THE SAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8189, 21 July 1906, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE.

Pictures of the appalling visitations of earthquake and fire which devastated the beautiful city of, San Francisco, one of the world's most favourite tourist resorts, will be exhibited in Masterton, on Thursday next, by that popular and experienced proprietor, Mr Edmund Montgomery, who has a well-earned reputation for presenting everything in thoroughly up-to-date style. Of a recent performance \an exobange j says:—-"The pictures of most absorb- ] ing interest were the earthquake pictures, depicting the ashes and clinkers of San Franoisoo. To make these piotures more vivid the audience, with the aid of a kinematoKraph camera perched upon a steam launch, are tak«n for a trip along the imposing water-front of the great city prior to the great calamity. By this means some idea is gained of the more beautiful structures and less beautiful sky scrapers that overlooked the waters of the bay; fcaen without any notice the spectator is speeding through the city on a train that snorts its way between sidewalks, over seemingly endless bridges anc 1 , through dark places that in the flash of light reveal vast covered-its places that are evidently enormous stations and goods sheds. Then to gaze on the ruin of it all! Il has been stated that the human eye has never rested on su-jh a scene as San Francisco after the earthquake aud fire, and to look upon the mountains of bricks and n'ortar, great tottering walls throwing out gaunt arms of distorted steel, grim skeletons of steelframed edifices swept bare in the unchecked conflagration—all this is very pathetic" ' A finu array of new miscellaneous piotures will, also, be exhibited and the piotorial portion of the programme will be freely interspersed with music and mirth by MontI gomery's Entertainers.