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Show WHEN SAN FRANCISCO OVERHAULS LONDON "Some day," said ex-Lleutonnnt-Governor W. T. Joter. folding his ' hands and looking far Into the distant dis-tant futuro, "some day San Francisco and Now York will bo the two largest larg-est cities in the world." "That sounds nice," said tho reporter, re-porter, "but just when will that 'some day' bo7" "I'm not prepared to answer that question," was the deliberate reply, "but will leave it for your own imagination imagi-nation to solve But It seems to mo to be the Inevitable. Yes, some day, San Francisco may even surpass London Lon-don in size San Francisco has a wonderful natural harbor and a great country back of It, and a great ocean in front of It. "With tho completion of the Panama Pana-ma canal a great Increase of commerco com-merco will undoubtedly come to this coast I should think that large vessels ves-sels would thon ply between San Francisco and Europe as much as thoj' do from Now York today, which will mean that peoplo on this coast can visit Europe for a much lower rate than they do at present as a considerable con-siderable part of tho cost in a trip to Europe today Is In crossing the continent of the United States, and there aro people who much prefer to travel on sea than on land "Just as the volley towns grow just ns San Francisco grows, will Santa Cruz grow. And with growth of population pop-ulation will come better transportation transporta-tion facilities "Such a climate as wo have will not long exist unnoticed in a general growth of population. I believe wo arc the most ideally located of any bench recort on tho entlro coasL" Santa Cruz Sentinel. rn |