Part 9. LONG Uot ATHOUAKE Golden Gate Metropolis Has Been Shaken Often In the Past. PRESENT WORST EVER KNOWN Some of the Skyscrapers and Other Buildings Destroyed — Magnificent City Hall In Ruins—Fires Are rested by Dynamite —Earth- quake of 1868 Described by Mark Twain. one n that put to was the when cracked op In the ngs were given gone of thelr dizzy and wick The Stryctures uninjured, and that time there has not been so much question of the safety of high buildings of mod- raction—that is, buildings of g, and made a fearful shakin occupants were Yer 344 11 Lad const enterpr have sir For York of Sa the city Claus the country New deal of the instances banker n Franci tallest and Spreckels were | he Centre 41 THURSDAY, APRIL 286, MIErsects Marker, building, De Young Spreckels the Chronicle by Call; of the ing three great P having bullding des in recent share of tall buildin occupied acifie ye i rs een 22 won are eight A RRC hilding, and the the 3 The stories In height ten the home the Hearst on News contributed handsomely I 1 now I'he maj and twel umine 1% located the great of the » home build r, the papers to the elopment of San Francisco has Its + being eight ir part ve sto- BELLEFONTE, PA, | 0 ne very tantinlly SONNY" consrrucre, built of brick, wills covered hy dSnent The of the decorated pensive tnken peng avith the interior with ex the Pa subs dome wan marble from cific const mountains Another very cost over 85,000,000 fine building, which is the splendid ho Mrs. Herman Nob hill Mrs of Inte fine in Oelrichs Oelrichs, Senator the ar tel erected by on fashionable | who is a daught the Fair. has shown tuste THE CALL BUILDING, ALSO DESTROYED. merous The were enrt! and totally and me Call alinost fake ers were damaged One Examiner severely shinken, or of the chisf build bei destroyed aing gs whi most ou buildings in the h ther skyserap- acked and h col This ranite, While ectural press decora ity from street CITY HALL, WHICH WAS WRECKED. and richest San Franciscan, owns a build Ing seventeen stories high, commonly nown as the Call bullding, On three the corner pites, where Third street | a dome 332 feet high, omy rumea, 1 ap propriate e of hotel, Seen from’ the bay this struc classic outlines, makes the beholder think of a Greek temple. White and graceful, it locus above the busy the great wholeanle district, I bu and ple the y the with kot | laces pent n ess blocks trects was al i to the hor 1s the the fie b waler ock The long Market ted in differ wl nrred they ve under the debris To arres he spread of the Market dyuar The trac press td Tour fire were was de dis rafliroad more for a tance of three n At one point in the city the earth cracked open for a distance of six feet, leaving a yawning chasm of fathomless depth The destruction of all telegraph wires except one belonging to the Postel union, made It almost impossible for the stricken city to communiente with the outside workl. The severe Injury to the Western Union and Postal of flees, algo the Associated Press, greatly added to the difficulty The practical destruction of les, six or eight blocks, coupled with the Immense | loss of life and damage to property throughout San Francisco and the en: tire const region, makes this the worst | earthquake disaster In American his tory, exceeding even the Charleston earthquake of a few years Ago Ban Francisco has suffered from many slight selsmie shocks, them occurring about a year ago, At that time a Jong article appeared In one of the papers, signed by a pro | fessor in one of the observatories near IL COST ITO STUUR | hy, stating that there was no partie: to $7,000,000, took twenty five years In | giar danger from these tremors of the construction and was surmounted bY |garth's surface. The coast reglon, ae It was thought | poring to this writer. was newer than historie | one of | 1906 mocrat. Editorial, {parts of the was therefore ple should feel perious was linble to happen Evidently the Golden Gate Oe more *'s The earthquake Francisco has known prior to the pres ent one in 1868. Quite a little damage resulted, though nothing re motely comparable to this. It was the 1868 shakeup that w made by Mark Twain, The most surprising thing the genial Mark saw at that time was the opening up of the celling of his room, the lips of the orifice work Ing to and fro like a mouth and a brick glippiug through and held in suspen sion, like one tooth on the jaw of an old man The Ban Francisco was in Beveral distinet shocks were in the morning, of buildings all chief Nichol shaken The wall tain § throw is ana said farther "es He alarm, country settling peo- no ns nothing in the doling earth's erust region has been ettling.” severe most Ban was ius lone that occurred in January, 1900, felt early vibration city. The the St Was Sey nst earthquake causing the the Was over ” nil which ected erely in cer guests were coll 1p od ris of the structure of thelr beds and furniture IN FICTION. About Mrs, Mary E,. Wil. Story. Sontroversy Kins Freeman's New its | mar => WILKINS FREEMAN : among their As for the author, she ] ook has lo | color it was put 1 on her | : By hu den name of Mar E Wil i ! The Debt or” rh public throug clously Kins becan her Wor tor The n thes whi ost yl ch the declared fair nov Adds 3 Me. In he fF. | could persuade to follow the ex wl say “yes.” nt tel ] affair a but n lly took pi lace ages of their accompa- pion In the In Mat t of EWeeli ness with Miss Wil wm, but at the moment of their introduction failed to catch her name. At an opportune moment he ap- pealed to the doctor, who was hovering near “That Is Miss Mary Wilkins" the doctor proudly “Ah, vos iid she—ah eh Was riy st LOT once a rece and lig! vas charmed king’ conver sald Arnold. “But does write?” Women In Business, Business directories show a decided Increase In the element of women. This may not indicate an actoal in- have embraced a business career, but [it certainly does Indicate a | reluctance to have thelr names appear In print In a trade directory Only a few years ago most women objected | strongly to such a form of advertising. No matter how successfully they might [be conducting thelr business, they threatened dire punishment | rash agent who breathed a desire to | enroll then among the city's captains | Now apparently they seek | of Industry. places in the formerly despised list of | tradesmen, The sermon that does not hit is the sermon that does not help. famous crease In the number of women who | diminished for the | Local News. | WNIT NNN PN a a a ta Fn VP La W oa WN AT a A LOT OF Hats ¢ Clothing FROM LAST SEASON AT HALF PRICE. Sale now going on in room next door to T he Rack- et Store. 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