The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 20, 1906, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO SUNDAY CALL. WHAT A SYMPATHIZING NATION How the food was brought to San Fran- cisco is one -of the apters in the work ymplished by national, Btate and municipal officials in the relief of the stricken ty by the Whe San Francis when her i and even clement the 1 ss from clutch 4 q merger of the awful to action the ¢ nust surely go up from » The narrative forms It s the ernor ) homeless telegraphic days commu sages sen of the move and warehouses e stocks of th course, the evident that the fo would last b nd doubled the city was to refugees, vacant houses were thrown open, when they refugee camps were estab- y in Oakland. many from O Mayors of Cal first asked to ru owin ““The Mayo sands of people 1 for food. Can you ri need is gre “GEORGE C “The Mayor. thousands of nh supplies? The PARDEE, Stockton people 1 Governor.” Cal.: ° Many San Francisco D FOR HUNGRY SAN FRANCISCO needing food. by steamer? great. “GEORGE C. PARDEE. Governor.” “To Mayor, Sacramento, Cal.: Mayor Schmitz informs me that he needs supplies of all kinds for his people. Can ¥ nd him food immediately in charge of competent men? Wire me Oakland. GEORGE C. PARDEE. Governor.” The various towns and communities of the Sate were quick to respond. Com- mittees for relief work were at once or- ized and within twelve hours replies re coming in faster than the telegraph their dilapidated conditions could modate them. One of the first to come was from Hanford, the It brought the news that a car of provisions was being started and that other cars would follow and further that a car of dressed could be counted on daily until or- dered to stop shipping. The following messages are some of those recefved at the Governor's office in response to the first telegrams sent out by him: Santa Ana, Cal. April 19, 1906 George C. Pardee, Governor, Oakland, Would few carloads vegetables be 1 nt criis? Answer ship- Can you not rush supplies The immediate need is very the wires county seat of Kings County. Cal. , Chairman Board of Su- pervisors Fresno, April 19, 1906. ‘Fresno citizens are actively raising plies and funds to assist sufferers in Francisco and elsewhere. We think nmittee for general distribution of sup- plies and assistance through the stricken tricts necessary and hope you will act that direction. “FRANK H. SHORT, Chairman.” Fresno, Cal., April 19, 1908. George C. Pardee, Sacra- mento, Cal.: Two cars cooked food leav- ing tonight. Others folow tomorrow. ARNEST MOSES, Sec. Rellef Fund.” Los Angeles, Cal., April 19, 1906. “Frank K. Mott, Mayor, Oakland, Cal.: Rushing special over Southern Pacific tonight with supplies, likewise shipping per steamer Roanoke. Command us the limit. Citizene’ Relief Committee. “F. 0. STORY, Chairman, “FRANK WIGGINS, Becretary.” Many of the California towns did not at- tempt to answer by wire owing to the Ity experienced In getting messages the bay, but went to work sending , which were given the right of ¢ over raflroad lines, and arrived in e to supply the pressing and immediate ds. Sacramento raised $60,000 in an hour. Stockton raised money, sent supplies on a boat and then loaded the boat with refugees to take them to Stockton free of charge. When the messages to the California cities and towns had been sent out the Governor directed his attention to the nearer States—Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Colorado, Wyo- ming and Nebraska.® Messages were sent on the night of April 18 to the Governors of the States, as well as the Mayors of the principal cities within the boundaries of the States mentioned. The messages that follow show the nature of the appeal that went to these sister Stales: “The Mayor, Ogden, Utah: Three hun- dred thousand San Francisco people sheiterless and without food. Can your city send supplies? Need great and im- medlate. Answer, Oakland. “GEORGE C. PARDEE, Governor.” “The Mayor, Salt rLake City: Three “Governor hundred thousand San Francisco people shelterless and in want of food. Can your city send supplies? Need is great and urgent. Answer Oakland. “GEORGE C. PARDEE, Governor.” “The Governor, Salt Lake City, Utah: Have asked Mayors of Ogden and Salt Lake City to send provisions for the three hundred thousand shelterless and foodless San Francisco people. Need is great and immediate. Answer Oakland. “GEORGE C. PARDEE, Governor.” “To the Mayor, Reno, Nev.: Three hun- dred thousand San Francisco people shelterless and in want of food. Can your city send supplies? I“eed great and im- mediate. Answer Oakland. EORGE C. PARDEE, Governor.” “The Mayor, Seattle, Wash.: Three hundred thousand Sa. Francisco people shelterless and in want of supplies. Can your city send food? Need is great and immediate. “GEORGE C. PARDEE, Governor. “Governor Mead, Owmpla, Wash.: Have wired Mayor of Seattle for supplies for 300,000 shelterless and foodless San Francisco people. Answer Oakland. “GEORGE C. PARDEE, Governor.” “The Mayor, Denver, Colo.: Three hun- dred thousand of San Francisco people in want of food. Can your city send sup- plies? Need is great and immediate. An- swer Oakland. “GEORGE C. PARDEE, “The Governor. Denver, Colo. Have wired Mayor of Denver that 300,000 shelterless San Francisco people need supplies. Need is great and immediate. Answer Oakland. - ““GEORGE C. PARDEB, Governor.” “Governor Sparks, Reno, Nev.: Have wired Mayor of Reno asking supplies for 300,000 shelterless and foodless San Fran- ciscans. Need is great and immediate. “GEORGE C. PARDEE, Govrenor.” ““The Mayor, Portland, Or.: Three hun- dred thousand San Francisco people shelterless and without food. Can your city send supplies? Need ‘great and im- mediate. Answer Oakiand. “GEORGE C. PARDEE, Governor.” “Governor Chamberlain, Salem, Or.: Have wired Mayor of Portland that 300,- 000 San Francisco people are shelterless and without food and asked for assist- ance. Answer Oakland. “GEORGE C. PARDEE, Governor."” “The Governor of Nebraska, Lincoln, Neb.: Many thousands of San Francisco in urgent need of food. ~Can you not ald in getting trainload of provisions started? Have wired Governor of Mis- sourf and Mayors of Omaha and Kansas City to same effect. Need is immediate and great. “GEORGE C. PARDEE, Governor."” The following messages show the hearty response that greeted these ap- peals: Governor.” Olympia, Wash., April 19, 1906. “Hon. George C. Pardee, Governor, Sacramento, Cal.: Your wire received. Seattle has raised $45,000 and will begin shipping provisions tomorrow. Tacoma started first shipment of $10,000 worth of cooked provisions tonight by steamer Charles Nelson. day night. Has $5000 worth more ready and will make further shipments. Bell- ingham today shipped 21000 worth of pro- visions, will send more and Is raising cash subscriptions. Spokane raised $1000 today, will increase to $10,000 tomorrow and begin shipping. Everett has $2000 worth provisions ready to ship tomorrow. Other cities and towns taking up the work. State shipping tomorrow all avail- Due San Francisco Sun- . able military tents, 350. formed. “ALBERT E. MEAD, Governor.” Salem, Or., April 19, 1906, “Governor George C. Pardee, Sacra- mento, Cal.: Twenty-six cars supplies leave Portland tonight, also car nurses and doctors. Twenty-six cars supplies again tomorrow. All blankets and mat- tresses in Portland. ‘Train load bread and provisions every day following. Two cars potatoes, one car bread Salem in the morning. “GEO. E. CHAMBERLAIN, “‘Governor. Portland, April 19, 1906. “Hon. Geo. C. Pardee, Governor, Oak- land, Cal.: Will extend help ‘to our limit. One’ train left tonight with supplies. Others will follow as fast as we can load them. We extend our sympathy. “HARRY LANE., Mayor."” Reno, Nev., April 19, 1906. ‘Governor Genr%e C. Pardee, Oakland, Cal.: Supplies on fourteen, more on three, consigned Southern Pacific Oakland more follows. Wire :hlppinfi “N. T. WILSON, Mayor."” Oregon_City, Or., April 14, 1906. “Governor Pardee, Sacramento, Cal Citizens of Oregon . .v have wired Cal fornia State Bank $1500 for your credit for benefit of earthquake sufferers. More to follow. . “E. C. CANFIELD, Mayor.” Ogden, Utah, April 14, 1906. “Governor George C. Pardee, Sacra- mento, Cal.: Will send food tomorrow. “DR. E. M. CONRUY. Mayor." Lincoln, Nebr., April 19, 1906. “Governor wuegrge C. Pardee, »acra- mento, Cal.: Nebraska stands ready to assist the people of San Francisco in their hour of misfortune. Will you kindly in- dicate what is most needed? “JOHN H. MICKEY, Governor.” Lincoln, Nebr., April 20, 1908. “Governor George C. Pardee, Sacra- mento, Cal.: Ten cars of provisions started for San Francisco today; expect to send full train load tomorrow and more when ready. “JOHN H. MICKEY, Governor.” Before the dawn of Agrfl—.l? the des- tination of telegrams peen enlarged to reach the States and cities of e Middie West and the Atlantic Coast. These messages, similar to those sent to other States farther West, were rushed out. Here are some sample messages that went over the wires: ““George W. Guthrie. Mayor, Pittsburg, Pa.: In the name of Mayor Schmitz an his stricken Deogla, 1 thank you. Three hundred thousand peope Shelterless. They need food and shelter. “GEORGE C. PARDEE, Governor." “F. D. Crabbs, Kansas City, Mo.: Three hundred thousand San Francisc peogla need food and shelter very badly. This in answer to Mayor Schmitz. “GEORGE C. PARDEE, Governor.” “The Governor of Kansas, Topeka, Kan.: Have wired Mayors of your prin- cipal cities that San Francisco is need of food. Can you aid in_ dispatching train- load of provisions? Need Is immediate and great. “GEORGE C. PARDEE, Governor."” For seventy-two hours the Governor and his corps of volunteer assistants re- mained in the office of Mayor Mott and sent out these appeals for help. ,The word came in the course of a few fours that food su es were on the way and that other rellef trains would follow. Naturally the food supplies from near-by California towns were the first to make their ap- pearance. Stockton, Sacramento, Fresno and other Sacramento and San Joaquin Valley towns were the first because of their nearness to respond. Carload after carload be’mn pouring in before the flames were out in San Francisco. One of the crying needs in the first few days was for tentage and the Governor lost no time in getting word out that would get tents and blankets. The first message of this nature was sent to Sac- ramento to Private Secretary Nye in the early morning of the 19th. That message read: ‘‘A. B. Nye, Sacramento, Cal.: Mayor Schmitz sends me word he needs food, tentage and supplies of all kinds. City still burning. Have State tents and blank- Keep us in- fer; directions. ets sent down with commissioned officer in charge. Also Sacramento regimental hospital corps. Telephone me Mott's ce. “GEORGE C. PARDEE, Governor.” The President was among the first noti- fled of San Francisco's disaster and he was asked for permission to use Gov- ernment tents and other property, the request being couched in the following dispatch: Oakland. April 19, 1906. “The President: Mayor of San Fran- cisco tells me he needs tentage, rations, bedding and supplies for 100,000 people. Can you order such_ supplies from Gov- ernment station: Wire me Oakland. “GEORGE C. PARDEE, Governor.” To this the President wired the fol- lowing answer: ‘White House, Washington, D. C. ““Hon. George C. Pardee, Governor of California: Telegram received. all avail- able tents have already been ordered sent to San_ Francisco, also rations. I have directed the Secretary of War ot take up at once the matter of bedding and supplies and to do everything that you direct that is in our power to do. “THEODORE ROOSEVELT."” ‘To which the following was sent: “The President, Wajflnstun. D. s Dispatch received and aid appreciated. City still burning and many thousands of people sheiterless and- without food. Weather good. Many thanks. “GEORGE C. PARDEE, Governor.” It must be remembered that for days the only communication with San Fran- cisco that was had with any degree of satisfaction was by special messenger and in order to keep up communication be- tween the San ancisco authorities who were on the firing line, so to speak, and the Governor’'s temporary office in Oak- land, which was the end of telegraphic communication, it was necessary to main- tain a messenger service. The car lines being out of commission on the San Fran- cisco side of the bay it was impossible to carry on the transbav dispatch ser- vice without the aid of automobiles and several of the machines were pressed into service by-Senator Lukens almost on the arrival of the Governor in Oakland, and throug:tnthiu service he was able to kee the Francisco authorities advise as to what he was doing and also to keep himself informed as to the wishes and needs of those on the San Francisco side. The first of these trips was made on the night of April 18, by Lieutenant Alex- ander, the ernor’s aide, who took to Mayor Schmitz a letter from Governor Pardee offering ald and asking what the Mayor wanted done. Scores of messages were exchanged in this manner and co- operative effort thus secured and the automobile thus scored another success, for without the auto much valuable time would have been lost, and as a conse- quence the relief work would have been materially delaved at a time when every moment mant life or death to many. Showing the nature or the correspond- ence that went by messenger service the following exa.mgles are given: Oakland, Cal.. April 19, 1906. “Mayor E. E. Schmitz, n Franeisco, Cal.—My Dear Sir: Owing to the neces- sity of my keeping in touch with the tele- hone and (elcmgh 1 have taken Ii}) my geudquaners in the office of the Mayor of Oakland. In response to vour sug- gestion through Mr. Alexander I have telegraphed the President asking him to send supplies, rations and tentage from Government posts to San Francisco; also have asked Mayors of Sacramento, Stock- ton, Fresno and Los Angeles to the same effect; have also asked the Adjutant Gen- eral's office in Sacramento to send State tents and the National Guard Hospital corps from there. Any suggestions or ald you may want will of course be immediately attended to. As I shall have to send messages to Ban Francisco during the next few days may I ask that vou will instruct your Chief of Police to issue orders to his men to recognize my passes? _1ours very truly, “GEORGE C. PARDEE, Covernor.” Mayor Schmitz sent a messen~er to the Governor's office with the information that dynamite was badly needed, that no powder was to be had in San Fran- cisco and that no boat could be secured to go to Pinole to secure the needed sup- ply. This resulted in the following message being sent: Oakland. April 19, 1906. ‘“‘Superintendent Scott, ‘estern Divis- ion. Oakland Pier—Dear Sir: Mayor Schmitz sends word he needs tug to go to Pinole get load of dynamite and deliver to lef of Police at the foot of Market street, San Francisco. as soon as possible. Cannot get tug3#n San Francisco. Can you order one of your tugs to do this work? It is important :nd if possible tug should be sent. Yours ruly, ““GEORGE C. PARDEE. Governor.” The message was handed to Mr. Scott at the Oakland mole when he was busily engaged in other work, but he hastily issued the necessary orders and then ‘wrote with pencil on the reverse side of the Governor's note the foilowing mes- sage: ‘Governor Pardee: Will be pleased to place the tug Rival at your disposal at land pier. once. 1Is lying at the O “W. R. SCOTT, Superintendent.” The Rival was soon on its way, but a telephone messafi from the Governor’'s office beat it tc Pinole and the dynamite was being gotten out ready for loading i'hen the tug tied up at the Pinole land- ng. 8. A letter which was carried from the Governor’s office to the office of Mayor Schmitz on the momlnd‘ of the 19th reads: Oakland, Apr.. 19, 1906. “Mayor E. E. Schmitz, San Francisco, Cal. ar Sir: ering yours T wired President early !ni sking him to issue supplies, tentage, etc. Also wired Sacramento to send of Sacramento send supplies. committee of Sacramento telephones me they have carlocad en route and more to follow. Also wired Mayor of Stockton to send supplies. Also have Mayvor of Fresno. Wire from there says carioad of meat en tate tents and supplies, also Mayor Citizens route. Also wired Mayor of Los Ange- les you need food. Chamber of Com- merce of Los Angeles wired me that they ‘would send supplies. I told them to send them. Offers of money have been made, but have replied food and lu'p&uel needed. Any further suggestions be acted upon. Veg truly, “GEORGE C. PARDEE, Governor.” Another letter sent on_ April 19 from the Governor’s office to Mayor Schmits read: Oakland, April 19, 1306. “Hon. E. E. Schmitz, Mayor of San Francisco—My Dear Sir: I am informed by telephone from Sacramento that rep- resentatives of the United Rallroads will send down certain supplies on the boat from Sacramento, which takes the Sac- ramento rellef committee supplies, and will arrive about 2 o'clock tomorrow morning. landing at either North Beach or the Presidio. I am requested to ask you to inform Mr. Mullally and Mr. Chap- man of the United Railroads of the notice of this arrival and have them have men at the dock ready to receive and distribute the supplies. I have asked the Governors of Nebraska and Missouri and the Mayors of Kansas City and Omaha to send supplies. I have also asked the Oregon authorities to send tentaie and supplies. Have also accepted the offer of Cleveland to send carload of supplies. and tonight I shall ask the ‘Washington State authorities to also send supplies. Stockton has supplies on the way; so has Fresno. Sacramento and Los Arngeles. Sacramento will continue to send supplies at short intervals. Very truly yours, “GEORGE C. PARDEE, Governor.” As was to be expected the earthquake and fire produced a state of excitement among the pecple of the citles visited oy the calamity. The need of an organized power to control the excited and to assist generally in restoring order was evident. Adjutant General J. B. Lauck, General Koster and Colonel Wilhelm of the Gov- ernor’s staff were at Ukiah at the time of the earthquake, it being their purpose tq select a camp_for the summer en- campment of the National Guard. Go ernor Pardee, being unable to communi- cate with General Lauck over the tele- phone on the morning of April 18, by vir- tue of his position as commander in chief of the State troops, ordered out the Na- tional Guard companies having their headquarters about the bay. General Lauck arrived in San Francisco on the first train that could bri: him and the need of additional troops ing apparent tne Second Regiment of State troops from Sacramento and vicinity were ordered to the bay. Later as the need became agA rent first the Sixth Regiment from the n Joaquin Valley and still later the Seventh from Southern California and th Naval Militla were ordered to the scene of disaster. These citizen soldiers ren- dered excellent service, not only in mal order, but also in fighting fire. sting In the distribution and in caring for the sick and wounded. Altogether the first seventy-two hou following the earthquake were very ones for every one who sou; least to render assistance to hi tunate feliows. Particularly busy times for the Governor, who, at tme of the quake, was in Sacramer his official home. blished munication with Oakland by means the telephone and caused a messaze t - sent to San Francisco that he would the bay on the first train peasible started for San Francisco, but lea. on his arrival at Oakland of the fact th San cisco was cut out fr gflphlc communication he establis ieadquarters in the ! T ity least four days after Apri! 15 o 1ni tion between Oakland and San Francis was maintained only by messenger. o even after that time the service w..s from satisfacto: Th wires from Oakland eastward in fairly good working order. her wnd the arrangements for feedi army of homeless were made [16 point. The messa, flashed ov wires. The supply trains followed rapid succession. Little attention w paid to the name of the consignee o car, If that car contained feolstuffs. r the purpose of all was to feed the mu titude, and fed they were. scarcely meal missing. because of the dispat with which the relief campaign was o ganized and the speedy and hearty @ sponse which the Governor's appea's for id received. ‘What was done for San Fra: in a limited way, doue for othe that suffered. The work did not e a few hours or days, and it was S task to see that there was no surfeit ol supplies or, wh=t would have been wo: a shortage. Within a fortnight after the quake and fire notification of the sh ment of over three milllon dollars’ wo-th of food supplies had passed over the des of the Governer in his office in the Oak- land City Hall, and in addi nearly a milllon doliars in n or money had passed through his hands. And so was the Governor that all the sleep ! got for four nights were the few hours passed long after midnight with a blanket on a lounge in Mayor Mott's office. In attempting to briefly set forth what was done in the Governor's Oakland offic during the days following the guake the account would be incomplete were it not stated that the storles of plague and sick- ness that went broadcast that great num- ber of cases of smallpox, typhus fever and other dread diseases were raging - among the refugees was killed from that office. Governor had. early in the relief campaign, communicated with man towns in an effort to find how many refugees could be cared for in the event it became necessary to ship them out of San Francisco. Replies came in rapidly. but the rumor of sickness spread and in- quiries began pouring in as to the truth of conditions. For days . the Governor added to every one of the thousands of telegrams that went out from his office the words “No_serious sickness in San Francisco or adjoin cities.” This-| the desi: effect and the mor died before it had done any serio harm, for at no time was there arything to justify it BY REV. PHILIP O'RYAN. One can give but a very poor idea of the charity that was poured out so lav- ishly during the great catastrophe. Much of it was done without ostentation and it will go unrecorded. The first few days when we had to depend on 6ur own re- sources were trying times. Families were fleeing in thousands from the devouring flames. er and food were needed to e old and infirm, the women and Cs ifornia hospitality was to the test and was not found want- A= ted they were shared with the refugee. That pri- enabled us tide the until help reached us from abroad of »g as provisions vate relief to over days ery difficult therefore to write olic Relief Work r portion was done in Cath- home in the un t was a shelter for those fleeing from their burn- of ing roofs. The pastors in the outlying prrishes knew how many each the parishes could accommodate formed committees to go amongst the refugees and place in comfortable homes BEAUTIFYING Continued From Page Two. master buflder, distinguished citizen is asked about it. It was Burnham who made the World's Fair-at Chicago notable for the beauty of its buildings. He showed what could be done, what marvelous re- sults won by the use of certain materials along certain lines. And it is those ma- terfals and those lines that clever archi- tects are now suggzesting for adoption as the means that will serve to keep San Francisco from resembling a shanty town, while the great buildings are being erected 4 X ; That Burnham is now in the city, giv- ing counsel to those who are mncgmnd with the problem of San Francisco's re- buflding makes it possible for property owners who have this plan offered them, 16 -have Burnham’'s opinfon upon it which, in the light of his own fathering of the plan at the World's Fair cpuid bardly be otherwise than most favcyable. There should be mo confusion of ideas on ‘this point. with regard to expense. Bverybody knows that the World’s Fuir bulidings cost fortunes. It is not prn:- posed to duplicate such gigantic struct- ures. It is rather the iG=as those build- ings., in part represented, and the prin- cipies of their construction that can be jmitated now In San Francisco at this eritis, with such splendid prespects of glorious resu't Over fifty vears ago the French pro- fessors and students at the Ecole des Beaux Arts plenned dreams of buildings and edifices that seemed at that time to be among the things that can never be tealized. ¥ Lately, however, in the world’s fairs mot only were the dreams carried out, but eur fine arts building at Chicago was COMFORTING those who most urgently needed shelter. Several thousand familles were housed and a great deal of suffering averted. This plan was carried out in a very thorough manner in Oakland, where 2 Central Cathelic Relief Bureau was es- tablished by the pastors and the active workers among their congregations. I don’t know how many people were shel- tered nor how many meals were provided. The charity that measures itself in fig- ures is very cold. But I do know that the committees worked day and night, that no applicant was turned away, that refugees were sought out without ques- tion of creed Archbishop Montgomery sent word to every Catholic institution in the city to relleve the needy and to co-operate in every way with the Citizens’ Committee appointed by Mayor Schmitz. Those in charge had already done so. Archbishop Riordan was In Chicago when he received the news and he hastened back to help in every way. I shall give a few instances of Catholic Rellef Work performed by the various communities of Sisters In the city Among the first to respond on the morn- ing of the earthquake were the Sisters of the Holy Family. Word was sent to them that the Pavilion was converted into an AGED emergency hospital and thither they rushed their bedding and supplies for the injured. The Sisters attended to the pa- tients, bound up their wounds and com- forted them in their suffering. Who that witnessod the scene In the Pavilion on that morning will ever forget {t? Here lay the victims of earthquake and fire, crushed and broken. And I hope that San Francisco will never forget that brave army of nurses and doctors and the devoted Sisters who remained at their post until the last sufferer was borne from the burning Pavilion. This same community of Sisters gave up their convent at Hayes and Fillmore streets as a ward for those rendered temporarily insane. The Sisters have devoted themselves since the fire to the work of visiting the camps and pro- viding food and clothing for those who cannot help themselves. If there be a few who have overstocked themselves with provisions, there are the thousands who would die of cold and hunger rather than “stand in line.” These must be sought out quietly by ministering angels and to this work the Sisters have applied themselves. One of the tragedies of the fire was the destruction of the three Day Homes of these Sisters in which thousands of infants and children were cared for and fed whilst their mothers went out to AND 1 work. The people whose nickels and dimes builded these Day Homes are themselves homeless today. Who will re- build them in- the New and Greater San Francisco? The Sisters of Charity conducted a Technical School at Gough and Geary streets. You never read of it in the papers. It was not paraded as a great charity. But it was the best and the most worthy institution in the United States. Over one hundred girls, princl- pally orphans, were given a thorough training in sewing and dressmaking. The institution wds absolutely self-supporting and these girls were sent out into the world trained to earn their own living. But in one day it is utterly transformed. The children are sent temporarily to the Orphan Asylum and here in the parlor where Madame So-and-So ordered a fashionable trousseau last week, I find a simple colored woman sitting on her bed. A hundred and fifty deserving old people are gathered under that hospitable roof and five times that number sit down to meals. The Sisters were ably assisted by the League of the Cross Cadets. Out in the Richmond District is the Home for the Aged conducted by the Little 8isters of the Poor. They threw open thelr doors to refugees, and the in- FIRM mates and the millionaries of vesterday slept soundly under the same roof. On the other hand the Academy of the Sa- cred Heart at Ellls and Franklin streets educated the children of the wealthy. Just as soon as it was safe from the fire it was converted into an emergency hospital. Many a man and woman who did not lose much In the fire because they did not possess it slept soundly in the class halls and music rooms. The Dominican Sisters did noble work in the parochial school of Sacred Heart parish, which was converted into a hos- pital and refuge. The Rellef Station on Telegraph Hill was unique. About two thousand people found refuge on the Hill. The Presenta- tion Sisters who were driven by fire from their two great convent schools at Taylor and Ellis and at Powell and Lombard streets took charge of the Rellef Work. The refugees were cut off from communi- catlon on all sides. But in a few days the Sisters had everything running smoothly. They had converted a store in- to a school; a hall had been fitted up as a church and the distribution of food was perfect. Uncle Sam sent plenty of pro- visions and I don’t think that the Sisters cached any of it. The inhabitants had not heard from General Funston or DURING FIRE Mayor Schmitz since the fire and I would advise the Mayor, if he wishes to assert his authority on the Hill, to visit it as soon as possible. St. Mary's Hospital on Rincon Hill is gone. It was surrounded by a circle of fire which drew nearer and nearer hqur by hour until it was seen that that noble institution was doomed. There was no escape for the sick and the aged by land and the Sisters performed heroic work in removing the entire community to a ship which lay close by. The patients, nurses, aged and infirm were taken safely to Oak- land and immediately a band of Sisters returned to the city before the fires were extinguished to establish the new St. Mary's Hospital. True, it was but a tented hospital, but it served its purposes until a suitable bullding was leased. Such is the spirit that will bufld t~~ New San Francisco! St. Joseph's Hospltal was crowded with patients who were taken in free of charge during and after the fire. Many refugees found their way towards South San Francisco where the Sisters of Charity, wko conduct the two large Orphan Asylums, attended to their needs. The Sisters also sheltered the boys of the Youths’ Directory and the girls of the Technical School. The Sisters of Mercy of St. Peter's School, assisted by the Sisters who taught St. Joseph's ‘School, have done and are doing noble service in distributing cloth- ing and supplies and in visiting the dest tute. So did the Sisters of St. I School at Eighteenth and Shotweil. Richard Queen gave his beautiful mansion to the Little Helpers who were Lurned out.| They are familiar figures in all the camps. The Sisters of St. Brigid’'s Schoc received hospitality from Chaplain H at the Presidio and have devoted time to the immense camp on the r vation. I am only giving some instances Peter’s, St. Paul's, and others v Catholic Sisters did. I don’'t think that men are entitled to any special eredit Most of our churches, the Cathedral, £i. verted into Relief Stations. The clergy on the Sunday following t' fire celebrated mass in every cammn _ Catholics were gathered. —we have lost great structur shall not lose the people who built ar ¢ crowded them in the Ol1 San Froncis And when theNew San Fra = from the ashes of the Oid, builded what the fire destroyed greater temples devoted education and to charity thet h : =il bui 1 to religion, «» almost a direct copy of Mr. Benard's grand prize drawing that was made when he was a student at the Ecole des Beaux Arts and had been published years before the exposition. Through the efforts at the word’s fairs in Europe and at home we have learned tb bulld these dreams ~r~aamically and substantially enough to avoid accidents. These ‘dreams” are the wirct result of excavations and restora- tions made in Rome and Greece of the monuments made by the ancients, Owing to their mode of life thelr edi- fices were from the nature of things made up of long simple lines. The French, who were surrounded by a medley of medieval buildings built up on twenty-five to thirty feet fronts, found the long low lines of the palace of Versailles very soothing and one may almost say that the early Beaux Arts work consisted of long low lines. It is not because the lines were long and low that these bulldings were beautiful,. but because the student had discovered the secret of proportioning the conventional forms of architecture just as a god does to make a handsome man or woman. He does it simply by making FRAN the body a little longer, the legs possibly a little shorter, adds something to tiw shou.uer, shapes the nose and brows 1-100 part of an inch differently from all others and thus produces a living Venus de Milo. This is not digressing from the subject. for there are several men in San Fran- cisco who have been trained specially for this work, who can make these long lines beautiful. (I can give you these names 1f you care to know them.) It {s some- thing that not every architect can do. Now instead of making a wretched min- ing camp which would cripple all healthy social life, is it not better to make beau- tiful buildings of one umit on each block? It must of course be one unit to give that calm dignity that makes you feel the nobility of man. It is not simply a question of sprucing up and each individual bullding fifty or twenty-five feet, with or without profes- sional advice, one-half high, the other low, one with black trimmings the other yellow facades—this would be what any mining town would do and thus' cheapen our city. Each man can bulld his shack ing to his fancy and whenever he OVER picases, leaving about twelve feet from the building line to be finished at the same time as his neighbors. In order to beautify and give life to this long line you can do as you do in a string of beads, I. e., every three or four beads one of longer form or other color i1s introduced rythmically. So we would introduce pilons of staff from time to time maybe a pavilion like those of the world’s fair buildings, at the middle, or at the corners, or systematically distant from the cormers. In the larger. stores semi-circular entrances would make room THE TINTINABULATION OF A BELL GIRL--A SEMI-PHILANTHROPIC EXPERIMENT “Front!” “Ribbons” slipped~off the hench presented pompadour to the desk. Show the lady to 718."” With the dexterity of lightweight practice suit case and go!f bag were cked up and with a “Follow me” out and of the corner of her right cve Ribbons made for the elevator. “Sir, do you mean to tell me that child is to carry my luggage?”” “It's the duty of bell girls, madam.” “Proposterous! She’s not bigger than a minnow. I wouldn't let my Nell carry euch a loud, and she's not an inch taller, an ounce heavier or a whit stronger than that child. And this ie a woman's hotel— built by God-fearing women for the ac- commodation of their kind! Well, well! Give me my traps; I'll carry them my- self.” % She was a repiica of Mrs. Gryce in “The House of Hlnmonuuwnm\ woman,' with the voice of lipit orator and a mind preoccupied with the iniqui- ties of hor servants. In response to the clerk’s signal of dis- tress back came Ribbons. Mrs. Gryce grabbed the “lightweight” an! led the way to the elevator wita Ribbons. still mistress of the keys, in close pursuit. “Front!” With affectionate soothing of th:e huge Alsatian bow topping 2 wealth of carrot hair, the last on the bench sprang like jack from the box into the lobby’s center. “Oh. the little dear! Too cute for any- thing!” chorused a bevy of girls out for o day's ‘“rubbering” and under seal uot to stray too .ar from the woman's hotel. Ribbons blushed the tint of her tresses and gathered up the ‘“varsity team's” toilet receptacles. “This way,” said Ribbons, plaving a largo with the keys to the parlor suite, while in her train followed the higher educated gigglers, with fervid ejacula- “There. you have it,” sighed the “mere man” clerk wearfly. “There’s no count- ing what will please women in or out of a hotel. Bell girls are bound to be spolled by just such extremists—the con- doners and the flatterers.” The bell girl in hotel service is dis- tinctively a metropolitan innovation. In less than a year she has not only estab- lished a raison d’etre as an industrial fac- tor, Lut furnishes material for one of the most successful dramatic productions. If she continues to make history at this record-breaking speed a humorous versi- fler will soon have a volume to take the wind out of his latest offense, ‘“I'he Thrills of a Bell Boy,” in “The Tintinna- bulations of a Bell Girl.” It is well for “Ribbons” that “Buttons’ préceded her in the home of her bis the woman’s hotel—otherwise she might yet be unborn. It was not until Buttons become intolerably saucy and impertinent that Ribbons, like Minerva, sprang full- fledged from the Jovian head of the cor- poration that manipulutes the one woman's hotel. voming without precedent into hotel service. Ribbons is having much to learn —much that the greenest Buttons would know by instinct. Fancy a Buttons guilty of the naivete of the Ribbons to whom & gentleman caller gave a note to deliver to a patron, slipping at the same time into the little outstretched hand a quarter. E ““The lady kept the note, sin but she said she didn't want the money,” said Ribbons, presenting to the gentleman a tray upon which shone’ the rejected quarter. The evolution of the woman's hotel from a semi-philanthropic experiment into a dividend-paying enterprise is no less interesting a study than its normal ~school for the training of bell girls. +rom all of the city, chiefly the east side, come the twenty-six girls who make up the corps. Thelr ages range from the law limit to 18. Direct from parochial schools and private homes they come, and the ease and speed with which they acquire the manners of polite serv- jee, imitate the people they come in con- tact with, which is necessarily 2 much higher class than they would encounter in department stores, shops or factories, bespeak their Intelligence and adapt- Under the survelllance of a well-bred captain (a woman in touch with girl life) they soon learn the necessity and .the pleasure of -well-kept hands, and coiffure. Daily contact with women of .the world not only robs them quickly of the awkwardness of the-tenement en- capacity for larger responsibilif K are advanced to the telepl room, package desk or mail service. ‘That poys wifl be boys is equally ap- plicable to girls. In the bell girls’ tenta- tive day there were elevator boys in woman's hotel. They. were as new the industrial world, the cut and hours of service, as the bell girls. It such a lark for Ribbons and the !Es? § 5 NIGHT for skoppers to loiter 28 they enter/ o= quit. The experse of these clavations wouid be In most cases lessened by co-oparation, the long lines running from one street 1. another would be done by the wholssale. if I may express it so. The expenss wou'a be divided by front foot as in the case of street work, paving, sewering. etc. In any case the expense would add vearv Mttle if anything to what the individua! will spend.*for the majority will neel show windows, which here, of course, ars It is needless to sov - .-« the peculiar needs any individual store may be. it ca-