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Title: After earthquake and fire
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Mining and scientific press, San Francisco. (from old catalog)
Subjects: San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906
Publisher: San Francisco, Mining and scientific press
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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will take root here. Some of this willreturn to its former site when the City is rebuilt, but some ofit will remain at Berkeley. While the Southern Pacific andthe Santa Fe railroads both pass through the lower part ofthe town, the former has no station and the latter, one that isnot much used, but it is certain that recent events will lead toan immediate improvement in this regard. The accompany-ing map shows the position of the cities that have grown uparound the Bay of San Francisco. At the beginning of 1906the metropolis had a population of 400,000; Oakland camenext with 90,000; Berkeley, 40,000; and Alameda, 20,000.Los Angeles, in the southern part of the State, has a popula-tion of 200,000, so that Berkeley is the fourth in size. It wasnamed after Bishop Berkeley, to whom is credited the say-ing: Westward the path of Empire takes its way. It wasCharles Kingsley, in Westward Ho who originated the say-ing, but whoever said it, the town of Berkeley is one of thosethat fulfilled it.
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Map of the Bay of San Francisco.Dotted Line Indicates the Earthquake Fault. THE EARTHQUAKE. An experience such as that undergone a few hours ago bythose who dwell on the shores of the Bay of San Franciscois apt to emphasize the fact that the earth we live on is stillundergoing structural readjustment. At such times—or alittle afterward, when chimneys have ceased falling and wehave gathered wits somewhat perturbed by the unfamiliarsensations—we realize why the Greeks looked upon the Earthas a sentient being; the philosophers of the ancient worlddwelt beside the Mediterranean, which from time immemorialhas been the theatre of earthquakes, volcanoes and othermanifestations of terrestrial unrest. It needs less poetry thanfright to suggest the idea that, like a giant disturbed, oldEarth is shaking himself awake, growling the while. As wewrite, at Berkeley, nearly four hours afterward, the clock,shaken to a standstill, marks 5.14 as the moment of the mostsevere shock. Across the Bay hug

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