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BABEL OF SHOUTING HACKMEN

Scanned from Frank Leslie'S Illustrated Newspaper, 1855
BABEL OF SHOUTING HACKMEN
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May 18 1878 a nt ACROSS THECONTINENT THE FRANK LESLIE EXCURSION TO THE PACIFIC First IMPRESSIONS OF THECITY OF SAN FRANCISCO SOFT hazy gray sky overhead a strong A fresh wind blowing clouds of dust like a sand storm a Babel of shouting hackmen yelling car drivers newsboys and vendors of all sorts a jostling closetangled crowd of carriages drays and hotelcoaches and a scurrying stream of foot passengers courting destruction under the wheels and the horses heels these receive us at the Western terminus of the Central Pacific Roadthe Oakland and Alameda Ferry Long lines of wharves stretch away on either side with vistas of shipping fading ghostly into the soft yellow fog behind us lies the bay and before us is the city on her many sandhills with the terra incognita ot Market Street for the immediate foreground ot the picturean unalluring picture enough painted allin _ FRANK LESLIES ILLUSTRATED NEWSPAPER THE WESTERN TERMINUS OF THE dusty drab and were it otherwise we in our peni tential garb of railroad dust and ashes would be sad blots on the local coloring. It is not without a thrill of joy after all that we welcome civilization once again the.

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