He spoke with intelligence about its character and purpose, and with enthusiasm concerning its members whom he had met as they were crossing the Bay.

The names of Bishop Doane, of Albany, Bishop Potter, of New York, and Mr.J.Pierpont Morgan, were as household words on his lips, and there was a gleam of delight in his eye as he pictured to us the pleasures and surprises in store for us during our sojourn in the Capital of the Golden West.
"That town," said he, "which you see to the south of Oakland, with its long mole, is Alameda.

It is a great place of resort, a kind of pleasure grove.

Alameda in the Spanish language means 'Poplar Avenue.' Many people go there on excursions and picnic parties from San Francisco, and other places along the Bay.

It is, as you see, a very pretty spot.