Year: 1875

supposed to be consequent upon


Lent has been forced upon Califor-


mia street, and q new era in the


shape of some kind of Easter is


fervently waited and prayed for.


The revival of religion among the


children has taken the place of


other sensations, and the boys and


girls who are signing covenants are


more numerous than one would


suppose possible did we not know


how easily anything runs to excite


ment in this community. The


Chronicle reports are all outside ;


grown people are supposed to know


Of the matter, and they being prob


ably somewhat embellished it is


hardly fair perhaps for them to


Judge.


There is no news so good but


what it might be better; if SO, we


might possibly state that the pres


ent condition of San Francisco in


regard to the prospective future of


her rising generation are hardly to


be surpassed. Infants of all races,


states and sex having seized with


such avidity upon the promised


lard, as pictured by DR.. Hammond,


that the Satanic proprietor of the


lower realms will have to abdicate


if this state of things be long con-


tinued. Having, however, in the


course of long experience found


that Satan was exhaustless almost


in his ingenuity in peopling his


regions, We think there is no use for


the sinners to remain discouraged


and feel that the wrath due the


many will have to be spent with


the few, for without constant watch


ing, long continued efforts, and the


progress of the million backsliding


is inevitable, and. when the last


state will be worse than the first to
the countless, numbers rejoicing in
that plan of salvation which our
worthy clergy are now illustrating.
There is mission also among the
Catholics, startling preaching, and
the drawing together of crowds in
great numbers. 1t is time of ex-
citement generally in the way of
religion, and only illustrates the
need of some kind of emotion to
keep Frisco going.


Stanford's fine residence, which
will be probably classed yet among
the wonders of the world, is loom
ing upward. One would imagine
that "our seven-hilled city needed
to be built no higher, but the Hon.
Leland does not intend to leave all
the upward building of earthwork
alone to nature. Pine street emf
nently eminent has been raised
some fifty feet above the grade of
the street for the foundation, so
the roofs of the adjoining building
will come ON level with the base
of the house and then having


gotten above the dust and smoke of


the chimneys it is supposed the free
air of heaven will be thoroughly
secured. The house is to cost, it is
said, million of dollars and as it
is to be of wood, with the kindly
attentions of the snn and air both
as is we'll known, to the
well being of our beloved city, will
probably make the tenants comfort
able for the space of twenty-five
years, when it will perhaps be rolled
off its foundation, trucked away on
wheels to the outskirts of the city,
and be used for the blessing of an
other class of people. Seriously,
is there no better purpose to which
the wealth of our city can be de-
voted than in the attempt to out
shine their neighbors !? If the
building was to be one of perma-
nent ornament to the city if it had
for its object the desire to cultivate
a taste for architecture if library
was to be endowed for the benefit
of a multitude, and suitable build
ing necessary to commemorate such
an event to be achieved, one million
in money would be well expended
and the public, would glorify the
glver both now and hereafter; but
when, for the single comfort OF a
few individuals, such an amount is
to be wasted in perishable attempts,
which fire, air and water so easily
destroy, there is such a wrong in
that retribution is inevita-
BILE; and yet, to-day, the growing
taste for extravaganza in building is
so evident, that nobody expects any
thing else but group of follies to
be the result, and marble statues OF
each one of the builders of the group
placed in front of some public build
ing as warning to future genera
tions, would only be sufficient expi-
alton. One by one, our millionaires
something in this way of
immortalizing themselves, and one
by one they are succeeded by some-
body building little more exten-
sively. Senator Jones, it is said,
proposes to erect a villa on Russian
Hill, terraced from base to dome.
1t would certainly be magnificent,
and we almost wish the story were
true, Notwithstanding the extrava-
gance of using so large portion OF
our territory for so small a COM
as, in the end, reverting as
1t very likely might at some future