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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (April 24, 1906)
TUESDAY, APRIL 4, oo 4 THE MORNING ASTOIU AN. ASTORIA. OREGON. ROANOKE STORIES Nw$ Direct From. Those Just in from San Francisco. AN OLD MAN'S GRAPHIC TALE It I Now Believed the Great Fire Was Almost Wholly Incendiary De scription of Conditions There at Present. At six o'clock lut evening the team ship Roanoke the first vessel out of San Francisco for thi port and Portland since the terrible earthquake of last Wednes day, touched here at the Calender pier for an houn, on her way to the Oregon metropolis. She was exactly forty-nine hours from the San Francisco dock to the Callender, and had on board about thirty-three people out of the hundred she carried out of Los Angeles and the Bay City. Twenty-one of these were from Saa Francisco, and round dozen from Eureka, for Portland. She drop ped sixty-seven from her roster at the last named port. Captain Dunham reports that when he entered the desolated pprt, the authori ties at once ordered him into the chan nel off the city, and to prepare his ship for the immediate reception of her full complement of sick women and children and the worse invalids from the hos pitals destroyed there; but he prevail ed upon them to relinquish the idea and permit him to pursue his voyage, on the ground that all the people he had on board for Eureka and Portland, would become a burden on the city and that on his return trip he would hold him self amenable to order which might be fulfilled with more ease than at that particular time. They let him go, af ttr taking on the twenty-three peo ple who were waiting for transporta tion theence and he sailed at five o'clock on last Saturday evening. The captain who was ashore at San Francisco for a couple of hours says the scene that confronts one from the bay or from any point of vantage there, is G FOR Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday French Prunes, small Sizes, 10 lbs 50c Pink Beans, 25 lbs for - - - $1-00 Water Witch Soap, 12 boxes - 50c Bananas, per dozen Prepared Mustard, 6 THE FOARD b STORES CO, ASTORIA'S GREATEST STORE. enough to make the heart sick; all the great familiar structures are either down or dismantled beyond recognition, except as to location, and the population under martial law, and reduced by tliP enonnou horde leaving daily, look little like the. big. busy throngs who used to crowd the splendid thorough fares, active, eager, engaged in busi ness and pleasure, smiling and happy, with n wonl of welcome for everyone; now morbid, wretched and down-cast, poor in appearance and low in ojiirit. beggars, where, they used to give and upond freely, homeless and bonio down by the hopelessness of a dismal future It is altogether pitiful to note the. aw ful transition that has come over the city. Hut he believe the native cour age of the people will serve them in good tead when the acute pressure is lift ed and they can r their way to re sume, and redeem and rebuild. Among other5 sad things told by Cap tain Dunham was the awful fact that in the parks of the city on Thursday and Friday nights of last week, over one hundred little ones were born, thir ty of whom perished from exposure and the lack of attention consequent upon the conditions under which they first saw the light ; and he says the es lblisHinlnt of at Maternity hojtal there was the greatest essential that has been supplied and the whole city is grateful for the foresight that accomp lished it so quickly aud thoroughly. Tale of an Old Soldier. As soon as the Roanoke has cat her plank to the stringers of the Cal lender pier a reporter for the Astorian boarded her and sought out a San Fran cisco man who could tell Jiim something of the real conditions as they are known to one perfectly familiar with the city, and was so fortunate to engage the in terest of an old soldier of the Orand Army, a man who has spent years in the California metropolis, and is now en route to Oregon City, to visit a daugh ter whom he has not seen for some years His name is Daniel Watson, and the story he told was told with the firm and quiet force of a man deeply im pressed with the volume and quality that such a tale is susceptible of. Mr. Watson knew the famous city as he J did the floors of his own home, and he declares that -no more than one-fourth of the old city stands today. The rest has gone down before the rocking of the earth or heaven-ward on the. wings of flame that followed. "And it was not the earthquake that 25c oz Jars, 3 for 25c prostrated San Francisco, my son," said he, " the fire is responsible for nine tenths of the awful loss of property, And it is now a universal conviction in the minds of men down there timt the "temblor" was not wholly responsible for one tenth of the tires that devas tated the place; that the scum of the city i those who hated the rich and lived only for their undoing, used the moment of the panic aud absorption in cident to the slunk, to set hundred of flies in all localities. There was no time nor inclination, then, to attribute the Mvift-riing and widely-separated tire to anv other1, cause than the one most likely to be charged with it, namely the earthquake, but. now. after a sea of careful reasoning there i a growing certainty that all , the flames ar ising south of Market street, were dc libera telv set by evil men with evil intent, and that the lire got away from them and ran the uttenrnM limits of the great town, wa the very acme of all they hoped for. '"Except for some fringe on the we item and shoutheastern limits of the citv. there is no San Francisco. From North Beach, around the waterfront, as far south as the Marine Hospital aud then back again to the licach. on a diagonal line, the hills,' and valley between, are swept clean, except for the steel skeletons of the sky-scrapers that are standing but to accentuate the swpe and horror of the wreck. The Call building, the new Chronicle, the Crock er. the old Flood and a dozen more of the loftiest of the unfinished building, are all standing, squarely in plumb, but with all inner and outer work stripped from them. Telegraph Mill. Russian Hill and the benches that flank them, rising gradually from Market st recti and including that imij-nilicent street, are utterly devested of everything in the way of a home, business-house, church, theatre, hall, or hostlery, and there is nothing to guide one over the old familiar rtuite of the city except an occasional oiims of clear earth iioii which may be noted a curb, a crossing, a oar-track, or something which defines a street. "What people are still there are swarming in the parks and open spaces about the citv, living out in a raw day and night, a few, perhaps, and most ly women and children and the sick, having the added comforts, of tents and othci' improvised shelters. Martial law reigns supreme, and the prime mercy of the whole situation is the rigidity and resourcefulness of that law as ap plied to San Francisco, in this, her most dreadful hour. Had not General Funston, his "officers and men been on the ground quickly, and had not the limity of authority been invoked at every turn, the earthquake and the fire would have been the least of the evils that would have befallen the city and her people. The army backed by all the municipal powers that Mayor Sch midt could array on the moment, is re sponsible for the wonderful outdome from a veritable hell on earth. "The, omnipre-enee of quick and cer tain death h;is had a superb effect in checking and puni-hing overt acts dur ing this high criMs, and it makes a man sick to the soul to think what might' have happened under less strong government; for San Francisco, like all great cosmopolitan cities, had an nn-, derground world literally alive with swarming scoundrels who would have made incarnate ue of the opportuni ties at hand, and I say. again, and still again, that the safe and grateful is sue of this immense reveite in old 'Frisco, is due, first and last, to th' work done there by Funston and his regiments. "Will the city be built again? Will young man, you cannot know the spirit and pluck of those people very well, to ask such a question. Build? Of course they'll build! And as never before. Already the brains and wealth and staunch manhood of the city is en gaged in the preliminary woifc of planning and re-building on scales of breadth and direction and cost that will make the old city look cheap to the memory of the man most proud of it in the old days. Why, there are mil lions and millions of money yet in the scorched and twisted vaults that lie buried in the debris there, and the old Argonaut spirit still survives, undaunt ed and resourceful as eve it was. "No. I lost nothing of any great value, I am a poor man, with enough to keep me going comfortably for what years are still in my allotment, but you can bet everything you've got, when my visit is out with my little girl over here in the Willamette valley, I am go ing back to my old habitat in the city by the Golden Gate, and when I get back there this fall, I expect to see the Phoenix of the proud and beautiful city uprise from the waste of ashes that now serves her almost as a grave. Good by! Good by! Glad to have passed a word with you on the subject that now engrosses the minds of all men." The following is a list of the Roa noke's passengers, from San Francisco to Portland: L. P. Dearborn, wife and child, Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Hunter, A. L. .Corry. Mr. Solum Hoyer, Minnie Thorn, Mi F. N. Kogor. Mrs. A. Paulsen, Mr, G. J, Holmes, Mr. and Mm, J, K. Cronin, . Glover, Perry W, llonnett, 0. 8. llonnett. Gust Olson, Joseph lvy, A. llus, Charles Moral), V. Koiger, J, K McKaddun M. 11. Will and Ihuilel Wat. son, 000000000 00 0000000 0 FLOTSAM AND JETSAM. O JO 0 0000 0000 0000 OOg The steamer Alliance will leave out for F.ureka tomorrow morning early. , The motor schooner Delia left out for SileU yesterday afternoon, The French bark Fraiteoise D Am bois left over- the bar on the mid day flood yesterday. The schooner Am go, Captain Simpson is loaded at Knappton, awaiting or ders to. sail for San Pedro. The four-masted schooner Sehomc ar iked down from Portland, .Jwsterday and will probably get to sea today Cap tain J. W. Rabbidge. U D. William and (5. A. I.00111U were Portland passengers on the Steamer I.urline, last night. The steamship Roanoke came in from San Francisco and docked at the ChI lender pier at 6 o'clock yesterday even inc. This issue, contains one or two good stories anent her arrival and de parture, at and from the Bay City She will return down from Portland early on Friday morning next. ooooooooooooooooo 0 PERSONAL MENTION. O OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO J. C Mayo and .1. C. Roland of the "A. A C." spent Sunday with friends in Portland. P. Guise of Portland, is a visitor in this city for a few days. Messrs Raker and Ferries of the man agerial end of the Wilbur Case Lumber Company of Rainier, were in the city yesterday. CHICAGO'S CHINESE GIVE ls,ooo. CHICAGO, April 23.-Cliicago, Chinatown has contributed more than r.(KHl to the victims of the San Fran cisco earthquake. Many of the Ccles, tials unaware of anything out of the ordinary hifd oocured in the coast ,city were acquainted with the facts of the horrors at the Joss house meeting yes terday. EVOLUTION OF RELIGION. CHICAGO, April 23.-The evolution of the idea of God was manifested strikingly yesterday in the fact that few if any of Chicago clergymen ascrilicd the Sjn Fiuneisco di-aster to nn aveng ing" diety. In alino-t every instance the earthquake was attributed to purely natural onuses. Ho sung last, iiiyht with confidence, with accuracy of expression, with sweet ness und with power, while Ins rich baritone voice has a svinnathv and melody that few artiits possess. His ieoutioiis attracted reputed encore and he pleased every hejrer. Iwiston Tribune, PROGRAM OF CONCERT Given by Woman's Club Tonight at Odd Fellows' Hall. PART I. 1- Chorus, "Love's Dream After the Bull" Czbiilika (Ji.ee Club. 2- (a) Melody Monkowski (b) "The JuKgleress" Monkowski (c) Basso Astniato A. Arensky (d) Fledermaus Waltz, Transcription,. . Strauss-Schatt Miss Campbell. 3 (o) Bedouin Love Sting 1 Schnecker (6) "Together" Neidlingcr Mr. Claire Monteitii. 4 (a) Nocturne, G Major Chopin (b) Ballad, A Flat Major '. Chopin PATtT, II. 1 (a) Chorus, The Night Has a Thousand Eyes. .Hawley (6) The Girls of Seville. Denza Glee Club. 2 (a) "The Turnkey's Song de Koven '(&) "Flower Fetters" '..Willehy (c) "The Spring Has Come" White " Mr. Claire Monteitii. . 3 (a) Italian Concerto, first movement Bach (b) Prelude, D Flat Major" Chopin (c) "Whims" Schumann Miss Campbell. 4 (a) "Sweet is Tipperary", . . . . . '. Fisher ( b ) " Mountebanks Song " Watson (c) "The Birth of Morn" ; . . .Leon'i Mr. Claire Monteitii. No home is Complete1011 The model finish for Floors, Furniture, Etc. Easily applied, quickly dried,Jwears like iron. Watch Our Show Window K l A I Pit VU mm m v mm w Mr. Montelth possesses a very fine baritone voice, highly cultivated and which he ue with flue effect upon the concert stage. Moscow Star, NATURES WARNING. Astoria People Muit Recognise and Heed It. Kidney ill come quietly Mysteri ously. Hut nature always warns you through the mine, Not Jo the kidney secretions. See If the color Is unhealthy If there are settlings and sediment, Passages to frequently, scanty, pain ful. It's time then to ne D.nn' Kidney Tills. To ward off Ibight's disease of dlu betes. William M. Snavd. living on Winter street, southeast corner of D. Street Salem Oregon, saysi "it U just about three veer since 1 recommended Doan'e Kidney Pills through our lisal papers I said thut words could not evpress my good opiidon of Moan's Kidney Pill or describe the remarkable effects they had on me. My kidneys had been a source of annovanee'to mo for a number of year ami I suffered severely from back ache and pain across my loins. I could not go out and split a piece of kind ling wood without my back paining me. The kidney secretions were Irregular and my rest at nights was disturWd on account of their frequency and there was a scalding pain In passage, I was advised to try Moan's Kidney Pills, anil procured a supply. Uy the time I had used a little over one box I was entiivly free from the backache mid the action of the kidney secretions was regulated o that I could t the whole night without Will" disturbed. My kidneys were toned up and strength ened and mi v health was improved In very wny. Thice Ihw of Moan's Kidney Pills made me feel like a new man. I am always glad to express my gratitude for what they did for me. Plenty more proof like thin from As toria people. Call at (has. Rogers drug store and ask what lu customers report. For sale by all dealers. Price, 60c. 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