Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-07-27
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san FRANCIsCo.

| SAN FRANoIsco, July IS, 1872
Here is city twenty years old from the first
| buildings erected after gold was discovered, now
covering large area, and populated by one hun
bred and fifty thousand people, though remote by
thousands Of miles from the great centers of
population, and reached by long and expensive
routes of travel, and until within three years a
month distant from New York. What is t2
What have the swift coming swarms that have
come here accomplished? What sort o. place
have they built, its traits, and what its pros
pects2 So many have relatives or friends here,
or have a friendly or romantic interest in the
place, thata brief description may not be amiss.
Many curious and erroneous ideas are abroad in
reference TO it. Probably Americans know less
of 1t than any other American city, because SO
few have seen it compared with the cities of the
east In previous letter an outline of its ex-
terror appearance has been given, emitting the
Sling OF the picture. The climate is unlike any
other place or portion Of the state. People hear
of the climate Of San Francisco and infer that it
resembles that in the interior as much as Albany
does New York, or Worcester Boston. A mis-.
take. WhY7 Because San Francisco has a sea
climate, the rest a land climate. San Jose, Napa,
Stockton, Sacramento, are all in valleys protect
ed from the sea breezes by long and lofty ranges
OF mountains. San Francisco is sitting in
draft close by the only wide open door there is
in the coast range for several hundred miles.
In autumn, on the Atlantic, when overcoats
are comfortable out of doors, and we are sitting
by coal stoves within, open the entry door aud
staV there and Won hava tho oF Ait
city, which sits steadily by the always open
door of the Golden Gate, directly in the draft
that comes in strong, steady and fresh from the
broad Pacific for nine months in the year with
the regularity o7sunrise. Nature has walled in,
by lofty barricade, all the interior valleys from
the cooling, delightful breezes of this sea of the
Occident, just as meu build house walls to keep
out storms and cold. Hence, four hundred
miles south of here, in the Valley Of Los Angeles,
the average temperature is less than farther
north, because there Us no billy ange between
1t and the ocean. In winter, when the wind
comes from an inland quarter, San Francisco
is warmer than in July and August clearer
skies 4ffta bbliaf4AeF atmosphere As we write
at nine in the morning. the air is cool with sea
fog that hangs In dense masses over the ship.
ping in the bay, obscuring masts and sails. So
1t is nearly every morning during the nine
months. BY ten the sun will burn it away and
then, though the rays come down glaring and
hot, and back In Stockton and Sacramento
they are swelterng in heat, yet here every one
feels just right. In summer there is no better
| place on either continent 10 keep cool in than
here Some evenings light overcoats are com
Portable, and mild fire in the CRATE. In the
rainy season nearly all the drops come in the
| night so that there are very few days in the
twelve months that the weather prevents work.
Obviously such temperature and so many
bright days favor health, labor and longevity.
In arranging outdoor omployments the wea.
ther is as certain as the daylight. A farmer
told us that during the last year his men had
been prevented from work only three DAYS.
There is little lost time and much labor is saved
that in rougher climes is necessary for protec-
ton from the elements.
No farmer needs TO build a barn Grain is
threshed in the fields. Amid such surroundings
San Francisco has come up with mushroom
quickness from canvass tents and bark shanties
10 iron and sandstone fronts, French roofs,
lofty steeples-and good deal of elaborate and
costly architecture on the principal streets.
Every new building is built to surpass the last.
Improvements are in order, and the fear of
earthquakes has one decided advantage, viz:
1t saves climbing TO the sixth and seventh
stories, so much dslilcd where they are com
mon But the earthquake question has been
exaggerated, undue importance has been At
| fNCncn 10 II Nv fhoea
effects. One may as well Judge New York bv
the Five Points" as San Francisco bv eartb.
quakes. The record shows that far less damaoe
has come to life, LIMB aud properly in California
from this cause than in New England from
southwest gales in tbelast thirty years don.
orally the damage consists Of a little broken
croekery, and people run and start a lttlo ma
they would al runaway elephantfro a circns
wondering where he viii Bit next This Is