Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-04-30
SAN FRANCISCO LETTER.
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hastern niaI.ors-A Sang ol Hypales-Chi:
Many Other Thiuss not S~ab-hsaded.
SAN Francisco, April %, 1870.
Our hotels are actively preparing for
the expected rush Of Eastern visitors.
Housemaids, upholsterers, painters,
paperhangers and decorators are busily
engaged in putting parlors, dormito-
res and diningrooms in apple pie nice
ty; cleaning and repairing is the order
of the day, and everything is being
furnished to a condition Of e~xcruciating
neatness. Very just complaints were
made last year by visitors OF exhorbi-
tant prices charged them for every ac-
commodation. Their souls vexed
at the difference between long and
short bits u generous u~nconcerned-
ness in keeping small change offended
their strict notions Of the rights Of
property; and so they went back with
long and true tales Of petty extortions
-extortions which, If practiced on q
larger scale, would be certainly called
swindling. Now California has a
splendid opportunity to emulate the
old lady who killed the goose which
laid the golden egg. We have an un-
looked for source Of revenue in this
flood Of Atlantic ~sight-seers, and they
ought merely as a matter of policy to
be treated fairly. Open robbery Is far
more honorable than stealing under
pretext Of value given. Our charges
for everything are sufficiently high al
ready, and appear enormous to those
used to cents and currency. SO let us
deal fairly with the coming influx Of
pleasure seekers, and charge just as
little as we can help. This homlly is
not intended for the special benefit Of
Gold Hill, but Is the NEWS Is blessed
with 4 large interior circulation 1t may
meet the eye Of some conscience
| stricken individuals in the neighbor-
hood Of the Cliff House, and might
| even penetrate to Montgomery street,
and cause the hotels to moderate their
bills. .,
Already we hear Of the organization
of travelling sets. Letters received
from London say that an immense ex-
cursion party Of English merchants
and their families will visit San Fran
cisco in June. They engage especial
steamer to New York, and a train Of
Pullman palace cars thence to the Pa
cifc. Halfa column would not suffice
for a list Of the Eastern societies and
delegations expected; In fact, the tour
of California is going to become as
fashionable as q trip to Europe was
once.
The Grand Trunk Railroad Of Can
ada advertises to carry passengers
through from Liverpool to the Golden
City in twenty days. Night not some
of the Eastern railroads advantageous
: " insert a similar noticep In looking
through q late file of London journals,
it is interesting to observe the unusual
prominence given to Pacific Coast mat
tiers. The Times has a very fair &C
count Of the San Diego quartz discov-
cries ; the Miaing Journal double leads
a communication from Robert Knapp,
Of Ellsworth, Nye County, OH the eli
mate, metals and resources Of Nevada,
and the Dispatch has n well written
article OH California as a field for i'm
migration. Our interior press is wisely
devoting considerable space to descrip-
tions of the soil, climate and agricul-
tural adaptability Of their respective
localities, and the result is that the
world is taking notice Of US, studying
our resources, and preparing to hurl
both population and capital upon these
shores.
But it must be the right class Of immi-
grafton. or else the gatherings OF
unemployed" so often announced will
become q chronic infliction. These
poor laborless men met again OH Tues
|, day to discuss the situation-only to
arrive ut the foregone conclusion that
the times were everywhere ont OF
Joint, and especially in San Francisco.
The most sensible and original remedy
was that expounded OH Sunday by an
unknown individual at the Mechanics
Library Hall. He thought that a good
pestilence, two Or three fierce wars
and an occasional famine would put
things to rights that this globe was
too crowded, and the sooner some Of
us were hustled off to eternity the
better It would be fer the remainder.
Possibly good logic, but l am afraid
we should all want to be remainders.
Amongst the incongruous elements
comprising population, .who would
have thought of meeting with
svalsa A Gang Of Gypsics. E4H
On Saturday IN encampment of them
was discovered at Oakland Point,
across the Bay, as comfortably pro-
vided with donkeys, dark-eyed chill
drsn and covered wagons as if they
had just stepped out Of a three-volume
romance. The females made quite q
sum of money by telling fortunes. But
Oaklanders have q tradition, derived
, no doubt from the reprehenslble pc
rusal of light literature, that gypsies
are noted for a lack Of knowledge
about the rights Of property, and so
the hereditary wanderers are ordered
away.
AS irrepressibls as these nomads are
two Of our city gentlemen, who, what
ever betides, always manage to attract
to themselves a considerable share Of
public attention. If Jack Stratman
and Thomas Mooney don't head San
Francisco's contingent to heaven, it
won't be for lack Of push and enter
prise. Since the demise of the Tribune
Major Jack has not put in an appear
ance in society-bar-room and street
society | mean, Of course-but he now
turns up in the new role OF an associate
in a street car speculation, known as
the San Francisco Belt Railroad. 1t Is
to commence at the junction Of Elev-
enth and Bryant streets, and after
mesndering through more thorough,
fares than . decent sized map could
hold, gets OH to Van Ness avenue, and
wanders back to the place of beginning.
His copartners are the Smiley brothers
and J.. NJ. Verdenal, the Chronicles
1ot. ,1oro. norro,nondent from SaCra-