The personality of American cities . heart. Since thefire ?— which worked ever more fearful havoc with SanFrancisco comforts than with the physical structure ofthe city — the use of paper money has increased. Butyour true Californian will have none of it. When hegoes east and they give him paper money he fusses andfumes about it — inwardly at least. He thinks that itmay slip out of that pesky inner pocket or vest or wants gold — a handful of it in his trousers-pocketto jingle and to stay put. And as for pennies. Youwho count yourself of the East will have to come eastonce again before
The personality of American cities . heart. Since thefire ?— which worked ever more fearful havoc with SanFrancisco comforts than with the physical structure ofthe city — the use of paper money has increased. Butyour true Californian will have none of it. When hegoes east and they give him paper money he fusses andfumes about it — inwardly at least. He thinks that itmay slip out of that pesky inner pocket or vest or wants gold — a handful of it in his trousers-pocketto jingle and to stay put. And as for pennies. Youwho count yourself of the East will have to come eastonce again before you pocket such copper trash — theywill have none of them upon the West Coast. Smallchange may be anything else but it is not Western. Western, did we say? Hold on. San Francisco is not western. Californiais not western. To call either western is to commit anabomination approaching the use of the word Frisco. California is to all purposes, practical and social —-a great island, your San Franciscan will explain to SAN FRANCISCO 295 To the east of us lies another dividing sea — the broadmiles of desert and of mountains, and so broad is it thatHong Kong or Manila or Yokohama seem nearer to usthan Chicago or St. Louis. We recognize nothing westof New York and Washington. Between is that vastspace — the real West — which fast trains and good,bridge in a little more than four days. In there is yourWest — Illinois, Mississippi, Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado— all the rest of that fine family of American states. In Los Angeles, now, it is different. The lady thatyou take out upon your arm there is probably fromDavenport or Kokomo or Indianapolis, whether she willadmit it or not. Los Angeles is western. We are are the Coast and be exceeding careful, youngman, how you say it. He has spoken the truth. Your typical San Francis-can is quite as well versed in the streets and shops andhotels of London, Paris and Vienna, as your typical NewYorker or Bostonian. The
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