3AN- FHANCISCO AND END OF JOURNEY. 643 



Her commerce is immense. The trade of the West- 

 ern Coast from Chili to Alaska is her natural heritage, 

 and she can justly claim a fair, large share from China, 

 Japan, India, Australia and the islands of the sea. 



She has eighty-one public schools, sixty-nine clubs, 

 nine public libraries, one hundred and fourteen 

 churches, and thirty public parks and ornamental 

 plazas. 



What words could more aptly describe the career of 

 San Francisco than those lately written by Governor 

 Mark ham? 



" Originally San Francisco consisted of wind-swept 

 bills, the shifting sands of which seemed to defy either 

 stability or cultivation. Now those hills, graded hj 

 pick and shovel, are gridironed by streets and rail- 

 ways, and crowned with the magnificent buildings of 

 a populous city, or transformed by the magic of water 

 and patient tillage into miles of verdant park, dotted 

 by miniature lakes, ribboned with gravel driv^es, 

 crowded with grottoes, statuary, conservatories, and 

 ornamental buildings, enriched by luxuriant shrub- 

 bery and brilliant flowers, the wonder of the tourist, 

 and a delight to her contented people.'^ 



There are larger and more populous cities in 

 America than San Francisco, but few more deserving 

 the designation of a Great City. Tire energies of her 

 people, tlie prodigal wealth of her territory, and her 

 singularly equable and temperate climate, form a suf- 

 ficient guarantee of the increasing greatness of her 

 future. 



Finding my quarters at the hotel comfortable and 

 restful after the strain I had endured as the result of 



