. A history of the earthquake and fire in San Francisco; an account of the disaster of April 18, 1906 and its immediate results. ate of the structure is an un-fortunate example of the possibilities of one sourceof weakness; and even this would have been avoidedby the use of earthquake rods. At the Chapel atStanford the spire fell in the same way; but thewalls, steel-braced, suffered no injury, except theblowing out of the gable-ends by the rush of air. A splendid illustration of the fact that even themost vicious shaking has slight terrors for a well-built building is the Youths Directory, a f
. A history of the earthquake and fire in San Francisco; an account of the disaster of April 18, 1906 and its immediate results. ate of the structure is an un-fortunate example of the possibilities of one sourceof weakness; and even this would have been avoidedby the use of earthquake rods. At the Chapel atStanford the spire fell in the same way; but thewalls, steel-braced, suffered no injury, except theblowing out of the gable-ends by the rush of air. A splendid illustration of the fact that even themost vicious shaking has slight terrors for a well-built building is the Youths Directory, a four-storystructure, at Nineteenth and Guerrero, a block fromthe Valencia Hotel. It was just on the edge of thefill; the front part of the building moved severalinches further than the rear portion; it sankseveral feet. As a result the side walls were splitapart by a crack that is six inches wide at the firstfloor, and very small at the cornice. There is hardlyanother crack in the whole building, although thecross wall in the center was actually curved severalinches out of alignment by the unequal movement ofthe soil City Hall Photo by Waters JOS THE DAMAGE BY THE EARTHQUAKE So it was with the older buildings—thoseerected in the early days. Doubtless many wouldstill be standing if the fire had not weakened theirwalls so that they fell, or if they had not been blowndown by dynamiters; but a sufficient number ofchurches (which, being relatively unfurnished, per-haps did not burn so fiercely) remain to show howlittle damage was done to well constructed brick-work. St. Francis Church, at Vallejo street and Mont-gomery avenue, has hardly a perceptible crack any-where; erected in 1859, it is the oldest church in SanFrancisco, except the Mission Dolores, and one ofthe citys oldest buildings of any sort. The TempleEmanuel, on Sutter street, was erected during thesixties; its walls and its lofty minaret-like towers,fragile though they seem, are in perfect is the ta
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