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Resources, those of California boundless, I, 379.
Restaurants, in great number, I, 273; in the sixties, I, 466; "three for twos," II, 599; epicurean resorts, II, 599; improved service, II, 600; wine served at meals, II, 600; after theater suppers, II, 793; keepers of French restaurants victims of Boss Ruef's extortions, II, 880; great numbers of, in 1912, II, 906; changes in cafe life, II, 907.
Restricted tracts for residence purposes, II, 919.
Rezanoff, visits San Francisco in 1806, I, 36; his de- signs on California, I, 43; death of in Siberia, I, 44; obtains supplies for Russians in Alaska, I, 44.
Richardson, William A., sails first schooner on the bay, I, 37; erects first house in Yerba Buena, I, 41.
Rincon Hill, proposal to raze, I, 408.
Rivalry, San Francisco lacked the stimulus of, I, 390; absence of during the sixties, I, 421; fear of Goat Island, I, 423; the seventies produce no rivals, II, 488; of gas companies, II, 582; awakening of South- ern California, II, 586; of Southern cities arouses no concern, II, 670; of Southern cities stimulates growth, II, 731 ; growth of Pacific Coast cities produces whole- some effect, II, 732; street railways in San Francisco, II, 765; Santa Fe and Southern Pacific reach an understanding, II, 773; manifestations of by other cities, II, 868.
Rivers, of California, I, 176.
Rolph, James, Jr., elected mayor, II, 895.
Romance, San Francisco's first, I, 43.
Roosevelt, Theodore, attitude on question of Japanese in public schools, II, 78r; menaces San Francisco, II, 877.
Ruef, Abraham, becomes a boss, II, 688; other bosses try to block his plans to capture labor organizations, II, 691; in the role of a reformer, II, 692; his methods not an innovation, II, 695; conditions that contributed to his success, II, 822; indicted for ex- tortion, II, 880; his unsavory board of supervisors, II, 881; claims that United Railroads made him big present, II, 884; writes his memoirs while in San Quentin, II, 894; attempts made to have him par- doned, II, 894.
Rushes, San Franciscans easily tempted by reports of rich mines, I, 135; the black sand swindle, I, 271 ; Fraser river excitment, I, 272; to the Klondike coun- try, II, 732.
Russia, establishment of Russians in Alaska, I, 9; covets California, I, 10; trade of Russians with province of California, I, 61 ; her efforts to gain a foothold in Cali- fornia, I, 93; establishment at Yerba Buena, I, 118; appreciative of value of California resources, I, 127.
Sacramento, citizens of provide capital for first trans- continental railroad, I, 360; route to from San Fran- cisco shortened, I, 421 ; railroad riots in 1894, II, 729. Safe Deposit Vaults, first introduced into San Francisco, II, 528.
Sailors, reformers battle for, II, 622; shanghaing prac- ticed in San Francisco, II, 623; effect of prosecution of officers of "Sunrise," II, 623; frequenters of Bar- bary coast, II, 624; enter on a long strike, II, 685. Salaries, a grab by pioneer councilmen, I, 190. Sand Dunes, removal of, I, 162.
San Francisco, official adoption of name of, I, 118; in 1848, I, 140; at close of 1853, I, 144; appearance of in 1854, I, 144; extension of city limits, I, 158; com- pared with Eastern cities, I, 326; appearance of city in 1861, I, 326.
San Francisco Stock and Exchange Board formed 1863, 1, 383.
Sand lot troubles originate earlier than 1877-78, I, 426; orators of echo press, II, 512; and the Chinese, II, 532; first meetings on, II, 533; mob fails to carry ont a threat, II, 539; passage of gag law by legis- lature, II, 540; Bryce's revised judgment concerning, II, 558.
Sandwich Islands, discovery of by Captain Cook, I, 9. Sanitary Commission, contributions to its fund during war of secession, I, 336.
Sanitation, San Francisco not responsible for unsanitary condition of Chinatown, II, 597.
San Joaquin Valley Railroad project mooted, II, 655; construction of, II, 656; turned over to Santa Fe System, II, 658; a betrayal of the people, II, 658. Santa Fe, railroad secures entrance to city, II, 726. Santillan, fraudulent land claim, II, 480.
Sargent, A. A., on effects of railroad competition, II, 477; betrayed by railroad company, II, 708.
Schmitz, Eugene, groomed by Abe Reuf, II, 692; elected mayor, II, 693; elected mayor second time, II, 695; claims made for his administration, II, 737; conduct during earthquake troubles, II, 842; extra- ordinary powers assumed by, II, 842; as presiding officer of Committee of Fifty, II, 858; backs down on Japanese school question, II, 878; shares loot with Ruef, II, 884.
Schools (see Education).
Scott, Dr. William A., displays secession proclivities, I, 333.
Scurvy, attacks Portola party, I, 13.
Sea, avoidance of coast by native Californians, I, 88. Searles, Niles, legal career, II, 627,
Sea Wall, construction authorized, I, 418.
Secession, proposal to create California republic, I, 317; plot to seize city, I, 332.
Senators, direct vote for advocated, II, 707; scandals attending elections for, II, 708.
Serra, Junipero, made president of California missions,
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I, 12; efforts to reach Monterey, I, 12; death of at Monterey, I, 23.
Servants, the problem, I, 115.
Settlers, early arrivals adopt habits of country, I, 33; Fremont's dealings with Americans, I, 105; occupa- tions of in Yerba Buena, I, 112.
Sewers (see also public improvements), bonds issued to perfect system, II, 937.
Shafter, James McM., legal career, II, 629.
Shafter, Oscar L., legal career, II, 629.
Shanghaing in port of San Francisco, II, 623.
Sharon, William, rise of, II, 506; rehabilitates Bank of
California, II, 507; sued by Sarah Althea Hill, II, 810.
Sherman, William T., position in Vigilance affair, I, 219.
Shipping, in bay in 1847, I, 122; first schooner on the bay, I, 126; wharf facilities for, I, 128; crowds bay in 1850, I, 128 ; tonnage of port, 1859, I, 292; sailing craft, I, 397; change from wooden to iron vessels, II, 590; fleet of Pacific Mail S. S. Co., II, 590; rival Oriental steamship line, II, 591; Pacific Mail and Oriental trade, II, 591; first tramp steamer to enter harbor, II, 591; more and better steamships, II, 743; communication with Hawaii, II, 744; decline of wheat export trade affects, II, 745; in lumber and coal trade, II, 745; domestic vessels on the Pacific, II, 746; ship building in San Francisco, II, 747; ship- building plants in San Francisco, II, 748; increased port facilities to meet demands of, II, 930; impor- tance of in making San Francisco a distributing center, II, 941.
Short Ballot, appointed officials favored, I, 185.
Sierra Nevada Mine, last big stock deal in, II, 549. Silver, ores of Comstock not familiar at first, I, 38r.
Sitka, ship yards of supply San Francisco with needed articles, I, 127.
Skyscraper, first tall building in city, II, 754; numerous tall buildings erected after 1906, II, 935.
Slavery, California regarded as a field for its exten- sion, I, 38; gold discovery saved California from be- coming slave state, I, 76; Indians practically en- slaved by native Californians, I, 79; "fifty-four forty" or fight slogan, I, 102; adherents of and Vigilance committee, I, 207; unsettled opinions concerning, I, 215; adherents of intrigue against Mexico, I, 269; Broderick antagonizes, I, 313; abolitionist a term of reproach, I, 315.
Sloat, Commodore, his proclamation of July 7, 1846, I, 107; predicts great future for San Francisco, I, 179. Smith, Jedediah, enters California with party, I, 67. Smith, Peter, sharp practice of, I, 165; judgments ob- tained by him against city, I, 192.
Smith, General Persifer, his Americanism, I, 134. Smuggling, Yankee traders engage in, I, 62.
Socialism, of 1870 resembles progressive policy of 1912, II, 481.
Social Evil, not seriously discountenanced, I, 229. Society, social distinctions of native Californians, I, 52; mixed character of in pioneer days, I, 229; changes in conditions, I, 232; its peculiarities exaggerated, I, 244; firemen as leaders of, I, 255; not exclusive, I, 264; fashionable residence district in the fifties, I, 275; frequents Mechanics Institute Fair, I, 321; in a formative stage, I, 442; abatement of drinking habit, I, 449; murder of Lawyer Crittenden effects a re- formation, I, 451 ; new standards introduced, I, 452; as Historian Bryce found it, II, 594; home life and Chinese servants, II, 598; further changes, II, 603 ; abnormal features, II, 809; activities on eve of great fire, II, 825.
Southerners, sympathize with slaveholders' aspirations, I, 330; fire eaters, I, 333; their influence in San Fran- cisco, I, 277.
Southern California, awakening of, II, 586.
Southern Pacific, pretended rival of Central Pacific, I, 364; Kentucky corporation formed, II, 588; growth of its system, II, 660.
Spain, her desire to secure a port of refuge, I, 18; Mexico revolts from, I, 72; provincial taxation light under, I, 177.
Spalding, Rufus C., naval pay inspector involved by Pinney, II, 520.
Special legislation, legislature and San Francisco water front, I, 164; San Francisco suffers from, I, 194; evils of, I, 406; II, 515; city finally freed from, II, 711; constitution of 1879 puts an end to, II, 546. Specific Contract Act, purpose of, I, 346.
Speculation, speculative character of early trade, I, 284; in mining stock shares, I, 382; Stock Board formed, I, 382; early opposition to, I, 383; publication of stock transactions, I, 384; develop into a fever, I, 384; extent of the speculation market, I, 385; tricks of mining managers, I, 385; struggle for control of mines, I, 385; excitement in the city caused by, II, 491; discovery of the big bonanza, II, 491; corrupt practices of manipulators, II, 491 ; scenes during big bonanza excitement, II, 492; San Franciscans crazed by, II, 492; victims of credulity, II, 493 ; number of mines listed on boards, II, 495 ; accumulations of com- munity absorbed by manipulators, II, 496; women speculators, II, 496; bonanza stocks manipulated, II, 498 ; dangerous dividend paying stocks, II, 498; Stock Board increases its membership, II, 499; struggle for control of mines, II, 499; large rewards of brokers, II, 500; diamond mine swindle, II, 508; impedes industrial development, II, 509; George M. Pinney ruined by, II, 524; last big mining stock deal, II, 549; dealing in futures prohibited, II, 550; mild revival of mining stock operations, II, 733; sale of Pacific Stock Exchange building, II, 733; failure of a big wheat deal, II, 745.
Spring Valley Water Company (see Water Supply). Sports, bull fights and bear baiting, I, 258; horse rac-
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ing, I, 258; during the sixties, I, 414; baseball in the sixties, I, 445; interest in pugilism, I, 445; horse racing receives legislative encouragement, II, 615; revival of pugilism in the seventies, II, 616; baseball assumes professional form, II, 616; six-day walking matches, II, 617; of children, II, 617; horse racing carried to excess, II, 797; toleration of pugilism, II, 798; interest in all forms of, II, 798; yachting on San Francisco Bay, II, 799; football a social diver- sion, II, 799; bicycle craze, II, 799.
Spreckels, Rudolph, instigates prosecution of super- visors and corporation managers, II, 887.
Squatting, on city lands, I, 151; arguments of the squatters, I, 151.
Stage Line, romance of the Overland, II, 592.
Stanford, Leland aids Muybridge in attempt to pic- ture horse in motion, II, 615.
St. Augustin, wreck of in Drakes Bay, I, 4.
St. Ignatius College, formation of, I, 307. State Aid to wagon roads, I, 287.
State Division proposed in 1859, I, 317.
State Capital, San Francisco's indifference concerning its location, I, 318.
State Pride, slow development of, I, 287.
Steamer Day, regular collection of accounts, I, 285.
Stevenson, Robert Louis, his career in San Francisco, II, 641.
Stock Brokers, early members of Board, I, 383 (see also Speculation and Brokers).
Stow, W. W., political career of, II, 562.
Stratton Primary Law, results in a fair election, II, 705. Streets, of Yerba Buena, I, 119; energetic efforts to im- prove, I, 159; opposition to rectangular arrangement, I, 160; care of, I, 162; Mission planked road, I, 162; cut through sand hills, I, 162; in unsanitary condi- tion, I, 193; opened by Harry Meiggs, I, 197; Meiggs forges street warrants, I, 197; wretched condition of, I, 226; Market street in 1870, I, 142; thronged at night, II, 574; scenes on in the seventies, II, 609; clearing of neglected by city, II, 713; making thor- oughfares passable after fire, II, 865; condition of in 1912, II, 915; torn up by public service corpora- tions, II, 916; new construction and extensions, II, 920. Street Railways, urban transportation in 1870, I, 412; facilities in advance of population, I, 413; fares re- duced to five cents, II, 531 ; franchises freely granted, II, 557; changes produced by, II, 575; introduction of cable system, II, 575; first cable road, II, 575; terminus of first cable road, II, 576 ; types of cars used on, II, 576; capitalists urged to build, II, 577; super- visors not condemned for granting franchises, II, 579; open new localities to settlement, II, 580; construction of Geary street municipal road authorized, II, 721; franchises not regarded as valuable, II, 759; schemes to shut out competition, II, 760; Market street system adopts cable, II, 76r ; opposition to overhead trolley, II, 761 ; attempt to secure permit for trolley on Mar-
ket street, II, 761; Market street system sold to out- side capitalists, II, 762; hostility to United Railroads asserts itself, II, 763; movement in favor of munici- pal ownership, II, 764; a rival system threatened, II, 765; sentiment against United Railroads, II, 822; resumption of travel on after big fire, II, 846; over- head trolley permitted on Market street, II, 846; United Railroads promptly restores Sutter street line, II, 867; carmen's strike of 1902, II, 878; arbitration of carmen's demands, II, 880; Calhoun's explanation of granting of Market street trolley permit, II, 886; carmen's strike of 1907, II, 888; graft cases against managers of railroads dismissed, II, 893; use of tracks on lower Market street, II, 920; no further demand for underground trolley, II, 921; Geary street municipal road an overhead trolley, II, 921; not obliged to comply with their charter terms, II, 921; complaints of inadequate service, II, 922; city hires an expert to report on, II, 923; operation of United Railroads, II, 924; development of metro- politan area through urban transit facilities, II, 924. Strikes (see Labor).
Subsidies, land grants, state, city and county aid to Pacific railroads, I, 359.
Sub Treasury, operations of U. S., II, 527; II, 679; new building on Sansome street, II, 934.
Suburbs, growth of Oakland and transbay cities, II, 618. Sugar, high prices despite reciprocity, II, 670; expan- sion of beet sugar industry, II, 736.
Sun, New York, prints Pinney's exposure of California Federal ring, II, 522.
Sunrise Case, brutal treatment of sailors, II, 622.
Sunday Laws, legislature passes, I, 241 ; nonobservance of in city, II, 604; a favorite day for outings, II, 6r8. Sutro, Adolph, suggests tunnel to unwater Comstock mines, I, 385; attempt to overreach, I, 386; miners stand by him, I, 386; triumphs over "Bank Crowd," I, 386; real estate investments of, II, 570; his col- lection of books, II, 805.
Sutter, John A., career of, I, 131.
Sutter's Mill, discovery of gold at in 1848, I, 131. Swift, John F., as a writer of fiction, II, 641.
Taste, native Californians lacking in, I, 53.
Taxation, light under Spanish rule, I, 177; exemption from not a blessing, I, 179; auctioneers' license tax, I, 195; inequalities of, I, 195; poll tax unequally levied, I, 195; of consigned goods, I, 344; does not provide sufficient revenue for state, I, 344; war taxes, I, 344; an equitable system demanded, I, 345; Cen- tral Pacific evades its obligations, I, 363; efforts to keep down city rate, I, 404; charges of improper as- sessment, I, 427; appointment of assessors urged, I, 428; land unequally assessed, I, 428 ; constitution of 1879 creates an equalizing body, II, 544; Wells, Fargo decision impairs powers of Board of Equaliza- tion, II, 544; railroads shirk, II, 555; gross income
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tax proposed, II, 555; dread of impedes public im- provements, II, 568 ; rich men and personal property returns, II, 602; further attempts at shirking by the railroad, II, 650; improvement in mode of assessing lands, II, 673; Boss Buckley champions charter limit of local taxation, II, 699; revolt against dollar limit on, II, 714; mortgage tax law repealed, II, 720; separation of state and municipal revenues attempted, II, 721 ; assessed valuations in proposed Greater San Francisco, II, 901 ; per capita of American cities com- pared, II, 938.
Tax Eaters, origin of a nickname for city officials, I, 557.
Tea Trade, why it did not flourish, II, 671.
Teamsters' Strike, in 1901, II, 689; Governor Gage in- tervenes to stop, II, 691.
Telegraph, use of by papers in the fifties, I, 300; greatly improved facilities, II, 775; cable to Philip- pines, II, 775; project of Behring Sea cable aband- oned, II, 775.
Telephone, introduction of, II, 583.
Terry, David S., arrested by Vigilance committee, I, 209; personal character, I, 210; challenges and kills Broderick in a duel, I, 316; becomes a Confederate general, I, 316; attorney for Sarah Althea Hill in suit against William Sharon, II, 810; killed by a deputy United States marshal in defending Justice Field, II, 810.
Tetrazzini, sings in open air concert on Christmas Eve, 1909, II, 911.
Tevis, Lloyd, his start in life, I, 249.
Thanksgiving Day, first observance in California, I, 240.
Theaters (see Amusements).
Thirty-fifth parallel railroad projected, II, 588.
Thompson, Waddy, advocates acquisition of California, I, 39.
Thrift, growth of, I, 327; first savings and loan society,
I, 349; many houses built by building and loan as- sociations, II, 766.
Tilden, Herbert, killing of, II, 859.
Tipping, the habit in San Francisco, II, 759.
Titles, to water front lots confirmed, I, 148; in doubt for many years, I, 152; uncertainties concerning do not impede city's growth, I, 154; pueblo lands, I, 319; Van Ness ordinance settles pueblo titles, I, 319; legislature confirms pueblo titles, I, 320; of outside lands quieted, I, 409; after fire perfected by Mc- Enerney Act, II, 904.
Tivoli Opera House, first place in country to give opera all year around, II, 612.
Tobacco, smoking and chewing prohibited in legisla- tive chambers, I, 240.
Topography, changes effected in city by grading, II, 582.
Trade, of Spanish with Manila, I, 10; Spain makes no effort to open intercourse, I, 40; restrictions imposed
on colonists by Spain, I, 60; of Spanish in California with Alaskan Russians, I, 61; illegal traffic en- couraged by native Californians, I, 91; first Yankee ship to visit coast, I, 93 ; hides and tallow monopolized by British firm, I, 94; Americans successful in trad- ing with Californians I, 94; with whalers dis- couraged, I, 96; with New Mexico, I, 116; with Hud- son Bay and Russian American company, I, 116; San Franciscans eager for goods, I, 281; unorganized condition of after gold discovery, I, 281; early de- pressions, I, 281, panic of 1855, I, 282; buying and selling gold dust, I, 283; highly speculative char- acter during pioneer period I, 284; successful mer- chants, I, 284; merchandise illy displayed in stores, I, 284; big stores of early days, I, 285; credit system and collections, I, 285; visions of Oriental, I, 288; an early combination, I, 289; ante bellum troubles, I, 293; excessive imports, I, 321; San Francisco as a distributing point, I, 322; wheat in the fifties, I, 323 ; depression on eve of Civil war, I, 327; effects of Civil war upon, I, 340; changing conditions of, I, 343 ; increased exports, I, 343 ; consigned goods taxed specially, I, 344; merchants profit through deprecia- tion of greenback currency, I, 346; few debts paid in greenbacks, I, 350; change in character of im- ports, I, 391; San Francisco's increasing importance as a distributing point, I, 391 ; importance of acquisi- tion of Alaska, I, 393; with non contiguous terri- tory, I, 394; with Hawaiian Islands, I, 394; city benefits by Hawaiian trade, I, 395; with the Orient, I, 395; subsidization of Pacific mail steamers helps Oriental, I, 396; growth of wheat exports, I, 397; Eastern competition not feared, I, 399; signs of an approaching depression, I, 472; distribution of prod- ucts, II, 488; merchants show signs of revolt against railroad, II, 652; low prices produce depression, II, 665; "steamer day" collections, II, 667; of city slack- ens, II, 669; Hawaiian increasing, II, 670; Alaskan becoming more important, II, 671; failure to create a tea market, II, 671; elevated above production, II, 674; claim that Schmitz promoted, II, 694; business depression passes away, II, 726; benefited by mid- winter fair, II, 728; activity after Spanish American war, II, 726; brisk before breaking out of hostilities, II, 728; benefited by Klondike gold discovery, II, 732; effects of political mismanagement upon, II, 737; volume of Hawaiian, II, 744; with Australia, II, 744; in lumber and coal, II, 745; fluctuations be- tween 1891 and 1905, II, 747; a wave of prosperity, II, 823; Fillmore street as a business thoroughfare, II, 844; new business centers after fire of 1906, II, 861; resumption of business after earthquake, II, 861 ; new shopping districts, II, 862; Van Ness avenue temporarily fashionable shopping district, II, 863; in makeshift offices, II, 864; luxuries in demand after fire, II, 865; goes back to old down town center, II, 866; revivifying influence of insurance money, II, 870;
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failure of a free market experiment, II, 902; hand- some appointments of stores after the fire, II, 909; shopping districts in 1912, II, 909; expected impulse from opening of Panama canal, II, 930; volume of business transacted in San Francisco, II, 933.
Trade dollars, coined to help silver mining industry, II, 665; a redemption job, II, 666.
Trade Unions (see also Labor) receive a check, II, 686; shrinkage of membership, II, 686; recognition of by employers, II, 687; organization of unskilled labor, II, 687; take part in politics, II, 688; Ruef deals with, II, 692; city criticized because it accepts their domination, II, 823.
Traffic Association, demands of result in lowering local freight rates, II, 654; manager appointed, II, 653; promotes Valley Railroad project, II, 656.
Tramp Steamers, first to enter harbor, II, 591.
Transportation (see also Railroads and Shipping), early rates for hauling products, I, 37; sea neglected by native Californians, I, 88; facilities in pioneer days, I, 275; demand for improved facilities, I, 288; reg- ularity of ocean, I, 289; California Steam Navigation company, I, 289; on bay and inland waters, I, 289; clipper ships, I, 290; by way of Panama, I, 290; Nicaragua route, I, 290; Accessory Transit company, I, 290; Pacific Mail Steamship company, I, 291 ; rivals of Pacific Mail Co., I, 292; shipping tonnage in 1859, I, 292; early freight rates, I, 355; value of inter- communication recognized, I, 357; expansion of ship- ping industry, I, 390; subsidization of Pacific Mail Co., I, 396; coastwise trade, I, 397; sea route in the sixties, I, 420; communication established with all parts of state, II, 566; innovations in sea, II, 590; overland stage line, romance of, II, 592; ferry travel during seventies, II, 618 ; Southern Pacific and ocean competition, II, 652; merchants revolt against South- ern Pacific treatment, II, 652; roundabout methods of shipment, II, 652; Atlantic and Pacific Steamship company started, II, 653; Traffic Association formed to protect interests of merchants, II, 653; North American Navigation Company started, II, 654; mak- ing use of the ocean, II, 659; Pacific Coast Jobbers and Manufacturers Association activities, II, 660; state tolls abolished on water front, II, 660; traffic opera- tions of Southern Pacific, II, 660.
Trapping, about the bay of San Francisco, I, 69.
Treasure ships, of Spaniards, I, 4.
Treating habit, attempt to suppress, II, 604.
Tunnels, Sutro's scheme to unwater Comstock mines, I, 385; numerous projects mooted in city, II, 919.
Union Iron Works, war and commercial vessels con- structed in its yards, II, 747; operations of, II, 747. Unknown country, meager information concerning Cali- fornia prior to occupation by Americans, I, 103.
United Railroads secures control of San Francisco street railway system, II, 762; conciliatory policy of, II,
763 ; hostility against, II, 763 ; stimulation of prejudice against, II, 882 ; active in work of rehabilitation after the fire, II, 868; its outer tracks on lower Market street in dispute, II, 920; operations after the fire of 1906, II, 924.
University of California (see also education), its be- ginnings, I, 306.
Universities, influence of near by institutions, II, 803. Urban development, complexities produced by, II, 722. Urban, growth of coast cities, II, 736; needs of city life, II, 898.
Vacation, habit required development, I, 431.
Vanderbilt, Cornelius, and the Nicaragua route in early days, I, 290.
Van Ness, ordinance settles disputed titles, I, 319; avenue becomes a shopping thoroughfare after the fire, II, 863; great changes on the avenue, II, 908.
Vasquez, Tiburcio, a dreaded bandit, I, 450; career of, II, 619.
Vaudeville, multiplication of places for presentation of, II, 910.
Vice, no attempt to hide, I, 224; cause of flagrant ex- hibitions of, I, 225; attempts to eradicate, I, 231 ; im- provement of manners and morals, I, 240; San Fran- cisco no worse than other cities, I, 243; drinking habit prevalent, I, 258 ; claim that city made prosperous by toleration of, II, 694; advocated as a promoter of trade, II, 737; Workingmen's party held responsible for encouraging, II, 737; loose marital relations, II, 809; defended by Ruefites, II, 824; in city and coun- try, II, 898.
Views, demand for marine and mountain by builders of homes, II, 756.
Vigilance Committee, of 1851, I, 202; aroused by mur- der of James King of William, I, 206; political features of uprising, I, 207; preponderance of re- spectable element at time of uprising, I, 208; a flood of literature concerning, I, 209; arrest Terry for re- sisting its officers, I, 209; its concern with national questions, I, 210; reforms itself, I, 211; creates the People's party, I, 212; persuades citizens to attend to civic duties, I, 213 ; undemocratic features of, I, 213; Broderick's relations with, I, 214; political affiliations of leaders, I, 216; suits for damages against, I, 216; disbands, I, 217; return of prosecuted men to the city, I, 217; bargains with title disturbers, I, 217; con- sensus of critical opinion concerning, I, 218; federal authorities decline to interfere with its operations, I, 219; William T. Sherman's attitude towards, I, 219; foreign members of, I, 226; Pick handle brigade of 1878 an echo of, II, 533.
Virget, Captain John, surveys Yerba Buena, I, 40. Voting Machines, use of in San Francisco, II, 718.
Vox Populi, how it sounded in the seventies, I, 427.
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Wagon Roads, the Dutch Flat, I, 362; between Califor- nia and Oregon, I, 287.
Walker, William, attempts to capture Sonora, I, 269; career of the filibusterer, I, 270.
War (see also Civil war) vessels built by Union Iron Works, II, 747; Spanish-American troubles give an impulse to trade in city, II, 727.
Wasp, first American paper to print cartoons in colors, I, 463.
Water Front, lots sold by order of General Kearny, I, 119; further sale of lots, I, 148; fraudulent Colton grants, I, 149; policy of filling in, I, 163; line estab- lisbed, I, 164; Peter Smith titles, I, 165; improvement of, I, 165; beach and water front lots, I, 192; scandal over extension of line, I, 196; Meiggs builds long wharf, I, 197; legislative interference with, I, 320; ragged appearance of, I, 417; sea wall construction, I, 418; shipping driven away, I, 418; bulkhead line defined, I, 418; ferry building constructed, II, 741 ; improvements planned by Citizens committee, II, 742; projected improvements by Harbor commission, II, 927; movement to obtain control by the city, II, 928. Water Supply, Lake Merced violently disturbed in 1852, I, 166; of city in 1851, I, 166; Spring Valley Com- pany's operations, I, 407; consumption of water, I, 4.07; various sources of, II, 584; the Rogers Water Act, II, 584; report of Colonel Wendell on sources of supply, II, 585; increased consumption, II, 586; Spring Valley still in control, II, 771; consumption in 1905, II, 772 ; movement in favor of municipal owner- ship, II, 772; Spring Valley neglects precautions, II, 851; further agitation for municipal ownership; II, 935; attempt to secure Hetch Hetchy for reservoir purposes, II, 936; bonds voted for Hetch Hetchy, II, 937.
Waymire, James A., legal career, II, 629.
Wealth, how pioneers grew rich, I, 249; pursuit of by pioneers, I, 249; growth of thrift, I, 327; mineral resources of Nevada contribute to financial strength of San Francisco, I, 382; steady growth of in San Francisco, I, 388; prosperity through wheat growing, II, 489; new rich not ostentatious, II, 601; personal property of rich men in San Francisco, II, 602; prop- erty values in Greater San Francisco, II, 901 ; property values, II, 935.
Weather Service, weather warnings to horticulturists, II, 795.
Wells, Fargo & Co., injured by early railroad compe-
tition, I, 362; attacks State Board of Equalization, II, 544.
Western Union Telegraph Co., abandons Behring Sea cable project, II, 775-
Whalers, Pacific whaling in the forties, I, 115.
Wheat (see also cereals), production affected by falling prices, II, 667; unsuccessful attempt to corner world's market, II, 745.
Will cases, Fair estate claimed by a bogus widow, II, 812; contest over pioneer Blythe's property, II, 811. Williams, Minnie, murdered by Theodore Durrant, II, 814.
Wilson, Samuel M., legal career, II, 626.
Wine, brought to California from Boston, I, 31; made by missionaries, I, 31; freely used at meals in San Francisco, II, 600.
Women, in gambling saloons, I, 228; numerous demi- mondaines, I, 229; number of respectable increasing, I, 235; an early journal devoted to, I, 304; trades unions advocate cause of feminine workers, I, 375; suffrage movement in 1870, I, 428; growing influence of, I, 448; coeducation in state university, I, 458; reporters on newspapers, I, 460; suffrage amendment defeated in 1896, II, 719; form many clubs, II, 787. Workingmen's Party (see also labor and politics), not influential in constitutional convention of 1879, II, 543; first successes of, II, 537; platforms of, II, 537; formation of in 1901, II, 693.
Woodward's Gardens, a favorite resort, I, 410; attrac- tions of, I, 433.
Wool, industry thrives, I, 398; high prices and pros- perous growers, II, 511; falling prices affect produc- tion, II, 688.
Yachting, on bay of San Francisco, II, 799.
Yerba Buena, foundation of, I, 40; before 1847, I, 41; first house erected in, I, 41; in 1841, 1, 42; Leese starts first store in, I, 96; first public improvement, I, 98; in 1847, I, 112; Mormon colonists arrive, I, 113; occupations of first settlers, I, 114; gambling in, I, 114; servant question, I, 115; commerce of in 1847, I, 115; inducements offered to whalers, I, 116; name of changed to San Francisco, I, 118; town lots not in de- mand, I, 119; the cove of, I, 126; unsanitary result of filling in cove, I, 194.
Yorke, Rev. Peter, and the A. P. A's., II, 778.
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