The great net of straight thoroughfares lying at right angles. east and west and north and south. over the shoulders of Nob Hill, the hill of palaces. must certainly be counted the best part of San Francisco. It is there that the millionaires are gathered together vying with each other in display. From thence looking down over the business wards of the city. we can descry a building with a little belfry. and that is the Stock Exchange, the heart of San Francisco: a great pump we might call it. continually pumping up the savings of the lower quarters into the pockets of the millionaires upon the hill. But these same thoroughfares that enjoy for a while so elegant a destin> have their lines prolonged into more unpleasant places. Some meet their fate in the sands: some must take a cruise in the ill-famed China quarters: some run into the sea: some perish unwept aniong pig-sties and rubbish-heaps. Nob Hill comes. of right. in the place of honour, but the two other hills of San Francisco are more entertaining to explore. On both there are a world of old wooden houses snoozing together all forgotten. Some are of the quaintest design, others only romantic by neglect and age. Some have been almost undermined by new thoroughfares. and sit high up on the margin of the sandy cutting. only to be reached by stairs. Some are curiously painted. and I have seen one at least with ancient carvings panelled in its wall. Surely they are not of Californian building. but far voyagers from round the stormy Horn. like those who sent for them and dwelt in them at first. Brought to be the favourites of the wealthy, they have sunk into these poor. forgotten districts. where, like old town toasts, they keep each other silently iii countenance. Telegraph Hill and Rincon Hill. these are the two dozing quarters that I recommend to the city dilettante. There stand these forgotten houses. enjoying the unbroken sun and quiet. There, if there were such an author. would the San Francisco To the visitor STEP BACK A CENTURY WITH ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON AS A GUIDE. He visited Monterey in the fall of 1879. Roaming over the wooded hills and along the shores of bay and ocean. he absorbed the natural beauties of the Monterey Peninsula. From his temporary quarters in an old adobe on Houston he strolled along the streets of the old Mexican town and was befriended by a cosmopolitan group of boarders at Jules Simoneau's restaurant. He moved to San Francisco in late December, 1879 renting a room on Bush Street. He recorded for posterity his unique description of the city that had sprung up from the Gold Rush only thirty years before. 'The Old Pacific Capital" was first published in 1880. "The New Pacific Capital" was first published in 1883. z8 , OCR Text: The great net of straight thoroughfares lying at right angles. east and west and north and south. over the shoulders of Nob Hill, the hill of palaces. must certainly be counted the best part of San Francisco. It is there that the millionaires are gathered together vying with each other in display. From thence looking down over the business wards of the city. we can descry a building with a little belfry. and that is the Stock Exchange, the heart of San Francisco: a great pump we might call it. continually pumping up the savings of the lower quarters into the pockets of the millionaires upon the hill. But these same thoroughfares that enjoy for a while so elegant a destin> have their lines prolonged into more unpleasant places. Some meet their fate in the sands: some must take a cruise in the ill-famed China quarters: some run into the sea: some perish unwept aniong pig-sties and rubbish-heaps. Nob Hill comes. of right. in the place of honour, but the two other hills of San Francisco are more entertaining to explore. On both there are a world of old wooden houses snoozing together all forgotten. Some are of the quaintest design, others only romantic by neglect and age. Some have been almost undermined by new thoroughfares. and sit high up on the margin of the sandy cutting. only to be reached by stairs. Some are curiously painted. and I have seen one at least with ancient carvings panelled in its wall. Surely they are not of Californian building. but far voyagers from round the stormy Horn. like those who sent for them and dwelt in them at first. Brought to be the favourites of the wealthy, they have sunk into these poor. forgotten districts. where, like old town toasts, they keep each other silently iii countenance. Telegraph Hill and Rincon Hill. these are the two dozing quarters that I recommend to the city dilettante. There stand these forgotten houses. enjoying the unbroken sun and quiet. There, if there were such an author. would the San Francisco To the visitor STEP BACK A CENTURY WITH ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON AS A GUIDE. He visited Monterey in the fall of 1879. Roaming over the wooded hills and along the shores of bay and ocean. he absorbed the natural beauties of the Monterey Peninsula. From his temporary quarters in an old adobe on Houston he strolled along the streets of the old Mexican town and was befriended by a cosmopolitan group of boarders at Jules Simoneau's restaurant. He moved to San Francisco in late December, 1879 renting a room on Bush Street. He recorded for posterity his unique description of the city that had sprung up from the Gold Rush only thirty years before. 'The Old Pacific Capital" was first published in 1880. "The New Pacific Capital" was first published in 1883. z8 , Heritage Society of Pacific Grove,Historical Collections,Names of People about town,S through T File names,Stevenson,Stevenson,STEVENSON_020.pdf,STEVENSON_020.pdf 1 Page 1, Tags: STEVENSON_020.PDF, STEVENSON_020.pdf 1 Page 1