The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-09-01
a GLIMPSE or
SAN FRANCISCO.
What The South Carolina
Editors Saw While There.
fine Scenery on the Way
from Santa Barbara to the
California Metropolis.

Leaving Santa Barbara several hours
behind our schedule time the trip up
the Coast Range MountsiBs to San
Francisco was made during day light
and we saw some magnificent scenery
as our train, drown by three locomo-
tives, made its way along curves so
winding as they went up the noun
tain side that far below us could be
seeu the track upon which we had
come,
We reached San Francisco early in
the evening and were soon out on the
streets ot this best known OF Califor-
mia towns. San Francisco is, with
the exception Of Chicago, the best,
or worst. as you choose to look ut it,
"unionized" city i'm the country.
We had the fact impressed on us
when we went out to get a shave and
found that every barber shop closed
promptly at s O'Clock, and that after
that hour one could not possibly get
the attention Of tousorial artist un-
til the next morning. II you talk to
a union man about this, he will tell
you that while in individual cases it
may be provoking TO reach first
class hotel and find tho curtain to the
barbershop drawn down at in the
evening and no admittance. that
everybody soon "gets wise" and gets
his shave in the prescribed hours.
The non-union man and tourist will
tell ynr it's simply nuisance.
orERCoATs AND WRAPS.
1t was in "Frisco" that we iirst
had use for our overcoats and
wraps, and found them very comfort
able, though to an Eisterner it was
strange to see the ladies' in the shop
ping districts on an August day
dressed in furs and kid gloves and
the men wearing overcoats. We
were told that it had been colder here
in July than it was in February and
we certainly found the weather very
much like that Of early March.
Through the courtesy of the Cali
furnia promotion committee. an asso-
citation formed for the purpose Of ad-
vertising the advantages OF the Gold
en- State and more particularly Of
San Francisco and it's suburbs, the
press party were given u trip across
the bay to Oakland, a city Of over
l25 900 people, with many fine resi-,
dences and much business. From
the top of one of it's sky kyscrapers we
had fine view of the surrounding
country and of San Francisco Bay.
From Oakland we went over to Berke-
ly, the home Of the California State
University, and through the pretty
grounds of that fine institution.
- h1 l,1 ,1xy
educational corporation in this coun-
try possessing an amphitheatre. 1t
is the gift Of William Randolph
Hearst, costs thousands of dollars,
has practically perfect acoustic prop
critics and is said to be en- almost
exact reproduction Of the ancient
Roman structure. It's tiers of seats
are made of concrete and their capac-
ity is 5000 people. Many of the annual
class exercises and the amphitheatre
is said to fill admirably the purposes
for which it was built. At the in
stance Of Mrs. Hearst, the mother Of
William Randolph Hearst, a prize Of
ten thousand dollars free to all COM
petitors, for the plans for ideal uni
versity buildings and grounds. The
prize was won by a Frenchman and
work will soon be commenced in ac-
cordance with his ideas, which, when
completed, it is claimed will give
California the most beautiful educa.
tional site in the country.
From Berkeley our party was taken
over to Alameda, an exclusively resi-
dence suburb of San Francisco and
Of TO NJ
tiest. 1t has it's own association for
advertising it's merits to visitors and
the gentlemen Of this organization
were Jealous in their attentions to
US.
TRIP TO CHINATOWN.
OF course no visit to Frisco"
would be complete without a trip to
Chinatown and under the guidance
Of three detectives kindly furnished
by the chief OF police, we made tour
OF the Chinese quarter There are
said to be more than 80, 900 Chinese
in San Francisco and it was easy to
believe after our visit. We saw the
Chinese theatre, where the play lasts
for weeks. We saw real Chinese
restaurants, opium joints and stores
where the most artistic and beautiful
work Of Chinese artisans are offered
for sale. We saw crowds of little
Chinese children dressed in native
garb and the Chinese men wearing
their pig tails hanging down their
backs, one old fellow in particular
havinga pig tail which reached al
most to his feet and of which he was
evidently quite proud. A policeman
to whom talked said that the Chi
nese gave very little trouble and that
he would rather have dozen Chinese
to deal with than one Jap. The Japs
here, where they are better known,
do not seem to have made very