America’s Last Emperor: Knickerbocker

Chapter Seventeen

Monumental Fire Company #6, 1856 — Courtesy OpenSFHistory.org

November 21st, 1857

Eastland talked Norton into reviving his anniversary dinner by offering to pay for it at Macao and Woosung. It was 8 years since Norton stepped off the boat in San Francisco, and the ship that he’d arrived on now lay broken up and scattered underneath the foundations of Eastland’s new Gas Works. Besides, being the head of…