The San Francisco call., 1903-09-09
CALIFORNIA AND HER DAY.


to-day more generally celebrated than ever
- before in her history 1t is of course nat
ural that it should be So for with each succeeding
year the influence of the Native Sons and Daughters
augments, and with that influence there develops an
increasing popular pride in the greatness of the State
its romantic history and its glorious future. 1t is
inevitable that such feelings of patriotic regard for
the commonwealth should prompt public manifes-
tation, and accordingly in well nigh every section OF
the State therewl be this year notable celebration
of the day that marked the admission OF the COM
monwealth as a State in the Union
By way of contributing to the observance OF the
day The Call presents this morning a supplement
containing a compendium of the history OF Caifor-
nia set forth both in letters and in pictures The
supplement is by all odds the most comprehensive
and instructive published the subject of Cali
fornias history, industries resources and prospects,
while special page is devoted to San Francisco
the golden city of the modern world, the Bagdad of
the West
Comprehensive as it is the story Of the State thus
presented can be easily read during the leisure hours
Of the holiday for it is tersely told. No effort has
been made to publish voluminous supplement more
notable for its many pages than for any other merit
On the contrary the aim in preparing this record
OF the State has been to give the facts compactly
in good literary style, illustrated with portraits of
distinguished men, sketches of interesting places and
incidents, and symbolic cartoons of California up
to-date" and of her native Muses-Art, Literature
and Music
The story thus told is one of the most interesting
in the annals of mankind. Beginning as tale Of ad-
venture on the part OF the cavaliers and freebooters
OF Spain and of England, exempIfed in the roman
tic personalities of Cabrillo and Drake, it is soon
into storv ~ missionary +e1l;no
of the abors of Junipero Sierra and his colleagues;
then slowly changes into idyll of pastoral life
whose continuity is rudcly broken first by revolution
and then by magic working discovery of gold that
brings the restless foot of American enterprise to
the land and begins an era that changes every ex-
isting institution and creates a virtually com
monwealth
With the change in the nature OF its civilization
change comes the story of the State, but it
mains interesting In place of the old
records of adventures, missionaries and lordly
rancheros have the story Of gold hunters
miners, merchants, railroad builders, founders oil
schools churches and universities-nen of every
class and grade of the pioneer type The story of the
work OF those men and of their sons constitutes
the worlds greatest historic romance of modern
times. In no other part OF the world, among any
thing like limited population, has there been
done so much during the last nifty years to advance
human welfare We have carried the industries o
mining and of horticulture a perfection unknown
elsewhere. Our ship-buiders have established them
selves among the foremost of the age. In the app
cation of electric energy to the needs of industry
not only in cities but in rural districts we lead the
van of progress, and in many another department o
industry hold rank among the foremost
Nor have the achievements OF the CALIFORNIA; beer
Iconhned to the attainment of material good W.
have already furnished many brilliant to tht
lists of scientists poets painters singers, scuptors
musicians and orators whom the world honors. II
short, the prouse fertility of the State has been al
most notable in the domain of the intellect as il
that OF the production OF fruits and OF gold
A commonwealth so rich in resources, so genial il
climate romantic and so honorable in her history
merits the patriotic love with which her people
whether native or adopted, regard her Her festiva
day falls at season OF the year when everything
earth and sky be counted to contribute tc
the sum OF human enjoyment. 1t is then no wonde
that the observation Of the day becomes more anC
more general the years pass, and that each sue
ceedng celebration exceeds its predecessor in the fer
vor of popular enthusiasm and in the brilliancy o
its ceremonial decorations and parades
ago because his wife insisted upon parading befor