. A history of the earthquake and fire in San Francisco; an account of the disaster of April 18, 1906 and its immediate results. Cooking in the Streets Photos by Knight 170 THE RESUMPTION out prominently in their bearing upon the gradualreturn of normal conditions. Businesses had beenthrown into a tangled mass of uncertainties. Noman could do the accustomed things, and no onecould tell, or even guess with a chance of beingright, what anyone else was going to do. If affairswere allowed to go on, regulated only by the calen-dar, the result would be a state of chaos out of whichnothing but ruin c
. A history of the earthquake and fire in San Francisco; an account of the disaster of April 18, 1906 and its immediate results. Cooking in the Streets Photos by Knight 170 THE RESUMPTION out prominently in their bearing upon the gradualreturn of normal conditions. Businesses had beenthrown into a tangled mass of uncertainties. Noman could do the accustomed things, and no onecould tell, or even guess with a chance of beingright, what anyone else was going to do. If affairswere allowed to go on, regulated only by the calen-dar, the result would be a state of chaos out of whichnothing but ruin could come for many. If the banks opened it was very probable thatfrightened depositors would start a stampede. Cer-tainly some of the weaker would fail. If the calen-dar ruled business men would be confronted bynotes falling due and going to protest, because theirbusinesses had been temporarily wiped out. A likefate would be meted out to innumerable statute of limitations would require the com-mencement of suits, which in the present disruptedcondition of the courts was a physical impossibility. Thus it beca
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