SAN FRANCISCO 



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SAN FRANCISCO 



ing; the Merchants Exchange Building; the 

 Chronicle Building and the Hearst Building are 

 all towering structures. The United States 

 mint at Mission and Fifth streets is an impos- 

 ing building designed in the style of the United 

 States Treasury building at Washington. More 

 gold has been coined in this mint since it was 

 established than in any other in the country. 

 The mint is open to visitors during certain 

 hours every working day. 



The principal churches include the First Con- 

 gregational, the First Presbyterian, Saint 

 Mary's Cathedral, Old Saint Mary's, Saint 

 Luke's, Episcopal, and Temple Emanu-El. Mis- 

 sion Dolores, built in 1782 and restored in re- 

 cent times, still retains a part of the old struc- 

 ture and is the oldest building in the city. 

 Among the most attractive theater buildings 

 are the Alcazar, the Columbia, the Cort, the 

 Strand, the Orpheum, the Pantages and the 

 Savoy. 



Among the unique buildings are the Cliff 

 House, jutting out into the sea near the Seal 

 Rocks, on which sea lions can be seen at any 

 hour in the day, and the Sutro Baths and Mu- 

 seum, a structure covering nearly three acres 

 and containing the largest indoor swimming 

 tanks ever built. Adjoining the baths are the 

 Sutro Gardens, ornamented by many pieces of 

 beautiful statuary. 



Manufactures. In 1914 San Francisco was 

 eleventh among the cities of the United States 

 in its manufactures. The most important in- 

 dustries are meat packing, sugar refining, fruit 

 canning and preserving, and the manufacture of 

 machinery, glass and chocolate. Shipbuilding 

 is an important industry, and one of the largest 

 dry docks on the Pacific coast is located here. 



Transportation and Commerce. Only one 

 branch of the Southern Pacific Railway enters 

 San Francisco. Oakland, across the bay, is the 

 terminus of all the great transcontinental lines, 

 but the excellent ferry service enables passen- 

 gers and freight to reach the city without delay. 

 There are regular lines of steamships plying 

 between San Francisco and all the ports of the 

 Orient and the Philippine Islands. Other lines 

 are engaged in coastwise traffic and in South 

 American trade, and the Panama Canal is in- 

 creasing the ocean traffic between San Fran- 

 cisco, New York and other Atlantic ports, since 

 it has shortened the ocean route between these 

 cities by more than 7,000 miles. San Francisco 

 has an extensive foreign trade. 



Education. In addition to the public high 

 schools, which are accredited by the University 



Research Questions on 

 San Francisco 



(An Outline suitable for Snn Frnii- 

 cfsco will be found with the article 

 City.*') 



What, according to one writer, have 

 been the chief causes of San Francisco's 

 development of an "individuality and a 

 versatility beyond any other American 

 city?" 



What are the great advantages of 

 position which this city possesses? 



Where does San Francisco rank 

 among the great cities of the United 

 States? (See list with article CITY.) 



How does it rank among the seaports 

 of the western coast? 



What is the Golden Gate? Who 

 named it? Give a brief description 

 of it. 



What two places in Europe, accord- 

 ing to a distinguished Englishman, vie 

 with San Francisco in beauty and ad- 

 vantage of position? 



Locate these two places on a map of 

 Europe, and see whether you can dis- 

 cover similarities between their situa- 

 tions and that of San Francisco. 



What interesting form of animal life 

 may be seen from the Cliff House in 

 Golden Gate Park? 



What distinction have the Sutro 

 Baths among similar institutions? 



Study the map of the city, and see 

 whether you can tell why almost no 

 railroads enter the city. 



If you went to San Francisco on the 

 Western Pacific, for instance, where 

 would you leave the train? How would 

 you reach San Francisco? 



What shelters the city from the winds 

 of the Pacific? 



What animal, almost extinct except 

 in zoological collections, may be seen 

 in Golden Gate Park? 



What is the Presidio? 



What great exposition was held in 

 this city? Where was it located? 



How did the plan after which the 

 buildings and grounds were laid out dif- 

 fer from that employed in most exposi- 

 tions? 



What building has San Francisco that 

 is 650 feet long? 



What does its second story contain? 



What foreign city exists within San 

 Francisco? Why would you see prac- 

 tically none of the buildings there that 

 you would have seen in 1905? 



What important structure suggests in 

 its architecture one of the buildings of 

 the Federal capital? What is carried 

 on in this building? 



What is the oldest building in the 

 city? 



When was it built? 



Who was the first man to enter San 

 Francisco Bay? 



What was the main object of the first 

 comers to this region? 



What was the first actual settlement 

 made here? 



To how many countries has this ter- 

 ritory on which San Francisco is situ- 

 ated belonged? 



When did it come into the possession 

 of the United States? 



What was the main cause of the very 

 rapid development of this far western 

 region? 



What were the vigilance committees, 

 anr\ why were they necessary? 



When was railway connection with 

 the Eastern states completed? 



