. A history of the earthquake and fire in San Francisco; an account of the disaster of April 18, 1906 and its immediate results. where thrifty Ameri-canos traded for the gold their fellows broughtdown from the mines. A city sprang up after the 2 THE OLD SAN FRANCISCO fashion of any frontier settlement; wooden shacksto shelter traders and gamblers and saloon-keepers;beyond, the insubstantial homes of their variousfamilies. Three years before Captain Montgomery of theUnited States war sloop Portsmouth had plantedthe American fiag in what subsequently becamePortsmouth Square; but that act alone c
. A history of the earthquake and fire in San Francisco; an account of the disaster of April 18, 1906 and its immediate results. where thrifty Ameri-canos traded for the gold their fellows broughtdown from the mines. A city sprang up after the 2 THE OLD SAN FRANCISCO fashion of any frontier settlement; wooden shacksto shelter traders and gamblers and saloon-keepers;beyond, the insubstantial homes of their variousfamilies. Three years before Captain Montgomery of theUnited States war sloop Portsmouth had plantedthe American fiag in what subsequently becamePortsmouth Square; but that act alone could notmake the mission-military town American in itshabits. The loves and intrigues and fandangos wenton just the same. The men of 49, restless, tired ofclap-trap conventions, ever ready for new sensations,came along and fell into the ways of the natives—began to live their easy-going life. Those first days of San Francisco, the Ameri-can, were such as might have been expected, wheremany men of many sorts were thrown together with-out any common tie—where the law was weak andmens passions were strong. They were days. Hcclit Collection Mission Dolores, from an Old Print
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