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of a bay. It feels astonishingly cool notwithstanding bright sun. Feel as if I wanted overcoat. Then reach Oakland and with Ferry to San Francisco. Cool and breezy and very sunny. what a difference in climate. Busy active sunny city. ^[[M]] most buildings new. much building has been done since 1910 when I was here and traces of former fire and earthquake seem all disappeared: Clean wide streets, fine buildings. Drove with taxi to Palace Hotel. Excellent. got fine big room & bath for $3.00 a day. An entirely new city. [[strikethrough]] Nowhere such a substantial [[/strikethrough]] In no other city is there such a substantial new modern homogeneity of construction. Everything seems new. The fire after all was
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rather fortunate because it gave chance to rebuild modern. Looks much more important than a city of 500,000 inhabitants: Is all this over booming or has renewed energy inspired those who lost all in the earthquake? Hotels and Restaurants and bars and stores everywhere and anywhere. All spick and span.- Waiters are polite and everybody seems cheerful. Labor problems must be hard here. I passed a restaurant in front of which was stationed a girl with a red ribbon marked "picket". She said to me "Do not patronize this restaurant it [[strikethrough]] empl [[/strikethrough]] is unfair to organized labor. and employs a Chinese cook and non union girls"
At another place before a restaurant & saw a donkey stationed with a large red canvas on its back: "Do not patronize this restaurant it is unfair to organized labor"
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