of theatres, the Orpheum, the Alcazar, the Majestic, the
Columbia, the Magic, the Central, Fisher's and the Grand Opera House, on
Missouri Street, where the Conried Opera Company had just opened for a
two weeks' opera season.

The banks that fell were numerous, including the Nevada National Bank,
the California, the Canadian Bank of Commerce, the First National, the
London and San Francisco, the London, Paris and American, the Bank
of British North America, the German-American Savings Bank and the
Crocker-Woolworth Bank building. A large number of splendid apartment
houses were also destroyed, and the tide of destruction swept away a
host of noble buildings far too numerous to mention.

At Post Street and Grant Avenue stood the Bohemian Club, one of the
widest known social organizations in the world. Its membership included
many men famous in art, literature and commerce. Its rooms were
decorated with the works of members, many of whose names are known
wherever paintings are discussed and many of them priceless in their
associations. Most of these were saved. There were on special exhibition
in the "Jinks" room of the Bohemian Club a dozen paintings by old
masters, including a Rembrandt, a Diaz, a Murillo and others, probably
worth $100,000. These paintings were lost with the building, which went
down in the flames.

One of the great losses was that of St. Ignatius' Church and College, at
Van Ness Avenue and Hayes Street, the greatest Jesuitical institution
in the west, which cost a couple of millions of dollars. The Merchants'
Exchange building, a twelve-story structure, eleven of whose floors were
occupied as offices by the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, was added
to the sum of losses.

THE FIRE UNDER CONTROL.

For three long days the terrible fire fiend kept up his work, and the
fight went on until late on Friday, when the sweep of the flames was at
length checked and the fire brought under control. The principal agent
in this victory was dynamite, which was freely used. To its work
a separate chapter will be devoted. When at length the area of the
conflagration was limited the wealthiest part of the city lay in embers
and ashes, one of the principal localities to escape being Pacific
Heights, a mile west from Nob's Hill, on which stood many costly homes
of recent construction.

On Friday night the fire that had worked its way from Nob's Hill to
North Beach Street, sweeping that quarter clean of build