Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-04-21

and many more are In the making, and wealth without display is contrary to the modern view. One form of ex- presslon quite the vogue In San Fran cisco, as elsewhere, is in the automo- bile that costs like steam yacht to build or maintain. Here it Scoots about the busy streets in all the forms of it's extrayagant development or runs to suburban places, scattering terror to every living thing whether gifted with two feet or four.
 You wonder how it happens that San Francisco was built on the end of a peninsula that isolates 1t almost as completely as if it were on an island. The natural place for city, accord ing to the notion of practically all who consider the subject, Is on the east side of the bay. where stand the lesser towns of Oakland, Berkeley and Ala meda. The question of present ex- pediency and not future needs 'on the part of those who first dropped anchor in San Francisco bay determined the location of the city. The water was naturally deep around the peninsula. making a safe anchorage, and the shores were easy of approach.
 On the east side of the bay the water was shallow, and ship could not safe ly go within a mile or more of the shore, while small boat putting off for the land would come to wide marshes, through which it was prac- tically impossible to pass. There was then little to attract the aspiring new conner on the eastern shore of the bay. The population was scant, even though a settlement had been made as early as 1920. For twenty years after the in- corporation of San Francisco the place had no railroad connection with the eastern states, and 1t was over 13,000 miles to New York by steamer around Cape Horn. The last spike that united the Union Pacific and Central Pacific roads at Promontory, at the north end of Great Salt lake in Utah, was driven May 10, 1889. Daily steamers had then been running through San Pablo bay, the strait of Carquines, Suisun bay and the Sacramento river to Sac ramento for twenty years, so when the railroads came San Francisco's destiny had become unalterably fixed.
 The railways were brought to Oak land, and long moles were constructed, reaching far out to the deep water of the bay, where the ferry steamers could meet them. Time has wrought marvellous development of the traffic across the bay. Magnificent ferry steamers, many of them devoted exclu- sively to passengers, ply back and forth in a continuous procession, car rying 5000 people daily. From Berke- ley an electric train flies down to meet each Berkeley boat, and other swift trains take the passengers for Oakland and Alameda over the long piers that, fngerlike, spread out in the bay.
 A great city has sprung into being on the eastern shore. Oakland, with Ala meda on the south and Berkeley on the north, has 100000 population. The three municipalities are properly as much part of San Francisco as Brook lyn is a part of Greater New York, though still independent of the larger city in their government. Some day they will add mile to their width by filling in the mud flats that lie along their water fronts.
 The San Francisco climate to the new arrival from the east is not the most agreeable. Morning fogs are ire quent, and they often chill to the bone the person who is not acclimated. But you never hear a native complain. You go forth in your overcoat only to find you are wearing the badge of the stran- ger. A man without an overcoat Is no more to be pitied in San Francisco than in Los Angeles or San Diego. You find the atmosphere of Oakland much more to your liking. although it is but five or six miles across the bay. The wind movement is almost continuous on the peninsula-from the ocean during the
 
 night - but rarely violent. Oakland stands beneath a high spur of the Coast range, and the orange, the palm and the roses flourish the year through. In the eastern shore cities foliage and flowers are abundant, and you feel the contrast - that San Francisco is for business and the lesser cities for rest and comfort.
 San Francisco Is taking on the as- pect of permanence in common with American cities generally. Many a town has been built in a manner that indicated the probability of early re- moval to some other site. The work of the builders of today is generally of the enduring kind. The foundations are laid deep, and the walls are thick and solid. The huge ferry building at the foot of Market street is one of the of modern buildings. It is 800 feet long. solid as the noun tains and is sle gateway of traffic across the great bay.
 A stroll along the water front is full of interest. Here are slOops unload ing baI>l straw and hay or bags of grain from Stockton. city fifty miles up the San Joaquin river. Here are lumber ships from Oregon and Wash inyton. Here are the great Pacific liners from China and Japan. closely watched by the customs officers. un- loading their miscellaneous imports Tn the bay are one CT two vessels of the navy enduring the dull routine of peace. while beside them are the tiny canvas covered launches that bob like corks on the pillows. The wbarfs