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Show SIGHTSEEING Reservations Made for All Sightseeing Trips by Agent in Lobby Hotel Stewart F. G. Henley Agent Stewart Hotel Lobby Thirty Mile Drive of Tour De Luxe For a magnificent view of San Francisco from the summit of twin peaks; the pacific ocean the Golden Gate Park, San Francisco Bay and San Pablo Bay from the summit of Lincoln Park, a delightful tour of the Golden Gate Park and Presidio, and a visit to the Cliff House and the Mission Dolores, we recommend the THIRTY-MILE DRIVE or TOUR De LUXE OF SAN FRANCISCO. This tour is conducted in luxurious easy-riding safety parlor car coaches, roomy and comfortable, with large scenic windows affording the maximum of vision, each coach in charge of a careful driver and well informed conductor. A trip to Twin Peaks is made over the world-famed figure 8 drive to the summit 900 feet above, presenting, a magnificent view of the city below. The Mission Dolores was founded in 1776 by Father Junipero Serra of the Franciscan Order. The walls of adobe, the floors of red clay tile, the hewn rafters lashed together with rawhide, the ceiling decorated by the Indians with such colors as they could make, the altar and images brought from Mexico, decorated in virgin gold, survive today, the most interesting spot in San Francisco. A complete tour is made of the Golden Gate Park, one of the largest and most beautiful parks in the world; viewing Park Lodge, Flower Conservatory, Tennis Courts, $60,000 Bandstand, Japanese Tea Garden, M. H. de Young memorial Museum, Room in the Redwood Log, Strawberry Hill. Old Dutch Windmills, Mirror Lake, Stow Lake, Spreckels Lake, Huntington Falls, the Ocean Beach, Life Saving Station, Cliff House, Seal Rocks, Sutro Heights and visiting the Steinhart Aquarium. We visit the Presidio, the largest military reservation in the United States within city limits, having an area of 1542 acres. Here may be seen, Fort Winfield Scott Fort Point, Fort Baker, Fort Barry, Fort Miley, Fort McDowell and Fort Mason, equipped with batteries of mortars, rapid-fire and great coast defense guns. The beautiful residential districts of Forest Hill, Westwood Park, St. Francis, Wood, Ingleside Terraces, Sea Cliff and Pacific Heights are visited on this tour. |