Some Cities and San Francisco and Resurgam (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Hubert Howe Bancroft

9780267845477: Some Cities and San Francisco and Resurgam (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0267845472 ISBN 13: 9780267845477

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from Some Cities and San Francisco and Resurgam

Here had been some discussion as to improving and beautifying the city of San Francisco prior to the catastrophe of April 18th. Landscape architects had been consulted, proposals considered, and prelim inary plans drawn. Therefore when on that day the city was swept by fire, obviously it was the opportune moment for the requisite changes in the rebuilding. For a brief period enthusiasm waxed warm. It helped to miti gate the blow, this fencing with fate. Let the earth shake, and fires burn, we will have here our city, better and more beautiful than ever - and more valuable - an imperial city of steel it shall be, and thus will we get even with the misfortunes of this day.

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