. A history of the earthquake and fire in San Francisco; an account of the disaster of April 18, 1906 and its immediate results. :^ Removing Debris from Street Photo by Estey 1S4 THi: RESUMPTION believed more in holding property than in improv-ing it. The vacant lots were cleared and graded, andthe foundations laid of buildings in which mer-chants who had grown old in the city of the pastwere to make a fresh start in the city to be. Oldbuildings were raised and stores built underneath. Among the wholesalers, it was decided thatthey should gather on the vacant land near the rail-road, in
. A history of the earthquake and fire in San Francisco; an account of the disaster of April 18, 1906 and its immediate results. :^ Removing Debris from Street Photo by Estey 1S4 THi: RESUMPTION believed more in holding property than in improv-ing it. The vacant lots were cleared and graded, andthe foundations laid of buildings in which mer-chants who had grown old in the city of the pastwere to make a fresh start in the city to be. Oldbuildings were raised and stores built underneath. Among the wholesalers, it was decided thatthey should gather on the vacant land near the rail-road, in the level district south of Townsend was at first intended as a temporary measureto avoid clearing away the mass of wreckage in theold district: but as time went on it came to belooked on as a permanent change. The heavy ex-pense of drayage had been a great handicap in theold location north of Market street (which hadgrown up when everything came by steamer) andthis was entirely dispensed with in the new July the wholesalers were shipping 250 carloadsof produce daily to interior and coast customers. Ha
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