The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-05-14
Letter. from California.
SAN FRAsc1sco, April rs, 1878.

DEAR FREEMAS-During the past three or
four years have been one of your constant
certain town not far away, took the FREEMAN,
and soon as ] saw him coming from the post
over to borrow it. Therefore, you perceive, I
have been one of your esteemed patrons-one
theticaIly about once year. / have been an
asnremitting subseriber for cons'de.a1,e haWin',
LINED" the Democratic party. hasten to do
as all good Democrats should, subscribe for
which you will please place to my credit. NO
San Francisco is a beautiful city, I don't
think. Situated, or rather elevated, on gi-
gantic sand-hil', the sojourners therein nave
ba ath of that commodity from 10 A. n. TIL p
NJ every day during the summer. rms Is .ne
woS,Id certainly daze the brains Of void Probs''
to attempt to ascertain in what direction those
This. also is our season of pic-nics and general
relaxation from the various cares anc perpiex-
itips of life, when give ourselves up TO the
enjoyment of outdoor life with an abandon
and youthful looseness which would astonish
the cloud capped Alleghenies. From three TO
a dozen parties leave here every morning, on
some to santa Cruz or Monterey, some to Cal
istoga or the Passo de Robies hot springs, and
souander. betake themselves across the bay to
the sylvan groves of Oakland, and there In
duIge in the innocent amusements of making
love, flirting. drinking bad wine, and breaking
each others noses.
the finest hostelrie in the country. 1t will con-
tain $50 rooms, Sc public parlors, III private
ditto, dining rooms, q assembly rooms, . eie-
vators, 3 billiard rooms 10 by 96 feet each, the
finest bar in the city, and the most impudent
clerks that the country can produce. The
charges will be moderate-only si0a day. Can
you come and board here a year or two?
The majority of the inhabitants of this city
might be called the Floating population
Very few people here keep house, in the
general acceptation of that term; nearly all
being hoarderS restaurants, both married
and sngle-that is, the people, not the restat-
rants. IL is fully as cheap method OF living
ms housekeeping, and not near so troublesome.
That IS one of the reasons WI by our women are
the best-icDking in the world. In getting mar
ried here, we never estimate the cost on mouse,
keeping. We simply marry, rent furnished
rooms, and have eu~ugh licre ahead TO pay FOR
our dinner ut a restaurant. convenient and
mfortable, isn't itY
The gentleman who runs the sublunary ma
chine occasionally gets his dander up" at
something we have done, and gives us a sort of
paternal shaking up, in the shape OF an earth
quake. He usually docs 1t in the FAN, howev-
cr, when we all have the ''biues," ana would
Just as soon live die.
j must tell you joke about one OF our eN-
Mayors. His maiden name was McCauley, ana
he had fearful bro9ue. A supper was given
him the night after his election, and his Honor
said he, wrathfuliy; .'d-n your champagne; it
goes up my nose " you have any dacent
whisky. III take a nOggin of that
we keep right along cutting down our sand
hills and building new streets out into the bay
and if the hills hold out / suppose we Will
eventually build so close to Oakland that we
The Oakianders wanted to annex san Francis
co, and built this wharf out two and Il quarter
miles in our direction, bat they had TO stop,
because the city's credit wasn't good for any
more piles.
Well, / have written you considerable of a
letter, and if you can make any sense out Of it
you are welcome to do il, for | am deviliSh sure
| can't. Yours. &c,
WARY NED WITH NARY RED.