The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-09-08

| "AhAo OiOW SOlIotduIlJ duu are DlLL6E
cold, while the streets are full of
clouds of sand and dust, and great
banks of fog blow in from the Pa
cific constantly. San Francisco re-
quires heavy fiaunels and overcoats
all the time. Sometimes they hays
bright sunny day, but not often.
This is the reason why some fifteen
thousand people live in Oakland,
who do business in San francisco.
There are many beautiful places
near San Francisco. The Clif house
and seal rocks, the Golden Cate, the
Golden Gate Park, C., &C., arc full
of interest to strangers,
In the "Golden Gate Park" there
is beautiful monument to "Franc:s
Key" the author of the "Star epan-
gled banner" The monument is
very fne, sn0 Key Is sit,.lg under a
canopy, with roll OF paper in his
hand, looking away towards the
Golden Gate. The whole monument
stands about 25 feet high, ard on the
base a figure of Liberty is seatet. ex-
ending a crown. On the sides of the
pedestal, sunk In the granite, in gold
letters are the lines of Lis immortal
poem. Thus, three thousand miles
awa- from the scene of its compos-
ition, the Golden State has paid him
the tribute be so well deserved. The
work is very fine, and the grand and
noble face is finely cut. our Baltl-
more friends would DO proud of il
as they are of his memory.
The great wharves. piled up with
shipping Of all kinds, and the load
ing and unloading Of ships, the rush
and roar of trade, the din of factories
all are matters of interest, and tell
the story of this great exporting and
importing city. China town is a
strange place, and is we'll worth a
visit. Here are 10000 Cinnamon en-
gagged in trade of all kinds, and in all
kinds OF wrong doing. There are
many churches and some public
buildings. The city is full of strang.
ers and adventures and fortune seek
ers. But fortunes cannot be made
here as easily as formerly. The peo-
pie here are too fast for Eastern peO-
pie, and everything is done with
rush. l saw seventy.four thousand
dollars worth of building lots in San
Francisco, sold in less than one hour
and saw the purchasers paw cash
down. This is an every day occur.
renee. Sales of all kinds are made
in the shortest possible time. Even
in the stores it is the same, and peo.
pie buy in half the time they do in
| the East.
Everything In business lines is
done on large scale. and all lines
I are over done. So many are now en-
gagged in business that 1 wonder how
they all exist. New men have no
chance here, as there are thousands
ahead of them. Business men even
go so far as to say, 1--WE don't want
Eastern men we have enough of our
own, and Eastern people are too slow
for u.s." Even working men have
hard time to get employment, and
| hundreds of the best Workmen can't
get days work. The great trouble
with California is every device pos
sible has been used to .induce people
to come here from tine East and
spend their money, and the result is,
there is nothing for them, and the
thing has been over done. For the
benefit of some of my good old Gar
rett county friends l would say, do
not believe any of the printed matter
you may receive, and be satisfied
with dear old Maryland. If you have
plenty of money. you Can do we'll
here, but without money, you will
not succeed. 1t takes a fortune to
buy farm. No good land can be
bought near any town, Mninproued,
AOt iCoo gOVu W plOpO pei nCEcS
and when you go back from the rail-
roads twenty or thirty miles, land
will cost from SIS to 500. True. big
crops are raised. but it takes plenty
of money to do it. Men in the busi-
ness tell me the fruit business does
not pay as the reports state. Only
some places and some farms and fruit
growers make much out of their lands.
ANY man who can come here with
from $4,000 to $4,000 dollars can
make money farming, but with less.
/ don't think he could. So many
things are different from what we
had in Garrett, that our good old
Garrett farmers would be disappoin-
ted.
This is a grand country and fine
climate, but don't think (unless on
account of healthy that it would be
worth the trouble, expense and loss,
to sell a good home in the East to
come here. So if any one wants to