The Arizona sentinel., 1897-10-16
WONDERFUL SANFRACISCO.
The City That is Built on Seven Hun.
 dred Hills.
Written for the SENTINEL:

could not fail to be interested. A city of sand! It seems to me that it should be spelled Sand Francis co. I saw plenty of sand south of here but Pm still grinding it. As I came out of the warm Santa Clara valley just south of here and enter ed the narrow strip of land lying between the Ocean and San Fran cisco Bay, which is only few miles in width, a gale struck us which all but upset our carriage. 'Is this a sample of San Francisco weatherf' thought I And early in the after noon a fog came up dense, damp and dismal, which with the wind and sand was enough to drive us to shelter.
 I am surprised at the hills-hills of bare white glistening sand with out blade of grass, shrub or tree, and very near the city at that sand into which your feet sink four of five inches. It's abominable! We drive into town. Hills, hills! The sand has been covered to be sure along the principal streets, but such steep hills in the business part of tow surprises me. Most of the streets are paved with stone, and they are so steep, many of them, that a loaded team cannot, climb them. Street cars everywhere. Clang, clang, clang, on every side of us goes the gong of the street car. And such a brusque lot of peoplel Every man woman and child has his head up, chest thrown out and is going as if after the doctorl Pve been to New York, Buffalo, Phila- delphia, St. Louis and even to the pushing city of Chicago, but no- thing compares with the dashing, rushing, sweeping hustling mass of humanity in this great city by the western sea,
 I have been asked to write some articles descriptive of this wonder fuI town located on the verge of the western slope, and to tell of it's people, it's climate and of any peculiartes that may be of interest to the gerenal public. To speak also of the Chinese and their cus- toms, and the Japanese as we'll. It is not necessary to say that 1 shall do this with pleasure.
 San Francisco is in many respects a most wonderful city. It is made up of people from every nation on earth. This is what is termed cos mopolitan. A cosmopolitan com munity is always the most progress sive. For instance you bring together Chinaman, an English man, a Frenchman, a Japanese, an American, an Hungarian, an Italian, Swiss, a Scotchman, and one person from every other nation of the earth, and the association can not be otherwlss than beneficial .. We are all imitators. None of us are excessively original. We are constantly borrowing ideas from others. When a great number of nationalitles mingle in 8 business way good results cannot but obtain. Such city is San Francisco. Prob ably one of the slowest nations on earth to learn from others are the Chinese. They cannot adopt other customs than their own, The usages of this people constitute their religion. The daily practices of the Mongolian is established as firmly as adamant. Even the language of the Chinese is adhered to. Not one Chinamen in an hun dred speaks the English language or attempts to learn it He doesn't want to know any other language than that of his nativity and yet with all the prejudice and super stition of this old race. l can see that they are unconsciously falling into many American ways. In fact the Chinese merchants have been compelled to, in order to hold their trade. Isn't 1t most remark able how some people will sacrifice their religion for business2 San Francisco is nothing if not progress sive. The mingling of all of these nationalities has had much to do in making it such. Mir. Chinaman is shrewd enough to see that the roast hogs and fine cakes and de- licious fruits which he deposits on Inc nraves of denarted ones is never