The San Francisco call., 1896-07-04
PERSONAL.

guest at the Russ.
DR.. c. H. Castle, physician Of Merced, has a
room at the Grand.
James Nichols of Dublin arrived yesterday
at the Lick with his wife.
DR.. d. II. Bair, railroad man OF Sacramento,
is at the Grand with his family.
Silas Carle, the Sacramento contractor, is at
the Lick on brief business visit.
J. Ross Trayner, fruit merchant of Marys-
vile, is among the Grand arrivals.
J. G. Day, the contractor of Cascade, Or,
returned to the Palace last evening.
NJ. V. Brown, a fruitbuyer and shipper of Los
Angeles, is among the Grand's guests.
Cyrus c. Babb of the United States Geological
Survey is registered at the Occidental.
A. Eckman, a druggist and mining man OF
Oroville, is late arrival at the Grand.
F. s. Carter, an officer of the United States
navy, is making short stay at the Cali
fornia.
Thomas Diamond of Virginia City, formerly
foreman of the Hale and Norcross mine there
is at the Russ.
]. H. Martin of Woodland, who buys stock
for the wholesale butchering business, arrived
at the Russ yesterday.
Robert Ii. Dunn and wife, who have a private
boarding house on the campus at Stanford Uni
versity, are guests at the Palace
C. Roghe of Hongkong arrived from the East
last night and went to the Occidental where
he will remain un til he continues his journey
homeward.
party of about fifty civil engineers and
their friends returned to the Palace last night
after having visited Del Monte and Santa Cruz
From here they will go East to their respective
homes.
c. A. Lanchheim Of the United States Marine
Corps is at the California. He came from the
north recently to attend the court-martial
held the other day at Vallejo, where he acted
as judge-advocate.
Colonel Alex G. Hawes, who left San Fran
cisco little over year ago to accept the po-
sition OF manager of the New York Life In
suranee Company in England, returned from
London Thursday evening last.
Juan L. Marshall, an old resident and
wealthy landlord of Mazatlan, Mex, arrived OF
the Occidental yesterday for what is his seven-
teenth annual visit to San Francisco for few
weeks of sightseeing and pleasure.
John R. Salln, president of the Pacific Tele-
graph and Telephone Company, accompanied
by his wife and two daughters, left yesterday
for New York en- route to Europe. The party
expect to put in four months seeing the Old
World.
l.. M. Fletcher has been appointed general
Pacific Coast freight agent of the Missouri Pa
cifc Railway Company, St. Louis, Iron Noun
tain and Southern Railway Company, and
leased, operated and independent lines, with
headquarters in this City.
G. Pa checo of Ignacio, Contra Costa County,
arrived at the Grand yesterday with his wife
and two children. He is built on a generous
plan, as was his father, who was one of the first
Spanish settlers in that county and a man so
very large that the Oldest inhabitant does not
remember having seen his equal.
Mrs. Lucy L. McCann. who Iectured extern
sively at the Atlanta Exposition on the re-
sources and interesting features of California,
returned from the East last night and regis
tered at the Grand. Mrs. McCann win go to-
day to her home in Santa Cruz, FROM which she
has been absent for Sc many months.
John ]. Sabin, president of the Telephone
Company, started last night for three months
tour of Europe. He was accom- panied by Miss
Grace Sabin, Miss Pearl Sabin and Miss Alice
Cowen. who for the last three years has been a
student at Stanford University, but who pur-
poses to remain in Berlin for four years and
perfect herself upon the piano.
John West Thompson, nephew of the United
States Minister to Brazil and son of the
well-known Journalist of Redwood City, re-
turned yesterday from Portland, Or, where
he has been connected for the past year with
the Portland General Electric Company. He
Is graduate OF the electrical department of
Stanford University, where, during his college
days, he was champion tennis-player. After
Japan, where there is said to be good field
for an electrical engineer.
Sissurretta Jones, "the Black Patti arrived
at the Russ yesterday from New York. This is
her first visit TO the Pacific Coast. She is ae-
companied by her husband, D. r. JONES' who
declared yesterday that the madame is the only
genuine, died-in-the-woolB Black Patti. although
many pretenders have assumed the title in
order to profit by the reputation Mrs. Jones has
long enjoyed both in America and in Europe.
In proof OF his assertions Mr.. Jones showed
complimentary notices by the press of different
cities in Europe and in the East. The we'll
known coloied songstress will be in this City
six weeks.
William B. Jones, who returned on the Mari
posa from q four mon nths excursion to Japan
China ana the Hawaiian Islands, says that the
$4,000 hotel built near the great fire crater on
the Island OF Hawaii, is white elephant Just
at present, because the crater has not done
business at the old stand for eighteen months
excepting an early and brief spring opening it
held in January. The volcano is the great at
traction for tourists and the first question that
is asked stranger in Honolulu is, "Have you
seen the volcano?" The lake of fire was the
pride OF the kanaka's heart, but to-day, like
the Democratic party, its fire is out, and only q
cloud OF smoke issues forth from the yawnfng
blackness as sort of bluff at activity. Mr.
Jones says that the Japanese are very much in
favor of Japan for the japanese, and are rap
idly doing for themselves what they formerly
hao foreigners do for them. In the party of
which Mr. Jones, who is from Newburyport,
Mass, had charge, were: Isaac H. Smith of
Brooklyn, n. Y, an ex-Alderman and promi-
nent member of the G. A. r., who is now ex-
tensiyely interested in Brooklyn real estate;
Theodore Z. Smith OF Brooklyn, president of
the Spencerian Steel Pen Company and Samuel
n. Hoyt and William Schweckendieck, retired
merchants of New York, the former having
been member of the New York Produce Ex-
change. The party is at the Palace for few
days rest before continuing the homeward
journey.