. A history of the earthquake and fire in San Francisco; an account of the disaster of April 18, 1906 and its immediate results. l beinstalled early in 1907, for the protection of thestores on Van Ness avenue and Fillmore street. In the new city it is evident that there will besome shifting of business centers. The fire hashastened changes that would otherwise have comeslowly, and brought about a better adjustment. The change made by the wholesalers has al-ready been mentioned in connection with the gen-eral resumption of business. When everythingcame by steamer to the water-front north of Mar
. A history of the earthquake and fire in San Francisco; an account of the disaster of April 18, 1906 and its immediate results. l beinstalled early in 1907, for the protection of thestores on Van Ness avenue and Fillmore street. In the new city it is evident that there will besome shifting of business centers. The fire hashastened changes that would otherwise have comeslowly, and brought about a better adjustment. The change made by the wholesalers has al-ready been mentioned in connection with the gen-eral resumption of business. When everythingcame by steamer to the water-front north of Marketstreet the adjacent district was the natural site forwholesale business; the land near the railroad, farto the south, is the obvious place for it now, forthe same reason—except in the case of the fruit andproduce trades. So it may be expected that thetemporary wholesale district, south of the freightyards, will become permanent. The region known as South of Market street,formerly given over largely to cheap tenements, hasbeen prepared by the fire for better use. The shifton the part of the wholesalers, and the general. 2(A THE NKW SAN FRANCISCO movement toward outer Market street, have made itvaluable for business purposes; the tenements,therefore, are not likely to be rebuilt. The samething is true, to a great extent, of the residences inthe hotel and apartment house district, w^est ofPowell, which has now been included within thefire limits. In both cases the destruction of exist-ing buildings has hastened the inevitable invasionof business. In so spreading out into these new fields, thebusiness districts will be relieved of much conges-tion and the transaction of business facilitated. Asimilar spreading-out is likely to result in the caseof the residence districts. People who have liveddowntown have been driven out, past the WesternAddition and the Mission, into the outlying dis-tricts. They are in the position of building up a newcity; one, however, whose suburban trol
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