. A history of the earthquake and fire in San Francisco; an account of the disaster of April 18, 1906 and its immediate results. communication by rail with the east borequick results. One by one various activities—com-mercial, manufacturing, financial—centered them-selves around the citys harbor. San Francisco be-came the metropolis of a vast territory—a worldpower. Its trade was established. Montgomerystreet became a Wall street in miniature; the citywas the financial center of the rapidly developingwest. Prosperity smiled upon it. Wealth pouredin from all sides. Its increase in p
. A history of the earthquake and fire in San Francisco; an account of the disaster of April 18, 1906 and its immediate results. communication by rail with the east borequick results. One by one various activities—com-mercial, manufacturing, financial—centered them-selves around the citys harbor. San Francisco be-came the metropolis of a vast territory—a worldpower. Its trade was established. Montgomerystreet became a Wall street in miniature; the citywas the financial center of the rapidly developingwest. Prosperity smiled upon it. Wealth pouredin from all sides. Its increase in population andtrade was phenomenal. The glamor of wealth andmagic growth surrounded it. Following the advent of the railroad had comewonderful development. To the men interested init the road brought fabulous riches; and, drunk withsudden wealth, they — Huntington, Stanford,Crocker — erected palaces on Nob Hill, each tryingto outdo the other in the splendor of his mansion. Afew years later they were joined by Fair and Floodof the Comstock, upon whom, also, fortune hadsuddenly showered untold wealth. Nob Hill, thus. 8 THE OLD SAN FRANCISCO crowned with dwellings that had cost hundreds ofthousands of dollars to build, became known theworld over. As in the early days, so later; the prodigality ofmany who had won fortunes on the Comstock gavean air of romance to San Francisco, and a reputation(which it never lost) for open-handed, lavish spend-ing—for generosity, hospitality, love of fun. Sprungromantically from the mixing of many races andmany types, it retained to the end its cosmopolitanpicturesqueness. It has always been a city of menof all kinds and many inclinations. From the first San Francisco has been gay andpleasure-loving—the lightest-hearted of cities. Itadopted a bit here and there from the customs of itsvarious races, and acquired a manner of life quite itsown. As far back as the days when Barrett and Mc-Cullough played in the stock company of the Cali-
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