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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ssi-ble on all days and at all hours, not merelyto bathers, but for the promenader, the leisurelystroller, the artist, the student, who finds rare andfascinating subjects of thought in the girdlinggalleries, draperied balconies, mazy staircases, se-questered alcoves and statued niches, fanned byozoned winds, embellished with every visible en-chantment, treasurable from the mystic museumsof the past. A man, however, may build and yet not be amaster architect, though his buttressed walls be asadamant, his shafts and spires and towers soar star-ward. That structure, surpassing mortal conception,must bear harmony with humanity, else it is likeunto the baseless fabric of a dream. From hisvast and varied creations, it might be inferred thatMr. Sutro is a man of force rather than feeling, ofrigor rather than repose ; but the fallacy of thisinference is proven by his treatment of the poor,which is always more deferential than of the rich. So considerate of the unfortunate is this prince - 48-
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ART GALLERY SUTRO BATHS of finance, that he has been christened by a wagnot wholly witless, the Czar of the Scavengers. In the winter of 93, when great suffering pre-vailed among the indigent unemployed of SanFrancisco, Mr. Sutro purchased tickets from theSalvation Army to the value of eight hundred dol-lars, as occasion required, which were distributed,upon application, and secured to their holders aleast temporary relief. His contributions to all public charity, since hisarrival to opulence, have been munificent, and con-fined neither to race, creed nor class. His privatealms are said to be limited only to the immediateneeds of the individual. A princely gift, consisting of twenty-six acres ofland, to the University of California, the chosensite of the affiliated colleges, is among the manyand more recent monuments to the name of Sutro.Geographically, it is located near the center of theCity and County of San Francisco, two blockssouth of, and near the entrance of Golden GatePark pr

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