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Title: The Chamber of commerce handbook for San Francisco, historical and descriptive; a guide for visitors ..
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Todd, Frank Morton Greater San Francisco Chamber of Commerce
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Publisher: San Francisco, San Francisco Chamber of commerce under the direction of the Publicity committee
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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the most inter-esting parts of the city, such as Golden Gate Park, the CliffHouse vicinity. Pacific Heights, the Presidio and the Exposi-tion site at Harbor View. The price is $1 a passenger, andthe time required is about two and a half hours. MONUMENTS AND LANDMARKS—THE BANK EXCHANGE . San Francisco is a city of romance and riches and hence,also of monuments. There are many fine ones that keep alivepride in the place and its stirring history. The Donahue monument at Bush, Battery and Marketstreets, by the sculptor Douglas Tilden, is about on the line ofthe original water front, the edge of the bight known asVerba Buena Cove, which swept around from Montgomerystreets at Jackson, swung across Sansome street between Cali-fornia and Pine, crossed the pavement surrounding the mon-ument, just to the west of the pool, and ran thence belowFirst street and eastward to Rincon Point, the tip of which laya little east of the corner of Harrison and Spear streets. 132 Handbook for San Francisco
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THE DONAHUE MONUMENT, MARKET STREET. The monument will well repay a visit to it. Its bold imageryand fine feeling for the subject of human labor well directed aredistinctively western in spirit. The cove was filled with the spoil from the grading do^vnof the sand hills of the city, and all east of the line we havedescribed is made ground. That is why on the south side Monuments and Landmarl^s 1 33 of Market the numbered streets do not begin until after thepoint opposite the monument is passed, going westward. At Clay and Montgomery, one of the recently erected land-mark bells that are supposed to indicate the route of El CaminoReal, the Highway of the King, marks the old landing thatwas there when the water came up to Montgomery street. The next monument up Market street is Lotias Fountain,presented to the city by Lotta Crabtree, a stage favorite ofearly days. On the shaft is a bronze tablet, put there to com-memorate one of those typically San Franciscan occasions, theChristmas eve o

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