The Nome daily nugget., 1915-06-03
IMPRESSIONS OF SAN
 FRANCISCO AND FAIR
BY FRED WELLER.

l before the quake. the buildings are much improved and what were here tofore residential streets are now business streets.
 | Jones. Polk, VanNess Avenue and Fillmore streets are solid business streets and run clear through to the Exposition grounds.
 could find none of the old land marks and to get on the right trail I was compelled to look for the guide signs that are attached to the street lamps
 Never thought that so many hotels land saloons could exist in one place Every other building or so appears to be an immense hotel building, all up to date and modern.
 There are 25O saloons in the city and as you cannot turn around without running into one. there is no excuse for any one to go dry.
 guess, by the number of hotels
 
 ton would draw the whole world here but. by the looks of affairs, many of them will not be needed, hut even SO. that did not prevent them getting to- gether and raising the price; dollar rooms being raised from that figure to $500 per day and up. Apartment houses increased their rates about go to 75 per cent even on tenants who had lived in same for many years
 You can ina zine what howl of protest went up. I was paying one dollar per day and was raised one fifty per hut only for one day, as heat it. This kind of stunt is driving many people to Oakland. which is causing the merchants here much mental an gufsh.
 The Exposition Is ma agniicent and well worth seeing. and though many of the exhibits were not installed if kept you busy trying to see all there was There Is no use for me to try and des- cribe anything: 1t must he seen to he appreciated
 The fireworks and illuminations every night are grand. They have many battecies of searchlights that play on steam jets and ariel bombs and the effect of these many colored shafts of light played upon them pro- duces an effect similar to the Aurora of the North and is kind of homelike
 saw the Vanderbilt Cup race and also the accident as had a seat op- posite death curve" for I wanted a view of how 1t was possible for the drivers to get around a sharp curve. but they would make it O. K without me being any the wiser. It was al thriller for me however.
 also saw the death dip" of the wonderful Beachey. At the time Il happened to he in the company of young Tremoureaux and we were watching closely every move that Beachey was making and go plainly saw his machine collapse and his fall into the harbor. It was a case of try ing to do to much in new machine at tryout But he always was in a habit of giving the public a good run for their moneY-hence his untimely end. There is no aviator living to re- place him at the Fair that will fol- low his style of aerial work and they! will probably replace him with an aviator that does plain. every day, straight up flying.
 There were three thousand jitneys out there ana most of them run to the Fair When they are all busy they starting from the ferries to the Fair and back and every day there are smash ups. I saw lots of them every day and of course many were killed and injured. I wondered that they managed to get by with so few casual ties as they do.
 The traffic on Market street became so conJested that many of the iitneys were compelled to route themselves on other streets. The day of the street ear is over I believe. saw some movies of auto busses that are running in the east that are duplicates of the present street cars but are better ap- pointed and more seryicable in every way They also have lady conductors and drivers which ought to help some. lad 130-mile drive in an auto one Sunday. Went to Niles Canyon via Haywards, San Leandro, Piedmont Berkley, Dublin Canyon and Sunol and helped to demolish q big basket of lunch. We were not alone as there were hundreds and hundreds of others