for the sum of one dollar and a half up to three dollars.  The Grand Hotel, the annex to the Palace, and just across the street, offers the same rates as the Palace.  The Lick House, the corner of Montgomery and Sutler streets, will take you for three dollars up to five per day.  The Occidental, corner of Montgomery and Bush streets charges also from three dollars up to five per day for board and room.  The California Hotel, an imposing structure, on Bush street, supplies rooms at the rate of one dollar per day and upwards.  The Baldwin, corner of Market and Powell streets, charges for board and room at the rate of two dollars and a half up to five per day; and the Russ House receives guests, giving room and board at the rate of one dollar and a half up to two dollars and a half per day—­this hotel is situated on the corner of Montgomery and Pine streets.  There are many other hotels where the traveller can be made comfortable at a moderate cost.  It is the same with many private houses which are open for guests.  In the latter a parlor and bedroom with the luxury of a bath may be had for two dollars per day.  A single room can be secured for a dollar a day.  In such a case you can obtain your meals at one of the numerous restaurants for which San Francisco is noted.  There are the restaurants at the Palace, the California and other prominent hotels, the Maison Doree in Kearney street, Westerfeldt’s in Market street, and the Cafe in the Call Building on the top floor of the tower, from which you have a commanding view of the city in all directions.  Good servants can be had at the rate of thirty dollars per month, especially the much abused Chinese, who cook and do the laundry work, and wait on the table, and render a willing service.  I recall the faithfulness of the Chinaman “Fred,” who tried to please his employer, and also the fidelity and zeal of “Max,” the Dane, or Mads Christensen.  Max was an ideal waiter.  He had been only nine months in the United States, and yet he had learned sufficient of the English language to understand what was said to him and to express himself clearly.  It is an example of persistence; and Max had the qualities which, in a young man, are bound to lead to success.

In addition to the other great buildings you cannot fail to notice the New City Hall, a magnificent pile including the Hall of Records to the east of the main structure.  The location is somewhat central, being opposite Eighth street, just north of Market street, and bounded by Park avenue, Larkin and McAllister streets.  The plot of ground on which it is erected has an area of six and three-quarters acres and is triangular in shape.  The front is eight hundred feet in length, the Larkin street side five hundred and fifty feet, and the McAllister side six hundred and fifty feet long.  While the architecture is difficult to describe, as being of any particular order, yet it may be said that it is partly classical, partly of the renaissance style and that it has a suggestion