| Show SAN ll 11 ON fark altink THE FIR AND TH barth half a million homeless people have rebuilt their homes and millions of dollars are being expended in the construction of a city of fire proof structures son san francisco april 18 one year ago today san francisco was all WI but wiped out of existence by fire succeeding ce eding a terrific earthquake shock nearly a quarter of a million people were rendered homeless and the financial loss loes amounted to about the city was left a mass ot of smoking ruins and habitation seemed a matter of many years today tho the sun un roso rose from a cloudless sky over a busy metropolis in which the volume I 1 of business moro more than equals that ot of a twelvemonth twelve month ago and whose population Is fast approaching its former figure such stich a record Is said to be without parallel during the year has bees expended in work of construction one third of which was furnished by bi the savings banks which la in comin common 0 n with all the financial institutions tut ions withstood the disaster without a of weakness over 30 has bas bison bleen paid out for labor and men are now engaged in the building industry while before tho the fire paly only were at wort work temporary construction which for a while prevailed has ceased and permits far pr the erection of first class fireproof fire nrc proof structures to cost over have been granted tho the restoration of old buildings which survived the flames now in progress will require the expenditure of many millions more about miles ot of street railways rendered useless are now la in running order perhaps the most convincing proof of the substantial rehabilitation of the city Is shown by the bank cloar clear ingo which for march exceeded by nearly two anil a half million dollars the figures for the earno fame month of last year just preceding the catastrophe in recognition and celebration of what has bem done services were held today n the various churches not a legal houd ay byok in many places suspended tonight tho the merchants association a aromi nent factor in the labor of recon re con st ruction will fittingly commemorate the uprising of the now san fran ilsoo by a banquet at the splendid new fairmont hotel many prominent cit citizens izena being among its invited guests |
