Jersey was not New Jersey , but the English Channel Jersey, the island where the cows came from. London led the foreign registrations, but guests were registered from Ireland , Scotland , Spain , Mexico , Canada, China , and Samoa. In the United States geography, virtually all of the big eastern and Midwestern cities were represented, also many of the smaller ones. San Diego, naturally, appeared most frequently, but Boston seemed to lead the more distant places.
   The names of the register recall the part of San Diego 's past which laid foundations for its present. Perhaps chief of the old-timers who signed the register was A. E. "Father" Horton, who came to San Diego in 1867. There is also C. J. Stough, who lived to be more than 100 years of age, and had his picture in the Union on his birthday every year after he was 95.
  George W. Marston, Mrs. Marston and three children were registered. So was Judge M. A. Luce, who came to San Diego in 1873; Charles S. Hardy, cattle dealer who came in 1881; W. A. Sloane, who came to San Diego in 1887; Charles S. Hamilton, grocer; J. W. Sefton, bank president; Russell H. Gunnis, banker, and Thos. Whaley, Pioneer of California '49, of San Diego 1851
  Though it gained the reputation in later years of being a rough and tumble honky-tonk, the outside appearance still bears some of it previous dignity. Ironically, today it is a "half-way house" for recovering alcoholics and drug abusers.