Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1869-09-18
WASHINGTON TO THE PACIFIC.
SAN FRANCISCO.

Odd and Parodsx cal fhipgs in aFriscs''-
F1rs AVID Overcsats in Az ;a.s-Pacif c
Brcezes A1yth'ss but Pacific-Taxe
Ysur valley and Yeur Choi, Of Climate
Hot Weather in the Int 'ier-Fruit
Roast ed On he Ire e-s-What IL meant BY
s'Irr,sa;irt" in San Fr29ciscs-The
Forty-nIne Fashisn-Cheap 'uit-Nsve,
Charge Against the Fruit Dealers Of Cal
ifornia-They Give Too Much % the
Meney-Thr~e w Washins tenians in Fix
Dull Times IN San Francisce-.-Oh, Dear,
What Can the Matter be !n-Califernia
Wants Greenb .cks aud National Banks.
Editorial Correspondence Of The Siar.
SAN FRANCISCO, August Is, 1s69.
visit to California presents greater contrasts
ard more unique experiences than a trip to
Europe. In Sen Francisco, particularly, every
thing is odd, anon alous, paradoxic.l. The
c'imlte ts PuZzler No. /. This Is August the
mornings open nos unple, ,ntly, Bas as the
ssn gets up the thermometer goe, down, aud
at noon Ia tIes. who earlier ia the Gay 90 out in
laces, appear in iars. One Of the o idest sights
10 the E. ern MAJ Just land6 here is the ap-
pearance on the fashionable promenedes of
ledies clad in heavy Iurs at noon n-day in
August. Men wear winter clothes all the sum.
mer here-perhaps they wear Summer clothes
in winter, for we are constantly told when our
chat,erlng teesh and blue no e3 intimr.e our
disgust with FrI-oo doy-day We .ther, "Oh
you should come here in the winter: that is
our pie aaant sc son!' A fI:epd took Us down
to the Cliff House. half a dozen nile, from the
city, to see the sea.lions-fhls Is FTiscos BIZ
drive and very fine drive 1t is-but whr,
ST. dck us "all OF heap" was the pile OF CO Its,
furs and wsrps With which our host had stock
ed his stylish tournout. But ss his fast horses
began to peg away over the smooth &c Id lie ID.
ing to the ts,ch. and we were swept along
at great pace in the tee Of the chill
ing northwest trade wind, we were glad to
creep into coats, and furs and everything
ava'lable. This Psc .fic % sea.breeze, or trade
wind, With its driving fogs is very much more
chilling than the sea.brc oze OF the Atlantic
coes: ard it seems to come up through the
Go den Gate with great force, spreading it.
self out fan-shape aiser Its entry there, and ex.
tendirg up the valleys entering the Lay of San
Francisco win diminished force. TIE resul-
is that San Francisco bears the brurt Of the
furious blrst. Through June, July and August
in San Francisco, the mercury drops from, say
65 degrees in the forenoon to 50 or 81 In The at
ternoon. The sea.breeze begins to come In
about noon. There are virtually no East winds
in California, OF sccount Of The screen afforded
to the Pacific coest by the mountains. The
trees, always pressed In ore direction by the
breeze bend low towards the Elst-sowarts
the wise men coming from that quar.e CALI
fornia has earthquakes but no thuader and
lightning. In 1864 here was something ike q
thunder storm a. Monterey. but the thunder
was very Indifferent. They have no snow or
ice in San FraHcisc ,; but in some Of the noun
tain valleys OF Cahfornia snow ,alls to the
depth OF forty feeti And while the sempera.
ture IN summer Is so low n San Franci-co the
heat Is said to ,rea+er in the Coloredo Val.
ley and the San aquin (Seu Walk.in) Valley
than at any other point an t1e world whers the
thermomete 6 r . Tee ested. At Fort Miller, i'm
the San Joaqr,n Vs'Iey the thermome & : has
,own teTceratrre as high as l16s AID al
Fort YuEa, Colore 30 Valley, as high rs I.I-
ever. Humboldt says that on no pr = of TAI,
earths surface il the observation are made I'm
the shade at distance from all rDlid bocic,
which rad'"te heat Goes :be trermome er show
higher temperature than between - and IOlo
and that hose excessive hea's OF IA,a and Ieo
alleged in parts OF A rica must be ascribed to
hot par Jcles Of Ard Ling In the ar The
land winds from tfe Norih, which are confined
to the interior Of the ST. ,e in the summer some.
times take the shape OF sirocco and burn up
vegetation. Fioit u sor edres absolutely
roasted on the trees by the Of this
wind and the het sun. On the coast, this north
ter, is modified by the sea air, aud the tenn ,er-
ure there is more uniform. The mean annual
temperature at San Francisco Is 500, which Is
SCI down as the mean OF the coast climate.
washing on. nearly in the same latitude as
San Francisco, has mean of 5i or SIX, two
degrees colder than the latter. Though the
summers are so much colder here than at the
East, the winters are sill warmer in propor-
tion. But there is wonderful variety of eli.
mate in California. Every valley has a eli.
mate Of It's own, and probably no more agree.
ab'e and healthful climate can be found in the
world than in some Of the valleys sheltered
from the rough winds and foss of tae Pacific,
but yet getting enough OF The flavor Of the sea.
breeze to temper the air. But San Francisco
climate, requiring furs and overcoats every
day at noon in August. is leete too bracing,
But as an offset, the Friscans brsg Of having
so little winter that they can rai-e strawber-
ries every month in the yeor In the open air
The gardens sbout San f francisco supply fro /
vegetable although the winter. New potatoes
make their appearance in March.
"Will You Irrl.ate"
LeffingwelI, the actor, now plsyng at
D"guires Opera House, says trrt The sole
business of the Friscans is to drink cham.
pagne and get their boots blacked. ,rto,nly
no city in the world has % many .Champicn
Blackers." Champagne ID sold here on draught
by syphon arrangement, rs well al in bottle,
and seems to be used almost rs common as
water. "Win you irrigat,l' is the way the
invitation to take drink is worded ON the
Pacific Slope. Doubtless the figure Of speech
comes from the system Of IrriSaiing the thirs ty
soil in this country. 1t Is q very common in.
vitation, and the big style Of doing things
which comes down from he lush gold.minine
times OF - makes expensive drinks the rule.
The current priceis Is csnts (coin) for drink,
but you pay the same whether 1t h lager or
champagne. cigar is twenty five cents, also.
The "FeFty.nine Fashfen.o
High prices rule for everything, nearly
California Of to-day inherits them from the
flush times OF the past, the times when the |
gold gamblers threw away money as II there
was no end to 1t. This was the 80 fashion, the
year from which everything dates in Oalifor. 1
mia. The Forty miners are the aristocracy Of
the country. The blue.veined Norman. Eng.
lish uppef-ten.dom whose ancestors ..came
over with William the Oonqueror," are no.
where to the men who came over the plains in
1S49. And the honor n haradftarv Tho da-