Identifier: architectenginee11333sanf (find matches)
Title: Architect and engineer
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architecture Building
Publisher: San Francisco : Architect and Engineer, Inc
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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way. Mission columns and the record picture Now indeed his plight was sad. He was thus produced forms one of the interesting afraid to go back to the Mission and he bits in friend wifes scrap book,was an outcast among his own people. For At the restored Sonoma Mission we weeks he wandered in the mountains, half were delighted to see the Bear State starved and thoroughly miserable. At last Flag carefully protected in a glass case, a very repentant and much abashed young But we were disappointed to find that it sinner returned to the Mission and re- was not the original flag. The original one, stored the umbrella to the padre, at the it seems, had become the property of a same time falling to his knees and implor- museum in San Francisco, where it was ing forgiveness. The good padre was guarded with zealous care. The people of quite willing to forgive, but true to his Sonoma at the time of an historic pageant faith, he demanded that the neophyte do asked permission to use the flag. They
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Left— THE mission bell AT SAN MIGLIEL Right— BEAR STATE FLAG AT SONOMA MISSION THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER -^ 50 ^ J UI.Y, NINETEEN THIRTY-THREE were refused but were allowed to make anexact replica from the original. Shortlyafter this was done the great fire at SanFrancisco destroyed the original flag, leav-ing this, the only exact copy. The curatorvery obligingly took it out of its case,draped it on the wall of the corridor, andthe resulting photograph is another ofthose I highly prize. Brother Michael of Santa Barbara is awit. Those who are fortunate enough tohave him for a guide when they visit thatMission will receive along with much ac-curate information, many jests which willlinger long in the memory. On a visit wemade shortly after the beautiful buildingwas so severely damaged by earthquake,the good Brother could not forget to joke,though the visitors were saddened by thehavoc wrought. It happened that I wasthe largest man in the party, and lookingdirectly at me the Brother

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