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Updated: April 30, 2025
I went in and lay down on a lounge in the library at 2 A. M. and slept until 5 A. M.. When I awoke and looked out the flames were pouring from every window of the Spreckels mansion. At 10 A. M. the house was thoroughly burned out. In the morning I went over to the California-Street engine-house, and found it in ruins.
I then went over to the power-house of the California-Street Railroad and found that about seventy feet of the smoke-stack had fallen diagonally across the roof, and about six feet of it into the stable, where were two horses; fortunately it did not touch them, but before they were released they squealed and cried, most piteously.
Whitney went to a friend's house. Early in the morning I went over to the California-Street power-house and had a talk with Superintendent Harris.
For a second I stood still. Then, like a poor fool, I began to laugh and shout. That was the most joyous home-coming of my life. During the day of Wednesday, April 18th, I saw some of the damage done by the earthquake. The loss to the California-Street cable railroad was the upper portion of the chimney.
And so reassuring, too, as though they couldn't have been manufactured for Woolworth's. There is much, I find, to be written about eggs. Isn't it "up-looking," as Mr. Wilson would say, that they are so cheap now? I cannot help wondering if that woman's hens the hens that went with the crow if they laid well when eggs were so high. On the California-Street Car
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