The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-04-20
BuildingsM adeFamous byAsso-
citation With Names of Own
ers Fall Before. the Flames.
Fair, Flood, O'Brien, Croker, Hopkins
and Host of Others Brought to
Mind by the Holocaust.

near California, and the Emanuel syn
agogue, a handsome structure Of the
Oriental type on Suffer street, were
wiped out.
The Hall of Justice, facing Ports
mouth square, and just east of China
town, was early a prey of the flames.
Sweeping UP the hillside the unre-
strained element leaped from block 10
block through Chinatown. the COmbus-
tible material of the fimsy structures
feeding the flames like powder. Up
and on and over the hills to the west
ward the cOnhagratiOn gained Roadway
when it reached the residence sec
ton From Golden Gate avenue north
ward to Pacific street the buildings
were dynamited to stay the progress
Of the flames. but without avail The
heat was 50 intense that the ruins Of
buildings were fgnited by spontaneous
combustion
Complete Devastation.
Out on Van Ness avenue, the fashion,
able drive across the city from north
TO south. the devastation is complete
on the east side, but the fate Of the
Sprecllels. the Hobart and other great
mansions on the west side are not
known at this hour.
The branch United States mint on
Fifth street, near Market was not de-
! StrOEed, but was damaged 10 = COnSid-
/ cradle extent. Its escape is due TO the
/ fact that it occupied a large square.
| separated from surrounding buildings
! by a wide paved space. Two blocks
/ west of the mint stood the splendid
new postofice building. finished about
4 six months ago and erected at a cost Of
/ s. 600 600 for actual construction 1T
( was one of the most beautiful buildings
/ in the United States, said to have been
! equaled in architectural excellence only
by the new. congressional library at
I WASHINGTON 0n<rrGVeI
Noted Hotels Burned.
Down in the older business section
werev many OLD landmarks but they
+ exist no longer. The Occidental hotel,
/ on Montgomery street, for years the
! headquarters for army officers visiting
San Francisco: the old Lick House,
/ built by the philanthrOpist James Lick;
! the old Russ house. also on MOntgOm-
/ cry street; the Nevada National bank
7 block: the Haywards building, at Cali
! fOrnia and Montgomery. a modern
/ structure of ten stories; then to the
/ eastward the splendid example of the
( severe Gothic style. the California Ma
/ tionaI bank, the First National bank,
/ the First Canadian Bank of Commerce,
! the London & San Francisco. on Cali
/ fornia; the London. Paris & American
I bank and the Bank of British North
America. on SansOme street. the large
I German-AmeriCan Savings bank. also
( on C,aIifornia-theSe are a few of the
notable buildings destroyed in that
district. The California hotel and the
atre, on Bush street, near MOntgOm-
cry; the Grand opera house. on Mis-
! sion street. weber the COnried Grand
Opera company had just opened for a
series Of three weeks opera: the Or
pheum. the Columbia, the AlCaZaT, the
I Majestic, the Central, Fishers. were
some of the playhOuses to which pleas
ure-lOving San Francisco was wont to
flock.
Apartment Houses Wrecked.
Among the splendid apartment
houses destroyed are:
On Geary street.-The St Augustine.
the Alexandra. the Victoria and the
Elyseum- On Suffer street.-The Pleas
anton. the Aberdeen, the Valdez. ne
I Granada On Pine street-Ihe - - 4.
NAL. the Iona Vista, the BuenA -
On EIlis-The Dufferin. the RAJ -
the Ellis. the ROYAL the Hart. thS n
cot and St. Catherine CA - c,lo,-s-a
The Eugene. the Knox. the d 1S 49, =
f the Ramona. the AIcaide, III 49, --ts
on Taylor-The Abbey, H. - %3e+t1er-
80. ~, IpoIIy-The savoy. On Bush
The Plymouth
Restaurants Burned.
r,-.ncisco was famous for the
. s~aiio,l,s ~ its restaurants Many of
49, we're known wherever travellers
. 5E,,,ssd good living. Among thenl-
- IRE PUP and MarSchanffs. on
ron street; the Poodle Dos one
- the most ornate distinctive restau-
INT buildings in the United States
zsnkand's ana the B'festareon Market
street: the famous Pdizce grill IN the
palace hotel and scores OF Bohemian
resorts ia the old part of San Fran
cisco. These are no more.
At the Junction of KezfI4eSss Market
and Geary street stood the tffFee great
newspaper buildings Of san Francisco
the Call tie tveonspicuous struc-
ture in a rhescit5 seventeen stories
high across the street the Hearst
building, the hetne of The Examiner.
and 20 the north ofstflfs, on the oppo-
site side OF Market street tire sChron-
icle. q modern teE-ssory newspaper and
ONCE bulldll1gs with the sixteeu<storv
annex under course OF constructions.
All were destreyed- T.po blocks north.
on kearney street were the Bulleti17
afe the Post buildings. These alse are