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thoroughfares, while churches, cathedrals, and public
buildings rise from the dense mass of lesser structures.
Elegant equipages with their fair freight roll over the
paved streets, and out through the park to the ocean
beach ; while street rail-cars, with scores of miles of
iron track reaching far out into every suburb, carry
the less pretentious population to and from their
homes.