The Yosemite, Alaska, and the Yellowstone . ls and along the coast, presenting a mostdelightful picture. One of the most prominent and attractive buildings isthe new City Hall, not quite completed, although it has been over fifteenyears under construction, and nearly 4,000,000 dols. have been expended on it. o 98 The Yosemite, Alaska, and the Yellowstone. The completed structure is shown in Fig. 69, and is a building any city inthe world may be proud of. The first impression of San Francisco is, thatthe city is very extensive, that the buildings are very high, and that thenoise of the electric
The Yosemite, Alaska, and the Yellowstone . ls and along the coast, presenting a mostdelightful picture. One of the most prominent and attractive buildings isthe new City Hall, not quite completed, although it has been over fifteenyears under construction, and nearly 4,000,000 dols. have been expended on it. o 98 The Yosemite, Alaska, and the Yellowstone. The completed structure is shown in Fig. 69, and is a building any city inthe world may be proud of. The first impression of San Francisco is, thatthe city is very extensive, that the buildings are very high, and that thenoise of the electric cars, produced by the incessant clanging of theirwarning bells is something terrific, but this last one gets accustomed to, andfinally almost fails to notice. The Palace Hotel were we stopped is, in the writers opinion, one of thefinest and worst managed places of its kind in the United States. It ismodelled somewhat on the style of the Grand Hotel in Paris, being builtaround a courtyard closed at the top by a glass roof, and the hotel is. Fig. 69. The City Hall, San Francisco. arranged with galleries on the four sides. Properly managed, it would beone of the attractions of San Francisco ; as it is managed, it is any thingbut an attraction. The food is excellent and properly cooked, but theservice would have had such an effect on the Prophet Moses in twenty-fourhours, as to cause him to forfeit for ever the title of the meekest trying every method in vain to obtain even notice—not attention—the sterner of the writers resolved to see what personal appeal at head-quarters would do, and he went to the office, getting no satisfaction, hissunny spirit became clouded, and he advised the proprietor to get a tailorsdummy, and put on it a dress suit, mount the effigy on wheels, and move itaround in the dining room, thus saving the wages of his head waiter. But ifthe hotel service was bad, the hospitality of the people made amends for it;they were glad to see us, and showe
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