SAN FRANCISCO BUILDINGS.
(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) WELLING-TOX, this dai
During the course of a conversation with a " Post" representative to-day, Mr. Frank Coffee," of Sydney, who is at pi-cscnt on a visit to "Wellington, and who -was a. resident of San Francisco for several years, said that San trauesjee ha I fewer skyscraping builling? than any other city in the United States. It was only of late that the. many-storied Edifice was- being erected in California's capital. Tho Palace Hotel, which is also amongst the buildings destroyed, was the favourite place of residence of Australians and New Zealanders, and was a line .structure. St. Frances' Hotel comprises two buildings each thirteen stories high, one of whjch has just Been completed. There arc 325,000 people residing inside tho city limits, and of these not a few are Italians, Portuguese : and Chinese.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 94, 20 April 1906, Page 3
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