By the Golden Gate

By the Golden Gate

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Title: By the Golden Gate
Author: Joseph Carey
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BY THE GOLDEN GATE
or
San Francisco, the Queen City of the Pacific Coast; with Scenes and
Incidents Characteristic of its Life
By
JOSEPH CAREY, D.D.
A Member of the American Historical Association
1902

To My Beloved Wife
this volume
is affectionately inscribed.

PREFACE
This work now offered to the public owes its origin largely to the
following circumstance: On the return of the author from California
and the city of Mexico, in November, 1901, his friend, the Rev. John N.
Marvin, President of the Diocesan Press, asked him to contribute some
articles to the Diocese of Albany. From these "sketches" of San
Francisco this book has taken form. There are chapters in the volume
which have not appeared in print hitherto, and such portions as have
been already published have been thoroughly revised. Much of the
work has been written from copious notes made in San Francisco, and
impressions received there naturally give a local colouring to it in its
composition.
It is not a history, nor yet is it a guide book; but it is thought that it will
be helpful to tourists who visit one of the most picturesque and
interesting cities in the United States. It furnishes in a convenient form
just such information as the intelligent traveller needs in order to enjoy
his walks and rides through the city. The writer in his quest among
books could not find any thing exactly of the character here produced;
and therefore he is led to give the results of his observations and studies
with the hope that the perusal of this volume, sent forth modestly on its
errand, will not prove an unprofitable task.
THE AUTHOR.
November 1st, 1902.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I
WESTWARD

CHAPTER II
VIEWS FROM THE BOAT ON THE BAY

CHAPTER III
SAN FRANCISCO AND THE DISCOVERY OF GOLD

CHAPTER IV
THE STORY OF GOLDEN GATE PARK AND THE CEMETERIES

CHAPTER V
THEN AND NOW, OR EIGHTEEN HUNDRED FORTY-NINE AND
NINETEEN HUNDRED AND ONE

CHAPTER VI
FROM STREET NOMENCLATURE TO A CANNON

CHAPTER VII
CHINAMEN OF SAN FRANCISCO--THEIR CALLINGS AND
CHARACTERISTICS

CHAPTER VIII
A CHINESE NEWSPAPER, LITTLE FEET, AND AN
OPIUM-JOINT

CHAPTER IX
MUSIC, GAMBLING, EATING, THEATRE-GOING

CHAPTER X
THE JOSS-HOUSE, CHINESE IMMIGRATION AND CHINESE
THEOLOGY

CHAPTER XI
THE GENERAL CONVENTION OF 1901

CHAPTER XII
THROUGH THE CITY TO THE GOLDEN GATE

CHAPTER I
WESTWARD
Choice of Route--The Ticket--Journey Begun--Pan-American
Exposition and President McKinley--The Cattle-Dealer and His
Story--Horses--Old Friends--The Father of Waters--Two Noted
Cities--Rocky Mountains--A City Almost a Mile High--The Dean and
His Anti-tariff Window--Love and Revenge--Garden of the
Gods--Haunted House--Grand Cañon and Royal Gorge--Arkansas
River--In Salt Lake City--A Mormon and His Wives--The
Lake--Streets--Tabernacle and Temple--In St. Mark's--Salt Lake
Theatre--Impressions--Ogden--Time Sections--Last Spike--Piute

Indians--El Dorado--On the Sierras--A Promised Land.
The meeting of the General Convention of the Church in San Francisco,
in 1901, gave the writer the long-desired opportunity to visit the Pacific
coast and see California, which since the early discoveries, has been
associated with adventure and romance. Who is there indeed who
would not travel towards the setting sun to feast his eyes on a land so
famous for its mineral wealth, its fruits and flowers, and its enchanting
scenery from the snowy heights of the Sierras to the waters of the ocean
first seen by Balboa in 1513, and navigated successively by Magalhaes
and Drake, Dampier and Anson?
The question, debated for weeks before setting out on the journey, was,
which route of travel will I take? It is hard to choose where all are
excellent. I asked myself again and again, which line will afford the
greatest entertainment and be most advantageous in the study of the
country from a historic standpoint? The Canadian Pacific route, and
also the Northern Pacific, with their grand mountainous scenery and
other attractions, had much to commend them; so also other lines of
importance like the Santa Fé with its connecting roads; and the only
regret was that one could not travel over them all. But one way had to
be selected, and the choice at last fell on the Delaware and Hudson, the
Erie, Rock Island, the Denver and Rio Grande, and the