The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-04-20
FAMOUS LANDMARKS
PREY OF FLAMES
Buildings That Cost Millions
Tumble as If Only Worth
less Shacks.
PALACE HOTEL, COSTING
$6,0O0,000, IS GONE
Nothing That Is in Mans Power
Can Stay the Progress
of the Fire.

Gan Stay the Progress
of the Fire.
SAN FRANCISCO. April 19-Od land
| marks, made famous by association with
! the carly history OF California, as well as
| the new monuments to the commercial
| prosperity OF tho California metropolis.
have been wiped out OF existence by the
! dreadful conAagration. One of the first
| to fall prey 10 the flames after the de-
| struction OF the business district was tho
| Palace hotel known the world over to
| travellers.
Cost 100000
1t was built In the seventies by James
Ralston at n cost of 100000 and was
owned by the Sharon estate. Many Of
San Franciscos wealthy residents made
their home at the Palace and personal
| property losses in art treasures and othor
effects have been very great, The Hop
kinS Art Institute located on Mob HILL
owned by the University Of California
and built by Mark Hopkins, was destroyed
with It's priceless contens-
Mansions Swept Away.
Close by were the Stanford mansion, the
Huntington, the Flood. the two CTocker
a
wore the handsomest private residences in
San Francisco and were built by the men
whose names they bear In the early dnys
OF the city's greatness, and who played
such important roles In the development
OF the Pacific coast,
Bohemian Club Gone.
Down near the business district. at the
corner OF Post street and Grant avenue,
stood the Bohemian club the most unique
and one OF the widest known social or
NlvaV lon lY, .TlH -
ship lists include the names OF many men
who have achieved fame in art, litera-
ture and the commercial world. Its rooms
were decorated with the works OF artist
members, many OF whose names are
known wherever paintings are discussed,
and many OF them priceless In their as
sociations.
Many Treasures Saved.
Many OF these were saved The annual
summer "Jinks" OF the Bohemian club
is the most unique celebration known
among social clubs. There were on spe-
cial exhibition in the "Jinks" room of
the Bohemian club dozen paintings by
the old masters. including n Rembra ndt
a Diaz. a Murlllo and others. and prob
ably worth 100000. These paintings.
which were loaned for exhibition, were
lost.
Further west on Post street stood the
home OF the Olympic club, the oldest
regularly organized athletic association In
the United States and famous for It's ap-
pointments and for the number OF nth
lctes IL has developed. The building was
worth $500 900 and Its furnishings were OF
the finest quality. Nothing remains but
a mass OF steel and iron.
Best Buildings Consumed.
The great new Flood building. built by
James Flood at cost OF $4,000 coo, and
occupied about year ago, the new Mer-
chants Exchange building on California
street. erected at a cost OF $500. 90; the
Crocker building at Montgomery and Mar
ket streets, a Million dollar structure. the
Mills building at Bush and Montgomery,
ing at Post street and Grant avenue, cost
Ing 81, 2,0O0, 600 and occupied April / by
the largest jewelry store on the coast, arc
some OF the new structures destroyed by
the flames. The ShTeVe Jewelry company
carried stock OF 100000 worth OF 1ew-
clry
City Records Are Burned.
on Market street the Phclan building.
one OF the earliest attempts at a preten-
tious form OF architecture In the business
districts and covering the most valuable
piece of real estate In San Francisco is
gone The great group of buildings stand
Ing on a piece of ground bounded by Lar
kin, McAlister and Grove streets, erected
by the city of San Francisco at q cost
OF 100000, and known the City and
County buildings, nre now a mass OF
smoking, smolderins ruins. With tho
buildings were probably destroyed the CITY
and county records
Union square, erected at a cost OF 81. 800
000 and the Fairmount hotel, at California
and Powell, the most conspicuous location
In the city, are In ruins from the flames.
The Fairmount was built by Mrs Herman
Oelrichs at "A cost of SO, coo. 600, and named |
In honor Of her father. the late Senator
The magnificent group OF buildings at
Van Ness avenue and Hayes street or |
the ST lgnatius college and cathedral, |
probably worth 5000 900. and St Dom |
lnick's church, on Steiner street. near
California. and the Emanuel synagogue |
a handsome structure OF the Oriental |
type, on Suffer- street, were wiped out.
Hall Of Justice Falls.
The Hall of Justice. facing Portsmouth
square, and just cast OF Chinatown. was
the hillside. the ~ unrestrained Ias eiemens mt
leaped from block to block through
Chinatown, the combustible material OF
the 1,s nimsy STRUCTURES rue feeding the flames
the westward the confagration gained
hcadway when It reached the residence
section From Golden Gate avenue
were dynamited to stay the progress OF
-he flames. but without avail The heat
Was so Intense that the ruins of buildings
Devastation Complete.
Out on Van Ness avenue. the fashion
,ble drive across the city from north to
;ast side but the fate Of the Spreckels
he Hobart and other great mansions on |
he west side Is not known at this hour
Mint Is Damaged.
The branch United States mint, on FIftb
treet, near Market. was not DESTROYED
'ut was damaged to n considerable ex.
ent. Its escape Is due to the fact that IL
occupied n large square. separated from
surrounding buildings by wide paved
pace. Two blocks west OF the mint stood
he splendid new postofIlce building an |
shed about six months ago and erected
L cost of s., 900, GOO for actual constrtfc-