The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 27, 1906, Page 8

STATES SOLDIERS STILL O DUTY = | Made| yor Says He ] inst o Complain{ H aint A the Guard © Committee beets jee and Federal 0o Officers. lief e e 4 s e e filnance com- Red Cross f the public, at ¥ than a n dol , the : that it had refused to ship ss the bay from Oakland | ancisco was receiv: and the opinion was ex- some MORE REPEATING.” Greely B.nn'uunced at noon the army had take E lute control of tt for the di will be Dr. Devk the special 2 1 Cross Society sent here by General Greely d come to him from abuses under the present ich as waste and “r yarded prov ions in L H new system of di culd not occur. Gen 1 Greel bution these abuses said that he had r as possible of uties, which would in the hands of nd would devote ation of the c of the policy of the unusual relation with special « ions. George Torney, who is di- command of the sanitation unced that the situation y_precau- park the city, s of people were ary shelter. The control the city s had been transferred the city Board of Health, and Col- | Torney stated that by Colonel will be e f the Pres aimy. Colonel se, confident of 2fugees .of the ci Hed on the golf links a controlled 1 said ‘the ¢ ab- io »rne he ty of the Government to give them the fullest protection, had expressed their willingness to g made to centralize C ere. The final disposition of 1 of the fund in the hands ople could then be made as saw fit. Torney added that the health authovities of the city and the army e then turned over to ributions as Governor P him control of such ¢ ad been st the Gove: medical - corpg were working har- also formaliy ',ngniou and that there need be no surrendered the $35,000 remaining ever of the spread of con- sed of the $50,000 contribution by { ggenbelr red directly to ections to u own best judgmer explained to the ¢ ner in which he expenditures were eom ee. Contrel of the entire rellef fund is, tention camps and orrding to nd the ger tion of a Pardee to & the earliest possible moment ting® | yus members of the | session, but he had not entirely -made l called there should be some definite | | u ief districts that there | incidentally explained ,that | mally declaring a legal holiday day | the Merchants' Exchgnge buildings to | ithat he was takipg all the necessary | first six months of thé year 1906 have |action and further that he would give | passed these structures will form the llawyers and bankers , @ camp for the Chi-! be called. He said that certain legis- lation was absolutely necessary, and that a great deal of uncertainty and uneasiness would be felt until some definite announcement is made by the Governor. James D. Phelan added that the bankers of San Francisco were also very anxious that a special session of the Legislature should be convened. THE SPECIAL SESSION. Govenor Pardee replied that it was his present intention to have a specia up his mind in the matter, and did not propose to take any hasty action. He said that the Sacramento Bar Assocla- tton had passed a resolution declaring that a special session was now neces- sary, and while he did not propese to be unduly - influenced by any resolu- tions, he was still going to give the tter the most thorough considera- He added that before the Legislature is ance that legislation most neces- would be enacted. Mayor Schmitz closed the discussion by o ing a formal call upon the Gov- 4 that under the |erpor for a special session of the Leg- | Will have been repaired and ready for ture. " FRON RUNS BIG BLOCKS | ARE T0 RISE Rebuilding of the Fire Swept Area Is Al- ready Begun. Within a sarprisingly short time a | number of stately $tructures that es- | | caped destruction by earthguake and fire in San Francisco's-busiriess district | occupancy. Caretul’ ihspection has de- veloped the fact that oply a few weeks Garret McEnerney told the Governor there wias some unoertainty ' Will be required:for the work that will | among the lawyers and bankers as to | restore the Claus Spreckels, the De whether the chief executive was for-| Young, the Shreve, the St. Francis and by The Governor assured him | their former conditiens.’ day. Before the some days’ notice before discontimiing | nucleus of the “city beautiftil.” the declaration of holidays, so that the | and merchants raight feel certain that they would not fafl in any of their legal and business obligations. —e GREAT BRITAIN’S COLONIES JOIN IN EXTENDING RELIEF New Zealand Offers $25,000 and British Columbia Sends Pardee $10,000 in Cash. ier Seddon of New Zealand has to Governor Pardee, offering 5,000 to the relief fund. s Governor Pardee received $10,000 sterday, a_contribution from the Gov- ment of British Columbia, B L ‘ Establish Free Meat Linc. Schrader Bros., who conducted the City Hall Market, gave away 2000 pounds of beef yesterday. They have established a free meat line at. their temporary market on Grove street and are giving meat to all who have no money. ; 1} B Tents Are on the Way. The Mayor announces that 150,000 , tents will be here within a weel. Permits for Opening Safes. No permits for opening safes will be granted until next Monday. ——————— Divorce Case Survives Fire, Otto F. Schilier wants the restrain- ing order on his worldly possessions ro- moved and has sppealed to Judge Gra- | ham for assistanee. The petitiencr says he and his motker were burned out and are suffering, while Mrs. Schiller and ; George McRze, the corespondent in the i divorce suit, are living in affluence in whether or not a special session would . the Mission, Instructions to agents for the recon- struction of burned blocks are coming | in rapidly. An order has beén cabled to | { Anton Forel for a new building at the corner of Clay and Kearny streets; the { Belden and MacDonough estates. will { rebuild- on their-old sites, damong -the | MacDonough properties being the Cali- fornia Hotel; the Boyd estate will re- {bulld on several Market-street sites; Mrs. E. R. Barron has brdered that steel structures be erected at the gore | of Market anl Eddy streets and whers | "Connor & Moffatt were situated. | Scores of other smaller structures will | be reared as soon as ‘the material can | | be rushed to the city. CARTING AWAY THE DEBRIS. Arrangements have already been . g away the debris fromn the Claus Spreckels, De Young and Shreve buildings, the St. Francls Fotel and the Merchants’ Exchange. It i3 the opinion of real estate men that with | these as a nucleus there is no reason | Why the retail and wholesale districts should not be re-established befors a year is past. | Police Commissioper Reagan has mads a partial inspection of the Ifail of Justice and gives as hid opinion that { at least two of the ficors are avaflatle : for police purposes, If this prove trua | the abandonment of the building will ' be unnecessary and police headquarters , Will remain where they were. b Josiah Howell of the firin of Baldwin & Howell, who received instructions to rebuild the properties belonging to thie Belden estate and the Masdonough Ds- tate Company, sald yesterday: “It is a sentiment of theé" property. | owners that the city be kept my,un ! tion of ‘the yuined business district. ! debris, while employes of banks, insur- i sonmy {n search of definite information + the Southern Pacifie, the Santa Fe and CENERAL VIEW OF THE GREA1 RELIEF CAMP AT FORT MASON, WHERE THOUSANDS OF REFUGEES ARE BEING CARED FOR UNDZX MILITARY DIRECTICN. same location. There has been an efs fort to direct business to streets fur- ther luptown, but I do not think that will Be acemplished. The retail diswrict will remain as it was, close to the wholesale, and that must be as near as possible to the docks. The Real Estate Board has taken up this matter seri- cusely and there seems to be a unanim- ity of opinion. From now on, however, there will be more rapid strides in ihe direction of permanent and lasting im- provéments.” George Boyd, manager of the Boyd estate, whose interests aggregaiel more than $1,000,000, is already making | arrangements for the reconstruction of the Market-street properties. On these buildings only $%,000 insurance was carrried. If they are not rebuilt a for- tune is lost. Mrs. Eva R. Barron, who owned the properties at Post and Kearny and the | goré at Market and Edddy, has in- structed her agents to make all-speed in the erection of twb steeel structures | at these points. On the Eddy-street| gore three or four small frame build- ings have been an eyesore since pio- | neer days. With handsome structures | well bulit to replace them the improve- | ment of Market street will be assured. | Harry Flattery, who conducted tha Richelieu . saloon: on” the Geary-street gore at Keéarny, has a lease of the ground, which will not expire for six years. He is planning a one-story structure, bullt of corrugated Iron, whith he expects to. have erected with- in a’few months. M. Joost has already begun the erection of a stable and warehouse for the storage of hay and grain on Fulton street, near the City Hall, RAILROAD TO CLEAN UP CITY. A surprising degree of activity' pre- vailed yesterday throughout every por- Hundreds of men in the city's employ were engaged in clearing the streets of ance. concerns and wholesale houses swarmed over piles of brick and ma- coneerning safes and vaults in order to galn an exact idea of the damage. ‘While army engineers were dynamit- ing tottering walls a few blocks away, sutrveyors with their instruments were fixing the sites of new buildings to be | erected immediately. Building inspect- | ors dimbed to the' topmost stories of the Structures that escaped entire de- struction and leading business men con- gr)egm.efl at tke streeet corners to dis- culis future plans, /Permits were granted yesterday to | ‘the Ocean Shore railroads to enter the “burned district of the eity at a point about Twenty-fifth and Capp streets and running through the section south of Market and along Dolores and Va- lencia, streets, crossing Market at the ferry, to lay tracks to allow of the Guick rémoval of debris of the ruined buildings. For this purpose the belt raiiroad will be used and the debris wil} Ye emptied into the Islias Creek basin. e authorities think that this will he the quckest way of ciearing the city. The pérmit granted the railvvays is a sort of a bleniet franchise, giving the roads the right to lay temporary tracks wherever necessary to get at the d The railroads have volunteered to cl up the city. There will be no char; for this work. ————— Would Widen Van Ness Avenue. City En/gineer Woodward is b engaged in preparing plans for new ly | CITY'S HEALTH 1S EACELLEN Dr. Ward Finds No Reason for Fear. All Sewer Repairs Have Been Made. Dr. Ward, president of the Board of Health, after making the rounds of the hospitals and receiving reports from his assoclates and assistants, made the foliowing statement yesterday concern- ing the health of tle city: “The health of the city is excellent; every communicable disease is concen- trated at the City and County Hospital contagious pavilion and at the Harbo? View Hospital. The contaglous dise cases are fifty per cent less than they were one month ago. The sanitary dis« tricts are being carefully supervised ind sanitary measures are rigidly en< orced. Every street in this city wag vered by garbage wagons yesterday and all garbage found was removed The sick people are all confined i thirty hospitals, and thirty small hos« pitals have been suppressed. Emer« wéncy hospitals are allowed In various listricts.” ‘Edward J. Brandon, who is in charg( ©f sewer Inspection and temporary re« r said: “We have the situation vell in hand. We found ounly elght reaks in the sewers, and these wer¢ tched up to make the sewers sere vicenble. The drainage is flowing af usnal and there is nothing to fear fron Yofects in the sewers.” The building trades have established rdquarters at 640 Golden Gate ave« nue. The bricklayers, hodcarriery nd tile setters have headquarters af 42 Golden Gate avenue. Workmen cad < found at headquarters any time. \ Want Teachers to Volunteer. Dr. E. T. Devine of the Americas Red Cross Society wants a complet registration of all who draw foo,’ supplies. Superintendent Roncovie wishes all teachers who feel that they | could volunteer for this work to re | port to-day at the Emerson building corner of Pine and Devisadero streets | President Hopkins of the Galveston and wider streets and new parks in San | School Board suggests that the coun Franeisco. of Van Ness avenue into a magnificent boulevard as far east as Polk street. He suggests the widening |try’s hool children contribute for the rebuilding of San Francisco’s educms tional institutions. The White House P 2 ! Temporary Offices 1806 Pacific Avenue Raphael Weill & Co. Iac Insurance Company of North America This old and reliable insurance company, with solid asset( of $13,000,000.00 and its experience of more than on( hundred years in fire insurance disasters, has sent us th¢ following dispatch: Philadelphia, April 23, 1908. Jas. D, Bailey, Gen, Agt., You are authorized to lossés as adjusted. San Francisco, Cal. draw at sight in payment of . INSURANCE CO. OF.NORTH AMERIOCA, San Frascisco Office, 1915 Franklin street. JAS. D. BAILEY, General Agent.