The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-12-31
SAW THE ASHES.
Large Crowds Satisfy a
Wish of a Week
BY VISITING THE CLIFF.
They Ran the Gauntlet of a
Muddy Roadway.
LIQUOR SOLD IN THE OPEN AIR.
Curiosity Prompts People to See
"What the Cliff House Looks
Like After the Fire.

Though there was no Cliff House to see
yesterday frownng above the ocean break
ers. no veranda from which to scan the
panorama of water and shore lines or watch
the seals besEorting themselves on the
adjacent rocks, a tremendous crowd OF
people went out to learn what the cliff looks
/ ike without its old landmark. For the
privilege of peeping through a high picket
fence upon a heap of dead embers and
debris the crowds endured a great deal.
They waded throug yellow mud, while
horses splashed the liquid muck upon thu cir
Sunday clothes, and they had to walk In
single file up the slopng roadway by the
cliff-a tedious experience. as it took fully
twenty minutes TO get up or down the hill.
And they suffered for want of proper rail-
road facilities to accommodate all.
But those people would ego out to the
Cliff House to see how the Cliff House
looks since it was burned down."
Western pluck and enterprise was strik-
ingly illustrated before the Sunday crowds
in the Phpnix-like alacrity attending the
rising from ash es of Cliff House commerce.,
In front of the ticket gate that Mayor
elect Sutro erected opposite the celebrated
resort while fighting the Southern Pacific
a long bar-mshogony top. silvered rails,
MANU- tOWolb, anu q luR
boniface behind-stood in the open air.
The ticket-house was stocked with
liquors, but business was done in the
open at a great rate. And meantime sew
eral carpenters we're busily at work on a
frame building midway between the baths
aud the Cliff House site, mailing down the
last shingles and fitting doors and win-
dows. In a few days this will be ready
for occupancy as temporary resort,
pending the erection of another place like
the one destroyed By fire week ago.
Owing to blasting of rock from the cliff
overhanging the driveway from the beach
to the cliff a frightful muddle has been
made. There is as yet barely room for
one team 10 pass another, and then the
foot pathway. or an excuse for one, is 80
narrow that two persons pass with diff
Guilty. In many places the pedestrians
b lad to move along in single file. sideways,
and all the time mud was flying from
horses feet. The narrow ledge used as a
sidewalk proved precarlOus foothold, for
frequently some unfortunate would slip
into the mud, at least ankle deep. This
caused considerable merriment, and bad
as the crush was alongside the fence lots
of fun came from it. The novelty of two
lines Of people passing either way III
single file and by slow degrees had some
thing amusing about ii, and all this for o
other reason than ito see what the Cliff
House looks like after it was burned
down."
Because there was a short break In the
storm the ocean beach was black with
| people as far as the eye could reach from
Sutro Heights. Beyond the ocean rolled
| placidly with an unusual calmuess. though
mighty breakers came rolling in and kept
| up ceaseless tumbling and Numbering
upon the sand. A cloud of spray rising
| high above the breakers, white and beauti-
| full, and with splendid fury, told where
| the wrecked schooner lay.
| Sulro Heights was visited by large mum.
| bers of people, and the Mayor-elect re-
NAMED at home entertaining his friends.
| He found time to express himself on the
| Southern Pacific Funding Bill, which oc.
cupies his mind conjointly with cares OF
| office.
Everything depends on the Speaker OF
| the House of Representatives." said he
IF they can get him TO set aside day fol
| consideration Of the bill, then it will be
| taken up"
tAnd what will be the result?"
well, MIR. Huntington will get In then
and pass the funding bill. | tell y,u
| know what I'm speaking about. The peo-
| pie should watch this very closely / is
| calamity. the greatest that could happen
| 10 California; it would settle a debt oil
ST., 900, 600 on the State for fifty years. And
you and must pay II. The tax will come
out OF the peoples POCKETS. Colonel Sum-
ner is In WASHINGTON looking after the bill
for the people. We shall spare no effort
in our fight"