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)e utUl Std les, Rdhied by Ban Francisco's Earthquake. fOMB FAMOUS THE WORLD OMEB Luxurious )selSe Iotel, That Cost ooo0,ooo-Olir IHouse, That sld ]In to the sea, Was Favorite Resort of ThouanMd*-Massive Mill's Building *ad isgest church Gone. According to the most authentic re ports from San Francisco, the earth quake and following Oro destroyed the finest buildings as well as the poorest in the city, says the New York Times. .Lhe flames went marching up the hill from the downtown sections, where buddled the Chinese by the thousands, to Van Ness avenue, the Fifth avenue of San Francisco, destroying some of the most palatial homes. Here tare brief descriptions of some of the best known buildings in the city that were .-The Pal - New Mont two and a s seven sto ries high. The building cost $7,000,000 and was projected by the late W. C. Ralston. The Palace was the most fa mous hotel in the city. It was the ren dezvous of many notable men about town, particularly the gourmands of San Francisco. The building was a hugo pile of stone and brick, in the center of which ,was a court 84 by 144 feet. It had a bitumen drive for carriages fifty feet in diameter. The floor of the prom enade was paved with marble. The ,west end of the court was encircled by a series of Doric pillars of classic de sign. The pillars were surmounted by a coping on which were tropical plants and flowers. Tables and settees were usually scattered about the court, where men might have an afternoon phat and smoke. The court was covered by a glass roof, and a goodly number of the 85( rooms looked out into this opening, which furnished them with a subdued light. The Palace hotel was connected by a bridge across New Montgomery street with the Grand hotel, which was under the same management and which was also destroyed. The Palace hotel was provided witi: reading and smoking rooms, social, women's and men's parlors, telegrapl offices, billiard rooms, five elevators, 1 restaurant and a grill room, which wa, considered one of the most elegant din Ing apartments for men in the world The outer and inner partitions were o brick from top to bottom. Four arte sian wells furnished the hotel with wil ter. From the top of the hotel a flu birdseye view of the city could be ol tained. The extent of the corridoi amounted to some two and a ha miles. The style of the building wt peculiarly San Franciscan, bay wi dows abounding. The Cliff House.-This stood on Poli Lobos, at the south head of the Gold( Gate, on the extreme western coast the peninsula upon which San Fra cisco was built. It slid into the sea. .was a favorite resort in the suimm attracting thousands from the thickl settled eastern section of San Fral cisco. One could sit on the verandi and look out over the ocean and wvate sea lions liaying around the rocks few hundred yards distant. Out to th south ho could see a long line of ser beach upon which the breakers rolle< On a clear day Farallone islands, twer ty-six miles distant, can be seen fror the spot where stood the Cliff [House. The huge structure that slId into th sea was designed after a French cha teaut of the seventeenth century. Itun ning around It was an inclosed ba] cony. There were parlors, dlninj rooms and halls where photographs o1 local objects of interest and curio: wvere sold. The Cliff House has suffered severa) disasters. It was first built in 1803. 11 was partly wrecked in July, 1880, whet: the schooner Parallel drifted inshori with 80,000 pounds of dynamite oil board, which exploded. Having beetl rebuilt, it was burned to the ground oil Christmas night of 1894. Cliff Hoeust wvas seven miles from the Palace hotel, and several car lines led to it. Its keepers boasted that Presidents Grant, Hayes and Harrison had stood on its balconies. Mills Bullding.-This was one of the finest buildings in the city, being ten stories high and madeo of Califoria marble, light pressed brick and terra: cotta, it cost $1,500,00 and was ptut up in 1801-92 by D. 0. Mills at the northeast corner of Montgomery and Bush streets. The three entrances fron Bush, Pine and Montgomery streeti led into a great open court in the een ter. The entrance from Montgomera street was through a magnificent mar ble arch that extended to the top of thi second story. Trho halls were tiled an< wainscoted with marble. A complet< law library was supplied for the use o the tenants. 'rho United States weatl1 or bureau had its headquarters on th: top floor, witht the signal station on th: roof. This was another building whic the San Franclscan was always pirou to point out to the visitor. Built< Iron, stone, brick and marble througl out, it was thought to he proof againt both earthquakes and fires. City Hall.-This occupied a larj three cornered tract of land bound< by Larkin an4 McAllster streets at City Hall Ayyp it required twenti 41vo years .tQ 40gt this building, al San FrancisoansJearned to designate long period by psying, "4 11g as mrill take to build the c~y~all" 40et betweep $7,000,000 #) D,000,0 Connected with the city wi'iD~ as I 'HtIall of Records, which . urmou b1 y #110one.184 feet 145 The bul 00is of Teachers Examination. ~t*next regular tehers examnit ,.~;~x~;:AI~ow bis county will be hold ~4;;4be~jado, in the qurb House, iF ~b(~r~ ~8th. E 1ination will 1 ~"'~l pw~tniptly .4t05 tbook. . All 4 uiistJ teir own s I i aid'Ii r brlyit i~ stood was'formerly ra Iuia coietery, and there once Jay the be les of the early pio e.S of the city. The bodies were removed to Laurel 11111 and other cemeteries In the early sixties. In the notthwest wing of the building was the c'ty prison. The Re ceiving hospital occupied a like posi tion in the southwest wing. St. Ignatius' Church.-This was the biggest church in the city. It stood in the fashionable district on Hayes street, between Van Ness avenue and Franklin street. It cost $2,000,000 and was the finest Jesuitical church in the world. Its spires, 275 feet high, were the tallest in California. Its organ was the second largest in America and was the only one on the coast operated by electricity. It weighed 100,000 pounds. Its central columns were surmounted by life sized angels, with trumpets, and the outer ones supported huge urns holding burning torches. The or gan was presented to the church by Mrs. Welch. The main hall of the church was 200 feet long. Hlanging over the altar was a large oil painting representing the reception in heaven of St. Ignatius Loyola. The Chronicle Building.-This was one of the first high buildings erected in San Francisco. Its skeleton still stood at Market, Geary and Kearney streets at last reports. It was nine stories high, surmounted by a bronze clock tower 210 feet high. The build ing was of pressed brick and a dark brown sandstone that is found in Ven tura county. The building was fitted with all modern Improvements. It was one of tho handsomo buildings that made Newspaper corner a conter of no little architectural beauty. The Examuiner Building.-Before this collapsed it was eight stories high, standing on the southeast corner of Market and Third streets, the corner near which were all the big newspaper offices. The oflices of the Examlier, Mr. Hoarst's San Francisco paper, oe cupied the rotunda of the building, the rest being rented for offices. The build ing was of the Spanish Renaissance style. The severity of its exterior wa broken by the ornamented windows ol the' second story and the loggias witi their decorated columns along the tot stories. The Call Building.-This was the tall est building on the Paielfle coast an( was occupied by the San Franclse Call, having in it besides 272 offices. I was erected in 1800-97 at the soutli west corner of Market and Thir streets. From the basement to the to of the dome was 800 feet. There wei sixteen floors. It was constructed er tirely of marble, sandstone and ste and was considered fireproof. It wti of no little architectural beauty. was one of the first buildings see when one entered San Francisco. Mark Hopkins Instituto.-This wf 0 formerly the magnificent private rei dence of Mark Hopkins, one of Ca i fornia's pioneer citizens, at the sout east corner of California and Masc a streets. It wis given to the city 1803 by E. F. Searles of Methue Mass. It had been used for illustrati< t and instruction in the flne arts. It co tallied inlily fine speclmens of pail ing and sculpture. A spacious galli -had recenltly been addedl to tile inst tute. 'The interior of the house was fi r.ished wvithl rare woods and beautif1 \frescoes. Tile Hail of Justice.-This was one Stile newest, if not tile newest, pubi building in tile city. It was situated c tile east side of Kearny street, b 0tween Washington anid Mercham streets, opposite Portsmiouthi squar '[ho cornerstone was laid in 1800. conltained plolice headquarters, tile p lice courts amnd tile criminal dlopar ments of the superior court. It stoc on notorious ground. It was inl thn neigh~borhlood thlat the ruost famnot gamblinig denis were onlce located, anI there later on1 tile Jenny Lind thleatc was burned dlown and rebuilt. 'The following are seine of tile othe buildings thait were destroyed: Thm Crocker building, thle Fairmoumnt hlote tile Lick House, tile Grand Oper House, Merchants' Exchange, tile Occi dental hotel, the Russ IHouse, Parrot building, Phelan building, Hlibernii bank, California hotel, Grace church Orpheuml theater, Columbia theate> and Mechanics' pavilion. Golden Gate City's Wealth. The assessced valuation of all thc real property of San Francisco for thit present year was $402,127,261, and the personal property wais valued at $122,. 268,4100, mlaing a total alssessed valua. Ition of $524,385,007. The alsCsesments equaled ab~out 05 to 70 per cent of thmc actual value. On this basis tile real andc personal property of tile city hasl a value of $800,000,000. Its [populatior last year was estiiated at 450,000 Mortgage anid goods In stock and .- manullfactureo are inlet included in thib estimate. Tile city had 0one of thc - smallest municipal debts of anyl larg< y city in tile Union. Tile water, gas and i electric light plants were not ownled by a the city. Its total debt anmounlts tc f emnly $4,248,372. Its city property, in e luding lparks andi municipal buildings o was valued at $30,543,000. hi P'art of Country safe and Unsnfe. d The parts of tile United States whici f are safe as well as unsafe from earthl i- quakes are herewith stated by tile Nov it York Herald. Safe from earthlquakes: Rloston, Nel to York, Philadelphia, Washington, Rit md mond, Raleigh, N. 0.; Augusta and Cc id lumlbus, Ga., and Appalachian regio y- wvest of a line between tihese cities. id Liable to earthmquakes: Coastal reglo a of uncertaini clay; sandl and rock foi it mation east of a line between tile ci It les mientioned; tile Pacific coast an 30. portions of the Mississippi valley, e hle pecially the region of tile Now Madri at- earthquake in wostern Tennessee at Id- eastern Missouri. WVAII AGAINST CONSUMPTION a. All nations are endeavoring to chec at ihe ravagens of consum11ption, the "Wii ri-p'aptmo" thmat claims so many viotims eao riyear. 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InN 2 S - f .q'y - "j -- N G SD1NE F CARLS ROCER -Ti Cj' ' ~' 4 Wt tM c 4AJ4A i 444 ITI "I -ai e 'ouble wh 'na i fb h .n n .- etw l 'ide rdwt :rd CLAUS SP EEC KULS'. PA V IL1IN, GOLDEN GATE P ARK. snug t s1 weh'one raef. I;nall N twobot~l onu otly rbneM dt' I ovret:. Atn to(kid /y, a ,-0N0 by itsing Foley's~ki y rj( . I ku FO AL --F le.la,/ic i-oro ,erPerlsen no4 J. Lnsh r Kelly nean .w $tral,~ ;.;jS'.3C sign of phy leal rosoarehes of tbO United' States geological survey1 :ho llve( many years -an Califorila and who has mado a special study of sois mological disturbances for the govorlp mont, says the earthquako in' Califor ulat bas- IQ relation to the recent ertp \ tions of Vesuvius. lHe ascrkbes the ''shako" to tin unusually acute d'elop ment in the process of - "faulting," whleh has been going on along the Pa clle coast-for thottsands of years, says a Vashington special to the New York Trilune. This process consists. in a re adjustment of the rocks forming the crust of the earth. "h'lho people of California," sald Dr. Becker, "have not been having their usual monthly 'shakes' recently, and so this time they got themII in a lump. 'fhe case might be likened to thuat of a man suffering with 'Cver, wlhose regu lar attack of chills In a Imildform had phaps been postponed for a long time an1d then the dhl;ease shook him all at Once in "The coast ' . T been rising for Is shown by t the coast, old aeni., .. . high 111upon the Cliffs where the sea evi (etity at one t e wahed. There is it peciiar geologie n:r4 to be noted zIlso in the trace.4 of a fish known IoulaUrly as i 'idat fish.' whieh bur rows into the beacllos. The holes mado 1)y these fIsh are found Ihgi up on the e. ,fs, showIng 1111t the coast has grad iiAlly risen ab1ove the sea. Along the co:st of Calliforniai, at a relatively shrLt distance from the shore, the mh> i wter suddenly becomes ,very deop an1d from a depth of a few. f:11htomus (han.ges abriptly to a depth of perhaps thousand. of fathoms. This great submarine elIff extends all the way to Chile. the same geologcal for a1101tion bling ioted generally. Con tlnuing it extminations still more, we find that this samie general forma tion extends to Japan. Actually It imy be describedi as a great line of uplift in the earth's surface extending all the way from Singapore around to \'alp'aaio. "it wonild iot be surprising if we heard of severe shakes along the fis sure extemlling ' from California to South Amorlea, which I hamve describ led, aid possibly we will hear reports of a disturbance 1h Chile similar to that in an 1"rancisco, but it would be lite to the satme chaunge in'elevation. I would like to add that I (1o not think there is any.%, danger of a recurrence of a severe earthquake of this kind in California for a very long period of time. O' course there may be mild haIkes for somie tlne, but The read z:s1an imnt of the eath'tl's crust in this distur'bance was probably so complete ib tt there vill be 10 no change in the goplogioleail formation for many years. peoplht of Sant Franiieisco should be er1.ourag'ed to go ahead ant build up their city greater than ever, becauso they tmay feel coifldent that the worst is over." OTHER BiG EARTHQUAKES. Charileston Disnxiter Regn11ed-Thou. A Niads hilled Ini Japan.~i T1he last great earthquake in the UnIted States wahs thalt of Charleston, S. C., in 1830, says the New YorkC Tirib~une. Th'ils earthquake was p~rccedl ed 1by mlior tremors, to wihich little. nttenltion) was ptad. Th~le pri'ncipal shoek'i occuitled ablouit 0one minute, and other shocks followecd at intervalt wvith gradually diminishing vIolence. At the etul of four weecks they had ceased to be- destructive, but tremors were oc casIinally obiserv'ed for several months loa::er. In Charleston the movemnats were less .violent than at the center .of the *disturbances, a )oiuit ffteen miles wecst of th ity'. A large nuinber of liouses In the city were throwvn doewn, and nearly' all the buildings in the city w'ere more or less damaged. Th'e dam age was 'ompliulled at $S,O00000. T1wen tymeSvent persons1 were killed outright and others died afterward from in juries received. -IFollng is a list of the most do structive ear1thqualikes or the last two cen turi'es: - Number - ' killed. 103 Yeoddo, Japan..................100,000 17111 Algiers, Algeria ............... 18,0001 1726 Paliermno, Italy ..................(1,000 1i31 Peking, China .......'...95.000 'T 17-h Linma, P'eru.................... 18,000 l~if Cairo, IEgypt................... 40,000 13 Libon, Porjatugal .............. 35,000 I 773 Guate..min, Central America... 33,000 17971 Quito. 10cuad1or'....................41,000 1822 Aileppo, Tu'rkey................... 22000 13G1 Mendoza, Argentina ..............12,000 18%3 Arica, Chle..................... 0,000 !13 Malznila, PhliippIno Islinls.....3,000 13 Ischuia, Italy................... 2,000 seemed to Affect the utt. Perhiap1 the ntews of the San Fran- . cisco e11athqlunke was telegraphed across the continent in some strange way to the aninals, says the Now YorlC ~Timines. Several NeowYorkers saw rats, appathiently dr1iven1 from their holes by somei dlisturbanlce and, dlazed with fear, ylgy' on the streets the day aifter th le earthq1(uake T(, he anhunals ran11 ar1ound antd frolicked ats if they had na: fear or dogs or~ of persons wh'o camel near' thtem. TIhe samne p~henomue non1, if t it can be0 enlled thitt, wasH ob ser'ive~d in Washuingtoni an td othier cities alt the time of' the Charlesh~toni earth c1tinke or 1880I. W .hant P'rofessor Piecering Says, P 1iofeksor P'icker'ing of Ilarvard, ae-. cording to ai Itoton disptfch, say3s the 'San Flraneliseo eatuaki~n{e was not duo to to as Notice to Pickens Coimty Teacher's. O)in(accouint of 13o many of the ebi whts inI ilus tiiui y having closed ti.ir i' m'i'n', t Iho Comniitt ee doome I. w%'I- 'o mpean d furt her meetinge f th Teneber)('s Association for the S. ME. WTOLi., - Acting Seoy.