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wrecking aucb an t^tioalva Mcttytt of tba oltx of Ran FraucUco waa ttot tilt Irat of tbaaa catanlropbea •ni>wa tn tlti wtateru, oiatropolia, tbougbby all odda tbo trioat daoiaglng

tot many yaara tba, municipal au-tborltlaa roftiactl to ^irmtt t i l l btithl* tag* t» tbo city becaiUMi of tbe fear of *artb<|oaaee, aereral of wbtcb khaU al ftatlv bean eiferleucad. Finally tbe kitenflctlou waa t*moved, bowiirerf ami a number of abjacrapertf resulted,

Prior to IttQ t tie re waa banlly A bofldlog \A aiceea of flee atorlaa and only a few of that belgbt. Today there l # o o e eighteen atorlea high and quite a, number from twelve to fourteen etorlee, I# . . . - , r , .•

In tbngfrltlf of 1SDA, about 10 oVYock one flight, tbt city had a eefeiuk* shock that put to taet Ita high atructitrea. It waa the worst earthquake since 1W8, whin for eight or nine blocks 06 the main street (Market) the ground w s e \ craclfed open several inches.

In the upheaval of 18M the toll build* toga were given a fearful atiaklng, and \ aotiia of their occupants jwere made-dlaay and sick. The structures ware Qotajure^ and ever aluce that time there baa not been eo much question of the safety of high buildings of mod­e m construction- that Is,/bejlldlnga o f atructurar Iron frame and facings of pressed brick* terra cotta or stone.

It waa M, II. I>e Young, tbe proprfi tor aud editor of tlie (bronlcle. who waa the\pioneer In this respect.. He met with opposition from the immjcl-l»al authorltlee fourteen years i g d wheu he decided to erect a ten atory houee for hie newspaper. < It wag lielleired to be a dangerous undertaking becauae of tlie eartbquako fear, but Mr. f>e Young won out and thereby aet an eianiple of enterprise to other wealthy men who have since built more tall buildings. Kor Instance, I». O. Mills, the New York bankef, who owns a great deal of ttati Francisco property* has one of the tallest and fluent structures In the city. , i \ • ... , l. . -,- ...

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Ifli, occupleTT by" tW Examiner, the three ffr»»»t Pncltic^cOswt newspapers bavin** roiitrlhiitcil nSfs1>«^o»ely to the hnllilltiAr 4lcrel<Unuont of Han Fraticlaco In recent yenrti.. Tin* rlty now lins Its share (K tut! t*itldlu#4. one being eight­een Htorlff* In belgbt. 1 The niHjor pnrt of tbcm ard elclil. toii and twelve sto­ries, the eight tftoricd ncliiu idiiMt uu-meroiiM.

The Call aud Bthuilnnr buildings Were almost totally dent io^d In the earthquake uud mui^y other sky^craji-era were severely fclwken. cracked and damaged,

One of tbe cblcf bt)ltdluRii wfildi cof-lapajod was the ncw^ iMiatoftce. This was a HubatanthA *mw turo of imiultc, coatliitr to exccjiMl $5,CXH)i(N)t). \YIUle not atrlklng from an nrchltciHuml atnnd|H)lnt, tlie i>osfoffice ^vaa Trupress-Ive from Ita in;iHal\S»ne«|i.

Ttie PoHtnt Imlhtbilr wn4 Jrindly dnth iged, Miid J he op^riitlnic room WAN ft wreck, Power of erery, Wod wna de-strayed, aud there woiv no lights, el tbir gas or elwfrle... Neither the Pal ace hotel nor the HI. FrnncU WIIS de •troyeil ae far as the t'rameArork noes, but tbe hiHtde plaatPrtug and dei-orn tlons Wf»re greatly <|>irouged, y .•

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1 dwindling of tbe Chinese population.* Other Imposing edifices, many of

•whirl, have been more or Jess severely Injured, are the Hotel Btl Francis, the Palace hotel, the. Hall of Joitlce, the Mutual Bank building, the FJolflc Mu­tual Life building and the Callagban building*. Tbe greatest property dam­age resulted In tbe manufacturing dis­trict and1 the greatest loss of life In the teuement house district. . t

We chief street of the city la Mar* ket, running diagonally for many miles. Tbe destruction of many of the depart­ment stores and other business blocks ou Market aud Mission streets was al­most complete. Fire added to the hor­rors of the situation, and, as .the water mains had been burst by the shock; tbe Are department was helpless. The flames ate their way along Market street, aud other flreakstarted hi differ­ent parte of tbe city* . ,

AH tbe earthquake occurred but a little after 5 o'clock In tbe morning, practically tbe entire population was In bed. Men and women rusheoVwIldly fortff In their night robes and fled In panic through tbe streets. Ma*y were caught by the falling roofs and walls, aud in tboj poorer districts tbe tene­ments collapsed like eggahella, crush­ing aftd suffocating their Inmates be­fore they bad time to escape, in many cases Are finished the work of death, catching the victims as they were ginned still alive under the debrts. ,

To arrest tbe spread of the fire along Market street many' buildings Were dynamited. \

The track of one railroad Was de­pressed I four feet, or, more for a dis­tance of* three ml lee. At one point tbe city the earth cracked open tor distance of six feet, leaving a yawnlnc chasm of fijthomlese depth.

The destruction of all tele^r*** wires, except one belonging to the Poesnl union, made it almost Impossible for the stricken c i ty to communicate with tbe outside world. Tbe severe Injury to tbe Western Union and Postal of-

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v and adwnture. Nowhere may one turn without being reminded of tbe legeuriH that have been woven around the forty-niners amd their im­mediate followers. The, name* of tbe utreets and of the buslnees blocks, such a s Kearney, Butter, Montgomery, Du t>on|. Flood, Crocker and Sharon, bring to the mind of the visitor long forgot­ten stories of riot or adventure and of fortunes whose vaetneaa once excited Ills wonder 9r made bim Incredulous.

Tbe site of the crty waa first visited tby Europeans In 1760, # n d l n l T 7 5 Bu* <carell ordered a fort, r^esldlo end mle* •Ion founded ou tbe bay. One year later, tbe year of tbe Declaration of

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sovereign sUte of the United States of Ameiiea "a universal about arose from 10,000 \Voices on tbe wharfs, lu the streets^ upon tbe hills, housetops and

Ing In the bay." IntltaUarly blstofy^tm^Hf suffered

from seierai disastrous fires. Betw^et* DecembeXc^t t , and June, 1851( six c^mfiegratmSaldayed havoc with^tbe growing young town. Better buildings Were planned and several fire compa-nlea were organised. These were steps in tbe right direction. It was also dls-.coTeretHSall tbe fires were stalled by criminals who profited by the confu­sion. /

This fact end tbe Inefficiency end corruption of tbe city government led a large number of citizens to organ-l ie tbe famous vigilance committee which ruled the place In 1851. Quite a ! number of crooks were lynched by the committee, others were driven out, like John Oakhurst, the*leading figure In Bret Harts*s "Outcasts of Poker Plat,"Jtad the city went through a pu-riflcsjflon process that was of great benefit to I t , Tbe aspect of Ban Frknclsco at tbla time waa not Inspiring "to tnflowlng gold seekers. It waa a straggling med­ley of low, dingy adobes, frail wooden shaptlee, bo*n In an afternoon* with a aprinkllng of more respectable frame bouaee and a maaa of canvaa and rub­ber habitations1. It was mainly a city of tents, rising In a crescent upon tbe shores of tbe cove. From Clark point It skirted the land to Telegraph hi l l along the Clay street slopes, tapering away to the California street ridge. The larger number passed to tbe south •greet shores of the cove, beyond the Market street tityre, a region sheltered firom blustering winds and provided wttb good spring water and named tbe Qappy Valley. . (Stockton street stretching from Sac­

ramento to Green streets, presented j fee neatest .cluster of dwellings, and t Powell street was the abode of churches, ; The Uoor rocked like a boat on a

Helen D^re, who escaped on April Id from tbe eartjbquajce stricken city of Han Fraticlsco to Oakland and thence to Btockton, telegraphed to tbe Los Angeles Examiner tbe following thrill lng account of her own personal ex­perience lu tbe Golden Gate city's fear ful disaster:

I t ike thousands of others, I was j awakened out of peaceful aleep Into a < paralysis of fear by tbe violent and

continued rocking of bed, of floor, of wall*/*of fdrulture, by tbe sounds of crashing chimneys, falling ornaments arid pictures, breaking glaas and tbe startled scream* of women and chil­dren. <". *

As If with a iiudden Impact I felt my bed struck from the north and then heave vloleutly. I Jumped out, putting my bands out to steady myself, but the opposite walla seemed to move away from me. ^

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riven from end to end in great the ornamental Italian rail leading to tbe Imposing entrance waa a .battered beaif.

Rudolph Bpreckels, bis wife, Me Utile son, his mother-in-law. and siaters-ln-law and maid seremnta had aet up their household en tbe side walks, Tbe wom­en were wrapped in ruga and coverlets and huddled lo eaay chairs hastily toll­ed out

They were having tbelf morning tea tn the sidewalk and the silver service waa spread on the atone coping* At bouee after house of tkw wealthy and fsJhloaabie this scene waa repeated

Turning Into Van Neee avsAtie, there ~ba tbe left waa St Bridgets atone church at Broadway and Van Neee, with Its tall towers fallen an4 tbe etrae walla hanging loosely frokn tbe top. Ttftere on my right, a couple of Mocfca away, waa 8 t Luke's churoh, a total wreck, ks tower of atone Just a heap of waste. Tbe cbwcfeee have euffered greatly, Bt Patrick's and 8 t Dosnl-nlctre are wrecked, and the old Mla-aton Detorea of the Frandaean Fathers tea the ancient tllea of its roof crush* ed la, though the adobe walk still stand, hut Jtbe steeple of the new chufch beside it in toppling ewer crush­ed In l b roof.

t PsWHeakaMea f^Jie in sVkre peel* •* • * Ail along ^ie two avetitiee of f aabion net a brick chimney waa left standing.

5 every block there a m tons and tone wreckage. Clans Speeckels' home

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%* darting la and out, they can get, throwing that away snatching more, like children wantdavR^ ly picking wild Bower*. I eee one U t O e \ ' creatfire capering with three bats en hie head that he ahow window.

Before the banks khd eale ranks the men' and boys there are *bngy jmlllhg oqf dim fuU of ledgers 1

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Independence, tlie Spanish aettters be-g a m t b e work, and when Vancouver, tbe'explorer, visited the place In VfW tbe presidio represented the military attthotity, while" the pueblo and mle-alea «teod for the ctvil and religious factors twipectfvelye Tlie mission w a s eecotarlaed lu 1834 and d town laid out thejpegr following.'

"in lSte n n American matvof^ar , tm-der cenruand oil Commodore John B. Mootgomery, 'entered the harbor and hoisted the sta*ra and stripes over the town. Mex|co, which succeeded Spain as the .owner df California, tree then at war with tbe United Statnav and the act of Commodore M b n ^ m j e i r ended her dominten v over (fan, iWanclsco. Montgomery appointed ^Isgitenant

fer^of the six" churches in existence In the middle of i860 three graced Its aides and two stood upon cross streets, within half a block. Maaou street, above It, wan really the western limit of the city, aa Green street was the northern. Beyond Maeon street ran the trail to the Presidio, pajt scattered cottages, cabins and sheds, amid dat-rlea and gardens, with a #jranch path to tbe Marine boepltal, on Filbert street, and another to the North Beach anchocage, where speculators were iPlannlng a wharf to attract settlement - After the vigilance committee die-banded the criminal element became bolder, and In 180i the crime and cor­ruption In tbe city had becotne intol­erable to thoee- who wished to live a

Washington JL B a r t ^ l t o bn Frtaco'a \ decent and orderly life.: When Editor

H flees, a tab the AsedHated Prese, gptatty added to the dlfflctlty.

Tlie practical destruction of six #r eight blocks, coupled with the jmnsatiee Iota of life and damage to property throughout San Frjanctsco and the en­tire coast region, makea this the worst earthquake disaster tn American his-

J tory, exceeding. even the histories Charleston earthquake of a few yeanf ago, -. ^

San Francisco Has suffered fiV m many slight seismic shocks, es»». of them occurring abotit a year ago. • At that time a long itriJcle appeared. in one of the papers,] signed by n pro­fessor In one of tuejorjeervsAorie* near by, stating that t lJre was no f artio ular danger from t l t s e t remnm'of the earth's surface, Tbt coast Vegi >n, ac­cording to this writer, was neas>er than parts of the countrr farther? wast and was therefore settling, I I ? t n l d peo­ple should feel no-ydarm, n j nothing

first alcalde, or* mayor, tinder tbe new ^ regime. Under.Spanish and Mexican rule the, town wna a aleepy, uiyrogrsss <T* pt f /k but with the comlbg of Amer­icana and tbft discovery of goM In 1*4* there came an era of growth and hus­tle. This did jaot e tentnat* at once,* for the first petrs of t in distovety of

clecb. The town was ^ i t t e n as by a pltgue,

and one blstorista thus describee What

King of* the Bulletin, wbo had de­nounced the thugs, was murdered by Jamea P. Casey, a new vigilance or­ganisation waa created, and in > few days Casey and another murderer earned Cora were executed lo front of the committee's beadyuarters. Many lawbreakers were later fcetf to death.

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two minutes. M5 youug sou came running from his room, and, clasped in each other's a r m s / w e stood lu the doorway oft my room waiting, waiting. Wltn a relaxing quiver, like the pass­ing of a algii, tbe heaving earth epd bil­lowing floor sunk into repose.

We dresicd, and tbrousjb the disar­ranged furniture, over the broken glass and fragments of ornaments w e made our way o u t Tbe streets were full of persons In every stage of tan-dress and excitement,* one young moth­er lu her night dress clasping her eight* months old baby lu her arms and try­ing to warm It by wrapping her thlh lawn garment around It

A few blocks from Mayer Sciunlts'e borne and a bttxk from Mrs. Eleanor Martin's, the bouse where I have been stopping, Is the western addition, wbere, owing to tbe bills of rock for­mation, tbe damage was l faet --

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fait>pened: '''Its iiOUses >vcre left Ulioc* cupled anxf unprotected, Its former trade ceased, itn lots fell to a small part of their value, ita two weekly newspapers were suspended, and the town, deserted Jiy the bulk of ^U uv hablUnts, was tst ond time wltbont a. single officer cloxraM with civil author*

After the first rush to tbe gold dig­gings the town began to regain its leat ground, and «rw long the Influx of gold neekers gave quite an Impetus to i ts growth. The town waa Incorporated in April, 1850, and the first common

sxmncil electedptbceeded with diligence to plunder U * city treasury., The same year the state waa admitted t o the Union, and when the steamer Ore-goo brought the nasrs-there telegrtpbic cxaomunlcation in HUys^buslnees was ehtlreiy suatpended .and tbn entire ptjpulatlop rwsbedtotbe: wharfs to wekeene the harbinger. Taw

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. SAH FEAHCISC0 HAU0R; the world, ttnd by cosmopolltsn Is meant a population .from all parts of the world. Not long ago the> records indicated that 43 per cent of the peo­ple of the city were horn in foreign lands, not in two or three different countries, but in practically every land under the sun, According to the na­tional census reports for 1890, San Francisco had a total population of 298,997. Of these 172,186 were native born and 12^811 were bom outside of the United States. Fully half the grown persons In tbe coantnunity re­moved to California from aUen lands, while a large percentage of the ether half and of the general body of chil­dren were of foreign parentage. In 1900 San Francisco had a population of 848,782, of which 84.1 per cent was foreign born. , The reichstag of Germany has passed % resolution requeWrig the prime mln* later to present aNbUl abolishing the

which forbids ppbUc meetings o€ in the empire.

land that tbe Fair estate is reclalmihg from tbe ocean was hidden by water.

The great gas tank near tbe water's edge waa In flames, and many believed the disturbance bad come from tbe ex ftlpsloo of that

I set out at once to see what damage had been done, finding It more appall­ing with every block 1 walked. My wsy led along Pacific* and Van Ness avenues, through tbe district of aplen-did homes of wealth and fashion, and not one of the long lines oft Imposing bouses but bad suffered severely:

The home of John D. Sprockets at Pacific avenue and La Guana street is one of the finest and proudest in the dty, and on it tbe parapet bad cracked and crumbled and fallen like so much spun sugar out of a wedding cake. Blocks of cement bad fallen from the entrance celling, and at ode of the up­per wftMlows a wan, white face peered from the rich lace curtains at Rudolph Sprockets* hsndsosno house at Qongb

adflc avenue. The lawn waa

Tbe S t Dunstan, at Sutter and Tan Mess, one of the smartest spaftment bouses, built of stone, has its} top atory lobbied off and Ita solid walls crack­ed. AX McNuttV hospital,, n*atiy op­posite the S t Dunstan, on gutter street tbe patients wbo could be moved had beep brought to the door and eftdewalk* and anxious inquirers wereedshtng up to get news of dear ones within who are (bedridden for recently operated upon. ... * ^ ^ ^ ^ 1 ^

The new national bank op fssWliflut. near Butter street, is s wreck, with Its plate glaas windows in splinters en the pavements. All Sutter street ajfl look ahead seems an avenue of ruin. The Granada, a big faahionable hotel, naslts top sad front shattered., Whole bouses, I can see, are tumbled down. I must pick my way among tbe middle of the streets between the heaps of ruins. I And tbe streets swarming with people, while, wide ryed, still awed, and others, again, elceedlngly voluble in their terror, telling to every one their story of what has happened to himself.

Vsn Neee avenue Is swarming. There are no cars, of course. Every one must vfmlpi who has no automobile or car­riage or wagon. Automobiles are tear­ing and bonking madly in every direc­tion, filled with frightened fneu and women end children, some dre**ed as though for a^Woinenede. others partly dressed or l|rapp*d lu bedclothes. Never were swanger automobile par ties t l i t n f ^ s e j ^

1 see one^WW women carrying bet baby, her tear wet face cUuging to lu baby cheeks, aud she wears only her nightdress and a kimono, and her ten­der bare feet pattesv across tbe tide-walk from a mansion door to an auto­mobile; Here again is an old, old wo­man with wrinkled face, paper white, somebody's grandmother she Is, and ahe is being trundled along in an in­valid chair, her family, with hastily made bundles of clothes and valuables. all a5out bef­

it is only when I get as far as tbe top of Leavenworth street and look down Into the city's heart that 1 ran get a gllmuferirig of what an awfu^ thing an earthquake la to a <lty. iZreat clouda of smoke rise dull aud dark on every side snd red augry flaiue* shoot long tongues through them,

. Mighty tomr ef Rasse*, I bear the roar and crackling' of fire

unrestrained, ttud with every blow 1 feel the beat on my checks and the cin­ders aud ashes sifting down upon me. When 1 come to Powell street 1 see Hie St. KrancU hotel still standing and tbe cinders and brands pouring upon Us roof. Hemember this la only 7 o'clock. in Tnlon square the grass is covered, every Inch ef It, with frightened, hud sUed people who have sought tbe open.

From Powell street down tbe shop 'windows are' broken and fbe window displays lie exposed in tbe drug stores with broken bottles tticlillng their con­tents over everything, in tbe dry goods and millinery shops offering loot to ev­er}? grasping hand. Kearney street and Montgomery street are high wsy s of confusion..

The poor south of Market street, thus suddenly thrown out, are in exodus toward Telegraph hill, dragging and trundling such household goods as they have managed to ssve. Here are boys and a thin, flat chested women trundling a sewing -machine along.' A drawer of It falls out an4 they halt to gather up tbe precious scattered spools. Poor little seamstress, this is her sll now.

Here is a wagon fitted wttb bedding and cooking utensils, a crying woman and a baby on the seat • birdcage dangling i t the tall and two men tak* Ing the part of horses. Then a craty nlgbtbawk hack, a whits) faced wo­man dragged from her etafcbed in tt flatting tn the arms of

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I try t*>. a u t **.* way to ww first down one street and then dowarVv^; edother leading to the watet tttmL^ lacb one as I try, from Poet tn WaetV;'^ tngton, to closed by Are er smetams^pi snd there le no .way throusjbv <hr Washington street, opposite tto t t d t poetoAee, a building bae cssjnpMtfy^*-coUapeed. and under Ita edgea uw^l-» horses struggling and dying. At taet 1 And an open way en the next street and, with the Warmth of the blase ef water front aa loons on my back, Isanv*. v ry across the upheaved street asm «, twisted oar tracks. This is sMdel^f ground, and the sarthsjnake p t a y t d ^ >ttb it aa a child plays with a card- ^ , b o a ^ asking,creasing and bendljtf , C v

On the hay aide of the water frant ^ lbs old docks have tumbled and leek ^ Ukesso much kindling wood. Tbe tow« er of the ferry building is destroyed end broken.* The pejssengets streams % aboard tbe fsVryboat-the only b o a t s - \ ^ running are tbe Southern Pndf lp a d d ^ : • ' turn to look back upon their dty . Krotn ij .>\ this point there 1s something c s l o e e a l ^ J in the disaster that haa beftUen* A #

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great cloud Is rising magnificent e j * . . overwhelming in Its proportions, grow-" J^g lng ever black and blackest toward the ground, spreading wider and widsr./ The red flames shoot skyward through^ It and; but emphasise i ts density and^ violence... :*a

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Uoks Back en Deemed C*y The Falrmounra iMlbH walls gleam

orange through tbe dames. The OeU ^ building rises like a sentinel, and far , beyond you cau make out (trough the'- £ murklness black splotches 4ifk>n thef :^ green, the people hurrying to the San ? * Bruno bills. On tbe Pine street hill 1%; can eee a row of old rasasbackle cot- r ^ tagee that have slipped from their fonn- ^

f da tlons into tbe street, apparently tn- ( • tact. On Telegraph bill, on the high- V * est place, the sky line Is marked with a garb of up-ended fringe of the people wbo have sought refuge up there at the * top of the streets • " • ' " • „ ' " 0

There are no trains moving oftstr T than the Oakland local when we get to v Oakland, for there ace no wires to send * train dispatches on. ' A t last a train / moves out to Stockton, taking; Us v chance, and a few venture on It, lt%ta 10 o'clock, and we have nothing to eat . and drink, but we give no thought te ; * that I plan te make my way to Jbo Jose snd telegraph from there,' but by 11 o'clock we know that San Joee U + wiped o u t

A Yew wan, red eyed refugees" frets , San Jose are coming to San FrmneiaV r co, and we meet them at Ni|esv^ "San Joss is fiat on tbe ground," San Joee is sjoner These are the messages they ."' bring. All brick boUdlngf are down ~ t h e r e . -\ ;,.,-- • «.,, .' '-.'• >

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A man who was la the S t James hs> / tel there tells me how the side feU odt * of tbe room be was sleeping in and *• . jthe brick chimney fell in upon hla , bed, and yet he escaped. . .... v , ..,

The security of tbe rails WsA stu-pscted, and the train traveled. cai^ ' tloualy. From Bast Oakland nothing ' was known of incoming trains or tbe *v

condition of the road* Collisions srere ^ imminent snd every ' curve * w a s / breatbleealy rounded. Bach bridge and trestle was a new danger, and when the train crept into the Adtamont t n a > ^ nel it seemed as If no one breitbed tm, any of the dark oars, and a s i g h t s * through when the daylight glsamed t t f the .other end. Coaplng from Oaklsssft te Stockton the effects of the a quake were apparent aa far M

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