. A history of the earthquake and fire in San Francisco; an account of the disaster of April 18, 1906 and its immediate results. others opened in THE RESUMPTION 183 tents. The first building permit issued after thefire was for a new theatre — the Davis. The res-taurants were soon displaying the old familiar signsin unfamiliar places. The clubs quickly rehousedthemselves in private residences. Fillmore street, which had been seized uponas the first business thoroughfare, soon became thecenter of operations; soon showed evidences of thepluck and indomitable purpose of the risen Itachieved
. A history of the earthquake and fire in San Francisco; an account of the disaster of April 18, 1906 and its immediate results. others opened in THE RESUMPTION 183 tents. The first building permit issued after thefire was for a new theatre — the Davis. The res-taurants were soon displaying the old familiar signsin unfamiliar places. The clubs quickly rehousedthemselves in private residences. Fillmore street, which had been seized uponas the first business thoroughfare, soon became thecenter of operations; soon showed evidences of thepluck and indomitable purpose of the risen Itachieved a temporary importance because the ReliefCommittee and various branches of the city gov-ernment found quarters there. Other reasons madeit available for business purposes. It had the oneundamaged car line — a line between the Missionand the Western Addition, the two unburned dis-tricts. Then, too, it was already a business streetin a small and unassuming way; and it also hap-pened that there were more vacant lots of large sizethere than anywhere else, as a great deal of theland around had been owned by one man who had.
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