Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-03-07
Letter from San Francisco.
T Special Correspondence of the TIMES. !
SAN Francisco, March 4,

supposed to be consequent upon
Lent has been forced upon Califor-
mia street, and q new era in the
shape of some kind of Easter is
fervently waited and prayed for.
The revival of religion among the
children has taken the place of
other sensations, and the boys and
girls who are signing covenants are
more numerous than one would
suppose possible did we not know
how easily anything runs to excite
ment in this community. The
Chronicle reports are all outside ;
grown people are supposed to know
Of the matter, and they being prob
ably somewhat embellished it is
hardly fair perhaps for them to
Judge.
There is no news so good but
what it might be better; if SO, we
might possibly state that the pres
ent condition of San Francisco in
regard to the prospective future of
her rising generation are hardly to
be surpassed. Infants of all races,
states and sex having seized with
such avidity upon the promised
lard, as pictured by DR.. Hammond,
that the Satanic proprietor of the
lower realms will have to abdicate
if this state of things be long con-
tinued. Having, however, in the
course of long experience found
that Satan was exhaustless almost
in his ingenuity in peopling his
regions, We think there is no use for
the sinners to remain discouraged
and feel that the wrath due the
many will have to be spent with
the few, for without constant watch
ing, long continued efforts, and the
progress of the million backsliding
is inevitable, and. when the last
state will be worse than the first to
the countless, numbers rejoicing in
that plan of salvation which our
worthy clergy are now illustrating.
There is mission also among the
Catholics, startling preaching, and
the drawing together of crowds in
great numbers. 1t is time of ex-
citement generally in the way of
religion, and only illustrates the
need of some kind of emotion to
keep Frisco going.
Stanford's fine residence, which
will be probably classed yet among
the wonders of the world, is loom
ing upward. One would imagine
that "our seven-hilled city needed
to be built no higher, but the Hon.
Leland does not intend to leave all
the upward building of earthwork
alone to nature. Pine street emf
nently eminent has been raised
some fifty feet above the grade of
the street for the foundation, so
the roofs of the adjoining building
will come ON level with the base
of the house and then having
gotten above the dust and smoke of
the chimneys it is supposed the free
air of heaven will be thoroughly
secured. The house is to cost, it is
said, million of dollars and as it
is to be of wood, with the kindly
attentions of the snn and air both
as is we'll known, to the
well being of our beloved city, will
probably make the tenants comfort
able for the space of twenty-five
years, when it will perhaps be rolled
off its foundation, trucked away on
wheels to the outskirts of the city,
and be used for the blessing of an
other class of people. Seriously,
is there no better purpose to which
the wealth of our city can be de-
voted than in the attempt to out
shine their neighbors !? If the
building was to be one of perma-
nent ornament to the city if it had
for its object the desire to cultivate
a taste for architecture if library
was to be endowed for the benefit
of a multitude, and suitable build
ing necessary to commemorate such
an event to be achieved, one million
in money would be well expended
and the public, would glorify the
glver both now and hereafter; but
when, for the single comfort OF a
few individuals, such an amount is
to be wasted in perishable attempts,
which fire, air and water so easily
destroy, there is such a wrong in
that retribution is inevita-
BILE; and yet, to-day, the growing
taste for extravaganza in building is
so evident, that nobody expects any
thing else but group of follies to
be the result, and marble statues OF
each one of the builders of the group
placed in front of some public build
ing as warning to future genera
tions, would only be sufficient expi-
alton. One by one, our millionaires
something in this way of
immortalizing themselves, and one
by one they are succeeded by some-
body building little more exten-
sively. Senator Jones, it is said,
proposes to erect a villa on Russian
Hill, terraced from base to dome.
1t would certainly be magnificent,
and we almost wish the story were
true, Notwithstanding the extrava-
gance of using so large portion OF
our territory for so small a COM
as, in the end, reverting as
1t very likely might at some future