St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-23
cent sum of Is cents, or "two bits'' for

cent sum or 10 cents, or Two DltS' Tor
the round trip.
Oakland has got the "bulge" on the
railroads in way that other cities
would do well to initiate. No railroad
running through or into the city is al
lowed to charge fare for passengers
getting on or off anywhere within the
city limits, and they are also obliged to
stop at regular stations inside the city
from four to six blocks apart. [ paid
25 cents at the San Francisco ferry the
other day, got aboard the boat and rode
across the bay, between four and five
miles, got onto the train on the Oak
land side and rode over five miles
to the city limits; then came back
on it to the central part of the city
and got off. After walking round
till l was tired boarded another
train and took another three-mile ride
in another direction and back again.
Got off and roamed around until even
ing, when | got on the train again and
went to the ferry landing, about three
miles, took the ferry and was landed in
San francisco at 6 o'clock, all for 25
ing to take week or two and do
nothing but ride on the railroads in
Oakland, and so get even for some of
their eXtortiOns in other localities. For
a small consideration l might be in
duced to ride out grievances for other
parties in the East.
SAN FRANCISCO
is regularly laid out city, with wide,
well paved streets, mostly with cObble
stone or square blocks of granite, very
wide sidewalks, well lighted and very
compactly built. The bay frontage is
very level (being only about nine feet
above tidewater) back about half mile
from the bay, when the hills begin to
rise III succession of mounds and ter
races that would delight the eye of an
Alpine chamOiS hunter or terrify the
eye OF Dakota blizzard. But hills and
earthquakes make no difference to
theSe enterpriSing people. The city is
built all over them, and horse and cable
cars run up the very steepeSt of them.
FEW SHADE TREES
are seen i'll the city proper and also very
rev parks. Back in the western SUBJ
ufDs, however, many trees, gardens and
several 1lne DOulevards are to be met
win. mob Hill," the residence sec
tl0n or the elite, goes beyond ANYTHING
L have ever seen in the way of palatial
residences, both in size, adornment and
number.
-, The Golden Gate is not visible from
the city, but by taking cable car to the
Golden Gate Park, and there taking the
motor through the park the Golden Gate
Is soon reached, and truly it is worth
the trouble and expense QO cents.
on the cable and on the motor: YOU
can walk back. you know, and so save
the return 10 cents. To the left
stretches away the Pacific ocean even
to China, Japan and Australia: on the
right is the far famed
GOLDEN GATE.
which enters the bay from the OCEAN
between two walls of mighty hills
about mile or less apart. Here also
are the famous seal rocks-the last
stronghold and abiding place of the
original lnhabltant of the most western
coast of North America. These
rocks are three principal ones
and three or four smaller
ones. The largest is about the size of a
good sized church, and the other two
somewhat smaller. They lie on the
racine coast, short distance from the
entrance to the golden gate, and are. I
SHOULD mink, about a hundred Yards
from shOre. AT the time of nv visit |
Gne , rocks were literally covered with |
sea- oI an sizes, from small baby up |
to regular leviathan. and they ali an,
peared to be believing. Judging froin
what L saw, the seal race is in no DANGER |
Pacific coast. VII 'ii0
but am growing weary. and so are |
you, perhaps. L have been to Stockton.
Santa Rosa, Sacramento, Los Angeles
SanJose pronounced San O'Say5. and |
several other places, ABOUT all of which
could tell you something of import
ance; how at Los Angeles, for Instance
the farmers and vegetable gardeners
use nothing but Eastern consumptives
for manuring their ground; about the
wonderful alfalfa, which looks like
coarse yard grass, and appears to be
ahOut as nutritious as oak brush: and
now all the butter. milk and eggs are
labeled ranch butter" ''ranch milk
and ranch eggs" and how the
milk tastes like alkali mixed
with turpentine, butter the flavor
d oleomargarine and axle grease; and
eggs 90 cents a dozen; how they set
mems eggs and hatch out ostriches: how
hey Will take a ram over 400 wears old
md dish it up to the Fasteners for
spring. lamb; how on one side of the
street in San. Francisco you will see
people Shlverlng along wrapped I'D in
nick hannelS and furS, and on the other
'lde they are going along in their shirt
sleeves tanning themselves. Many such
oecullarltleS OF this wonderful country
might tell you about. but will leave
hem for some future time and only re-
marx Tor the present that this is a
wonderful country. j. w. ROBERTS.