Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-03-04
Our San Francisco Letter.
SAN FRANcIsCo Feb. 22,1SS

EDITOR STANDARDS:
This is the birthday of Washing
ton and it hangs over the city like a
! Summer Sunday. The storm has
| blown over and the sunlight streams
through the streets of san Francisco.
! There is mud undcrfoot and the
crossings arg bad, but Sigh of re-
lief goes ~ from the community.
I a thousand pcnt up forces seem
once more 10 have burst into life
and action. The small street urchin
/ is more vigorous and aggressive, the
carts and coaches go past with spin
and snap and the long banished
ladies' again troop along the sunny
/ side Of kcrney street. How sweet
and fresh the air is and how intoXi-
eating the sunlight The very dogs
and horses seem 10 know that s. me-
thing is the matter and to have
found new pleasure i'll simple cx-
listing. All day long your cores
pond mt has been idlin% away his
time at sunny east window over
looking the city and the bay. The
blue Alameda hill are inviting in the
distance, and, somehow the Bohe-
anlnes of our fiicnd Miles O'Reily
seem to be the exact expression of
his mood, and for want of other
comranionshiP, he has repeatedly
addressed them to his eat. Hero
are part OF them:
"Mv friend, my chum, my little crony,
We are dC>i-nrd, it seems 10 me,
To he two lazy lpzaroni
I On sunshine fed and mararoni
Beside some lar Cicillan SEA.
From dawn 10 eve in the happy land
No duty on us but 10 lie
aw;hattcd on the shining strand,
With bronIing chest and arm and hand,
Beneath the blue Italian sky
We are aware, however, that this
is not practicable. 1t is not the
California sty lie. 1t is not active
enough. But your correspondent
lays no claim to the virtue of being
industrious. He admits that he is
lazy on occasions, and rather glories
in his shame and in tho sentiment of
the foregoing lines. All, however,
are enjoying tho present warm spell,
and although Il few old croakcrs pre-
dict more rain and cloudy weather
they cannot mar the satisfaction of
the great throng which bustles along
the streets in the happy belief that
the worst is over.
A SENSATION WANTED.
For the past three months San
Francisco has been suffering with
e'nW. Day after day the sun comes
up and the sun goes down and no
event transpires worthy of the good
old times, and the palates Of an ex-
element loving people. 1t is true
Moody and Sankey are in our midst,
and "Slickens' is on every ones
tongue, and Wheeler, the stranger,
has been sent enccd to be hanged by
the neck until he is dead, but these
things do not altogether satisfy.
San Francisco wants II riot or an
earthquake. Tho average citizen is
not happy unles, he can have the
privilege, at least once week, of
breathlessly Selling his neighbor
by the button-holo and asking for
the latest news from the front. The
Sacramento valley floods were some
satisfaction to us; but just as the
people had reached the apex of cx-
pectation and were momentarily
waiting to hear that the levoos had
given away and that Sacramento and
Marysville had been washed from off
the face of the earth, the wires
brought the news that the water was
falling, and we all deserted the bull
letin boards and went home in dis
gust. This thing will be remember
ell against the cities of the plain when
the day Of reckoning comes. We
are in favor of repeating the debris
act down here since these events.
Speaking of the debris act, by tho
way, reminds us that the people of
San Francisco are daily growing
more indignant on account of tho
attitude of their representatives in
the Legislature on this question, and
unless they soon experience what
Moody would term " change Of
heart they will find themselves
shorne of their little brief authority
and retired to back se2ts when the
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