The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-03-14
BY WATER TO BADEN.
Yesterdays Excursion 10 New
S0nth San Francisco.
Fifteen Hundred People Visit the Rising
Town-1he Multitude Filled With Sur
prise at What They Saw.

over fifteen hundred people went by the
bay route to the new city of South San
francisco yesterday. The sailing distance
is about seventeen miles.
Inc excursionists passed the day inspect
ing the Important i'm improvements in progress
at that point The steamer Newark carried
them up. She left her pier at the foot OF
Market street a t a quarter PAST 10 o'clock
arriving at the landing at Baden at IL
o'clock.
Ihe weather was all that could be de-
sired. The sun shone with delicious
warmth The blue skies along the eastern
and southern horizon were fecked with
white clouds.
Inc water was as tranquil as willow
bordered pool except in the wake of the
steamer whose paddles churned it into a
Wlue tTail OF foam. The landscape of shore,
meadow ana green slopes was iuIl of the Wig
OF ana beauty of the renaseent spring-tide.
Every OBJECT stood out in clear relief and
the people on both decks kept their gaze
liked on the shore line closest to them and
as Tie Newark steamed up the hay they
asked many questions about the landmarks.
Inc marvellous growth of this city along the
bay shore seemed to excite much surprise.
THE PEOPLE on BOARD.
The excursionsts were almost exclu-
siveiy made up of that thrifty class who
help to make the San Francisco savings
banks the most solid financial institutions
on The globe. They represented sterling
cltiZenshlp. men who toll day In and day
out with brain and Drawn, and who know
how to take care of their earnings. Though
the majority were men evidently out on
mission OF inquiry for a safe invest
ment. there were many well-dressed
women among the fifteen hundred.
The art of combining business with
pleasure was exhibited In many instances,
and numerous picnic baskets and romping
children attes ted the fact. There was not
single hood ium or ''chippie" in the whole
Outht, and eTein could be found a marked
distinction in the character of the Baden
excursion Yesterday from the average San
francisco Sunday picnic.
BUSINESS WITH PLEASURE.
snbdued atmosphere Of business en-
veloped the big boatload OF people. The
real estate agent was in his glory fitting
hliher and thither with map ana prospectus
in hand and brightly polished badge upon
his breast. The hum of conversation, when
lntelllglble, peTtalned To the problems and
mysteries OF real estate values and to The
seductive prospects of the new metropolis
which was to have beef and blood for its
corner stone.
But little attention save by the children
was paid TO the harp. violin and flute or
chestra on board. The little ones formed a
semlelrcle in front of the strOlling band of
musicians when they played. AS the Sec
ond violin man passed his little tray along
thu older people listlessly dropped in their
nickels and then resumed their talk. 1t was
the same pet theme. They had all been
wound up like eight-day clocks on one sub
Ject and they could talk OF nothing else but
real estate.
A GENUINE SURPRISE.
Upon nearing the wharf at South San
Francisco EXPLANATIONS of genu inc surprise
burst from nearly all lips. ure enough,
the signs of genuine improvements were
seen at every turn Of the head. The
majority had hardly prepared themselves to
believe that so much work was actually be-
ing done. But seeing Is believing. And
here the eye fell on long and massive brick
structures In course OF erection, acres of
cattle and sheep corrals, long stretches Of
substantial vharyeS, schooneTs living along
side loaued with brick and lumber, the
freshly turned earth of newly graded thor
oughfares eating into the hills, miles of wire
fencing marking the boundaries of live
stock Enclosures, a graders camp--a little
city by itself under canvas, frame buildings
rising On every side, narrow-gauge and
bTOad-gauge railroad tracks lately ballasted
and skIrted tie hIiy ground close to the
shore. a great steam dredger lsboring in the
big canal far up the slough and other evil
~denceS OF business action too numerous for
recital.
SURPRISE INTENSIFIED.
The people on deck had taken all this in
at a glance aud supposed. many of them,
they were for the first time looking at the
city Of South San Francisco. But these
people we're mistaken. What they then
saw was only the immediate scope of the
great s!aughter-house and meat-packing
industries, to spring into activity before
three more moons shall have waned.
The surprise OF the visitors was intensified
as their attention was directed to the higher
bench Of land good mile away from the
wharf and nesting directly at the pase of
the san Bruno range of hills. Here their
gaze met another focal point Of industrial
energy Broad streets, lined with frame
buildings with the paint still fresh on them,
stood In plain sight. Some were more pre-
tentlous than others, owing TO the dignity
OF two stories and bOw-windows From
more than one building top in the budding
town waved IN the newest and brightest Of
bunting the American eolors.
THE RUSH FOR THE TOWN.
AS soon as the Newark had discharged
her multitude OF passengers they scattered
IN numerous groups and struck out for the
town. Though large number of carriages
and buses were provided to carry them
there the majority were too impatient to
wall for the ride, and they footed linen
women and children. The fields and gentle
slopes were gorgeous with their luXurant
growth Of wild flowers, and gathering these
many on the way. A freshsniug breeze
sprlnging up on shore acted like tonic, and
the sensation of treading the heavy grass.
and the scent of tie fields. after the pleasant
sail on the water. seemed to inspire every
body with good cheer. When the big crowd
filled the streets of the new town good
nature reigned among them.
AN oRAToRICAL DIVERSION.
At the unfinished abattors the enterpris-
lug real estate agents who had organized
the pleasant excursion were called On to
make speeches. Each in turn in nimble
phrases painted the coming glories of the
newborn South San Francisco. They told
what had already been done and described
the magnitude of the undertakings then
under way. These gentlemen were loudly
applauded
After the oIatory the desire to eat was
manifested. Those with baskets soon
emptied them. Those without stormed the
hotels and eatiBg-houSes close by. All the
afternoon the real estate offices In town
were crowded with visitors scanning the
big maps. The agents and their glib
tongued clerks we're kept busy pasting red
and gold waters on the maps, symbols of
sales Of choice lots. In the conventional
language of the real estate writer large
number of desirable lots changed hands.
The return trip to this city was devoid of
incident AT 4 o'clock the Newark arrived
at the foot of Market street and every
moman's and every child's and nearly
every mans hand was filled with punches
- Nalf g. a