Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-04-28
OAKLAND BUILDING DOCKS.
New City Very Different and
"Dear Old Frisco" is Dead
And Cremated Forever.
The Mighty Life and Death Struggle
Between San Francisco and the
"City Across the Bay"
lsnacIal TO the "News."l

land, April @-The future OF san
Francisco III now the most actively dis
cussed question on the coast. Today
the city was thrown open to the mol
noloI and there was some assurance
given that visitors would not see the
hriekpiles first on the labor squad
Consequently the camera and kodac
Aends have displaced the fire fiend. and
snap, snap, go the jolly little shutters
at every street corner. and focused on
every standing wall.
Dear Old Frisco" is what they sing
now, and even the loyalest Californian
admits there Is bit OF a change. For
instance away out on Van Ness a mod
est little Nat files the banner. New
Home Of the Emporium, CALIFORNIA;
largest, Americas grandest store" One
clerk Is In charge, instead or the
thousand or more who used TO fill the
gigantic Market street institution.
FILLMORE. NEW BUSINESS
STREET.
Whatever else happens. Fillmore
street Is to be for years to come, at
least two or three years, the business
center of San Francisco. The down
town offices are reopening there. Mad
ison and Burke. one time the largest
real estate dealers In San Francisco,
have reopened. with large sign de-
clarIng "Office hours are daily at 2.
m" At that hour one lonely clerk
does the work II took about 200 to DO
a week ago. and IL only takes him .
minute to do t. The man serves the
purpose OF keeping the firm name alive,
and has the moral effect Of restoring
courage.
OUT OF THE RUINS.
insurance buildings surely look grim
out of the ruins Today California
street To Van Ness avenue. was Open
ed and Market street was closed so
that the Examiner building might be
dynamlted. Along California people
could not touch the pavement. They
walked over piles OF brick anywhere
from a foot to three feet deep, and
among these wires. twisted, insulated
and bare. The line led In single file clear
10 Van Ness Brick and nails seem o
be the only ruins left. shot walls'
tumbled marble pillars. lions cut IN
two, and Clipped till barely the OUT
lines remain. make the basis for ruins
IN which fancy might ny as high as
any that ever few over Rome or
Greece.
SIGNIFICANT LEGEND.
A ereat church steeple on California
street. bearing n legend which tells 1t
is the ruins OF st. Mary's. Far UP a
stone inscription reads. sugsesuvely:
"Snn. observe the times, and ny from
evil" Each reader is hereby given
permIssion to make his own sermon on
the text.
GOOD LUCK SIGN.
A mass of twisted iron, where once
a steel structure stood; on wrlthlng
girder a cloth sign reading we dllh
like the heat and have moved EN-.
ployes of Horn q Co., report al looo
Sutter street. Good Luck to every
body"
AT GREAT FLOOD HOME.
The ruins of the great Flood home at
Knob Hin Palace In front ON the side
walk scraps Of persian rugs dragged
out only to be deserted and burned. A
fine upholstered chair with one leg
burned and the whole scorched, sitting
on the curb with sign on II reading
Shaving Fifteen Cents-Haircutting
% Cents" An actual barber by its
side with his razor kit proclams the
sign IL in dead earnest, and represents
the newest business structures OF the
city.
A box turned on end near Fort Ma
son, with a prosperous looking cigar
man sitting behind 1t on a smaller
box. His sign cigars and Tobacco.
declares his new business location, and
near him a pile Of cigar boxes betokens
the extent of his stock In trade.
WITH THE SAFE MEN.
A California street prospect. with
iron safes tumbles about In the ashes
aud from one of the largest, the doors
OF which swing open, the sign; SAFES
Opened Hartman Safe company
INSURANCE INSCRIPTIONS.
The great hulks of mighty insurance
companies, with inscriptions over mar
BILE entrances, smoked till the letters
bearing the name OF the company arr
hardly visible.
MILLIONAIRE WITH AN AK.
A handsome carriage, and well KEEP
team, with gold mounted harness
stopped In front Of a Knob Hill palace
while a millionaire of yesterday wal
working with an axe in the ruins. try
ing to knock the bottom oyt OF tn
household safe, g small iron afair
which he had dug UP with a shove
welded by himself.
LASS IN ARMY WAIST.
A militia man driving rapidly dowi
the street In an express wagon, by hi
side a beautiful lass logged out II
army shirt and gloves, smiling an'
happy, and bearing this evidence ina
cupid was not In the least Jared b.
the catastrophe.
THE CALIFORNIA FLEA.
A California flea rampant over a ko
dack fend, making him squirm with
vengeance, and proving that he, too
has survived and Is working overtime
as usual.
OAKLAND is GRAsPiNG.
The law Of the jungle is that tn,
strongest shall be king and through