The San Francisco call., 1910-07-10
CUPID LANDS DART
in EXCLUSIVE SET
Engagement of Florence Ives
and OthelIo Scribner Is
Event of Season
Bride to Be and Her Fiance Are
Leading Figures in Local
Society

Few social announcements of the
est than that of the engagement of
Miss Florence Ives to Othello Scribner
which goes today to friends in many
cities by wire and by cable. The ex-
treme prominence of Miss Ives and her
family in society and of Mr.. Scribner,
both in society and the financial world,
make the match one of much impor-
tance. The announcement by Miss
Ives mother, Mrs. Eunice Jane Ives,
will start succession of pleasant re-
ceptions which will end only with the
wedding in the fall
Few girls of the smart set are
more widely known or more eagerly
sought after than Florence Ives. For
several seasons, since her return from
abroad, no brilliant function has been
complete without the grace and charm
of her presence. And she has been as
prominent in the field sports which
provide society with its diversion and
exercise as in the reception and ball
room.
BRIDES FATHER PIONEER
Miss Ives lives at the family home
at 1920 Washington street. Her father
was the late Doctor Ives, a pioneer, who
figured first in the stirring history of
Tuolumne county and later in that of
San Francisco. He came of a line
prominent in the statecraft. and social
life of the south. Miss Ives is the
youngest of his children. Her sisters
are Mrs. Henry J. Crocker and Mrs.
Laughlin McLaine. Her brother, W. S.
Ives, makes his home in Sacramento.
After preparatory schooling in this
city Miss Ives was taken abroad and
finished her education in the most cul-
tured schools of Paris and elsewhere.
She has been entertained by wide
circle of friends both in Paris and
London on the occasion of her several
! trips abroad. Though keenly alive to
the Joys of social life in the French
and English capitals, and though often
urged by friends to take up her resi-
dence with the California exfles who
live abroad, Miss Ives has always re-
garded the ties binding her to San
Francisco as too dear to be broken.
THOROUGH SPORTSWOMAN
A good whip and an enthusiast in
several other forms of sport, it is as a
golfer that Miss Ives excels. She has
won more than a little renown upon
the links. Indeed, her collection of
| cups and trophies suggests the silver
service of a battleship. She is nearly
always a strong competitor in the
local and Del Monte tournaments, and
| Sno Is nOIGQ IOE nST ueduy l1CA
activities have done much for the San
Francisco golf club, which she has
served as secretary. Her receptions
are never lacking in originality
Mr.. Scribner, too, is clever golfer.
1t was while he and Miss Ives were
following the ball about the links that
the sly god came from behind hedge
to make them forget the game. He
holds membership in the San Francisco
golf club, Presidio golf club, Claremont
country club and in the Bohemian,
| Family and Union League clubs.
GROOM OF THE WEST
| Scribner is a son of the west and
| his rise in the business world typif1es
| the possibilities that California pre-
sents. Reared in the San Joaquin, he
| studied law, was admitted to the bar
| in 1896. and began practice in Fresno.
| Three years later he had become so
engrossed in the growing oil industry
| that he abandoned the law. In the
Kern river district many small COM
panies were producing oil or drilling
| for it in a way that entailed loss and
! dissatisfaction. 1t was Scribner who
| first undertook the consolidation of the
! oil interests, and he was one of the
prime movers in the work which even
| tuated in the formation of the Associ-
ated oil company, which is today the
| largest factor in the oil industry of the
Pacific slope, marketing more than half
| of the fuel oil produced. For nine
years Scribner has served the COM
| pany as secretary and assistant gen.
| eral manager. BY his own efforts he
| has made for himself a fortune which
| ranks him as one of the financial
strong men of California and the west.
| He is a quiet but able factor in all the
large movements which make for the
good of San Francisco.
| Mr. Scribner lost his wife in an auto
mobile accident two years ago. With
| him at his home at 1886 Clay street
live his two young sons. Harold and
| Theodore Edward.
1t is among the possibilities that
| Mr. Scribner and his bride will make a
| European trip following the marriage.
but definite plans are yet to be made.
Nor has the wedding day been named.
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