Show WORK BEFORE SAN FRANCISCO The tremendousness of ot the task that Confronts San Franciscans in the work r rf ruf rebuilding their ruined city is not generally appreciated Nor can it be appreciated except by those actually on un the scene Even if the fire insurance in sur suran ance an losses were being paid promptly and in full fulland and they are being paid neither promptly nor in full in a great majority of f instances the work that must mast be done is enough to stagger sous that are not fired with courage of the highest order According to all aU accounts It Is ab absurd surd urd to talk of rebuilding San Fran in five years ears pr or ten years The thing is a physical ph impossibility In an article written for the Seattle Times Barton W V CurrIe Currle impressively illus illustrates illustrates rates this fact Mr Currie says that city blocks must be covered with new buildings before San Francisco i ran lan an be said tt th have been even r rebuilt As they stood on the of r April of they represented sent d all types of ot construction There Vera wre great steel buildings sky scrap scrapers ers big hotels and apartment houses and business blocks of every descrIptIon ton tIon In all the buildings to be replaced number Now Nov Mr Currie es estimates estimates estimates that it would be fair to say that the tIle average of the desire l new construction would be represented by a af f brick building feet I v wide vide ide and feet deep Many of the th new buildings will be very much larger and some will vill be smaller but this may m y be bet betaken betaken t taken iken as a basis of calculation A building of the type described would lontain bricks For such buildings bricks would be re required required Figuring an average of 50 5 0 bricks to a there would be loads It Is true that many mon of the old bricks can be used for interior construction and aid for other purposes but the fact that thousands of millions of new lle bricks will be needed The one brickyard in operation in San Francis Francisco co 0 hs has a capacity of bricks a aday aday aday day So many millions must be im imported imported Imported ported Add to this the enormous quan quantities quantities titles of cement and stone and teel steel and lumber lime Ume plaster glass and other materials necessary to construction and it becomes readily apparent that the task of assembling the stuff is staggering s The Tho railroads raI roads are helping all they tan nn by laying tracks along the prin principal principal cipal streets but with ith mis valuable t id the work is still colossal Yet no nobody nobody nobody body seriously doubts San spirit and determination The city will rise lise again It will be mort more magnificent than them at any ny time in its n tory The out there are of the sort that i roUting can discourage But they must be he patient for as surely as the tree that t takes taRes fifty years ears to grow to com corn commanding commanding manding mantling size can be cut In an hour so 50 sot t time me will vill be required tor or the restora restoration restoration restoration tion of San S n Francisco |