The San Francisco call., 1897-02-28


Cleveland, welcome, Mckinley. are the
murmurs which are sounding softly in
every State of our great Union. Only
few more days and the murmurs will have
developed into one grand shout OF en-
thusiastic welcome TO our new President,
William Mckinley. Foreign nations will
watch us with interest, and mayhap heave
a sigh of envy to see us launched safely
into a new administration which promises
continued peace and renewed prosperity.
Thousands of New Workers will run down
to Washington TO witness the inaugural
demonstration. From the present out
look it will be the most brilliant and en-
thusiastic Inauguration Washington has
known since 1869, when the soldier Presi-
dent, General Ulysses S. Grant, received
the oath of office. Prouder than kings or
queens, emperors and sultans should the
President of these United States feel when
he accepts the grand and gracious trust of
the most advanced and powerful Nation
under the sun.
Vive le Mckinley
Next week there will be little group of
Californians who will meet at an uptown
apartment, we'll known among the colony.
and the business of the group will be to
talk over and arrange for forming Cali
fornia Club in Gotham. 1t is their Inten-
tion to make the club protective as well as
social, and 1t will undoubtedly be sue
cess from the start, because a number of
most prominent Californians here are per-
sonally interested in the movement. More
anon.
The Hoffman House has presented a
In
fact all the leading hotels have been
crowded, many of them being obliged to
turn arriving guests away. What with
the tagging visitors from the cycle show,
the iIlustri GUS members of the American
Newspaper Publishers Association and
the regular visitors that crowd New York
during the months of February and
March, the thealers, hotels and even the
churches have been filled to their capacity.
The American Newspaper Publishers
Association had a most enthusiastic and
satisfactory reunion during the past week,
and brainy men representing every State
in the Union ssembled here tosdiscuss
old and new business, and make new
rules for the protection of employer and
employe in the newspaper publishing
world.
On Friday night they partook OF ban
quet at the Hoffman House, and Satur-
day found them bidding adieu to New
York, and like good honest citizens re-
turning to their homes and firesides.
Colonel Harrison Gray o is of Los An
geles was a prominent figure during the
weeks convention. He anticipates re-
naming in New York for week or ten
days more, and then HE away to the
golden-poppy land of California.
Edgar B. Carroll has been welcome
visitor to Gotham during the past week.
w. s. Hook is guest at the Imperial.
met the manly though always juvenile
Joseph Redding Friday afternoon, and his
countenance was q study. He was in COM
pany with five or six people, three Of whom
were very pretty and handsomely gowned
women, but somehow the uroane Joseph
looked dissatisfied and like a harp un-
strung. l may be mistaken, but somehow
l fancied that our gifted musician and
com poser, our dignified lawyer and true
hearted Bohemian, had at last succumbed
to the subtle influence of surroundings
and assumed as a matter of course the
bored and blase EXPRESSION which the aver
age New York club man seems to revel in
and consider the proper caper. Even
around at the Lambs Club, the home of
true, bg-hearted Bohemians, they are
learning the stiff necked bow of the mod
ern "iackanape." Anyway, Joe Redding
looks well, and it will make happy the
friends who love him to know that he still
retains the trim. athletic figure which has
made him the envied among the envIed
for the past twelve years.
W. B. Collins, prominent citizen OF
Sacramento, is remaining in the city for
few days on business bent.
Frank w. Leland foated into town on
Monday.
George Palmer, who was for many years
engaged on the Examiner and served in
the capacity of assistant manager, special
writer and artist during the first years
Senator Hearst owned the paper, is now
the manager of the art department on the
New York journal. Mr.. Palmer has his
family here with him, and their home is
at Bepsonhurst, a seaside resort over on
Long Island. He declares that a summer
resort is as charming in winter as it is in
summer. To hear him describe the pecu-
liar freaks that wind and wave and tide
work ON the watery main which stretches
away toward the b.ue-green horizon is
intensely interesting.
Great blocks of ice came floating up
into the little cone-like bay on which his
home looks out, and sometimes they are
carried in in such great quantities that
they form an almost smooth surface for
many yards from shore. At other times
old shoes and hali-decayed vegetables
float upon the sandy beach, and they are
made marvelousy beautiful by thin coat
ings of ice which have formed in the cold
waters of the bay. "Shoes a la glace, 1
term them," says Mr.. Palmer. Eastern
weather agrees with him, for he is the
picture OF health and good spirit.
DR.. R. Eugene Payne, late of San Fran
cisco. has settled down permanently in
New York, and has already established
himself firmly in the profession of dentis-
try. His offices, at 6S West Thirty-fifth
street, are a charming rendezvous for
visiting Californians. DR.. Payne will be-
gin a course OF lectures on irregularities
Of the teeth at the New YORK Dental
School. beginning the first week of March.
E. M. and John NJ. Ledden of San Fran
cisco are late arrivals in New YoIk's busy
thoroughfares and will continue as guests
at the Marlborough during their soiourn
here.
A. L. Wismer arrived on Wednesday
and was greeted with genuine spring
weather. Apropos, we have been having