The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-11-30
IA BOOM WOKE UP GALINDO.

"A BOOM WOKE UP GALINDO.
 q. Montgomery Price Cama With Op-
 tions on Climate-It Was a Wonder
 full California Town. With Wonderful
 Residents and a Wonderful Future,
 and it All Faded in One Night Under
 a Dispensation of Providence.
 Galindo certainly needed to be walked up. It had it's picturesque history the same as any other town in California, and. as is the case all over the state, that history was all so recent that the paint had not had time to wear off. There were plenty of men yet alive who remembered distinctly when Sabe Harris hanged the horse thieves and some other pioneer settler with keen. CT eve to business stole the water front both on the bay and up the estuary as far as it was even damp. Back of that combination of thrill and theft in which the city began there was nothing but the greaser and the mission Indian After the same initial period there was likewise nothing, and Galindo had been content to go to sleep.
 You could not get the Galindoites to confess this, however. On their daily voyages across to San Francisco they felicitated themselves that they did not have to. live in the city in which they did business. In the afternoons, when it came time to repeat the voyage in the reverse order, they were in the way of describing to their partners who lived in the larger city what blessing It was to spend the nights across the bay where the fog and the trade wind went harmlessly overhead. A thing like that always touches a San Franciscan on the raw, particularly if you mention it in the afternoon. He knows that for part of the day he has the linesa cli- mate in the world, but he knows also that for most months of the year the climate after three or four o'clock should not be spoken of in mixed com- panies by truthful people with good powers of description.
 Galindo was a favored spot the daily fog and cold wind clinging to the pc ninsula of San Francisco; they never crossed the bay That was not the only thing on which the Galindo commuters prided themselves. They had societies at which to cultivate themselves in all sorts of picturesque directions. Scarce ly night in the week passed without wiving them an opportunity to read a paper before some society, of if they did not read paper themselves they took part in the discussion of paper read by somebody else. Keepin, in their view the scholarly eminence of Boston, they had very definite ideas as to what the future would show could be done in a Boston of the Pacific, with the advantages of better clfmate-ba- nanas would grow out of doors-and with the opportunities of broader field. Even their swellest dancing soci- ety was named from the "Iliad."
 In religion, as became a community of thinking people, they prided them selves on liberality. The orthodox min isters did not urge too strenuously the rigid standards, tho unorthodoX divines delivered lovely essays on pessimistic literature and inconspicuous art. They got along we'll together. Once when a great New York divine agreed to preach sermon all the churches joined in a union service in the theaier to listen to man who was by no means orthodox. That was the occasion when GaIindO proved to every center Of thought east of the Sierras that for true liberal culture California was strictly in it. Also. it was a part of the
 
 a thing to be proud of and to brag about when in company with San Franciscans who were under the rule of a hoodlum set denominated Rock rollers, whom blind man governed
 There was only one hardship about life in Galindo it involved missing the final climax of the last act of the play in order to be sure not to miss the last boat Sometimes when travelling com- panies were playing their first engage ments in San Francisco they have been quite disconcerted by the snapping of watch cases all through the fifth act and the apparently preconcerted exit of the Galindo contingent in the most thrilling passage. Because this con- muting necessity made them conspicu- ous. Galindoites rather gave over going to theaters and took high tone as to the decadence of the modern drama; they supported a large Shakespear6an society which read play month, once the Shylock (young Marlow of the Yo- kohama and Unalaska bank) recit6d all his part from memory without being prompted more than few times, and his gestures were very pretty.
 From these slight sketches of resi- dential town in it's soft slum 1efs there should be no difficulty in understanding it's conditions of life and society. If one seeks to be more precise it is enough to say that Galindo was in eve " respect a Brooklyn to San Francisco. In such community business must al ways be most strongly addressed to do- mestic wants. Where all the men ex- oept ministers and school principals send all the daylight hours across the