The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-04-25
Resurgam--For San
Francisco.

past proportion Size prob
ably the enerprising the prosperous and the rost
rapidly advancing the States, indeed the World
It's population had reached the half million mark II possessed
of splendid towering buildings. Many
OF private opuent
New York Some of its public edccs least
ance, magnificent It's every deon dotted
with churches It's clubs social influence
It's organized and private philanthropy Nnbounded The
volume Of business The bank ceangs had
reached high totals and increasing With nnexanred
speed Real estate transactions of five figures and upwards
almost daily For four The
of the commercial metropolis the Pacific Coast and of the State
of California had been literally astounding Forty years
had been predicted would be
activity in the twentieth and that unless destroyed b.
earthquake before the end the century San Francisco would
be largest the world the
! exchanges.
The interior of within sixty
the accumulated proofs of energy wealth Of San
Francisco obeated in the of
activities system broken up communication with
severed and 100000 people converted into stri
mob only the within emblance of order
by military It entire work Of
consumnated minute but took hours
and that hard though the shock appears that the chief
agency IN the rum and havoc was hre secondary cause hr III
its effects resulting defective system also
that the cupdiy fifty years ago.
attempt to control nature for speculative had produces
artificial that almost invited the catastrophe But it
further that comparatively slight adjustment of conditions
under the arths crust set the entire machinery OF demolition in
motion and demonstrated that the schemes the amb
lions the productive labor of the utilization of muscle intel
ana capital are mpotent when they conflict with laws tha
apparently irregular in their action nevertheless
The mind in antithes
the handwriting upon story Babylon
Tyre sidon Hercuaneum Pompe hundred
pes history that have beeR used to excite the fears or awaken
modem times not always these inquiries Of
rise again sink torpdy and death? These the
lions to which the important answer is to be returned
OF had been altogether the direct result OF seismic
cblegams however lead to different conclusion and
make the beaage of the system the unchecked
gathering violence of fire immediate of the
city
shed and countless of strength and beauty placed
the ground that has been already cleared For the
BY people themselves simple expressive
start to build up right It built up after the deoatne res
Of 1850 and 1851 The pioneer element used vt"es cool
he wrought population
BILE twenty
han the entire assessed value OF all the property in the city zeal
the will spot
many yet failed respond
he gitmate calls OF San Francisco Or ct California There are
Francisco not dead but slept LET hope nothing
eplorabe calamity that has stten SO many thousands with grief
San of their labo-, ?
aep before the Anercsn % does not follow
Oakland WITH with its h1nq 2n. shoals would be the
eror bay shipping very great
ersedg called Benecia
edes CITY Of OF the Ta n eds a
lily that Francisco adapted commercial "
acfn5 oyed om aeo to Benes whch was it's
sting place till it reached Sacramento and there permanently
San survived all attacks. The notion
yht carried by Pacific railroad from 1870
9 and hold the a5 ou n5pG as
the Oakland Waterfront Company organized
Felton Lloyd Te In March 1868 the Terminal
c ending at Goat Island Which were transferred to the
Sig -Four HUNTINGTON stanford Irocke and Hopkins Were