The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-05-23
FROM GREATER NEW YORK
Personal and Miscellaneous Gossip About
Well-known Calfornians in Gotham.

IT'S cheaper to 60 to Europe these days
than it is to stay in America and put ur
at q big summer hotel. where you have to
show off your best clothes and lewelry, be
on your best behavior constantly. pay ex-
brilliant prices for badly served food, and
at the end of month or six weeks drag
yourself back to town worn out compile tely
and glad TO get home and rest. There.
fore, the score of monster ocean steam.
ships are crowded to their utmost capacity
during the months OF April, May, June
and July with, rich and poor Americans
who 90 abroad, where board is cheap and
tourists are not supposed to carry extrava.
CANT wardrobss. IT'S a pity, however,
that our beautiful land should be so de.
serted.
Foreign travel should be encouraged OF
course, but little bit of sightseeing in
ones own God given land would be com
mendable virtue for free-born Americans
to cultivate.
We have had feeting glimpse OF q
score or more of Californians within the
past two weeks. However, as they are
always birds of passage at this time OF
year we are compelled 10 be satisfied with
q glad handshake, a few hurried messages
from the dear friends in California and
then regretful good-by.
Even the resident Californians are fit.
ting away to country villas and seaside
cottages.
Among the passengers who sailed for
Europe on the Paris Wednesday was a
merry party of San Franciscans, consist.
ia
Dillon, Miss Cosgrove, Master Casey and
maid. They were guests at the Fifth
avenue Hotel several days before their
| departure for Europe.
| Harrison Mcgowan Parker accompanied
Mrs. Casey and party from San Francisco.
Mr.. Parker will remain in New York a
couple OF weeks. He paid a call at THE
CALL office on Park Row this week, and
afterwards met mum Der of friends down
town with whom he exchanged ideas re-
| garding things journalistic. Mr.. Parker
as the manager OF that breezy paper. the
| San Francisco Wave, has host of friend 8
here to welcome him always. During his
| soiourn in New York he will be at the
| Majestic.
f. Nj. Smith of Oakland has been STOP
ping st the Fifth-avenue.
Hon. Robert ]. Tobin strolled throuc b
the grand corridor Of the Fifth-avenue
Hotel yesterday looking extremely well.
He arrived in town last Monday, and has
not decided how long he will remain
among his many friends here.
Mrs. Fred p Wilcox. who used to be
pretty Bessie Carney, and who is now a
recognized beauty, will leave for Paris the
first week in June, to be gone several
months. Though Mrs. Wilcox has been
absent from California for many years,
she still keeps IN touch with her old
friends out there by welcoming them
royalty when they visit Greater New
York.
George F. S. White of San Francisco ar.
rived the first of the week and is putting
up at the Fifth-avenue Hotel.
Hon. John D. Spreckels has been q de-
cidediy busy man during the past few
weeks. He has made the Hoffman House
| his headquarters, but numerous calls out
of town have deprived his friends OF the
pleasure of seeing much of him. On
Saturday morning he ran down to Wash
ington and will not return to New York
until the last of this week.
James Russell of San Francisco is here
enjoying our delightful spring weather.
Apropos, New York looks ike brilliant
chrome at present, so vivid are the differ
emit shades of green that clothe the wooded
parks, and so blue is the clear sky over
head.
Wild flowers are growing along the
banks of the Hudson, and the vacant 10 s
of the great city are frightened with here
and there the bloom of buttercups and
dandelions.
When you visit Gotham and by chance