Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1904-05-12
CLOSE OF CALIFORNIA TRIP.
Leland stanford University. SIM Fran
cisco, University of California,
Mount TamnIpnis start for
Home.
editorial Correspondence

San Francisco, April %.
on our way up from Monterey to this
city we stopped over at Palo Alto to sec
the great university, founded by the late
senator Stanford as n memorial of his
deceased son; endowed, maintained and
still in process of immense enlargement
by Mrs. Leland Stanford, in honor of her
husband, her son and herself. The build
ings stand in Il level tract of 500 acres,
which Is probably the largest college
campus in the world 1t is mile from
the entrance to the grounds to the great
sculptured arch 106 feet high, which
forms the gateway to the university
buildings. Arch and buildings are all of
buff sandstone, of Il soft tint crate
full to the eye, and likely to gather rich
ness Of color with age. The buildings
are of tho Mission style of architecture,
low. massive with long surrounding
cloistcrs. some of them an eighth of u
mile long. The visitor passing through
the arch finds himself in a. great court,
in the centre OF which, upon a high
pedestal. stands a bronze group OF heroic
size representing Leland Stanford. Lee
land Stanford, Jr., and Mrs. Stanford
on her knees and embracing the knees
| of the youth. Facing this is the college
chapel which. as is stated, cost half n
million dollars. and in richness and beauty
| of mural decoration exceeds any structure
of the Kind III this continent and has few
equals any where. The front is almost
covered by an immense mosaic of the
Sermon on the Mount and the interior
walls arc filed with exquisite mosaics and
froscocs, the mossics being all the work
of the world famous SalViau OF Venice.
Tho university plant is still far from
complete. Several largo buildings have
not received the interior finish, ana the
foundations are laid of library and a
gymnasium, each to cost, 1t Is said. "A
mi ,l,,1' h,r Il. md
beautiful museum, containing, besides
rooms iilcd with curios and paintings
collected 10y the StanfordS. u hall devoted
To the skeletons of Senator Stanfords
famous trotting horses and tho sUikies
and harnesses in which thcy won their
races Statues of the Jockeys who drove
| them might have been appropriately add
cd; hut seem to have been omitted. There
is a large room filled with relies of Lee
land Stanford. Jr, from his biDs and baby
dresses mp to his school and story books.
| There are also dozen or more oil por
traits of the lad. Another hall having
Il heavy steel door such as bank vaults
are closed by is filled with glass cabinets
| i'll which hang Mrs Stanford's India
shawls, laces aud gorgeous dresses she
| has worn upon State occasions. There
are about 400 students OF both sexes in
the university. Most visitors, fancy.
| find themselves moved by various CON
|
| land stanford university.
| san Francisco is a fine city. and its
! noble harhor and the enterprise Of its
citizens, which have made it the mctropo-
lis of the Pacific coast have given to
| 1t commercial supremacy which cannot
be taken from it in the coming years. In
! the less than six decades of its existence
as an American city it has become -
city of 10000 inhabitants, and is growing,
steadily. The area CT level ground ON
which the town was first built has been
r"linquished to business, which has push
! ed the residences up the sides and over
the submits of the steep surrounding
| hills. | have not counted these: but they
must be moro in number than the seven
| hills of Rome, and most of them arc
twice as steep. The numerous lines Of
cable cars, which max, tho hill sides
inha bitable, Jerk their passengers up
| streets which are green from curb to
curb with grass growing over the col bic
stone pavcmcnts, undisturbcd by hoof
or wheel and too steep for human foot
travel. The SUBMITS OF the hills afford
| sites for many costly residences and 81 me
Of them are laid ont into parks. (of
which san Francisco has many. which
| have fine outlooks over the city ana its
| nozzle bay. The great Golden Gate park,
with its superb drivcways artificial lake.
| rich variety of trees ana ornamental
shrubs. aviarios museum statues. herds
OF elk ana huinl", Mnd other attractions
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