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 SAN FRANCISCO 117 gues one less gifted in poetry, prose, music or the unspoken arts than its traditions require. Taylor Street passes the site of the old Tivoli in. its progress from the Bohemian Club to Market. At Fifth and Mission, a block south of the chief highway of business, is the Mint, to which admis- sion is free any week-day morning before 11 :30 and from 1 :00 to 2 :30 in the afternoon. The Fed- eral Building containing the Post Office is two blocks beyond, at Seventh Street. The new City Hall, with a tower and fa9ade which resemble the ones destroyed, faces the square near the gore formed by Van Ness and Market Streets. It is the most conspicuous edifice in the Civic Centre group, the plan of which embodies a Library, a Convention Auditorium, an Opera House, a Mu- seum of Art, and a State Building. The plaza is named for James Marshall, in tardy gratitude for the fortuitous service he performed on that Jan- uary day at Coloma. He, like Sutter, died poor and embittered. Past the Tilden monument erected to Calif ornians who served in the Spanish-American war, one con- tinues out Market to Dolores Street, where, on the rise over which sheep and cattle once ranged, Juni- pero Serra established the Mission settlement which was sixth in the chain he forged. When his emissaries came upon this site, a willow-edged stream watered the meadows. They named it in