The San Francisco call., 1897-01-24

eral severe hemorrhages from the lungs
and her ply ysiclans have forbidden her to
accept any engagement theatrically this
season.
Her friends in New York are very ten
der and kind IN their attentions to the pa
tient little invalid.
Lud Zobel and A. Meyer, merchants
from Los Angeles, are guests at the St.
Cloud. Their stay is limited to two weeks
sojourn in New y York.
From Denver, Colo, comes the an
nouncement of quiet little wedding in
that city. The happy couple were Miss
Pearl Wagner, the beautiful daughter of
California's loved poetess, Madge Norris
Wagner to Major B. johnson, the son of
prominent Denver tinancier. May hap
piness and the best of good fortune be
theirs!
Madge Morris-Wagner has written a
number OF plays during the past two
years, one of which will be produced in
New York some time in June. 1t IS a
strong drama, dealing with an important
legal question.
w. E. Dennison, the well-knowp en-
gineer and contractor of San Francisco,
reached here on New Years day, but
FASTENED away to Boston, where he passed
several days most profitably inspecting
the city street-cleaning department and
investigating the important question re-
garding the removal and disposal of the
city's refuse.
Mr.. Dennison was treated right royalty
when he returned to New York. Cap
tain Waring, the president of the Street
cleaning Department of this city, put a
half-dozen experienced men at his COM
mand, and Mr.. Dennison had the splen-
did opportunity of studying the inside
workings OF New Yorks magnificent
STRENGTHENING system.
Mr.. Dennison will return to his offices
in San Francisco with very valuable
knowledge concerning the most impor-
tant question in city's government-the
paving and cleaning of streets and the
successful removal of offensive debris.
During his absence from California,
amounting to two months, Mr.. Dennison
has thoroughly Investigated the city gov
ernment of st. Louis, Cincinnati, Cleve-
land, Philadelphia, Washington, Boston,
Chicago, Kansas City and Denver. He
left New York on Thursday for Buffalo,
where he will stop several days, thence
on to Chicago, arriving in San Francisco
about the 29th of January.
Mrs. Frank Spencer is perfecting her.
self IN the arts here. She is a mem ber of
the New York Art Students League, and
a general favorite with the California
coIonv.
DR.. Agnes Sparks, formerly of San
Francisco and a graduate of the medical
department. of the California State
University, is meeting with splendid sue
cess in Brooklyn, where she has estab-
lished herself permanently.
Her practice is among the best people in
this city and Brooklyn. Her two sons are
developing into fine young men. The
elder son is attending the New York Law
University and the younger one is rapidly
developing into musician of prodigious
promise. The piano is his favored instru-
ment.
Here is the latest definition of what a
silver thin BILE is. or course, it halls direct
from Beacon street, Boston.
"a silver thimble is an argeueous trun-
Gated cone, convex on its summit and
semi-perforated with symmetrical inden-
tations."
Whewl just fancy sweet-faced, brown
haired Bostonese screwing that long rig
marole into her poor little pate.
There have been rumors lately current
concerning an upheaval in a well-known
Western family; if 1t develops sufficiently
it will be too good to keep, and as they
are at present in New York-but that
woul be telling.
TRELL1 FoLTz ToLANp.
"a Park Row, New York, January Is.