Portal:San Francisco Bay Area/Years/115

1900

Political cartoon during the plague years

• An epidemic of bubonic plague centered on San Francisco's Chinatown begins, the first plague epidemic in the continental United States (reviled investigator Joseph J. Kinyoun pictured)
• The California Automobile Company is founded in San Francisco
• The Sempervirens Club is founded with the goal of preserving old growth coast redwood forest in the Santa Cruz Mountains
• The World's Drinks And How To Mix Them, by William "Cocktail" Boothby, is published by the Palace Hotel, San Francisco