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previous: Railroads 1883 1886 1888 1890 1896 A July 211898 letter to Albert [on his way to Hawaii as part of the Spanish American War] congratulates him on making "excellent time in reaching San Francisco. I never made any better time in my six journeys across the country. We know she went in 1883, and four times after that, so she made one other trip -- probably in 1884 with the Union Square Theatre Company.
EJP's San Francisco Google Map
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=202426891661796490166.000498306dbbdab14224f&z=14
Mary Glen's planned
transcontinental train trip Chicago to
San Francisco via Denver and Salt Lake City, then north to Portland, Seattle and
Vancouver and south to Los Angeles
On my
first trip to San Francisco in September 1993 I was taken by Marj and Max Mathews to
the Cliff House and Seal Rocks as they were taking me from San Francisco to
their house in Palo Alto. My hotel room in the Sir Francis Drake on Powell
Street had a print of the second (1896-1907) Cliff House and was located only a
few blocks from the site of the Baldwin Hotel and Theatre. It was
several years before I learned the significance of these places in the EJ
Phillips story. Dick Pallowick took me to Chinatown, Golden Gate Park,
Telegraph Hill, the Presidio and the Civil War Fort Point.
The current Ferry Building was not built until 1898 but replaced a building in
the same location.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Ferry_Building
The August 1883 letter describing the ascent of Pike's Peak was written from the Baldwin Hotel, San Francisco.
EJ Phillips Our Society review
Baldwin's Hotel
San F'co Cal
July 31st 1886
My dear Son,
The journey was long and tedious. We should have been here yesterday morning &
did not get here until nearly seven.
The train ahead of us, which was the regular train, our being an extra, had the
two engines thrown for the track yesterday morning Blue Ridge Mountains. [in the
West?] We passed the wreck about 2 PM. No cars were upset but the two Engines
were turned right over. They said no one was hurt - but I think the Engineer
and his companion must have received injuries - but were not killed.
It is
very strange in these accidents how very reticent the RR officials are. The
Engineer of the 1st Engine was in a house near the accident, and we could not
find anyone who could tell us anything about him. New Engines had been procured
and the train had gone on before we arrived, so that nothing remained but the
two overturned Engines and the "wrecking Derrick train". Of course it detained
us at the previous station where we dined.
I found out last night that it cost only one dollar to
telegraph to NY or Phila, so I telegraphed you both, but I dare say that
Hattie will telegraph you too as I told her to do so - as I thought a telegraph
would cost 2 dollars, so I sent two on learning it would only cost the same for
two as one.
Owen Fawcett
called this AM. He is playing with [Helena]
Modjeska. They close tonight and leave tomorrow for Los Angeles. Love
and Kisses from your loving Mother
No letters yet from anyone but a bouquet from Mr. Ungers. One week since I
heard from you or Hattie
GAR The Grand Army of the Republic was
made up of Union veterans of the Civil War. They held encampments from 1869
through 1949. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Army_of_the_Republic
GAR Twentieth Encampment Directory San Francisco 1886
http://www.scgsgenealogy.com/GAR%20Encampment%20Directory%20Title.htm
GAR San Francisco August 1886 Program, Roster of Posts and ads
http://www.archive.org/stream/registerofdepart00gran#page/n57/mode/2up
Baldwin Hotel
San F'co Cal
August 4th/86
My dear Son,
I was awfully afraid I should make a terrible failure on Monday night but I
didn't! AM Palmer came behind the scene and I asked him if my voice
sounded weak and he said no - I was all right - so that encouraged me. I have
had good notices. I shall enclose you one from this Morning Call, and will send
you some of yesterday if I can get the papers.
I sent you yesterday's Call containing nothing but GAR news. Saw [General]
Logan in the hall this morning - they are making a great fuss over him here,
I should imagine by the look of things that he will be the next Republican
choice for President.
Received my bill for Storage last night - had been sent to Madison Square
Theatre and forwarded from there to here. The bill is $15 for storage (3
months), cartage $6, labor $1.50 - $22.00. I shall send it as soon as possible.
The business is not yet settled as to route after we leave here - and I hear we
stay here for five weeks. Mr. Palmer who with his wife & sons [Palmer's
stepsons had taken his name] and Mrs. [Jennie June] Crowly is still here, wants
to send us back by way of Portland Oregon to play in Portland, St Paul,
Minneapolis &c instead of Los Angeles - Virginia City,
Denver,
Salt Lake &c.
I hope he will be able to carry out his wishes. He came that way, and was so
pleased with the trip that he wants us to go back that way. It would be new.
500 miles to Los Angeles, at this season a very hot ride, over the Mohave
[Mojave] desert
- Me no like anymore desert in mine this summer!
If we go to Oregon we shall be two days on steamer going to Portland from here -
guess that will make me cast up accounts and turn over a new leaf.
The girls want me to go for a walk and the morning is the time for walking here
- the wind in the afternoon being very unpleasant. So now I will close with
love & Kisses to my dear Son from his loving far away Mother
General John A. Logan (1826-1886) had been the Republican nominee for Vice President in 1884, running with James G. Blaine against Grover Cleveland and Thomas Hardwick. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_A._Logan
Baldwin Hotel San F'co Cal
August 9th 1886
My dear Son,
Glad you have been so busy. How much did your new type cost you? How can you afford to join the Volunteer Fire Co? When you are yet so deeply in debt? Your loss of time is running to fires will cost you a great deal more than the $40. Besides where is that $40 to come from? Your sanguine disposition runs far ahead of your discretion. As for clearing you of jury duty you would get paid for that, instead of paying for the wear and tear of health and clothes. This is the way I look upon it. I would have no objection to your joining any good society of men, if you had the means to do so, and be able to pay your dues &c. But there is Aunty to be paid - I have nothing!! I borrowed money I sent you this morning, as salary is not to be paid until Wednesday, and as it takes a week to reach you. You must remember my salary is very small when divided into three parts. I cannot under present circumstances save a cent. I have received eleven weeks and 2 nights salary since I left New York - and I am in debt for storage, $22.50 and borrowed $20 from Miss Greenwald.
Now you know how peasantly I am situated, you can easily find excuses for not joining anything for at least the next six months by telling them your business will not yet warrant you in joining, as you do not know whether it will pay &c. My experience in the past days of fire volunteer departments warrants me in saying I never knew any man who reaped any benefit from them - but I have known them to be the cause of breaking up many happy homes. But we have no home! And they cannot hurt us I suppose. Do the best you can, but remember I have no money to help you any further. And if you run into extravagances you will have to bear the results whatever they may be. You may think me very unkind in writing all this.
But my dear Son, I am getting old - my health will not stand the wear and tear it did. Today I had to go to the doctor again. Bronchial trouble, and Catarrh is my ailment - and therefore you see you cannot depend upon me. If I am spared I will help you pay Aunty - but please do not expect me to do much more. I would if I could - and will if I can! - but do not build anything upon it. Nearly all the Company are ailing. Mr. & Mrs. Kelcey, Miss Greenwald and Annie Russell and AMP[almer] himself are all under doctor's care. I am very grateful I do not have to play this week. Jim the Penman lets me off. I hope you are in good health. Give all your attention to keeping so. No happiness with poor health. Love and Kisses from your ever loving. Mother
Baldwin Hotel San F'co
August 10th 1886
My dear Son
Too bad Mr. Townsend is on the dead beat list. The Volunteer Fire Co has not done him much good, it would seem. Perhaps if he had paid as much attention to his business as he did to that, he ought not now be considered a dead beat. I hope he may be able to lift himself out of the odium attached to him. I should not like my son to be called a deadbeat! And if he has a Mother, it must be very painful to her, poor woman! Of course this year must have been dull in Middletown as it has been dull over the entire country - every thing is counted very dull here - no business of any kind up to the standard of a few years ago. They seem to think we shall not do much after all the visitors leave.
Jim the Penman drew a large house last night - but it is the uncertainty of business that makes the managers so undecided about the fifth week of our stay. You know my two previous visits here, we played seven weeks and six weeks. Now they are afraid to risk five - with a larger and I think better Co than we had before.
You must not complain of want of success. The thing to do now is to keep on your way quietly, do your work diligently, and leave all companies and societies alone for another six months, or until you can see your way out of debt, and have money at your own disposal to help you to these great honors. I know you so well that I can see your business would be neglected through the excitement of being head of the heap in your fire company. Your Mother has lived longer than you and has seen and suffered through these companies, and she now beseeches you to beware. Love and Kisses from your loving Mother
San
Francisco, Cal
August 14th/86
My dear Son,
Hope your wedding cards job was an omen of good luck and that other work follows to keep you employed and to dispel the "blues". Well, it is now decided that we do not go to Los Angeles. We play here five weeks, that is three more after this which ends tonight, a week in Sacramento, and then Salt Lake and Denver and Omaha. That ends our engagement under the management of Al Hayman. Then I believe Palmer takes us to St Paul and Minneapolis . Thence to New York. This is the programme as far as I can learn it at present. Love and Kisses from your loving Mother
Baldwin Hotel
San F'co Cal
August 21st/86
My dear Son,
I went to one new place this week called "Telegraph Hill". It is a very
high point and commands a splendid view of the bay and surrounding country.
There is a large building that is called Telegraph Hill Observatory at the top
which you are supplied with field glasses - the lower parts of the building are
devoted to restaurants, or rather Dutch beer saloons - at one end of the largest
room is a stage devoted to concert and theatrical performances - and wrestling
matches on Sunday nights!!
Business has been very large this week for
Saints & Sinners.
Every seat is taken for today's Matinee. Next week
Sealed
Instructions. Last week
Broken
Hearts & Old Love Letters but these will be played only a portion
of the week. Our
Society, Jim
the Penman and Saints & Sinners will each have a night's
representation. Then to Sacramento. Leaving here Sunday 5th of Septr,
and opening there on the 6th for one week only.
Salt Lake
13th. Oh! we leave Sacramento on Saturday night, closing our performances at the
Matinee. Direct [your letters] to Theatre A M Palmer Dramatic Co at
every place - for I do not know until I get to the different towns, at what
hotel I shall stop. Sacramento has a State Fair going on and Races during the
week we shall be there, so I suppose Hotels will be crowded and terms high.
I expect in a week from now to hear all about Hattie's visit to you &c &c. What
a long time to wait for news! that you want to hear right away. It is nearly 1
and I have to go to Matinee where I shall perhaps find a letter.
Telegraph Hill History Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegraph_Hill,_San_Francisco#History
Coit Tower wasn't built until 1933.
1883 print
[with EJ Phillips quote on website]
http://www.abebooks.com/Telegraph-Hill-Observatory-Britton-Rey-San/1883591353/bd
1890 photo Observatory and Signal Station
http://www.sfimages.com/history/TelegraphHill.html
Frederick Layman's legendary Old German castle sits atop Telegraph Hill... In
1906, fires destroyed everything seen here except the castle, which had burned
in 1903. Built in 1882, "Layman's Folly" was intended to be a fashionable
resort, but after a fatal wreck on Layman's private cable car line, business
went downhill. San Francisco Then and Now, Bill Yenne, Thunder Bay Press 1998
Baldwin Hotel
San F'co, Cal
August 26th/86
My
dear Son
Your letter of the 17th rec'd, one from Hattie yesterday containing tintype.
Likeness very good of all. Was glad to receive it. I suppose you are alone
again. I hope you enjoyed their visit. Was too bad Hattie was not well when
she left Phila. I hope the change of air did her good. You both look thin if
the tintype tells the truth.
"Sealed Instructions" this week easy for me. Next week we change the bill every night, beginning on Monday with "Broken Hearts", Tues. & Friday, "Our Society" Wed a& Sat night, "Saints & Sinners" Thus., "Jim the Penman". Matinee not yet decided upon, but I think it will be "Broken Hearts". Six weeks from to-day we hope to arrive in New York, unless the business is changed from what it is now. Now we are to go direct from Omaha (where we close on the 2nd of Octr.) to New York. Allow 5 or six days for letters to reach me at Salt Lake where we open on the 13th for two nights only. Four days to Denver where we open on the 20th for one week. Last week we go to Kansas City, St. Jo and Omaha.
Sacramento is said to be very warm, so I imagine we shall suffer from the heat there during the week we shall be there. We also expect difficulty in obtaining good quarters at the hotels -- the State Fair being in progress -- and the Legislature being in Session. I do not so much mind poor accommodations as I do high prices. Do not know where I shall hang out on my arrival in New York. Having been at the Ashland [Hotel] I may stop there again until I can make other arrangements. Have nothing more to tell you so will close as mail time is very near. With love and kisses for my son from his loving Mother
Baldwin Hotel
Septr 1st 1886
My dear Son,
I see by this mornings news that an Earthquake visited the East yesterday. Felt
in New York, Indianapolis, Memphis, St Louis and the Carolinas & Georgia. No
telegraph communication from Charleston which causes great alarm. Phila and
Middletown are not mentioned. Plainfield NY is and Meadville Pa. I hope it has
not been so bad as the papers here make it, and that you have not felt it in
Middletown.
I am pleased to hear you are getting the work from 486 B'way. If you could get
two or three business houses like that it would give you an idea of what your
income would be.
We close here on Sat night, open in Sacramento on the 6th. It is four or five
hours ride from here. If we left by the Overland train 3 PM on Sunday we should
arrive at hotels about 8 o'clock and we might not be able to secure
accommodation. So I think it is decided to go by 7 AM train on Monday.
After Denver we play "S[aints] & S[inners]" only! So quite a
number of the Co will go through to New York from Denver.
Mr. &
Mrs. Robinson,
Mr. & Mrs. Kelcey,
Mr. & Mrs.
Presbrey, Misses
Brookyn,
[May] Robson
& [Maud]
Harrison. Nine people! That will still leave us 15 to travel to
Kansas City, St Jo and Omaha! I have only four performances this
week and one of those is over, I having played Mrs. Spencer [Our Society]
last night. We shall be two nights on the road between Sacramento & Salt Lake.
I think that will be the longest time on the cars until we leave Omaha for New
York. Love and Kisses from Your loving Mother
1886 Aug 31 earthquake
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1886_Charleston_earthquake
486 Broadway not clear what was at this
address. The New York Songlines says the building dates from 1882.
http://www.nysonglines.com/broadway.htm
Baldwin Hotel
San F'co Cal
Sept 2nd
My dear Son,
Isn't this Earthquake a fearful affair? It is dreadful to think of the poor
suffering homeless souls. Deprived of life, and those who remain are stripped
of all earthly possessions in one brief moment. "So runs the world away".
There must be great excitement in the East. I was in hopes yesterday's news was
exaggerated, but it is confirmed this morning. Terrible! Terrible! We are to
leave on Monday 7:30 AM for Sacramento. No more this morning. Love and Kisses
from your loving Mother
Golden Eagle Hotel
Sacramento, Cal
Sept. 7th, 1886
My
dear Son
As you surmised, your letter of the first rec'd on this my birthday. I thank
you for your kind wishes and wish for your sake, not mine, that your
circumstances were such as to be able to send me something, for then you would
have something for yourself. I
hope a change may soon come to you to better your condition. You have had a hard
struggle but we all have to buy experience. God bless you and give you strength
to struggle on, manfully and honestly and the reward will yet come.
Received 2 letters from Hattie and one from Aunty. Mr. Holland on learning this was my birthday, it being his also, he sent me a lovely bouquet and I gave him my photograph. Had Kisses from Maud & Marie.
We
opened a new theatre last night. I send you papers with notice by this mail.
Nothing to see here. Everything seems stale, flat and uninteresting. Do not
think our bus. will be very large this week.
Hattie tells me you are looking well which pleases me very much to hear. She
enjoyed her visit very much, the only drawback being Aunty's eccentricities
about poor Uncle! And of course Aunty succeeded in having all sympathy taken
from here and given to Uncle. God
bless you my dear, 56 Kisses to you and the best wishes of your loving Mother.
EJ Phillips didn't think much of Sacramento.
See her comments to Albert in 1898 below.
next: Los Angeles
Sept. 1886
THE
BALDWIN HOTEL
San Francisco, Cal
August 10th 1888
My dear Son
Telegraphed you last Evening announcing our arrival at 6:30 PM. We were almost six hours late, as a freight train had been wrecked eight miles ahead of us. Our journey but for the sudden demise of Mr. Davidge [in Wyoming] was a pleasant one.
Have just received a telegram from [son-in-law] John [Dolman] telling me this, "Moved safe & comfortable to Wissinoming. All well". Had a letter from Hattie this morning telling me John had been looking at the place. It is 30 minutes ride from Broad Street on the Pennsylvania road. House has 9 rooms, heater & range and a large lot of ground, 42 by 100 ft. Rent $17 per month.
We open with Partners on Monday night. Mrs. LeMoyne, nee Sarah Cowell, called on me last night. Saw Mr. LeMoyne this morning. Met Joe Polk this morning. Did not know him. He has changed so much, was very ill a year ago and not expected to live. He is just as lively as ever though. Met H.B.Phillips also. I think it is likely he may be engaged for Mr. Davidge's parts. I hope so. He is a very gentlemanly man. Love and Kisses for yourself from your loving Mother
HB Phillips was this the manager of Ford's Theatre until it was closed after the assassination of Lincoln. Also seemed to be a member of Palmer Theatre companies.
JH Stoddart's memoirs give an account of Davidge's death. Although he had not been well he was anxious to make the trip. "Davidge had been engaged during the day in a heated, political discussion with some of the gentlemen, and had become much excited. In the evening, to please him, -- for he believed so implicitly in everything that was English -- the members of the company had been singing "God Save the Queen" and Davidge had joined in the chorus...and retired in high spirits. His berth was next to mine and at about one o'clock in the morning I was awakened by his heavy and labored breathing...He looked around saying "Oh my God, surely I am not going to die here [in Cheyenne Wyoming] away from them all!". [Alessandro] Salvini picked him up like a child and carried him into the smoker, where we poured brandy down his throat ,.. His last words were "Boys good-bye".
Davidge NY Clipper obituary Aug 25, 1888 "Another old actor has passed away...He was on the special palace car containing the Madison Square Company, of which he was a member"
Partners Review The Madison Square Company were given a royal welcome back to the city after an absence of two years....Everyone came in an amiable frame of mind, because they wanted to be pleased and had implicit faith in the company, and if there was any disappointment or letting down of expectations it was either the fault of the play or the players themselves, certainly not to be traced to the audience...There were a number of new faces in the cast, but they were not coldly received. The stimulus of Mr. A.M. Palmer's presence was missed and many friends will regret to learn that it was because of the ill health on the part of Mrs. Palmer that both did not visit the Coast again. ... Mrs. Phillips who had the inexplicable good fairy to do, was charming, as Mrs. Phillips always is. ...Partners is worth seeing because of the company. It only goes a week."
Players included Gertie Homan, Kate Moloney, Mrs. EJ Phillips and May Brookyn. A lengthy description of "First Nighters" and their clothes is followed by
THE
PERFORMANCE
The Palmer Company met a warm and generous reception from the San Francisco
public. As each member made his or her entree applause followed, more or less
earnest as the favorites of the previous season of Mr. Palmer's people were
remembered. Mr.
JH..
Stoddart, Miss
Marie
Burroughs, Mrs. E. J. Phillips and Miss
Annie
Russell were decided objects of attention in this respect...Other
members of the cast were comparatively subdued in their action but some of the
points made were exquisite in their fineness. Nothing could be more incisive and finished than the manner in which Mrs. E. J.
Phillips personated the Lady Silverdale, wise and ladylike and a sort of female
Mentor to the subjects of the temptations surrounding the Borgfeldt household.
Partners Boston 1888
THE
BALDWIN HOTEL
San Francisco, Cal
August 14th/88
My dear Son
Well, last night we opened to a fine house. Mr. Stoddart & self received the most enthusiastic receptions. I will enclose you notices from the three morning papers. JB. Polk paid me a long visit on Sunday. He is interested in three silver mines. Is likely to become a very rich man. He is soon going East. We play Jim the Penman next week and we hope it will be so successful that we will be able to finish the season with it. I hope you will get this next Monday, but it may be Tuesday. That is the tiresome part of coming so far. Telegraphing is expensive. I paid $1.15 for the telegram I sent you. Love and Kisses from your loving Mother
Baldwin Hotel S. F'co
August 17th 1888
My dear Son
Partners has not caught on very well. Jim [the Penman] on Monday and I hope it will have a winning card and play three weeks -- that will save us trouble. Elaine is announced to follow Jim. I suppose the New York papers were full of accounts of Mr. Davidge's death, but I have not yet seen any of them.
By this morning's papers I see there have been a cloud burst on the "Central Pacific" and the tracks are under water, so mails will be late today, if they get here at all. The storm we had on the Tuesday of the journey, the day after Mr. D[avidge] died, was a grand sight. The "Prairies" all around us and the lightning flashing was a scene not to be forgotten. The forked lightning seemed to come from the Earth and run through the clouds.
I have not been to China Town. I did not have money enough to get your shirts in New York, so you will have to wait a little longer for them. Too bad to be poor, but everybody around seems to be wealthier than we are. Love and Kisses to my dear son from his loving Mother
In July 1898 she wrote to Albert "You are sensible in your dislike of Chinatown. 16 years ago [1888] their goods and stores were new but now that you can buy better on B'way, 6th Ave or any place in our big cities they are no longer a desire or curiosity and the sales are no longer what they were and the whole place has run down. Keep out of it at night. It is a dangerous locality.
Chinatown history http://www.sanfranciscochinatown.com/history/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinatown,_San_Francisco#History
Baldwin Hotel San F'co Cal
August 19th/88
My dear Son,
One week over to good but not great business. I think Jim [the Penman] will pull the business up. All seats sold for tomorrow night. Have not had my salary yet, but had to get an advance of $48 to buy a dress for Jim for tomorrow night, $20 to be taken out of last week's salary and $20 out of this week's. First time I have had an advance from AMP[almer] during the eight seasons I have been with him. Perhaps he will think more of me now. Well, dear Son, good night. Love and Kisses from your loving Mother
Baldwin Hotel
[Undated but,
Elaine did not play until the 1887-1888 NY season]
San F'co Cal
August 23rd [probably 1888]
My dear Son,
My first impulse on reading your letter was to telegraph you my congratulations, but M'[iddle]town being a small place, I thought it might get abroad, and any amt of conjectures and constructions put thereon, the secrecy of the Telegraph to the contrary notwithstanding. Let me know what you are to do in your new office, whether it is bookkeeping alone, or anything to do with the printing of the paper. The salary is fair to begin with, and I hope it will not be long before you will be able to ask for an increase. You say it is worth $20 in New York. My dear child it is worth $30. The room & board you have, you could not get under $15 per week. And you would not have that lovely garden and shade trees to look at when you get up in the morning. You are most delightfully situated, and until the "Happy Day" [wedding] arrives I hope you will be able to remain where you are, for I am sure you could not better yourself.
I wanted to send you a V this week, but at the box office they stopped $40 out of my salary that I had to draw for new dress for Jim [the Penman]. I had asked Mr. Palmer to take $20 out last week and $20 out this week, but he does not look after things as he ought, the $40 was deducted out of my 1st weeks salary. I would not ask again and shall not get this week's salary until Monday next. But I am out of debt. Jim [the Penman] is drawing well, but I believe they intended changing the bill to Elaine next week. I shall have a rest. Our trip down from Los Angeles to Salt Lake will be very tiresome. Leaving Los Angeles Sunday morning, we do not reach Salt Lake until Wednesday noon. Three nights on the train. We are to open in Los Angeles on the 17th [crossed out] well! 17th there now! Will now close for I have exhausted my news budget. Love to Neppie, her aunts and cousins. With love and Kisses to my dear son from his loving Mother
Baldwin Hotel
San Francisco Cal
August 29th/88
My dear Son
Glad matters are still progressing favorable with you. Should prefer you not being so thoroughly mixed up with politics, but perhaps I am wrong. Wish you success, that is all I can do. If I had five in paper I would put it in this letter, but I cannot get one. All is gold and silver, so when I send, it will have to be an order. Love and Kisses from your loving Mother
The San Francisco Argonaut's review of Heart of Hearts (Sept 17, 1888) singles out JH Stoddart and Mrs. Phillips who "carry the play on their shoulders...In the scenes with Wilhelmina both husband and wife were inimitable. The expression of the lady's countenance was alone exquisitely laughable. Her sickening suddenly awakened fears, her tremulous apprehension of discovery, her desperation with her irritating husband, and her coy pleasure in Mr. Latimer's wooing were rendered to the life, and testified to the powers of an actress who can so lighten, intensify and irradiate a part in which the humor is of the more ponderous variety. The review begins "Heart of Hearts is the least interesting of the plays produced by the Palmer company. The troupe is above the piece. It is farce, comedy and melodrama combined.... Even such artists as Mrs. Phillips, Mr. Stoddart and Mr. Holland cannot rescue the last act from insipidity"
next: Los Angeles
My dear Son
Many many oh! so many! happy returns of this your birthday is the loving wish of your far away Mother, but who is with you in my thoughts and spirit. We had a splendid house last night, and rec'd very fine receptions, mine being second to none in warmth and enthusiasm. The papers today speak highly of the performances, but do not seem to care for the play. We play it all week, and next week Jim [the Penman] - following week Aunt Jack, 4th week S & S[aints and sinners] and the 5th week a repetition of each I suppose. This is a dull month here. Everybody who can goes to the Country this month.
Had two letters from Hattie this Morning from Cape May. She, John and Jack went there on the 1st. Previous to going Hattie had been quite ill, and had had a doctor from Tacony attending her. The trouble was a slight miscarriage. [Hattie] has been weighed at Cape May and only weighs 116 pounds. Poor child, she does not seen to gain her girlhood strength at all. My love and Kisses to [Neppie] and Love and Kisses to you dear son, from your loving far away Mother
THE BALDWIN HOTEL
San Francisco, Cal.
July 10th 1890
My dear daughter Neppie.
I was very much pleased at receiving such a nice kind letter from you. I feel very lonesome when my letters do not come. Yesterday I did not receive any, and as yet none have come this Morning, and I am getting quite impatient.
In Hattie's letter of the 2nd she surprised me very much by the news it contained. She had not told me of her condition. though she suspected it while I was there, but was taken sick soon after I left and had to send for a doctor from Tacony who gave her some quieting medicine, but a thunderstorm coming up during the night she became very nervous, and in the Morning was delivered. Of course it was only a matter of five or perhaps four weeks, but it made her sick and nervous. She writes that she feels all right, but the doctor told her not to go in bathing for two weeks for fear of catching cold. That will seem a long time for her, for she is so fond of sea bathing. I am very glad her mishap was all over before she left home.
Yesterday I took lunch with Mrs. Noble [who had previously lived in Boston, and week after next am going to spend a week with her, Aunt Jack being played that week and I do not have to work. Mr. & Mrs. Noble are living in a flat near Golden Gate Park, delightful situation and are so cosily settled that I should think they would not care to move again, but he thinks of going North to Tacoma or Seattle, business being rather dull in this City at present.
I never before saw a City so quiet, but we have never been here before August until now, and I think that accounts for some of the dullness, the people being away in the Country for this month. We have had three very fine houses this week notwithstanding. Whether we shall be able to draw them in, or not for another four weeks remains to be found out. By newspaper accounts I see the heat has been intense in the East. I sleep under a pair of blankets every night here, and now while writing with a thick dress on, feel quite chilly. After leaving here, we shall feel the heat. Will be very warm until we reach Denver the last of August.
We passed through some grand scenery coming here from Portland, the Railroad being built over very high mountains and the curves of the road are wonderful, going over high bridges, through tunnels. At times you can see the road you have come over two or three times, in curves crossing above and below each other, like a true lover's knot. The road runs with the Sacramento River, a beautiful stream and a great place for fancy fishing. Mr. [Frederic] Robinson was wild with delight over the prospect of throwing out his lines there. He travels with fishing tackle worth a $1000 & goes fishing whenever & where ever he gets an opportunity. It is a great hobby with him, and I felt sorry he could not stop and have a days sport. He is in every "bill" however, and will not get much chance to fish this trip.
My reception on Monday night was very flattering and agreeable. Makes me feel sorry that I have not a part more prominent and worthy of the approval of a San F'co audience. I hope, dear child, you are keeping in good health and that by this time "Mama" does know. If there is anything you want to know, write me and I will give you all the advice I can in any way. Do not hesitate to tell me your wants and your wishes, I will do what I can to gratify them. My love and Kisses to my dear children, Albert and Neppie, hoping that all is progressing well for the great event in Octr from their loving Mother
Golden Gate Park History, Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Gate_Park#History Plans began in the 1860s and William Hammond Hall appointed Park Commissioner in 1871. accessed Jan 18, 2011
My dear Son,
Just a line before going to Matinee. I had a delightful drive to the seashore
yesterday morning with Mrs. E.J Baldwin and Maud [Harrison]. The team would have
delighted you -- one of the horses being brother to the celebrated racer --
Volante. And all that troubled Volante's brother yesterday was that the
coachman would not let him go as fast as he wanted to. I drove the team for a
little while in the Park but the horses pulled too hard for me to hold the reins
very long.
Mrs. Baldwin is going to take us again someday during next week. How nice it would be to own such horses and have enough money to buy oats for them. Mrs. Baldwin has nine of them in her private stable. I suppose her husband has hundreds of them on his different ranches. He owns one ranch near Los Angeles of 66,000 acres (sixty-six thousand), I put it in writing for fear you might think my figures were at fault. Mr. Baldwin is now visiting some of his ranches, having just arrived from the East where they return in four weeks. They have a house in California and do not live in this hotel, but he keeps a suite of apartments here. I have not yet seen him.
Business this week has been very good. Next week, "Jim" [the Penman], following week "Aunt Jack". [I] do not play and will spend the week with Mrs. Noble. Continue to send your letters to the theatre. Love and Kisses to my dear children, Albert and Neppie from their loving Mother
Mrs. EJ Baldwin This must be Lillie
Baldwin, EJ Baldwin's fourth wife.
"To continue Along Arboretum Paths ... from the Tropical Forest about 50
yards further down Circle road, to the right, across Baldwin Lake, is the Queen
Anne Cottage, the most famous and recognized building on the grounds. The
cottage was built in 1885 by Elias Jackson `Lucky' Baldwin as a honeymoon
cottage for his fourth wife Lillie Bennett. After their divorce, Lucky dedicated
the Queen Anne Cottage to the memory of his third wife Jennie. Self guided
walking tour Los Angeles Arboretum & Botanic garden
http://www.arboretum.org/images/nonimages/self_guided_walking_tour.pdf
E. J. and Lillie separated sometime in 1885 and, though never divorced, they
maintained separate residences thereafter. Furniture and bric-a-brac had been brought from the proprietor's rooms at the Baldwin Hotel in San Francisco.
Along
Arboretum Paths, Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden [from a
earlier Arboretum webpage]
Baldwin horses Until his death in 1909, Baldwin bred and raced some of the best horses in the country and won nearly every major stakes race of that era. He won the American Derby at Washington Park -- then the most prestigious three- year- old race in the country -- four times: Volante (1885) [and in 1886,1888 and 1894] Ron Hale, EJ "Lucky" Baldwin and Santa Anita, About horseracing. http://horseracing.about.com/library/blbaldwin.htm
Horses were generally treated well by Baldwin, since they generally treated him well. Volante, Los Angeles, and the bay Emperor of Norfolk were darlings of the Saratoga fans, above all Volante, until Royal Arch, a 10-1 long shot, outran the field. Volante, the 1-12 favorite, came in a few seconds later and even the wisenheimer bookies believed it was an accident and Volante would take the California Stakes the following year. He was the 1-20 favorite, Royal Arch again a long shot at 20-1. It was practically impossible to find bookmakers sucker enough to take money on Volante, and Mike Dwyer, gambler and horse owner, laughed for glee when he managed to put $40,000 on Volante against $2000. Nobody so much as smiled when Royal Arch beat Volante again. It was one of the few times when Lady Luck deserted Lucky Baldwin. The Big Fishes and the Sharks, Antiques Auction & Marketplace http://www.oldandsold.com/articles01/article923.shtml
The Arboretum is in Arcadia CA, east of
Los Angeles Lucky Baldwin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_Baldwin
THE
BALDWIN HOTEL
San Francisco, Cal
July 28th 1890
My darling Son
The exercise of catering and looking after the family would do [Neppie] good, so long as she did not lift heavy weights. Tell her for me to keep up her courage. All will be well. [Edward Phillips Nickinson was due in Oct. 1890.] Have you bought the bed yet for the little room, in case Hattie should be well enough to visit you in August? I had a letter from her today in which she says she feels no worse - thinks she feels better so you may yet see her in August. How would it do to get a large sofa bed for your parlor, and make the little room into a dressing room? Then when Neppie is sick the sofa bed would do for her.
It is six and I must go to dinner and then to Shop, S[aints] & S[inners] tonight. I went to San Rafael yesterday to visit the DeYoung family - that is Mrs. DeYoung's Mother, sister & brother and her children. Had a delightful day and was most royally entertained. With love and Kisses to my dear children, Neppie & Albert, I remain their loving Mother
THE
BALDWIN HOTEL
San Francisco, Cal.
July 29th 1890
My dear daughter Neppie,
Your Papa and Mama did not come far enough to appreciate the West for a residence. I think they would like it here for a few months in Summer, and in Washington and Oregon in the Winter. On Sunday I went to San Rafael [about 20 north of San Francisco] to visit the family of H.M. DeYoung. Had a nice boat ride down the Bay, and a fifteen minute ride on the cars. Was met by Mrs. Deane, the Mother of Mrs. DeYoung, who had two carriages ready to carry our party to the DeYoung residence, a very pretty Elizabethan cottage situated in a pretty valley surrounded by big mountains.
The day was warm, and for the first time since leaving Portland I realized we had Summer with us. There were 14 sat down to dinner. Left about half past five for our return to the city, arriving here at 7:45.
We are all regretting that we cannot remain here instead of going South to Los Angeles where we expect to meet very hot oppressive weather. And shall have to endure it in Sacramento and on the road to Salt Lake, but after that we hope the excessive heat will be over.
I imagine your Papa had a very hot journey to and from Iowa to Nebraska. The alkali on the plains would make it very disagreeable and dusty.
Our business continues good. We play Saints & Sinners this week. Next week, our fifth and last, we begin with Aunt Jack and One Touch of Nature for two nights. Jim the Penman for 2 nights, Capt Swift two and Saints & Sinners for the Matinee. Leave here on Sunday August 10th, 9 AM for Los Angeles. Due there on Monday Morning August 11th. One week there and then we begin to turn our faces homeward.
Yesterday I sent my photographs taken here. I think they are very good. Hope they will reach you in good condition. I had 27 of them and have only two left.
Nellie [Dolman Law] keeps pretty well. She is in the City and her Mother called on her last week. Said she was getting tired of waiting and wished it [pregnancy] was over. She had been having a little backache. She has everything ready and the event is expected before the 15th of Sept. Albert must be working pretty hard but so long as he is not too tired to go fishing he will get on all right. My love and Kisses to you both dear children from your ever loving Mother
Michael DeYoung: Home to a social dynasty
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/06/16/noltehistory.DTL
134 Years of the {San Francisco] Chronicle, Carl Nolte 1999
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/06/16/noltehistory.DTL
The
Hotel
San Francisco Cal
July 31, 1890
My dear Son,
Glad to hear you are all well and have such nice weather in your "glorious climate". I am very happy that you have cool nights for that that enables you to bear the heat in the day. I am glad you have discussed a nurse, and the doctor approves of her.
I asked [Maurice] Barrymore about the 5 A's which he was one of the founders, but has not taken an active part lately. Mr. [EM] Holland is very sick. Has not played for two nights -- was better last evening but this morning was worse, is threatened with Pneumonia -- his "parts" are being understudied. Mr. [Edward M] Bell studying "Gardner" in Capt Swift and Mr. [FH] Tyler is studying "Capt Redwood" in Jim [the Penman] -- all the plays are to be done next week. Love and Kisses to my darling "Kids" Neppie and yourself from your loving Mother
5 A's American Actors Amateur Athletic Association, founded by Maurice Barrymore, Steel MacKaye and London comedian Jimmie Powers. The club met at Browne's chophouse. "The members seldom exercised more than their tongues, although the drinking arm was occasionally tested with some Indian wrestling." Kotsilibas-Davis Kings New York City [1893] says the club "usually called the Five A's" was organized in 1889 and incorporated in 1890 "for the encouragement of athletic sports among actors and for social purposes". The initiation fee was $25 and annual dues were $12. The club was at 43 West 29th Street.
We also have the following card issued to Albert.
43 West 28th Street
New York July 10 1890
At the request of
Mr. Win Andres
The
Actors Amateur Athletic Association of America
tender to A.E Nickerson [sic]
the privileges of their Club House
for a period of Two weeks
Geo W June
House Committee
The
Hotel
San Francisco Cal
August 4 1890
My dear son,
Enclosed find order for (20) to help you in preparing for your sister's visit -- which I hope she will make you this month. Tell [Neppie] not to think for a moment of making a fuss for Hattie's reception -- Hattie knows "how it is herself". I hope they will have a real pleasant time together and do plenty of outing. That is the best medicine for both of them. Wish I could join you and have a real happy time with my "kids". Anyway it will be a pleasure to me to know that you are all together and having a happy time. I know Jack [Dolman, age two] will make it lively.
Today begins our last week in S'F co. Tonight One Touch of Nature to Aunt Jack. Tomorrow Capt Swift. Tonight's bill repeated on Wed'day -- and Jim [the Penman] for last three performances. We leave for Los Angeles on Sunday 9 am. Due there Monday 10 am -- one week there & return to Stockton -- Sacramento to Salt Lake for the week -- to Denver on 25th of August for two weeks. Always allow at least five nights and days for a letter to reach me -- not less -- and six nights are safer. With love and kisses to my dear daughter Neppie and my dear Son Albert. I remain your loving Mother
San Francisco map 1890 http://davidrumsey.artselect.com/perl/frMagnify?artID=21514&matID=822&frameID=374&collectionID=4709
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The Baldwin
San Francisco Cal
August 16th Sunday 1896
My dear children,
Well here I am once more in San Francisco, after an absence of six years. New people are running the hotel and all are strange to me, but I have a nice pretty room on the 3rd floor with sunny outlook, bathroom and large closet all for $2.50 per day. I used to pay $3.50 for the same accommodation, only room was about 2 feet wider. I have stood the journey splendidly. Look forward to going to bed tonight at 9 with much pleasure. For 13 Sundays I could not do that but I hope to tonight.
I am told, by the porter that the Eastern mail closes at 3:30PM so I must close this. This Morning had to put on my heavy cloak to cross the bay. Quite enchanting after the ten days of extreme heat we endured before leaving Chicago. Love and Kisses to my dear children individually and collectively from their loving Mother who loves them dearly and I am their Mother
The
Baldwin
San Francisco Cal.
August 21st 1896
My dear Son.
Yesterday took a ride to the "Cliff House". Saw the ocean and found many changes and improvements (not in the ocean -- but on the land). New bath houses (there was no old one). A new Cliff House on the same site as the old one -- very much larger -- but looks too new in its white and red paint to belong to the picture. The ocean and Seal Rocks and the seals themselves look just the same -- but no doubt the latter have been changed many times in six years. But the present occupants of the rocks go through the same aquatic sports and jump on and off the rocks -- same as their ancestors. Barking is exactly the same.
Our routes I sent to you have changed a little. We are here this week and next -- and on the 31st play in San Jose 1 night. Then to Oakland just opposite here on the 1st - 2nd and 3rd of September. 4th Stockton . 5th Fresno. On the 7th 8th and 9th Los Angeles. Then back to Sacramento for the 11th. 12th Marysville. 14th 15 & 16th Portland Ore, 17 Tacoma Wash. 18th Victoria B.C. 19 Vancouver B.C. 21 & 22nd Seattle Wash. 25th 26th Salt Lake City . 28th - Oct 3rd Kansas City Mo. Oct 5th - 10th St. Louis Mo. We are doing a good business.
Met Rose Coghlan here on Monday night. She has been playing in a stock company here. This week she is playing in the adjacent towns & with the same Co. Sorry you did not like [the pictures]. I may sit for some more here. Have had invitations from two galleries to do so -- but it is such a trouble! [She did get at least one photograph, note 1894 in the shield bottom center.]
EJ Phillips 1896
Note 1894 shield bottom center. 688 Market St. San Francisco
Hattie wrote me your corn was delicious. I have only had one delicious ear this Season and that was on the train Thursday after leaving Chicago. Love and kisses from your loving Mother
Albert came to San Francisco in 1898 during the Spanish American War. As well as being a soldier, he reported on the war for the Middletown Argus. The (underinsured) Baldwin Hotel burned on Nov. 23, 1898. Albert Nickinson took this photograph of the ruins in Dec. 1898, upon his return from Honolulu and the Spanish American War. more on the fire at the Baldwin
Baldwin Hotel ruins December 1898
Blanche Whiffen (the original
Buttercup of HMS Pinafore)
writes in her autobiography of being in San Francisco with the Madison Square
stock company in 1881 with Esmerelda
playing the old mother to Annie Russell in the title role and being "put up at
the Baldwin Hotel, but hotel fires were so numerous that Mr. Whiffen would not
stay in that large wooden fire-trap. He became so nervous the first night that
he got up and walked the room and the lobby until morning, and then hustled me
out of there, to an apartment on Bush Street. ... San Francisco in the early
eighties was a fascinating city. It was the little Paris of America,. Its color,
its sophistication, and its wonderful cooking made it world-famous. Tom and I
used to eat the old Poodle Dog, a quaint place with a sanded floor. ... Alas
those days are gone now, and the old Poodle Dog is one of those cherished
memories that went up in flame and smoke in 1906." Mrs. Thomas Whiffen,
Keeping off the Shelf, New York EP Dutton & Co, 1928
It was several years after going to the Cliff House and Seal Rocks on my first trip to San Francisco in 1993 that I saw this letter and was excited to think how I'd unwittingly retraced EJP's steps. Marj and Max were sailing in New England for the summer. I saw them a few days later and excitedly told them of my discovery. EJ Phillips' Cliff House
1887 Seal Rocks in Trust http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist/srocks.html
We have a photograph album, showing Albert at the Presidio, and
his photograph of the Cliff House.
San Francisco Cliff
House 1898
Albert during the Spanish American War
His mother wrote to him in July 1898 "Be sure to go to Cliff House and see the Seals on the rocks. Their roars may disturb your slumbers at night while you are Presidio. I know you will enjoy everything around the view of the Ocean from Sutro Heights is Grand." July 25th she wrote "I hope your visited the baths at the Cliff House, said to be the finest in the world." They are new, were not opened until after my visit in 1890 and on my last visit I did not go in to see them, promising myself to go when I had more time but I did not have time to go out to he Cliff again and shall never have another chance to visit them.
and "So you are not in love with San Franco'co. I was afraid you would suffer from the fogs and winds at this time. This is the most disagreeable season of the year there so "the oldest inhabitant" will tell you and is the season the Aristocrats will leave the City for their Country homes at San Rafael, Santa Cruz &c. Sacramento you will not like. it is flat and hot, as flat as F'cisco is hilly. Alameda is across the bay -- flat and damp. There the sea bathing is considered very fine. It is fenced in and did not look like sea bathing to me. Oakland is a very pretty place. The flowers, plants and trees are beautiful but you want to get u town. It is not pretty about the ferry. ... Sacramento is six hours from "Frisco and is not worth spending money to see. At this season it is disagreeably hot and damp. Will be more pleasant there on your return from Honolulu when you perhaps may have a chance to stop there for an hour or two."
"I hope you are made comfortable at the Presidio. I have been there. I hope you are in the cultivated part of the land or the sand hills were both you there and you will get wind & fog more than you desire." A July letter from Albert "Well, we're still here on the government reservation known as the Presidio. Camp Merritt is located near the Lone Mountain Cross near Golden Gate Park. The place was formerly a race course and is covered with fine white sand, or rather it was white once. There is no drainage or sewerage about the place and men have camped on the ground since May 1. Instead of burning or carrying refuse away, much of it has just been buried beneath the surface of the ground and it has decayed and is no doubt the cause of much of the sickness there... I have done considerable sightseeing about the city, taken in the Sutro baths, Cliff House, Surfline baths, the hotels, theatre and public halls, but have not yet had an opportunity of getting outside the city. The people here tell of the fine views to be had from the summit of neighboring hills but the fog is so persistent that it is almost impossible to strike a clear day. The hills there are something terrific and that accidents are not frequent on the cable road is simply wonderful.
EJP obviously had seen the previous Cliff house, but no letter survives to record that day. The Cliff House Historical Page has pictures of all three Cliff Houses http://www.cliffhouse.com/history/index.html The first Cliff House had been built in 1863, was sold to Adolph Sutro in 1881. He built a railroad to it in 1888. It burned on Christmas Day 1894
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Chapter XI The Palace Hotel
Chapter XIV Broker's Board and the City Prison
Chapter XV ChinaTown
Chapter XVI Opium Den
Chapter XIX Woodward's Garden, Golden gate Park Cliff House
Chapter XX Mission Dolores, Baldwin Theatre
Chapter XXI San Rafael
XXIV Chinatown, Oaklands
XXV Merced
XXVI Yosemite more on
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