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Collection: Books and Periodicals

Three Years in California by John D. Borthwick (1857)(LoC) (423 pages)

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CHAPTER TV. SCARCITY OF LABOURING MEN — HIGH WAGES — WANT OF SOCIAL RESTRAINT—INTENSE RIVALRY IN ALL PURSUITS—DISAPPOINTED HOPES—DRUNKENNESS — AMERICAN STYLE OF DRINKING — THE BARS—FREE LUNCHEONS — THE BAR-KEEPER—VARIETY OF NATIONAL HOUSES—THE CHINESE—CHINESE STORES AND WASHERMEN—THEATRES AND GAMBLING-ROOMS — MASQUERADES—“ NO WEAPONS ADMITTED” — MAGNIFICENT SHOPS —GRADING THE STREETS—STEAM PADDY—RAISING HOUSES—CABS—POST-OFFICE —FIRE—FIRE COMPANIES—MISSION DOLORES—SAN JOSE—NATIVE CALIFORNIANS, A most useful quality for a California emigrant was one which the Americans possess in a pre-eminent degree—a natural versatility of disposition, and adaptability to every description of pursuit or occupation. The numbers of the different classes forming the community were not in the proportion requisite to preserve its equilibrium. Transplanting oneself to California from any part of the world, involved an outlay beyond the means of the bulk of the labouring classes; and to those who did come to the country, the mines were of course the great point of attraction ; so that in San Francisco the E Ss eee