The personality of American cities . an is nothingif not an epicure. It is hardly fair, however, to assumethat he is a glutton or that he merely lives to eat. Forhe is, in reality, so very much more — optimistic,generous, brave — and how he does delight to experi-ment. California is still in the throes of what seems tobe a social and political earthquake, with each shakegrowing a little more rough than its predecessor. Shehas just overturned most of her political ideals for thefirst fifty years of her life. She delights in really lives. San Francisco, standing between thosetwo gre
The personality of American cities . an is nothingif not an epicure. It is hardly fair, however, to assumethat he is a glutton or that he merely lives to eat. Forhe is, in reality, so very much more — optimistic,generous, brave — and how he does delight to experi-ment. California is still in the throes of what seems tobe a social and political earthquake, with each shakegrowing a little more rough than its predecessor. Shehas just overturned most of her political ideals for thefirst fifty years of her life. She delights in really lives. San Francisco, standing between thosetwo great schools of thought, the University of Cali-fornia at Berkeley, and Leland Stanford University atPalo Alto, prides herself upon her growing the folk who dally with advanced thought of everysort down to those who are merely puzzled and dissatis-fied, the population of this Californian metropolis de-mands a new order of things. That as much as anythingelse explains the recent political revolutions. Since the. The Mission Dolores—San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO 303 great fire, the plans for those revolutions have been underprogress. The mention of that fire — if you make any pretenseto diplomacy you must never call it an earthquake aroundthe Golden Gate — brings us back to the San Franciscoof today. You look up and down Market street fortraces of that fire — and in vain. The city looks modern,after the fashion of cities of the American west, but itsbuildings do not seem to have arisen simultaneouslyafter the scourge that leveled them — turn off from Market street, to the south throughSecond or Third streets or north through any of theparallel throughfares that lead out of that same main-stem of San Francisco. Now the fullness of that disaster — which was notmore to you at the time than the brilliancy of news-paper dispatches — comes liome to you for the first the rear of your hotel is an open square of melan-choly rui
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