Burnham Plans Sixty Mile City Boulevards For San Francisco
Daniel H. Burnham, the famed architect, returned from Europe and said San Francisco now has power to rebuild as one of the world’s great beauty spots. He noted two key plan features diagonal streets and a grand outer boulevard encircling the city. He awaited a message from James D. Phelan urging him to come to San Francisco and would decide by Monday whether to go.
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Europe
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Association For the Improvement and Adornment of
Burnham
Louis’ Napoleon
Paris
Building Movement of San Francisco Sees Rapid Rebuilding
April 28 report says San Feleco reconstruction will proceed quickly. Mrs. Herman Oelrichs of New York agrees to repair the Rialto and rebuild on Crosley site with Mrs. W K Vanderbilt. Thomas Magee plans a 12 story steel building on Market Street above Mutual Bank. The Emporium will resume large scale operations. a temporary structure will rise at Post and Van Neve. Monadnock building seven floors to be filled in two weeks. Capitalists show faith, noting renewed hotels and continued city growth despite earthquake.
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San Feleco
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New York
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Market Ae
Mutual Banking
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Post and van Neve Avenue
Monadnock
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Phelan
Market
O'Farrell
Imoet
Des Moines Describes Soldier Looting in San Francisco
Harry Ostro and O Lone recount wholesale robbery by soldiers and looting by vandals in San Francisco. They claim soldiers often shoot on sight with little public scrutiny and describe thefts including diamonds and a gold watch. They demand official charges and bring testimony to Des Moines.
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Steel Buildings Stand Unscathed After Earthquake Survey
In San Francisco on April 28 inspectors found new steel structures largely intact after the quake. The Fairmount Hotel Nob Hill and the Claus Spreckels building on Market and Third streets slated for rapid occupancy, while Union Trust and St. Francis hotels show only interior woodwork loss. Call building and Monadnock on Market near Palace Hotel also undamaged, with Monadnock to house offices within ten days.
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Claus Spreckels
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Third Streets
Union Trust
Montgomery and
Market Street
St. Francia
Call
Third
Market Streets
Palace Hotel
Herbert E. Law
Angeles
San Francisco Construction Delays Hit Pittsburgh Mills
Pittsburgh steel men report San Francisco rebuilding may stall as Carnegie and Jones & Laughlin mills fill eight months of orders. German and British mills could supply structural shapes, while local plants hope to free capacity for urgent orders.
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San Francisco
Pittsburg Steel Mills
Carnegie Steel Company
Jones & Laughlin Company
Great Britain
Germany
Mille
Pennsylvania and Lackawanna Steel Companies
Illinois Steel Company
Health conditions improve in San Francisco
The board of health reports a encouraging health condition with sickness decreasing and few cow diseases treated at Deer Lodge in Golden Gate Park. Sanitary conditions in residence districts improve as volunteers remove garbage and wagons clear burned districts of debris.
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Board of Health
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Golden Gate Park
Wagene
Opposition to Despotism Rises as Russia Draft Provokes Unrest
In St Petersburg on April 6 the new draft of Roselaban’s constitution sparks widespread opposition amid distrust of government motives. The chaos feeds fears Parliament may be dissolved, while idle workers in the capital organize and back a Social Democratic led uprising. Authorities report 42,000 idle workers extended calls for public works and rail projects funded at 4 million dollars.
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Roselaban
Rech
M. Brianchaninoff
Ite
Social Democrats
Lone
Social Democratic Party
Army in Charge Food Relief Effort in San Francisco
San Francisco April 26 The United States Army will oversee distribution of rations to the city's homeless and hungry. The Quartermaster Department will establish a ration system across 56 city stations, taking over duties from local committees. Optimism is evident as Army-led relief becomes the main operation.
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Quartermaster’s Department
United States Army
United States
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United Sates Army
Train Schedule from Portland to Roesburg and San Francisco
Stage connections at Drain and Roseburg for trains to Portland, Roesburg, and San Francisco. Timetable lists departures and arrivals with times such as 8:30 am 8:30 pm and 12:00 pm 7:90 am, plus contact for Southern Pacific agents for full information and advertising matter.
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Roseburg
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