Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-22
LONG BEACH LAD USES HIS
EYES ADVANTAGEoUSLY
Ships Are Arriving Daily With
cargoes Of Material to Build
Up the New San
Francisco

| nealInX ldQ W AlO llNtb WIN hlo pa
ents at 124 Pacific avenue, Long Beach.
Although but IL, he Is in the sixth
grade ut the Pine avenue school.
Instead of playing with the 'fel-
! lows" young Brownstone prefers to
read history historical stories being
his favorite form Of reading. At pres
ent he is busily engaged in reading an
eleven-volume history of the United
| States.
But he is not the sickly morbid child
of genius one usually pictures. A rosy
checked, vivacious youngster he mas
Travelled q great deal alone, and has
the bearing of a youth of older years.
While his mother was touring In the
east and his father was busy selling
beach and ocean view lQts, Master
Brownstone went to San francisco to
visit his grandmother. In the article
herewith he describes what he saw and
learned there:
BY Eugene 6rownstone
IJpon my arrival in San Francisco,
the Queen City of the Golden West,
/ started for my home, which is on
Devisadero street. To get there you
must take a Third and Townsend
street car and transfer to Masonic
avenue car at Market street, Whlch
used to be the principal thoroughfare
of San Francisco
the ruined walls of buildings reminded
me of deserted prisons. San Fran
cisco's former business section is now
like the historical ancient ruins IN
Rome and Greece, only San Francisco's
buildings were modern, while Roman
buildings were designed in foreign
style.
AS passed a place which used to
be called the Newspaper Angle l saw
lights in the ruined Call and Chronicle
buildings which meant that the news
paper men were at work preparing the
news for the morning paper.
Next morning upon getting dressed
went to the rear window of my nome
and obtained a splendid view OF the
destroyed city. The dome of the
ruined city hall arose majestically
above the ruins.
The city hall was twenty years in
construction, while twenty seconds of
seismic motion destroyed it. 1t was
the pride of the city which guarded
the Sunset 1, olden Gate. One would
not have thought that the city hall
should fall to pieces at the second
shock received at S:15 a. IN. The tenn
porary city hall of San Francisco to-
day is in Jewish synagogue ON Geary
street, between Laguna and Octavia.
The Call Chronicle addition, MUTUAL
bank, Kohl and other buildings loomed
earthquake damage to those buildings
was slight, but the fire was the de-
Stroyer of all.
Later / visited Fillmore street and
Van Ness avenue, which are now the
main thoroughfares of new San Fran
cisco. The pretty stores which line
their sides were busy and showed goou
prospects for the future.
San Franciscos population today is
estimated at about $4,000 people. The
demand for houses is about 10000.
San Francisco's pretty parks are
filled with the many thousands home
less refugees waiting for the word
''sheter."
While on Van Ness avenue one day
I thought / would like to visit Mar
ket street, SO off / started for the
ruins walked down McAllister
street to Market, then down Market
to the ferry.
The Hibernia bank was blackened as
If coal had been thrown all over 1T.
That was not the case. Only few
months previous the fire had paid 1t
a visit, but still it was open for busi-
ness. Across the street was Praeger' s
department store, built up in the same
old site as before the fire.
There was "a building on the south
side of Market street that was once
one of the largest department stores
was the sign, Hale Bros, Inc"
Something similar was at the juno
tion of Market, Golden Gate and
Jones streets, the Donahue building,
with the sign on the second story,
Boston Cloak and Suit Co." Farther
James Flood building, now being oc-
cuped by the Southern Pacific COM
pany, already reftted from the twelfth
story to the fifth. The Western Ma
tional bank under this building es-
capped the jaws of the fire.
Across the street was the famous
Emporium, the largest department.
store west of Chicago.
Three blocks down came to the
Newspaper Angle, which consisted of
the Call, Chronicle addition and Ex-
aminer buildings, which were all
burned out. The Examiner building
was dynamited by the soldiers in try
ing to check the roaring fire.
The Monadnock building, a half
block farther down, was not burned
and it was already occupied by differ
ent companies.
A little way from the Monadnock
building is situated San Franciscos s
famous hostelry the Palace hotel,
burned out by the fire which destroyed
so many buildings, The Palace hotels
present location Is at Leavenworth and
Post streets.
At last 1 reached the Union ferry
depot and / thought 1 was dizzy, as
the ferry tower was leaning one way
and the Flagstaff another. The Ferry
building was saved, as It was one
way that San Francisco could receive
provisions from California or eastern
points; the Third and Townsend depot,
where the people who wished to come
to Los Angeles by the coast line go
TO board their train, was also saved.
on Powell street, near Geary, is sit
uated the st. Francis hotel. The St.
Francis hotel people obtained permis-
sion from Mayor Schmitz, the city's
executive officer, to locate their hotel
in one of San Francisco's pretty parks.
Union square.
on California street is situated the
Merchants exchange and the Kohl
building, near Montgomery street The
Kohl building, like the Monadnock,
was not damaged by the great fire,
but the Merchants exchange got its
share.
The walls of the Merchants exchange
are being torn down, but the steel
frame Will be left for the building OF
class A structure. Mr.. Mills of the
Mills building declares he will not re-
AZ fhfe strncturA until tIahOp comes