The herald., 1895-07-29
GAYETIES AT THE BEACH
A Saturday Evening Ball at the Hotel
Arcadia
Falling Off In the Number Of Visitors At
Santa nonica News and Per-
sOnal Notes

San IA MONICA, July 2s.-Hotel Ar
cadia was last evening the scene of brill
liant assem- blage. the occasion being the
regular Saturday evening ball. The spa
clous ballroom on the ground floor was
decorated in a charming manner and
dainty refreshments we're served in the
refreshment room. The affair was the
most elaborate OF the season. owing to the
arrival of quite numDer OF Los Angeles
people and the approaching departure OF
many of the San Francisco ladies.
Among the costumes the most conspicu-
Gus for their ,oveliness were the following:
Mines. Ozro w. Childs, Los Angeles,
ivory satin, trimmed with sable, no jew
els; Mrs. Koshland. San Francisco, white
satin waist. covered whith chiffon.
trimmed with valenciennes lace, black
satin SKIRT; A. Haas, Los Angeles. green
silk waist with lace and luster stones and
black silk skirt; s. koshldnd, black silk;
I. u. Brakeman, Saa Francisco, light
silk waist, black satin skirt, diamonds;
G. NJ. Keeney. green silk under cream
mold. San Francisco, black and pihk satin
waist, black brocade satin skirt; Groyne,
Bakersfield. pink crepe de chene, duchess
point lace, diamonds; W. S. Tevis Bakers
field. pale blue satin with Venetian point
lace and turquois and diamonds: X. II.
Miner, Japan, pale yellow brocade
Charles Prayer, yellow silk waist with
yellow chiffon and skirt, black vallou
EN- mbroidered in black silk and Jet. dia-
monds; Baron Jacobs, Tucson, grey Gre
pom, trimmed with white lace; Albert
Steinfeld. Tucson Mrs. S. Reinhardt sal.
mon pink silk trimmed with green velvet
W. A. Longstreet. San Francisco. white
satin trimmed with old lvalehciennes lace,
pearls and diamonds, T.. j. Cote. hello
trope satin With black chiffon, black
orepon skirt; o. b. Stanton, Bakersfield,
black and green silk; Moritz Mey berg.
Misses Scott, Los Angeles. pink silk with
old lace. diamonds: Van Ness, San Fran
cisco. lavender silk, decollette. pearls;
Blakeman. white mule over blue satin;
Keeney, creme mule decollette; Hilda
Jacobs. Tucson. white Swiss and silk;
Eden, pink organdie and ribbons; Kem-
per. white mulls with lace Nichols. creme
mule, point lace, ribbons, diamonds;
Leah Helman. Los Angeles. white dotted
Swiss; Schwarzchild. San Francisco, pink
crepe de chine with valenciennes lace,
pearls.
Messrs. Cbas. Prayer. Isadore Fleisch-
paa pa r. ia p Na1dos:r as I X r. B. Mos Mr MMafy
HelIman, Moritz Meyberg, Los Angeles:
Ness, jr.. San Francisco; B. NJ. Jacobs,
Tucson; Thomas s. Irwin, San Pasqual
frederick W. Gwynne. Alfred H. Wilcox,
Bakersfield; Lieutenant r: H. Muir,
Ruddock, Chicago W. b. Wiltshire, San
Francisco; Il. J. Coty, st. Louis; @. B.
Stanton, Bakersfield; Ozro w. Childs,
Los Angeles; NJ. G. Burmester. Bakers
field, were among the gentlemen in at
tendance.
BY the breaking Of an eccentric strap
on engine 1917, hauling the o'clock pas
senger train from here this afternoon.
the tram was delayed half an hour in
Los Angeles.
1t is estimated that about $500 persons
were in town today.
The whale drew large crowds. but the
excursion of the steamer Coils from Port
Los Angeles was the greater attraction.
Many OF the visitors went direct TO the
port without stopping I'ere. There was
the usual array of lunch baskets, and
iuncneon parties were numerous.
The North Beach bath house was the
scene of an interesting aquatic entertain
ment. given by the North Beach swim
ming club. The most interesting features
were the diving through fire hoops and
the building of pyramids:
Mrs. Keeney and family and Mrs. and
Miss Brakeman. who have beeu at the
Arcadia for the last two months, leave
row.
W. A. Driscon OF San Francisco is reg
istered at the Arcadia.
The spiritualist camp was visited today
by many of the excursionlsts. The nine
days session begins tomorrow.
4. H. Kock OF New Orleans entertained
a dinner party of the following Los An
geles people ut Hotel Arcadia last even
Ing: Mrs. John f. Platter. Miss Waddiloye
and Mrs. Major J. X. Duncan.
A special car containing III. f. Hunt
lngton, W. H. Hood and Superintendent
H. A. Fillmore of the Southern Pacific
was in Santa Monica this morning. The
gentlemen were on tour of inspection,
and after viewing the work on the bicy-
Gle track left for Port Los Angeles to in
spect the wharf.
Bathers were annoyed about noon yes
terday by encountering sections of the
deceased whale which came ashore.
The three foreign vessels due at Port
Los Angeles have not been sighted yet.