. A history of the earthquake and fire in San Francisco; an account of the disaster of April 18, 1906 and its immediate results. districts will be relieved of much conges-tion and the transaction of business facilitated. Asimilar spreading-out is likely to result in the caseof the residence districts. People who have liveddowntown have been driven out, past the WesternAddition and the Mission, into the outlying dis-tricts. They are in the position of building up a newcity; one, however, whose suburban trolley linesare already in operation. On the whole, it seemsthat the new city will be much l
. A history of the earthquake and fire in San Francisco; an account of the disaster of April 18, 1906 and its immediate results. districts will be relieved of much conges-tion and the transaction of business facilitated. Asimilar spreading-out is likely to result in the caseof the residence districts. People who have liveddowntown have been driven out, past the WesternAddition and the Mission, into the outlying dis-tricts. They are in the position of building up a newcity; one, however, whose suburban trolley linesare already in operation. On the whole, it seemsthat the new city will be much less crowdedthan the old. There will be room for private gar-dens and lawns, and for public parks and play-grounds, and for much of the pleasure of living thathas been crowded out in the congestion of mostlarge cities. With the realization of this, and with the set-tlement of the immediately pressing problems, comerenewed interest in the Burnham plans and theirsuggested modifications. After careful investiga-tion, a somewhat changed plan was presented forimmediate execution, with a detailed statement ofthe expense
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