Identifier: adolphsutro00holm (find matches)
Title: Adolph Sutro
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Holmes, Eugenia Kellogg, Mrs. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Sutro, Adolph, 1830-1898
Publisher: San Francisco, Press of San Francisco photo-engraving co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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the late Sec-retary Wells, of the English Society of IndustrialChemistry, have furnished about two thousand fivehundred volumes. A complete military, architectural and botanicallibrary contributes its golconda of treasure; antiqueand priceless scrolls from the Orient are preservedwith the parchments of Maimonides, author ofRam Bam, who was called the Light of Israel,the Star of the West, and the Great Eagle. Classics, poems, plays in all languages of thelearned, are in those closely packed cases, book-lined walls, and heavily-laden galleries, whichcontain, temporarily, the greatest wonders of theprinting press known to the New World. Whencompleted, as designed, it will be accessible toevery disciple of science, that being the specialmotive of its magnanimous founder. The structure site chosen for this colossal collec-tion of literary treasure is in Golden Gate Park,near the music stand. It will be fire proof and freeto the public. But not alone in the absorbing walks of the bib- -38-
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liophile, the charms of hospitality, the conflictingcares of exalted office, does Mr. Sutro find entireconcentration ; his active brain demands perpetualachievement. The more recent of these achievements partakingof the form of baths, which rival in magnitude,utility and beauty, the famous abluvion resorts ofTitus, Caracalla, Nero or Diocletian. Those wonderful expressions of architecturalskill — airy, graceful, yet substantial — are locatedin a wave-worn cove at the foot of the cliffs, andbrought to utilitarian perfection by a triumph ofengineering invention. This consists of a series of basins, blasted in therock, which receive the water pure from Oceansbriny caverns, b)T a complete system of tunnels andcanals, so ingeniously devised as to supply thereceptacles with both hot and cold currents, anddrain them, after use. Thus have the tides been harnessed and madesubservient to the multitudes. There are six swimming tanks, the largest beingL,-shaped, three hundred feet long and on

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