The record-union., 1895-06-03
CALIFORNIA TOURISTS TN GOTHAM.
The Railway Conductors Take in the
Metropolis.
A Tangle at the Hotel-What tie
Pacific Coasters Saw and Did
In the Three Days.

Especial Correspondence of RECoRD-UNToN.l
NEW YORK, May 23-(California O. K.
c. Excursion)-This great city sent out
Its alluring magnetism long before our
party arrived, and several were drawn
ahead to see the sights or to embrace long
unseen relatives. Colegrove, Jones,
Graves and others left US at Washington
or Philadelphia and shot out ahead for
the metropolis or places near. Jones ran
into curious coincidence. He went to
Boston to see sister, and while there for
g few hours an uncle, who had not been
down from Concord for three years,
CHANGED in and jolly reunion resulted.
The party all went to the Broad way
Central, formerly the Grand Central,
down on Broadway, near Ninth street.
Manager Birch. OF the famous Ebbitt
House, Washington, urged the Broad
way Central on the party, and as the
Ebbitt people treated our vagrant tourists
SO ike princes the recommendation was
given much weight. Some were sorry
later. A young man who had recently
been released from the State Insane Asy-
lum-sO IL was gossi ped-asslgn the
entire party To rooms without first seeing
the party. The result was scene OF
confusion and creature complaints"
more thrilling than any scene from "Our
Boarding-house." Eleven people were
assigned To one room, and If DR.. Park
hurst could have heard some Of the pro-
family that was lightly breathed he would
have started ca ii fresh investigation.
1t was awful, aud how the tangle was
Strengthened out no one will ever know,
but Strengthened it was, and every body
was happy.
In the three days allowed by schedule
the party attempted to DO New y ork, and
the present reports indicate that the city
has taken about seveuty-hye falls out Of
the party and is still ahead. Doing New
York in that time is like going around
the world in eighty days, and the result
will be many tired brains and weary feet
The man who walked up the 100 steps OF
the Washington Monument again DIS
tingushed himself by walking over
Brooklyn bridge, and then tried to take
a little constitutional by walking from
the Battery TO Madison Square. 1t took
four dozes of bromo-seltZer TO brace him
up at Union Square. and he came back TO
the hotel III cab with ice on his head.
Up at the st. James, where Pacific
Coasters always stop. the party encoun-
tered Senator Jones of Nevada and Dan
Burns, who in the past has helped make
Senators. Senator Jones was looking as
smiling and happy as usual. When
asked about his health, concerning which
there have been some serious reports.
the Senator responded that he never felt
better in his life, and his rosy cheeks,
bright eyes and springy steps backed up
his own opinion of himself Those anti
silver men who think Senator Jones'
health may weaken bis work IN the hight
for bimetailism or free silver are writing
their words in water, SO far as all present
appearances may help one TO judge. The
Colonel and his diamonds were as brill
liant as ever. He declined TO talk politics..
The drive out Fifth avenue atop bus
or in cab was a favorite tour. The great
park out at the end of the drive never
looked more beautiful and the brown
stone palaces along the route mover more
alluring. The Gould and Huntington
houses were closed, the Goulds being in
the country and Mr.. Huntington sailing
for Europe the day the party arrived.
crowd of our o. K. c. men CHANGED down
on the Majestic the day Mr.. Huntington
sailed. He was looking in frst-class
health. and greeted those Californlans
whom he knew in his usual bluff and
hearty style.
English buffers in broadcloth and
dlc as
in these Fi.th-avenue homes as toads
after rainstorn. They form one of the
links in the anglo-mania chain that has
bound swell New York society for many
years. Crests on the panels of family
carriages and liveried footmen are other
examples that plain unGemocratic ideas
are not enough TO satisfy swelldom.
"Those white breeched tiunkies make
me sick!' said one outspoken San Fran
cisco lady, but it's just possible that if the
lady Of The FIfth-avenue house had seen
the others Chinese cook the expression
of opinion might have been equally as
strong.
Rockefeller, the oil king, one observant
member OF the party remarked, doesn't
live on Fifth avenue, and makes no pre-
tensions in the line OF family creats or
British servants. The Rockefeller man
sion is on West Fifty-tourth street, few
doors from the avenue OF brown stone
palaces. 1t Is a substantial hve-story
house, with garden larger than any of
it's neigh bors, and q homelike air about
it's superb fittings that make the visitor
feel the house is q home in the fullest
meaning. A well-trained, uninterrupted
maid answers the door bell, and civility
and good breeding characterize all serv-
ants that the average visitor encounters.
The Rockefeller brothers who laid the
foundations of their enormous wealth in
q store in Cleveland, o., still have pride
in that city and keep up mag nihcent
country home out in the East End OF that
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