Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-05-14

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they receive.
Many of the business streets OF
San Francisco are inconveniently
narrow, $50 feet) while the blocks
are unusually large, which betrays
the motive of the original owners
of the land to have been the making
every available foot of ground bring
tue largest possible value. Market
Street, which separates the new and
the old surveys, and borders diago-
nally on the former, is 50 feet wide
and magnificent thoroughfare. 1t
cuts the blocks on the north side into
triangular tracts, and many of the
most desirable business sites are
built upon foundations resembling
in shape huge Aat-iron. Notably
among these is the Baldwin Hotel,
which, with the Palace, maintains
for the western coast a claim for SUI
periority with even the world for a
competitor.
San Francisco contains so many
objects of interest, that il seems al
most impossible, within the scope of
this article, to enumerate, much less
describe their attractions. The
many elegant public buildings and
private residences, the we'll kept
squares, and Lone Mountain ceme-
teries, would alone require every col
umn of this sheet to enumerate their
claims upon our admiration, while
to give anything like description of
the panorama witnessed during q
ten days sojourn, would be abso-
lutely impossible. Still we cannot
assert that San Francisco is hand
some city, or desirable place Of
residence. Those who have unlim-
tied command of money may not
find it difficult to while away the
time pleasantly, if not proftably,
there, but poor people, those who
absolutely live from hand to
mouth" could scarcely find a
more inhospitable cline. This is
probably owing to the present
unsettled condition of labor, but
that much restitution prevails and
that people are driven to fearful
extremities 10 obtain the means
of subsistence, is apparent to the
most casual observer. Hence we
would say, in conclusion, to
those who sigh for the busy turmoil
of the city: Be contented. You
know not what you ask when you
would exchange your freedom for a
condition of dependence. Here
you are sure, at least, Of earning
the necessities of life, while the
prospect Of obtaining anything bet
ter amid the strife incident to a
dense population, is infinitely less.
The ELECTRIC L1GHT.-The electric
light is coming into ve,y general
use in San Francisco. 1t affords an
exceedingly brilliant illumination,
and aside from the first cost of the
machinery is inexpensive. The ap-
paratus is very simple, consisting Of
an electromagnetic generator with a
small motive power to maintain @
rotation sufficiently to develop 6
strong current OF electricity. The
wires from either pole connect di
rectly with the carbon points and
soon as the current begins to flow &
minute incandescent fame appears a
the interval which separates thu
points, and the illumination is com
} plete. The light, when compared
with the fame of kerosene or a jet O
coal gas, is much brighter, being of
silvery radience through the medium
of which the most delicate colors ar,
clearly defined. Four of these light
are used on the steamship State O
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California; three to light Social ant
Dining Halls and one on the bow
by the illumination of which fin.
print has been read at the distance O
a mile. The new steamer Columbia
now on the way to this coast, has, W,
understand, the light in every state
room. The cost of the apparatus OF
the former steamer was about 81 200
) and each light is maintained at al
expense not exceeding 81 cents PEI
hour.
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