The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 17, 1906, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO PREPARING TO Furnishing Roofs Winter Is Nearing HOUSE for Many Thousands Serious Problem and Abodes Must Be Erected Quickly THE AT'YS FIOMELESS ’ ¥ mair majesty of . eems easily posed : g skill copes with the Kir calmest as- the thou- . who will be engaged in . s rebuilding of a great s exing problem i N bundance to | g w i e most tow- But to provide the W g for the man whose) rs are required to ap fo ojects an Sam Yo » Wash asting for about business blocks sugges- The next 303 ont pasthans esch o ane pemad ack o oo panels atter Golde New most half over and can- | overtaxed by o e 2 7unels like coch o sbore fail—what? question ma Goverr other big ave dev ponsibilties ir e in t he few on supply error what were best er ern; and now what | tages to the g00d fanfare, f without , on that £ of people rocis b s in? Con- the funds t of e task itseif f pla ing those ¥ aied to. Sehmits plavs, thorough uses n posses j precticable. No municipal admin- | 0 esrth has the or 371‘744—1 things with stheh intelligence | 1ghiy f ana fig- | s I General A. W Gre workmen's to lines of | tion unfavorable report has been made on Al Plaza. Garficld Square, South Park Par! Buer pro igs Juckson CAESAR LOMBROSO. Morgan, tew Kecne and Carfiegie, are ve BY is the nultimiilonale:” fn fact, Fewer in number vet are those who 2 s =, have degenerated characters, so obvious ne.. the Czar; Germ 4 2 E in genius, except, peérhaps, a greater e ® Bogland as m weakness and frequently small sature. of Kurope and North America a5 Some. like Kruger, are known as ex- world traordinapily handsome. Their wives 120 in general very beautiful. One eption is the ‘Cattle Queen,” Mr. ng. whose face i line. It true that many of their children are weak of body and mind, but I-believe this Is due to too much work on their parents’ side and also to the isolation demanded by the rules of education, rather than degeneration laborer earns English laborer, | seven times richer than where the raw the t A 1 coal, are of the parents G and for bet- The special gifts of the archmillion- world, from aires correspond also more to great In- geniousness (exaggeration in the aver- age man) than to the exceptional type of genius, and such qualities are, as Carnegie writes in his “Gospel,” rapid intuition of the utility of a business and the not Jesser rapidity In undertak- ing it. the greater mental equilibrium, the spirit of saving almost to nva- riciousn the knowledge in detail of such and Such enterprise due to the prolonged and precoeious specialization in a determined industrial science. To which T add resolution and rich- ness of original ideas, facilitr n ac- comn:odating themselves, st points, send in their capi-p where wealth obtains increase, the origin of perfectly clear and| miracles of any h other coun- ese fortunes annot be attributed of the reveals a squar of them I their jaw developed. | 5 great energy, such | kefeller, Sage. Morgan 4 Vanderbilt. Those who are pre urely bald or have gray hair, Mk thoroughly mascu- | good judg- | FENEMENT -8 TWO-ROOM FLATS. |8quare, Telegraph Hill Park, Ports- | mouth :*quare, Union Square and Mar- Vista | shall Square. - 3o 5 Aemets bhe T oo materic! for 3 simihor pansla net mote um 4 ~O% 18 96'-0 Llan. Estimate of cosh S74(%% _SCALE. ™ 10" ‘ “There has been recommended to me |Bquare, Jefferson Square, Duboce Park, i connecting the Presidio and Golden las suitable locations for temporary|Bernal Park, Alamo Square, Columbia | Gate Park. Details as to size, capacity, | nouses: Lafayette Park, Hamilton|Square, and the strip of city property water, sewerage, etc, of the various parks are set forth in the accompany= ing inclosure. “The square named would afford sites sufficient for 13,300 people, if they were placed In barracks, which is not. recommended, save where such bar- racks are now standing. If separate houses are erected for each family, pos~ sibly 10,000 people could be accommeo=- dated.” The foregoing details with the mat- ter of caring for the refugees now en- camped in the parks. These unfor= tunates are the immediate concern of jthe authorities. General Greely did | not attempt to suggest where to locate | the thousands who will flock back to the city as soon as business is restored in full measure and the work of re- building begins in earnest. | There is much room beyond the area of thick population and the United | Railroads can build tracks with great | dispatch these day But the com- mander of the Pacific Division did show how dwelling places could be provided {at small cost and be put up in the few | weeks available. \ Under his direction Captain W. W. |Harts of the Corps of Engineers | planned houses calculated to meet the needs of the situation. The bath was not forgotten as an essential of a city where brick dust will be flying for many months to The military men designed four types of cottages, ranging form tawo to five rooms, and in |each one is place for a shower bath | planned. An additonal type is a bar- | racks providing eight tenements, which |the genmeral does not decommend, but | the conditions may réquire its adoption |to some extent, particularly if people crowd back to the city faster than is expected. The design designated as type A is a two-room cottage, each room _being 12x9, and can be built for $169. Type B is a three-room cottage, the rooms be- ing, respectively, 9x14, 8x9 and 6x9, and |can be.buflt at an estimated cost of | $129.50. Type C is a four-room cottage, |in which rooms are, respectively, 9x10, $x10, $x10 and 7x10, costing, as esti- mated, $154. Type consists of & bar- racks providing eight tenements of two rooms each, at an esitmated cost of $741. Type C, the cottage of four rooms, will undoubtedly be the most popular one with the workingmen of family. The ,accompanying illustration will give an idea of how comfortable a family of several persons could make themselves in it. In fact, all the de- signs provide better degrees of comfort and hygienic conditions than are gener- | ally enjoyed in the city tenement. The | handy mechanic can easily make im- | provements for consideration of |Wwarmth and other accommodations. The free air of makeshift himes out beyond the Sunset and Richmond dis- tricts would likely make much toward petter health and lustier growth of children than did crowded alleys south of Market street. Not only can these types of dwellings be used for the refugees now in the parks, but they can be used under the scheme of the Red Cross Society to | puild temporary homes for all people who cannot find homes already built. The houses must be built, for men must come to rebuild the city. According to the figures of the sani- tary officials connected with the city’s Health Department there are 12500 peopple living in tents at the time, for whom concern about winter is im perative. Assuming that 25,000 persons have left San Franciseo permanently, that 100,000 will double up in the residence section that escaped the flames and that 50.000 ¥ill be pro- vided for by private enterprise, about 50,000 remain out of the 225,000 rem- dered homeless by the fire to be cared for. It means virtually the building of a good-sized city within a few weeks if these people are to be properly housed. But with the aid of the army it can undoubtedly be done. Nothing seems impossible with that strong arm at ser- vice. Thousands of workingmen will be hurrying to the city for the good wages that await them. and it seems rather a difficult matter to form any conclusion as to what the city’s popu~ iation will be by next Christmas time. It is proposed that these houses shall be buflt by Red Cross funds and rented at rates varying from $3 to $6 a month. For the destitute no rent would be exacted. For those workingmen who own land and wish to erect permanent homes the Red Cross will also exteng the helping hand by making loans of the mone: required at low rates of @interest. those who find it impossible to get houses built before the rainy season concerns manufacturing portable houses that can be put together in two or three days are in the market offering to supply dwellings that are substantial and comfortaple at prices of $500 and $800 for five and six room cottages. This housing of a pepulace is all a remarkable problem, and San Francisco must be ul to the United States army and the Red Cross Society for the manner in which they have stood by and helped her in her perplexing dilemmas. come. t OF THE AMERICAN ment in the selection of men and op- portunities, ability in refraining or stopping in time, where others would be carried away on account of the obses- slon which dominates the fortunate speculators and gamblérs who have greatér luck than brains. These qual- ities are lacking in great genius, al- though it may see far, but it is also susceptible to many errors and par- ticularly to many uncertainties and doubts, while the others reach the goal with a precision, security and rapidity to be compared to the discharge of a projectile by an ewpert gunner through a perfect gun. | When the archmillionaires are in their way genial (Carnegie, Vanderbilt, | Gould, Young) they resemble more the | military geniusez—geniuses of action | rather than literary and artistic, They |avail themselves of the most apt men | to second their projects, and by the pre- | cision, rapidity and inexorability with | which' they actuate in their sphere. | One of the few qualities of the arch- {millionaire common to the man of | genlus is precocity, considering that his | career begins almost at his infaney. ! Another, which is in sharp con- trast, is the absolute lack of cul- | ture, a fact which, as it will be un- |dentood. is not to be observed in the | masters of letters and science. The majority of the first are sons. of more | to shipwrecks, invented the diving bell Vanderbilt embraced the advantages of for- | the discovery of Fulton and changed | his sailing vessels into steamships, making a hundred per cent qrofl(. manage, becoming therefore profound and more apt. Another cause to determine the tune of the multimillionaires is the ex-| treme poverty of their youth, even in| those of old familles. The cases of| Avidity, egoism. Hill, Clark, Krugtil, Carnegie and oth- The insatiable egotism of profit mak- ers can be cited. |ing is a characteristic of all men of en- However, the first of the line have terprise. Sometimes it shows the most descended from poor laborers. Edison curious manifestations. Astor answered was a telegraph operator; Corliss, Che- | when asked why he continued accumu- ney anc Roebling, who founded the|lating money when he was already a most important industrial centers of milllonaire: lsllk and iron, were poor boys with| that attracts me, but the pleasure I {natural ability for their only gift. | gives me to know it.” Ih the mercantile or finaneial world | The real fact of the immense personal we see that Claflin, Jordan, Lord Barr- | wealth les in the avidity of specula- | fields and lFleld dwsr:; kings in com- | tion, and more yet in its inexorable an were pos X % fltence Of collateral assaciations at the | faiee: Doih. Retheterlor . Sage and | oo on over SiL Eunsin’ 'uoh eativani moment .of ullox; or of perception | pield, little secretaries, ut supra. Thus Havemeyer with the small sum which de'ays the time of the education 7' e born poor, acording to Carne- | lent to him by a banker makes a trust of Wi artlst or the genius in relation|gle, 18 a great thing. | Which allows iumn to sell Sugar twenty with. the remmen. Jan. Carnegle foresaw immediately the per cent cheaper than another compa- Al this is of great importance, be- | profit in the steel industry. Woodruff ny. cause what really makes the work of | predicted later the advantage of iron | shares of this latier company go down. T ;mm“f:xo‘n":fl“tln::n:."f.,:;""“;"i;us is | bridges over Wwooden onex which he and chen is the moment for raising the i pidity in deter- right away, mak an im- | pric ' EiLtioN ad mation, besidss mit (e o b s obbne. . Lo o Pt Rt e e ergy and all the ume which the culti- | foresaw the enormous development of has to raise its price also. The shares vated individuals use in knowledge|New York and bought real estate, which | have been bought by him secretly for useful to their gersonal adornment, | lie disposed of afterward with immense | $360,000. Next day they were worth such as Latin, Greek, rhetoric, the |profits. - $700,000. others concentrate in the only matter | Phipps. thinking of the possible ex-| Girard was extremely avaricious and | which for thcir own benefit they must | tractlon of the treasures of the sea due ' maltreated mercilessly his wife, who Ilaborers and country people, and those who, like Clark, who studied law, and | Hill, who studied for the pulpit, have irecelved special tuition throw it off | from the beginning of their career, as it hinders rather than benefits them. | Carnegie says: “It is rare when men reputed to he students are able to suc- | ceed in business.” “The analysis,” savs Flaubert, “anni hilates me. 1 doubt my own doubts Maine de Birau declared that his small- est ideas frightened him, and that each expression or coneeption stopped them and awalened scruples. He added. “I :lo many things, but in short | do noth- ng.” It is uncertainty and the great con- “It is not making meney With the absence of buyers the long before this Astor |buy anew from the new company, which f MILLIONAIRES could not resist such treatment and died. Knight began his fortune with 700,000 lires lent by a banker. Soom after he created a society which bank- rupted his benefactor. On this account ‘when Astor, Carnegie and Rockefeller preclaim “probity” as one of the neces- sary gifts to success they certainly must refer to a probity sui generis. It is seen that even in evil the multi- | millionaires do not distance themselves | from the average man. ‘What really is different in these men is what is called the ceéremonial. Few of them think of using wealth for the benefit of -human kind or seience, as Carnegie; but all, or the majority, think of creating for themselves a atmosphere barely different from that ot kings, and many of them dream be- sides of finding a fantastic ge | whieh will in its origin start from some | noble if not royal family. Some resign themselves to from tha American pioneers; others in | exchange find their ancestors in Henry | IV: the remainder call themselves rela- | tives of the Norman conquerors. Tt is only natural t_at with such ideas | they should acquire the royal and aris- | toeratic pomp, and that their dra | rooms. which surpass in luxury European c::l".' hlb.nu only be to their equals, their monetary ! ceptation of the word. -