Portal:San Francisco Bay Area/Years/115
Appearance
1900
![Political cartoon during the plague years](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Kinyoun_injected_in_the_head_1900.jpg/100px-Kinyoun_injected_in_the_head_1900.jpg)
- 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