There is also a goodly array of female artists who deserve praise and honour.

Eastern cities must look well to their laurels in the matter of art as well as in many other things.
The contrast between 1849 and 1901 in the prices paid for articles of consumption and service rendered is quite remarkable.

When Bayard Taylor visited San Francisco in 1849 he paid the sum of two dollars to a Mexican porter to carry his trunk from the ship to the Plaza or Portsmouth Square.

Here in an adobe building, he tells us, he had his lodging.

His bed, in a loft, and his three meals per day, consisting of beefsteak, bread and coffee, cost him thirty-five dollars a week.
From other sources we learn that, if you kept house, you had to pay fifty cents per pound for potatoes,--one might weigh a pound.