The San Francisco call., 1897-03-14
FROM GREATER NEW YORK
Budget of Interesting News and Gossip
About the California Colony in the
Eastern Metropolis

Survey of California is at the Hoffman
/ House. and has been enjoying q visit of
business and pleasure com bined.
| E. M. Lynch OF San francisco has been
in town during the past week.
Mrs. Leland Stanford telegraphed ahead
| for her apartments at the Fifth avenue
Hotel on Friday, arriving Sunday even
| ing. in the best OF spirits, though some
what fatigued from the confning journey
across the continent.
/ s. Blum of San Francisco will return
home within the coming week.
! w. p. Dwyer, prominent resident of
| Sacramento, is guest at the Hoffman
! House.
It. D. Frawley, swith all his good looks
and seli-assurance, hustled about New
| YORK for two or three days last week,
winding up his affairs, etc., and with
| merry twinkle in his eye sailed out of the
| harbor on the Lucania, Saturday morn
| ing. Mr.. Frawley's friends in New York
are asking him how he does 1t, but he
merely looks wise and says: "Well, you
see, the West is great place. love the
people there, and I'm just chicken hearted
enough to th ink they like me little bit.
Anyhow it makes me happy to think they
do, so why should worry further" Mr..
Frawley expects to have lot of good
things up his sleeves and nestled away
under his hatband when he returns to
these shores.
| The sudden and unexpected death of
Nelson Wheatcroft has cast gloom about
| the Empire, Lyceum and Knickerbocker
| theaters which will not be lifted for many
days. Mr.. Wheatcroft was q refined and
intelligent gentleman, beloved by his
associates and admired by the New York
public. 1t is always said that "it takes a
gentleman to play villain on the stage
successfully" Mr.. Wheatcroft was a
splendid example OF the truth of that say
| ing, for no actor on the English speaking
stage could play villain with such deli
cate subtiety as the handsome and we'll
| built Nelson Wheatcroft.
| His funeral at the Little Church Around
the Corner on Friday afternoon was sad
and impressive, many actors and promi-
nent managers being silent witnesses to
the last somber rites over his soul-bereft
body.
L. E. K. Cormac of San Francisco is
registered at the Fifth-avenue Hotel.
Mrs. ]. A. Groome of Sausalito is enjoy
ing visit to New York. shopping and see-
ing the sights.
| G. F. Bovard, we'll known resident of
Los Angeles, arrived in Gotham March 1,
and went down to Washington to witness
the inaugural display. He anticipates be-
| ing in the East for month or more.
| A. Med. Riddell is in the city, having
arrived week ago.
Mrs. Richard Henry Savage went down
to Washington on Tuesday to visit friends
and attend the inauguration reception.
| She anticipates remaining in Washington
a couple of weeks. Next month she and
her husband, Colonel Savage, the success
full novelist, will start on a European
| trip, which Will cover about one year of
constant travel.
j. and Mrs. Liebes arrived from San
Francisco on Thursday. They are COM
fortably settled at the Holland.
George B. Sperry has been having an
en- joyabie time during the past Jew days
greeting old acquaintances and receiving
hearty welcome from a score of friends
here.
1t only seems few years ago when
Knox Maddox was slip of a boy, slender
as young sapling and as gentle-eyed as
girl. The other day / met him on
the avenue, looking SO tall and manly l
could scarce believe my eyes. He is a stu
dent at Yale College and has carried away
several high honors OF his class.
He returned to New Haven on Saturday
evening. Mr.. Maddox is native Cali
fornian, and part of his childhood was
passed in San Jose. He is the grandson
of Mrs. Sarah Kno1-Goodrich of the
Garden City.
Do you want to be lucky? Here is the
only recipe: Wear in your left pocket, or
at your left side, tiny rabbits foot
mounted in silver.
Take heed that the foot be the left hind
one of the rabbit. Said rabbit must be
killed in a country graveyard at midnight
during the dark of the moon on Friday,
the 18th Of the month, and must be put to
death by cross-eyed, hare-lipped, bow
legged, red-headed, niger on white
horse. Remember that if these directions
are not carried out to the letter the rabbit
foot will prove to be a bowling ana uncom-
promising "hoodoo." Candidly,
TREELA FoLTZ ToLAND.
"a Park Row.