The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-14
CITY NEWS
ORIENTAL WAR is
A BOON TO FRISCO
Rev. DR.. S. G. Smith Talks of
His Trip to the Pacific
Coast.

looming events cast their profits
BEFORE is the way they read 1t out at
San Francisco said DR.. Samuel g..
Smith, pastor of the Peoples church.
yesterday at his home on College ave-
nue. He had just returned from
four weeks trip to the Pacific coast.
"'Frisco," Dr. Smith continued, has
found another 40 in the year preced-
ing the current war across the sea-.
Business has been hourishing out
there. Immense shipments of food
stuffs, great quantities of war NUM-
tions, have been going through the
Golden Gate in transit for japan to an
extent that the people In other cities
can scarcely realize. For some reason
little information has been sent out
about Japan's big purchases; possibly
that nation didn't want to make the
Bear too nervous. But / was assured
by President Sims, of the Merchants
association, with whom 1 dined at
Frisco, that the vast exports of the last
twelve months had given his city a
new start.
and, like many an individual who
grows wealthy, San Francisco has de-
cided to reform. No more Dennis
Kearney, no more hoodlums, no more
sand lots such as advertised the
Golden Caters backwards years ago.
The town, as politicians say, is going
to get good It's going to be model
town, or, at least, as model as 1t can.
TT will soon expend in municipal
improvements the proceeds from the
sale of city bonds to the extent of
$17,000,000. Of this $1,000,000 will
erect a new city library. another mil
lion will go for city hospital, the
sewer system will become as smart
and new as the latest theories Of. the
college professors. Materially, If not
spiritually, the town is positively to
be born again. War, we might remark,
war hath her peaceful victories; Mars
is very often the silent partner in
Mercury e. Co.
II found Los Angeles even more at
tractive than its pictures. 1t is now
/ think, the handsomest city of its size
I've ever seen in any country.
Sleighine Poor in Los Angeles.
although the sleighing was unsatis-
factory in Los Angeles, didn't realize
that the dog days begin in March. until
I reached a little station on the South
ern Pacific road, in Southern Califor-
lid dUOQI WCOh o6O. We AoAo We
there eighteen hours because a rail-
road bridge ahead had just burned and
our locomotive was unused to leaping
Well, this station is down in the for
mer bed of salt lake twelve feet be-
low sea level. The temperature there
was SO in the shade when we arrived;
it was SO when we left; and it was IS
during all the eighteen hours of day
and night. Whenever I observed
Dear me- the station agent cheered
me. He said it was mighty coo
March so far-not a single sunstroke.
DR.. Smith went West over the Grea1
Northern road and came east over the
Southern Pacific, exchanging greet
ings with Canadians and Mexicans er
route. He spoke at Portland before
the charities conference Of Oregon
he delivered four addresses at SaT
Francisco before the California confer.
ence and he talked to the Ministers
association at Los Angeles. At Pasa-
dena he rejoined for time Mrs. Smith
who went to California in January
and will return next month to Mime
sofa.