The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-19
SAN FRANCISCO,
 CITY OF BEAUTY


 United States. At this time II claims a population of 4s5,o00 based upon the last school census.
 It ranks third in the value of trade carried on and fourth in industrial m. portance among the cities of the united Etates
 It's advantages are many. IL pos sesses the finest bay and harbor on the Pacific coast from Alaska to Cape Horn The bay Is sixty miles long and from ten to fifteen miles wide and has alto eether one thousand miles of shore line. All the shipping in the world, Il .s ciaimed. could anchor within It's con insA
 The bay Is connected with the ocean by a strip of water which narrows down to d width of only about mile at the narrowest point where II # known as the Golden Gate
 The Golden Gate is the great hgh- way of commerce and travel between the Orient and the occident and this makes San Francisco station oi world importance on the map Of the globe
 The city Is situated on a picturesque jeninsuln. which Is bounded on three sides by water--San Francisco bay on the east and southeast. the bay and entrance to the ocean on the north and northwest and the ocean on the west It is several miles from the city proper to the Pacific ocean, but electric car make the ocean easily accessible.
 CITY BUILT ON
 INNUMERABLE HILLS.
 The metropolis of California is city built upon innumerable hills. The down town business district Is almost all made ground" which has been re- claimed from the bay and is compara- lively level, but the residence and out lying business streets, as well as some of the down town thoroughfares are very hilly. At one point there Is a grade on cable car line which Is said to be the steepest street cal grade In the country. It is along a bIuff overlooking the bay.
 Market street, the principal business thoroughfare, runs diagonally through the city and ends in front of the great ferry station. which stands on ths brink of the bay. This street is very broad and has numerous car tracks or 1t. Some of the cars are run by cable and others by electricity. .
 The business corner In the city Is a the intersection of Market. Kearne, and Third streets. where are located the three principal newspaper build ings, those of The Call, The Examiner and The Chronicle. The Call building Is fifteen story structure. the tales in the city, and Is owned by Clau, Spreckles, the sugar king.
 Lottas fountain, a public drinking place. Is also located at this corner The fountain was presented to thu city by Lotta. the actress, in gratefu recognition of the interest San Fran cisco people always took in her. sh' having made her first stage appear ance In that city.
 The Palace Hotel is only about block and half from the newspaper corner above referred to. while tn Postal Telegraph office. which appear to have been near the center of thu devastated business district, Is oi Market street. near Montgomer! street. This is the most importan business section of San Francisco.
 THE SURROUNDINGS OF
 ENTRANCING BEAUT, San Francisco is not only city O beautiful and stately buildings and pic turesQue streets. but 1t Is situated among entrancing surroundings. The bay is as calm as a May morn ing. and It's placid waters resemble ; shimmering green carpet. Here ant there on its bosom Is q green speck o an island. In the backgrond are loft, mountains and yerdant heights. To th' WcSI l& tHF pTOdu G&pdHSC Ot hh' mighty Pacific with the Golden Cat just wide enough apparently. wheI seen from a distance, to let the ship, enter and depart. Forts with drowning guns guard the entrance to the bay while lighthouses on either side of th' gate show the mariner the way after night has spread its mantle over lanc and water.
 San Francisco Is a city of great pa I1.r L.. ceeded in area among the parks of thi country only by Fairmount Park. Phil adelphia. Thirty millions. it Is said have been expended upon 1t. Tn, greater part of the park Is land whicl has been reclaimed from the sea ant which for years was only sand dunes Golden Gate Park lies along the bay and the passage of water which con nects the bay with the ocean. It is chiefly between the city and the ocean There are numerous monuments and memorials in the park. Seven per cent of all the city's tax receipts Is used in the maintenance and improvement of this magnificent park.
 The new city hall, which is on upper Market Street, and which is reported to have been wrecked by the earth quake, cost something like seven mil lion dollars. and is one of the finest public buildings or the kino In the country. l. sTATUARY GROUP OF
 THE EARLY PIONEERS
 The grounds around -.4e' building are very beautiful and among other notable markers in them Is the Lick group of statuary erected to the early pioneers of the California region. This group cost upwards of a million dollars and is pronounced one of ...e finest pieces of statuary in the world. It was present ed to the city by James Lick.
 In the city hall grounds also stands a heroic statue of Paul McAllister, one of California's great lawyers and a brother of the famous Ward McAllister.
 San Francisco is also noted for it's many fine churches, hospitals, schools and similar public institutions. Its parks are numerous and many of the men in the past who relped to make the city great have left memorials in different forms to remind one of their deeds.
 The late Mayor Sutro gave the city a system of free public baths, He also transformed his magnificent grounds where his home was located near the Cliff house and overlooking the Pacific ocean, into a public park. It is known as 'Sutro Heights
 situated Tn Union Square is the first monument ever erected in the United States to commemorate the victory or Admiral Dewey in Manali bay. The corner stone was laid by President Mckinley on his tour of the Pacific coast and President Roosevelt was present later at the unveiling.