Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-05-14
LETTER FROM CALIFORNIA.

Ed. Monitor have very high re-
gard for an individual of regular habits.
but however regular and exact my own
habits used to be, they are not troubled
with that commendable quality now.
meant, when began my California let
ters to the MONITOR, to write up this
country thoroughly, and to appear in
print regularly once in two weeks; but
alack and alas time has galloped along
as if mounted upon a lightning steed,
and the most / realize is that the winter
is ended, spring is here and all my good
resolutions are ditched. If there were
nothing of interest to write about l
might plead that as an excuse, but in
stead, my portfolio is crowded with
memoranda, and only time is needed to
write it up.
Living in San Francisco is busy work.
Our home, until very recently, has been
on the corner of two of the city's busiest
streets, with bow windows commanding
a view of large part of the city. 1t
was enough to do to sit and watch the
thrOng of passers-by to note the many
nationalities represented to study the
hundreds of faces. In an hour l have
seen Americans of all classes, from the
mob hill prince. with his fOur-in-hand
turnout, down to the poor street scav-
enger; Mexicans and Spaniards, with
their dark sinister faces, and eyes which
always make me look in the closet be-
fore retiring for the night the jolly
French, who are gay, even if their next
meal is expected to be direct dispense.
ton from the hand of Providence the
heavy, beef-consuming English. who
"don't quite understand this blarstec
country. you know; :" the sons and daugh
tiers of the Green Isle of Erin-and they
! are plentiful as grasshoppers in Kansas
the perpendicular Scotchmen the beer
, drinking Germans the Nations ward
} -Afrlca's dusky children; the almond
eyed Japanese the heather Chinee, ant
: any amount of small fry from European
countries, hurrying, crowding, jostlinl
: along, oft reminding me Of an old coup
let:
. ''whence they come and whittier they 20
Nobody cares and nobody knows"
Everybody seems to be in a hurr
here-much more so than in any city
have ever been in. Horses are drive
along at break-neck speed, which a
= ways impresses newcomer with th
! idea that half the city is sick unto deaf
/. and the other half is going for the do,
. tor. Crossing the street in the bus
4 part of the town is piece of bushes
!. requiring ones undivided attention.
. have crossed Broadway in New Yor
% when had to pick my way among ca
q riages and make circuit equal to tn;
v of a flea getting out from the bottom
il a bag Of potatoes, but that was as fir,
V from danger as walk in your qui
at town. compared with pedestrlanism {
" San Francisco crossings. Quite recent
ar policemen have been placed at few
az the more crowded crossings. and drive
4 fume and rage in vain when the man
of authority puts his hand on the bridl
= Car drivers find their chief amuseme
he in running down people. We have t.
be lines Of cars run by machinery-t
Clay street and Sutter-the former W
described by Mr.. Blake, in one of
he entertaining letters. He will permit
ia to add the Chinaman's description of {
re- same thing. which ran thusly: '.No b,
IL sey, no pully, no pushy go like hellee
de and John Chinaman was about rigI
70 By the way, these same Johns are e
al ting to know their rights and ass,