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Coincident with the perfecting of insulating ap- pliances, making it possible to carry electric currents from the mountains to the sea, has come the discovery and development of seemingly limitless oil wells in various parts of California. The use of oil fuel as a substitute for coal is meeting with the most gratifying success. Railway engines burn it and cinders become a thing of the past. It has been tested upon a large passenger steamer running between San Francisco and
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Tahiti, with the result that a saving of two hundred dollars a day is effected. Oil burning freight steamers are plying between San Francisco and the Hawaiian Islands. The terrible work of the stokers is abol- ished and the decks are no longer grimy with cinders. Within a year all the engines of the Southern Pacific Railway will be converted into oil burners. Dusty country roadways when oiled become like park boule- vards. And thus electricity and oil are not only replac- ing coal but accomplishing far more than the old fuel could do. To be sure the transition has but begun, and vast quantities of coal must still be imported to San Francisco, but when ere long the oil pipe line is laid from Bakersfield to tide water, when J. Pierpont Morgan's new oil company, just organized with a capi- talization of twenty million dollars, is in operation, and the new San Francisco Electric Power Company has brought its lines from the mountains to the city, the demand for coal will surely not continue to increase in proportion to the growth of population or of manufac- turing industries.
One other great natural source of wealth Califor- nia possesses, namely her forests. But every true lover of the wildwood looks with dismay at the recklessness with which this treasure is being squandered. Nor is it by any means a sentimental motive which has actu- ated the protest against this ruin and waste. The future of California depends upon the conservation of its water supply. Without this the land will become a desert. The forests are the only power which can restrain the impatient torrents from despoiling the land -from rushing down the mountains in freshets and tearing away the soil of the valleys. The forest roots restrain the floods, the arching branches retard the melting snows, and the bounty of heaven becomes a blessing instead of a menace to the valleys. Hence the wisdom of a great series of national parks in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. The hungry saws are ripping up the sublime redwood forests of the coast district-
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forests as beautiful and impressive as any in the world. One State park of thirty-eight hundred acres in the Big Basin of the Santa Cruz Mountains is already saved, but aside from this the entire stretch of redwood for- ests is at the mercy of the lumbermen. There should be a chain of such parks up the coast to the Oregon boundary, lest our children grow up to curse us for our sinful neglect of them. San Francisco, awakened, aroused, building, reaching out, must not be satisfied with accomplishing its own immediate ends, but must remember that it has children who are to inherit the work of its hands.
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E VERY fifteen minutes during the day- light hours a great ferry boat leaves the gray stone building at the foot of Market Street for the eastern shore, passing in transit the return boats. During the evening, travel is lighter and boats run at less frequent inter- vals. Six miles of boating and a like distance by train for five cents to daily travelers or commuters, and ten cents for occasional passengers, is the cost of the trip-a rate unparalleled in suburban traffic. The larger boats, comfortable and modern in every detail, are capable of accommodating over two thousand persons, in spite of which they are often taxed to their utmost seating capacity during the morning and evening hours. It is estimated that a daily average of over forty thousand people cross the bay, while on special occasions the travel has been as great as a hundred thousand persons in a day.
Oakland, with its estuary for deep-water ship- ping, with ship yards for the building and repairing of vessels, and every facility for the immediate transfer of freight from ship to car, is peculiarly well located as a commercial center. Two long piers, or "moles" as they are called, reach out into the bay to carry South- ern Pacific overland and local trains as near as possi- ble to San Francisco, and a third pier is now nearly completed for the electric car service of the Santa Fe. Alameda County, of which Oakland is the metropolis, is one of the most productive districts of the State. It is famed for its vineyards, its hop fields and orchards. Indeed all fruits and vegetables thrive in its equable
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climate. The project of tunneling the hills back of Fruitvale, thus affording easy access to the sheltered valleys beyond the Coast Range, is now nearing con- summation, and will become an important factor in the city's development. Already Oakland is the third city in the State in population, its inhabitants number- ing about seventy thousand. It has many charming residences tucked away amid semi-tropic gardens, the district about Lake Merritt being especially noted for its substantial homes.
Alameda, with over sixteen thousand inhabitants, lies to the south of Oakland on the low land, which, by the recent cutting of the tidal canal, has been con- verted into an island. Its well-kept macadamized streets and many fine homes embowered in shrubbery and vines, make it a favorite residence town for an increasing number of people who do business in San Francisco. Alameda is a headquarters for the yacht- men and canoeists of the eastern shore, while its salt- water baths are an attraction to those fond of aquatic sports.
One may be forgiven for an undue partiality to his own home town, which is my only excuse for en- larging on the charms of Berkeley. I know it and love it from many years' residence. It is an unfinished place with much about it that might be bettered, par- ticularly in the provincial architecture of its business section, yet I have never known anyone, however widely he may have traveled, in New England or in Old, who has once lived under the spell of the Berkeley oaks without wishing to make it a home for life.
Berkeley lies upon the hills opposite the Golden Gate. Its homes command the whole glorious sweep of bay and shore. Tamalpais rears its finely chiseled profile to the right of the Gate, and San Francisco on its many hills lies to the left. The selection of this site for a State University was an inspiration on the part of its founders. Just where a beautiful cañon in the Berkeley hills descends to the plain, with classic
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laurels fringing its upper slopes, and the patriarch live-oaks sanctifying its lower levels with their gnarled gray trunks and dark canopies of verdure, upon the gently rising slope which leads up from the bay shore some two miles distant, a tract of two hundred and eighty-five acres has been set apart for the University of California. The Berkeley Hills rise abruptly back of it to the crest of Grizzly Peak, some fifteen hundred feet high, and upon the three lower sides of the grounds extends the town.
Wherein lies the charm of Berkeley? Is it in the vine-covered cottages and profusion of flowers which at the height of the season make the town seem decked for a carnival? Is it in the glorious prospect of rolling mountains and far-spread bay? Or is it the people, drawn from near and far by that great mag- net, the University? We old timers complain that the town is getting crowded and no longer has the rural tone of a few years ago. But what matter? Ceaselessly the houses go up, new ones springing into existence on every hand, and the only consolation is that on the whole the architecture is steadily becoming simpler and better. There is probably no other spot in Cali- fornia where so many really artistic homes are assem- bled. For those who like the sort of people attracted by a great institution of learning, no society could be more delightful than is to be found here. People are flocking to Berkeley not only from various parts of California but from many sections of the East. They hear of its wonderful climate, softer than San Fran- cisco but favorable for work all the year round, the most truly temperate climate imaginable. They hear of its homes, its people and its accessibility to the great city. They come to educate their children at the Uni- versity and once here never leave save by compulsion.
The growth of the University of California in recent years is one of the most significant facts in the development of the State. Throngs of students crowd class-rooms and laboratories to the utmost limit, despite
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the many temporary buildings recently erected. The University has grown six fold in the past twelve years. Harvard alone among American universities outnum- bers it in undergraduates. Well may California boast of the fact that in proportion to population more students are receiving a college education within her confines than in any other State in the union! Plans are now being made for a magnificent group of per- manent university buildings, and the first of the series, the Hearst Mining Building, is in course of erection.
Mere numbers count for little save as an index of the desire for higher education. It is the high stan- dard, the progressive spirit, the ideals of scholarship that are in evidence which means so much for the future of San Francisco and of California. It is the presence of such men as Benjamin Ide Wheeler, a Greek scholar and writer of wide reputation before he became so forceful a power in Berkeley as presi- dent of the University, of George Holmes Howison, one of the deepest philosophic minds of the age as the students of the older centers of learning attest, and of the memory of the illustrious dead-John and Joseph Le Conte and Edward Rowland Sill-these men and their co-workers are indeed the crowning glory of Berkeley! The college town has also for many years been the home of William Keith who has drawn the chief inspiration for his matchless pictures from the oaks, the hills, and the bay of this well loved region.
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CCUPYING as it does the end of a O peninsula flanked by ocean and bay, San Francisco has but one direction for expansion, but one outlet by land -to the southward. Here extend the hills and valleys of San Mateo County with well-kept farms and prosperous villages and towns. Here is Burlingame, where so many San Franciscans of wealth and taste have built country homes, adding to the charm of nature the arts of the architect and landscape gardener. There are miles of level park-like valley land here where graceful, wide-spreading oaks beautify the plain, revealing be- tween their masses of verdure vistas of blue mountain ranges. In the cañons of these mountains, and even up on some of the heights where the salt breeze and fog drift in from the sea, are superb forests of red- wood. I recall with peculiar delight the stage ride over the mountains from Redwood City to La Honda, down into the deep dark glade where the solemn shafts of the forest rise like worshipers of the light.
In the warm valleys of San Mateo County, shel- tered from the ocean wind, are the market gardens for supplying San Francisco with vegetables, and flower gardens for providing the wealth of bloom and frag- rance which makes the city florist shops the delight of all who enter or even pass their doors. The Crystal Springs Lakes and San Andreas reservoir in the mountains of this district are the sources of San Fran- cisco's water supply, enough, with other available springs, to furnish water to a million people.
In one of the broad sheltered valleys of this beau- tiful country of oaks and vineyards lies the Stanford
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University. The inspiring example of a multi- millionaire devoting his entire fortune to founding a university in memory of his only son, and the subse- quent devotion of his widow in carrying out in every detail the wishes of its founder, has made the Uni- versity world famous. Its beautiful Spanish archi- tecture, fitting so well the site, with groups of low, tile- roofed buildings around an inner and outer quadran- gle, has done much to create an atmosphere for the University, and its president, David Starr Jordan, has shaped its work on broad and noble lines. From an initial class of four hundred and sixty-five students, the attendance has grown in ten years to thirteen hundred. The presence of two great Universities within a radius of thirty miles of San Francisco, with distinctive ideals, with strong individual presidents, the one emphasizing the scientific spirit of investigation, the other the Greek spirit of culture, but both broad and liberal in their views, is one of the great influences, nay rather the great influence in shaping the future of San Francisco. The rivalry in football and athletics, in oratory and scholarship, between the two universities, keeps both on their mettle. Each helps the other, and both work for what is highest and best in the life of the State.
From Stanford University and the academic town of Palo Alto close to it, a ride of a few miles on the train takes the traveler to San Jose at the head of San Francisco Bay. This city is fifth in population in California, and is noted for its park-like streets shaded by spreading foliage trees or ornamented with rows of palms, its many substantial buildings and general air of prosperity and thrift. It may well appear so with the great fruit country that surrounds it, where some of the finest prune orchards of the State are to be found, as well as acres and miles of other varied deciduous fruits, all cultivated to the last degree of perfection.
A daily stage connects San Jose with the Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton, where, with the aid
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of the second most powerful telescope in the world, a small band of devoted astronomers have made some of the most important discoveries of modern times in the investigation of the heavens. Work of far-reaching importance has been done here on the finding and observing of double stars, on photographing nebulæ, in spectroscopic astronomy, the detection of comets, and in many other fields of research. The stage ride of twenty-seven miles to the observatory is over a typical section of the Coast Mountains, the view ever enlarg- ing until the topmost point is reached with its almost unparalleled expansiveness of outlook. The whole snowy range of the Sierras extends far off across the broad plains of the Sacramento and San Joaquin. Mount Diablo, and Mount Tamalpais lie to the north, and past Loma Prieta to the southward the ranges of southern Monterey County are visible. San Fran- cisco Bay, the fertile Santa Clara Valley with its set- tlements, its orchards and cultivated fields, and many near cañons and wrinkled hills are below us. What sunsets one may view from this vantage point, followed by a peep at some planet through the great glass, and glimpses of that illimitable star world so wonderfully revealed! Then there is the night stage ride down the mountain, bowling around curves at a lively trot, and descending into the darkness and solitude of the cañons !
I think of Mount Hamilton during the lovely weeks of spring-time when baby-blue-eyes gladdened the slopes, when shooting stars and scarlet larkspurs and lupines were waving in great masses of radiant bloom, when the birds were singing and courting, and the lonely mountain where man holds communion with the stars, thrilled with that loving touch of nature which makes all the world akin.
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I T was wet on Washington's Birthday and the wind whistled merrily over the Bolinas Ridge as four jolly tramps swung down the crest in full view of the miles of thundering surf from Point Reyes to Ocean View. They drew up at the door of Constantine's Tavern amid the spruce trees, and uttered a wild war whoop. Why any mortal man should have thought of building an inn in that remote spot on the stage road from Ross Valley to Bolinas, and still more why any other mortal men should have thought of walking ten miles on a rainy winter afternoon to get there, is one of those mysteries that passeth understanding. But the ceanothus bushes were abloom in the chap- arral, the manzanita bells were coming forth on the gnarly red-stemmed shrubs, hound's tongue and tril- lium and violet were putting forth timid petals in the rain and the birds were making holiday in those lovely wooded glades of oak and spruce. It was enough!
Mine host Constantine, surnamed the Old Pirate, who had concocted stews on the ferry boat for many a year, was there with his good wife to receive us, and as soon as the wet boots and clothes were steaming by the big open fire we sat down to the festive board and devoured plates of inimitable chowder a la Constan- tine, savory chicken and the many other Greek dishes he proudly set before us, swapping yarns the while with our host and entertaining his festive goat while the master's back was turned. We slept in one of his cabins before a rousing fire, lulled to sleep by the rain- drops trickling in through his leaky ceiling. A twenty
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mile tramp to Olima on the morrow was one succession of splendid views of forests and mountains, with the ocean far below.
The whole Marin County peninsula is a great natural park with villages and pastoral country inter- spersed. Would that it might be reserved as such for all time! In its sheltered valleys grow the noble red- woods, the sublimest of forest trees save only their com- peers of the Sierras. In the secluded Redwood Cañon they still stand in their pristine glory-stately shafts of majestic proportion lifting high their ever- green foliage. Mill Valley shelters much charming second growth redwood where simple cottages nestle amid the trees. Most unique of these are the Japanese houses built by Mr. George T. Marsh.
From this point the mountain railroad zigzags up Mount Tamalpais. After leaving the shade of the redwood and the fragrant laurel dells, it turns and twists up the mountain side, coiling in a double bow knot, curving and winding along ledges in search of a uniform grade. The view broadens below-first the bay with indentations and peninsulas, islands and dis- tant hills. The city comes in view across the Golden Gate, and presently the ocean is sighted. As the stout little oil engine pushes us still higher, we see the twin peaks of Mount Diablo looming up nobly to the east- ward back of the Berkeley Hills. Far to the south- east swells Mt. Hamilton on a high ridge, where the great eye of the world watches silently the other spheres. To the northward, fifty miles away, we see Mount St. Helena grimly rising. The train takes us to the comfortable Tamalpais Tavern from which point the summit is distant but a ten minutes' walk. The wind rushes wildly over the ridge. At our feet stretches the ocean, with the Farallone Islands seem- ingly close at hand. Turning we look down on the broad expanse of the bay, on hills and mountains, towns and cities. This varied view of land and sea, com- passing a hundred miles of the most diversified land-
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scape of California, must be seen many times to be thoroughly appreciated. Sunrise over the San Joa- quin Valley; the red orb dipping down into the fiery band on the ocean; moonlight, and the witchery of the fog, when the beholder sits like an eagle on his crag and sees the tumultuous cloud-floor spread below-all these are but passing phases of the splendors of nature which may be seen from this great watch tower of the Pacific.
At foot of the mountain, nestling amid the valleys or in cosy nooks on the bay shore, are many charming suburbs of San Francisco. San Rafael is the largest of these and is frequented by many people of wealth as well as by a numerous population of moderate means. Sausalito, on the shore, is a meeting place for yachts- men, while Belvedere is famed for its night water car- nivals. Both towns have many picturesque houses on hillsides overlooking the bay. A half-hour's ride on the ferry takes the suburbanite from San Francisco to his home. There he may enjoy nature, forgetting the cares of business and the stress and strain of the city, calmed by the expansive view of bay and distant hills, and enlarged in spirit by communion with the beauties far spread at his feet.
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S AN FRANCISCO occupies the strat- egic post of the world commerce of the twentieth century. "Westward the course of empire takes its way" was a prophecy which has already found fulfillment. The Pacific is the new theatre for the enacting of the drama of the nations. From time immemorial the world has been divided into the East and West, the former of hoar antiquity, conservative, profound, teem- ing with people, the latter ever young, ever new, fol- lowing in the march of time, progressive, expanding, peopling new wildernesses, restlessly searching for new worlds of hand or brain to conquer. From time immemorial the West has thriven upon the commerce of the East. Phonecia, Athens, Alexandria, Rome, Venice, Spain, Holland, England, each in turn has waxed fat and opulent on the commerce of the Orient. It was in the search for the Spice Islands that America was discovered. It was in the determined effort to find a more direct route between Europe and the Indies that most of the future exploration of America was pushed. It is with the same determination to sweep away every obstacle, however monumental, which sep- arates the Occident from the Orient, that the United States has undertaken the prodigious task of building the Isthmian Canal.
After all these centuries of effort, a great city has been reared upon the outposts of the western world with a free sweep of sea off yonder to China. The tidal wave of civilization has rolled around the globe. The West has reached its limit, and to go beyond
FROM A PAINTING BY YELLAND IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA ART GALLERY THE ROAD OF PASSAGE AND UNION BETWEEN TWO HEMISPHERES.
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means to cross the international date line into the East. So intent has San Francisco been upon the petty local problems which environed her that she is only now awakening from her lethargy to realize the pre- eminence of her position. Standing upon the rim of the western world, the Orient is before her. She com- mands the shortest route to the East, seldom blocked by winter storms, and commerce will always go that way. It is the law of following the line of least resistance. Even when the Isthmian Canal is finished, passengers, mail and all perishable freight will go by the quickest way, and the enforced reduction in railroad rates will more than offset any loss of freight business to San Francisco.
The railroads are alive to their opportunities in overland traffic. They have so reduced the time that mail and passengers are now carried from ocean to ocean in a little less than four days. The terrors of the desert are set at naught by the triumphs of engineering. Vast sums of money are today being applied to the im- provement of road-beds, the straightening of curves, lowering of grades and modernizing of equipment on the transcontinental lines. Instead of the Northwest Passage, for which the mariners of old sought in vain, applied science has given us the overland passage. So rapid has been the increase of freight business during the past year that the railroads are hard put to sup- ply cars to handle it. The Sunset Limited train runs daily now instead of twice a week, to accommodate the increasing travel. Other railroad lines are seeking en- trance to San Francisco from the East. New steam- ship lines are bringing hither the produce of many shores-of Alaska and South America, Oceanica and Australasia, the Philippines, Japan and China. There were but three regular steamship lines plying between San Francisco and foreign ports in 1895 as against twelve lines today, and the foreign export business has grown from a tonnage of something over fifteen million pounds in that year to over two hundred million pounds
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in 1901. Our merchants are filling orders for Siberia and New Zealand. Korea and South Africa are being brought within the scope of our commercial enterprise as well as the various countries of Europe.
The great triangle of the Pacific is destined to have its lines drawn between Hong Kong, Sydney and San Francisco. Of these three ports, Hong Kong will have China behind it, Sydney, Europe, and San Fran- cisco, America; and with America for a backing, San Francisco can challenge the world in the strife for commercial supremacy. In the midst of this great triangle lie Hawaii and the Philippines. From the days of Magellan's immortal voyage to the time of Dewey, the Spanish stronghold in the Pacific remained unshaken save by internal dissensions. Today America is roused to a new charge, and if only the love of liberty which has so long thrilled the nation can remain the dominating spirit in our disposition of these populous islands, we shall have a stronger hold upon the vantage ground on the outposts of the Orient than could ever be gained by force of arms. If we are bound to these people by ties of mutual interest, the islands will be to us a source of legitimate profit and a link in the chain of commerce with the Orient, but if we seek to rule them with a master hand, they will become a drain on our pockets and a potent factor in lowering our national tone. The future of San Francisco is deeply concerned in this matter, and the present drift of events seems happily in the right direction.
While San Francisco is thus indebted to its com- manding position as toll taker on the world's high- way, the city, in common with all California, is also favored by isolation. Between the snowy crests of the Sierra Nevada Mountains and the ocean, is a strip of land of extraordinary fertility. Here grow the larg- est forest trees of the world, the largest fruits, the most abundant crops. Water, in some parts of this region, must be artificially brought to the land, but irrigation is at once the oldest and the newest method of assuring
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95 a harvest. All ancient civilizations were in countries which depended upon artificially watered crops, and California is but another instance where history is repeating itself.
Beyond this garden, for hundreds of miles to the eastward stretches a desert, or, more properly speak- ing, an arid region of alkali plains and sage-brush hills which can probably never support a dense population. Thus are we of the Coast cut off from kinsmen of the East and Middle West. Trains may speed their fast- est with mail and freight. Books and magazines may come pouring in upon us in a deluge from New York and Boston, but the physical barrier remains. Cali- fornia, cosmopolitan though it be, thrilling with the same patriotic pride and enthusiasm as the East, is still intensely self reliant. It does not hang upon the opin- ions of Eastern oracles but makes its own standards. One has but to be inoculated with the California fever by a year's residence to become an enthusiastic victim for life. There is a largeness of horizon here un- known to the Easterner. City men go out on summer outings to climb lofty mountain peaks that would ap- pall a tenderfoot. The stern grandeur of the ocean shores and the vast horizon of Sierra peaks leave their impress upon the race that dwells in such an environ- ment.
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Much has been said and written of the climate of California, but it still remains a fruitful theme. With- in the radius of a hundred miles are to be found all sorts of climate, save the greatest extremes of the tropics and Arctics. From the cool moist coast to the dry heat of the interior means but the crossing of a spur of the Coast Range. From the frostless lowlands to a region of heavier snowfall than is found elsewhere in the United States implies but the ascent by rail of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. In the valleys, roses and oranges; in the mountains, snow-shoes and ice carnivals!
The climate of San Francisco is uniform to a de-
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gree that is equalled in few regions .* The summer fogs temper the heat and make July and August as comfortable as midwinter for work. The constant sea breeze that sweeps over the hills all summer long on its way to the hot interior valleys, carries away the germs of disease and makes San Francisco an excep- tionally healthful city. Frost is rare in midwinter and a flurry of snow falls only once in a few years, melting almost ere it touches the ground. From June to October scarce a shower moistens the ground, but from November to May there are copious downpours, interspersed with some of the loveliest days of the year. The rainfall varies in amount from year to year, but it is always welcome, since the stormiest of winter weather means an ensuing summer of abundant crops. Last winter, with a rainfall of twenty-one inches, was an average season.
From my aerie amid the Berkeley Hills I look out through the Golden Gate and see stately ships and proud steamers coming and going; I can trace the long line of overland trains speeding along the bay shore; away yonder the city flecks the stubborn heights of San Francisco. The whole great pageant of com- merce is in view afar off on the blue and purple relief map of bay and mountains. The matchless gate of gold is there glowing in the sunset. Over on La Loma, but a stone's throw distant, stood Fremont when he named that "road of passage and union between two hemispheres" the Chrysopylæ or Golden Gate.
Where could be found a more fitting highway for the world commerce to travel, where a more sublime portal whence the power and products of western civ- ilization should go forth to other shores of this vast
*The lowest temperature recorded by the weather bureau during thirty years' observation, is 29° Far. The highest is 100°. The lowest mean temperature for any month during this period was 46° and the highest 65°. The mean temperature during these thirty years was lowest in December, when it averaged 50°, and highest in September coming to 63°. In other words, the variation of mean temperature from month to month during thirty years has been only 13º.
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Pacific, and the stored wealth, art and industries of the Orient be returned to enrich America? San Francisco, founded by the Spanish padres who bore the cross to the scattered Indian tribes of the wilderness, invaded by a cosmopolitan horde from the four winds of the globe, flocking at the cry of gold, developed by Amer- ican energy into the most important city of the Pacific shore, has now taken a new impetus of growth and has before it a more brilliant future than the most sanguine of its founders dared anticipate. May that largeness of public spirit, that breadth of view and that readiness to co-operate in all that is good, grow and develop until the community is able to fitly cope with this empire of the Pacific sea and shores and make it tribute to its genius !
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