Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-05-18
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.

Progress sf Gable Roads-San Francisco Man
ufaetoriss -Notabilities Of Pine Street.-The
New Jesuit Church and COllegs-Tho Para
disc Of Lunch hFiands."
DEAR HERALD: No one of late
years has paid even a casual visit
to San Francisco without noting
it, cable street railways. The fret
and longest Of these leading out
through Mob Hill, on California
street, to the edge Of the Lone
Mountain cemetery, proved such a
God-send to this metrop polls of in
Vulnerable hills that it is small
wonder that 1t has been repeated
In other sections Of the city. While
the cable road is by no means
noiseless, the sound emitted by it
10 Of character so graduated and
regular % to act as sort Of lullaby
to the San Franciscan who keeps
early hours and is emulous OF court.
ing the "balmy." The system is
abont to be indefinitely extended,
the Central and Southern Pacific
railway maguates having entered
the field in earnest in that line.
Market street is mapped out as the
next scene for the experiment; and,
doubtless, before long, the over.
worked car horse will find that the
competition of tho steam engine
will drive him to the wall. The
system which has made the six
teen mule team almost a thing of
the past in Los Angeles will, in
time, force many of the hard best.
cd equines which now do duty on
the street railways Into the sausage
machine. To the extent to which
horse flesh may thus be made to re.
place cat and dog meat the bon vi-
wants Of San Francisco will doubt.
less be duly grateful.
SAN FRANCISCO MANUFACTURERS.
A stroll down Third street to the
water front of San Francisco,
through the lumber yards and
wharves to the foot of Rincon hill,
and thence back to the Palace ho.
tel via Market street, gives one q
very Ineligible insight into the
manufacturing resources OF San
Francisco-at least as to all in
which iron and steel enter as com.
ponents. In such a trip one en-
counters myriads of boilers on the
sidewalks. showing that mining
supplies are the main elements in
the infant industries of the metrop-
oils of the Pacific Coast. Engines
and boilers are being turned out al
most without number, and the
work Is done in a consummatsly
skillful manner. 1t is not likely
that the Eastern manufacturers
will break through that rightful
prescription which ought to guar.
antee to San Francisco almo a
monopoly of this kind of work.
The acquaintance of the machin-
lists Of the Golden Gate with the
needs of mining communities is SO
exact and practical that the com.
pletion of a dozen transcontinental
railways should not change the
current of the orders from the min.
Ing camps Of the Pacific Coast.
NoTABILITIEs OF PINE STREET.
10 . quiet and unobtrusivs way
many of the men noted in Pine
and California streets in the "brave
days of old" Of the stock boards are
beginning to get back to their old
haunts, attracted by the late spurt
In the Comstock lode. OCCASION
ally man of local note puts
In an appearance on the curb.
stone, and his arrival is noted
with appreciation by those who
hang their faith upon the certain.
ty OF . market. Adolph Sutro puts
IN an appearance and the stranger
In the city has an opportunity to
note that the owner Of this famous
name Is a short, very heavy and
thick sch man, with q wealth of
white hair and whiskers. A very
vigorous and aggressive looking In !.
dividual is he who pierced his way
into the network of the Comstock
system Of mines, apparently to no
other purpose than the victimizing
Of . lot Of English stockholders. In
his square set jaws may be read
the story OF his dauntless energy
and perseverance,. Grayson, the
engineer Of many skillful.y con.
coctsd "deal," may be the next
man TO pass along, followed by
Archie Borland, and SO on to the
end of the chapter, winding up
with Senator Jim Fair. II is q
notable fact that, while the city
and Pine street are filling up with
many celebrities in the mining
world, the rag-tsg and bobtaiI of
the street, Of Paper alley and its
more pretentious streets runnl ng
at right angles, are less in numbe
than in the memory Of the oldest
inhabitant.
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