San Francisco : its builders, past and present : pictorial and biographical . —the charitable instinctwhich in so many men, as in the case of Mr. Williams, is hidden underthe cloak of modesty and aversion to pubhcity. The best instance ofhis many good works in behalf of those who were needy was in thedays following the great fire in 1906, when so many thousands wererendered destitute and homeless by the catastrophe. He threw openthe Jockey Club grounds at Emer>\ille to over four thousand home-less, suffering people, who stood in the famous bread-lines to savethemselves from star^^ation. Lat
San Francisco : its builders, past and present : pictorial and biographical . —the charitable instinctwhich in so many men, as in the case of Mr. Williams, is hidden underthe cloak of modesty and aversion to pubhcity. The best instance ofhis many good works in behalf of those who were needy was in thedays following the great fire in 1906, when so many thousands wererendered destitute and homeless by the catastrophe. He threw openthe Jockey Club grounds at Emer>\ille to over four thousand home-less, suffering people, who stood in the famous bread-lines to savethemselves from star^^ation. Later he turned over the buildings atIngleside for semi-permanent homes for the thousands. For theseconspicuous acts of charity, he is held in affectionate remembrance bythousands of San Francisos residents, and perhaps for many otherprivate acts of charity he is known as a man of generous impulses, aswell as among his friends and business acquaintances for his straight-forward methods and the possession of those attributes which give tomen the honorable title of
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