The San Francisco call., 1896-06-20
uena remain an indelible
Yerha

Yerba Buena remain an indelible
memory.
To him the wonderful progress of paw
ing with cobbles the few streets that then
formed the principal portion of this City
was sufficient to impress him with the
march of progress made by himself and
those who thought as he did.
The old signal-yard displayed on Tele-
graph Hill which announced the arrival OF
a seagoing and incoming ship was all
sufficient. This with marked increase
in the number of goats and chickens seen
browsing on the sun-dried rocks of the
southeastern brow of this observatory
convinced him that there was great
future in store for the City of the West.
With all of those things he paid no
further attention nor did he bestow q
thought upon any section west OF Powell
street.
The "old conner" with his convivial as
sociations and with the hooked end of his
imported hickory thrown carelessly over
his left forearm, the better to enable him
to use his right hand in keeping flies off
the free-lunch table, was content to enter
tain his associates with long-winded sto-
rIe of the days of his youth, spent on the
plantation where negroes were chattels
and where it was looked upon as an act Of
deep degradation for white man to labor
at anything more severe than fogging a
disobedient slave who failed to do the task
set out for him by his master.
While thus remunerating and entertain
ing those about him with tales of the
blessings to be had in the sunny South
where Democracy fourished and where it
is a misdemeanor to be a Republican San
Francisco was growing not in the direc-
ton of Telegraph Hill or North Beach,
but westward, out toward the great ocean:
and with this growth there were streets
being made and hills pulled down to fill
up the hoIlows on which houses had been
built, and in those houses men and women
moved. And as it follows in all respecta-
bic locations the building of houses and
their occupancy meant an increase in the
population which in time necessitates the
building of school houses and the educa-
tion of the children.
Now this is just what took place in San
Francisco after the spring of 80 and dur
ing the period in which our esteemed Dem
ocratic friend was dreaming of what a
grand Democratic State California would
be when sufficient Southern people settled
on its soil.
In the meantime, however, the indomit-
able Yankee was climbing the Rocky
Mountains with teams, and right behind
him was coming the putting and snorting
iron horse drawing not one wagon but
hundreds of wagons. each wagon carrying
its load OF New Englanders bound for San
Francisco. These finally arrived, but, un-
Ike their neighbors from the South with
the hooked hickory, they settled in the
Western Addition, built their homes and
sent their children to the public schools.
AT those schools the youth were in
structed that labor was honorable and
idleness produced misery and crime.
These being part OF the Republican doc
trine the young men as they grew up to
manhood carried the lessons taught them
in their youth into practice as soon as op-
portunities pre-. ented themselves.
OF such young stock are the members of
the "Bear Club" These young San Fran
cisco boys not caring to follow in the foot
steps of their fathers in SO far as remain
ing politically indolent from election time
to the recurring occasion. orsanlzed Re-
publican Club in the Western Addition
and one that should be continuous, in
which none but respectable, well-conducted
gentlemen would be admitted to member
ship. They believed that politics could