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who desired security went over south Of
Market street and built homes-the first
real homes the City had in any num-
Der. 1t is interesting to note how they
builded in those days. The houses that
circle South Park shoulder each other as
though they feared a breath OF air might
find its way into that once aristocratlc
quarter. They built in blocks, with deep
areas, taking New York City houses for
their models, and one thinks feelingly Of
what must have been the danpness of
some of those easements. Along Harrison
and Bryant streets and up and down the
RIncon they did better. There is still an
air of stateliness and leisure about
some of those old garden-surrounded
houses, now for the most part
sheltering the philantropies of that
section, and having curiously stranded
air amid the business that has crept up all
around them. AS a locality for the mora
luxurious homes of great city Happy
valley was well chosen. 1t was accessible.
1t was sheltered. 1t looked out upon a
beautiful marine view. 1t was not too
hllly for people not yet accustomed to the
idea OF exertion in California, and no one
could have predicted the changes that
score of years would bring, or that the
inexpressible folly of the ''Second-street
cut" would ever he sanctioned by sane
people. But the business portion of the
City spread rapidly. and. following the
Illc VI ltdSI resistance, poured 1QtO
Happy Valley almost before the COM
Portable homes were built, and their own
ers fed, disconsolate, to Mob Hill, to the
Western Addition and to North Beach.
Beyond Happy Valley. from Folsom
street to Brannan, from Third street to
the water, lies Pleasant Valley, once sug-
gestlve OF its name, now as pleasant as
CRIME and smoke, the hum of machinery,
the clangor of engine bells and steam
whistles and the human hotsam and jet
sam of seacoast city's water front can
make it.
The valleys of San Francisco! Safe,
sheltered, beautiful spots they once were.
Will they ever be beautiful againY Or
shall the spreading City m AXE of those not
yet fully surrounded places like unto
these2 Islais and Laguna Honda, Merced
and Mountain Lake still remain to US,
almost unhurt. We ought to consider, as
the City creeps out toward them, whether
we must really build and grow in such
fashion that some future chronicler shall
be moved to relate with wonder how the
wild flowers bloomed, birds sang and clear
water once sparkled in the sunshine where
he will then see but squalor and ugllness
and ruin. ApELINE KNAPP.
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evening in the back parlor of barber.
Four of these were one time acting as pail
bearers at the funeral Of reverend brother
when delay occurred, owing to the grave
being not quite ready, and the coffin was
set down at the chancel. BY way of W hill
ing away the time one of them produced q
pack of cards from his pocket and proposed
few hands of whist. The rest gladly as
sented, and they were deep in their game,
came to announce that the preparations
were complete.
Goldsmith tells Of an old lady who, lying
sick unto death, played cards with the
curate to pass the time away, and after
winning all his money had just proposed
when the revolution broke out in Paris re-
peated and frantic messages were sent to
Charles x. informing him of the state of
affairs. The King was engrossed in cards
however, and not to be disturbed, and
each time the reply came, His Majesty
is playing whist"
Another cool whist-player was Lord
Sligo. When the news arrived that his
magnificent residence was on fire he
stopped only moment to ascertain
whether or not his presence could be of m a.
terial service on the scene of the contagra-
tion. Finding that it would not, he calmly
took up the hand which had been dealt
him while he was talking with the messen.
ger and resumed play.
Unless Espartero and his foe, Marota, /,
are much belied, their quarrel was settled
by game of cards in farmho at Ber-
CARA, where they met to arrange a truce
between their respective forces. No sooner
did Espartero enter the room than the
Carlist chief challenged him to Q game of
tresilio, challenge the Christine COM
mander accepted with alacrity. Espartero
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on the earth will be appro priated, and the
moon will then be still more excellent
field for speculation. Perhaps it is better
that there is no bridge of globes, and that
trains can't be run to the moon. England
would then want to make it province of
the empire, and that might plunge Grover
Cleveland or his successor and the Ameri-
can press into another war in order to
make Salisbury or some other Premier
prove that he never intended to infringe
on the Monroe doctrine, and would never
insist on flying the Union Jack on the
moon while fair Diana was smiling on the
American side of the world.
But We have almost forgotten that the
moon is here an altogether secondary con-
slderation. Literature is too full of these
unnecessary diversions. Writers nowadays
Introduce many irrelevant matters, to the
detriment OF their main stories. We have
fallen into the same error, and let US has
ten back to Engineer Frck as he is.
when was given charge of an engine in
| 1864, was Is years of age" continued Mr..
Frick. II started in young at railroading.
No, am not native. was born in Eng
land, OF French parents, and am an Amer
lean by adoption and preference. Look
young, do I? Well. take look at my
fireman there. He's 25 and bigger taan
his father, but he's my son. was on this
same run before he was born. l have run
an engine over this track when there were
thick woods on either side, and have oh.
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scrub oaks and furze bushes that tangled
through that whole section, and while the
garments bleached in the sun and fluttered
In the strong afternoon wind the washer
women chatted and gossiped in the val
ley that still bears their name What
would they have thought, one wonders,
had some imaginative prophet told them
of the homes that would one day rise
where they were even tnen dipping in
their brawny arms and rubbing their gar
ments free from soil? How they would
have laughed as they gathered up their
wash at night and went home over the
"plana road' to the Mission to tell the
JOKE to the men.
Gone is the lagoon, gone are the washer.
women, gone the days when sleep was
known as the California fever" and it is
sometimes to be questioned whether we
who have succeeded them are greatly
wiser than those simple souls-whether
we are apt to accept with any greater seri-
business or With consideration beyond
probable increase in land values predic-
tions for our City s future.
The scene of Washerwomar's Bay. long
ago filled in and built over with factories
and business buildings, is reproduced from
a photograph taken in 1855 by San Fran
clsco's pioneer photographer, G. E. Wat
kins: 1t is the only comprehensive view
OF that part of the City extant, and has
AAN'SA DOioAO OCVu ItpIOuuCtu III OOOk,
newspaper or magazine. In this connec-
ton 1t may be observed that Mr. Watkins
possesses collection of treasures in the
shape OF views Of San Francisco prior to
1860, and these he contempla tes some day
incorporating in a work which will be of
historic value. Mr.. Watkins was the
earliest outdoor scenic artist in the West.
st. AIMS Valley is another almost
buried memory of early days. st. AIMS
building stands as sort of monument to
the name, but even the traditions of the
valley seem lost. 1t lay along Eddy street,
west OF what is now Powell. Yet scarcely
forty-five years have passed since the
Bowie cottage was built where Sutter
street now crosses Stockton, and a home
was established in the wilderness, out of
sight of the City or any human habitation.
Out that way ran the road to the Mission,
through soft sand into which a horses
feet sank deep and made no sound, wind
ing among the scruboaks that tore a
riders clothing and scratched his hands
and his face, so narrow was the road,
over toilsome dunes dotted here and
there with charcoal burners huts,
winding in and out where Ellis, O'Farrell,
Geary, Post and Sutter streets have since
cut the sand wastes. and on through
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make herself ready for the scrutiny to
which. in the years to come, she will be
subjected.
The hills of San Francisco are never
falling worder and delight, but not less
interesting are the valleys that once lay
between them, nesting in their hollows
and forming what are now the City's level
stretches. Mere names, most OF them are,
now, Identifying tracts wherein lie as any
real-estate dealer will swear to you, "the
most desirable residence sites in the City"
In some instances even the valleys them
selves have disappeared.
How many of this generation know that
eprlng Valley once lay between Mason
and Taylor Clay and Washington streets,
and gave its name to the company that
now supplies San Francisco with water?
A great springy, boggy hollow, sixty feet
deep, was Spring Valley, and from the
springs there coming to the surface 1T was
supposed that an adequate water supply
could be obtained for the City. So COM
pany was formed, but it got nothing but
name from the valley. The water supply
was delusion and snare, so runs tradl-
ton, and later ]. B. Haggin filled in the
valley and the City crept over it, as over
many another unmarked and long-forgot-
ten grave.
Washerwoman's Valley and Washer
Woman's Lagoon are still traditions OF
North Beach. The lagoon lay at the foot
OF Cough and Octavia, where Greenwich
and tllbert streets now pass. Here, thirty
years ago, so young is our City, the Mexi-
can and Indian women-"the natives, in
the parlance of the time came focklng
from the Mission. from the hills and their
Isolated homes along the beach bearing
upon their heads great bundles of clothes,
the family wash, for cleansing in the clear.
fresh water of the lagoon. They used to
dry them on the sand and among the
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very fast runs, but I have averaged eight
hours day and at least 5000 miles
month during all that time"
In November Mr.. Frick will have tray
eled distance OF $4,000 miles, dating
from 1869, and his mileage during the five
years preceding that date, even if he We're
making only 500 miles a month, would
bring the total up above the million mark
In other words, he has easily completed a
distance equal to two round trips to the
moon, and with enough miles to spare to
circle the globe few times in addition.
1t will be noted that Mr.. Frick has made
necessarily slow time on his runs. If 1t
oe assumed that the moon is 240 600 mills
distant from the earth, train going at the
rate of mile minute would complete
distance equal to that of the round trip
betw cen this sphere and the siIvery orb of
night in 1885 days.
To some 1t may sound rather absurd to
speak in commonplace about the earth's
silvery satellite; but Camille Flamma arion,
the eminent French astronomer, insists
that it is really terrestrial province. Its
distance is but thirty times the diameter
of our globe, so that thirty earrhs joined
together side by side on the same line
would form suspension bridge sufficient
to unite the two worlds.
Flammarion declares that the distance
is scarcely worthy of an astronomical
| title. Our satellite is, from all points of
view, the first hating place on celestial
journey. Now, if we can imagine a bridge
of globes, why not imagine also train
crossing the bridge2 Leaving the dearth
OF atmosphere out of the question, or sup
plying the train-foiks with some Yankee
contrivance by which they could avail
themselves of air to be continuously
pumped along the track from the earth
$50 that the lunar investigators might be
as well off as divers who breathe from the
bottom of the sea), what glorious scheme
is unfolded for the revealmenu of wonders
in the domain of our next-door heavenly
neig hbor.
What picnic Engineer Frick might en-
Joy if he landed, for instance, in the vicin-
ity OF the Sea OF Serenity and Lake OF
Dreams. There is no water in these seas.
The accompanying drawing. reproduced
from Flammarion's Popular Astronomy,
shows clearly, on the one hand, the sandy,
wrinkled, undulating nature of thesoil of
the lunar seas, and on the other hand the
crateriform nature of all the mountains.
The walls of the seas of Serenity, Rains
and Humors form the longest series Of
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and green valleys, of stretch upon stretch
of soft dunes billowing clear to the hori-
zon. Nor smokestack nor sail is left upon
the bay, but the breakers dash white
against the rugged walls of the Gate and
channel, and within the harbor the long,
S low waves creep up toward circling line
of uptrodden beach. The impression is a
strangely vivid one and is almost as fascinat-
ing in its suggestive wonder as the City it.
self, which now stretches proudly over
what must have seemed to the earliest
comers most unpromising site for place
of any size or Importance.
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served oakland's progress day by day and

SOA VON Oohioho plOElOSS Ndy Wy 0oy ohu
step by STEP"
There is rather interesting bit of his
tory connected with Fricks coming to
California. His father, Dominique Frick,
was French republican, who was COM
pelled to fee to England as refugee DUR
ing. the reign of Louis Philippe. In 1S4S.
when the French monarchy was over
thrown. and Louis Napoleon (afterward
Emperor Napoleon III) was made Presi-
dent of the republic. Dominique Fnck re-
turned to Paris. to be eventually ap-
pointed Consul to Honolulu. From there
Emile Frick was sent to San Francisco to
be educated, and here he soon enlisted in
the employ of Phoebe & Bayerique, became
thoroughly Americanized, Withdrew his
allegiance to the throne which Louis Ma
poleon ascended and enrolled himself
under the stripes and stars.
Emile Frick will leave at the end OF the
month to attend the session of the Grand
International Division, Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers, at Ottawa, Ontario.
He will represent Leland Stanford Divi-
sion No. 2S3, West Oakland. The big ses-
sion convenes May 13 The Grand Inter
national. Division embraces 535 subordi-
nate divisions. with total membership of
27,000 locomotive engineers.
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1t is worth while, now and then, to stop
and consider what has been done to render
San Francisco possible upon this penin-
sula. There is inspiration in such con-
sideration and hope for the accomplish
ment of the wonders that must and will
be achieved ere our City is that noble
thing which is her destined end and
way" 1t is not enough that the ground
on which San Francisco stands has been
wrested from the sea and redeemed from
the Businesses of the mountains. She is
and must ever remain, a city set upon a
hill, which cannot be hid, and she must
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n smart Broadway, New
/ \ York, druggist has
this sign hanging outside
his store, it marks the
new era of drug selling.
Is 1t any wonder that he
has to enlarge his quar-
tiers, that his clerks are
busy. and that his store is
one OF the most popular
along. the leading thor.
oughfare1
You can afford to trade
with a druggist that has
such a motto as that
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II UNG up in big frame in the
II West Oakland yards of the South
ern Pacific system is an engrossed

i'll A O-'p tP III q OAs iidihO III tllS
i'll office of the rounGhouse at the
West Oakland yards of the South
II n ern Pacific system is an engrossed
list of locomotive engineers en-
ployed on the California division of Mr..
Huntineton's railroad, and that list is
headed by the name of Emile Frick, the
engineer who has been longest in the ser
vice of the company. He was engaged in
running an engine between Oakland and
Alameda when the latter city boasted of
the only ferry landing on the other side of
the bay, and long prior to the time of the
absorption of that line by the Southern
Pacific corporation. Since 1864 he has been
in continuous service either between the
two cities mentioned or between East
Oakland and Oakland Mole. But even
that early date does not represent the be-
ginning of Frlck's experience in engineer
ing. He obtained his tuition in the science
of running a locomotive while in the
employ of the French banking firm of
Phoebe & Bayerique, which, as old pioneers
will remember, constructed the first rail-
road in the State of California-the Sacra-
mento Valley Road, from the capitol city
to Placerville. The Frenchmen sank loads
Vi SOlO III ChbCl piAoCy Ous lllCy ldChcQ
the railroad genius that was soon after
their failure to build up the fortunes of
the Stanfords. the Crockers and the Hunt
ingtons.
Frick's engine on the old Alameda line
was the +. B. Atherton. He left the en-
CINE for another on new route November
2, 1862 and just twelve days afterward the
Atherton collided with an overland pas
senger trsin, and from the resultant
wre OK sixteen dead bodies were taken
The Atherton's history ended in the tale
of telescoped trains. Frick points with
pride to the fact that he has never met
with an accident of consequence In all
his years of life on the rail.
IF live till next November" remarked
Engineer Frick, as be peered from his
cab window down the Seventh-street track
along which he was speeding, 81 shall
have completed twenty-seven years on
this line under Southern Pacific manage
ment. / haven't made very long runs nor
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STORIES OF WHIST.

The Game Has Som etimes Played . se-
rious Part in Public Affairs.
Many strange stories ore told of whist
playing, but none can excel this:
Some years ago there was whist club in
Somersetshlre, England, composed mostly
OF ministers. They met every Sunday
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- OMETIMES as 1 walk the streets
of this City my imagination plays
~ me curious trick. AS l glance
~ upward to where along some lofty
level the distant figure of pass
ing pedestrian is silhouetted against the
sky, or a cable-car poises for its plunge
down the grade, the City seems suddenly
to vanish The clim bing streets no longer
stretch their gray parallels before me. The
tall buildings and countless houses disap-
pear, and the busy clamor OF life about me
seems to hush and die away. In place of
all these comes vision of rounded hills
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1896-07-02
CHURCHES AND SOCIETIES.

METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH-Services
~ every three weeks morning and evening;
class meeting after morning service; Sabbath
school every Sabbath at 10 o'clock a. m. prayer
meeting on Wednesday evenings.
S. w. POTTER, Pastor.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1896-07-02
Number I8.
Elk City Items.

A little rain will help the gardens
about the 4th of July.
County Treasurer John Hyde
made us call today.
Judge Mitcham, of Pioneer, was
down today with his steamboat.
Col. John Kelsay, of Corvallis,
will be-over Friday evening and
will deliver the oration on July d.,
at the Elk picnic.
The Steamer Mascotte will run
from Elk City to Toledo on July 6,
to the Bi-metallic convention.
A free dance will be given at Elk
City hall on the evening of the
4th.
Chittem bark is coming in by
the car load. 1t is about the only
thing people can find any money
in these times. Salmon and huckle-
berries will be along soon.
Prospects are now good for a
large crowd at the picnic at Sulphur
Springs. Arrangements have been
made for a barbecue.
E. NJ. Mays has bought three
lots in Elk and has ordered lumber
to put up store building.
NoVUS HOMO.
Elk City, July I.
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NOrtOns Notes.

Preparations are still in progress
by the patriotic citizens here for a
glorious Fourth, to which everyone
is invited. The lumber has arrived
for the dance floor.
A few of our young people will
spend the Fourth at the coast.
Mr.. Will Davis is guest of our
postmaster.
John Hewit's family came to
Nortons on the 2eth.
Mr.. Tucker has resigned as
Sunday school superintendent and
gone to the Valley for the summer.
Miss Hampton was appointed to fill
the vacancy.
Our school ma am returned Sum
day evening from her trip to the
Bay. She thinks the Harrington
sisters deserve much credit for their
entertainment at Yaquina last Fri
day evening. She reports an
interesting teachers meeting at
Newport Saturday, and is delighted
with the beach, prefering it to the
Atlantic coast resorts.
PEARL.
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June 80, 1896.

There has been considerable talk
Of late about completing the wagon
road between Yaquina and Toledo.
A prominent citizen of Yaquina and
heavy taxpayer was up last Mon-
day and spoke very strongly of the
urgent necessity of this road. The
road itself is nearly completed be-
tween the two towns and about all
that remains to be done is to put in
the bridges. Of these it will
require four on the whole road, but
two of them are small ones and
would be of but little expense.
The most expensive one would be
the one across Depoe slough just
above the railroad bridge. Of
course it requires strict economy on
the part of the county court in the
matter of all the roads and bridges,
but the benefits to be derived from
opening this road would fully justify
the expense. We do not doubt but
what the people of Toledo and
Yaquina would do the work on the
bridges if the county could see its
way clear to furnish the material
for them. There is not a road in
the county that would accommodate
a greater number of people than
this road of 81 miles between
Toledo and Yaquina.
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sST. JOHNS CHURCH protestant Episcopal
n Irvine service the third Sunday of every
month, at IL II. m. All are invited to attend.
Rev. Chas, Booth, Missionary. Residence,
'RectOry" Newport Or