The Chamber of Commerce Handbook for San Francisco: Historical and Descriptive; a Guide for Visitors ...San Francisco Chamber of commerce under the direction of the Publicity committee, 1913 - 336 strani Guidebook covering history, hotels, restaurants, suggested walks and tours, businesses, universities, hospitals, banks, clubs, sports, excursions outside the City, and other items for the traveler. |
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Alameda Angel Island automobile Bank bath beautiful Berkeley block north boats Broadway California street cents Chinese Club Company corner east Ellis and Ocean European plan famous feet Ferry building Ferry building take Fillmore finest foot of Market Franciscans Gertrude Atherton Golden Gate Park Grant avenue grove Hall hills Hospital Hotel Island Key System Lake Lake Chabot largest Leland Stanford Marin county Market street Market street car miles Mills Mission street Monte Monterey mountain Napa Ness avenue O'Farrell street Oakland Point Post street Powell street Presidio railroad reached redwood river road Sacramento San Fran San Francisco San Jose San Leandro San Mateo Santa Clara Santa Cruz Saturday Sausalito shore Southern Pacific ferry southward Stockton street and walk Sundays Tahoe Tallac Tamalpais Third and Townsend town Townsend depot take train travelers trip trolley Vallejo Valley visitors W. C. Morrow walk a block
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Stran 146 - BELLS of the Past, whose long-forgotten music Still fills the wide expanse, Tingeing the sober twilight of the Present With color of romance ! I hear your call, and see the sun descending On rock and wave and sand, As down the coast the Mission voices, blending, Girdle the heathen land. Within the circle of your incantation No blight nor mildew falls ; Nor fierce unrest, nor lust, nor low ambition Passes those airy walls.
Stran 146 - Nor fierce unrest, nor lust, nor low ambition Passes those airy walls. Borne on the swell of your long waves receding, I touch the farther Past — I see the dying glow of Spanish glory, The sunset dream, and last Before me rise the dome-shaped Mission towers The white Presidio; The swart commander in his leathern jerkin, The priest in stole of snow.
Stran 135 - ... *T*O be honest, to be kind — to earn a little *" and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not to be embittered, to keep a few friends, but these without capitulation — above all, on the same grim conditions, to keep friends with himself — here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy.
Stran 190 - In what other city would a harmless madman who supposed himself emperor of the two Americas have been so fostered and encouraged ? Where else would even the people of the streets have respected the poor soul's illusion ? Where else would bankers and merchants have received his visits, cashed his cheques, and submitted to his small assessments ? "Where else would he have been suffered to attend and address the exhibition days of schools and colleges ? Where else, in God's green earth, have taken his...
Stran 19 - Few cities in the world can vie with her either in the beauty or in the natural advantages of her situation; indeed, there are only two places in Europe — Constantinople and Gibraltar — that combine an equally perfect landscape with what may be called an equally imperial position.
Stran 19 - ... gateway between mountains through which ships bear in commerce from the farthest shores of the Pacific; to the right, valleys rich with corn and wine, sweeping away to the southern horizon. The city itself is full of bold hills, rising steeply from the deep water. The air is keen, dry, and bright like the air of Greece, and the waters not less blue. Perhaps it is this air and light, recalling the cities of the Mediterranean, that make one involuntarily look up to the top of these hills for the...
Stran 5 - ... way into our vitals. Through an awful moment of portentous silence we stared back at him like fascinated idiots. He raised one arm and swept it around the horizon. Then, of a sudden, he was off: "Born a drowsy Spanish hamlet, fed on the intoxicants of man's lust for gold, developed by an adventurous and a baronial agriculture, isolated throughout its turbulent history from the home lands of its diverse peoples, and compelled to the outworking of its own ethical and social standards, the sovereign...
Stran 304 - At San Juan Bautista there lingers more of the atmosphere of the olden time than is to be found in any other place in California.
Stran 18 - ... the Pacific Ocean on the west, San Francisco Bay on the east and north, and the Golden Gate on the north.