The San Francisco call., 1906-04-24
Plans All or q
Big Scale.
.. D. OFFICES Are to
Remain Here.

Long before the ashes of the city
that-was shall have cooled plans will
be completed for the reconstruction
and restoration of the majority of San
Francisco's substantial business build
ings. Before the wreckage of the
former buildings has been cleared
away the material for the structures
10 be viii be on the ground and be-
fore the present scene of desolation
has time TO become familiar there
viii rise all over the city the steel
skeletons. of the new metropolis.
AS the big business buildings will
be replaced so will the mansions of
the wealthy, and in nearly every case
by structures of greater beauty.
New San Francisco win be fire
proof and earthQuake-proof. If the
present almost unanimous intentions
are carried out there will be artistic
harmony from ferry TO foothills and
the hygienic conditions will be per
feet as modern scientific knowledge
can direct.
Best Of all, the work of reconstruc-
ton is even now under way. From
the beginning there has been no ques-
tiOn as TO the action TO be taken.
Men who watched their property
burned or blown up dismissed their
regrets to busy their minds with the
problem of speedily replacing what
had been destroyed by fire or dyna-
mite.
Seattle owes its present position in
the commercial world to the way its
people have pulled together. The
Seattle spirit" is one of the most
cherished traditions of the northern
seaport. The Seattle spirit" dates
from the big fire which destroyed the
city, but brought the people shoulder
TO shoulder. The San Francisco fire
has burned all the spite fences, the
earthquake has shaken down the
hammer trees and knocking" will be
a lost art. The San Francisco spirit
has been born and will rule the city
beautiful. the construction of which
is even now under way
FANORS CITY BEAUTIFUL.
President Maestretti of the Board of
Public Works fairly voiced the senti-
ment of his associates yesterday when
he said:
The new San Francisco must be
composed of buildings that shall be
proof against serious damage from a
temblor such as the one that primar-
lily caused the great catastrophe. That
such city can be built is exempli-
fed by the structures still standing.
There is The Call. building, the Crock
er building, the Fairmont Hotel, the
Mills building, the Kohl block and
many others that stand as monu-
ments to the virtue Of building with
steel on bedrock foundations. What
ever injury these buildings sustained
was caused by fire. Some of them
were not even Clipped by the quake.
In the matter of having wider
streets, too, we need no further dem
onsTation than was afforded by the
checking of the fire at Van Ness ave
nue.. Difficulty may be experienced in
obtaining the consent of some prop
ertv owners TO the reduction of their
realty, which is essential to making
the thoroughfares wider, but / believe
that common sense will prevail IN
6his matter as in all others pertaining
to the reconstruction of the city"
PLAN NEW BUILlNGS.
While yst the ashes are warm on
the ground owners Of ruined struc
lures are busy preparing Fer fcii- material
and men to serve in the erection OF
new buildings that shall eclipse those
that were burned.
Many Of the capitalists whose plans
are OF this swift, all-confident char
acter have not let it be generally
known that contracts are now being
arranged fer the work of reconstruc
tioa. Others have permitted their
plans to be made public and the
knowledge of these confirms the dec
larations of those who said that San
Francisco will rise from the ashes in
an incredibly short period of time.
The Winchester Hotel, large build
ing at Third and Stevenson streets
owned by Baruch brothers, is to be
replaced at once by a building equal
in many ways TO the old building and