The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 11, 1906, Page 4

L Proprietor ++.» Manager 1651-3 FILLMORE STREET, S. F .WEST 956 THE SAN FRA JOHN D. SPRECKELS. JOHN McNAUGHT TEMPORARY OFFICE PHONE.. OAKLAND OFFICE - - - - - - - - 1016 BROADWAY PHONE ....OAKLAND 1083 FRIDAY % _MAY U w 'WHAT WE HAVE ALREADY ACGOMPLISHED. ture it is well to pause & moment, survey the field and have thus far accomplished in tbe direction of re- ill give us en idea of the rapidity of progress which later on &nd upon which we can base an approximate esti- time we will consume in restoring the city. be seen that we zre already advanced in the work, and further ssible just after the fire. Our progress thus far is wulate us to continued activity and impart to us confidence. he water supply end now have all we want for both necessitie; This is of the highest importance. If fire he Fire Department will be able to cope with it In On this score we may now breathe more freely. ults of some of the banks, and their safe de- m unscathed, and their valuable contents unin- banks are now more willing to reopen, and wil the course of the next fortnight, and, sccording to the the bankers, not later than June 1 service on most of the he United Railroads Company. nere e way. ed the vai © important lines, This is a great out of chaos in providing with provisions, cloth- ute whose business and homes were 1ged to practically concentrate them provide for their wants with much and confusion than heretofore. The saving in this di- ad tracks into the burned district and already ng the ground for new bulldings and carting away most of the arc lights in the public squares that prevailed over the city for two apparent ih the Increased number of For a fortnight after the fire San ry after nightfall. Its silent, gloomy a theater. It was like a city of the dead. well advanced in the work of restora- 1ting, which, it is announced, will occur ration of telephone service, which will v; the partial reorganization of trade, ion of beef and mutton, butter, eggs, s, poultry and other farm produce omething fresh, healthful and pleas- r three weeks of canned our precious kitchen chimney on its legs feel at home once more. already accomplished a great deal just so much more labor available ss of restoration, just so much acceleration in we complete, the faster we go, and the easler a We have begun well, and-every day from Before we know it we shall have the buil s and picturesque with thousands t San Franeisco would astonish the world We repeat it e et THE GOLDEN EGGS. Carried out of their heads by visions of d tenants in several of the now promi- Addition and their immediate neigh- rentals for business locations that of the public purse and are driving They are killing the goose acity n themselves. t establish values. A thing is worth , and there is a limit to the public Ry \ T T 1 WEATHER BUREAU BULLETIN. « THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1906. Brgpa Max. Wind. Weather. Precip. s 62 NE Clear 04 56 N Cloudy .00 72 swW Cloudy .00 2 NW Cloudy Tr. 8 sw Clear 00 & ] T 1 .00 0 SE Pt.Cldy .00 9% NwW Clov .00 66 s Cloudy .02 76 w Th. stm. .00 62 NwW Cloudy .00 8 Raining .10 NW Cloudy s sW Cloudy Tr. NW Raining .02 w Pt.Clay .00 sSwW Cloudy .00 sW Cloudy .00 T swW Cloudy .00 94 sW Cloudy .00 n Francisco and vicinity—Cloudy Friday, possibly lght a , with showers; light south wind. »s Angeles and vicinity—Cloudy Friday; possibly showers; fresh t wind A. G. McADIE District Forecaster. j General Greely Says There Need Be No Fear | of Suffering. | } Headquarters Pacific Division, | Presidio, San Francisco, Cal., May 10, 1906, Jo reassure the people of Jan Fran- cisco, and particularly the destitute, Gen- eral Greely states that he has now in sight bread, vegetables and meat to cover thirty days for all who are really destitute, There need, therefore, be no fear of actual suffering for food for homeless for a month at least. Dowie and Voliva Reach Agreement. in the management of the financial at- CHICAGO, May 10—John Alexander |f8irs &t Zion City. The Dowle forces ag de < a appointed John A, Lewis, while Volivg Dowie and Wilbur G. \'olhu reached named Alexander Granger, The third an sgreement in court today upon the | member of the committes 15 still to be proposition for mutual representation lchosen. ‘HAS CONFIDENCE ~ IN REBUILDING OF SN FRANCISGO 'R.E. Beeman, East- ern Financier, Sees Future. Says Atla_ntic Cap- ital Will Flow Into City. R. BE. Geeman, a New York capital- ist who is heavily interested in San Francisco, believes that the city will be rebuilt bigger and better than ever. He came here to size up the situation, learn the spirit of the people and as- certain just how far the recent dis- sster has gone toward delivering a solar plexus blow to the courage for which Californians are mnoted. He found that courage not at all shaken. Everywhere the rapid and noble work of reconstruction was viewed by him and his assoclates with great pleas- ure. Beeman said yesterday to a Call representative: “I have talked with San Francisco’s moneyed men and have seen the in- dominatable courage of your citizens. I can fully appreciate the iron deter- mination which will result in the re- building of the city and the placing of it in its former great rank as the metropolis of tife Pacific Coast. Build- ings have been erected as if by magic and business men are resuming as quickly as possible. “The opinions of such men as H. E. Huntington can be accepted as an example of the attitude of the con- servative financier toward your city. I talked with Mr. Huntington while in Los Angeles and found him cer- tain of a great future for San Fran- cigsco. He declared at the time that he expected to see a new and greater city rise upon the tottering and burned remains of the old; and this, he ex- pects, will take place in three years. “Personally I think that a new era of prosperity will be experienced in the near future. Millions of dollars of Eastern capital invested here will accomplish much of this and more Eastern money will come in later. The country is determined to rehabilitate San Francisco at any cost. Your own millionaires reflect the spirit of the people and have apparently pledged themselves.” SHOWS HIS UNBOUNDED FAITH IN SAN FRANCISCO N. C. Merrill Is Ready to Trade His| Holdings in Denver for Realty in Metropolis. N. C. Merrill, who owns the largest granite residence in Denver and two office buildings, has unbounded faith in the future of San Francisco. Mer- rill, in a letter to The Call, writes: “It might be a nerve tonic to the stampeded people to inform them that outside people are willing to trade the best there is in the best cities for San Francisco property. I had rather trade now for property there than before the fire. I always expected a fire and hardly less th: you got. It is abso- lutely bound td" come to a city bulit of wood. I walked up and down the streets of San Francisco not a month before the fire and said that the great- est objection to investment was the in- evitable burn out’ you would get. It has come and it is now safe to in- vest.” County Clerk Is Busy. County Clerk Mulereavy, acting un- der suggestions by Mayor Schmitz, has detailed sixteen courtroom clerks to assist the health officers in pre- paring the statistics for the Health Department. The rest of the deputies are engaged in making inventories of books, papers and other records re- covered from the rulns of the City| Hall. When this work is complete [ the papers must be indexed, which | |work will require more than six! months. Clerk Mulcreavy urges the| ;Mayor to provide more suitable ac | commodations for the work of his of- | fice, as also a fireproof vault in which | valuable papers may be preserved. Pt SRR SRS Data on Former Earthquakes. San Francisco was visited by a !shock of earthquake Sunday, October 8, 1865, which lasted ten seconds, but did no serious damage. It occurred i shortly after the noon hour. The se- . verer shock which followed occurred 'at 7:52 on the morning of Wednesday, October 21, 1868. It lasted forty-two seconds. This was followed at 9:30 and stlll another at 10:30 a. m. on the | same day. During a period of eighty-one years | preceding 1888 417 distinct shocks of | earthquakes and tremors were record- ed at what is now San Francisco and the immediate vicinity. { | BG LAKD DEAL ABOOT CLOSE Southern Pacifc Is After Fontana Warehouse. Propertr Valued at a Quarter Million. Negotiations are jpending for one of BOARD OF WORKS NEEDS FUNDS 10 - MAKE ENDS MEET eVenue Must Be | Had, Declares | Maestretti. INo Permits Are to Be Issued by ! Department. The Board of Public Works is sadly in need of funds. President Frank Maestretti stated at the meeting yes- | terday that ways and means for rais- ing money to carry on the urgent work of the department would have to be devised at once. He asked City Engineer Woodward if he could not levy fees for work done by that de- | partment. Woodward said there was | no chance for such a system of rev- | enue, so Maestretti decided he would have to look elsewhere for an income. He announced that the board would devise some way of raising money at once. City Engineer Woodward submitted & report summing up the damage done by the earthquake and fire to |the various fron and steel bridges in “xm city. Aeccording to his figures the ‘Tmrd. Fourth, Eighteenth, Nineteenth, |San Jose and Bosworth street | bridges are all in good shape and can | be easily repaired at a cost of a few |hundred dollars. The Sixth-street bridge is out of commission and has | been condemned.” | Hereafter the Board of Fire Under- writers and the Board of Public Works will work hand in hand In in- specting the chimmeys. President | Maestretti says that a competent force of men is now being trained and in- structed by the Board of Underwriters and will report for duty on Monday, when the entire fifteen districts will be inspected without further delay and permits issued to light fires. The board is in a quandary regard- ing’ permits to repair and conmstruct buildings. At the present time the MONTEREY COUNTY g PRODUCES A BRICK THNT 1S FRE-PRO0F Non-Conductor of Heat and Gives Out a Vapor That Extinguishes i Flames. { ‘Ic Made From Depogits That Are Found in Great Quantities in the Hills, Experiments Made by the Merchants’ ! Assaciation Demonstrate Its Worth, | | MONTERBY, May 10.—A fireproof brick that will bulld a house that cannot be burned from the outside and that will extinguish the flames ] CREW OF THE CHICAGO IS THANKED FOR WORK AT FIRE Business Properties at Foot of Tels- graph Hill Saved by Efforts of the largest real estate deals since the that start en the inside is what Mon- fire. The Southern Pacific Company :erey t::] ;m’ml‘ix‘:zlze;l:: ‘:::é‘: o & has all but closed arrangements for in this clty in the last week and re- the purchase of the large Fontan& ,..te3 at the Merchants’ Assoclation warehouse at the foot of Van Ne#s Jast evening indicate this. The brick avenue, near Fort Mason. The Fon- is a non-conductor of heat, and, while tana people acquired this property a a gasoline torch is sending a strong few years ago for $33000, and the flame against it, an inch below the present sale calls for $250,000. This surface It 13 perfectly cold. Deposits is the strongest argument yet ad- discovered in the hills here are used vanced to controvert those peopla who predicted a fall in real estate values in San Francisco as a result of the earthquake and fire. The purchase gives Pacific a frontage on the northern end of the bay, which they have long desired to obtain, No authentic state~ ment has been made as to the use to which the land will be put, but it will be recalled that the question of a new landing for the ferry-boats running to the north’ shore has been long in the minds of the raiiroad people. In fact, ever since the Harriman fnter- | ests became assoclated with the man- agement of the California Northwest- ern and North Shore lines the offi- cials have been considering the ques- tion of a ferry landing to shorten the bay run. L —————— HEAVY GALE ON THE LAKES CAUSES LOSS OF VESSELS Schooners Algeria and Iron Queen Go Down Near Cleveland and Three Men Perish. CLEVELAND, Ohio, May 10.—The schooner Algeria sank about two miles off the harbor of Cleveland yeterday and three men lost their Ilives. The schooner Iron Queen is in a sink- ing condition outside the breakwater: Her crew of eight men was taken off by the life-saving crew. The storm of last night and early today, with the heavy sea it kicked up, was a menace to shipping outside the harbor. The big steamers that MR AT 8an Francisco Girl Weds. SAN JOSE, May 10.—Miss Caroline Louise Haven, daughter of Charles D. Haven, & prominent resident of San Francieco, and Charles D, Steyens, a New York fruit broker, were married in Trinity Church this morning, the Rev. J, Wilmer Gresham officlating. Such a Place as Paso Robles, ‘With the finest bathhouse in America, great hot springs and a roomy, com- fortable modern hotsl with mountain environment, is just the placs to apend o month in resting, Is in perfect or- der, Bouthern Rasgifio trip rates. ‘mlo'rom’ . had been tled up there by the strike came inside the breakwater, but the small schooners could not get-in. Sfg- nals of distress came to the life- saving station and Captain Motley of the life-saving station went out to the Iron Queen, rescuing thé eight members of her crew with difficulty. They eould not reach the which went down about two mfles out. special from Colchester, Ont., says the DETROIT, Mich, May 10.—A News barge M. I Wilcox, coalladen, lies sunk off that place, a quarter of a mile from shore. The decks are un- der water, but there are evidences that the erew escaped. the Southern ' I ! |in making the brick, A house bullt of it could not be burned, no matter what the heat ap- plied to it was. The brick would pre- vent the heat going through. A fire | started inside would not burn, as the heat wonld cause a vapor to arise from the brick similar to that used in hand ‘grenades and would extinguish the | fire. There is any quantity of the deposit |pear the city and the brick can be cheaply made. Fireproof bulldings will be revolutionized by this invention. The Merchants’ Association is to con- duct further experiment —————— FIRE STRANGELY PASSES BY SHACK FILLED WITH PAINT Oil-Soaked Storeroom at Maln' and Harrison Streets Stands Amid Waste of Ashes. One of the most remarkable freaks of the big fire was the sparing of the 50-yearold wooden shack at the cor- ner of Main and Harrison streets, which sheltered the books and stock of the American Marine Paint Com- pany. ‘This building, reeking with oil and filled with Inflammable stores, is standing almost alone in a waste of fire-swept desolation. How it escaped nobody knows. Almost adjoining a great pile of coal was ignited and blazed for more than a week. So cer- tain were they that the place had been | destroyed that not until a few days ago did the officials of the company visit the place. They knew the in- flammable nature of the stock with which their storeroom was filled and it was mere curiosity to. survey the remaing te city; Amother'earthquaké would not have furnfshed halt thé surprise than did the -of that i e ‘over the ashes of its “ cof” meigh- bors, | OAKLAND, May 10.—A. B. Snyder of 93¢ Myrtle street lost $150 on a ferry-boat Monday night. His pocket was ploked. - that led them to that part of | ¢q) | authority, but at the same time incur- |ring a great deal of responsibility. ! Commissioner Egan threatened to have | his bondsmen withdraw, but later re- {to issue no more permits of any de- scription till such time at least as tha {bullding laws have been revised by the rebuilding committee. of Supervisors without further dela D t ilt ;vas deemed necessary to take this {action on account of the muddled con- ay iotthlggyoursidltion of affairs at the present time vy o S counts, bills, books and the like. The board will meet again tomor- row afternoon at 2 o'clock, when the Syt | permit question will be taken up and Intended to Apply| { to Unskilled Labor. Among the resolutions presented committes was the following by A. Buef, requesting contractors and em- | ployes to fix wages for ordinary and | unskilled labor at $2.50 for a nine-hour | board believes it is working without lented. Secretary Levy was instructed | Al the vafious branches of tie |bcard are requested to make out their | budgets and turn them in to the Board |and also because of the loss of ace l the Pay. discussed more ful and adopted by the reconstruction day: Vhereas, Under normal conditions the rate of wages of ordinary and un- skilled labor in San Francisco has been $2.50 for a day of eight hours, and that rate is fixed by municipal laws and authorities for public work; and, ‘‘Whereas, Under the critical emer- | gency which exists, there is pressing need for mutual concession; and, ‘“‘Whereas; Many skilled artisans will now be temporarily found in the | ;‘mh ot ordlnary labor; therefore, te| t “Resolved, That it is the sense of this committee tbat the prevalling rate of wages for public and private em- ployment at ordinary and unskilled la- bor in the city of San Francisco shall| be, untll furtner notice, $2.80 for a nine (9) hours day Irstead of $2.50 for an elght (8) hour day, and all con- tractors and employers are hereby re- Quested to estimate and fix wages for ordinary and unskilled labor at that rate; and “Whereas, The Bullding Trades Council has alrendy adopted sald rates; therefors, be it further “Resolved, That we recommend to all other labor organizations of the eity the early consideration and adoption | of resolutions to the above effect.” | A resolujlon was adopted by the Granite Cutters' International Associ- | | tion of property owners in ralsing the rent of dwellings since the earthquake A protest will be forwarded to the trades and labor bodies. The Draymen’s Assoclation has re- solved not to add to the current rates | of drayage In vogue previous to the | burning of the distriet Naval Men. The following communication has been made public: “Admiral C. F. Goodrich, States Flagship Chicago: “Dear Sir—The undersigned prop- erty owners and business firms in the | district located at the base of Tele- | graph Hill, whose property was saved from destruction by fire, desire to ex- press to you, your efficient officers and men, our hdartfelt thanks and pro United | found appreciation of the noble work | done in saving our property. “To the determined action, sound judgment and untiring efforts of the tollowing officers and associates, with whom we had the good fortune te come In contact, we are indebted for the salvation of our property and can | not commend too highly their actions during the trying hours attending the surrounding our property: “Captain Freeman, Lieutenant Com. mander Morgan, Major Duval, Capiain Smith, Ensign W. Bertoff, Midshipman J. N. Pond, Midshipman Wallace, Wharrant Machinist Johnson, Lieuten- ant Williams, unattaached (formerly of the Bremerton navy yard); Lieuten- ant Commander Lopez, H. Randolph and Lieutenant Marshall. “Respectfully: Italian-Swiss Colony, Merchants’ Ice and Cold Storage Com- panay, American Can €ompany, North Shore Raiiroad, Seawall :Bended ation of this city denouneing the ac- | Warehouse, Olympic Beer’ Company, Golden State Creamery, Neorth Paint Warehouse Company, Haslett Beaded Warehouse Company, Pioneer 'Ware house Company.” PGP S5 S S AN * Springs. earthquake. B — ! ;:.ru Big Engine Sold Since = Occldental Machinery gineering Company announ has sold the first big en- city since the fire. T closed yesterday when * Assoclation pur: horse-power engine * stalled in its plant - of copstruction at streets. = Ratione | OAKLAND, May number of 21,213 - refugees yesterday ing made under t! Jor Erwin the in first-class ‘rom eity; 4 usiness men ‘n visit the €an leave 10:28 a. . *