Montgomery Street

Street in San Francisco’s Financial District. In Around the World in Eighty Days Fogg’s party is caught in an election brawl there, starting the feud with Colonel Proctor.

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Source	Author	Role	In one line
Around the World in Eighty Days	Jules Verne	setting	An election brawl starts the feud with Colonel Proctor.

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Around the World in Eighty Days — Jules Verne (1872)

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They soon found themselves in Montgomery Street, where a great crowd was collected; the side-walks, street, horsecar rails, the shop-doors, the windows of the houses, and even the roofs, were full of people.

• Role: setting
• In the book: On 3 December Fogg’s party lands, takes rooms at the International Hotel and is caught on Montgomery Street in a brawl between two election meetings. Fix takes a blow meant for Fogg, and Fogg trades challenges with Colonel Stamp Proctor. At the station a porter tells Fogg the riot was only a vote for a justice of the peace.
• Why it matters: The riot opens the American leg and starts the Fogg–Proctor feud that runs through the next chapters.