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Title: Municipal blue book of San Francisco, 1915
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Meyer, George Homer, 1858-1926 Taylor, David Wooster Johnson, Arthur M
Subjects: Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915 : San Francisco, Calif.) Exhibitions
Publisher: (San Francisco, Calif.) : California Press
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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of educationin various districts of the city. Xot the least of the accomplishments of this administration hasbeen a consistent policy of street reconstruction and paving. Underthe watchful eye of the Finance Committee of the Board of Super-visors SI.150.000 was expended for this purpose in the fiscal year1913-1914. and a similar sum has been provided for the year 1914-1915. This work has been planned systematically in order to openwell-paved arteries into the various districts of the city. \A ith acontinuance of this policy into the Exposition year San Franciscois assured of presenting to its visitors more miles of well-paved streetsthan it has ever possessed in its past history. Briefly summarized, these are the principal achievements of the Rolph administration, which has proved by its accomplishments the sincerity of its promises to the people to conduct their affairs with efficiencv and business-like methods. ^^ t at \ Sylvester ;. aIcAtee. 16 Municipal Blue Book of San Francisco
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SAN FRANCISCO AND BAY DISTRICT Smiling at Fortunes golden kiss—A great, jiea-born metropolis,That stands beneath its sun-lit skies,A nionninent of enterprise. METROPOUS of the West and key to the commerce of thePacific, San Francisco has a history no less romantic and pic-turesque than its setting upon the shores of the Golden Gate.Few cities in the world, said an eminent visitor, can vie with SanFrancisco either in the beauty or in the natural advantages of her situa-tion ; indeed, there are only two places in Europe—Constantinople andGibraltar—that combine an equally perfect landscape ^vith what may becalled an equally imperial position. The city itself is full of bold hills, rising steeply from deep water.The air is keen, dry and bright, like the air of Greece, and the watersnot less blue. In these ideal surroundings, with the Pacific Ocean stretching awayto the WCst, the famous Bay of San Francisco on the east and north-east, and along the north, the Golden Gate connecting t

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