Making Business of An example of business-like art, due to the possibilPictures. ities of San Francisco and California, is the painters' Manufactures and colony at Monterey, where for several months each year are produced pictures to sell to Eastern or English connoisseurs. One man, last year, netted $4,200, as the result of his art and industry, painting systematically, and sending his work to New York dealers. San Francisco artists, who have won more than local fame, include Tom Hill, William Keith, Fred Yates, Theo. Wores, Charles Rollo Peters, A. F. Mathews, Francis McComas, R. Martinez, Miss Kuhne Beveridge, Ernest C. Peixotto, H. J. Breuer, L. P. Latimer, Jules Pages, Jules Tavernier, A. Joullin and Charles Dickman. In literature, the roll of those who have gone out into the world of letters from this community is a long one. Joaquin Miller, Bret Harte, Noah Brooks, Gertrude Atherton, Frank Norris, Ambrose Bierce, E. W. Townsend, Gelett Burgess, Booth Tarkington, Bailey Millard, W. C. Morrow, Louis Robertson, Edward Rowland Sill, Flora Haines Loughead, Charles Keeler, Juliet Wilbor Tompkins, S. E. Moffett, Edwin Markham, Grace Ellery Channing, Jack London, Chester Fernald, H. J. W. Dam, Clay Greene, George H. Broadhurst-these are a few examples. For the year ending 30th June, 1901, the chief manuCommerce. factures of San Francisco with the value of the product, were as follows:-Bookbinderies $800,000, breweries $4,000,000, coffee and chocolate $2,200,000, confectionery $700,000, cigars $2,000,000, crackers $1,750,000, chemicals $1,500,000, clothing $1,500,000, electrical $3,750,000 flour $3,000,000, fruit-canning $3,700,000, gas $4,500,000, glass $1,300,000, millinery $810,000, provisions $3,500,000, shirts $1,700,000, ships $3,000,000, shoes $2,300,000, sugar $14,211,516, tanneries $1,310,000, tinware $1,750,000, wire $1,500,000, wool-scouring $2,000,000. The city's official police department numbers (January 23, 1903) 673 men. The Fire Department, under Chief Denis Sullivan, numbers 584 men and no fire fighting department of any city ranks higher than does. this one. WAITING FOR THE LANDING OF THE TRANS-PACIFIC CABLE, DECEMBER 14, 1902-A MIDWINTER DAY IN SAN FRANCISCO. nental The city is connected with the eastern States by three Transconti through overland railways, the Central Pacific, the Railways. Southern Pacific (which controls the Central Pacific) and the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe routes. Besides these, the city has traffic connections with the Canadian Pacific, Northern Pacific, and Great Northern and other transcontinental roads. Lines of the Southern Pacific and Santa Fe and their branches connect the whole State with the city, besides the smaller lines of the California Northwestern, North Shore, Sierra Railway, and other roads that penetrate the agricultural, mining and lumbering districts. The Pacific Coast Steamship Company has a large fleet of steamers plying between San Francisco and Californian, Mexican, Puget Sound and Alaskan ports, while the trans-Pacific liners of the Pacific Mail, Occidental and Oriental, Toyo Kisen Kaisha, Kosmos, Oceanic, and other companies link San Francisco to Central America, to the Orient, Australia, and the islands of the Pacific. There is considerable river and bay transportation, uniting the city with Sacramento, Stockton, and other points on the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers. The assessed valuation of real and personal property in 1902 was $420,355,541. Property is assessed at 60 to 80 per cent of its values. The city's tax rate is $1.2262 on the hundred dollars. The city's net debt (funded and floating, less sinking fund) is (June 30, 1902) only $17,185.77. Government. After many years of notorious "boss" rule the city in A Model City 1896 elected a reform mayor. This was the most important movement for good government in the history of the city since the Vigilance Committee of 1856. It was followed by the adoption (1899) of a new charter, formed by a board of Freeholders, and based upon the most approved models of modern municipal government. The city's control is centralized, giving more power to the mayor, who has the appointment and removal of the following commissions: fire, police, school, election, park, civil service, health, and public works. The principle of the "initiative and referendum" was incorporated in the charter, by which a percentage of the voters can compel |