The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1883-10-25
SAN FRANCISCO.
The Golden City is Overdone---The
Day OF Boon is Long Past
tSan Francisco Cor. Chicago Time

ISan Francisco Cor. Chicago Times.1
Now, the growth of San Francisco is mar
velous. 1t is six blocks from where the old
Mantle lay to the water front, all made
ground. Sand hills have been leveled and
streets have been cut through them at great
expense. But the obstacles to be overcome
have not been greater than those which have
confronted the people of Chicago, and
Chicago to-day is twice the size Of San
Francisco. Neither does San Francisco now
offer extraordinary inducements to bust
ness or professional men. The day of the boom
is long passed. The successor Of the
slug does not circulate more rapidly
here than in other cities. 1t is GER
tainly not thrown to strew the stage beneath
the feet OF pretty actresses. The same dis
couraging cry rises hero as elsewhere:
Everything is overdoneI" The pioneers
estimate of Frisco is based upon ignorance.
1t is the only city he knows, and he loves it,
is infatuated with it, as if it were a being Of
the female sex. He brags and lies about it
with an utter disregard of facts and statistics
l should hate to tell a Californian so, but by
far the most interesting part Of San Francisco
is Chinatown. The other phenomena of the
city are being repeated in many parts of
our vast country. This is novel and unique.
While endeavorinr to pass through it, the
other day, 1 was carried along by a great
throng rushing excitedly in the direction OF a
distracting noise. There were beating of tin
pans, squealing of Chinese fiddles, and a
cracking of fire-crackers hat beat any
Fourth of July celebration l ever attended.
The object of attraction turned out to be n
procession in honor of some great warrior,
dead and gone. And what a sight there vas
for an American in the heart of n great
American ethyl Cinnamon east and west,
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above and from the Easements beneath.
Only here and there, at rare intervals, would
the face of n white man be seen-apparently
a foreigner in a strange land. l questioned,
think, n dozen Cinnamon as to the meaning
OF the parade, but received no reply, or at
best only a shake of the head. l began to
feel uncomfortable, to feel that l was an in
truder and in the way, and that it would be
a particularly delightful task for
one of those s~ly-looking fellows to
send me post-haste to the other
world. But the sound of a Celtic voice reas-
sured me. 1t said: "This beats hi. Did We
liver see SIGH a parcel of brutesf' and then a
policeman who had taken me through the
town some nights previous showed his way
unceremoniously to my side and remarked:
This is the most damnable race that ever
lived. Iasked IA preacher once what God
made them for, and he couldn't tell-had to
give it up" Then he went his way and as
suaged the bitterness of his feelings by push
ing the Cinnamon hither and thither without
any obvious cause for so doing. Woe to the
Boston judges who have let in the subjects of
her majesty from Hong Kong if they de-
pended upon California votes for their tenure
of office. The Celestial has no friends here.
The people have to depend upon him to do a
great deal of their work, because so many of
their white lnhOrprS nra thriftlrce COTS lint