Identifier: 1910tripofhmmbat00jame (find matches)
Title: The 1910 trip of the H.M.M.B.A. to California and the Pacific coast
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: James, George Wharton, 1858-1923
Subjects: Hotel Men's Mutual Benefit Association Hotels
Publisher: San Francisco, Press of Bolte & Braden company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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hings for Mr. de Wolfes sister.Miss Elsie de Wolfe is as well known in Xew York as in San Francisco forher marvelous genius in the decorative field. The result was as much of a surprise to the San Francisco and otherCalifornia guests familiar with Chinatown in all its most artistic phases, asit was to our eastern guests. I have described the general effect. The special artistic design was amandarins garden, and all the details were worked out perfectly. The table decorations were in form of Chinese cymbals, trumpets, flutesand other instruments of music. Chinese flags, bouquets of peacock feathersand of Chinese lilies, dwarf trees trimmed to resemble birds and animals,and pagodas and temnles done in sugar. The menu card was in form of a book of twenty-eight pages, tied with agolden cord, and printed in Chinese, English and French. It presented manyclever sketches of San Francisco, old and new: of the 49ers; of Chineselife; and throughout was interspersed with words of welcome. Some of
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o I* H 332 THE 1910 TRIP OF THE H. M. M. B. A. these pages and the menu are rcprothicecl elsewhere, the latter both in theChinese characters and in French. The fish course was announced with a procession of illuminated tish, eachfish about ten feet long and carried by a Chinaman. The sherbert wasserved in a cup of ice with maidenhair ferns frozen into the ice, and the cupset on a gold mat covered with sprays of the ferns. The ice cream was inform of a Chinaman sitting in a sugar basket and holding up an undirella. Here is what Henry J. Bohn said of this banquet: Really and truly, I would like to escape the task of trying to tell anythingabout this Oriental banquet, the greatest gastronomic feast that has ever beenplaced before H. )\I. M. B. A. people. We have probably had as good thingslo eat and drink at other bant;uets during the past thirty years, but neverbefore have we had any such a thing upon which to feast our eyes and ears.For some days we have been in possession of a big red

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