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 SAN FRANCISCO 103 accustomed to the divergent angles formed by the thoroughfares in making their contact with Mar- ket Street. Golden Gate Park comprises an ob- long extending for three miles from Stanyan Street to the Pacific. The storied hill known as Twin Peaks lifts above the land extremity of Market Street. The old Franciscan chapel at the junction of 16th and Dolores Streets is in the outlying business and residence quarter south of Market which is called " the Mission." Since the fire, Fillmore Street and Van Ness Ave- nue have become shopping centres, though once considered far out. The latter may be com- pared to lower Fifth Avenue in its evolution from the most sumptuous of residential streets to a re- gion lined with stores. The principal retail establishments are down town on or near Market, between McAllister and Kearny Streets. Union Square and the Dewey Memorial are at the heart of all that is most ex- clusive in shops, hotels and amusement places. The Fairmont has withdrawn to the steeps of Nob Hill the afore-time seat of the silver mine and Central Pacific nabobs. At the corner of Jones and declivitous California Street, which only the cable car is brave enough to essay, the magnificent Protestant Cathedral is rising. Chinatown and the plaza are at its feet.