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SAN ANTONIO  in the surrounding region. It has an altitude of 1,900 feet and an abundant water-supply, being near the confluence of five rivers. Among its industries are oil-mill, brick-works, cotton-gins, lumberyards, shops and general offices, for Texas, of the Kansas City, Midland and Orient Railroad. The city has an excellent system of public schools, a Roman Catholic and private academy, business college, several churches and good municipal buildings. San Angelo has all the adjuncts of an up-to-date city, the services of two railroads and a population of 10,321.  San Anto′nio, Tex., a leading city, county-seat of Bexar County, is on San Antonio River. It has a large trade in horses, mules, wool, hides and grain, and has flour-mills, breweries, tanneries, machine-shops, foundries, binderies, cotton-presses and oil-mills. Among the important buildings are San Fernando Cathedral, commenced in 1749, St. Mark's Cathedral, Menger Hotel and the city-hall. San Antonio has a fine public-school system, with 21 buildings and 150 teachers, colored teachers being employed for colored children. Its broad plazas are overarched by fine old trees, and Brackenridge Park, near the head-springs of San Antonio River, contains 200 acres, is kept in its natural state and maintains a rare collection of wild animals. In the Mexican quarters of Laredito and Chihuahua may be seen Spanish manners and customs, markets, shops, cafés and churches. In San Antonio, as elsewhere in Texas, many Germans have settled, and have greatly helped to build up the city. Except during the war, San Antonio has been the Texan headquarters of the United States army since 1848, and the quartermaster's depot covers eight acres, the arsenal 20. Fort Alamo, just across the river, was the scene of the massacre by Santa Anna of the garrison of 188 men, including Crockett and Bowie, in 1836. The place was founded by the Spaniards in 1714, who built a fort, and four years later some monks began the mission of the Alamo. Population 96,614.  San Ber′nardi′no, Cal., county-seat of San Bernardino County, was settled by Mormons in 1851. It is a summer and winter health-resort, because of its uniform climate. The surrounding country is a rich agricultural and mining section. San Bernardino's leading industries are grain-elevators, fruit-crate factories, lumber-mills and the Santa Fé railroad-shops; while it also is an important shipping-point for fruit, grain and lumber. The city has excellent public and parochial schools, a business college, an academy, an orphan asylum and Southern California Hospital for the Insane. It has electric-car service, two railroads and modern improvements. Population 12,779.   San Diego, Cal., county-seat of San Diego County, the main port of southern California, stands on the beautiful bay of the same name, 125 miles southeast of Los Angeles. The bay, ten miles long, forms a good and very busy harbor. The climate is remarkably genial, and thousands of tourists come here and to Coronado Beach, a suburb across the bay, whose hotel cost $1,200,000. San Diego is the oldest city in California, and Father Junipero's Jesuit mission of 1768 is still preserved and used. A few miles back, at the mouth of a canon, stands the famous Sweetwater dam, one of the largest in the world, with a curving wall of masonry 90 feet high and 46 feet through at the base. A large trade in wool, nuts, fruit, honey and other products of the country is carried on. San Diego has carriage and wagon works, flour and planing mills and machine-shops. It has a splendid system of public and parochial schools and other educational institutions, and is served by four railroads. A monument to (q. v.) was set up near San Diego in 1891. Population 39,578.  San Domingo. See and.  San Francis′co, Cal., the chief city of California and the Pacific coast, stands on a peninsula between the sea and the bay of San Francisco. The bay stretches north and south 47 miles, with a width of six to ten miles. Joining San Francisco Bay on the north are San Pablo Bay, 10 miles long, in which are Mare Island and the United States navy-yard, and Suisun Bay, eight miles long, into which fall the San Joaquin and Sacramento Rivers. The entrance to San Francisco Bay is the famous Golden Gate, a strait a mile wide and five long. The shores are rocky cliffs, in some places nearly 2,000 feet high. The bay is a large factor in making San Francisco's site of such business importance. Near the city are three islands, Goat or Yerba Buena, Alcatraz and Angel, the last two being fortified.

Two hills within the city rise several hundred feet. San Francisco has many large and fine buildings of marble, granite, terra-cotta, iron and brick; yet, in spite of many bad fires, it still, because of its climate, has many residences of wood. San Francisco has six large parks and many small ones, all of which are beautiful and attractive. Like Central Park in New York, Golden Gate Park has been reclaimed from a waste tract, in this case of sand-dunes. The park runs along the seashore for about one mile and covers 1,014 acres. At Point Lobos are Cliff House, Seal Rocks and Sutro Heights, which are popular resorts in the summer, Sutro Park is one of the finest private parks in the United States, and is open to the public every day. Sutro Baths, near the Cliff House, are a very extensive bathing-establishment