Mare Island Navy Yard, where the 
Russian man-of-war “ Lena”’ is laid 
up waiting for the Japs and Russians 
to make peace before she will be 
allowed to take her departure. I saw 
the “Cincinnati,” ‘‘ Kentucky” and 
« New Orleans,’’ also the torpedo boat 
destroyer “ Petrel.” 
In San Francisco harbor are several 
large islands —Alcatraz island, being 
used as a prison by the government ; 
Yerba Bueno, or Goat island, as a tor- 
pedo station, as is also Angel island. 
“The Presidio is also near the en- 
trance to the Golden Gate, and occu- 
pies 1,500 acres of land, where there 
are soldiers, cavalrymen, barracks, 
forts and guns, and where the regu- 
lars live and form quite a colony of 
Uncle Sam’s defenders. Sausalito and 
San Rafael are towns on the harbor. 
San Quentin is a large prison, and is 
one of the State institutions. 
One of the favorite places for the 
tourist to visit is Sutro’s baths, the 
largest in the world, and close to Seal 
Rocks, where there are large seals, 
which weigh 1,200 pounds each. They 
are very tame. These baths are cov- 
ered with glass, and froma distance 
look like large greenhouses. The salt 
water is let in from the ocean, and the 
pools and swimming tanks occupy 
over an acre of ground. 
The cemeteries here are beautiful. 
Calvary and two other larger ceme- 
teries have been closed, and a large 
mountain, called Lone Mountain, lays 
between them. On its top is an im- 
mense cross, and it makes an impres- 
sion on one to look at it, the sign of 
“man’s redemption.” O’Brien and 
Flood, the bonanza kings, are buried 
here. O’Brien’s tomb, of cut stone, 
has a chapel in it, and, it is said, cost 
eighty-five thousand dollars. All the 
new cemeteries are located about 10 
miles from San Francisco, in San 
Mateo. In Holy Cross cemetery are 
beautiful monuments to Sharon, Rals- 
ton, Mackay and Fair, all Irishmen, 
who came here in ’49 and became 
wealthy from the famous Comstock 
lode. 
I saw a beautiful monument here 
with a bronze bust of John G. Downey, 
seventh Governor of California. The 
inscription reads : 
“Born in Castle Samson, 
County Roscommon, Ireland, 
June 27, 1827. 
Died at Los Angeles, 
March 1, 1894.” 
He was an uncle of Father Downey, 
pastor of the Beverly Farms and Man- 
chester Catholic churches. The Celt 
certainly has made himself felt in 
every country under the sun. 
San Francisco has some fine, large 
buildings — the City hall, Flood, 
Spreckels and Call buildings. Outside 
the city limits they are all built of 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
redwood, and I remarked to an archi- 
tect whom I met, that they must be 
great fire fighters. He answered that 
they were. Redwood catches fire very 
easily, but is put out quickly. 
San Francisco has provided beauti- 
ful park systems. Golden Gate Park 
consists of 1,700 acres of land, and 
has beautiful gardens, waterfalls, 
lakes, museum, a head of deer, also 
buffalo. Everything is done to inter- 
est the young people and keep them 
off the street. 
I saw in this park one remarkable 
exhibit—a piece of redwood, an orig- 
inal cross section cut from a tree 96 
feet from the ground, which measured 
16 feet in diameter. This tree at the 
ground was 96 feet in circumference, 
308 in height, the bark of the tree 
being two feet thick. The tree was 
3,700 years old. It was cut in 1858, 
and five men were 25 days in taking 
the tree down, by boring with a pump 
auger. All the immense water system 
for the park is pumped by old-fash- 
ioned Dutch windmills. 
(Continued next week.) 
Letter From Far-Away 
Manchester Boy. 
The many friends of Sydney C. 
P. Jordan, who left Manchester a 
few months ago for a ranch in Cali- 
fornia, which he is sharing with an 
old uncle, will be pleased to hear 
from him. Mr. Jordan was former- 
ly connected with the Manchester 
Electric Co. The letter which we 
print was written to John Baker, 
who very kindly gives it out for 
publication. 
Turner’s Ranch, 
Hardy, Mendocino Co., Cal. 
Dear Mr. Baker: When I left 
Manchester I told you I would 
write, but I cannot express myself 
in words of the beauty of this place. 
It is something grand. We are on 
the coast, only seven huudred feet 
above it, and we can look out and 
see the steamers going up and down 
the coast. We have 660 acres of 
red wood timber and as much more 
cleared land for pasture and crops. 
At present we have about 150 pigs, 
100 head of steer and cows. We are 
milking 21 cows and have 21 calves 
tc look after, and seven horses. We 
had to brand and mark the calves 
last week. If you could see me you 
would have the laugh on me. I am 
green at this work, but I can learn 
if I have time enough. I like fine; 
IT don’t believe I will ever come 
back east to live again unless my 
health gives out. 
We have some red wood trees 
from 16 to 20 feet through and there 
are thousands of cords of red wood 
laying down, rotting in the woods. 
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Everything is in bloom out here and 
the place looks like summer all the 
time. Our nearest neighbor is one 
and a quarter miles away, so you 
see we are back in the woods a way. 
The roads are too crooked to de- 
scribe. You have to go ten miles to 
get four, and they are so narrow you 
cannot pass another team except in 
places they have cut in the moun- 
tain for that purpose. I planted a 
garden since Lcame and everything 
is up and doing well. My peas and 
corn are six or eight inches high. 
We will have some radishes to eat 
next week. 
I miss my Manchester friends 
quite a lot, but then we cannot al- 
ways be in one place. 
Sydney C. P. Jordan. 
Mrs. Harris Elected President. 
At the annual meeting of the 
Thought and Work club of Salem, 
Mrs. Nellie K. Rich, having served 
as president three years, the limit 
prescribed by the constitution, was 
succeeded by Mrs. Hattie Lee Har- 
ris, who previously filled the posi- 
tion of auditor. 
Mrs. Harris is a native of Man- 
chester and from close identification 
with its interests is justly claimed 
as a member of that community, 
and in this election her townspeople 
feel they will be represented with 
dignity and honor. 
The Thought and Work club en- 
ters upon its fifteenth year, having 
been instrumental in the organiza- 
tion of several other women’s clubs, 
and by the personal work of its 
members it has been associated in 
many of the philanthropies of the 
North Shore colony. As a club it 
holds a prominent position in the 
state federation, and under the wise 
leadership of Mrs. Harris it looks 
forward to continued prosperity 
and enlarged activity. 
FOR SALE, 
Brand New Ladies’ Pierce Bicycle, cheap. 
Apply at 
VASCONCELLO’S BARBER SHOP, 
Manchester. 
Telephone 11-13. MANCHESTER OFFICE. 
For ELECTRICAL WORK 
Call CLARK & MILLS ELECTRICAL 
COMPANY... 
44 CENTRAL ST. 
Isolated Plants. 
Fixtures. 
Electrical Wiring. 
Bells and ’Phones. 
Columbia Batteries for Autos. 
Personal and Prompt Attention to Repairing. 
W. W. HARDING, 
Estimates furnished. Resident Manager. 
