What to see in America . w that he had mealand money to go onwith, and perhaps arush-braided flagon ofMission wine. Whenthere began to be ranchhouses on the plainstheir Spanish and ]Mexi-can owners observedthis same hospitality. One of the FranciscanMissions and a Spanish military post known as a presidiowere established on the site of San Francisco in 1776. Thepresidio was beside the Golden Gate and the Mission threemiles southeast. Sixty years later the settlement of YerbaBuena, a name that means the Pleasant Herb, was begunby a little cove southeast of Telegraph Hill. The name SanFrancisco
What to see in America . w that he had mealand money to go onwith, and perhaps arush-braided flagon ofMission wine. Whenthere began to be ranchhouses on the plainstheir Spanish and ]Mexi-can owners observedthis same hospitality. One of the FranciscanMissions and a Spanish military post known as a presidiowere established on the site of San Francisco in 1776. Thepresidio was beside the Golden Gate and the Mission threemiles southeast. Sixty years later the settlement of YerbaBuena, a name that means the Pleasant Herb, was begunby a little cove southeast of Telegraph Hill. The name SanFrancisco was applied to all three settlements. There wereless than a thousand inhabitants in May, 1848. The placehad a school, and it had a newspaper, the first issue of which,printed on paper that the Spaniards used to wTap their ci- garritos, had ap-peared two yearsprevious. Thencame the findingof gold and therewas a stampedeto the regionwhere it hadbeen and sail-ors deserted, the school closed,and the news-. LOOKING OUT OF THK <juLut-N GaTE FROM THE San Francisco Fishermens Wharves 462 What to See in America paper suspended. Business was at a standstill. But a fewmonths later the bare brown hills and curving shores of SanFrancisco were whitening with tents, goods were piled highin the open air, and the drowsy Spanish town had expandedinto a tumultuous little city. Everywhere were springingup nondescript lodging and boarding houses, drinking re-sorts, and gambling saloons. Crowds of people slept wedgedtogether on floors and tables, in rows of cots, or in bunksfastened in tiers to the walls. The streets of sticky clay ordeep sand were thronged with struggling horses, mules, andoxen, and by crowds of men of many nationalities and alllevels of life, who jostled by, laughing, railing, or charged twenty dollars a day, flour was fortydollars a barrel, eggs were a dollar apiece. Forces both of good and evil streamed into the city, andnaturally came into
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