Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-09-14
SAN FnANc1sco, Sept. u, 1870.

Rundny Amusemrnts.
Sunday in San Francisco instead Oh
being a day of rest, is a day of reere-
alton. The glorious summer sull shiri-
ing overhead tempts men away from
the city, and the early ferry boats for
Oakland, Alameda and Saucelito are
thronged With happy crowds of plea
s~ure-seeking mortals. The churches
arc more than half deserted, and texts
and sermons greet the ears.pf skeleton
congregations, composed mainly of
those unfortunates whose lack of OPP
portunity compels them much against
their will to be religious. Last Sunday
several thousand people crossed the
bay, intent ON taking their ease under
the spreading oaks of Schutzen Park,
or wandering along the wooded nights
Of Saucelito, while thousands Of others
HE'D themselves away from baked and
dusty streets to Wards, Hayes Park
and the City Gardens, there to revel in
the mild enjoyment Of lager. quafled
under leafy bowers, to the accompani-
ment of good music, or with wife and
children to stroll in front of the Gagged
animals, torment the ever popular
monkies, or feed the ungrateful grizzly
with unappreciated sweet cakes and
apples.
Our Sundays are fast becoming Ger
manized. The air Is too balmy to be
breathed in close, confined churches,
the tranquil blue overhead too beauti-
full to be shut out by the roof of home
or temple, so the continental example
of spending the day in the open air has
been naturally adopted, and both
health and morals r gamers By the
plan.
Religions Dance Music.
In Difference to the remnant Of puri-
tanism that still fingers In our midst,
the proprietors Of the places Of Sunday
resort advertise sacred concerts for
their Sabbath patrons. The music In
reality consists Of ordinary operate
selections, interspersed with dance
music and patriotic tunes, but the sup
posed concession draws many who
would be Mortified at the idea of at
tending an openly announced secular
concert.
Tho CIif House Rond.
Our fashionables consider 1t decid-
| edly vulgar to trot out their teams on
Sunday, so the day Is given up to the
genus gent; flash, diamond-shirted
barkeepers, swell dry goods statesmen,
fast young men OF small means, and
Tom, Dick and Harry generally. The
only decent drive there Is, is on the
Cliff House road, and every ~procurable
vehicle convcrges to it. Buggics,
hacks, tandems. and turn-outs OF every
possible description, bowl along In
dusty succession, half obscured In the
clouds Of fine sand, alike rise on the
smallest p%royocation Of horses hoofs,
1t Is a common sight to see over q
hundred vehicles standing In rows out.
side the Cliff House OH 4 Sunday after
noon, and forty or fifty more driving
on the beach, between 1t and the Ocean
Side House.
Snn Francisco's Sahara.
From \ little beyond Lone Noun
tain Cemetery to the beach is nothing
but q dreary waste Of piled-up sane
hillocks. Mountains of sand, valleys
Of sand, plains Of sand, a wilderness o
inhospitable, sandy desolation, n small
Sahara. Yet on this hopeless and for
bidding site, corrupt influences have
located our City Park, and hundreds O
thousands Of dollars are to be spent Ii
the vain attempt to turn 4 desert intC
n garden. During the summe months
the cold winds Of day and bleak fog
of night destroy all vegetation west o
Lone Mountain. The proposed parl
Is too far away to be accessible. gen
erations will be required to beat bacl
the constantly e%ncroaching sand-dones
but these arguments could make ne
Roadway against the more powerful
ones Of coin, and so to benefit specula
tors who had bought large tracts O.
land near the intended location. tho
people have been cheated out of theil
rights. The advertisement of the Parl
Commissioners offering Park bonds fol
sale brought n bid Of $4,000: whicf
was accepted. and a couple Of week
ago a Typographical survey was com
menced. It Is still believed by many
that the Government will grant n por
ton OF its unnecessarily large Preside
Reserve for a Park, II proper repre-
sensations are made, and IL 1t does thu
useless attempt to make the deserj
blossom as a rose will perhaps b'
abandoned.
A Mammoth sunday hall.
On Sunday evenings Platt's Hall, Of