New-York tribune., 1902-10-19
ON THE PACIFIC SLOPE.
GROUND BROKEN FOR THE PARAMOUNT
HOTEL-THE UNIVERSITY EXTEN-
SION LECTURES OF THE UNI
VERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

San Francisco. Oct. 17-Ground was broken
this week for the new FairmOunt Hotel which
Will be built by Mrs. Hermann Oelrichs and Mrs.
W. X. Vanderbilt. jr, the old Fair lot, on the
summit of Mob Hill The Australian gum trees
that have covered the lower part of the lot for
years are being cut down. and the old Porter
mansion will be removed. Hermann Oelrichs.
who has charge of the work, expects 10 have
the hotel ready for guests in eighteen months.
The cost OF the building alone will be 100000.
an the furnishings are expected TO be more
gorgeous than those of the WaldorfAstoria. in
New York. 1t is Hermann Oelrichs's ambition to
make the Paramount the finest hotel in the
world, and. certainly. as far as site and pros
pect are concerned. it is unexcelled The view
viii embrace San Francisco on its<Tnany hills.
the entire sweep of fifty miles of San Francisco
Harbor. the Golden Gate and the Pacific Ocean
as far as the eye can reach and the mouth of
the Sacramento River. with its picturesque ISL
ands. With a strong glass from the top of this
hotel one should see clearly Farallon Island,
forty miles at sea. and identify steamships miles
away from the coast. Work on the new Crocker
hotel, at Geary and Powell SITS, is dragging be-
of the difficulty of getting structural steel
Mayor Schmitz this week signed the bill grant
ing permission for forty days racing every year
on the Inglesde Racetrack Much objection
made to the reopening of the Ingleside track
because il is within the city limits. Church
people and property owners near the track
tied in a protest against it. but Mayor Schmitz
in his approval of the bill said that with racing
permitted all the year round in Oakland and
just across the boundary line in San MateO
County. no special harm could come 10 San
Francisco from forty days session at Ingle-
side. This is a sport loving city and men will
frequent a racetrack II IT is within convenient
reach Of the city. About the only thing TO be
done is to restrict betting as much possible.
The return of Brgadier General Frederick
Dent Grant from the three years service in the
Philippines made noteworthy by his COM
ment on the situation In the islands From his
personal experience he declared that the natives
subdued. and that three-quarters Of them
If they permitted 10 vote would cast their
ballots for permanent retention OF the Islands |
by the Americans Much OF the trouble he de- |
cared TO be municipal except in the case Of the |
Moros, whom he likened to the American In
dians. savages who must be made TO feel the |
heavy hand of authority.
Frank s Cannon. third vice president OF the !
Southern Railway Company. is here on short |
visit. He has been making a careful study OF the
railroad systems over which he has travelled.
Mr.. Cannon is at the head of the operating de-
partment of the Southern Railway. His head |
quarters are in Washington.
Professor II. Morse Stephens. formerly Of Cor
nell, has begun active work IN university ex-
tension lectures for the University of California.
He has organized extension centres in various
parts OF the State where lectures will be given |
every two weeks during the winter The Uni
versity of California viii insist hereafter on nve
hours military drill every week. according to
the new army orders. Heretofore two hours OF
practical work and hour of drill were all |
that were required