The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1869-12-23
SAN fRANcISCO-ITS CRITICS AND
ITS DEFENDERS.
The readers Of the Overland Monthly

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will remember that in the Janu"r,
Num Der the initial article is one headed
uSan Francisco. The Bulletin in il.
Notices of New Books" comments
bsief,y spon the contents Of this issue o.
the Overland; and when it comes ia
make aliusion 20 the article in question
CURLY says: "That (ar,ici-) on San
Francisco is ambitious, but unsatisfac.
tory"-thus presuming TO dispose OF
the very pointed and iucisi,e things
which are therein said by a mere pa
trouizing, oracular wave of the banda
dilletanti clap of kid gloves, a sickly
''very clevah;' aud a forced ya~n.
New what is said 10 earnest and in
good language is not to be conghed
d0.Hn by such superciliOus .'cri'icism"
as this; ard the author of The article
uGder consideration snys what he says
10. such a manner as TO merit sometbiug
better than this 1T the hands of an
hsnes, reviewer-and of course The lii
srary gentleman of the Bu!ierin is sam
bi.ious" enough TO wish himself TO be
90 considered Let US look into what
the author of "San Francisco says
Out space compels US to draw bat mod
era,eiy upon the subject which we have
taken up; and We must content our
self with some very brief extracts. Pas
sipg over the we'll conceived and well
delivered introduction the e1cellen,
descriptive parts the we'll digested
comments upon the sewerage Of the
city, and many Other good points
emitting necessarily the unwelcom-
truths which are uttered regarding that
queer traves,y upon a Commercial Con
gress, the San Francisco Board of Trade
we come to the following extracts which
are contained in the writer's summing
up. Says the writer:
IsSan Francisco a SUCCESSES great a sue
cess as she might be Has she made the best
use of opportunity 1t is a fact that she is
about twenty years behind other American
cities of her size. She has endeavoTed to grow
up to, or In the direction OF. certain stand
aTd-the only one she knows: that which
prevailed at the E asst fifteen twenty years
ago. Until within the past six months, COM
parativrlv few Of of her business men had yisi
ted the East at all for ten or fifteen wears
and a majority ofthem have not visited it yet.
They do not know any thing in the way of
cities except the New York, Boston. Phila-
ielphia, or ST. Louis of that elder date, and
their own San Francisco of to-day .
Is this the best that San Francisco could
have accomplished with her opportunities !:
Il is possible that, had she been all this while
rithin rail connection with the greater cities |
ef:he East, she would not have submitted |
- bear these things as they are. She won IL
have had park, public library. and an art
gallery. and would long ago have learned that
to do nothing but gather money was an otfeHse
against goUG taste. Nav. she would actually |
lave had a taste To be offended. These evils
could no, have existed had ii not been for the
fact of her isolation. But does that fact wholly
excuse herr Can she lay claim to an
amount ofenterpri>e that is in any sense cred
table, while she has permitted this state of
a.Fairs 10 obtsin-and merely for want of ex-
ample to shame her out of il
II is apparent, also, that she has arrived at
point in her relations with the East. and in
her own industrial development, where some
decline in the price of labor l. upon the point
cffaking place, and consequent expansion
Of the manufacturing. and possibly the mining
field, is impending. The following. from the
San Francisco Times, sets firth the facts of
LEe situation:
(Gere follow some extracts from our
iefinrt cotemporary, TOO ex ended for
repetition in these columns
Further along we come upon this
well sketched picture of the ''specimen
brick" OF San Francisco:
His pride is to be citizen of .'this great
State, sir, and not Of th9se OUTLYING tracts
y hTch compose the rest of the world; and in
order 10 truly characterize him, IL Is Beces
sery iand quite sufficiently to change the
Cosmopolitan into the "San
Francisco CalifarUian-" But, after all. We
b ave thus far indicated the characteristics
bf those classes in the population OF San
Francisco which rather the mare prrmi-
r.e1t-the classes who are suggested by the
expression, "Peopie whom oBe meets.
Using That term TO mean people whom one
meets IN a business, a. well as IN social
way. But the great mass of her hundred
and I. ~ Thousand inhabitants one does not
met, Ike the great mass Of ans other hun.
t-aj and fifty thousand people In the United
\. ties: tlese are honest, commonplace souls,
fairly given TO the hOmely virtues, attached
tn tneir spouses. fond Of their offspring,
iscOrously mindful of the seventh day, rather
sait-hs ar.ed and headed, and uEintsresiing
in the uttermost degree.
Passing over some admirable cen
n,sp,s upon the health and mortality OF