The herald., 1897-02-28
SAN DIEGO
Tourists Seeking Health and Other Things.
Buyaclimate Gossip

GAN DlEVO
Tourists Seeking Health and Other Things.
Buvaclimate Gossip
SAN DIEGO, Feb. 26-The visit this
week of H. T. Huntington and Charles
F. Crocker had some significance, it is
believed. They are in very good
health and evidently did not come
solely to breathe our ozone and look at
the bay. We want railroad to Yuma,
and it is believed that in looking over
their line they ran down here to have
few minutes chat with some of the
principal promoters of the projected
road.
The city is now wrestling with the
anti-expectorating in public places or
dinance. The recent rainstorm flooded
the pavements, and the nuisance was
thus hidden from view but now it may
be necessary for the authorities to make
arrangements with the water company
for the opening of the hydrants on the
the principal corners and the flooding
of the pavements at stated intervals by
turning on the hose. The pavement in
front of the hotels and boarding houses
is in what may be called an "offal'
condition, and the nuisance is menace
to public health. Every one. especially
the tourist with cough and one lung,
thinks that the ordinance applies 10
every one excepting himself, conse-
quently no one obeyS it, and pedestri-
ans in those localities must like the
Populist, take to the middle of the road,
or else walk on stills The ordinance is
practically a dead letter, from the looks
of the pavementS.
The city has more than it's usual
number of visitors at this season, and
the hotels and boarding houses, of which
there are many. are in a prosperous
condition. The failure or assignment If
a hotel here would be almost as strange
an incident as the failure of a brewery
here or elsewhere
Tourist life is an easy one-for them,
put for one who is accustomed to the
rush OF the business world, and being
right in it, such an existence would GER
tainly seem very tame. There are two
classes of health seekers-invalids and
pretended invalids. The latter put on
solemn face and cultivate a cough in
order to induce their husbands or
fathers to open their pockets and give
them the wherewith to visit a health
resort. 1t is the good time that they
are after, and it is remarkable how
quickly their health is restored Some
recover the day after their arrival-of
course assisted by our climate. Women
are more successful in their deception
than men, which accounts for the ho-
tells overlooking with women in abole
the proportion of ten to one; that is il
STRIPPING dude Is reckoned as a man.
They are useful to the ladies' however.
as companion pieces while strolling
along the, beach, picking up shells,
leading them into the surf. or In attend
ing them while riding other d6nkeys,
ana IN chatting with them on the piaz2as 8
during the lazy afternoon when the
men are too busy at work. AS a sample
of this amusement: The Philadelphia
was giving signal from her whistle
which has an excruciating sound. A
calcimined blonde eagerly asked: "Gra-
cious me, what is that?"
Her attendant, Friday, explained.
softly That is--ah. Devihne
whistle BE-.
1T, sounds like It," lisped the new
woman, with an emphasis on "it." and
making desperate effort to swear
Another iseraphic being from San
francisco, who had evidently given her
husband no. peace until he supplied her
with money for tour for her health,
suddenly regained it a few days after
her arrival at Coronado She was SO
remarkably healthy that she entered
the race for Goddess of the Csxniyal.
along with the twenty-seven others in
ia iiSAu. w iicIl IlcI I0DlHlHS nus SD1n1
heard of this he was so overjoyed at her
recovery of health that he wrote for her
to come home and BE- goddess of his
household. So heI popularity among
the dudes caused her to miss seeing the
carnival and the light that failed on the
goddess barge
Some of the bowling swells at Coro-
nado have necessarily shortened their
stay, 1t is rumored, in consequence of
unlucky dealings with we'll known pic
ture guards, and other games Of chance
1t is believed, on the other hand, that
some of the games are not games Of
chance-that is, that the outsider has
no chance of winning.
san Diego wants to know what rates
the railroads will give this section for
the coming Fiesta at Los Angeles. She
figured on SO round-trip rate from Los
Angeles for her Water Carnival. But
the figuring was done too late. The rate
was not asked for until the arrange
ments had gone SO far that the work
could not stop and then the railroad set
its own figures. Rates should have been
first decided upon, but the promoters
began at the wrong end, just as the
carnival came out first and last. 1t
should be remembered that railroad
people are shrewd, and that they do a
great deal of figuring at night, when
we are all asleep.
AT the afternoon session of the Demo-
cratic convention c. E. Holland received
the nomination for mayor by three votes
over his opponent. A e. Dodson. The
nomination for city treasurer was given
T. ]. Dowell by acclamation
A special court martial was held on
the Marion yesterday, and sailor Ed
ward Young, was dishonorably dis
charged from the service. He had
threatened to kill an officer, and was put
in double irons. Another sailor is to be
tried for a similar offense. 1t was the
Imprisonment of these two insubordi-
nate sailors that gave rise to the report
on the arrival of the Marion that there
had been mutiny on board. On that
night a gang of street preachers, who
thought that the sailors would hearken
to their tale of woe, was permitted to
board the vessel. They listened to a
sailors yarn about cruel treatment, men
In irons, etc, and instead of asking the
officers as to the truth of the story, the
eXhorters came ashore and spread the
evil reports which did so much injustice
to the crew and officers of the good ship
Marion
Yesterday morning the people of Ma
tional City were awakened by loud
explosion. Later it was seen that an
attempt had been made to blow up John
j. Becker's saloon by placing a stick of
dynamite under the front entrance A
portion of the front wall was wrecked
The proprietor and his family, who were
asleep upstairs, were not injured
The fifty members of the choir of the
Simpson Methodist church Of Eos An
geles gave an excellent concert in the
First M r Church nf thic citx, In CT ,,i,h+