Excerpt from Original Thoughts, Essays and Stanzas Written by the Pupils of the San Francisco Public Schools: Embracing Names of Writers and the Schools and Grades in Which They Belong; Together With the Cuts of the Writers Who Are the Winners of the Prizes Offered by the Merchants of San Francisco

However, carriages are something that to the careful oh server are extremely interesting. The processes through which the simplest carts have to go before reaching a finished state show how intricate must be their construction.

The manufacture of conveyances gives labor to more men, I imagine, than any other industry woodmen, miners, foundry-men, tanners, painters and cloth-makers as well as the men who by combining the work of the laborers I have mentioned construct the cart, wagon, carriage or whatever it happens to be. It is not one man but many men who built the vehicle, for each part is built by a man who is master of the art of construction of that especial part.

To go over the ware-rooms of a fine carriage factory of to day is like going to an Academy of Fine Arts for if you do not view beautiful paintings that are masterpieces from some gifted hand, you see many masterpieces, the different parts of which are masterpieces of the mental and mechanical Skill of the philosopher who is always designing, scheming and contriving to add some new and important feature to his trade that will enable mankind to have higher and better grades of goods.

Of course, Fair Science with her grand advances comes in with easier and better modes of working. The old time forge, used for welding iron, with its flames and smoke, has been done away with to a certain extent, by the wonderful appliance of electricity - that wonder from which the present age receives its name The Electric Age. The work of welding is carried on with more facility with the aid of this power.

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