. Review of reviews and world's work. salvation of the city, which means much,not only to San Francisco, but to America, liesprecisely in the determination not to be appalledor paralyzed by the magnitude of the disaster orto dwell upon the difficulties of reconstruction. Great stretches of unoccupied city sites areliere, the supeib deep-water harbor is here, the7ailway terminals and the wharves and docksare intact, steel construction and fiame con-struction liave demonstrated their capacity towithstand the earthquake tremors. On the otherhand, the lessons of inadequate water-supply,cheap build
. Review of reviews and world's work. salvation of the city, which means much,not only to San Francisco, but to America, liesprecisely in the determination not to be appalledor paralyzed by the magnitude of the disaster orto dwell upon the difficulties of reconstruction. Great stretches of unoccupied city sites areliere, the supeib deep-water harbor is here, the7ailway terminals and the wharves and docksare intact, steel construction and fiame con-struction liave demonstrated their capacity towithstand the earthquake tremors. On the otherhand, the lessons of inadequate water-supply,cheap building and insecure foundations, nar-row streets, and theneglect of precautions ofvarious kinds have been learned, and the newSan Francisco will surely be a better and greatercity than the old. Even in this first month the resiilents of thecity and their friends in tlie State, oppressed and ?, -^ ^ , ., 1 , 1 , PhotographbyC. C. PitTLe^ Co., Los Angeles. burdened as tliey have been by the enormous ? • A SECTION OF SANSOME STREET,. 684 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REVIEW OF REVIEWS. less lost no lime in taking up the problems ofreconstruction. The Mayors Committee of Fifty,appointed to deal with the emergency caused bythe disaster, bad subcommittees on food-supply,liousing the homeless, transportation, restorationof retail tra<le, anii such other matters as have;to do with instant relief and restoration of or-derly government. Within seventeen days, how-ever, this committee had given place to a newCommittee of Forty, composed largely of thesame men, but having no sub-committees to dealwith such subjects as liave been named. It isworth while to emphasize this by calling the rollof tlie new sub-committees : Finance ; Assess-ment. Municipal Revenue, and Taxation ; Muni-cipal Departments, including Police ; Special Ses-sion of Legislature and State Legislation ; CharterAmendments ; Judiciary ; Building Laws andGeneral Architectural and Engineering Plans ;Securing Structural Material ; Pub
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