Download or read book Men Who Made San Francisco Classic Reprint written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Men Who Made San Francisco Henry Ernest Bothin is one of the energetic and progressive capitalists who have never lost faith in San Francisco's possibilities and who are today seeing that faith justified. In the fire of 1906 Mr. Bothin was a very heavy loser, seventy-nine buildings belonging to him being destroyed. Forty-two of them have been rebuilt. Mr. Bothin is president of the Judson Manufacturing Company, and is also head of the Bothin Realty Company. He was born in Ohio in 1853. Politically he is a Republican. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Men and Memories of San Francisco in the Spring of 50 Classic Reprint written by Theodore Augustus Barry and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-08 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Men and Memories of San Francisco in the Spring of 50 About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book McTeague written by Frank Norris and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-25 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from McTeague: A Story of San Francisco To act, sluggish. Yet there was nothing vicious about the man. Altogether he suggested the draught horse, immensely strong. Stupid, docile, obedient. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book MEN WHO MADE SAN FRANCISCO written by Anonymous and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-27 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Modern San Francisco and the Men of To Day written by Western Press Association and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-12-20 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Modern San Francisco and the Men of to-Day: 1905-1906 President Roosevelt has declared that within fifty years San Francisco will be one of the greatest cities in the world in wealth, commerce and population, and that it will become the metropolis of the most populous, richest and, industrially and agriculturally, the most prolific area of country on the habitable globe. It is believed that on this expanse of our nation's domain. And of which San Francisco is and will always be the chief city, are to be determined and solved the great problems of religious, social and economic life, and that the Great West is to be the treasury of our country. And upon which it must rely for strength and national supremacy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book A History of the City of San Francisco written by John S. Hittell and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A History of the City of San Francisco: And Incidentally of the State of California This book was written at the request of the committee appointed to manage the celebration in San Francisco of the Centennial Anniversary of the Declaration of our National Independence, in accordance with a resolution adopted by Congress on the thirteenth of March, 1876, recommending that in every town the delivery of a historical sketch of the place from its foundation should be part of the local celebration. It was considered better that, instead of a brief sketch to be read publicly in an hour, the metropolis on the American coast of the North Pacific should have a book of several hundred pages. The city furnishes material enough for a history which could never be prepared on a more appropriate occasion than in commemoration of the National Centennial year, especially since it happens to coincide with the completion of the first century in the existence of our city. Such a double epoch demanded some special mark of recognition. There are urgent reasons why works of this kind should be written by pioneers, and while there are still hundreds of pioneers living to furnish information from their personal reminiscences and from papers that will be lost when they die. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Chronicles of Manuel Alanus written by Leopold Ernest Wyneken and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Chronicles of Manuel Alanus: A True Story of Old San Francisco Pardoned out! How bewildering the city! I have taken a room in a lodginghouse near the ferry landing, a nice room and with a clean bed, and a bay-window looking out on the wide place in front of the big Ferry Station. But it is too expensive for me. Three dollars a week! I took it for one week: then I shall move. What crowds of people there are always coming and going on the ferry-boats! And the street-cars, how they come and shift and go again like clock-work! And they and the ferryboats moving on time make, or seem to make, the people move mechanically the same way. I ate my lunch at a cheap restaurant, a short distance up the street from this place. After that I took a stroll along the water front. Some of it is changed altogether, some of it is pretty much as it was when I knew it last. The lumber-yards, which formerly extended to the water, are all gone. There is a wide quay with houses fronting on it and wharves opposite running out into the bay, with big and little vessels lying at them, facing the houses. All contain stores and shops. I bought this writing-book and some ink and pens at a stationer's and came back to my room to write. In prison I got accustomed to write, till it has become a confirmed habit. I feel strange, yet not so very strange. It almost seems as if I in reality, had never left the city, had never been away shut up all these many long years in prison. A boy when I entered the prison, and what but a boy now! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Prophet of San Francisco Classic Reprint written by Louis Freeland Post and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-11-29 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Prophet of San Francisco Library edition of the Works of Henry George. Progress and Poverty. P. 549.preached with the brilliancy and force of this one. Into open minds he carried con viction wherever he secured attention. Yet his rare' faculty of vitalizing precise thought with eloquent expression exposed him to a cross-fire of criticism. Some readers who enjoyed the charm of his composition but were unaccustomed to exact thinking, feared the hypnotic effect of his style, and in self-defense objected vaguely but loftily to his argument; on the other hand were those schooled in close thinking but with a Gradgrindish contempt for sentiment, who often evaded his argument by con demning his adoption of a popular literary style for a scientific subject. Then again, there were the pop-gun critics who seemed to think him properly scorned as a writer because he sometimes split an infinitive, and utterly confounded as a reasoner be cause he did it on purpose. But these eriti cisms were only temporary annoyances. Like the contemptuous protest of the noble author of The Reign of Law (excited by solicitude for what George afterward called his trumpery title and patch of ground) they have not so much as impeded the steady march of George's ideas along the broad highway of common thought. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Wake Up Americans written by Obert F. Simpson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-04 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Wake Up Americans: Addressed to the American Colony in San Francisco Their capacity for sentiment is one of the most im portant of those characteristics which distinguish men from dogs. A man who is incapable of sentiment is no better than a dog. The sentimental interest which attaches to the California tradition is derived from four historical elements. The first of these is the great epic story of the advance of the Aryan races in their westward march across the world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Modern San Francisco written by Charles Lofland and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-02 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Modern San Francisco: 1907-1908 Astern critics of San Francisco have dwelt somewhat facetiously on the claim made for the city that it had an atmosphere which made it peculiarly attractive to that large and growing class which thinks that the chief end of man is to enjoy life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Vignettes of San Francisco Classic Reprint written by Almira Bailey and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Vignettes of San Francisco IN the same way that the poets have loved Rome and made their pilgrimages there - as good Mos lems travel toward Mecca, so there are some of us who have come to San Francisco. Then when we ar rive and find it all that we have dreamed, our love for it becomes its highest tribute. And I don't know why it is sacrilege to mention Rome and San Francisco in the same breath. As for me I greatly prefer San F ran cisco, although I have never been to Rome. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Reminiscences and Incidents of the Early Days of San Francisco Classic Reprint written by John Henry Brown and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-05 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Reminiscences and Incidents of the Early Days of San Francisco It was in the year 1843, that in company with a party of traders, I left the Cherokee Nation, for the purpose of purchas ing skins and furs of the Indians of the different tribes, and to barter for anything else that offered itself in the way of trade. This was mv third trip in the mountains, and the trading business being good that year, we secured many more furs than usual. When we reached Fort Bridger, we left what furs we had, and went farther north. Here, we found winter coming on. The weather was very cold, as there had already been a slight fall of snow. This was in the month of October. We determined to return to Fort Bridger; but, finding itim possible, made for Fort Hall, belonging to the Hudson Bay company, where we hoped to remain during the winter. Upon our arrival however, Factor Grant, who had command of the Fort, informed us, that we could not stay there, as there were already a larger number than could be accommodated; and, unless the weather moderated, they would be short of provisions themselves. We remained several days at Fort Hall, where we succeeded in making some horse trades. During our stay, a person arrived by the name of Greenwood, who was accompanied by a boy, whom he called his son. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book San Francisco Vol 1 written by S. J. Clarke Publishing Company and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-09 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from San Francisco, Vol. 1: Its Builders, Past and Present, Pictorial and Biographical At this time he turned his attention to the business in which he later amassed a magnificent fortune and which made the name of Spreckels known throughout the civilized world. As a grocer he knew the difference between the cost of raw and refined sugar and realized the profits to be made in sugar refining. He organized the Bay Sugar Refinery Company and built a plant with a capacity of five hundred barrels per day. He personally visited New York, selecting the equip ment which in his judgment was best suited to conditions here, and practically instituted a new method of refining. He continued as head of the Bay Sugar Refinery until 1865, during which time the company paid large returns. In that year he disposed of his inter ests. The refining of beet sugar had attracted his attention and in 1865 he visited Europe with his family, spending the succeeding two years in a careful study of the methods of refining beet sugar as practiced in Germany, even working in the refinery as a common laborer in order to acquaint himself with all phases of the business. On his return to San Francisco, believing that labor conditions were not favorable to the profitable manufacture of beet sugar, he again turned his attention to the refining of cane sugar and in 1867 estab lished the California Sugar Refinery, building a plant at Eighth and Brannan streets. He controlled this organization and became its president. Going to New York, he personally superintended the con struction of the machinery for his plant, much of it being the result of his own inventive genius and resulting in revolutionizing the sugar refining industry. Though operations were begun on a small scale, they were carried on with such skill and the product of the refinery was so improved that the Spreckels sugar soon became celebrated in the markets of the world. Within a few years two large buildings had been added to the plant and the output was increased to fifty million pounds of refined sugar annually. Mr. Spreckels invented and patented a process and a machine for the manufacturing of loaf and cube sugar direct from the centrifugals and by these methods was enabled to turn out both crushed and cube sugar within twenty four hours after the centrifugal process had been completed, whereas by former methods several weeks had been required. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book To San Francisco and Back Classic Reprint written by A. London Parson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-24 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from To San Francisco and Back The police wear blue cloth sacks, with a metal badge on the breast, and, in summer, wide-brimmed white straw hats. They are all thin, and seem chosen for their inches, which are many. There are - at least I saw - no street beggars, wandering organ-grinders, or Punches. Everybody seems bent upon an errand, though he does not bustle. I missed at once the tattered men who loaf about London; also the blear-eyed, sodden groups outside public-houses, and the street Arabs. There is, no doubt, plenty of vice and debauchery in New York, but in strolling by night about its streets I can only say that I 'did not detect that class which pollutes the great arteries Of London. This surprised me, for some of the papers in the hotel reading-room contain many advertisements which a respectable English journal would not publish. But I must say what I saw. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book History of the San Francisco Bay Region Vol 1 Classic Reprint written by Bailey Millard and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-06 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from History of the San Francisco Bay Region, Vol. 1 An important event is one thing, a man's Opinion or interpretation of it is another, and may be quite unimportant. A historical personage, . Having played his part and gracefully withdrawn or lain down and died, . Has left his deeds to speak for themselves. How these deeds may strike the peculiar mentality of the historian who records them is, as a rule, not of paramount interest or value as literature. To be sure, there are exceptions, as in the cases of Plutarch, Macaulay, Gibbon and Carlyle but the annalist himself must be of sufficient mental stature and of such high authority, because of his scholarly attainments, as to make his comm ments or interpretative observations natural and warrantable parts of' the record and, in a sense, inseparable from it. One might well wish to know what Carlyle thought of certain phases of the French Revolution or of its leaders, but one would be likely to yawn over commentaries presented by a less famous or forceful writer. This history which I have written is not, as will be seen by its perusal, an obtrusively opinionated one; and wherever a comment, an expository observation or illustrative explanation happens to be thrown in it is always negligible.' For the most part there is little or no coloring of the matter presented - no heightening, remoulding or suppression of important details to make a case for or against any individual or group of individuals whose names and acts appear or are reported in the text. This rather unusual plan of treatment of the annals of San Fran cisco and its neighboring towns has been adopted by me because I believe that the discerning reader of such a history does not look for nor placidly accept ordinary judgment, much less argument. What he wants. Is facts. And so, though I have not failed altogether in analysis and comparison, I have tried to avoid anything save the most conservative comments. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Builders of a Great City Vol 1 of 2 written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Builders of a Great City, Vol. 1 of 2: San Francisco's Representative Men, the City, Its History and Commerce; Pregnant Facts Regarding the Growth of the Leading Branches of Trade, Industries and Products of the State and Coast The builders OF A great city is, as its name implies, a series of Sketches of some of the most prominent of those men who have done so much in the founding of San Francisco, and making it one of the great cities of the world, and not only the commercial, industrial and financial metropolis of the Pacific Coast, but of the whole West, as New York is of the East. Amongst the names presented in these pages will be found those of merchants, manufacturers, bankers, railroad magnates, and others, whose life work has been instrumental in making this city what it is to day. Every statement in these Sketches has been verified by the gentleman to whom it refers. The biographical contents of this volume thus form a body of personal history of leading men, the authenticity of which may never. Be questioned. In this lies their principal merit, as there is no pre tension made to graces of style or ornamental or majestic diction, plain business statements, couched as nearly as may be in the ordinary every day language of commercial life, being all that is aimed at. The biographies are, for easy reference, arranged in alphabetical order. As it became evi dent soon after undertaking the work that justice to the subject could not be done in one volume, it was determined to make this the first of a series bearing the same name and title. In the introduction of one hundred pages will be found, in a condensed form, all' that there is of interest regarding the matters therein treated of. These embrace a brief history of the city and State, with a description of the more striking features of both, the more important productions of the latter, its leading resources, a condensed history of gold and silver mining on the coast, the population of the city and its peculiarities, its principal institutions, and data revised to the present year regarding the commerce, manufactures, banking and finance of the city, and the leading staples of the State. All not found here will be published in Volume II. We aim to give in a small space, and for all time, information regarding the early history of the State and city that Shall be invaluable to the historian of the future. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Men and Memories of San Francisco in the Spring of 50 written by and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-07 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
