The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1902-05-23

SAN FRANCISCO
All places are peculiar; some places
are peculiarly peculiar. A recent
visit Of few days impressed upon
me some of the peculiar peculiarties
of San Francisco. ~.
And, first,its location, surrounded
on three sides by water; salt water.
On one side the Bay, all told rs Or 80
mics long, and from s to 10 miles
wide. On the other side the Pacific
Ocean (quite q sizeable body q
water). On the. third side the
Golden. Gate, connecting the Boy
and the. Ocean And what q harbor
that Bay makes. ! will confess thAt
1 have not seen(quite) all the shipp-
ing. of the world; but it seems to
me it might all get into that Bay,
and then have room to turn around.
Is there another city in tho world
that has as much tide-water around
it as San Francisco .; a.1:
And then the hills on which the
city is built. Rome boosted Of her
seven hills; but it looks as though
San Francisco has seventy times
seven, ut least it seemed 80 to me
az was riding over them. If the
whole city were ''squashed" down
fiat, and spread out level.it certainly
would be a great deal larger in ex-
tent than it is now. Drainage
Well, should think so. I should
fancy that a great many Of the
sewers must almost stand on end.
And the street car system. Cable
cars, electric cars, and horse cara
side by side. It did seem odd t. see
one of the little old fashion ned horse
cars running alongside one of the
great three divisioned cable cars. It
was good illustration Of the past
competing with the present. Of
course the cable car is the only one
that navigate" some parts Of the
city. It was a queer experience to
go whirling up seemingly at an
angle of about As degrees, having to
hold to something or to brace your
self against your next neighbor on
the seat. At each street crossing
there would be a short level run,
just enough to take breath, and then.
up antoher shoot. At the top, as
you look back down the street over
which you have just come, the view
is on a small scale like that you get
from the top of the mountain as you
look into the valley from which you
have climbed. On many of these
streets neither electric nor horse
cars could be used; it must either be
the cable line or a flying machine.
Market street starting at the
Ferry House is the great maiu
artery Of the street system of the
city. The other streets turn off
from this as the branches from the
trunk of tree. A large portion Of
the cable cars start from the lower
end of Market Street. At the foot
of this street(or head, don't know
which to call it, right in front of
the immense great Ferry House, is
a very large turn table operated
by machinery. The cable car runs
on to one side Of this turn table and
with a whirl the table goes around
and the car runs off on the other
track and it is all done so quickly
that you hardly know "where you
are at" If you want to sees 'swarm-
ing humanity" just stand for a little
while and watch the human stream
pour on and off those steam ferries
which run between SanFrancisco on
tho one side and Alameda, Oakland,
Berkly, Tiburon, Sausalito, etc, on
the other. i
I had heard Of moving side walks:
but I think / saw the other day
what comes as near being a moving
bridge as perhaps ever shall see.
It is the Southern Pacific Ferry be-
tween Port Cost and Benicia, used
for carrying the trains across the
bay between these points. When
we crossed we had two engines and
fourteen cars on the boat, and not