The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-05-04
Story Of the Third Day

the flames were diverted by the great
barren cut at that point, eating east
erly thence along the south line OF
Clinton park to Guerrero when they
spread along the southerly side OF that
thoroughfare easterly to Cough.
| SPRECKELS MANSION
WITH THE LOST.
| Thence 9long the east line of Cough
| to Page. along the north line of Page
half way to Octavia, sparng 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 half-burned block that
had been consumed by fire started
| by an overturned lamp on the morning
of the earthquake.
| Along the southerly line of McAlis-
! ter the flames made their way to
| Cough. stopping long enough to con-
sumo the northwest corner of Cough
| and McAllster. Thence along the east
erly line of Cough to Golden Gate
avenue. thence along the southerly
| line of Golden Gate avenue to Van Ness
and along the easterly line of Van
Ness to Sutter, where they crossed to
the west side and burned the blocks
from the north line of Sutter 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
/ iestic home of Claus Cpreckels. at the
/ southwest corner of Clay and Van
/ Ness
This splendid piece of architecture
done in brown stone in the chateau
style and adorned with all that wealth
and taste could gather, still stands
though blackened by the ordeal and
divested of all it's beauty. melancholy
testimony of the futility of human en-
deavor
| Still burning along the easterly side
of Van Ness toward Fort Mason, the
fire reached Greenwich, along the south
line of which it spread to Larkin and
! along the east line of Larkin to Lom-
bard Thence along the south line of
Lombard to Hyde and along the east
line of Hyde to Chestnut, easterly
/ thence along the south line of Chest
nut 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 smolderng
embers were found three cases where
! human beings still have their hahita-
| tion as before the great confilgration.
/ One of these was to he seen on the
very summit of Telegraph Hill where
| perhaps. a score of homes stil stand
| A, the northwest corner of Jones and
Green the residence of o. ID, Baldwin,
the real estate dealer in the Mills
building is still habitable. Across the
way at the northwest, Mrs. Ed Huber
has preserved her home.
on a southerly line of Green, at 1ob9
to 1917, are to be found residences of
M Kirk Harris. George j. Phillips, p.
j. Birdsall, William Hanke, Charles
C'Brien and Martin Fussicr. In this
cluster are also the homes of II. y
I.vtlmore, capitalist, on Vallejo be-
teen Jones and Taylor; Mss X NJ.
Atkinson, 1882 Broadway; Home: Par
ker 1890 Broadway: Eli S1eprard.
capitalist. at Vallejo and Taylor, Rev.
jose pk Worcester, 1880 Vallejo Living
ston jerks northwest corner or vallejo
and Taylor; Thomas Richa rdsor lum-
herman. 1882 Vallejo: Morgan cnep-
parl 1924 Vallejo; Frank stone. 'nsur-
ance, 1886 Vallejo Mrs. VirsH Will
lidms widow of the artist and of the
cider Mr.. Polk, father of Willis Polk,
the architect.
There are also six sets of flats in this
vicinity which remain intact. The
courageous men and women who saved
their homes by main effort, while sea
of flame ragged and roared about them.
In their thankfulness for the mercy
/, that has been shown them have only
| this small complaint to make-that in
their distress they have been quite
q abandoned by the constituted authori-
| ties, and for their protection they have
organized patrol system of their own,
each man OF the number taking a two
hours task of duty,
WINE WAS USED TO
PUT OUT FIRES.
Some 800 houses lying on the south
and east slopes of Telegraph Hill re-
main to attest the efficacy of the juice
of the grape in quenching the fiames
when water failed, for I'm this quarter
the householders. many of whom are
Italians. saved their abodes by a free
use of the red wine stored in their cell
lars. 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 unburatd
within the district is bounded by Mont
gomery, Battery, Jackson and Wash
irgton. Within this district is the APP
pIaisers' building, in which are stored
some half-million dollars of valuable
wares belonging to the importing iner-
chants of San Francisco. The saving
of this and the adjoining buildings is
ascribed To the heroic endeaVors of
Capt. Wolf and his men, of Compary
( d, Twenty-second United States infan.
| try who, with such means as they had
al hand, succeeded in fshcius of the
devouring element.
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