The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-04-27

gold in California canon. by 1S49
immigrants were pouring in and San
Francisco was whitening with tents.
In the winter the town had expanded
into a little excited city and $4,000
people thronged the thoroughfares, the
gambling houses and the saloons. Gam
bling was the chief amusement, $50 a
day was charged by workmen, lumber
was $500 thousand, flour was $40
a barrel and eggs were 81 each.
Early Fires.
In the first years of the city, fire af-
ter fire destroyed its flimsy fabric Of
canvas and single. The fourth and
worst fire, in May 1851, destroyed
property valued at 100000. BY 1850
California was running under a con-
stitution and the city had charter.
There is no other city in the coun-
try which was as cosmopolitan as San
Francisco. and the affected district
takes in the Latin quarter. where
dozen different nationalities were
grouped together, each in their own
little district. and the restaurants were
famous as the resort of artists, literary
folk and Bohemians. On the water
front there was the most famous of
these cafes-Sanslinettes and in the
district visited was also LaChamporeau
where. Robert Louis Stevenson used to
come to drink the best coffee made in
the city and which he celebrated in
story afterward.
The Harbor Emergency hospital was
also on the waterfront. but the institu-
ton was not large one and sheltered
!. only few patients.
The Low Ground.
Clear back to Montgomery street
from the bay, stretch of half mile
or so. in length, the ground is low; it
was, in fact, reclaimed from the bay.
Here the Oldest part OF the city is To-
Gated
A short distance from the shore is
the island of Alcatraz. where the gov
eminent has military prison. Five
miles across the bay is Oakland. a
growing city of 100000 inhabitants.
The waterfront of San Francisco is
almost as busy as that of New York,
and it is forest of masts and tunnels
almost as far as the eye can see.
The Newspapers. I
The Call" building, which was de-
stroyed, was the second highest build
ing in the city. 1t was visible from al
most any district, and visitors un-
familiar with their surroundings could
always find their way. back by using
the Call building as guide, its lofty
top being visible everywhere. 1t was
narrow and shot upward to height of
about fourteen stories. Visitors from
out of town rarely left without going
up into the Call" tower 10 see the
view.
The Call" was located at the corner
of Third and Market streets. the bust
est corner in the city On the opposite
side of Third street was the smaller
building occupied by the Examiner"
and across Market street the skyscrap-
er OF the Chronicle" with it's clock
tower, which only short time since
was burned out.
The corner of Third, Market and
buildings stood, was the place where
big prizefights and stood there watch
ing the fight bulletins in as dense mobs
as those which gather on election
nights at Thirty fifth street and Broad
way to watch the results.
The Mechanics' Pavilion.
In the Mechanics Pavilion, all the
prizefights, conventions and every big
meeting of note were held, The
pavilion was an enormous barn-like
structure of wood, opposite the City
Hall, on Larkin street. Jefferies and
Fitzsimmons fought there and there
were many other mills held in the
building just as noteworthy. The
Knights Templars of the United States
held a convention there two years ago.