THE NEW WORK 



I may be pardoned the diversion, even the 

 great earthquake of April 18, 1906, gave its 

 aid, for not only was not a single plant out of 

 the hundreds of thousands injured, but this 

 curious thing happened: In plowing between 

 the long rows of plants and young trees ex- 

 tending down the field sometimes half a dozen 

 city blocks in distance, great care must be 

 exercised by the workmen to throw the earth 

 to the center away from the roots ; after which 

 it must be broken up and leveled again. The 

 entire area had thus been plowed and was 

 ready for the workmen when, in less than a 

 minute's time, the mighty unseen power picked 

 up the world and shook it as a man would 

 shake a sieve between his knees and the clods 

 of earth were broken up and leveled over the 

 entire plowed area and settled into place even 

 more skilfully than the workmen could have 

 accomplished it. Nor was a single pane of 

 glass cracked in his conservatory, nor did one 

 of his chimneys fall, though all but some 

 dozen or so in the little city were destroyed. 

 Stranger still, a collection of some five hun- 

 dred negatives illustrative of his work, which 

 had been accumulating during the years and 



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