of Kearney, not Dennis of “sand-lot” fame, but that of General S.W.  Kearney, whose sword aided in placing the star of California in our Nation’s Flag; you read too the name of the old Indian chief, Marin, and that of Montezuma takes you across the Rio Grande and back to the days of Mexican romance and barbaric splendour.  Here also Montgomery is remembered, the patriotic commander of the Portsmouth, who gave orders to his marines to raise the Stars and Stripes, in place of Spanish ensigns and the Bear Flag, on the Plaza of Yerba Buena, old San Francisco, in 1846.  We find also such well known names as Scott, Sherman and Stanford.  We have too a St. Francis street and a St. Joaquin street; Sumner, Sutter, Tilden and Webster are remembered also.  Nearly all the states of the Union speak to us by these waters of the Pacific in the stones of the streets.  All the original Thirteen except Georgia have been honoured.  Possibly this will receive recognition in the future.  It is to be noted, however, that the adjectives are omitted in the Carolinas and New Hampshire.  New York is the exception together with Rhode Island.  The other States which have given their names to streets are Alabama, Arkansas, California, the Dakotas without the qualifying adjective, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Wisconsin and Wyoming.  The natural inference from this is that San Francisco has drawn her population from all parts of the land; so that here you have representatives of our great country, north, south, east and west gathered together.  While there are many who delight to call themselves Native Sons, yet their fathers have sprung from households in New England and in the South and in the Middle States and elsewhere and new peoples are steadily migrating to the Pacific slopes, notably to this Queen City by the Golden Gate.  In my intercourse with San Franciscans, this or that worthy citizen would say, with no little pride, I was born in New York, Boston is my birthplace, I am a native of Albany, or Saratoga, or Philadelphia, or Baltimore, or Savannah or New Orleans.  Sometimes one would say to me, I came from the East.  What part?  The answer would be at times, Chicago, or St. Louis, or Omaha, as the case might be.  But one thing was very noticeable, that they were all loyal Americans.  I think it may be truly said that the spirit of patriotism is even stronger in the Pacific States than at the East.  You could see the Flag of the Union everywhere, and there was abundant evidence in the life and speech of the people of San Francisco and of California generally that they were an integral part of the Republic and as anxious to have it prosperous and great and united as the most ardent American in any other part of the land.