needed quarters, electric lights were
available and business had begun again on a limited scale.

Yet, in spite of the indomitable courage of the citizens and the
efficient labor of the public officers and the utility companies, an
enormous amount of work remained. Virtually every bank in San Francisco
had to be rebuilt. Only the Market Street National Bank was left nearly
undamaged. An official list of the condition of the school buildings
throughout the city showed that twenty-nine school buildings were
destroyed and that forty-four were partially, at least, spared. Many
of the latter were so damaged that they had to be either pulled down or
thoroughly repaired, and arrangements were made to resume the short
term in tents erected in the parks, where thousands of the homeless had
already found temporary shelter. With these two vital classes of public
institutions prepared to care for the demands about to be made on them,
confidence was not lacking in other parts. Most of the foundries and
factories near the water front and south of Market Street immediately
called in all their employees and began to clear away the wreckage
and make ready for continuing business. Great credit is due to the
newspapers, nearly all of which continued their daily issues without
interruption, although their buildings, with offices and printing
plants, were entirely destroyed by the flames which followed the
earthquake. Those whose premises were early threatened with destruction
betook themselves to Oakland, seven miles distant across the bay, and
published their sheets from the establishments of the Oakland papers. A
thorough inspection shows that comparatively little damage was done in
the vicinity of the Cliff. The Cliff House, which was at first reported
to have been hurled into the sea, not only stood, but the damage
sustained by it from the earthquake was slight. The famous Sutro baths,
located near the Cliff House, with the hundreds of thousands of square
feet of glass roofing, also were practically unharmed. Only a few of
the windows in the Sutro baths and the Cliff House were broken, and
the lofty chimney of the pumping plant of the former establishment
was cracked only a trifle. When the situation was finally summed
up, however, nearly three-fourths of the city had to be rebuilt or
remodeled, and the cost of doing this was enough to appal the strongest
hearts.

Financially the prospect was encouraging. Not a bank lost the contents