The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1915-07-09
TWELVE HUNDRED
HOTELS IN CITY
OF GOLDEN GATE:
MANY HILLS MAKE COURSE LN
ALPINE CLIMBING ESSENTIAL
TO RESIDENCE.
PEOPLE PROUD THEIR PAGANISM
5arbary Coast, the Most Noted Wee
Resort in the World, is 3 a.hina
Its Last-Many of Natives Reqrst
Passing.
(By Reese Thomas Amis.,
Somewhere in Washington.


To The Herald
Among other things, San Fran.
cisco is famed for three, in particular.
hills, hotels, and that alliteratiye and
rather breezy synonym with Which
Gen. Sherman described the war.
OF the first there are nearly as
many as the second. The seven Hills
of Rome are as pimp]es compared to.
those of Frisco. The elite out in the
western section of the city are on
the first floors of their jew eled pei.
aces, while their kitchens, three or
four stories below, open on another
street. If one is expert in climbing
creased poles or has had the benefit
of a European course in alpine
climbing, he will have but slight
difficulty in negotiating some of the
streets of the city of the Golden Gate
There is but one laug4", having to-
raise the knees so high that they will
knock out ones front teeth.
The ratio of hotels to saloons Is
about two to one That's going some.
The folders of the city claim that
New York alone has more hotels. r
should not doubt it in the least. or
hotels, apartments, and rooming
houses, it is stated that tnere are
more than twelve hundred at present.
At any rate, there are enough for no
reason to exist why one should be-
exposed to the arctic glare of thes
streets between the hours II ten and
six. They range from annexes tor
saloons to the most palatial, such as
the aristocratic street, Frances and.
the new and equally ligabrowed..
Paramount. Admission to the latter
from the ferry via the aeroplane,
route, as it is situated on a hill about
the heighth of the KNOB i'll Columbia.
There are, however, large nrm-
Der Of medium priced hotels OH the
European plan. Many of them are
new, built especially for handling the
| exposition crowds. Contrary to-
what one would expect at such a
time, their rates are very reasons tle-
| even more than in most cities
where there is no special attraction as
| the pretext for fleeing tie travelling
public.
AS to the third thing for which
San Francisco is famed, there f.
| about as much or a bit more to the.
square inch there than in any Ameri-
can city of my knowledge. The .peo-
pie frankly pride themselves on their
| paganism. The owner of the hotel,
at which stopped, who came from
near Knoxville, and told me that he
would not live in Tennessee again
under any circumstances as tie peo-
pie were too pious, righteous, and
church going for him lie was not @
bad fellow, either, but simply helisv-
ed in wide open town, in saloons
running seven days in the week, and
in Barbary Coast being its own boss.
The latter Is breathing It's last.
Orders have been given to move out
by July Is, and this moss notorious
resort of vice on the coast, whose
fame extend from ocean 10 ocean, will
soon be no more. Some Of the dance
halls and saloons are already closing
up, while others are going to enjoy
their last few days Of grace 20 the
last minute. At night they have
to hang out the S. R. q. sigh, as
many of the natives witness the pass
ing of this relic of the earlier and
more primitive days with sorrow and
regret.