It is pleasantly situated on the east side of the Bay, gradually rising up to the terraced hills which skirt it on the east.

The streets are regularly laid out and lined with shade trees of tropical luxuriance as well as the live-oaks.

Pretty lawns, green and well kept, are in front of many of the houses in the residence part of the city, and here the eye has a continual feast in gazing on flowers in bloom, fuschias, verbenas, geraniums and roses especially.

At a later day I visited Oakland, and found it just as beautiful and attractive as it looked in the distance from the deck of the ferry boat.

It has several banks, numerous churches, five of our own faith, with some twelve hundred communicants, also good schools, and some fine business blocks.
Trolley cars conduct you through its main streets in all directions.
Landing at the Oakland pier, one of the largest in the world, and extending out into the Bay some two miles from the shore, the Southern Pacific Railway will soon carry you to the station within the city limits.