The pioneers of '49 A history of the excursion of the Society of California pioneers of New England . ilet, ample clothes closet,and fire-grate. The list of employes includes 5 clerks, 7 cashiers, 30 bell boys, 9 porters, 13 elevator men,2 in cloak-room, 8 watchmen, 50 girls and 50 Chinamen as chambermaids, 40 cooks, 9 pastrycooks and assistants, 127 waiters, 7 in bar and billiard room, 28 in engine-room, 3 in wine-room, 4 in store-room, 16 girl dishwashers, 16 silver cleaners and pantrymen, 45 Chinese and5 white girls in laundry,— a total of 484. Its site in 49 was a sand bank, as it was out
The pioneers of '49 A history of the excursion of the Society of California pioneers of New England . ilet, ample clothes closet,and fire-grate. The list of employes includes 5 clerks, 7 cashiers, 30 bell boys, 9 porters, 13 elevator men,2 in cloak-room, 8 watchmen, 50 girls and 50 Chinamen as chambermaids, 40 cooks, 9 pastrycooks and assistants, 127 waiters, 7 in bar and billiard room, 28 in engine-room, 3 in wine-room, 4 in store-room, 16 girl dishwashers, 16 silver cleaners and pantrymen, 45 Chinese and5 white girls in laundry,— a total of 484. Its site in 49 was a sand bank, as it was out to themission in the rear; now it is all built over. • The first caller was Captain John McKenzie, who sailed from Newport in the ship AiidlcyClark, and has not been East since 1849. He commands a ferry-boat, making five trips dailyfrom Market street to Saucelito, and invited Captain F. Willis and wife, Mrs. Ball and myselfto go around the bay with him and on the train, to where the redwood was cut I used tofreight to Mission Creek from Reed Creek. On the way we had a good chance for compari-. SCENES NEAR SAN FRANCISCO. 120 PIOjYEERS of 49. sons. The city and Saucelito were new and strange in almost every particular; but the bay,islands, shores, and the Golden Gate were the same as ever. Saucelito, with its tree-shadedhouses, reminds one of the villas on Lakes Como and Maggiore. The old Reed house wasoccupied in the fifties by William Reynolds, who corraled his large herds yearly for branding,but did not get half of them. Many a piece of fresh beef did he give me, in 52 and 53, forthe crew of my vessel. All we could find of the house was the lower part of the stonechimney. The creek was there and the place where we lay to load, but no long piles of woodon the bank as of old. Captain McKenzie took us through the San Francisco fish markets,which do a business that surprised me, although I am accustomed to see large supplies offish in New York. He gave me the following figures
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