The daily sentinel., 1902-07-11
LOOP THE LOOP.
Friend Jay Sees a Marvellous Feat
Performed. -.-He Writes a New
sY Letter on San Francisco.

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river our train-a long one-was cut into
four seotions. and engine, cars and ell
run upon q hoat-the largest ferry boat
ia the world--and cross ed over the Sac
ramento river. Then the engine ran off
the boat, took a certain humber OF cars
with il; switched; backed in and took off
more cars and 20 on until all were off
and the entire train re formed. This
was all done in a short time.
That, also, is the way they cross cars
over from Oakland to San Francisco,
over about seven miles OF water. On
the Oakland side the water is shallow. so
they have built piers out about two
miles into the bay to point where the
water is deep enough to float a loaded
boat Cars run out upon these piers
and there run upon a boat especially
built for them. These boats are long,
broad and fat AS evidence Of the
buosaucy and stability OF one Of these
| boats at the Sacr ento river l did not
know that the cars had been run upon
| the boat, nor did | know that we were
crossing until we were half way over the
river, which is about two miles wide at
that point was out OF the car and at
the front of the boat.
The Southern Pacific coast line comes
into San Francisco over the peninsula
and has depot on Bird street; so they
have all the engines in San Francisco
that they need and do not Cross engines
on boats from Oakland, nor do they cross
the passenger coaches on boats. The
passengers get off the coaches and are
crossed on the regular ferry boats, which
have seating capacity of about 1000
persons and are owned by the Southern
| Pacific; in fact, it looks to me as though
the Southern Pacific owns California.
The freight cars taken upon boats are
not all taken to the freigh. depot in San
Francisco, but some OF them are taken to
other points or cities around the bay and
there loaded or unloaded, as the case
may be, by those great steam derricks,
and then the cars are returned to the
starting point.
For hours l watched the loading and
unloading OF cars and boats by those
great derlicks run by steam
1 saw all kinds OF vessels, from the
small one, soon lost behind the waves, to
that great U s. army transport, the
SHERMAN" which is 500 feet long.
The principal points Of interest about
San Francisco are the Cliff house and
Golden Gate park The Cliff house is
west from San Francisco, across the pen
insula, on the Pacific ocean. reached by
electric car line; fare Sc. The Cliff
| house is constructed on rocky bluH at
| the entrance to the Golden Gate From
the verandas may be seen the famous
Seal rocks where there are many sea-
lions swimming around the rocks or
basking in the sun counted 35 seals
upon the rocks at one time. Upon the
rocks they are quite helpless, but in the
water they are as agile as black bass
Golden Gate park contains over 1000
acres and comprises a most magnificent
park with dense foliage and flowers
blooming the entire year. through this
entire park-three miles-and then from
the Cliff house down the beach for five
miles is built boulevard or speedway
which is one Of the finest in the world
1t is constantly oiled, rolled and scraped
by large force OF men. Then upon
this great ocean speedway thers are con-
stautly passing and re-passing many OF
the finest turnouts, for the people of
California are great lovers OF the horse
and today are breeding some OF the fin
est horses in the world Then also
through the park runs 16 foot pathw y
kept exclusively for bicycles.
Talk OF bicycle riding. l saw Harry
Downing loop the loop on a bicycle at
the chuses. He rode down a wooden
18.ipch board, drop Of about 10 feet in
$50 feet, and on entirely around the in
side Of a wheel so feet in diameter, and
off up another incline. l went over to
see how he did it. His wheel ran in a
groove the entire distance and could not
get out Yet 1t seemed very interesting
to the 5000 people looking on from below.
Next l will tell you about Chinatown
and other things. B F. Jay.
| Rerktley CAL July 8, 1902,