The Oregon daily journal., June 24, 1906, SECTION THREE, Image 29

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HEN: San Francisco 7 onset ? from
U-iu ashes' anddesolation'-when
w rcftZct frame walls and Marftfm.streets,--
ii ws'cxpecteuHo be the most beautiful twkjn
the New World. S V , V - -:" -v:
i An elaborate sememe or ixiKuxfii nifinw
htent: unadopted heretadSre because : of , its
" ? jfWcoj ij made possible: by the recent
5 pp2m'y. ri kirjt vrrt to come, may be re-:
-regarded as havxnt beZlrMessint in disguise.1
-. new San trancisco, a Committee 4 of Forty, , -appointed
to consider ideas for recbnttruC'
Uion; has adopted , the plans of Architect.
w. Burnhamt originally made, two years, ago,
tana revised ;to meet the. unexpected oppor
tunities now overed. . .; y ii.,.;. -
I Utilitp and, beauty are combined in the
lftfni, ttAicA contemplate a Jiigher expression
jo ic dm of mvacrm cuy ouiming I nan nas
lexer been: in America. 'y
een -streets willb widened or ex-1
ttenHfed. five' or' six new avenues will be laid
;.x.- put to relieve congestion injjuet ua'tfJ J Hislf-'
, ' - nest districts; parhsattk1boulevardst rows
;, o lr" and flowcrjrtts will add their a,dom
V , ment in every direction . v -, . i ' ;",,r .a,-: :'
' ' ' Natural fncturesqueness of hill and vol-" .
sJhJnwhkk the city Jssorich, wiJl be utilized L.
- no its fullest extent. H akdsom e new public
puildings are to be grouped, with an eye to
-; ' wis tic. effect ' . '. y';::; j..r..;-
r ". ' fVi Aif ' location ana environ
ment lending themselves so completely to a'.'
' feally great scheme of systematic adornment
' ji S Francisco, and of her advantages she
wilt take the fullest advantage.
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1',TWAS not tL double, calamity 'of earthquake J f9yKat1an FS ' : J ';
.-and x,. leaving the fair ity 'ly th OoWsTT-i"''-i "i.,- V l-kr': '!.-Ss.'" ;J
, . ' r. Gat prostrate 'in its ruins that'detersfltfned :- V': I " ' - "'
lm people to plan for future pre-eminenca in mu
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lenoia ouu, x nncucv nas oeen uscuseu its
ear a0 number of public-snirited eitisras
ablished m fund to be used, in securing plana for
1 For a city with such magnificent natural ad'
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vantages, it was felt that Ban, i ranoiscohad
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-verection af alace beautilak1 Ul itw-ul jtai'J
. u. vaauy ennanceu coaruicrciai. imporxance nas
rtimnlati KtuiDM tTnir all linen. anJ San Fran
cisco his xiiiispii.ii. aa miskm i lufmn in ill tiii
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of trale' throuahAhe OoHen
Gte expanded, tE34Bvrrew, but in the grewing
method, impatient,
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, of seeming obstacles. - and without thought, of
conserving its natural beauty. . ' y"
They plowed .their streets straight up and ,
- orer and down the hills, .regardless of eontour,
' regardless of everything except 'get. there,"' re- : ;
'" marked a writer not long before the. fire.. ' .
uAt firi.Tiew from the bay the city look
like a . checkerboard, marked in every direction ; .
by what sertn to be ditches,, cut at right angles.
.These are later seen to be streets."i , v,
, When San Franciscans found that their city
--was growing rapidly, but that the growth was
that of : the untrained, uncouth . country - lad,
running all to bone and muscle, without grace-y
ful lines,, and even without, taking advantage of ,'T
the picturesque effects supplied . so. liberally by -
' nature,, they decided that some general 'schema ;
" of municipal adornment jhould be adopted. ?
y. y So they called upon Mr. Bumham. It was r;
hisrain tnst conceived the majestic: scheme of
the-, World's! Fair i buildings, at Chicago. ' Since
4 then he' has come to be known as "the builder of
cities," because of his study of, municipal archi- ' -tecttrral
needs and the many plans he has mad r
for the beautificaf ion of American towns. -. - -
y. : Under his direction a corps of, engineers';:.'
, took up tha problem of creating as ideal San
Franciaco, -and upon these plans they worked for '
'" more than a year. . .. .
- ' - Of course, neither 31 r.-Bumham nor the
. public-spirited citizens who bad engaged -him
y foresaw the wholesale destruction that.waa to
'lay waste so much of the city's area.' iy ,
-. Confronted, bdwever. with th-necessity, ol
onrMtructing a new city, it was realized that
tlio eooortunitr without DarslJel for imnrovement
iLtf come..-; . , - ' , y:.o "-, -
igT ihj mmwm, ikvuhumk upo-n mtooi'
CtenlHl others; she. vsstfy frrp
tec t oral appearance, butevea bar no such opporr
let it r.aUtna
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- alamityv- Saa Francisco wu almost square, it
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lines ex trading about ! JTlo each-wiy. ;y
' " V 0nrall7 it hu boon callod the Oit? of
Hundred, Hill. In' wluteyer direction on y
- ' ...goes 'he cannot jquraey far without going
J..nphill. and down again into a talley; then
,,. :'f:j vp hill anT down aKa!n,tInie and linM OTCT
-' a .tha jaunt progreear ' ' --1 1'.
; From the atandpoin of the landaoar -.
' artUt, planning a city of beauty, ;whil -'
; bearing in mind all utilitarian require
. '- menta, these . hiiJ present' possibilities ; at
' p added charms, instead of being merely b- ; y
j " ' stacles of street extension,1 as the Saa ;
Franciscans appoar ,to hT regarded then
"in the past t : ' ' 7;.
-The climate Is conducW to lumrianl
, . rerdure, so that parks, tree-lined , attests, , '.
smaller sauares and attractive yards may.
readily be provided. v; V ,.;'",,
As a setting for such a municipal awn
the magnificent sweep of encircling water
". the ocean, strait, and barreaching arounJ
, three sides of the city site, cannot be but
passed. -''..... .' :, ' " . r
-" ' These naiural ' charms are taken ad- ,
y , vantage of in full in plans for th new
. San Francisco. ,-. - ;.-
The original San Francisco was buV
y dened with the rectangular block system of
,' street that mars so many otherwise at
.tractive r AmeTican municipalities. Whet- .
' ever possible in his plan and the general -:
scheme of readjustment was drawn befot
the fire-ifr. Burnhan provided for the so-'
Isting streets. . ' t ' - : :
V : By cutting a few diagonals,, rnalif-j
some extensions and adding a few windLj
roadways here and there, he converted a
commonplace, - unsightly , arrangement of
Streets into an artisti, elastic plan,
y y After the fire the possibilities of fca
. provernent becanvi far greater. A waste bow
remains to be built, instead of having to re
,. . adjust the heart of an existing city.
' In a general way, it is planned that tie
new San Franciwo shall eotisist of a mag
. nificent hub, or Civic Centre San Francis
cans now spell this with capital lotto-
. . I about whose, rim the strenms of travel and
, ; business may flow, and whiph, farther out, "
"Zr.i-t& be encircleil by three Conccntrio y-
tems'of boulevards. ; '
; ' . " The core of the plan Is Jo be about tha
geographic centre of the city at Market
street, which extends, in a general wa east .
' and west, and Van Ness avenue, running
y north and south. From this bub avenue
- . will radiate in all directions, like the spoke
f an enormous wheel.
" About. th Civio Centre, too, within
radius of some dozen blocks, it is planned
tKcollecVsll th administrative and publi
- rntelleetnal life of th eity.- -'-
The - postofRce it was ) a $2,'OO,0C1
bniMinf when the. calamity replied it, and
will, of course.. be--.recontructefi snt t.
splendid new City 1111 will be rebuilt tbr r
A $l,000,OtX public library is planned.
Other buildings proposed t grare t','
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