San Francisco water . nd nonv speeds thee, and tvhat Stars thy guide?And iuhat ad-venture ivor/h thy bravery Calls with the lifting tide? of his life. Here he finished Across thePlains, wrote The Amateur Emigrantand some of his best essays, including thoseon Thoreau and Yoshida-Torajiro. Here hewas married. HereCharles Warren Stod-dard inspired him withdesire for the SouthSeas. It is well known thatStevenson loved tolounge on a bench in thePlaza, studying SanFrancisco life, talkingto wastrels as they drift-ed thither from China-town, the BarbaryCoast, and that oldKearny Street whichRudyard Kip
San Francisco water . nd nonv speeds thee, and tvhat Stars thy guide?And iuhat ad-venture ivor/h thy bravery Calls with the lifting tide? of his life. Here he finished Across thePlains, wrote The Amateur Emigrantand some of his best essays, including thoseon Thoreau and Yoshida-Torajiro. Here hewas married. HereCharles Warren Stod-dard inspired him withdesire for the SouthSeas. It is well known thatStevenson loved tolounge on a bench in thePlaza, studying SanFrancisco life, talkingto wastrels as they drift-ed thither from China-town, the BarbaryCoast, and that oldKearny Street whichRudyard Kipling wasafterward to name theStreet of Adventure. The Plaza, therefore, was a happy place for a memorial to Robert Louis when a little group of Stevensonians decided to do him honor in the city of which he was so fond. News of the death of Robert Louis reached For thee the nevj coasts, gleaming, gleamingstill,For us the hope, the plunge, the , land! and set thy beacon on the Hill,Our pilot into Light!. Commander John B. Montgomery of the U. S. Navy, who carried out Commodore Sloats instructions by making Verba Buena American territory seventy-nine years ago William A. Leidesdorff. U. S. Vice-Consul at Verba Buena, who co-operated with Commander Montgomery in the memorable events of July 9, 1846 SAN FRANCISCO WATER July, 1925 San Francisco on the first of January, made a profound impression upon the fewSan Franciscans who had known him person-ally, and upon hundreds who loved him forhis books. The emotions of Bruce Porter found ex-pression in clay. That very morning heshaped in his studio the first model of theStevenson fountain. A shaft surmounted bya galleon was the original design, essentiallythe design of the completed memorial. Thelate Willis Polk visited Bruce Porter thatafternoon, and the two friends worked overthe model. The memorial itself was a happy inspira-tion; happy also was the thought of placingit in the old Plaza. A committee was formedt
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