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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...

Arrival at Oakland--"Ticket!"--On the Ferryboat--The City of "Live Oaks"--Mr. Young, a Citizen of Oakland--Distinguished Members of General Convention--Alameda--Berkeley and Its...

San Francisco--Her Hills--Her Landscapes--Population of Different Decades--The Flag on the Plaza in 1846--Yerba Buena its Earliest Name--First Englishman and First American to B...

St. Andrew's Brotherhood--Patras--The Cross at Megara and the Golden Gate--Portsmouth Square and its Life--Other City Squares and Parks--Golden Gate Park, its Beauty, Objects an...

Triangular Section of San Francisco--Clay Banks, Mud and Rats in 1849--Streets at That Time--Desperate Characters--Gambling Houses--Thirst for Gold--Saloons and Sirens--The Bell...

The Streets of the City--Numbers and Names--Example of Athens--Names of Men--Names of States and Countries--American Spirit--Flowers and Trees--Market Street--Pleasantries--Mans...

A Visit to Chinatown--Its Boundaries--A Terra Incognita--Fond of Mongrels--My Licensed Guide--The Study of the Signs--Men of All Callings--Picture of the Chinaman--Devoid of Hum...

In Chinatown--A Chinese Editor--His Views of Chinese Life--A Daily Paper and the Way in Which it is Printed--A Night School--The Mission of the English Language--A Widow and Her...

In Chinatown--A Musician's Shop--A Secret Society--Gambling Houses--"The Heathen Chinee"--Fortune-telling--The Knife in the Fan-Case--A Boarding House--A Lesson for Landlords--A...

In Chinatown--Conception of God--The Joss House--Chinese Mottoes--The Joss a Chinaman--Greek and Egyptian Ideas of God--Different Types of Madonnas--Chinese Worship and Machine...

First Services--Drake's Chaplain--Flavel Scott Mines--Bishop Kip--Growth of the Church in California--The General Convention in San Francisco--A Western Sermon--Personnel of the...

Simon, Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught." The discourse was in every sense what the venerable prelate had said it would be, a "Western" one, and it...

A Well Equipped Fire Department--Destructive Fires--Scene at the _Call_ Office--Loyalty to the Flag--The Blind Man and Bobby Burns--Street Scenes and Places of Interest--Market...