. After earthquake and fire . e, making thetenth, had been consigned to him and was then on the wayfrom Africa. Well, we can state emphatically that whitemen are not so scarce as white hippopotami, and as long asthere are plenty of them, this Earth of ours will be a planetpleasant for residence purposes, despite such minor interrup-tions as are termed earthquakes. It is fitting that we say a few words concerning the citythat has given us shelter and a temporary place of the beginning of the year Berkeley was a place of 40,000inhabitants, the center of its life being the State Unive
. After earthquake and fire . e, making thetenth, had been consigned to him and was then on the wayfrom Africa. Well, we can state emphatically that whitemen are not so scarce as white hippopotami, and as long asthere are plenty of them, this Earth of ours will be a planetpleasant for residence purposes, despite such minor interrup-tions as are termed earthquakes. It is fitting that we say a few words concerning the citythat has given us shelter and a temporary place of the beginning of the year Berkeley was a place of 40,000inhabitants, the center of its life being the State University,whose beautiful oak glades and sloping lawns reach from thepost-office to the foot of the Contra Costa hills. The groupof buildings, of which three are of recent construction andone—the mining building—not yet finished, were uninjured bythe earthquake and still stand in quiet repose facing theGolden Gate. Berkeley has always been a place of homes,beginning with the professors, instructors and students of a? q s 5 0Q. 18 AFTER EARTHQUAKE AND FIRE. the University itself, and followed by a number of professionaland business men who had offices across the Bay in SanFrancisco. The facilities for going from the home to the officehave been much improved during recent years, there being adouble service, namely, the old suburban train and ferryservice of the Southern Pacific Railroad and the new trolleyline and ferries of the Key Route. The convenience of livingin a beautiful town situated on rising ground, overlookingthe Bay, led to a great increase in the number of residents assoon as access to the City became easy. Now, of course, therewill be a rapid accession in population and much of the busi-ness of San Francisco will take root here. Some of this willreturn to its former site when the City is rebuilt, but some ofit will remain at Berkeley. While the Southern Pacific andthe Santa Fe railroads both pass through the lower part ofthe town, the former has no station and the
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