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    Scot Enlisted Wealthy S.F. Men to Aid in Park (Part 5)

    January 18, 1943 /

    Monday 18 January 1943  The fifth in a series of articles on the life of Uncle John McLaren is presented herewith by The Call-Bulletin. Their author, the late J. Lawrence Toole, noted San Francisco newspaperman, was a friend of the man who developed Golden Gate Park. By J. Lawrence Toole Strawberry Hill, with its native oaks, and atop of it the McSweeney Panorama, later shaken down in 1906, was here, of course, when John McLaren came, but there was no waterfall leaping down its steep sides and no beautiful, winding lake at its base. Both of these he added to the beauty of the park. The story of the falls,…

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