Three Fearful Days

Contents

San Francisco
    Joaquin Miller
Acknowledgments
Illustrations
The San Francisco Earthquake
Map of burnt district
Adding human interest (Preface)
A city is shaken (Introduction)

The day before
    Harry J. Coleman
A night at the opera
    Marcelle Assan
Restless horses
    James Hopper
5:12:05 a.m.
    Various
Escape from Central Emergency Hospital
    Edmond F. Parquette
A nurse's story
    Lucy B. Fisher
Cattle stampede at Mission and Fremont
    Harry F. Walsh
Mayor Schmitz takes control
    Eugene E. Schmitz
Breakfast in the Palace Palm Court
    James W. Byrne
A strange elation
    James Hopper
Ludicrous sights
    Arnold Genthe
Hugh Kwong Liang's story
    Hugh Kwong Liang
Three days adrift
    Mary Edith Griswold
Procession of the trunk-pullers
   Jack London
"Like wind through a cornfield"
    Eric Temple Bell
Family matters
    Mabel Coxe
Kaleidoscopic vision
    James Hopper
Picturing the city
    Harry J. Coleman
Newshounds raid mayor's cellar
    Harry J. Coleman
Saving the Mint—from the inside!
    Frank A. Leach
Fighting for the Palace
    James W. Byrne
Mrs. Irvine's jewels
    James W. Byrne
How they saved Hotaling's Whisky
    Edward M. Lind
The dignity of ruins
    Louise Herrick Wall
Sublime spectacle
    Charles B. Sedgwick
The funny side
    Charles B. Sedgwick
Caruso talks back
    Enrico Caruso
"The real San Francisco"
    Annie Laurie
Street life, with stove and piano
    Henry C. Schmitt
Neither snow, nor rain, nor earthquake
    William F. Burke
God poses, photographer exposes
    Arnold Genthe
At the feet of a goddess
    Harry J. Coleman
Holding back the volunteers
    Frank Hittell
The defiant Mr. Stetson
   James B. Stetson
A letter from a National Guardsman
    Elmer E. Enewold
The shooting of Cadet Aten
   Irvine Pressley Aten
"My dear Elise . . ."
    Catherine Golcher
As told by the children
    Various
"The most sociable time"
    Pauline Jacobson
The nation responds
    Richard Barry
A "subjective" view
    William James
A joyous renaissance
    Edwin Emerson Jr.

Resource notes
Bibliography
Illustration sources
Index
About the author

Illustrations

Tinted postcard with view along
    Grant Avenue from Market Street.   Front cover.
Cracked pavement, 18th Street between
    Folsom and Howard.   Back cover.
Yerba buena plant, after which San Francisco
    was once named.   Cover.
City Hall in ruins.   Title page.
Map of the fire-ravaged area.
View from the Ferry Building.
City Hall before and after the earthquake and fire.
Refugees fleeing along Market Street.
A pass to enter San Francisco.
Men forced to help clear streets of rubble.
Detachable collar sent through mail as letter.
Market Street, looking toward the Ferry Building.
Faked "action shot."
Palace Hotel's Palm Court, before April 18.
Inside the Grand Opera House.
James M. Hopper.
18th Street between Folsom and Howard streets.
Valencia Street Hotel before and after April 18.
Ambulance outside Mechanics' Pavilion.
Cattle killed by falling buildings.
Eugene E. Schmitz.
Union Square.
Arnold Genthe.
Hugh Kwong Liang.
Jack London.
Streetcar tracks on Union Street.
Eric Temple Bell.
San Francisco as seen from the bay.
Looking down Eddy Street toward Market.
Mabel Coxe.
Newspaper Row at Market and Third streets.
The Call-Chronicle-Examiner.
A desolate downtown.
Frank A. Leach.
The Palace Hotel after the fire.
Hotaling Whisky advertisement.
View from Telegraph Hill toward Market Street.
People gather on Russian Hill to view the fires.
“The day we all moved.”
Enrico Caruso.
Annie Laurie.
Happy Hooligan.
Post Office at Seventh and Mission streets.
Looking down Sacramento Street.
“Portals of the Past.”
The view from the City Hall dome.
1801 Van Ness Avenue.
“San Francisco under martial law.”
Irvine Pressley Aten.
Mother and child on Telegraph Hill.
Breadline on Van Ness Avenue.
Waiting for water at an army relief camp.
“... only the walls left standing ... ”
Cartoon: Uncle Sam consoling San Francisco.
William James.
Cartoon: The new Van Ness Avenue.

For sources of these illustrations, see page 320.

The postcards
Enterprising printers and publishers wasted little time in producing hundreds of books, postcards, and collections of stereoscopic cards depicting the devasted city. These were eagerly sought after by survivors and sightseers alike. However, they did have their detractors. An editorial in the San Francisco Call on May 20, 1906, warned that, although they might be good for souvenirs and “the edification of our grandchildren,” they could also harm the city.

Are we not damaging the city by every one of these views we send away? The whole world is familiar with our calamity, but is it necessary to harp on the subject after it is all over? Why not forget it as soon as possible and cease to keep the fire alive by fanning the dying embers? . . . If we want to frighten people away from us this is about as good a way as any other.

This appeared under the headline “Pernicious advertising.”

In 1906, postcards were called “postal cards” or “postals,” and their backs were reserved solely for the address and a one-cent postage stamp. People sending them wrote their messages on the front, either around or across the illustrations. Many of the images appearing on the cards are available today as photographs, but these lack the sense of immediacy—of actually having been handled and inscribed by the people of 1906—that the cards have. Furthermore, the messages are themselves valid and very personal eyewitness accounts, which is why you'll see a few reproduced in this book as cards, complete with creases and crinkled edges.

PREFACE

                Knowing I was working on this third volume of the San Francisco Memoirs trilogy, people asked me, “What period does it cover?” When I answered, “The 1906 earthquake and its aftermath,” their response, though suitably polite, often caused me to imagine them thinking, “Oh, dear, another earthquake book!”

    I admit such exchanges sometimes gave me pause. Was I right in devoting an entire volume to this one event, which has already been the topic of several books, countless articles and many television programs, as well as the classic 1936 movie "San Francisco." But then I would look through the material I was gathering and my excitement over the project would return. After all, I reasoned, most of those other books limit themselves to the story of the earthquake; mine tells the story of the people who endured it. And whereas other books quote only a few lines or paragraphs of what various people said, I allow them several pages and, wherever possible, add extra information about them—who they were, where they lived, what became of them.

    This attention to behind-the-scenes detail required an extra level of research, and while it was sometimes arduous it was also exhilarating. First I hunted down the stories. Then I sought out what I could about each individual. Thumbing through city directories often told me in what part of town they lived (reactions to the quake varied according to how severely a particular neighborhood was affected). The California Information File and the San Francisco Newspapers Index sometimes led me to people's birth dates—and therefore their age at the time of the quake—and what might have happened to them subsequent to April 1906. In a few cases, I found this information in the census records for 1900 and 1910.

    For example, I suspected that “Annie Laurie” was not one writer's real name and felt vindicated when I discovered that it was the pseudonym of Winifred Black Bonfils. To learn of this woman's subsequent involvement with social work and charities adds a new dimension to her story of the refugee camps. (See “The real San Francisco.”)

    Two of my favorite stories are by Mary Edith Griswold and Edwin Emerson Jr. Imagine my delight when I came across an item in the San Francisco Call announcing their marriage exactly one month after the earthquake! When I re-read Emerson's story I saw that the wedding he describes matches his own, although he does not identify it as such. (See “Three days adrift” and “A joyous renaissance.”)

    The primary research was in finding these first-hand accounts. I read hundreds of letters, journal entries, and miscellaneous documents at the University of California's Bancroft Library, the California Historical Society, and the San Francisco History Center at the San Francisco Public Library. I looked through every earthquake book I could find. In this I was fortunate in my friendship with Gary Sterling, who offered me access to his impressive library of California history.

    I soon realized that, for me, the Holy Grail would be the vast—yet mysteriously missing—collection of documents gathered by the Earthquake History Committee immediately after the quake. Even though this important source is often referred to by researchers, its exact whereabouts is not known. According to a report in the San Francisco Examiner on April 19, 1908, the committee had by then gathered hundreds of official documents, clippings from 36,000 newspapers—and “about 3,000 narratives of personal experiences . . . all of them written before the story had become entirely untrustworthy.”

    The Examiner story, written by Henry Morse Stephens, professor of history at the University of California, added that the task of filing, indexing, and cross-referencing all this material was proceeding, though slowly. Sadly, little else has been heard about the work since then.

    These comments by Professor Stephens helped sustain me:

[The committee] members realized from the beginning that it was their duty not only to relate facts, but also to render faithfully the atmosphere of the time. They desired further not only to record events and to reflect the pressing flavor of a critical time, but to bring out the human interest in their story. For while the events of April and May, 1906, in San Francisco are of surpassing interest from the way in which the community as a whole met its problems, the part of the individual in seeing and feeling what was going on around him was not to be neglected. . . . Particularly interesting were the personal experiences of the actual shock of earthquake, which, as collated, show not only the various ways in which the shock affected different buildings and different parts of the city, but also its psychological effect upon individuals of varying age and temperament.

It was this psychological effect upon individuals that intrigued me as I read through the hundreds of accounts I eventually gathered, and it is a continuing thread in this volume.

As with each of the previous volumes of memoirs, I went back as far as possible in seeking the original versions of all accounts, rather than rely on them as printed in more recently published books. This not only gave me an interesting look at any editing that might have been done but sometimes provided me with longer accounts and considerably more material. One such search led, if not to the Holy Grail itself, then certainly as close as anyone ight expect to get.

From my friend Gary Sterling I borrowed a little book that had been printed privately in 1927—Recollections of the Fire, by James W. Byrne. According to the book's foreword, this was a reprint of Byrne's account that first appeared in The Argonaut, a San Francisco weekly journal, in November and December 1926. I went to The Argonaut, and—Bingo!—found 70 full-page articles that ran for 16 months, from May 1926 through August 1927, under the general title, "The Great Fire of 1906."

I doubt I would have unearthed this cache had I not sought beyond Byrne's little book.

Reading through the series, I realized that here perhaps is the most comprehensive history of the earthquake and fire to be found anywhere. It includes numerous official reports and documents, and well over 100 in-depth first-person accounts, many of which I have not seen reprinted anywhere. In several instances reference is made to the Earthquake History Committee resources, which leads me to surmise that those files were used to compile the series.

For other “new” accounts I continued my search elsewhere. At the British Library in London I found the letter from “Harry” to Maria Mansell. (See “5:12:05 a.m.”) And thanks to Constance Reid (author of The Search for Eric Bell, also known as John Taine), I obtained a copy of a letter that appeared in the magazine of a boys' school in England. (See “Like wind through a cornfield.”)

For further stories and background material I read every issue of The San Francisco Chronicle, The San Francisco Examiner, The San Francisco Call, and The Bulletin from April through the end of 1906, in addition to many issues of The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times for the same period.

With this latest volume of memoirs I have not found the confusion of obsolete words that teased the readers in the earlier volumes so do not feel a glossary is warranted. However, it may not be amiss to remind today's younger readers that the word “gay” as used frequently in these pieces originally meant merely “lively,” “high spirited,” or “fun loving.”

As was my practice in the first and second volumes, I have not tampered with the original spelling and punctuation within the pieces except where necessary to clarify the text. I have, however, abbreviated some of the originals, deleting passages that repeat material already given by other writers. All such deletions within the text are indicated with an elipsis (...).

For the benefit of students and historians, I list resources by page number in “Resource notes” at the back of the book. I use brackets ([ ]) to interject immediate clarification of text, and to provide missing first names wherever possible. Parenthetical notations in the pieces were made by the original writers. All headings, with the exception of “Three days adrift,” are my originals.

I do not claim that this volume replaces the missing record compiled by the Earthquake History Committee. However, I sincerely hope that, at the least, it fulfills the expressed aims of Professor Stephens by relating facts and rendering the atmosphere of those three fearful days of April 1906 and their immediate aftermath.

Malcolm E. Barker
San Rafael, California
February 1998

Index

A

Active (tug)
Adams, Ansel
Aiken, Charles S.
Alanson, Bertram
Alcazar Theater
Alhambra Theater
American Journal of Nursing
Ames, Frank Louis
Angel Island
Angelus Hotel (Los Angeles)
animals
    See also cattle; horses; pets
Annie Laurie,
"Annie Laurie Tells of the Spectral City"
anti-Chinese discrimination
Appraisers' Building
architecture
Arizona
Armstrong, Lieutenant
army
    and citizens
    drinking
    relief supplies
    shootings by
    See also National Guard
    U.S. Infantry; 28th Coast Artillery
Army Signal Corps
As I Remember
Assan, Marcelle
Assoc. for the Improvement and Adornment of S.F.
Aten, Irvine Pressley
Athenian Club
Austin, Mary
Austrian consul,
automobiles
Averills residence

B

babies
bakers
Bakewell, Vail
banks
Barbary Coast
Barnes, General,
Barret's burlesque house
Barry, Richard
Bates, Blanche
Beatty, William
Bedford Modern School
Belasco, David
Bell, Eric Temple
Belt Line railroad
benefits of outdoor life
Bernhardt, Sarah
Bertin & Lepori
Bevans, the
Beylard, Mr. & Mrs. E. D.
Bill Graham Civic Auditorium,
black powder
blacks in San Francisco
"Blind Boss of San Francisco"
Blue and Gold
Bob (ambulance horse)
Bock, Albert C.
Bock, William H.
Bock, William P.
Bodwell & Co.
Bodwell, Frank
Bohemian Club
Bonfils, Winifred Black
    See Laurie, Annie
Book of Jack London, The
Boston
Bothin residence
Bowie, Fred R.
Bradbury residences
Brady, Michael J.
breadlines
Bremer, Milton and Mabel
Brewster, Sidney W.
Briggs, the
Briggs, Raymond W.
Briggs, Wallace
British Library
British-Californian, The
Broadway jail
Brunswick Hotel
bubonic plague-carrying rats
Buckley, Christopher
Buckley, Matthew G.
Buon Gusto
Burke, William F.
Burnham Plan
Burnham, Daniel
Burns, William J.
Bush, Miss,
Burton, Austin,
"Buveurs de l'Eau" ("Drinkers of Water")
Byers, Glenn A.
Byrne, James W.

C

cadets
    See also Univ. of Cal. cadets
California Century Clubs of New York City
California Hotel
California Information File
California Powder Works
California Street Railway Co.
California Women's Hospital
Call building,
    quake damage
    fire damage
cannery fire
Carmen
Carter, Leslie
Caruso, Enrico
    Carmen
    "'ell of a place!"
"Caruso on the Earthquake"
Casino, The
cattle
census records
Central Emergency Hospital
Central Theater
Century Magazine
Cerf, Myrtile
Chapman, Edyth
Chicago
children
Chinatown
Chinese
    servants
    vaudeville
Chinese Historical Society of Greater San Diego
Christensen, John
Chronicle building
    on fire
Chutes, The
City Beautiful movement
City Hall
    before quake
    quake damage
    fire damage
    police station
    See also Central Emergency Hospital; treasurer's office<R>
City Hall (new),
City Hall Avenue
City of the Golden 'Fifties
Civic Center
Clabrough, Golcher & Co.
Claus Spreckels Building
    See Call building
Cliff House
Coffroth, Jimmy
Cohen, George M.
Coleman, Harry J.
Collier's magazine
Columbia Coffee & Spice Co.
Columbia Theater
Commercial Hotel
Committee of Fifty
Committee of History & Statistics
    See Earthquake History Committee
Congress, U.S.
Conlan's
controversies
    army
    dynamite
Cook, Jesse B.
cooking in the streets
    See stoves in streets
Coppa's Restaurant
coroner's figures
Cosgrave, Millicent,
Cosmos Club
Court of Appeals, U.S.
cover-up campaign
Cowdery, Frank
Coxe, Charles
Coxe, Ella
Coxe, Ella (Mrs.)
Coxe, Frank
Coxe, Mabel
Crafts and Arts
Crocker building
Crocker, Henry J.
Crocker School
Crown Paper Mills
curfew
Curry, Charles
Cushing, William
Custom House

D

Dailey, Pete
"Dance, thumbykin, dance"
Dargie, W.
de Mille, Cecil
de Young, Michael
dead, the
Delaney, Billy
Delmonico's Restaurant
Desmond, Grace
Dewey Monument
Dinan, Jeremiah
Dixon, L. Maynard
Dixon, Lilian
Dolores Lake
Dondero, George
Dougherty, John
drunkenness
Dunn, Allan and Mrs.
Dwyer, J. M.
dynamite controversy
dynamiting
    Van Ness Avenue,
    elsewhere

E

Eagle, The
Earthquake History Committee
Earthquake Information Center
earthquake of 1989
earthquakes of 1865 and 1868,
earthquakes in world
Eichbaum, Ed
Eichbaums, the
Eiffel Tower Restaurant
Elliott, Captain (cadet corps)
Emerson, Edwin, Jr.
Emporium, The
Enewold, Elmer
Enewold, Lawrence
Episcopal Church
Episodes of the San Francisco Catastrophe
Erskine, Douglas
Everybody's Magazine
Examiner building
    on fire

F

Fairmont Hotel
"Fall of San Francisco: Some Personal Observations"
Ferguson, David Miller
ferries
    no fares
Ferry Building
Field, Charles K.
Fiesta Restaurant
Finke's Widow, A
Fior d'Italia Restaurant
fire
    breaks
    fighters
    Hayes Valley
    See also Sullivan, Dennis
Fire Department
Fireman's Fund
fires of 1849-1851
fires, heat of,
Fischer's Theater
Fisher, Lucy B.
Fisk, Arthur G.
Fitzpatrick, Colonel
Flood, Mrs. James,
Flood building
Fly in the Pudding Restaurant
Flynn, Jack
folding bed
food distribution
food, overpricing of
Fort Mason
Fort Miley>
Fort Point
"Frankie and Johnnie"
Franklin Hall
Frawley, Daniel
Frawley, Tim
free lunch
free postage
    See postage-free mail
free transport
Freeman, Frederick Newton
Fremstadt, Olive
"French restaurants"
Fugazi Bank Building
Funston, Frederick

G

Garchik, Jerome M.
Garchik, Leah,
Garnett, Porter
Garratt, W.T. & Co.
Geary building
Genthe, Arnold
Germans
Girls' High School,
Give Us a Little Smile, Baby
Golcher, Bennie
Golcher, Catherine
Golcher, Catherine (Mrs.)
Golcher, Elise
Golcher, Henry
Goldberg Bowen & Co.
Golden Gate Park
    refugees
Golden Pheasant
Golf Club
Goodwin, Nat
Gorovan cottages
graft and corruption
Grand Hotel,
Grand Opera House
    before quake
    after quake
Grau, L.H.
"Great Fire of 1906, The"
Greek Theater
Greely, Adolphus
Griswold, Mary Edith
grocery saloons
gun cotton
Gunn residence
Guthrie, Mrs.

H

Hackett, James K.
Hales (store)
Hall of Justice
Hall of Records
Hall, Blanche,
Ham and Eggs Fire
    See Hayes Valley Fire
Hamada
Hamilton, Frank
Hamlet, O.C.
Hansen, Gladys
Hanson, Harry
Happy Hooligan
Harbor Emergency Hospital
Harbor View
Harbor View Baths
Harvard Alumni Bulletin
Harrell, O.R.
Harte, Bret
Hawes, T.W.
Hayes Valley Fire
Hayward Fault
Hearst Building
    See Examiner building
Hebrew cemetery
Helms, Captain
Heney, Francis J.
"Heroic San Francisco"
Hertz, Alfred
Hittell, Frank
Ho, Jimmy
Hobart residence
Hoffman House (New York)
Home Telephone Co.
Hopkins, Mark
Hopper, James M.
Horace,
horses
hospital, emergency
    See Mechanics' Pavilion
Hotaling, A.P. & Co.
Hotaling's whisky
Hotel St. Nicholas
    See St. Nicholas Hotel
How the Army Worked to Save San Francisco
Huntington, Dr. (Presidio)
Huntington residence
Hutchinsons, the

I

Idora Park
impressment of men
infectious diseases
International News Photos
Irvine, Margaret
Italians
    See also Latin Quarter

J

Jacobson, Pauline
Jacoby, Josephine
jail, Broadway
James, Henry
James, William
Janis, Elsie
Japanese
Jefferson Square
Jeffries, Jim
Jones, C.C.
Joosts, the
Jordan, David Starr
Journet, Marcel,

K

Kahn, George
Kane, Rose
Kansas City
Keith, William
Kelly's livery stables
Kennedy, Grace
Kirkpatrick, John C.
Kirkpatrick, Thomas
kitchens, street
    See stoves in streets
Kleaberger, Frank
Kodak 3a Special
Kohl Building
Kohl, Mrs. Frederick
Koster, John A.
KRON-TV
Kwon Kong
Kwong Chow Temple

L

Lafler, Henry Anderson
Lane Hospital
Langdon, William H.
Latin Quarter
Laurie, Annie,
Leach, Frank A.
Lee, Frank
Leslie (tug)
Levings, Bill,
Levison, Charlie
Levison, Jacob B.
Levison, John
Levison, Robert
Lewis, Sinclair
Liang, Hugh Kwong
library, main
Lick House
Lick Observatory
Lind, Edward M.
Ling Yoke Ping
liquor sales ban
Lohengrin
Loma Prieta earthquake
London Hospital
London, Charmian
London, Jack
looters, shooting of
looting
Lorraine, Robert
Los Angeles Relief Camp
Lotta's Fountain
Lowell High School
Lucchetti's Restaurant
Lung Tin
Lyceum, The

M

Mackay, Clarence,
Maguire's Opera House
Maguire, John
Maguires, the
Majestic Theater
Major Bowes Amateur Hour
Mannering, Mary
Mansell, Maria
Mansell?, Harry
Manson, Marsden
Manx Hotel
Marchand's Restaurant
Mare Island Navy Yard
Marina district
marines
Mark Hopkins residence
Marlowe, Julia
marriage licenses
martial law
Martinez, Xavier
Maskey's Fine Candies
Matias's Restaurant
McAdie, Alexander
McCullough's burlesque house
McCullough, Captain (harbor pilot)
McGinty, Arthur
McKinnon, Alfred
McManus, Bernard
Mechanics' Pavilion
    hospital
    fire
Meese & Gottfried Co.
Menninger Foundation
Menninger Perspective
mentally ill patients
Merchants' Exchange
Merrill residence
Metropolitan Opera Company
Miller, Charles
Miller, Joaquin
Mills Building
Mint, U.S.
Mission High School
Moller, John
Monaco, Dante
Monaco, J.B.
Monaco, Katherine
Montgomery Block
morgue,
Morris, Charles
Morrison, "Scotty"
Mott, Frank K.
Murger, Henri
Mutual Bank Building,

N

Napa
National Archives
National Guard, California
Navy, U.S.
Neill, James
Nelson, "Battling,"
Neptune Hotel
Neustadter residence
Nevada House
New Mexico
New Western Hotel
New York City
New York Times
News Building Hotel
Newspaper Row
Nile Club
Nob Hill
North End Police Station
Norton, Homer
Nourse Auditorium

O

Oakland Tribune
O'Connor, Kathleen
O'Dea, Jimmy
O'Farrell, Jasper
Oberon Building
Occidental Hotel
Oelrichs, Mrs. Herman
Ogden (Utah)
Ohio House
Old Kirk Whisky
Older, Fremont
Olympic Club
"On Some Mental Effects of the Earthquake"
Orpheum Theater
"Our San Francisco"
Owl Drug Store

P

Pacific Mail Steamship Co.
Pacific Union Club
Palace Hotel
    Palm Garden
    quake damage
    fire
Palo Alto
Panama Pacific International Exposition
Paquette, Mary Grace
Pardee, George C.
Paris of the West
Parquette, Edmond F.
passes
Patek & Co., F.
Peacock
Peters, Charles Rollo
pets
Phèdre
Phelan Building
Phelan, James
Pierce Rudolph Storage
Pierce, H. & W.
Pinkham, Charles B.
plague, danger of
Platt, Horace
Plume, Edward J.
Polhemus, Eric
police
police, citizen
Poodle Dog Restaurant
"Portals of the Past"
Portsmouth Square
Post Office (Seventh Street)
postage-free mail
postal service
Postal Telegraph
postmaster
Postum Cereal
Powell, Henry N.
Pratt and Tierney's backroom
Preble (destroyer)
Presbyterian Church
Presidio
hospital
camp
prisoners
property damage
prophesy
Pup Restaurant

Q

Queen of Sheba
Quinn, Frank R.

R

Railway Mail Service
rats
reaction of survivors
    See also drunkenness
Reagan, Thomas F.
Recollections of a Newspaper Man
Recollections of the Fire
Red Cross
Reflections of the Fire
refugees
    camps
    Chinese
    feeding
    shacks
    See also breadlines
Reid, Constance
Reinhardt, Dr. (Presidio)
relief supplies
    funds
    See also breadlines
"Revelry of the Dying"
Revenue Cutter Service
Rincon Hill
Roberts, Florence
Rockefeller, John D.
Rogers, H.H.
Roosevelt, President Theodore,
Root, Jack
Rosenstein, Mr.
Rossi, Archangelo
Ruef, Abraham
rumors

S

sailors
    See Navy, U.S.
Saint Francis (the saint)
"Sam, Sam, the Lavatory Man"
San Andreas Fault
"San Francisco at Play"
San Francisco Bulletin
San Francisco Call
San Francisco Call=Chronicle=Examiner
San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco City Directory
"San Francisco During the Eventful Days of April"
San Francisco Examiner
"San Francisco (From the Sea)"
San Francisco Newspapers Index
San Jacinto Fault
San Quentin
Sanguinetti's Restaurant
sanitary conditions
Saunders', the
Savoy Hotel
Schaffers, the
Scheff, Fritzi
Schmitt, Henry C.
Schmitt, Mrs. Henry C.
Schmitz, Eugene
    election
    graft
    actions
Schwabacher residence
Scotti, Antonio
Search for Eric Bell ..., The
Secretary of War
Sedgwick, Charles B.
Sembrich, Marcella
Sequoia Club
servants
shacks, refugee
Sharpes, the
Shaw, George Bernard
Sheehy, Margaret
Shortridge, Samuel M.
Shreve's
sightseers
Simpson, Ernest
Sinclair, Upton
Sisters of Charity
Sketch, The (London)
Skinner, Otis
smallpox
Smith, George
Smith, Grant
social barriers obliterated
Sothern, E.H.
Sotomoyo (tug)
Southern Pacific Co.
Southern Pacific Hospital
"spirit of San Francisco"
Sports, the
Spotorno, Mr.
Spreckels, Claus
Spreckels building, Claus
    See Call building
Spreckels, Rudolph
St. Francis Hotel
    fire
St. Luke's Church
St. Mary's Cathedral
St. Mary's Church
St. Mary's Hospital
St. Nicholas Hotel
St. Patrick's Church
Stafford, W.G.
Standard Oil Co.
Stanford Axe
Stanford University
Starr King Cadets
Stehr, William F.
Stephens, Henry Morse
"Steps That Lead to Nowhere"
Sterling, Gary
Sterling, George
Stetson, James B.
Stevens, Ashton
Stevenson, Mrs. Robert Louis
Stevenson, Robert Louis
    monument
stock yards
Story of Cheerio by Himself
Stoupe, Mr.
stoves in streets
Strathmore Hotel
street kitchens
    See stoves in streets
streetcars
    no fares
streets, cracked
Sullivan, Dennis
    his plans
    killed
Sullivan, Mrs. Dennis
Sunset Magazine
Sunset Press building
Sutro Baths
Swiss American Wine Co.

T

Taine, John
    See Bell, Eric Temple
Tait's Restaurant
Tanners, the
Techau Tavern
telegraph messages
Tenderloin District
Theater, The
"There'll be a hot time in the old town tonight"
Third Congregational Church
"Three Days Adrift"
Tillman, Tilton E.
Torney, G.H.
Tortoni's Restaurant
Towart, Rob
Towne, Albion N.
trains, no fares
transportation costs
treasurer's office
trunk pullers
Tufts, Bronson
22nd U.S. Infantry
28th Coast Artillery
Twin Peaks auxiliary salt water system,
typhoid

U

underground cisterns
Underwriters Fire Patrol
Union Square
United Railroads
U.S. Geological Survey
United Undertakers
University of California,
    cadets
    faculty club

V

Valencia Street Hotel
Valencia Theater
Varney, Mr.
Volkman, C.M. & Co.

W

Walker, Edith
Walker, Meriweather
Wall, Louise Herrick
Wallace, Richard R.
Walls of Jericho, The
Walsh, Harry F.
Walter, Mrs. Solly
Walton, James
Wanamaker, Mr.
Ward, James W.
Warfield, David
Washington Square
waterfront, saving of
Watsons, the
Weber, Joe
wedding
Wellington (ship)
Wenban residence
wharves
Whitmans, the
Whitney, Mr.
wholesale district
Willamette Pulp & Paper Co.
Willard, E.S.
Williams, John T.
Wilson, Francis
Winchester Hotel
wind conditions
Wolfe, Orrin R.
Woodward's Pavilion
wounded, care of
Wright, Frederick G.

Y

Y.M.H.A.
Ye Liberty Playhouse

Z

Zellerbach Paper Co.
Zellerbach, Isidore
Zinkand Cafe

Go to Home Page