The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-08-02

take place-an inpouring Of people from
everywhere. The gold and precious
pieces. of stone filled with gold had
from time to time been brought to these
Padres by the Indians. The Fathers would
ascertain tie locality and get all the infor-
MA ton they could, and then tell these poor
creatures If they uttered word about it
the wrath of God would be visited upon
Them" Poor, trusting, superstitious crea-
lures, blinded by law and authority, their
discovery was Of no profit to them, their
knowledge of no use 10 the world.
A grlst-mill was needed, so all the way
from Baltimore was the machinery brough t.
A two-story frame building was put up on
Clay street. near Kearny. The miller was
Daniel Sill, and he had six mules at time
grinding this grist, and kept twenty, all
told, for the relief of the others. He dali y
turned out about twenty TO twenty-five bar
reis OF flour. The primitive way-and to
TINS day many Spanish and MeXicans will
nave no other-is to use metate. or large
nat stone. mounted on three unequal legs,
when lets the stone incline sharply. The
grain between the two, which falls in dish
below at the lowest end. The women
do this work and not only grind corn and
wheat. but chilli or the dry and sweet
red peppers, which form the season.
ing of nearly all their dishes. Even cocoa
was. prepared by them, as they are very
fond Of it.
THE LAST PIONEER RELIC,
A building, is now being torn down. 1t was
the first four-story brick building ever
erected in the city. 1t is on Sansome street,
and built about 1850. The rear end Was
only short distance from deep water at
tEat time, and goods from vessels coming
IN from China were trucked directly into
this warehouse-all the bricks, timber, lime
and nails; in fact. nearly everything that
came around the Horn from Boston. No
one seeing 1t now would ever dream it was
q waterfront warehouse of Importance.
The last Governor under Mexican rule was
that charming, courtly gentleman. generous
TO fault, beloved by all and finally robbed
of all his wealth by not understanding the
american ways and laws. yet uncomplain-
ing in his dire power ty-GovernO Pho Pico.
When the new American flag first fi0ated
over the old Monterey Custom house, July,
1916, the old Mexican was laid aside. Then
Commodore Sloat was military commander !;
then X. Q. Stockton, then j. c. Fremont,
military Governor in 1916, followed by Gen.
erals &earncy and Mason. 1t was under
General Rlley's regime that the State was
formed, and the election took place Septem-
Der ID, 1S49, when the newly elected Govern
or, Peter Burnett, came into Office. Thus
this great State was fairly launched on her
course. From 1919 to 1891, only about forty
two years, and they seem short to accom-
pilSh all that has been done-the desert
land grown with fruit aud flowers, irrigated
by energetic people, who expect to make
fruitful every unproductiVe acre that can
have water piped upon it; the sandlots of
1erba Buena covered with some of the larg-
est and finest buildings in the world-house5
OF stone ten stories high in this land where
earthquakes sometimes come, but when diff
culties come they seem TO be met rs quickly.
AS THEY PRESENT THEMSELVES.
Here, too, on coarse, gravelly soil, punches
OF grapes of enormous size and weight are
grown, one | saw yesterday weighing four
teen pounds, and some have weighed nine
teen; seven and half pounds is not an I'M
common weight. But tell these things to
the average Eastern person in q whisper,
and l see them look unutterable things, and
afterward hear the m speaking of the won
derful growth of the Imagination, as well as
fruits. trees and flowers. and have every
fact heavily discounted, till even the grass
hopper becomes a burden; then, not daring
10 tell one-half the truth, you subside. |
did want TO tell of an Ohio man picking
1900 buds and blossoms off one running
rose and. getting tired of counting, did not
know how many were finally taken from the
bush that morning, and l did not want to
tell how tor three mornings wagon-lOad o
rosebuds alone were cut from small yard
in Pomona and sent to the flower festival,
and how l remarked, as others had. well,
no flowers have been cut in that yard for
the rose festival" when Miss Marta
Thomas remarked, "a wagon-load every
morning for three mornings, that Is all"
If could have you see this young city,
which in summer time merits the name of
windy rs much as Chicago ever did, and go
up Market street, which i5 sometimes as
crowded as Broadway, you would wonder
whether IL was possible for any other city so
many miles from the seat of Government
to have accomplished all that has been done
here. No other American city resembles
New York as this does, and still tile foreign
element and peculiar ways of many people
make you think more often of Paris than
any other place. think it is the most
INDEPENDENT PLACE KNOWN.
Living is as cheap here as elsewhere, room
rent higher in proportion than other places.
In many of the very best houses you rent a
room and have housekeeping privileges
that is, the use of the kitchen to cook for
yourself, or have your cOal-oil or gasoline
stove. 1t is expected you will ask for house
keeping privileges as much as a parl0r-in
fact more, and Tor a single person to do SO
as well as person of family taking fiat.
In San francisco go TO fine house, ask
to rent room with housekeeping privileges
and then prepare to run--if you are not re-
markably courageous. Board and room
can be had as low as 81 per day at thor
oughly respectable places in private fam
lilies. Rooms alone at fashionable hotels
from 81 up per day. In fact, If you desire
to live on the European plan get fine
lOUul at Tic DUlcl duu eACcIlcut llcUIS are 10
be had at the very lowest rates within a
block or two of any of them. More than a
fourth of the people live in this way doing
away with housekeeping and paying from
$50 to $40 for the cook alone, not saying
anything about the other servants, for
cook will do nothing but cook in this part of
the Union. 4 servant for general house.
work is not known here.
| did want to write OF the park, the
drives. the thousand and one interesting
things that 60 to make this city pleasant
place to reside in at all seasons, particularly
in winter, when the winds do not blow
every afternoon and the sand does not come
down from the surrounding hills with such
force as to make you wear your eyes la
squint to keep from making small sand lots
OF them or go deaf from the quantity of
artificial deposit acquired ON promenade.
One thing the wind does do is to make the
most exquisite foot-sear fashionable. The
shoe-stores keep a line of exquisite goods.
The size of the children's feet is something
remarkable, and in the majority of the
ladies. too, for that matter, something
tremendous; but you forget the size when
Won see the high inSteDs and beautiful