The San Francisco call., 1906-06-10


the city's great disaster. in which he
speaks with poetical ardor of the New
San Francisco which is 10 arise from
the ashes of it's ruin In it Mr.. Schef-
fauer describes from memory the plans
for the city beautiful" which Burnham
had designed.
The article, which was published in
England on the 27th of April, must
have been written so Immediately after
the stunning shock of the earthquake
and eOntiagration that its buoyantiy
quick recovery OF hope for our city is
remarkable. The following are sOme
extracts from Mr.. SchefFauer's paper:
"Out of the desolate waste of ashes
and the utter humiliation OF all her
glory. out of the ruin and wreckage
that cumber her sand flats and her
rocky hills, a new San Francisco.
phenix-iike. is TO arise, fairer and
stronger than before.
In 1905. when never a thought Of the
present horror was present in the
minds of her citizens. plans on a mOnu-
mental scale had been prepared for
still further beautifying the Califor-
nian metropolis.
These plans were prepared by the
famous architect, Burnham of Chicago.
collaborating with the foremost archi-
tects. artists. sculptors and landscape
gardeners of the West
These plans, which I propose to de-
scribe, have now a vivid interest. since
il is according 10 them that San Fran
cisco is to be rebuilt.
Necessarily. the plans were forced
to conform to the already existing and
permanent part of the city, in which
great edifices of granite. marble and
brick abounded-
From the ferry depot. with its grace
ful tower patterned after that of La
Giralda. in Seville. Market street ex-
tended southwesterly. diagonally inter-
secting the streets TO the north and
stopping at right angles the streets to
the south AT the far end Of this main
artery of the city are two impressive
conical hills, the Twin Peaks. rising up
like the breasts of a nymph-
The magnificent City Hall was in
visible from Market street. hidden by
rows of Insignificant business build
ings which it was intended to clear
away.
CLOSE by, at the junction Of Market
street with Van Ness aven0e, a beauti-
full. wide boulevard with fine resi-
dences, a vast circular colonnade was
TO be built, with fountains and allie
gorical groups of statUary.
This will form the core of the city.
the hub from which many new streets
will radiate, much like those of Wash
ington or Vienna
GOlQen GdLe HaFK, WIKI us laWnS,
forests, flowers and drives. viii be ex-
tended by means of its panhandle for
miles into the city. close TO this central
point
1T was proposed to surmount the
4 win Peaks with colossal statues and
tremendous electric beacon lights. This
idea was suggested several years ago
by the noted AdOlph Sutro. after he had
erected a statue, Light Defeating
Larkness,' upon Mount Olympus, To-
/ cali hill."
The Graphic Iondon) was the
first paper in England to publish photo
graphs showing the effects OF the greet
earthquake in san Francisco and Oak
/ land. The date OF the issue was May
). The pictures made from the photo
/ graphs are very clear and good.
In the same issse OF The Graphic
! there is an explanation given OF earth
quakes and volcanic erupticns. by Pro-
4 fessors ]. w. Judd He SAYS that
/ earthquakes occur on every part OF the
eorth's surface. and about 10000 are
registered every year. About sixty OF
this annual number are great and de-
structive quakes. but these dangerous
ones are confined to certain areas which
are now fairly well defined. san Fran
cisco lies within the earthquake tract
/ defined as that of Central America.
The great displacements accompanied
by fractures tfaults), which we now
know to be continually occurring In the
earth's solid crust. account for many OF
the vibrations or waves transmitted
| through the rock-masSes- which cOnsti-
tute earthquakes" There is
/ everywhere in the earth's crust a rise
/ of temperature as go downward"
When we come 10 analyze
these temperature observations. how
ever, we find in different areas the
most diverse results have been at
/ tained." Every change in
temperature is accompanied by changes
/ in bulk-expanSion or cOntractiOn-in
the great rock masses building up the
earth's crust. rise or fall OF tenn
perature of few degrees must result
in enormous displacement of masses OF
rock having a bulk of hundreds OF
( thousands of cubic miles. Many
of these movements go on so slowly
and continuously that they are never
felt; but every now and then sudden
relief from condition of intense strain
must give rise TO that snap and Jar
which results IN earthquake"