The Cathedral of St. Mary, which
I afterwards visited, where the Irish attend, was a contrast indeed,
and more like one of our stifling Irish Catholic churches in Boston or
New York, with intelligence in so small a proportion to the number
of faces. During the three Sundays I was in San Francisco, I visited
three of the Episcopal churches, and the Congregational, a Chinese
Mission Chapel, and on the Sabbath (Saturday) a Jewish synagogue.
The Jews are a wealthy and powerful class here. The Chinese, too,
are numerous, and do a great part of the manual labor and small
shop-keeping, and have some wealthy mercantile houses.
It is noticeable that European Continental fashions prevail
generally in this city,- French cooking, lunch at noon, and dinner at
the end of the day, with cafe noir after meals, and to a great
extent the European Sunday,- to all which emigrants from the United
States and Great Britain seem to adapt themselves. Some dinners
which were given to me at French restaurants were, it seemed to
me,- a poor judge of such matters, to be sure,- as sumptuous and as
good, in dishes and wines, as I have found in Paris.
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