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NO NEED FOR STREET LAMPS
For a good many weeks now, we have had no street lamps, and it seems to us that
we are fast becoming accustomed to dispense with them, and that we are getting
along very well without them. This was said in the Circular in 1883 as it
bragged “no more accidents have happened and no more deeds of darkness have been
committed than if the gas lamps had been glimmering away as usual. A day or two
after the gas was shut off a drunken man did indeed lose his life by a fall on
Rincon Hill, but he very likely would have managed to do that in any case, lamps
or no lamps. We have surely to congratulate ourselves and the city that we
conduct ourselves equally well in the dark, and it is good that the lamps were
put out, if only to let us know how virtuous we are.”
San Francisco Real Estate Circular
April 1883
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