. The Chamber of commerce handbook for San Francisco, historical and descriptive; a guide for visitors .. . en, toward Lands End. The links are open topublic use without charge. Lincoln Park was once the city cemetery, and consideredso far removed from the city that it was given over largelyto the burial of the poor, and of a few foreign sailors. Herethe Chinese, also, gave their dead temporary interment, beforeshipping home the bones to lie in the soil of the Celestial King-dom. West of the golf course are two curious structures ofbrick and cement, forming enclosures open to the sky, withhigh
. The Chamber of commerce handbook for San Francisco, historical and descriptive; a guide for visitors .. . en, toward Lands End. The links are open topublic use without charge. Lincoln Park was once the city cemetery, and consideredso far removed from the city that it was given over largelyto the burial of the poor, and of a few foreign sailors. Herethe Chinese, also, gave their dead temporary interment, beforeshipping home the bones to lie in the soil of the Celestial King-dom. West of the golf course are two curious structures ofbrick and cement, forming enclosures open to the sky, withhigh walls at the west ends. They look like stone beds forgiants. These were the mortuary chapels where the Chineseheld their final funeral rites, offering the sacrifices of roast pig 86 Handboof^ for San Francisco and fowl, and burning the paper images whose ghosts were toattend the dead. On a hill toward the north stands a monument, A Land-mark of the Seamans Last Earthly Port and Resting Place,in which he Awaits the Advent of the Great Pilot. It waserected by Dr. Henry D. Cogswell, to the Ladies Seamans. CHINESE MORTUARY CHAPEL, IN LINCOLN PARK. Friend Society, and dedicated to Mrs. Rebecca H. Lambert,the societys founder, whose grave is under the cypresses the turn of the road just west of this monument isone of the most inspiring views to be found anywhere, em-bracing the Golden Gate and a large part of the city. Youare close to the water, and directly opposite the Marin countybluffs, which rise three hundred, four hundred, nine hundredfeet, sheer from the waters of the Golden Gate, and havebeen eroded into rugged canyons and sharply sculptured can look north to Drakes Bay, and then, turning to the Lincoln Park and Fori Mi7e\j 187 right, you see Point Bonita, the north headland of the har-bor, Point Diablo directly across, Lime Point with BatterySpencer on the bluff above, the mile-wide opening of the GoldenGate between Lime Point and Fort Winfield Scott
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