The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-05-03

feet but there being water i'm the /
mains at that time. was checked
Travelling northerly on Dolores from .
Twentieth there was nothing but "a /
waste to be seen ON the east line Of /
Dolores. scarcely a vestige remaining |
Of the handsome structure erected by /
the Sisters of Notre Dame. At the |
northerly end of Dolores. where it |
meets the extension of Market ST, Get. |
the flames were diverted by the great
barren cut at that point eating east
erly thence along the south line Of
Clinton park TO Guerrero and along the
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course the half-constructed hospital of
st. Katherine, whence they spread
along the southerly side of that thor
oughfare easterly to Cough.
Thence along the east line OF Cough
to Page. along the north line of Page
half way to Octavia, sparing the row
of buildings along the easterly line of
Octavia as far as Fell. where they
reached to the easterly line of Octavta,
and along that line uortherly to Ful-
ton. where on the west side they We're
fronted by a half-burned block that
had been consumed by a fire started
by an overturned lamp on the morning
of the earthquake.
FIRE CROSSES VAN NESS.
Along the southerly line of McAlls-
ter the flames made their way to
Cough, stopping long enough to con-
sumo the northwest corner of Cough
and McAllister Thence along the east
ery line of Cough to Golden Gate
avenue, thence along the southerly
line of Golden Gate avenue to Van
Ness and along the easterly line of
Van Ness to Suffer, where they cross
ed to the west side and burned the
blocks from the north line of suffer
and the eat line of Franklin through
to Clay.
In this district were included some of
the most splendid mansions of the
city, chief among which was the ma
iestic home of Claus Spreckels, at the
southwest corner of clay and Van
Ness.
This splendid piece OF architecture,
done in brown stone in the chateau
style and adorned with all that wealth
and taste could gather, still stands,
though blackened by the ordeal and
Invested of all it's beauty, melancholy
testimony of the futility of human en-
deavor.
StiI burning along the easterly side
of Van Ness toward Fort Mason, the
fire reached Greenwich, along the south
line of which it spread to Larkn and
along the east line of Larkin to Lom-
bard. Thence along the south line OF
Lombard to Hyde and along the east
line of Hyde To Chestnut, eaSterly
thence along the south line of Chest
nut to Taylor; thence along the east
line of Taylor to Bay, along the south
line of Bay to Mason, and down the
east side of Mason to the city front.
SOME HOMES ARE SKIPPED.
Within thfs vast waste Of smoldering
cmbers were found three cases where
human beings still have their habita-
ton as before the great conhagration.
one of these was to be seen on the
very summit of Telegraph Hill, where,
perhaps. "a score of homes still stan
At the northwest corner of Jones and
Green the residence of O. ID. Baldwin,
the real estate dealer in the Mills
building. is still habitable. Across the
way at the northwest, Mrs. Ed Huber
has preserved her home.
on "A southerly line of Green, at 1908
to 1917 are to be found residences OF
Mr. Kirk Harris, George j. Phillips Il.
J. Brdsau William Hanke, Charles
O'Brien and Martin Fussier, In TINS
cluster are also the homes of H. +.
Livcrmore. capitalist, ON Vallejo be-
tween Jones and Taylor; Miss *. M
Atkinson 1882 Broadway. Homer Par
kerr 1880 Broadway; Eli Sheppard
capitalist. at Vallejo and Taylor; Rev
Joseph Worcester. 1890 Vallejo; Living
ston jerks. northwest corner of Vallejo
and Taylor: Thomas Richardson, lum-
herman. 1882 Vallejo; Morgan Shep-
pard, 1884 Vallejo; Frank stone, insur-
ance. 1886 Vallejo, Mrs. Virgil VIII
liams, widow of the artist and of the
elder Mr. Pold, father of Willis Poik'
the architect
There are also six sets of fats i'm this
vicinity which remain intact The
courageous men and women who saved
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