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LONG USED TO
EARTHQUAKES
Golden Gate Metropolis
Been Shaken Often
In tha Past
Has
PRESENT WORST EVER KNOWN
Some of the Skyscrapers and Other
Buildings Destroyed Magnificent
City Hall In Ruins Sires Ar
rested by Dynamite Earth
quake of 18(8 Described
by Mark Twain.
THE recent disastrous earthquake
extending over so large a part
of the Pacific coast region and
wrecking such an extensive
section of the city of San Francisco
was not the first of these catastrophes
known In the western metropolis,
though by all odds the most damaging.
For many years the municipal au
thorities refused to permit tall build
ings in the city because of the fear of
earthquakes, several of which had al
ready been experienced. Finally the
Interdiction was removed, however,
and a number of skyscrapers resulted.
Prior to 1S90 there was hardly a
building in excess of five stories and
only a few of that height. Today there
Is one eighteen stories high and quite
a number from twelve to fourteen
stories.
In the spring of 1S9S, about 10 o'clock
one night, the city had a seismic shock
that put to tea its high structures. It
was the worst earthquake since 1SG8,
when for eight or nine blocks on the
main street (Market) the ground was
cracked open several inches.
In the upheaval of 189S the tall build
ings were given a fearful shaking, and
some of their occupants were made
dizzy and sick. The structures were
uninjured, and ever since that time
there has not been so much question
of the safety of high buildings of mod
ern construction that is, buiidlngs of
structural iron frame and facings of
pressed brick, terra cotta or stone.
It was M. H. De Young, the proprie
tor and editor of the Chronicle, whe
was the pioneer In this respect He
met with opposition from the munici
pal authorities fourteen years ago when
he decided to erect a ten story house
for his newspaper. It was believed to
be a dangerous undertaking because of
the earthquake fear, but Mr. De Young
won out and thereby set an example of
enterprise to other wealthy men who
have since built more tall buildings.
For Instance, D. O. Mills, the New
York banker, who owns a great deal
of San Francisco property, has one of
the tallest and finest structures in the
city.
Claus Spreckels, known throughout
the country as the sugar king and the
CITY HALL, WHICH
richest San Franciscan, owns a build
ing seventeen stories high, commonly
known as the Call building. On three
of the corner sites, where Third street
Intersects Market is located the great
Spreckels building, the home of the
Call; the De Young building, the home
of the Chronicle, and the Hearst build
ing, occupied by the Examiner, the
three great Pacific coast newspapers
having contributed handsomely to the
building development of San Francisco
In recent years. The city now has Its
share of tall buildings, one being eight
een stories In height The major part
of them are eight ten and twelve sto-
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possible with the stomach out
of order. If pasty sallow peo
ple would pay more attention
to their stomach and less to the
skin on their faces, they would
have better complexions. KO
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digest what you eat and put your
stomoch back in right shape to
do its own work. Kodol re
lieves palpitation of the heart,
flatulence, sour stomach, heart
burn, etc. Sold by Allison's
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ries, the eight storied, being most nu
merous.
The Call and Examiner buildings
were almost totally destroyed In the
earthquake and many other skyscrap
ers were severely shaken, cracked and
damaged.
One of the chief buildings which col
lapsed was the new postofflce. This
was a subatantial structure of granite,
costing to exceed $5,000,000. While
not striking from an architectural
standpoint, the postofflce was impress
"ve from Its massiveness.
The Postal building was badly dam
aged, and the operating room was a
wreck. Power of every kind was de
stroyed, and there were no lights, ei
ther gas or electric. Neither the Pal
ace hotel nor the St. Francis was de
stroyed as far as the framework goes,
but the Inside plastering and decora
tions were greatly damaged.
The business section of the city from
Market street to Mission street, and
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THE CALL BUILDING,
from the bay back was almost com
pletely wrecked.
The most conspicuous building In
San Francisco, the city hall, is almost
totally ruined. It cost from $6,000,000
to $7,000,000, took twenty-five years la
construction and was surmounted by
a dome 332 feet high. It was thought
to be very solidly constructed, being
built substantially of brick, with the
walls covered by cement The interior
of the dome was decorated with ex
pensive marbles taken from the Pa
cific coast mountains.
Another very fine building, which
cost over $5,000,000, Is the splendid ho-
WAtT WRECKED.
tel erected by Mrs. Herman Oelrichs
on fashionable Nob hill. Mrs. Oelrichs,
who is a daughter of the late Senator
Fair, has shown fine taste in the ar
chitectural plans of Fairmont the ap
propriate name of the new ho?el. Seen
from the bay this structure, with Its
classic outlines, makes the beholder
think of a Greek temple. White and
graceful. It looms above the busy mar
ket places, the great wholesale district
the crowded business section and pic
turesque Chinatown, which, by the
way. Is fast disappearing owing to the
encroachments of commerce and the
dwindling of the Chinese population.
A CREEPING DEATH.-.
Blood poison creeps up to
wards the heart, causing death.
J. E. Stearns, Belle Plaine,
Mirn., writes that a friend
dreadfully injured his hand,
which swelled up like blood
poising. Bucklen's Arnica
Sal vfl drew out the uoison,
healed the wound, and saved
his life. Best m the world for
burns and sores. 25c at John
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Other imposing edifices, many of
which have been more or less severely
Injured, are the Hotel St Francis, tbj
Palace hotel, the Hall of Justice, tha
Mutual Bank building, the Pacific Mu
tual Life building and the Callaghan
building. The greatest property dam
age resulted in the manufacturing dis
trict and the greatest loss of life in
the tenement house district.
The chief street of the city Is Mar
ket, running diagonally for many miles.
The destruction of many of the depart
ment stores and other business blocks
on Market and Mission streets was al
most complete. Fire added to the hor
rors of the situation, and, as the water
mains had been burst by the shock,
the fire department was helpless. The
flames ate their way along Market
street, and other fires started in differ
ent parts of the city.
As the earthquake occurred but a
little after 5 o'clock In the morning,
I ractically the entire population was la
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bed. Men and women rushed wildly
forth in their night robes and fled In
panic through the streets. Many were
caught by the falling roofs and walls,
and in the poorer districts the tene
ments collapsed like eggshells, crush
ing and suffocating their Inmates be
fore they had time to escape. In many
cases fire finished the work of death,
catching the victims as they were
pinned still alive under the debris.
To arrest the spread of the fire along
Market street many buildings were
dynamited.
The track of one railroad was de
pressed four feet or more for a dis
tance of three miles. At one point in
the city the earth cracked open for a
distance of six feet leaving a yawning
chasm of fathomless depth.
The destruction of all telegraph wires,
except one belonging to the Postal
union, made It almost Impossible for
the stricken city to communicate with
the outside world. The severe injury
to the Western Union and Postal of
fices, also the Associated Press, greatly
added to the difficulty.
The practical destruction of six or
eight blocks, coupled with the immense
loss of life and damage to property
throughout San Francisco and the en
tire coast region, makes this the worst
earthquake disaster In American his
tory, . exceeding even the historic
Charleston earthquake of a few years
ago.
San Francisco has suffered from
many slight seismic shocks, one of
them occurring about a year ago. At
that time a long article appeared In
one of the papers, signed by a pro
fessor In one of the observatories near
by, stating that there was no partic
ular danger from these tremors of the
earth's surface. The coast region, ac
cording to this writer, was newer than
parts of the country farther east -and j
was therefore settling. He said peo
ple should feel no alarm, as nothing
serious was liable to happen.
Evidently the earth's crust In the
Golden Gate region has been doing
some more "settling."
The most severe earthquake San
Francisco has known prior to the pres-
ent one was in 1868. Quite a little
damage resulted, though nothing re
motely comparable to this. It was the
1863 shakeup that was made famous
by Mark Twain. The most surprising
thing the genial Mark saw at that time
was the opening up of the celling of
his room, the lips of the orifice work
ing to and fro like a mouth and a brick
slipping through and held in suspen
sion, like one lone tooth on the jaw of
an old man.
The last earthquake that Occurred in
San Francisco was in January; 1900.
Several distinct shocks were felt early
In the morning, causing the vibration
of buildings all over the city. The
chief building affected was the St
Nicholas hotel, which was severely
shaken. The walls collapsed In cer
tain parts of the structure, guests were
thrown out of their beds and furniture
was destroyed. j
In 1904 there was a severe seismic
disturbance hi Los Angeles, which was
felt throughout the city and for a
radius of several miles around.
STOMACH TROUBLES.
Mrs. Sue Martin; an
old and highly respected
resident of Faisonia, Miss.,
was sick with stomach trouble
for more than six months.
Chamberlain's Stomach and
Liver Tablets cured her.
She says: "I can now eat
anything I want and am the
proudest woman in the world
to find such a good medicine."
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druggist.
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' ask for Scott's Emulsion
ou know what you want; the
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years we've been increasing
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Why? Because It has always
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Send for free sample
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INJISMY
Stricken City Long Permeated
Tito an Air of
Romance.
IN THE DAYS OF VIGILANTES
How the Metropolis of California Was
Purged of Disorder Lynching of
Casey The Days of the Forty
niners Town Depopniat- ,
ed by the Rash cf
Gold Seekers.
S
AN FRANCISCO, the earthquake
stricken city, has long been per
meated with an air of romance
and adventure. Nowhere may
one
the
turn without being reminded of
legends that have been woven
around the forty-niners and their im
mediate followers. The names of the
streets and of the business blocks, such
as Kearney, Sutter, Montgomery, Du
pont Flood, Crocker and Sharon, bring
to the mind of the visitor long forgot
ten stories of riot or adventure and of
fortunes whose vastness once excited
his wonder or mode him incredulous. -
The site of the city was first visited
by Europeans in 1769, and In 1775 Bu
careli ordered a fort presidio and mis
sion founded oa the bay. One year
later, the year of the Declaration of
Independence, the Spanish settlers be
gan the work, and when Vancouver,
the explorer, visited the place In 1792
the presidio represented the military
authority, while the pueblo and mis
sion stood for the civil and religious
factors respectively. The mission was
secularized In 1834 and a town laid
out the year following.
In 1846- an American man-of-war, un
der command of Commodore John B.
Montgomery, entered the harbor and
hoisted the stars and stripes over the
townL- Mexico, which succeeded Spain
as the owner of California, was then
at war with the United States, and the
act of Commodore Montgomery ended
her dominion over San Francisco.
Montgomery appointed Lieutenant
Washington A. Bartlett to be Frisco's
first alcalde, or mayor, under the new
regime. Under Spanish and Mexican
rule the town was a sleepy, uitprogress
lve place, but with the coming of Amer
icans and the discovery of gold In 1848
there came an era of growth and hus
tle. This did not eventuate at once,
for the first news of the discovery of
gold practically depopulated Sam Fran
cisco. The town was smitten as by a plague,
and one historian thus describes what
happened: ?1ts houses were left unoc
cupied and unprotected. Its former
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' newspapers were suspended, and the
town, deserted by the bulk of Its in
habitants, was at one time without a
single officer clothed with civil author
ity." After the first rush to the gold dig
gings the town began to regain Its lost
ground, and ere long the Influx of gold
seekers gave quite an impetus to its
growth. The town was incorporated
in April, 1850, and the first common
council elected proceeded with diligence
to plunder the city treasury. The
same year the state was admitted to
the Union, and when the steamer Ore
gon brought the newsthere was no
telegraphic communication in' those
days business was entirely suspended
and the entire population rushed to the
wharfs to welcome the harbinger. The
town had about 10,000 Inhabitants at
that time, and when the people were
Informed that the signal flags of the
Oregon Indicated that California was a
sovereign state of the United States of
America "a universal shout arose from
10,000 voices on the wharfs, in the
streets, upon the hills, housetops and
the world of shipping in the bay."
In Its early history the city suffered
from several disastrous fires. Between
December, 1849, and June, 1851, six
conflagrations played havoc with the
growing young- town. .Better buildings
were planned and several fire compa
nies were organized. These were Bteps
In the right direction. It was also dis
covered that the fires were started by
criminals who profited by the confusion.-
This fact and the inefficiency and
corruption of the city government led
a large number of citizens to organ
ize the famous vigilance committee
wy?lLruledfeeDlai;e JalSSl- fiSlig
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SAN FRANCISCO
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number of croiysiitre lynched By
the committee, others were driven out
like John Oakhurst the leading figure
in Bret Harte's "Outcasts of Poker
Flat" and the city went through a pu
rification process that was of great
benefit to it
The aspect of rfan Francisco at this
time was not Inspiring to inflowing
gold seekers. It was a straggling med
ley of low, dingy adobes, frail wooden
shanties, born In an afternoon, with a
sprinkling of more respectable frame
houses and a mass of canvas and rub
ber habitations. It was mainly a city
of tents, rising in a crescent upon the
shores of the cove. From Clark point
It skirted the land to Telegraph Mil,
along the Clay street slopes, tapering
away to the California street ridge.
The larger number passed to the south
west shores of the cove, beyond the
Market street ridge, a region sheltered
from blustering winds and provided
with good spring water and named the
Happy Valley.
Stockton street stretching from Sac
ramento to Green streets, presented
the neatest cluster of dwellings, and
Powell street was the abode of churches,
toT of the six churches In existence In
the middle of 1850 three graced its
ides and two stood upon cross streets,
within half a block. Mason street
above It was really the western limit
of the city, as Green street was the
northern.. Beyond, Mason street ran
the trail to the Presidio past scattered
cottages, cabins and sheds, asild dai
ries and gardens, with a branch 'path
to the Marine hospital, on Filbert
street and another to the North Beach
anchorage, where speculators were
planning a wharf to attract settlement
After the vigilance committee dis
banded the criminal element became
bolder, and In 1856 the crime and cor
ruption in the city had become intol
erable to those who wished to live a
decent and orderly life. When Editoi
King of the Bulletin, who had de
Bounced the thugs, 'was murdered bj
James P. Casey, a new vigilance or
ganization was created, and in a few
dbys Casey and another murderei
named Cora were executed In front of
the committee's headquarters. Many
lawbreakers were later put to death,
and the regime of the California "bad
man" came to an end.
It has been asserted that San Fran
cisco is the most cosmopolitan city in
the world, and by cosmopolitan Is
meant a population from all parts of
the world. Not long ago the records
Indicated that 43 per cent of the peo
ple of the city were born in foreign
lands, not in two or three different
countries, but In practically every land
under the sun. According to the na
tional census reports for 1890, San
Francisco had a total population of
298,997. Of these 172,186 were native
barn and 126311 were born outside of
Om United States. Fully half the
grown persons In the community re
moved to California from alien lands,
while a large percentage of the other
half and of the general body of chil
dren were of foreign parentage. In
1900 San Francisco bad a population
of 342,782, of which 34.1 per cent was
foreign born.
Ban Francisco has long been famed
as one of the "wide open" cities of the
United States. As in the days of
1849. the gambler devotes himself to
his vocation with little Interference
from the authorities. Prior to the,
earthquake two of the most prominent
corners In the city were occupied by
gambling dens. One of them, known
as the Cafe Boyal, has been a veritable
gold mine for its proprietors.
The California supreme court has
rendered a decision to the effect that
the game of draw poker Is not a game
of chance, but involves judgment and
other elements as well as chance or
luck, and because of this decision these
places are permitted to be maintained.
They are frequented by a hard look
ing crowd of men, and many scandals
are told associated with these places.
A visitor's life Is probably safe in these
resorts, but his money is not It Is said
that the son of the premier of British
Columbia was fleeced of $8,500 in the
Cafe Royal a few years ago. He lost
$L500 in cash, but stopped payment on
$7,000 In checks.
San Francisco has forty-seven square
miles of territory, or about 30,000
acres, within the municipal limits. The.
finest residences are on Nob hill and
Pacific heights, both of which districts
command magnificent views of the
bay and the Golden Gate. The city
has six large parks and twenty-two
small ones, and Golden Gate park oc
cupies over 1,000 acres.
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