The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-04-19

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its addition facing Kearney street. is
probably gone, or it stands on the
brink of a chasm at the point of
cleavage.
Along Montgomery street, in the
first block north from Post are the
Masonic block and the Lick house.
These may not have gone. All the row
across the streets and facing them are
in the danger zone. The next sky
scraper is the Mills building. and
back of that on Bush street is the
new telephone building of the Sunset
Company The old Cosmopolitan Ho-
tel now wholesale house, is there.
also. The Occidental Hotel extends
from Suffer 20 Bush on Montgomery
street. Back of the Occidental, and
between it and the bay, are the whole
sale houses of Croker & Co, Sach &
Ce. and many others, all in the ruined
district.
The Merchants Exchange building is
close to Montgomery and California
streets, and on the corner of Mont
gomery and California stands the
massive Alvinza Haywards sky
scraper. On the corner of Sacramento,
still further to the north is the Pa
cific Mutual building, a beautiful
structure of pressed brick and red
sandstone, a skyscraper put built with
out steel frame. 1t is the only one
of the kind in San Francisco.
Along Sansome there have of late
years gone up a number of tall and
very heavy buildings, and all the banks
of the city are close to that thorough
fare or below Montgomery in the
cross streets. Even the Nevada Bank,
=, ;zh ,o-Jrr ia6 thn tA1Yil in
put up by John W. Mackay on the
corner of Pine and Montgomery streets,
has been removed since it's consolida-
ton with Wells. Fargo & Co.'S bank to
the corner of Market and Sansome.
The Western Union Telegraph office,
where also were the offices of the AS
ISOLATED Press are in the building OPP
posite the old Nevada Bank building,
at the northeast corner of Montgomery
and Pine.
Still farther down in the ruined dis
Srivt. the Fair estate has lately erected
a number of heavy stone structures in
north Davis street. Then, along the
lower part of Market street there are
also some very heavy buildings, and
here are the big hardware houses, with
stocks of the heaviest articles, such
houses as those of Baker & Hamilton.
Holbrook Merrill & Stetson. w. w.
Montague & Co, Huntington, Hopkins
& Co, and all that class of business
houses In this district too, are the |
big wholesale houses of Wellman, Peck |
&c Co, Tillnan & Bendel, Norton, |
Teller e Roden. and all of the COM |
mission and fruit houses, and the |
wholesale fish markets.
4 most interesting structure, which |
has probably gone with the rest. is the
Mantle Block occupied on the ground
floor by the commission house OF |
Onesti & Co, and in the upper stories
by big printing houses, winch was
built with the hull of the old snip
Mantle for its foundation. This build
ing was rebuilt few years ago, ana
at that time wine was taken from the
hull of the Mantle that had been
stored there when the ship was moored
in that place to be used as a. warehouse
in the early mining days. The water
covered that spot then-the waters OF
the bay of San Francisco.
South of Market street in the dam
ger line, extending from First 10 the
waterfront and from Market to spear,
in a narrowing line because of the
slopes of Rincon Hill, the whole region
is covered with factories and machlne
shops and boiler works, and the Dig
brick buildings given over to the
heaviest kinds of machinery. With
the other made land that has gone
down this section must have gone, 100
The weight carried there was some
thing enormous. 1t is in this sectoh'
likewise that fires have probably
started 10 sweep westward across the
soualid quarters and cheap frame ten
ements of the poor people VINO HVe
south of Market street. Here, II any
where in San Francisco. monetary ala
will be needed. The poor who are
made homeless will lack food ana ;
clothing.
The beautiful Ferry building and the
docks and the seawau will add their
weight TO the rest, and douotless nave
gone down with the rest In fact'
when the land slipped down from the !,
region between Montgomery street anu
the waterfront, the shipping In the
bav must have been overwhelmed III
the awful destruction. Ships would De
driven 20 their death on the rocky
shores of Goat Island or upon the mud
fats of Oakland and Alameda. and the
would be almost beyond
r,an,s comprehension. The contour OF
the bay itself has probably been
changed. and the deep places between
coat Island and the San Francisco n
1y slips have been filed up. Ana 4
WAT that may mean, seafaring men =
,ulv will realize. The bay is so deep u
,etween San Francisco and Goat Island 4
hat If has been found impossible TO =
work there with diving apparatus. Z
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