'
| Plains, Ill. Mrs. Annie McParlane, Van
| derbilt.