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ThcWeekly FlofiSte' Review. 



Apbil 26, 190e. 



Pelicano & Co. have been for the past 

 two weeks fitting up a much larger store 

 at a cost of $5,000, and this, together 

 with their fixtures in the older estab- 

 lishment, are a total loss. Sievers & 

 Boland had probably the finest equipped 

 store in the city and their windows for 

 years have been one of the sights of the 

 town. Their loss will probably be larger 

 than that of the other retailers. Ephraim 

 & Co., just above Sievers & Boland 's 

 big store, shared a like fate. Podesta & 

 Baldocchi, Jaeger & Co., Geo. B. Jones 

 & Co., and The Sutter Street Florists, 

 situated in one block on Sutter street, 

 did not long survive the Post street 

 stores. 



Geary street was next attacked and 

 Bosaia and Eossi each will lose at least 

 $10,000. The Misses Worn lost their 

 entire equipment. 



The fire did not reach Fourth street 

 until the latter part of Wednesday after- 

 noon, and Dominic & Co. and the Fourth 

 Street Florists will probably lose from 

 $3,000 to $4,000 each. In spite of every 

 effort the Palace hotel, one of the most 



longings little was saved. When it is 

 taken into consideration that almost all 

 the wagons in town had been pressed into 

 service to carry the sick from the hospitals 

 and when $50 an hour was demanded by 

 the ordinary expressman, it is easy to 

 understand why bo little was saved. 



Frank Shibeley and A. Mann, Jr., 

 had the biggest losses on Polk street. 

 Miss Rose Mann, Jaccard & Co. and 

 Wallenberg & Daley were also wiped 

 out. Over in the direction of Telegraph 

 hill all the Italian retailers were anni- 

 hilated. 



Among the seedsmen the Cox Seed 

 Co. sustained a loss of $100,000; Trum- 

 bull & Beebe, several doors below, $15,- 

 000, and Thomas Meherin, 516 Battery 

 street, about $5,000. Lilly & Co., on 

 Market street, sustained a loss of about 

 $15,000. It is reported that the loss of 

 C. C. Morse & Co., at the old Bowen 

 stand, is $100,000. 



Over across the bay, where the earth- 

 quake was fully as severe as in San 

 Francisco, but was not followed by fire, 

 the losses were merely from broken glass. 



The Region of The Golden Gate. 



Many of the largest producing establishments for the San Francisco 

 Market are at Oakj[and, Berkeley and Alameda and are safe. 



The great seed growing district of the Santa Clara Valley is shown 

 at the lower right comer of the map. 



famous in the world, went down and 

 with it Thos. H. Stevenson 's establish- 

 ment. 



Out on Larkin and Polk streets the 

 retailers had plenty of time to get 

 oway, but save for a few personal be- 



ll. M. Sanborn lost a large show win- 

 dow and his store-rooms were wrecked 

 by a huge chimney toppling over. Gill 's 

 Floral Depot, situated directly opposite, 

 lost a portion of the conservatory from 

 a falling chimney. Otherwise the dealers 



were very fortunate. Strange to say I 

 have yet to meet any grower who com- 

 plains of loss of glass from the earth- 

 quake. It is always occasioned by fall- 

 ing chimneys. 



The florists from San Francisco are 

 scattered all over the country. A few 

 are stopping in town, but from what I 

 have heard at least nine-tenths of them 

 have lost their homes as well as their 

 stores, and they have joined the march 

 with the other thousands of homeless 

 people whose only safety was in flight. 



Already from the wholesalers the cry 

 is going up : " What will we do with our 

 flowers?" And this is a very pertinent 

 query at this time. I think it is safe 

 to estimate that at least 3,000 dozen of 

 carnations are cut daily in Alameda 

 county alone. Fully as many more come 

 from San Mateo county, to say noth- 

 ing about roses, lilies and other stock. 

 San Francisco uses nine-tenths of this 

 stock and San Francisco will not be able 

 to use more than a fraction of the quan- 

 tity produced for the next six months 

 at least. What will the growers do? 

 The surrounding towns are amply sup- 

 plied by their local growers. 



To sum up, I figure that the direct 

 losses to the florists are $750,000, with 

 a third covered by insurance. G. 



QUAKE DOWN THE COAST. 



SoQUEL, Cal., April 18. — The earth- 

 quake at 5:20 this morning gave us the 

 shake-up of our lives, but none of us 

 was injured. A good deal of the furni- 

 ture was damaged ; almost all the pictures 

 and dishes are broken, the. stove upset 

 and the place looked as though a cyclone 

 had passed through. We had to break in 

 the upper panels of the door to get 

 Helene out of her room. The door had been 

 slammed shut and several hundred 

 pounds of books piled against it. One 

 of our cottages was thrown from its 

 underpinning and tipped to one side. I 

 haven 't ventured inside, as we are still 

 having slight tremors, any of which may 

 bring it down, but 1 expect the con- 

 tents is pretty well wrecked. 



G. L. Grant. 



Tt is apparent that at the time the 

 above was written Mr. Grant had no , 

 idea of the calamity which had'followed 

 the quake at San Francisco, eighty miles 

 away. At San Jose and Santa Clara, 

 the seed growing centers, twenty miles 

 or so west of Sequel, buildings were 

 thrown down and several lives lost. At 

 Santa Cruz, six miles from Soquel, the 

 quake wrecked several buildings, includ- 

 ing the court house, in which Mr. Gra^t 's 

 son-in-law had his office. 



BELGIAN JUSTICE. 



A well-known English amateur pur- 

 chased in 1904 five orchids from a Bel- 

 gian firm at a high price, £1,200. The 

 orchids were not in flower at the time 

 of purchase, but the transaction was car- 

 ried out on the strength of some col- 

 ored illustrations which, it is alleged, 

 purported to be correct representations. 

 When the orchids flowered, however, it 

 was seen that the blooms were not so 

 fine as those represented in the plate. 

 The purchaser thereupon took steps be- 

 fore the Tribunal of Commerce of Brus- 

 sels to have the contract of sale an- 

 nulled. The court took the opinion of 

 sundry experts, all well-known Belgian 

 orchid growers. The result was in favor 

 of the plaintiff purchaser, who is to be 

 reimbursed £1,200 as well as a further 

 sum of £120 for interest. 



