San Francisco Hotels and Reconstruction

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Excerpt from San Francisco Hotels and Reconstruction: March, 1907It was this wilderness of bent and broken steel and iron and brick that the indomitable courage of San Francisco set itself to reclaim as its own. The task was not one of re building primarily, but first of all the clearing of a wilderness. There were millions of tons of debris to be moved, millions of brick, which must be either carted out of the city or cleaned and used again.The attack was instantaneous all along the line. The railways laid temporary tracks on the streets for use in hauling this debris. Great gangs of men were set to work clearing the principal avenues of traffic. The street car companies restored the service along the principal streets with marvelous celerity. The business men of San Francisco housed themselves temporarily in the residence and undestroyed manufacturing sections around the outskirts of desolation that they might take care of business, and then gave up what had erstwhile been leisure hours to the greater problem of rehabilitation. Each one chose his own task and went at it. Property owners looked at the destruction calmly, each having the utmost confidence in the belief that the future of the city was not im periled, and that it presented the same problem to him as if his building alone had been destroyed and the rest of the city had been left intact, save indeed that under the new conditions all the elements that enter into the construction would be more expensive and more difficult to secure.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.