Merchants' Association review . ished in rare woods, and with viewsfrom its Mindows, was displayed, and after ita number of the finest residences on Nob Hilland Pacific Heights. New York boasts ofher brown stone fronts, said the lecturer, as heshowed the Flood mansion, but here we gothem three better with stone back andsides. Of the Fairmount Kotel he said it wasthe intention of the huilders to make it thefinest hostelry in the world, and over a milliondollars would be spent on the furniture alone. The greetiog given the old Mission Doloresshowed the wajm place the historic hol
Merchants' Association review . ished in rare woods, and with viewsfrom its Mindows, was displayed, and after ita number of the finest residences on Nob Hilland Pacific Heights. New York boasts ofher brown stone fronts, said the lecturer, as heshowed the Flood mansion, but here we gothem three better with stone back andsides. Of the Fairmount Kotel he said it wasthe intention of the huilders to make it thefinest hostelry in the world, and over a milliondollars would be spent on the furniture alone. The greetiog given the old Mission Doloresshowed the wajm place the historic holdsin the hearts of all San Franciscans. The lec-turer said of it: Its adobe walls and unglazed tiles still remain,and in appearance are not greatly changed fromthe days when hundreds of converts knelt thereto receive the benedictions of the brave and piousmen who risked their lives to spread the gospel intnis unknown land. THE MARITIME ASPECT. There were lively pictures of the ChildrensPlayground, and romantic scenes .in Golden. Falls, Gati iark (iate park, with such features as the SpreckelsMusic Stand, Stow Lake and Huntington Falls. The shipping in the bay, the busy wharves,the huge vessels lying at the docks or pullingout laden with freight for foreign lands, allapjieared as if real, through the magic of themoving pictures. A great log raft was showncoming down the coast. Then followed viewsof the battleship Oregon, of the .Monterey,the 01ymj)ia and many others that have beenturned out at the Union Iron AVorks, and finallytwo biograph reproductions of the launching ofthe California, a sight that •will be as novelto numy of the middle state inhabitants atthe I-air as a blizzard would be to a San Fran-ciscan. ^Ir. Erwin has some of the most beautifulcolored slides of San Francisco bay that haveever heen exhibited. It is doubtful if most SanFranciscans realize what a wonderful sheet ofwater it is, with its varied, changing, wonder-land effects of ardent s
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