The San Francisco call., 1910-08-01


toiling for his daily bread at o'clock
this morning. His six weeks honey
moon, spent for the most part in
cottage near Santa Barbara, has fitted
away, and this morning he finds him
! self face to face with the world.
Today he becomes a San Franciscan.
Like San Franciscans aud Americans
in general, he says the past doesn't
count He doesn't want to be known
as the son OF a great president. He
doesn't want to barter the name of his
father for wealth and position. He
wants to be able to sell carpets, and
he wants to he able to sell them well
enough TO make his own living. He
doesn't want to gain 'inordinate
wealth as he has previously stated,
but If he can sell carpets and become
moderately wealthy he is willing
Within a few days young Roosevelt
and his bride Will move from their
$3.50 a month apartments at the st.
Francis hotel to modest two and
half story house at 1910 Pacific ave-
nue.. It is the most unpretentious house
! in the block Just east, overshadowing
! it. is the mansion of Rudolph Spreckels,
Just west. toward Octavia street, are
the magnificent homes of ]. l.. Rosen-
thai, the shoe merchant, and the Sterns
of the Levi Straus company. :.
NEW HOME UNPRETENTIoUs
The Roosevelt home sits back from
! the street. It is comfortably large.
plain in appearance, but sufficient
withal for a young man starting out in
| life with a living to make selling car
pets Tt has no distinctive style such
as marks the ostentatious homes about
it, unless its simplicity and freedom
from affectation be a style.
The mouse is owned by Rudolph
| Spreckels and has been leased to
/ young Roosevelt. Around it, front and
| rear, is a garden, not spacious, and
! there~fs no room for garage.
ON the whole the house and the
grounds seem to reflect the attitude
! of the occupants. They want to be
real San Franciscans. And for time
| at least they want to be left alone
The imperious call of society will come
later for Mrs Roosevelt, nee Alexan-
der. is too well known in the drawing
| rooms of New York to allow her es-
cane from those of fashionable San
Francisco. Mrs. Roosevelt is the niece
| of Mrs. Harriet Alexander of New
| York, who is sister of w h
| Croker the banker of this city. Among
their many friends here are the W. II.
| Crackers. the Walter Martins, the
Templeton Crocker and others.
| HOUSE STILL UNFURNIsHED
As vet the house is unfurnished.
| week or so after the marriage cere-
rnonv. June 20 in New York, there was
sl,inned to San Francisco a carload of
Young Mrs Roosevelts furniture and
bric-a -brac, including many of her
wedding presents. These have not yet
arrived. but are expected before the
close of the week.
With this as foundation, the
Roosevelts will begin their purchases
in San Francisco. The home will be
QUILTED as far as possible with furnl-
ture bought here.
with keen eye for bargains in the
artistic as well as the useful, young
Roosevelt and his wife have been max
| ing round of the local stores. NO hal1
hour stroll is complete unless 20 MIN
,,tee of IL be spent before a shop win
dow gazing at and gauging the goods
displayed within.
Sunday is no exception to this rule
There seems nothing quite so impor-
| tant to them now as getting that Pa
eific avenue home fixed up for occupa-
tion. Yesterday afternoon, after half
an hours gossip in the blue room of the
ST. Francis the two started on walk
about the quiet shopping district There
were artistic things in the windows
which attracted their attention. The
displays in the show windows of Grant
avenue and stockton and Market streets
drew them like magnet
MANY STORES INSPECTED
Every millinery store, every art store,
every furniture store along Geary
street and Grant avenue and Stockton
street were inspected. After another
stop at the hotel the two boarded a
streetcar and betook themselves to the
home in Pacific avenue. First they in
spected the interior. planning to put
some particular piece of furniture
there and some other piece here, and
mentally arranging the general ap-
pearance of the furniture and furnish
ings. After that the garden and the
yard in the back and the view over the
houses below them in Broadway occu-
pied their attention. And then they
went inside quite satisfied, and, seated
on window sill, talked it all over
again. exclaiming upon the view OBJ