It Took The Spare Time Of Scores Of Men For Weeks; Yet These
750 Business Men, Professional Men, Artists, Newspaper Workers,
Struggled For The Honor Of Helping Out On The Jinks; And The Whole Thing
Was Done Naturally And With Reverence.
It would not be possible anywhere
else in this country; the thing which made it possible was the art
spirit which is in the Californian.
It runs in the blood.
"Who's Who in America" is long on the arts and on learning and
comparatively weak in business and the professions. Now some one who has
taken the trouble has found that more persons mentioned in "Who's Who"
by the thousand of the population were born in Massachusetts, than in
any other state; but that Massachusetts is crowded closely by
California, with the rest nowhere. The institutions of learning in
Massachusetts account for her pre-eminence; the art spirit does it for
California. The really big men nurtured on California influence are few,
perhaps; but she has sent out an amazing number of good workers in
painting, in authorship, in music and especially in acting.
"High society" in San Francisco had settled down from the rather wild
spirit of the middle period; it had come to be there a good deal as it
is elsewhere. There was much wealth; and the hills of the western
addition were growing up with fine mansions. Outside of the city, at
Burlingame, there was a fine country club centering a region of country
estates which stretched out to Menlo Park.
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