The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1903-10-15


upon it as firmly as 40O, 900 600 people in
Europe have done their countries in the
thousands of years in which they have
lived there.
this is THE WAY TO THE INDIES"
San Francisco is the far-western out
post. n base from which the indomitable
American people will advance upon ven
cradle Nations of the Orient, where live
more than half the population Of the globe.
The future of the Gorgeous East OF
which Milton sang will be shaped and
colored from San Francisco, and the COM
merce, of the 100000. 600 busy workers of
Japan, China. and HindOstan will seek the
markets of the world by the way of Los
Angeles. San Francisco and Seattle. i'll
stead of as now, by way Of Marseiles,
werp. Thomas III. Benton. of Missouri.
had, like most truly great men, occasiona,
visits of the gift of prophecy, and those
who have put a monument to him in St
Louis have recognized this in making his
statue stand pointing west. with This
is the way to the Indies incribed upon
its base. The acquisition of the Philip
pines was the first great step In the great
drama of destiny opening out for the Pa
cific coast
There was much of minor interest to
see around San Francisco; its gigantic
hotels occupying whole squares, and one
of them having 1000 separate rooms: its
wonderful supply of fine fruits and vege-
tables; its swarming, energetic people, all
busy, all hopeful, all contented and happy.
all smiling and well satisfied with to-day
and sanguine that tomorrow will be even
better; its quaint and interesting China
town. perched on the hills little north Of
the center of the city. 1 only had time to
take a hasty walk through a part of it,
10 h. nal nd VII
which it is represented to contain. The
streets through which I went were as
clean and we'll kept as the others. the
shops were bright, and even their signs.
though written in Chinese characters, had
an American fashion, and the goods in the
windows were in nowise different from
those in the many stores for Chinese and
japanese goods seen in other cities. The
most distinctive feature was the number
Of shooting galleries, each of which was
presided over by young Chinese woman.
who looked out of her slanting eyes with
interest at every man who approached,
seeing in him possible customer. Some
of the comrades and their wives, who
made tour of Chinatown under the guild
ance of the police. had many weird stories
TO tell, bnt these have been often told be-
fore, so l will not repeat them.
A tour OF Chinatown seems to be a part
of every visit to San Francisco; in each
room of the hotels was a placard telling
where the services of q guide could be
procured.
GOLDEN GATE PARK.
was most interested in the Golden
| Gate Park. donated to the city by Adolph
Sutro. a pubic-spirited Jew with munifi
cent ideas, and which extends from the
western limits of the city to the Pacific
! Ocean, and contains over 1000 acres
| which have been developed by land
scape gardener, who was a positive genius
| aided by liberal provisions Of money The
| trees. shrubs and flowers are all strange
and different from other parks. They
represent the fora of the Pacific coast
and a distinct geological period from thu
rest of the country. At every step one
encounters strange and wonderful things
in leaves. flowers and fruits, and wher
the names are inquired, they are thos,
never heard before in the East, except
by students OF strange foreign lands. II
is another floral world, entirely different
from that east of the Rocky Mountains
The roads Of the park are all oiled, ant
the Californians are quite sure as 10 thu
success of this method of roadmaking
They say that, if done well, the ront
soon becomes 4 sort of natural asphalt su
perior to the ordinary asphalt, because
the whole body of the roadbed is firml!
Incorporated. This is probably so, be
th's ods 81, phl lhc "
the process is far from attractive. Th
first oilng of the road makes an unp'eas
ant-looking sudge. which one avoids be
cause he fears getting some of the sticky
greasy dirt on shoes or clothes. from which
it would be next to impossible to remov
il. Probably with well-buit road
thoroughly drained and in a long, dr.
Summer, the oil would cement the cart
beneath the surface into a firm, p!easan
roadbed, but imagine the most complet
drainage and absolute dryness would b
necessary. An oiled road on mudd
sub-stratum would be horror. Any way
it must be rather rough on those VIII
} use the road first. The Irishman said
that the macadam road was like his neY
boots; he couldn't get into them unit
after he had worn them several days.
should imagine that this would be tn
case with the newly-constructed ollie
roads.
At the very edge Of the park, on hg
/, headland overlooking the Pacific, is tn
residence of Mr.. Sutro. with its magnif
i, cent grounds. adorned by q strikingIy fin
, collection of strange trees, shrubs an
flowers and a wealth of statuary gath
cred up by him in his visits to the stu
J dos of Europe. Below is the Cliff Hous,
resorted to by the Californians for an out
ing, and where it is the proper thing
take dinner. The waves rolling in fror
their 1000 mile sweep from the coast O
J China beat necessarily upon the resistan
} rocks with q roar that nInIlss with th