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 102 THE TOURIST'S CALIFORNIA Francisco. Market Street is an oblique line crossing the city in a general southwesterly direc- tion. To the south of it are streets parallel or at right angles to it. The numbered streets be- gin near the water and pursue a regular course until Twelfth Street is reached. Thirteenth Street crosses Market. Thereafter the successive numbers run from west to east instead of north- west to south-east, with the result that Twentieth Street has its terminal at the Union Iron Works on a line with Seventh Street. The city's sur- veyors further confused matters by interrupting the progress of the lesser numbered streets to the bay by interpolating a transverse block of thor- oughfares named for half the States of the Union, and consummated the confusion by avoiding all geographical sequence. Missouri, Connecticut, Arkansas, Wisconsin, Carolina, Rhode Island, Kansas and Vermont Streets follow in the order given. It is fortunate for the stranger that this jumbled quarter has little concern for him unless he make a visit to the famous ship-building yards of the Union Iron Works, which face the Central Basin and are reached by " Kentucky Number 16 " car. North and west of the main duct of municipal commerce whose slant so complicated the labour of the cartographers, lies a great tract mapped in rectangles, simple to comprehend when one becomes i