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Show the I i j I E RUINED Complete Destruction of Magnificent Buildings April IV. Old landfamous by association Saa'rranciara, marks. mads with tha early history of California, as well at the new monument to the prosperity of the California metropolis, hare beea wiped out of existence by the dreadful conflagration One of the drat to fall to the flames after the destruction of the business district as the raises hotel, known tha world over to travelers. It was built la the seventies by Jams Ralston at a coat of d,0H).AO0 end was owned by the Sharon estate. Many of flaa rnnclaco'a wealthy residents made their home at the Palace, and personal property oases la art treasures and other property hare been very great. The Hopkina Art institute, located on Nob hill, owned by the of California and built by Mark Hopkina, was destroyed with Its prir lets contents. Close by were the Stan ford mansion, tha Huntington, tha Flood, the two Crocker mansion. Atl were swept away. Thee were the handsomest private residences in Ran Francisco, and were built by the men whose names they bear in the early days of the city's greatneaa, and whs played such important roles In the development of the Pacific coaat. Down near the buiness district at the corner of Poet street and Grant avenue, stood the Bohemia a rlub. the moat unique and one of the widest In the known social organ teat ion world. In membership lists include the names of many mn who have achieved fame la art, literature and the commercial world, lta rooms were decorated with the works of artiat members, many of whose names are hnown wherever printing! are and many ef them priceless In their aseorlatlona. Further west on Pont street stood the home of the Olympic club, the oldest , regularly orgsaiied athletic aaaoria--tio- s in the Caked lutes, end famous for its appointments and of the number of athletes k ha developed. The building was worth fJKW.OOO, and In furnishings were of the finest quality. Nothing remnJna hut a mass of steel and stone, fc The great new Flood building, built by James Flood at a cost, of 94.000,000. and occupied about a year ago; the new Merchants Cachings building, on California street,- erect 1 at a coat of at tl.600.000; the Cracker hulldlng. Montgomery end Market' street, a million dollar structures the MUle building, at Buah and Montgomery, coating the. same; the new Shreve building,, at Poet Street and Grant venue, coaling 12,000100, and occupied on April 1 by the largest Jewelry tare on the coast, are none of the new .structures destroyed hp- - the flames. The Shreve Jewelry company carried a stock of $2,000,000 worth of Jewelry. On Market street the Phelan building, one of the earliest attempts at arcbfteowro in pretentious forma-o- f the business district, and covering the moat valuable plane of real at sate In San Francisco, is gone. The great group of bulldlnga standing on a piece ef ground bounded by larkln, McAllister and Grave streets, erected by the city of Ban Francisco at a cost of and known n the city and mass of county buildings, are now smoking, smoldering rains. With the buildings were probably destroyed the city and county records. . The beautiful St. Francis hotel, fuels glnlon aquwe. erected at a coat of IdJOOjOOO. and the Fatrmount hotel at Callfnenia and Powell streets, the moat eonsplriioue location In the city, are In rains from the ffamea. The Fair-mouwas bnilt by Ms. Herman at a onat of 14.000.000. and named in honor of her father, the Inte Senator James F. Fair. The magntfleent group of buildings com--merel- 1 y . ? jr - , 5; ft 4 y ii it Oel-rlch- - e con-elde- rs -- sixteen-story-anne- x vl wtaMISEB; POPES. thousands sleeping IN UNIVERSITY GROUNDS. Berkeley Doing Its Utmost t tbe Refugees. Caro UTAH. FRIDAY e citl-xen- ! aoeotn-modaiio- Bal-adl- n. ; i "At-je-b- al . WIRES ARE UNCERTAIN. Two miles were done; . 1 j s; j i To save you as high as $15.00 on your spring and summer suit. Call and let us explain why we can do this. We guarantee to give you a new coat if the front ever break?, and reline the suit if the linings wear out in a years time. We carry no old stock. Our patterns are fresh from the mill every spring and fall, and we can give you the very latest styles out. Union label on all garments. & EDMUND TAILORING CO 2446 Grant Avenue n but although tost behind waa far off, toe greet cloud Both f dust to torir right grew ever nearer Racramento, Cal., April 19. telegraph companies have practically lost communication with Sun Fran-rlscoThe wire west of here come and go down In a fitful way, making their continuous use Impossible. At one place 1,000 feet of line has sunk out of right and In many other placet the poles have toppled over. The wind la blowing a gale and mixing the wires In many placea. We Guarantee APRIL 20, 1906 The Brethren relief work for the benefit of the van population whick waa rendered homeless by the Ban Francisco earthVy RIDE quake 1 bring achieved by local E. L. committees headed by Rev. Jutktr tf "She , Kng Parsons. paster of Rt. Mark's Episcopal church. The work of providing meal and sleeping accommodations tor the COPYRIGHT, large numbers who are pouring into Ban from train Berkeley by every Francisco is being joined In by university end townspeople alike. President Wheeler has thrown open Chapter XV Continued. t the grouada of the Iniverelty of CaliTon may he within Asm again bethe from fornia to the weary refugees unset,1 said Maaooda grimly. burning dry across the bay, and tbe fore Tee. answered Waif, but not churches have undertaken the task of nhve. Now, what plan have yen? T upplying great quantities of food. I fhr tbe coast towns?" ride Grounds. BaacbaH at Sleeping ! not Mast 'at Maaooda, "Na replied Mrel will be served from a great tent which has been erected under straight, since to do to we must peso through the country of tbe Campus Oaka. where sleeping will be provided by strew- who by BUs day'a light will bo ing the baseball ground with a deep to watch for os. We must rid through layer of straw. If the layer proves the deaeit mountain lands to Emesa, the homeless will have the op- many miles away, and cross tha Oron-te- a portunity of sleeping In Harmon gymthere, then down Inte Baalbee and nasium. Tents will also be placed on no back to Beirut." the rumpus. n "Emesal" arid Godwin. "Why. All the parish houses of the Episcoand holds of Baalbee that to over place; pal churches have been given the use of the needy and many char- tbe Lady Rosamund to princes." "Which to beet!" asked Maeouda itably inclined citixena are giving their ex'ra accommodations to ihoi from shortly. That aba should fall into the across the bay. ar back into hands of Belab-ed-dl- n Asked te Bake Broad. those of the master of tbe asaaaalnaT j A special request has been sent to Choose which you wiah." the women of Berkeley to bake all the broke in "I choose Ralah-ed-dlbread they poeslbly can, a there Is a Rosamund, "for at least bo to my ancle other on the I distressing bread famine me no do will and wrong. 1 for accounted side of the bay. This be-- ! summer Now at the length day by the fart that all the bakeries that tbe dawn have hern left standing are not allowed gas to break, and ao soon was gray, haring drank their flit and, to build Area under their oveni on of the danger of etartlng other as they had nothing else, eaten soma fires through damaged chimney. water cress that grew hi the stream, Native Bonn and Daughters and the they tightened their saddle girths an ff Benevelonet and Protective Order ol started. Scarcely had they gone a hunElks kept open houav la night for dred yards when from the gulf bethe relief of the poor. Acoommodatloni waa hidden In grey mista for a number of persona Injured In the neath that the sound of hones' hoofs heard they In Are are being provided Berkeley. The local hospitals have been thrown and men's voice. Puah on," said Masouda. open to the medical men of the university town are bending every effort to to on our tracks." alleviate the sufferings of the unforUpward they climbed through the tunates. Among those who are be- gathering light tin at length they lieved tn be fatally hurt are William reached n great table land that ran Cunningham, who skull waa crushed to the foot of so me mountains a doaen In the collapsing walla of a hotel, and or more away. Among thoao C. W. Harris, a lumber man of 948 miles Howard street, who wag badly burned mountains soared two peaks, set close together. To these Maeouda pointed, about the need. saying that their road ran between Te Prevent Lawlessness. them and that beyond lay the valley ef be to ia attention While every given the Orates. While she spoke far behomethe to by thecltliena of Berkeley less Ban Franrlacane. care will be hind them they heard the sound ef taken to prevent any lawlessness dur- men shouting, although they raid see ing the time that the university nothing because of the dense mist "Push on," said Maaooda. "Then is grounds and the home of the college town are thrown open. To provide no time to apace." And they went foradequate attention all the student ca- ward, but only at n hand gallop,, for det of the University of California the ground was still rough and the were summoned to report at the arlight uncertain. for detailed and guard mory tonight When they had covered some six duty. A large number of special deputies miles of the distance between them and have been sworn in hr the chief of the mountain pass the tun row suddenly and socked up the mist This was police to prevent thieving. what they saw: Before them lay n flat SPECIAL BE8BION sandy plain; behind, tbe atony ground OF LEGISLATURE. that they had traversed, and, riding over It two mllea from them, some Oakland, April 19. It Is understood twenty men of the amarine. that Governor Pardee will issue a call "They cannot catch ns," said Wnlf, for a special evasion of the legislature bnt pointed to the right to relieve the distress occasioned by whereMaeouda the mist still hung, and aaid: the calamity which has overtaken Ban "Yonder I see spears." Francisco. It la necessary, however, Presently It thinned, and there, n that the call should also embody a provision for the state's assumption of the league away, they saw' n great body water front all along the eastern shores ef mounted soldiers. Perhaps there of the bay to accommodate commerce. 4oa This la evidently absolutely necessary, "Look, ah aaid. "They have come fodflan Francisco cannot, in Its pres- round I feared during the night ent condition, nor in fact until It Is rebuilt. offer any accommodation to com- they would. Now we most crow the merce from which the state haa been path before them or be token." Half a mile farther on n about from drawing lta revenue. This aide of the the and la groat body of men te their right section the available, only bay access to overland railroads and ocean which waa answered by another about from thaw behind, told them that they steamships. If nothing better can be done, the jurisdiction of the Ban Francisco board "On!" enid Masouda. Th race will of harbor commissioners could be ex- bo close." 80 to gallop they began tended to this side of the bey. torir best JOB PRINTERS OF OGDEN HAGGARD , G. B. DENKERB, All Kinds of Job Printing dene. (Union Shop.) 2349 2 Neatly Wash. Ave. Ind. phene 219. Sthwmt Mima," Etc. F MID EX HJGGJMD A. L. SCOVILLE fwer. New they were off tbe sand ovec which they hod been racing aide by ride and beginning to breast the mean-tai- n slope. Bo far they had outpaced the aeeaaelna, who had a longer and n rougher road to travel,' bat the great cloud of dost was sotlfiO yards away, and In front of It, shaking their spears rod some of the beet mounted of their soldier "Theaa hones still bare strength. Th7 are better than I thought them, cried Maeouda. They will not gain on ua serosa the mountains, but after- ." PRESS. Printers, Embossers and Station-era- . Opposite Poetoffice. Beth phone. Fw tbe next league they spoke no more, who must keep their horses from falling aa they tolled up the steep path. At length they reached the met end then, on tbe very top of It, saw Wnlf and Rosamund standing by Flame and Smoke. They net," Godwin amid; then be shouted: "Mount! Mount! The foe to climbed to their saddles . gain, and all four of them together began to descend toe long elope that stretched to the plain two leagues beneath. Far off acroee this plain ran n broad, silver streak, . beyond which from that height they could see the walla of a city. "The O route!" cried Maaonda. "Cross that, and we are safe." But Godwin looked lint at hie horse, then at Masouda, and shook bin head. Well might be do so, for, stout hearted as they wen, toe besets were much die trowed that had galloped so far without drawing rria. Down the rieep road they plunged, panting. "They will reach toe plain no more," said Godwin, and Maeouda nodded. The descent waa almost done, and not a mile behind them tbe white robed aeaaaelna streamed endlessly. Godwin plied bla spars and Masouda her whip, though with little hope; fbr they knew that tbe end was near. Down too Inst declivity they rushed ttU suddenly as they reached lta foot Masouda'a horse reeled, stopped end sank to the grand, while Godwins pulled up beside it "Ride on! be cried to Boeamnnd and Wnlf In front, but they would not He stormed at them, but they replied: . Nay, we will dia together." Maeouda looked at toe bones Flame and Smoke, which seemed but little troubled. "Bo be It," she uld.' "Mount In front bf the lady, Blr Godwin, and, Blr Wnlf, give me your hand, and Ton wUI learn what toil breed can da Bo they mounted. Forward started Flame and Bmoke with n long; swinging gallop, white from the assassins above, who thought that they held them, went up a shoot of rage and .. wonder. "Their horses are also tired, and we may beat them yet" called too dauntless Maeouda. Bnt Godwin and Wnlf looked radly at toe ten miles of plain between them and tha river bank. On they went and on. A quarter of tt waa done. Half of Iff was done; bnt now too first of the Mate hung upon their flanks not 9)0 yards behind. Little by little this distance lessened. At length they were scarcely fifty yards away, and one of them flung n spear. "Spur the horses, knights!" cried Ma' souda. t : At Am sting of tts steel Flame and Bmoke sprang forward aa though they had but Just left their stable door, and the gap between pursuers and panned widened. Two more miles were dona and scarce seven furlongs from them they mw the brad mouth, of th bridge, with toe towere of Emeu beyond. They descended n little valley and loot eight of bridgd and town. At tbe rlim of the opposing slope toe strength of Fteme and Bmoke at test began to fnU beneath their double burdens. They panted and trembled and, save In short rushes, no longer answered to toe spur. Tbe assassin rw end came on with wild shouts. Nearer and nearer they drew, and too eonnd of their bone' hoofs besting on tbe sand wu like the sound of thunder. Now onco more they wen fifty yards away, and now bnt thirty, and again to spears began to flash, though none struck them. ' (Continued Tomorrow.) ' phene. O. WOODY J- - PRlNTtaTco" binding, all style. phone. F. C. WOODS A CO. ArehRKts. 8B iw Flret Natl Bank Bldg. Beth Phones. iL, 237tteL a FlS?itoSai Architect gta.' Ball Phene a85K. A DIRECTORY iki- - infwvwnMinaiui OF CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS ' OGDEN CITY ........ CALVERT A LEEK Contract ora and Builder, Brick and Lime Mfrx. 211 Eccles Bldg. Ball Phene fiOO-- W. O. RIDGEB. and Builder, Repiare. Alteration, Shop Work. 41S 23d at Bell Phone 264-P. A. IBAKSON Contractors and Builders. 245-2422d st Ball Phone 2M-Z- . mnnniisnisiuu. J. P. O'NEILL CONSTRUCTION CO.Con traitors and Builesi af law. arm, Cemsnt Walks, Btroat Paviaa and Gravel Roofing. 423 2S4h at Contractor JOHN T. NEWTON Contractor and Builder. Office at residence, S89 27th. Phene ITffi u Shop rear ef Wright A Bern' C. 7 C. J. HUMPHRIES Builder and Contractor. Shop and Office. 202 2 1st Phone 250-Ball. W. E. NEWMAN Tin Work, Galvanised lean can nlcea Heating end Ventilating, gjjg Washington ave. Beth phonsa. -fYWW a.................... Wanted 50000 more men to smoke Weslers Best CIGARS Strictly Union Made WANTED Cigar Makers to make Weslers Bcst. Union. work men only . .Wester Cigar Co. 375 23d t- - - WHO DO THE ' WRONG-BU- NG LARS, SNEAK THIEVES AND THAT LIKE. 'Turn on the Light ONE GREAT ADVANTAGE OP OVIR ELECTRIC LIGHTS ALL OTHERS, Kill R. S. CAMPBELL, General Manager. E. W. WADE, AF Trains Daily East bun-dred- u Bell ARCHITECTS closer Bo they CITY Both Directory of the ward" till it seemed as though K most reach the month of the mountain pees before them. Then Godwin spoke; "Wnlf and Rosamund, ride on. Your horses are swift and ran outpace them. At tbe crest of the mountain pass wait awhile to breathe tbe bee its and see if we come. If not. ride on again, end God be with yon. "Aye," Mid Maaonda; "ride and head for too Emeaa bridge It can bo aoen from far-a- nd there yield yonreetvro to the officer ef They hung beck, bnt to a stem voice Godwin repeated: "Ride, I command yon both. "For Reaamnnd'a aake, so be it," answered Wnlf. Then he called to Smoke and Flame, and they stretched themselves out upon the sand and yt-r- l thence swifter than swallows. Boon Godwin and Masouda, toiling behind, WORKED UNDER GUN8. tw them enter toe mouth of the peas. "Wbe was the man who brought toe San Franciscp. April 19. Of the way horses to us? asked Godwin as they In which the military officials acted to fixed side galloped by side, thetr eyes save property there was striking exupon toe ever nearing cloud of dost ample at th Mark Hopkina Institute of 'My father' brother my nude, aa art on California street this morning. I called him, she answered. "He la n A young lieutenant of artillery torir abeik of toe desert, who owns tbe his aland In front of that building when ancient breed tost cannot be bought (he fire broke out, commandeered every vehicle that came nhar and pressed for gold. In Then yon are act of the assassin, into earvtce every able bodied nun remove and to paintings the vicinity Masouda? When from the institute. "No. I may tell yon, now that tbe sculpturedemurred the officer drew his end eeeme so near. My father waa an anyone gun and forced Mm to obey Ms orArab, my mother a noble Frank, n ders. Frenchwoman, whom he found starvPaintings were removed by the and placed in the broad .lawn of ing tn tbe desert after n tight and took to bis tent and made Ms wife. Tbe the Stanford mansion next to the InsMseins Ml upoo no and killed him st iime on the rest. As the Stanford and her and captured me aa a child of mansion was later destroyed by Are, fate of the art treasures la untwehre. Afterward, when I grew older, the known at this hour, bnt they preium bring beenttfnl tn those days. I was a My fell a prey to the flame. taken to toe harem of Hiaan. and. alThis was only one Instance of the though In secret t had been bred up n pressing into service of automobiles Christian by my mother, they swore and other vehicles by the military and me to hie accursed Jalth. Now yon police. Wherever a vehicle waa needwill understand why I hate him ao ed to transport soldiers or police off! cer to various points its was stopped sorely who murdered my father end in the street and conttnsndeered. my mother and made me whet 1 am Yes. I bold have vile. ao I why myself FEAR A REPETITION. been forced to serve as his spy or bo kUled. Bant Barbara. Califs April 19. A "1 do net hold yon vile," panted God special telephone message to the Mornwin be sparred hie laboring steed ing Press from Salinas. Calif., states that that town suffered from two die T bold yon most noble. after "I rejoice to brer It before we die," tlnrt earthquake shores shortly As the she ana wared, looking him In tbe eyre 3 o'clock thlh afternoon. over the wire In each a fashion that be dropped bis message was coming shook we felt In the city. heed before her burning gaae, who stillanother have today's earthquake hold you deer. Blr Godwin, for whore Although done very little damage in Sallnaa, nke I have dared three thinga al- the Inhabitants are greatly disturbed though 1 am naught to you. Nay, end fear a repot it inn of Wednesday's speak not. The Lady Rosamund ha disaster, which did much damage to toTtiUPta all .that story except its an-- property. Ralah-ed-dln- t MOBSINQ. A DIRECTORY OF THE fw Berkeley. Cal.. April ' i 1 avc-iusud Hayes, of the gc Ignatius college and cathec.giU, Domprobably worth t!,twu.0un and St. near inicks church, on Steiner street, California, and the Emanuel synagogue. a handsome structure of the oriental type on Sutter street, were wlpad out. , The Hell if Justice, faring Porta-mouth square, and Jufct rat of Chinatown. was early a prey of the flames unreSweeping up the hillside the strained element leaped from block to blech through Chinatown, the combusstructible material of the flimsy ture feeding the flame like powder. Pp and on and over the hills to the westward, the conflagration gained headway, whea It reached the residence section. From Golden Gat avenue northward to Pacifle street, the were dynamited to stay the building progress of the flame, but without avail. The heat waa so intense that the ruins of buildings were ignited by spontaneous combustion.' Out on Van Ness avenue, the fashionable drive irroas the city from north to south, the devastation 1e complete on the east aide, but the fate of the Spreck-l- a, the Hobart, and other great mauaions on the weei side are not. annwn at this' hour. The branch I'nited States mint, on Fifth street, near Market, was not destroyed. but was damaged to a bie ax nt. It escape la due to the feet that !i occupied a large square separated from surrounding building by a wide paved apace. Two biork west of tbe mint stood tbe prstoffire building, finished splendid haunt six month ago and erected at a coat of 2.(Hh'.000. It waa me of the most beautiful building In the Inited fltntan and la said to have been equaled In nrchit ecural excellence only by the new congreaainnal library at Washington. It waa lrtroyed. In the business section were many old landmark--, but they exist no longer. The Occidental hotel on Montgomery street, tor year the headquarter for army officers visiting in Kan FranetnoOi the old Lack House, built by the philanthropist, James IJck, tbe old Rues house, also on Montgomery; the Nevada National bank; the Haywards building, at California and Montgomery, a modem structure, of tea stories; then to (he eastward, the splendid example of the sever Gothic style, the California National bank; tha First National bank; the First Canadian bank of Commerce; tha London and Ran Ktanrlaco on California: the London. Pari and American bank and the Rank of British Nerth Amerl-le- t on Ransom street; the Urge Ravings bank, also on California the are a few of tha suitable buildings destroyed In that district. The California hotel and theatre on Ruth street, near Montgomery, tbe Grand opera house n Mission street, where the Conreld Opera company had Just opened for a aeries of three weeks opera: the Orpheum, the Columbia. tbe Alcazar, the Majestic, the Central, iahy. were some of the playRan houses to which pleaaure-ktvtn- g Francisco was dont to flock. Ban Francises waa famous for the excellence of Its restaurants. Many of these were known wherever travelers discussed good living. Among them wre tha Pup and Manfehand. on Stockton street; the Poodle Dog. on of the moat ornate distinctive restaurants In the Inited States; Hlnkhands, and the Fiesta, an Market treat; the famous Palace Grill in the Palace hotel, had scores of Bohemian resorts in the old part of Ben Fran-claeTheae are no more. At the junction of. Km may, Mamet and Geary ntreet stood tha three great newspaper buildings of Ran Francisco the Call, the . most conspicuous rtueturce In all the city, seventeen toriee high; arsons the ntreet. the Heeret building, the home of the Examiner, and to the north of this, on the opposite aide of Market street, ten story the Chronicle, a modem newspaper and office building with the under course of construction. All were destroyed. Two blocks north on Kearney street were the Bnlletin and the Pont buildings. These also are gone. Among the mammoth department stores destroyed are the Emporium; Hahn 1 rrageraon. Market, on K ear-ra- y street; the White House; O'Oon-no-r A Moffat; Newman A Levinson; Raphael; the Hub and many leaser aatebllahmentn; on Geary afreet are the Davie; City oT Paris; Rnmurlaon Pots: Strauss. On Ransom and Wallace, Nathan. Dnhrman A Co., and Bollock A Johns. The Emporium waa the Inrgeat and handsomest store of Its kind west of Chicago. at Vaa Ness HOUSING Via Union Pacific Railroad toe famous OV This Include A LAND LIMITED and toe LOB GELES LIMITED. . Only 41 hoara "Ogden . t- Strictly twentieth centufy. h baled, electric lighted, steam KmP Pullmaa-Pate- e trains, operating Obaoratloo-Lftmr- r era; Incomparable of tt vsiy Can and Dining toaaufaetnrs. Tot Tarther information cafl a Utah A. B. MOSELEY, T. P. A., Ogden, |