The San Francisco call., 1906-06-07
THE BUILDERS OF TWO CITIES

The BUILDERS OF IWO C1IlES
Never before have such opportunities offered in
San Francisco for those prepared to do the work
at hand Here is practically the rebuilding OF a
city of 100000 inhabitants, involving the expendl-
ture of more than quarter of billion dollars.
Ground must be cleared buildings planned and all
the multitudinous details of their construction met.
The situation demands that the work be done
quickly and we'll The workers in demand are those
who can meet these conditions and the needs OF
the city will draw them magnet draws steel.
The best that the world has to offer in brains and
muscle will be given for rewards for the labor of
both during the next decade will be greater here
than anywhere else on earth
This is the first time in her history that San
Francisco has enjoyed the benefits of the labor of
hand and brain of the best of the world S manhood
The conditions that existed in California at the
time of the discovery of gold brought to the State
men competent to build up great world city in
the brief period of half century To be sure, the
site the opportunities the undeveloped resources OF
empire here, but men with the courage to
grasp the opportunities and the will to bend the
resources to development were required. The en-
thusiasm the sefrelance the tireless energy which
made the pioneers leave the round of easy routine at
home and drove them desert and mountain or
across the seas to the then little known California,
made possible the reclamation of the State from the
wilderness, the building of the Pacific railroads. the
development of the plantations of the Pacific islands,
of the mines and fisheries of Alaska, of the
mOusly valuable mineral resources of California and
Nevada and as the great center of all their splendid
activity from which their tremendous efforts were
directed, the building of San Francisco.
Such were the pioneers and such their work.
In some respects their descendants and successors
confronted with greater task, but the way has
been blazed for them. They know precisely what
to be DONE there is cropping in the dark they
called upon to restore city magnifcently built,
but one the building of which modern develop
ments in the structural arts make possible on a
grander scale than before
The labor will be the worlds best financial,
executive architectural and mechanical skill The
San Francisco will be built as was the old, by
men with faith in themselves and in their enterprise,
men of enthusiasm and initiative and energy The
Pacific railroads and the developed resources that
made the old San Francisco possible were not the
fruits of labor of the timid and the hesitatng,
did the timid and the hesitating share largely in
the tremendous rewards which incidental to
the city's growth. The quick to see and prompt to
act made the old San Francisco and these shared
largely in the fruits of the citys development
Younger men, but men of the same type will be
builders of the San Francisco. And as the
larger rewards for the building of the old city
went to such men, so will the larger rewards for
the building of the Almost to a man those
who became rich and powerful in the building of
the old San Francisco came to California practically
penniless In their day brains and initiative and
courage the ability and the will to do the work at
hand, were better assets than wealth without
them. And the will hold true, even in
larger way and with quicker and more certain re-
wards, in the building of the new city