. A history of the earthquake and fire in San Francisco; an account of the disaster of April 18, 1906 and its immediate results. Photo by Derlethi Concrete Block House at Palo Alto THE DAMAGE BY THE EARTHQUAKE 209 Various old buildings tell the same story ofgood construction. The old Wells Fargo Buildingat California and Montgomery—built of Chinesegranite by Chinese masons, in 1852—is as staunchas ever. So is the Montgomery Block, built in 1853,by General Halleck; so is the Appraisers Building,built under government supervision. The walls ofthe Palace Hotel, too, commenced in 1868, are assolid
. A history of the earthquake and fire in San Francisco; an account of the disaster of April 18, 1906 and its immediate results. Photo by Derlethi Concrete Block House at Palo Alto THE DAMAGE BY THE EARTHQUAKE 209 Various old buildings tell the same story ofgood construction. The old Wells Fargo Buildingat California and Montgomery—built of Chinesegranite by Chinese masons, in 1852—is as staunchas ever. So is the Montgomery Block, built in 1853,by General Halleck; so is the Appraisers Building,built under government supervision. The walls ofthe Palace Hotel, too, commenced in 1868, are assolid as ever, and as solid as any walls could are a splendid example of good numerous partition walls—all brick—brace itthoroughly, and earthquake rods run all throughit. It was the builders boast that it could be pulledup but not pulled down; its razing is costing$80,000. Of the effect of the earthquake on the modernsteel frame buildings little need be said; the damageto them was trivial. The skyscrapers, so much mis-. Youths Directory Photos by Aitken 210 THE DAMAGE BY THE EARTHQUAKE trusted, were scarcely injured. Here and there someplaster was knocked down, or some of the stonefacing cracked; but substantial injury there wasnone. Perhaps the most severely tried structureswere the Ferry Building, situated at the extremeedge of the made land, and the Postoffice, at theedge of a subsidence. The tall tower of the formerswayed sufficiently to crack much of the facingstone, and some, near the base, fell out; and thereare a few cracks in the front of the building and inthe stone pillars of its colonnade. Yet it might wellhave been expected that such a shock would breakthe long narrow building apart, or throw down itstower. In the vicinity of the Postoffice, the ground wasbadly disturbed, along the course of an old creek bedand marshy inlet. The Postoffice Building, veryheavily constructed of steel and granite, was thesubject of much comment when in cou
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