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ADVERTISING Your money b xck.—Judicious advertis ing is the kind that pays back to ros the msacy v«i invest. Space in this paper aasures yon prompt retains . . UIMWMWIMMiIWaiIWIWIIIIKIW VOL. VH. - NO 27. LONC USED 10 EARTHQUAKES B*Uea Gate XletnfwKs lbs Been Shakes Oftoi la ibe Past 1 . PRESENT WORST EVER KNOWN 9MM af AM Styaeraper* mi Otter City Hall la Ma. Plrea At rested by Dynamite—Earth* fsafce at IMS Described by Mark Twaia. THK recent dlaaatrous earthquake extending over so large a part of the I*aclflc coast region and wrecking auch an extensive •action of the city of Han Francisco waa aot tlie first of these catastrophes known In tlie western metropolis, though by all odda the moat damaging. For many years the municipal au thorities refused to permit tall build ings iu the city because of the fear of earthquakes, several of which had al ready been experienced. Finally the Interdiction was removed, however, aud a nuuitier of skyscrapers resulted. Prior to IHIIO there was hardly a building In excess of five stories and only a few of that height. Today there la one eighteen stories high and quite a number from twelve to fourteen atortao. In the spring of ISOfl. about 10 o'clock one night, the city had a selamlc ahock that put to teat Its high structures. It was the worst earthquake since 1808, when for eight or nlue blocks on the main atreet (Market) the ground waa cracked opeu several Inches. In the upheaval of IWti the tall build ings were given a fearful shaking, and aome of their occupants wore made dlaxy and alck. The structures were uninjured. au.l ever since that time there has no. been so much question of the .safety of high buildings of mod ern construction—that Is, buildings of structural Irou frame and facings of pressed brick, terra cotta or stone. It was M. H. 9* Young, IV- proprie tor and editor af the Cnronlcia, who was the pioneer In this respect Ha met with op|>oaltlon from the munici pal authorities fourteen year* ago when be decided to erect a ten story house for his newspaper. It was believed to be n dangerous undertaking because of the earthquake fear, but Mr. De Young won out and thereby act an example af enterprise to other wealthy man who hare alnce built more tall bulldlnga. For Instance. D. O. Mills, the Now Tork banker, who owns a great deal of Ban Francisco property, has one of the talleat and fineat structures In the city. ■ Claua Bpreckels. known throughout the country as the augur king and the ■,• ; ' ; 1 I ■ • Aft H \ I iEwSHIi: ■M i 1 | j' 1H CITY HALL, WHICH WAS WRECKED. richest San Francisco 11. owm a build ing aerenteen rtorUn high, commonly known as the Oil building. On three of the corner site*, where Third street Intersects Market, la located the gnat Sprockets building. Jbe home of the Gall;'the De Vonnv building, the home of the Chrouieta. tag, occupied' by the Examiner, the three great Pacific coast newspapers having contributed handsomely to the building development of Ban Francisco ta recent yean. The city BOW baa Ita ■hare of talLbnlkiio**. oae betng eight aeu stories In height The major part are eight, ten and twelve ato He*, the eight ■tailed being moat nn- The Call and Examiner buildings were tluioat totally destroyed io the earthquake and niun.v other sk.vscrap era were severely shaken, cracked aud damaged. One of the chief building* which col lapsed waa tlie new pustofflce. Thla waa a sulwtantUl structure of granite, coating to exceed fß.nm.tNiO. While not atriking from an architectural 1 standpoint. the pustolllce waa Impress- Ivo from Ita maaalveneaa. I The Poatal building waa ludiy darn aged, and the operating room waa a I iritA. Pbwer of every kind waa de ' atroyed, and there were no lights, el ' fhar gaa or electric. Neither the Pal ' ace hotel nor the Bt. Francis wna de stroyed aa far aa the framework goes, . taM the Inside plaatarlag aM .iktiHtfc. , tlona were greatly damaged. . 1 TV" bwtaiaa aectlon of the city from Market street to Mlaalon atreet and Ml pli A . , 51 . jßjci VII HR9HL - km * ;' v nV^. 11 Jjj» ' | THE CALL BUILDIHO, ALSO DESTROYKD. from the hny hark wan almost com pletely wrecke^. Tho most conspicuous building In 8«u Francisco, the city hull. In almost totally ruined. It coat from $0,000,000 to 97,000,000, took twenty-live years lu construction ami wan surmounted by a dome 332 feet high. It nan thought to be Tory wildly constructed, being built substantially of brick, with the walls covered by cement The Interior of the dome was decorated with ex penal ve marblea taken from the I'll clflc coast mouutalna. Auother very flne building, which coat over $5,000,000, la the splendid ho Tel erected by Mm. Herman Oelrlchn on fashionable Kob bill. Mrs. Oelrlcha, who la a daughter of the late Senator Pair, baa shown fine taste In the ar chitectural plana of Fairmont, the ap propriate name of tbe new hotel. Keen from the bay this structure, with Its daaalc outlines, makes the beholder think of a Orvek temple. White and graceful. It looma above the busy mar ket places, the great wholesale district, the crowded business section aud pic ttueagne Chinatown, which, by the way, la feat disappearing owing to the encroachment* of commerce and UM dwindling of the Chinese population. ©it (Sntcqmst WILLIAMSTON, N. C„ FkIDAY, APRIL 27, 1906 Other Imposing edifice*, many of which hiy e l>ecn more or less aeverely ilnJunHl. are 1110 Hotel St Francis. the Si's lace hotel, the llail of Justice, thu Mutual I'.a.ik building, the raclfle Mu tual l.lfe building aiul the Cullogban building. The gre.-ib-st property dam age resulted Iu the manufacturing dis trict and tlie jfreatest loss of life In the tenement house district. ' Hi.' chief strwt «>r the city la Mar ket. ruiailHg diagonally for muny miles. The destruction of many of the depart ment store-; aud oth« r business blocks on Market aud Mission waa al most complete. Kin' mlded to the hor rors of tlie situation, and, aa the water mains had la-en burnt by the ahock. the fire department was helpless. The flumes ate their way along Market street, and other Ores started In differ ■nt parts of the elty. As the earthquake occurred but a little after fl o'clock In the morulnr. nrsctlcallv the entire population was In bed. Men nnil women rushed wildly forth In their night rolie.-t and lied til j panic lliion.li the streets. Many werj ! caught by the fnlllttg roofs nnd walls, j { and In the poorer districts the tone j meats collapsed like eggshells, crusli . 1 ing and auffocntlng their Inmates l*>- t fore tliey hail time to escape. In many , cases fire Mulshed the work of death, j . catching the victims as they were r ' pinned still alive under the debris. I To arrest the spread of the lire along ! Market street many buildings were ; dynamited. , I The track of one railroad was de pressed four feet or more for a dls- I tains- of th-ee miles. At one point In ! the city the earth cracked ojien for a j 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 AJnion and I'oatul of flees, a!so the Aiwoelatcd I'ress, greatly added to the difficulty. ; 11.e practical destruction of six or eight blocks, coupled with the Immense loss of life nnd damage to property throughout San Francisco and the en tire const region, makes this the worst earthquake disaster 111 American his tory, exceeding even the historic Charleston earthi|unke of a few years ago. Ran Francisco has suffered from many alight seismic shocks, one of them occurring about a year ago. At that time a long article appeared In one of the p"|ie-i signed by a pro fessor In one of the observatories near ! by, stating th at there was no partlc ; ular dang-r fr >m tiie e tremors of the earth's stirf.v e. Tlie coast region, ac cording to this writer, was newer than parts of the country fnrther east and was therefore settling. lie said peo ple should feel uo alarm, as nothing serious was liable to happen, j Evidently the earth's crust In the Golden Gate rep-inn has l»eeu doing some more "«eitllng." The most severe earthquake Han Francisco has known prior to the pres ent one wan in IKtiX. Quite a little damage rciitcd. though nothing re mutely com;-arable to this. It wua the 1868 shaken;* that was made famm: by Mark Twain. The tno-t surprising j thing the genial .Mark r«w at that time was the opening up of the ceiling of I III* room, the lijw of the urilice work i Ing to and fro like a mouth and a brick | slipping thmi'gh ami held in mum pen ! slon, like one lone tooth on the Juw of | an old man. | Tlie Inst earthquake that occurred In j San Francisco was iq January. 1000. j Several distinct shocks -were felt early In the morninr, causing the vibration of building* all over the city. The chief building affected was the St. Nicholas hotel, which was severely shaken. The walls collapsed In cer ta'n part* of the structure, guests were thrown out of their IK>IIS and furniture was destroyed. In 1904 -there was a severe seismic disturbance in I»s An~o!e*. which was felt throughout the city and for n j radius at several miles around. SI FRANCISCO ill HISTORY Strkkcn City Las; Permeated Wiu aa Air of Romance IN THE DAYS Of VIGILANTES How Ihe Metropolis et CalKofpla Waa Punted ot Disorder- LyncttVj; ol Casey- The Days of the Forty uliicrs—Town' Depopulat ed by the Rush ol Gold Seekers. SAX ritANOlft'O, the earthquake slrlcke.i city, tins long lieen |ier iiieui il with an air of romnnc«> uud adveuture Nowhere may otic turn without being reminded of the legends that hive beeu woven arouud the forty nli.ers nud their Im mediate followers. The names of tho streets and of the business blocks, such us Kearney, Slitter, Montgomery, Du- IHiitt, Flood, Crocker and Sharon, bring to the mind of the visitor long forgot ten stories of riot or adventure and of fortunes whose vnptness once excited his wonder or inudc hlm4ucredulous. The sjte of tho I'ltj' was first visited by Europeans In 17tU. and In IT7!i Hu carell icilerod a fort, presidio and mis sion founded oil Ihe bay. One year later. Ihe year of tlie Declaration of ajEk jfe 5v,,., Hf* /Jb '"'-i voMl MM -4811 111 ct, MARKET STREET FROM SECOND STREET WEST. Independence, the Spanish settler* be pan the work, und when Vancouver, the explorer, visited the place lu 17!'U the presidio represented the military authority, while lite pueblo and mis ston stood for the civil and religious factors respectively. The mission was secularized in 18254 and a town, lul l out the year following. In IH4I nn American man of-wnr, un dei: comma ~of Commodore John It Montgomery, entered the harbor unl hoisted the stars and stripes over the tov i. Mexico, which succeeded Spall' as the owner of California, was then nt war with the (Thlleil States, and the act of Commodore Montgomery ended her dominion over San I'ranclr.cn. Montgomery appointed Nontenant Washington A. Bartiett to be Frisco's first alcalde, or mnyor. under the ne v regime. I ml# Bpail-h and Mexican rule the town was a leopy, iltiprogrcss tvr* plm-e, bnt with rmritnc of Amrr Ican.i and the discovery of gold In IHIS there came an era of growth and hus tle. Tills did not eventuate at once, for th • first news of the discovery Of gold practically depopulated Ran Frail- Cisco. Thi'town was smitten IIH by a plague, Pou one hjatorian thus describes what ——waoff?'- ■ •^>r-vr^g i i'T 1 "-r - *Wf —Pß3r~? MRS*? '—.W •» i • . W't, %'": i ■Vs£ f y f'itjb', '•■ -.t- ''if- Z'-Ai' ' - WUt' s■" "4 * ' ii « | ■> SAN FRANCISCO HA&BOR. >1 nn'-ned: "Its bouses were left tmoc cU|Ve 1 and unprotected. Its former tri V censed, its lots fell to a small part of their value, Its two weekly newspapers were nuspeuded, aud the tu.vn. deserted by the bulk o( Its In- Iwlntunts, was at one time without u single officer clothed with civil author ity." A fter the first ruah to the gold dig glicji the town began to regain its lost groan I, and ere long the Influx of gold set !..-rs give quite un Impetus to Its pro ill The town was Incorporated In Aorll, I' '!, aud the first common ionill il electi'il proceeded with diligence to plunder the city treasury. The Mime year the state was admitted to the I'nlon, and wlieii the steamer Ore gon brought the news there was no telegraphic communication In tboee days business was entirely suspended anil the entl'e population rushed to the wharfs to welcome the harbinger. The town had a limit lO.inki Inhabitants at that time, and when the people were Informed that the signal Hags of the Oregon indicated that California waa a sovereign state of the t'nlted States of America "a universal shout arose from 10,000 voice* ou the v-Vi|-fs, In the streets, upon the lilils, w usetops and the world of shipping In the bay." In Its early history 'lie city suffered from several !Is u.lrt .u 1 .-s. I ctween December, IMU>. uud June, IHfU, alx contlagratlous played havoc with the growing young town. Better bnllilltigs wore phitineil and several tire compa nies were Ol'gmtzed. These were steps In the right direction. It was ttlso dis covered that the fires were started hy criminals who profited by the confu sion. This fnct aud the Inefficiency and corruption of the city government led a large number of citizens to organ ize the famous vigilance committee which ruled the place in lKfil. Quite a mini tier of crooks were lynched hy the committee, others were driven out, like John Oak hurst, the leading figure In Ilret liurte's "Outcusts of I'oker Rat." imd the city went through u pu rification process that was of great benefit to it Thi' aspect of Han l'"ranclaco at ttilH time was not Inspiring to Inflowing gold seekers. It WUH a struggling med ley of low. dingy udobea, frull wooden shanties. born In an afternoon, wltti a sprinkling of more rcs|tcct*hlc. frame bouses and a mass of cauvns und rub ber Imbibitions. It wax mainly n city of tents, rising In a crescent upon the shores of the cove. From Clark palot It skirted the land to Telegraph hill, along the flay street slopes, tapering nwfiy to tile California street rldgo. The larger number passed to the soutli went shores of the cove, lieyoud 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 Buc wnmito iu Criiuii utiiujtu present «sl tile, neatest duster of dwelllngs, and Powell street waa the abode of churches, for of the six chiirrhca In existence In the middle of 1850 three graced Its sides and two Htood upon cross streets, within half a block. Mutton street, nlHive It. wna really the western limit of the city, UH Green utreet WUH the northern. Beyond SI axon street ran Ihe trntl to the I'realdlo, past scattered cottages, cabins and sheds, auild dai ries an«l gardens, with u branch path to the Marine hospital, oil Filbert street, mid u not her to tlie North Btsich anchorage, where speculators were planning a wliurf to attract settlement After tlie vlirlliiiice committee dis banded tlie erluilnill element iieeuuio bolder, and 111 IMso ( tte .crime and cor ruption lu the city bad become Intol erable to those who wlulled to live a decent mid orderly life. When Kdltor King of the Bulletin, who bud de uouneed the thugs, was murdered by James P. Casey, u new vigilance or ganization was created, and In a few days Casey and another murderer named Cora were executed In frontrfbf tbe committee's headi|uarters. Many lawbreakers were later put to death, and tbe regime of the California "bad man" cauie to an end. It bus lieen asserted that San l'rnn clseo Is the most cosmopolitan city In tlie world, and by cosmopolitan Is meant a |Nipiilatloii from all parts of the world. Not long ago the records Indicated that 4.'! |ier cent of tbe |>eo ple of the city were born lu foreign lands, not In two or three different countries, but In practically every land under the sun. According to the na tional census rejHirts for 1800, San Francisco bad a total |M>pnlatlon of LlW.',H>7. Of these 17i!,lSii were native born mill l'.'tl.Hl 1 were liorn outside of the I'nlted States. Fully half the grown persons In the community re moved to t'sllfornla from alien lands, while n large percentage of (lie other hnlf and of the geuerul body of chil dren were of foreign parentage. In Hint 1 San Francisco had a population of 3-15.7N2, of which 34.1 per cent was foreign borrtVi San Francisco lias long been fnrned 11s one of the "wide open" cities of tho I'nltiil States. As In the days of 184 i», the gambler devotes himself to his vocation with little Interference from tbe authorities. l'rlor to the earthquake two of the moat prominent corners In the city were occupied t>j' gambling deiia. One of tht'in, known as the ('lift- Itoynl, has been n veritable gold nilue for UH proprietor)*. The California supreme court him rendered a dedition to the effect that the gam* of draw poker In not a game of chance, hut Involve# Judgment and other elements an well an chance or luck, and because of this decision them places are permitted to lie maintained. They are frequented by a linril look ing crowd of men, and many scandals are told associated with these places. A visitor'* life la pmhaldy safe In these resorts, but his money 1H not. It 1H said that the son of the premier of British Columbia was fleeced of in the Cafe Itoynl a few year* ago. lie lost tI.ROO In cash, hut stop|ied payment 011 s7.o>o In checks. 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