Show CIN A A t n pa f J I 1 E 1 ti 04 aa I 1 j Q 4 VJ olt IF it fai s T I 1 san Francis cos skyscrapers Prop tired bv national 8 society aty D a AN FRANCISCO Is to have a S SAN new super bridge across its broad bay to be financed by the reconstruction finance corporation for the first time the city will possess a highway connection with the rich and populous trans bay country sari san francisco stands on a peala tula sula north and east ot of it Is the great harbor to the west the pacific so most travelers reach it by water its voice Is the hoarse blast of ferryboats ferry boats on the bay the sound never ceases counting commuters nearly DOO people a year pass through the vast ferry building at the foot of market street a city within itself the proposed bridge for which 61 has been advanced by the government ern ment will be used by many who now ride ferryboats ferry boats only years ago when gold mad tinman human hordes swept across the prairies to san F francisco ran cisco it was an infant mexican village today it la Is a great metropolis with inhabitants bartering with alaska japan china the philippines rhilip pines india and australla australia australla australia its vast panoramic embarcadero or water front fairly smells of china tea sill silks g straw mats alaska fish manila hemp coconuts pineapples raw sugar singapore rubber and coffee from latin america tha crude adobe pueblo where boston boats first came to trade arms tools trinkets and calico for the hides bides and tallow of mexican ranchers has become today our key port on the pacific A great city had to rise here for the sa sane same ne reasons that new york grew at the hudsons Hud sons mouth rio de janeiro and sydney and hong kong on their great harbors Shan shanghai on the yangtze fang Yang tze and istanbul by the golden horn this vast haven inside the golden gate affords such an ideal site tor for a busy international city that as one ane writer says it san francisco did not already exist men would at once start building it not only in its eventful growth but in the story of its very beginnings you find san francisco legitimately a child of the sea in early days sea paths were the easiest way to this coast drake near there in 1579 by sea sir francis drake earner on that pioneer world cruise of 1579 it must have been foggy even then for he missed the golden gate to land a bit north at what Is now drakes bay claiming the country tor for his queen naming it new albion and celebrating the first christian service in what today Is california drake sailed away nearly two centuries passed still no white man had seen the golden gate inland from it were digger indians living precariously on roots rats bugs and snakes often starving in a region now so rich in milk and honey that it exports food to much of the civilized world but down in mexico things were happening events of profound portent to future california and san francisco cortez tied had seized the realm of montezuma slowly for generations afterwards the gold hun hungry ry spaniards drifted to the northwest some by sea many through what Is arizona now and thus up this coast with them came the priests carrying the cross to the indians often it was a contest to see whether a priest could baptize an indian before the indian could slay the priest halting ly they advanced but stubbornly in time the miss missions lons orchards and irrigated farms of 0 the padres were scatter scattered ef along the meandering trail from guadalajara up to san diego and finally to tto the gold golden gate itself along this same bame camino real or royal nod hoad flanked today by golf coif clubs and hot dog doe stands came don gaspar caspar de portola governor of raja baja california seeking a bay called montorey monterey royal road they called lt it euphemistically but what don gaspar caspar actually followed then was wag a faint trail fading into hills and brush lost floundering he stumbled upon a magnificent landlocked harbor and he named it san francisco that was october 31 how the city grow grew As if fore shadowing the liberal spirit of the city sau san francisco itself was founded in 1776 the same year that also made july fourth the nations birthday it was wag a spanish captain juan bautista de anza who laid it out and set the pattern tor for later re realtors altom sprawling idly by the bay and first named darned terba buena buana alzaa town site bite saw things como come to pass that molded through the years the character of 0 the tha city the tha growth of 0 the vast haciendas huge herds bullfights bull fights fiestas burning judas in effigy church processions professions process ions rodeos and swaggering vaqueros ros in such feats of horsemanship as loping full speed with a tray of filled wine glasses spilling none more priests and colonists from mexico with new fruits food plants and grains all to multiply eventually ev into astounding productivity by russian trappers hunting sea otters in it the kelp beds drift down from sitka agents of the tsar build a fort at bodega up the coast colonizing there with nith smooth intrigue to make alta california part of the empire shrewd new england traders on three year cruises to canton via california call here to barter their trade goods wrote dana in his two years before the mast included spirits teas coffees sugars spices hardware crockery clothing boots and shoes from lynn calicoes cali coes from lowell cart wheels from england capes shawls jewelry and combs with these they paid tor for hides bides tallow and furs california hides early gave new en england land a monopoly in the boot and shoemaking shoe making trades and the furs taken from here to canton then a world market brought prodigious profits founding many boston fortunes bearded and buck skinned missouri and kentucky men be begin in trickling in then the hudsons Hud sons bay company coming to build a fur post here english navy merchant ships and more moves on the check cheek board of destiny with a plan now to make this a british colony with the comes the end of spanish rule A new flag the mexican waving now over san francisco intrigues increase as years pass disputes arise between foreigners and natives and justice grows blinder but its a long walli to mexico seat of power and one legged santa anna has graver problems nearer home and in texas annexation and gold war with mexico back in washington sits president polk the resolute scott doniphan and zachary taylor are in mexico fremont kearny and kit carson in california into the little plaza of san francisco come the united states sailors to run ran up the american lag flag california la is annexed 1848 barely people in the village then a newspaper a school and two ramshackle wooden wharves but soon marshall found gold near gutters mill it was the richest strike in history with their jack jackknives knives men gouged chunks of pure gold from hillside seams seven americans with the help of indians took out pounds of gold old in a little more than six weeks two men in seven days obtained from a trench a few feet wide the news spread east cast polk commented on the find in a message ge to congress no such excitement had ever swept the nation by 1819 the whole world seemed gold mad on oa every continent men talked of call california and in ever increasing thousands they moved on san francisco in that year american vessels reached california during three weeks in the spring of 19 49 nearly people cro crossed ased the missouri river westward bound rough roah boisterous times steerage tickets via panama canama sold for 1000 thousands went this way another oth army r y around the norn horn others across nicaragua or mexico death took frightful toll especially among those crossing crossin the western deserts imagine sa san a francisco then aben gold crazy off on the treasure hunt months ahead of eastern hordes its homes cows chickens gardens goods in stores all were deserted at ex cite ments height even the sailors quit arriving ships to race for the gold fields till a vast tast ghost fleet of silent vessels toy lay idle and abandoned in the bay then suddenly the tide turned significantly this period and not tho the spanish marked the cites real beginning newcomers pouring in now by sea made frantic demands at any price for food clothes and mining outfits in a few weeks population multiplied a hundred times thousands slept in open fields two streams new arrivals on their way to the mines and men hastening back to spend their dust and nuggets nug geta brought tho the young town amazing wealth W i |