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 114 THE TOURIST'S CALIFORNIA tokens of Tilden's genius, among them the Native Sons' Monument at Turk and Mason Streets, the Soldiers' Monument, the memorial to Father Serra in the Park, " The Ball-player," and some orig- inal pieces shown at the Exposition. In the ferry building are the rooms of the Cali- fornia Development Board, also a tourist bureau and permanent exhibits of California's resources. This section of the city has a goodly portion of beloved landmarks. Further out Market Street one comes to the towering leviathans of stone and steel which celebrate the city's re-birth. No loss has been more lamented than the destruc- tion of the Mark Hopkins mansion which contained San Francisco's most worthy art collection. Only fifty paintings were saved from the flames. These with recently added gifts are now guarded in the San Francisco Institute of Art, a new build- ing on the corner of California and Mason Streets. " The Discovery of San Francisco Bay," by Ar- thur Mathews, Schreyer's " Arabs," a landscape by de Haas, and Benjamin Constant's two Byzan- tine studies are among those which remain from the original collection. Especially interesting are the landscapes the oaks and mountains of Wil- liam Keith, dean of native art, the " Corot of Cal- ifornia," whose death occurred in April, 1911. Twenty of his pictures have been placed in the Art Institute of Chicago.