The morning call., 1895-02-18
A TYPICAL DAY
FOR CALIFORNIA.
WHERE COULD DELEGATES TO A
NATIONAL CONVENTION FARE
So WELL2
NATURE GIVES AN APT HINT.
GOLDEN GATE PARK CROWDED-A
CRUSH OF VEHICLES-THOUS-
ANDs AT THE BEACH.

If those who will have the say as to
where the next national Republican con-
yention shall be held would have been in
San Francisco yesterday-if they could
have seen the thousands of people who
were within the confines of Golden Gate
Park-if they could have seen the count
less number who gathered at Sutro
Heights and wandered on the ocean beach,
and If they could have observed what an
ideal day it was, they would, without hes
itation, have said that San Francisco is
the place where the convention must
meet. For where there is such glorious
sunshine in midwinter, where people can
go from place to place without being
bundled in furs and great coats and where
the people appear so free from care, that
is the place for national convention. 1t
would seem that the influences of atmos-
phere, of people and of surroundings
would stimulate the delegates to the per-
Torrance of duty which another place,
without such pleasant environments, could
not induce.
The great attraction at the park was, of
course, the grand concert under the direc-
ton of Fritz Scheel, and the number that
assembled was even greater than that
which greeted the gifted conductor on the
occasion he first welded the baton in the
park two weeks ago.
at has been many years." said Sam
Thomson, captain of the park police,
'since have seen so many vehicles. Why,
at one time this afternoon there must have
been over four hundred equipages in the
place reserved for them in front of the
bandstand. They were packed; no, they
were wedged in there so tight that 1t re-
CURED no small amount of skillful man
agement to get them out on the road again
when the band had ceased to play"
Many people, after listening to several
numbers, wandered in the direction of the
aviary to look at the pretty birds and to
the geological section to gaze upon the re-
cent addition in the shape of mountain
sheep. Quite number found their way
to the ruins of the Midwinter City and
sitting on the benches around the grand
court, which is beginning to show that it
is not receiving the care that more favored
parts are discussed what stood at this
point and recalled what they had seen
when all was life there. Many asked what
| is to be done with the electric tower, and
| the only answer was that given by a pre-
| cocious small boy, who said it was to be
taken to the Farallones to be used as a
watch tower.
The trains north and south of the park
were crowded all day with passengers
| going to the ocean beach, and even as late
! as O'Clock in the afternoon trains carry
| ing 800 people were speeding westward.
! The temperature at the beach was pleas
antly cool, and the fifteen or twenty thou
sand people who were on the great
| highway, on the sands from the base of
the rocks ON which stood the historical
| Cliff House to the outlet of La Laguna de
la MERGED, on the road from the railway
depot to the Sutro Baths, within the
Sutro Heights and at the more quiet and
retired spot known as Bakers Beach,
were all enjoying the invigorating salt
breeze that comes from the ocean, which
heightens the glow on the cheeks of the
rudy faced ones and brings the rosy
tinge of health to those cheeks that, by
close confinement in city homes, have
assumed pale and sickly hue.
Both at the beach and at the park the
cars were not in sufficient numbers to
carry all who were anxious to return sup
perward, and as each train left, packed so
that even standingroom could not be had,
there were crowds who had to console
themselves with the conductors loud cry,
"Wait for the next train
Take it all in all it was q glorious Califor-
MIA day which the great mass of people en-
joyed, and it was free from accidents, ex-
cept to few novices on bicycles who took
header, but injured neither themselves
nor their wheels.