Timeline of emergency medical service to San Francisco residents: 1895: Began with a single horse-drawn ambulance donated to the city. 1906: Major earthquake and fire destroyed most of the city, ...

He conceived of Sutro Baths, one of the city’s all-time engineering marvels, and served as San Francisco’s mayor from 1895 until 1897, the year before his death.

SEVERAL FIREMEN HURT; Crushed Under Falling Walls at San Francisco. THREE HUNDRED FAMILIES HOMELESS A Large Number of Factories Destroyed -The Most Destructive Fire in the City for More than ...

SAN FRANCISCO THE GREAT PORT; ... June 16, 1895. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from June 16, 1895, Page 16 Buy Reprints. View on timesmachine.

He served as mayor of San Francisco from 1895–97. (San Francisco History Center/San Francisco Public Library) Sutro’s solution was to build a big tunnel that would carry water away from workers, ...

He was elected San Francisco’s 24th mayor in 1895, serving only a two-year term in which he was remembered as “not an adept politician.” But it was what he did at the start of that term that had a ...