Author: California Promotion CommitteePublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780259173793
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Excerpt from Around San Francisco Bay From every viewpoint on the shores of this great bay new scenes are pre sented. Standing on the crest of Tele graph Hill, in San Francisco, one has the narrow entrance of the Golden Gate almost at his feet, the fortified hills on either side, and the terraces of Alcatraz Island, frowning upon passing ships. It is said that in early days this island was given to an easy-going inhabitant in con sideration of his promise to keep a signal lantern burning at night during stormyweather. He permitted the light to go out, and the government resumed title to an island whose strategic position is such that it now bristles with cannon which in the event of war would be called upon' to deliver the coup de grace to any hostile craft stro-ng enough to run the gauntlet of the gate. What these fortifications mean is shown in the emark made by General Funston, com manding the Department of California, when the United States battleship fleet sailed through the Golden Gate. His significant utterance was, We could have stopped every one of them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
