File:San Francisco - its builders, past and present - pictorial and biographical (1913) (14801550343).jpg

Identifier: sanfranciscoitsb19131sanf (find matches)
Title: San Francisco : its builders, past and present : pictorial and biographical
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: S.J. Clarke Publishing Company
Subjects:
Publisher: Chicago, (Ill.) : S.J. Clarke
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
—the charitable instinct which in so many men, as in the case of Mr. Williams, is hidden under the cloak of modesty and aversion to publicity. The best instance of his many good works in behalf of those who were needy was in the days following the great fire in 1906, when so many thousands were rendered destitute and homeless by the catastrophe. He threw open the Jockey Club grounds at Emer>\ille to over four thousand homeless, suffering people, who stood in the famous breadlines to save themselves from starvation. Later he turned over the buildings at Ingleside for semi-permanent homes for the thousands. For these conspicuous acts of charity, he is held in affectionate remembrance by thousands of San Francisos residents, and perhaps for many other private acts of charity he is known as a man of generous impulses, as well as among his friends and business acquaintances for his straight-forward methods and the possession of those attributes which give to men the honorable title of gentleman.
Text Appearing After Image:
'

Note About Images