Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-24

were diverted by the great barren cut
at that point eating easterly, thence
along the south line of Clinton park to
Guerrero and along the east line of
Guerrero running in their course the half
constructed hospital of st. Katherine
to Market street, whence they spread
along the southerly side of that thor
oughfare easterly to Cough.
Thence along the east line of Cough
half way to Octavia, sparing the row of
buildings along the easterly line of
Octavia as far as Fell, where they
reached to the easterly line of Octavia
and along that line northerly to Full
ton, where on the west side they were
fronted by a half burned block that had
been consumed by fire started by an
overturned lamp on the morning of the
earthquake.
Flames Jump to Cough
Along the southerly line of McAllister
the flames made their way to Cough,
stopping long enough to consume the
northwest corner of Cough and Nc
Allister Thence along the easterly line
of Cough to Golden Gate avenue, thence
along the southerly line of Golden Gate
avenue to Van Ness and along the east
line of Van Ness to Sutter, where they
the blocks from the north line of SUIT
ter and the east line of Franklin
through to Clay.
In this district were included some
of the most splendid mansions of the
city, chief among which was the ma
jestic home of Claus Spreckels, at the
southwest corner of Clay and Van Ness.
This splendid piece of architecture,
done in brown stone in the chateau
style, still stands though blackened by
the ordeal and divested of all it's beauty.
melancholy testimony of the futility
of human endeavor.
Fire Reaches Greenwich
Still burning along the east line of
Van Ness, north toward Fort Mason,
the fire reached Greenwich along the
south line of which it spreads to Larkin
and along the east line of Larkin to
Lombard.
Thence along the south line of Lom-
bard to Hyde and along the east line
of Hyde to Chestnut, easterly thence
along the south line of Chestnut to
Taylor, thence along the east line of
Taylor to Bay. along the south line
of Bay to Mason and down the east
side of Mason to the city front
Within this vast waste of smouldering
embers were found three cases where
human beings still have their habitats
as before the great conflagration. One
of these was to be seen on the very
summit of Telegraph Hill, where per-
haps a score of homes still stand.
AT the northwest corner of Jones and
Green, the residence of o. D. Baldwin,
the real estate dealer in the Mills
building, is still habitable.
Fine Homes Preserved
Across the way at the northeast cor
ner Mrs, Edward Huber has preserved
Green at 1909 to 1917 are to be found
residences Of Kirk Harris, Keorge j.
Phillips, B. j. Birdsall. William Hanke,
Charles O'Brien and Martin Fussier.
In this cluster are also the homes of
H. P. Livermore, capitalist, on Val
lejo, between Jones and Taylor: Miss
X. M. Atkinson. 1882 Broadway; Homer
Parker, 1899 Broadway; Eli Sheppard,
capitalist, at Vallejo and Taylor; Rev.
Joseph Worcester, 1880 Vallejo: Liv-
ingston jerks, northwest corner of
son, lumberman. 1882 Vallejo: Morgan
Sheppard, 1884 Vallejo; Frank Stone,
insurance, 1895 Vallejo; Mrs. Virgil Will
lams, widow of the artist and of the
elder Polk, father of Willis Polk, the
architect.
Six Flats Intact
There are also six sets of flats in this
vicinity which remain intact. These
courageous men and women who saved
their homes by main effort. while sea
of flame ragged and roared about them,
in their great thankfulness for the
mercy that has been shown them, have
only this small complaint to make:
THAT in their distress they have been
nI1ita aha n6nnad hU tho nnI1StitIIfad ali
thorities and for their protection have
organized a patrol system of their own,
each man of the number taking a two
hours task of duty
Some 800 of the houses lying on the
south and east slopes of Telegraph Hill
remain to attest the efficacy of the
juice of the grape in quenching flames
when water failed, for in this quarter
the householders, many of whom arc
Italians, saved their abodes by a free
use of the red wine stored in their
cellars.
The red walls of the houses show the
stains where the claret-soaked sacks
had been used to cool the heated walls
of the buildings.
The one remaining spot unburned
within the district is bounded by Mont
gomery, Battery, Jackson and Washing
ton. Within this district is the ap-
pralserS building, in winch is stored
some half million dollars of valuable
wares belonging to the importing mer-
chants of San Francisco. The saving of
this and the adjoining buildings is
ascribed to the heroic endeavors of Cap
tain Wolfe and his men of Company
D, Twenty-second United States in
fantry, who with such means as they
had at hand, succeeded in fighting off
the devouring element.
GRANTS PASS, ORE,
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