. A history of the earthquake and fire in San Francisco; an account of the disaster of April 18, 1906 and its immediate results. d hurry phase of the new life remained for severalweeks, as the unusual demand for masons made therepairing of chimneys very slow. THE RESUMPTION 181 The city at large was possessed with a cheeryspirit of hopefulness. Men met on the street andcongratulated each other that it was no amid the inconveniences of cooking in thestreet and living in a tent, the people showed abrave humor. A sign on a tent in one of the campsbore the legend, The Whole Da
. A history of the earthquake and fire in San Francisco; an account of the disaster of April 18, 1906 and its immediate results. d hurry phase of the new life remained for severalweeks, as the unusual demand for masons made therepairing of chimneys very slow. THE RESUMPTION 181 The city at large was possessed with a cheeryspirit of hopefulness. Men met on the street andcongratulated each other that it was no amid the inconveniences of cooking in thestreet and living in a tent, the people showed abrave humor. A sign on a tent in one of the campsbore the legend, The Whole Dam Family. An-other bid the curious to Ring the Bell for Land-lady. Still others announced that Cars stop Here,and that the Elevator is not Running. Some ofthe kitchens were jokingly called after the citysmost pretentious restaurants—Taits, Techaus, Zin-kands. Others bore fantastic names — the Out-side Inn, the Inside Out, the Step Inn, theGoodfellows Grotto. One, not much larger thana dog kennel, displayed the crudely lettered sign,Un-Fairmont Hotel. Open all night. Will ex-change for country property. Another bore the. Removal of Debris Photo by llatcrs 182 THE RESUMPTION motto, Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow wemay have to go to Oakland. Cheer up, said stillanother; Have one on me. Come in and spenda quiet evening. Even the ruins were made to play their partin the fun. A firm which had occupied salesroom?on the ground floor of one of the large buildings,announced that it had moved because the elevatorwas not running; and another, because of alter-ations in the building on the eighteenth of April. Despite the holidays, the County Clerk wascompelled to open his office. An army of matri-monial aspirants besieged him. Recreants and pro-crastinators had arrived at a sudden determinationthat it was the best time of all to take the final and girls who had only half made up theirminds before, suddenly realized how necessary theywere to each other. The first licen
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