He was still in London at the time of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fires ( April 18 , 1906 ) , and as vice president of the San Francisco Architectural Club , and one of James D. Phelan 's lieutenants in the movement for beautifying the city , it was reported in '' Town Talk '' : " He is vindicating his loyalty to San Francisco in a way that should prove far more beneficial to the city than he could be were he at home . He is acting as a San Francisco promotion committee of one , and through him , since the fire , the readers of some of the European papers are learning more of this city than they ever knew before . " He eventually returned to San Francisco early 1907 . His second major collection of poems '' Looms of Life '' was published by Walter Neale in 1908 , and in August of the same year his '' The Sons of Baldur . A Forest Music Drama '' was performed at the Bohemian Club of San Francisco . The previous year Sterling had been the " Sire " - the term adopted to describe the producer-in-chief of the Grove play-with his own verse drama " The Triumph of Bohemia " . As Scheffauer himself explained : " These plays , part masque , part music-drama , part allegory , are a direct outgrowth of the nature-worship of the Californian , and are given in the majestic forest amphitheatre of the club in Sonoma County , amidst colossal redwoods older than the Pyramids . Here my " Sons of Baldur " was produced on a beautiful midsummer night . " Sterling 's play had depicted a battle between the " Spirit of Bohemia " and Mammon for the souls of the grove 's woodmen , Scheffauer 's play was unmistakably Wagnerian with the god Baldur slaying the dragon Nidhugg that had been sent by Loki to destroy the woods and worshippers , symbolical of the Bohemians
1906 San Francisco earthquake
1906 San Francisco earthquake
Herman George Scheffauer