| Show I i I r rii YEA YE IS OP BUILDING Men who are alc in touch with th the situation sit sit- 1 In San Francisco and Sai who will wi have hae a lal large e share shaie In the tho rebuilding of oC that lint wrecked metropolis declare their bele belief that tho the city clr will 1 be in fn a year ear Mind of man maii Ian can an h n I conceive a greater ta task One k can cn not Hot imagine a amore amoro more moro stupendous work vork attacked with wih greater courage and split spirit invested in with wih a wider Interest or with wih u U. loftier lesson No Xo such city a as San Francisco co co has ha ever been destroyed by bynn byan byan an nn earthquake In Iii 11 nil all ni the disasters rl of oC I the past the communities which have hae suffered were old The They lacked the ele- ele cle ments of life and creative power Founded for reasons that once existed the they had continued because of uC the at attachment at- at nt for local locality long after the original warrant for tho the Jl place ce depart depart- ed And nd when they have havo gono gone down downIn In the r ravages agO ragO of oC an earthquake or 01 suffered the hot baptism of the thc vol volcano's ol- ol canos cano's Cm fury they have ended their es 1 lives But here Is a n cl city so bO placed because life demands the place Tho rho ho tides Ules of ot trade obeying tho thu natural conditions of oC land and water follow the path from nil all al the world to San Francisco There a cl city alO arose O more wonderful 1 than that of or old In which the lie hanging gardens garden were ivere one of oC earths earth's wonders And Aud there fell tel in the gr gray dawn of morning the blow blo bloof of a power great I enough enough to make male or 01 wl wreck cl a world It I destroyed much of oC Sin San gal FrancL Francisco co A wider vIder sweep of oC the names flames than thai has over ever r been known In a cl city lire fire fre destroyed destroy destroy- ed buildings without equal In fn cost or OV b beauty aul an anywhere under tuler the lie sun In Inthe Inthe Inthe the rush of business In the hurry of Incident there thero came came au an abrupt stop stop stop- like Ic the tho sudden udden death of oC a man There Thele was no next Ia da day But in a nature which numbers rt resurrection res resurrection res- res arnon among Its Is miracles there came Caine a rousing In ih h that city a n survival oven from Crom rein earthquake and lire lre devas devas- evas- evas tation talon The miles of oC debris are mc to be cleared awa away It I Is not even vei the l light ht I task of or making a new cf city on Ir virgin in ground All Al the streets are arc to be he changed change All Al the cellars are arc to be ob ob- ob- ob All Al the lw buildings are arc to be benc benc nc new nc All Al the measureless mates mass ma o of or wreckage Is to be stripped slipped from tho ho ground and under the ground before the rebuilding ing can begin And AnI yet el th they Y expect to complete their new city within a n year car What hat work worl that will wi be bet How In Industry In- In dUStI will wi Intensify UK his Is glory How plan and thoU thought ht and skill shill in fn management management manage manage- ment will wi conspire to create in fanc fancy alley and record on paper the thc new metropolis lis ls which the will wi soo on re las la's al zed In brick anti and stone sone nm and steel And how hov ho tremendous that work will willbe wi willbe be to the world as the wails Avails wals arise arle and the streets take on the lie Co form Im I'm of or establishment paved and HUed fitted with con colt conduits lul dulLs duits- laced with tunnels for COl or the carrying carrying car cal of oC wires and flanked with wih the tho channels for abundant water In a year In all al the he history of the world there thel has he been en no conception mote mol grand than that In all 1 history there has hOR been no 10 bettor benor examples of oC mans man's ability his native nati superiority to nature hl his resistless advance ul ance In spite spie of powers hidden and revealed The year ear of building will wi be the greatest twelvemonth ever recorded Inthe in inthe Inthe the annals of human activity |
