Oakland

On Sunday we made an early start for Oakland on the other side of the Bay. Starting with a streetcar ride from the pub to the Ferry thence by boat and then in to 12th Street Oakland by electric train. The fares for the whole trip return was 28¢ or 1/2 in our money at par. This City is nearly as big as 'Frisco which has a population of 600,000. The population around the Bay is about 2 million.

On our return to Frisco we saw a picture show, had tea and saw another. It seems strange to see business going on Sunday but the residents only have three watchwords. Grow quick, get rich quick and die quick. The greatest of the three is the middle one and they live up to it hard.

Some of the banks keep open all day and all night and advertise the fact with electric signs. Only one thing talks here and that is the almighty dollar.

Cafeterias

The cafeterias are great fun here. You wait on yourself, have anything you can reach from the shelves and pay accordingly.

First you take a tray and knife, fork etc. Then set out on the foraging party and eat it after having first had your dinner priced by a lassie who gives you a ticket from a machine and then when the inner man is satisfied you pay on leaving and the stuff one eats is truly amazing.

Fancy having buckwheat cakes with maple syrup served with your pork sausage in the morning and its goodo. But the unbroken rule throughout all the eating houses and Sundaes shops is a glass of iced water first. No matter what your have, ice cream, ginger beer or dinner it is always started with iced water.