The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-05-06

Steel Structures Stood
the Shock OF the
Earthquake.


la dangerous rain standing on Market
street by this afternoon. Since noon.
yesterday, a large squad of United
states artilleryrnen, assisted by the
municipal authorities, have been dy-
naniting all the lettering buildings and
walls This work has so far been
confined TO Market street in order 10
open a safe artery from the outlying
| districts to the water front. The dis
trict north OF Market street and the
| business section viii receive the same
/ treatment after Market street is clear.
A commission. last Sunday, invesr1
gated all the buildings left standing
upon the main taoroughfare OF the
devastated city It was ascertained
| that nearly all the steel-fraHe struc-
lures had withstood the earthquake.
and, although almost without excep-
ton they had been Quilted, the loss
| was in most eases confined to the con-
tents. The Claus Spreckels building,
the new Chronicle building, the Flood
building. the Monadnock, despite the
attempts to dynamite it, the Palace,
and others of the same type, are in
no danger of falling.
A list of the remnants Of those build
ings which It would be necessary to
blow Up was prepared. and. as early as
possible yesterday, the work was be-
gun BY evening the labor had been
completed as far as Sixth street. and
IL is expected by those in charge that
they will have finished with Market
street tonight.
The list of those buildings the DEM
clifton OF which has or viii nave 10
be completed by the soldiers includes
many which were the boast of the
city Bare Brothers new building,
which was to have been occupied in
a few days, is gone. It was a hand
some steel frame structure several
stories in height. finished in white
granite. Its site was on the south side
of Market street near Eighth, and l.
would have been completed within a
few days, when the earthquake and
fire occurred.
T. D o. T. BUILDING BLOWN Up.
The odd Fellows building. with its
familiar clock tower. one of the first
brick buildings of it's size in San Fran
cisco. needed but small charge of
dynamite to make it but a memory.
One of the most dangerous ruins in
the city. and one which required i'm
mediate action, was that of Prayers /
store, at Jones and Market streets. |
The walls, all Of the structure left. were |!
in instant danger of topping, and had |
they not been removed they would |
soon have fallen of their own weight, |
crushing all within large radius.
The Callahan building, erected OPP |
posite the Hiberaia Bank three years /
ago. had almost disappeared before the |
soldiers reached II. Every effort is be-
ing made to protect the bank building |
opposite, although the latter was bad
~ damaged in the catastrophe.
The Donohoe building at Taylor and
Market streets was merely a pile of
bricks and a wobbly wall. yesterday
afternoon. and to-day it is less
Rosenthals opposite Haie's. will be
dynamited. as well as the Wiley B.
building on Montgomery street is a
mass
THREE BLASTS NECESSARY.
Three heavy blasts of dynamite were
required to bring down the home of the
Sterling Furniture Company, situated
almost directly opposite to Prayers.
It was one of the most difficult cases
" 18th which the bIasters had to deal
yesterday, but it was finally RACED.
The Cook building will go this morn
ng. No difficulty is expected in blast
ing this.
The Columbia building on the south {
side of Market street, the Pioneer
and the Academy of Sciences
nearby. are also doomed
The old Phelan building at one time {
ne of the most imposing OF structures
n the City of the Argonauts. can be {
brought down easily, seriously dam :
ged is it. a
Whole blocks are scheduled to dis r
ppear before the attacks of the raZ-,; /
ng party.A group of five buildings at I
;rant avenue and Market street will be v
down up.
OF the Examiner building only the {
ront wall remains. The facade of this.
ne of the most beautiful buildings put
p within the last few years. stands
rect and stately even despite the :
arthquake and the fire. High above
he debris-strewn streets stand the =
Gifted palms which added a distinction
o the edifice. BY this afternoon. even
he last wall will be no more.
On Third street. the remnants of the I
Winchester Hotel, which are very .
angerous. will have to be brought :.
own, and the Masonic Temple at .
'ost and Montgomery streets is alse' :
-
OCCIDENTAL WILL GO. 6
In the district whose center is c.
montgomery and Pine streets, there L
re many ruins, relics of the early s,
DOM days of the city, and which viii b
e blown up before to-days sun sets. q
he Occidental Hotel, which recalled s
avs of which Bret Harte wrote by F
s mere presence. viii go The Ne T
ada Bank building at Pine and Mont F
emery, the Fair building on Pine 81
treet. the Safe Deposit building al W
elifornia and Montgomery these are s
nings Of the old San Francisco which *
no more. h.
The entire block on the south side al
Market street opposite Sansome. | y