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NO NEED FOR STREET LAMPS


For a good many weeks now, we have had no street lamps, and it seems to us that we are fast becoming accustomed to dispense with them, and that we are getting along very well without them. This was said in the Circular in 1883 as it bragged “no more accidents have happened and no more deeds of darkness have been committed than if the gas lamps had been glimmering away as usual. A day or two after the gas was shut off a drunken man did indeed lose his life by a fall on Rincon Hill, but he very likely would have managed to do that in any case, lamps or no lamps. We have surely to congratulate ourselves and the city that we conduct ourselves equally well in the dark, and it is good that the lamps were put out, if only to let us know how virtuous we are.”



San Francisco Real Estate Circular
April 1883