Identifier: sanfranciscofina00sanf (find matches)
Title: San Francisco, the financial, commercial and industrial metropolis of the Pacific Coast: official records, statistics and encyclopedia
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: San Francisco Chamber of Commerce
Subjects: San Francisco (Calif.) -- History San Francisco (Calif.) -- Description and travel San Francisco (Calif.) -- Economic conditions
Publisher: (San Francisco : H.S. Crocker Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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nually sell millions of dollarsworth of eastern manufactured goods. The retail district is frankly acknowledged by all who know. to he the finest ill llle world. The stolt s ;in all Hew and exceptionally beautiful, containing a great variety of staples, as well as the finest products of French and other Foreign looms.The soeial life of San ITaneisco is all that could he desired. Homes <»t all sizes, descriptions and rentals may b< securedto suit ones needs. It is the greatest hotel cilv in the UnitedStates in proportion to its size, and is exceeded only h\ NewYork in the number of accommodations. The apartment housedistrict has grown with great rapidity of late. Cottages, bunga-lows, homes on the installment plan, and residences in restrictedbuilding tracts, all tan he found in desirable localities. Clubs, both athletic and social, are numerous. Tin Y. M.C. A. has a handsome building near the heart <»t the city.Churches of every description are to he found. San Francisco 23
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2 J « SAN FRANCISCO THE FINANCIAL, COMMERCIAL andINDUSTRIAL METROPOLIS of the IM II IC < 0 \ST is probably the most cosmopolitan city on the continent Thelargest French savings bank, library and hospital outside ofFrance, are located here. Banks, newspapers and restaurantsof every nationality bespeak of flourishing residents From allquarters of the globe. The theaters are new and numerous.Il is not unusual to get the eastern attractions via special trainacross the continent. The hospitals and sanatoriums areequipped with the best that the medical Fraternity can find. Patients journey to San Francisco from Alaska to Mexico to receive medical attention. According to the figures of the United States Weather Bureauthere arc more hours of sunshine yearly in San Francisco thanin Boston. New York, Philadelphia. Chicago, Pittsburg or St.Louis. The average winter temperature is 51 and the averagesummer temperature 59 . The lowest temperature ever offici-ally recorded here is 20 above zero.

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