The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-03-30
San Francisco the Fourth City
Which Has a Soul.
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- 40 $50 %RS1t Nate
about San Francisco. She admitted
that San Francisco had a character
OF Its own. as marked as that OF an
individual Of striking personality.
Its name Is becoming a synonym for
~indeiInable fascination" She admit
ted most aptlv another redeeming
quality when she said: "San Fran
cisco is as candid as a child. II has
8 sort OF unashamec. pagan nudity.
think that San Franchises
reputation for French ~wickedneSs i
due to It's inability TO keep under
cover But here i where she Cough
ed up her curse:
Rescued From Goins Home.
while the streets of Los Angeles
are busy and crowded the people
appear TO be en- route To somewhere
-passerS-by, in fact. But in San
francisco they seem 10 be living in
the streets. They are at home there.
and they need not be en- route 70
any where. Broadway in Los Angeles
seems to be d swiftly moving stream
OF un-uuiformed messenger bows. To
whom the thought Of Interruption
while on their mad errand is ex-
tremely distasteful. Usually they are
only going home. but they go home
with that same hurried. grim deter
mination with which they go to work.
In San Francisco il is entirely differ
ttIt- Inc pace To De avoided at all
costs is home. To the good San Fran
: clscans, home is such an unfamiliar.
: Chilling, repellant place, SO uninvit-
ing, SO f~orbidding as compared to
IartS. When San FranciScans meet
in the street, the warmth of their
greeting and the subsequent invita-
ton to a nearby cafe. is less hospi-
! tally and friendiiness han it is re-
II lief at being interrupted on the way
home"
IL Costly Coal Caters tn the Cafes.
l. OF course this is an ungracious
II fling, and there is much beautiful
home life in this western city. II is
IF true, however, that chilling fogs are
Y requent and coal is very expensive.
s1l.Oo a ton. The winters are quite
7e short, if there is really any winter
d at all. There is a temptation there
L fore to frugal San Franciscans not to
build over many fires. This may
l., have a tendency to populate h cafes
le There is a bare suggestion Of truth
lg in the sarcasm as TO San Franciscans
c. living on the streets. Market street
there is as hard to cross as a river
l., full OF floating ice 1t is a jamb of
numbering street cars, three tracks
wide, of autos and 'jitneys," and OF
men and women struggling for their
lives to get across. The speed limit
ry for automobiles in the heart of the
dc city is twenty miles an hour. saw 8
man run down by a machine at the
nd corner of Market and Geary. HI
wasn't much hurt and limped away
* as if it was nothing unusual. and ap
D. peared to have no notion OF suing
Ii There are no traffic policemen to mo
o. ton folks across with one hand ana
tt. warn the wagons back with tother
es, 1t is just the same now as in the day
of the "49'ers.' Every man TO
Ter himself and devil take the hindInost-
80. nnu nd yi0ht tho StrQaf- are sim nj
ar- swarnling with people.
ro- Why.
The care-free, pleasure-seekins
is devil-daring, art-tempered, flower
nj loving. Jap-hating, picturesque, fas
l~cinating, unique and Infectious Sd
20, Francisco atmosphere" may be at
ed tributed to various Influences. Ate
es- the recklessness Of the gold-diggin
days, after several criminal reigns c
w. terror, after three city-leveling fire
at and one earthquake. the San Fran
100 cisco of today remains a true offshoe
raj Of the old "49er' stump. Reilglo
md has never had the chance it has ha
= lin the East. New England was SCI
W tied by Puritans. New Amsterdam b
tai Dutch, Maryland by Catholics. vi,
GINA by Engiishmen. Pennsylvani
by Quakers, North Carolina by Scotch
lie, Irish, South Carolina by Hugenots-
all by pioneers of deep religious spil
it who came chiefly to find a plat
to worship God according to the di
sas. | tates Of their own c~onSCienceS. Ga
of ifornia was n by reckless al
ut. generally goddess men who can
BAR only to seek gold San Francisco I
day is OF a population ~
ruit per cent thFlstan, 20 per cent al
,ar- Ollie and Az per cent ffotestai
while 59h per cent, after exc!udlI
Co. a comparatively small number
rat Jews, is accredited TO the Synagog'
- Co,or ,nfhar Influence iC 4
cosmopolitan. ever the Oriental. cha
pile. aCter of the population o1 the CIT,
,ital hall million. 200. coo are f~oreign-boI
$780, 600 more are children and gran
children OF foreign born parentas
With while only 1c0 600 are native DO
'lish Americans.
San Francisco, whatever I