The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-04-20

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its addition facing Kearney street, is
probably gone, or 1t stands on the
brink of 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
i'm the danger zone. The next sky
scraper is the Mills building, ana
back of that on Bush street is the
new telephone building of the Sunset
Company. The old Cosmopolitan Ho-
tel, now a wholesale house, Is there
also. The Occidental Hotel extends
from Suffer 70 Bush on Montgomery
street Back of the Occidental, ana
between IL and the bay, are the whole
sale houses of Croker & Co, Sach q
Co. 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 Alvnza Haywards sky
sscraper. On the corner of Sacramento,
still further to the north, is the Ia
.cific Mutual building, beautiful
structure of pressed brick and req
sandstone, a skyscraper out built With
out a steel frame. 1t is the only one
of the kind in San Francisco.
Along Sansome there have of late
wears gone up a number of tall ana
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,
which formerly occupied the building
put up by John w. Mackay on the
corner of Pine and Montgomery streets,
has been removed since its consolida-
tnn 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
.sociated 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
trict. the Fair estate has lately erected
4, number of heavy stone structures IN
north Davis street. Then, along the
lower part Of Market street there are
also some very heavy buildings, ana
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
&, Co. Tilllnan & Bendel, Norton,
Teller G. Roden, and all of the COM
mission and fruit houses, and the
wholesale fish markets.
A 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, which was
built with the hull of the old snip
Mantle for its foundation. This build
ing was rebuilt a few years ago, ana
at that time wine was taken from the
hull of the Mantle that had peeh
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 dan
ger line, extending from First to the
waterfront and from Market to Spear
I'm a narrowing line because OF the
slopes of Rincon Hill, the whole region
is covered with factories and machine
shops and boiler works, and the Dig
brick buildings given over TO the
heaviest kinds of machinery. win
the other made land that has gone
down, this section must have gone, TOO
The weight carried there was some
thing enormous. 1t is in this section
likewise, that fires have probably
started to sweep westward across the
squalid 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
viii be needed. The poor who are
made homeless will lack food ana
clothing.
The beautiful Ferry building and the
docks and the seawall VIII add their
weight 20 the rest. and doubtless have
gone down with the rest. In fact'
when the land slipped down from the
region between Montgomery street ana
the waterfront, the shipping In the
bay must have been overwhelmed III
1.-THE awful destruction. Ships would De
driven TO their death on the rocky
shores OF Goat Island OF upon the mud
fats Of Oakland and Alameda, and the
destruction would be almost beyond
mans comprehension. Tho contour of
the hay itself has probably been
changed, ana the deep places between
Goat Island ana the san Francisco
ferry slips have been nlled up Ana
what that may mean, seafarlnE isen
only VIII realize, The bay N 40 deep
between san Francisco and Goat Island
thar II has been found impossible 10
sork there win diying apparatus