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Title: A history of the earthquake and fire in San Francisco; an account of the disaster of April 18, 1906 and its immediate results
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Aitken, Frank W Hilton, Edward
Subjects: Earthquakes -- California San Francisco
Publisher: San Francisco, The E. Hilton Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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districts will be relieved of much conges-tion and the transaction of business facilitated. Asimilar spreading-out is likely to result in the caseof the residence districts. People who have liveddowntown have been driven out, past the WesternAddition and the Mission, into the outlying dis-tricts. They are in the position of building up a newcity; one, however, whose suburban trolley linesare already in operation. On the whole, it seemsthat the new city will be much less crowdedthan the old. There will be room for private gar-dens and lawns, and for public parks and play-grounds, and for much of the pleasure of living thathas been crowded out in the congestion of mostlarge cities. With the realization of this, and with the set-tlement of the immediately pressing problems, comerenewed interest in the Burnham plans and theirsuggested modifications. After careful investiga-tion, a somewhat changed plan was presented forimmediate execution, with a detailed statement ofthe expense involved.
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bX) 3 >. c a e oO ca CO 1^ 0, ju, THE NEW SAN FRANCISCO The changes proposed by this last-mentionedplan are shown on the accompanying map of thedowntown district, to which they are confined. They include the widening of Fremont streetto the water-front, the creation of a new avenuefrom the ferry to Folsom and Fremont, the widen-ing of Folsom from the bay to Tenth street, andthe removal of Rincon Hill (from Fremont to Third,Folsom to Bryant) by extensive grading. Thesechanges would result in great benefit to the Southof Market district. The widening of Eighth street,which passes through the outer portion of this re-gion and reaches the new wholesale district and thePotrero, is also proposed. North of Market street the new plans are con-cerned mainly with changes in the old wholesaledistrict. Montgomery avenue, says the report,should be extended through to Market and Fre-mont, forming, with the latter, a wide thoroughfarefrom North Beach to the region of the mail docks.In

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