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DAWN AND THE DONS 220 Monterey Daily Herald, through the Associated Press and other news gathering agencies, lays before its readers the news of the world that comes over the whispering wires or through the wireless ether from the remotest parts of earth.

California’s first hotel was at Monterey. It was called the “Washington” and it sheltered the delegates to the constitutional convention in 1849.

“It was here,” as Mrs. Anna Geil Andresen tells us, “that our first organic law in its making was discussed over rich and rare vintages, to be finally put in shape at Colton Hall.”

And so the list of “first things” and of historically interesting things might be run out at considerable length. There was California’s first frame house, erected in 1847 by William Bushton, an Australian, the house itself being brought in sections by way of Cape Horn. There, on