. The Chamber of commerce handbook for San Francisco, historical and descriptive; a guide for visitors .. . g waves receding, I touch the farther Past,—•I see the dying glow of Spanish glory, The sunset dream and last! Before me rise the dome-shaped Mission towers, The white Presidio;The swart commander in his leathern jerkin. The priest in stole of snow. Once more I see Portolas cross uplifting Above the setting sun;And past the headland, northward, slowly drifting, The freighted galleon. The ceiling and ceiling beams retain the decorations of redand white paint the Indians put on them over 1
. The Chamber of commerce handbook for San Francisco, historical and descriptive; a guide for visitors .. . g waves receding, I touch the farther Past,—•I see the dying glow of Spanish glory, The sunset dream and last! Before me rise the dome-shaped Mission towers, The white Presidio;The swart commander in his leathern jerkin. The priest in stole of snow. Once more I see Portolas cross uplifting Above the setting sun;And past the headland, northward, slowly drifting, The freighted galleon. The ceiling and ceiling beams retain the decorations of redand white paint the Indians put on them over 1 00 years ago. Within a short while after its founding the Mission had 814Indian communicants. The Rev. Walter Colton, in his Three Mission Dolores 147 Years in California, says that in 1825 its wealth had grownto 76,000 head of cattle, 950 tame horses, 2000 brood mares,84 fine stud, 820 mules, 79,000 sheep, 2,000 hogs, 456 yokeof oxen 18,000 bushels of wheat and barley, $33,UUU inmerchandise and $25,000 in cash. Today all that the residentsof the neighborhood know of Indians is what they have seen. INTERIOR OF THE MISSION DOLORES. Weidner, photo. of them in Wild West shows, or read behmd the lid of thedesk in school. Very few representatives of the Spanish fami-lies of the valley are left; and the old establishment finds itselfpressed upon by such modernity as the ball park, the HighSchool, the Swedish Tabernacle and the Norwegian Lutheran church. ... ^ , . „ Among the myrtle vines and tottering willows of the cemeteryare three graves of especial interest for their association withSan Francisco history. 1 48 Handbook for San Francisco One is the tomb of Don Luis Antonio Arguello, first gov-ernor of Alta California under the Mexican regime; born inSan Francisco, in 1 784, and brother to that Concepcion deArguello whose sad romance with the Russian, Resanov, BretHarte and Gertrude Atherton have embalmed in verse andstory. Another is Sacred to the memory of James P. Casey,w
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