The Oregon daily journal., April 29, 1906, Image 9

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Through Ragged Lanes Where
Once Were Stately Avenues.
STRICKEN PEOPLE ARE ;
; SINGULARLY HOPEFUL
f Model City toe Rite Above Akhts n4
Dbri . and. Above All Rises the
" Hope!end tndomiuble Spirit of
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8n:'FrncIco, April 4. The old
clock In th tower of tba historio ferry
houa atarea affrlghtedly out over the
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, ing the- doom time of dear, Bohemian,
storied Son Francisco that llc-s In her
.thousand graves toda hern by the con
tinent' westward gats. The clock that
topped", Is mors eloquent of -disaster
' than all the best expressions of human
voles or pen. It Is at ones a warning
..and a prophecy fulfilled..
After seeing It from the boat one is
in a meaaur prepared for the fearful
' speetacla which this ruined city pre
sents, but only in the full midst of Its
annihilation does the awful appall of
. It seise on and put the fear of God
upon him. 1 .
I have wandered through '4he raaaed
lanea where once were stately avenues, I
with the funeral pyre smoke blinding !
my eyes and choaklng my throat; ; By I
night I have groped my way aionr tha!treets and that their best-loved,
roads lighted fitfully by the fire which
. seems unquenchable, and havey tried to
: find some manner of expression by
.which to call this thing. "-It has- been
summed up -. within my hearing-in the
pathos Of a dosen 'countries. In Eng
1 llah . I've - heard- it described as "per
, fectly terrible" snd "shocking." I even
heard a ."gent" from Barbery coast way
give his estimate, lie said It was
.."rotten." But mostly you may hear
men -saying, Thls-Js hell." -lsnt this
hellt" I've said It 'myself a hundred
, times and am coming to believe It. When
ithe new painter. ofthe Inferno comes
to mske his pictures let him do these
' Scenes this April day.
, They are singularly hopeful, these
! Stricken people, everywhere Is : heard
.Iterated and reiterated that tiresome
pnraie sdoui ine pnoenis rising Trom
the ashes." Hero in the midst of the
' grey horror they repeat It over and Over
': again with the taint of burning human
flesh In thelf nostrils. ; , .
. God! from such a hateful place, whst
i can rise save Imprecauons, foul smoke
land walls of the dammed.
uui in in ruiugi-R canipa wnere aire
i misery Is. the familiar of 209.000 eo
lle then ars ssylng It. Poor devils,
they are the "bravest lot I ever saw.
(When they can sleep they dream dreams
of the end of the world and then they
dresm agsln that It. Is not so, That
'Market street Is gay with flags, that
I careless throngs are cheering In the I
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gant-mistress of the Paclflo has not
perished.' Then when the rain and the
oold and the bunger awsken them, they
'look upon the nightmare round about
them and still do not loss heart. "We'll
build It up again, bigger and finer than
ever," say they. And they will. Noth
ing yet visited upon men can prevail
against this . sublime Ban Francisco
coursge. ;
The new city that Is to be built will
be an architectural model. - Already
plans are being prepared which promise
to Instruct the entire world In the art
Of city building. One of the foremost
engineers In California told me that In
his Judgment nothing but steel frame
structures would bt permitted within
the devastated area, that all electric
wires would be placed under ground ahd
a system of boulevards laid - out at
Intervals over the whole city.
Preparations sre being made by AH
the principal business institutions to
resume at once and in a very short time
the life of the city will resume some
thing like Its normal course.- This
summer- snd fall will see a return to
boom days almost like those of '49. In
the next, year at leaV f 200,000.000 will
e placed in . circulation ana many
thousands ft workmen, skilled kpd un
skilled, will find employment at high
wages, fortunes will be made every
hour In real estate speculations and a
new alignment in business, politics and
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society is likely to result. ' This is the
young man's opportunity to amass fame
and fortune as an argonaut of 1S0, as
Stanford. Flood. Fair and Mackay did
of old; - Tbs fesr of recurring earth
quake disasters Is driving a few people
away but those with "cold feet" sre
greatly In the minority. The ones who,
having lost sll else but life and nerve,
remain and such as have little money,
t very little, who go to San Francisco
within a few months will stand a good
chance of making "big money" and mak
ing it in a hurry. 1 , ... .
Yes, the city will rise again and be
far greater than before. It may again
be destroyed, for the esrtb's crust Is
very thin under middle California, but
it will be rebuilt agsln- a seeond time
if necessary and even a third should
need be. .The, finest ' harbor In the
world, cannot be abandoned. The door
by which the riches of the sleeping
orient, the treasures of farthest India
are to be brought Into thla America of
ours must not be closed.
We are too near this thing now to
properly 'estimate it. It is too ever
present knd all-encomnasstng but slow
ly the stunned processss of the brain
Are beginning to move. Among the
facts that come out of the blur there
are a few that stand forth large and
plain. One. the greatest lesson of theJ
cataclysm, is that the primordial vir
tus of human kindness has not been
smothered1 by the fripperies of our civ
ilisation.. - Save In isolated Instances
thlsi. rough, i touch ' of., nature has
matia the ; whole wort, akin. ' I
never expect to seo so much downright
goodness, attch unselfishness and such
magnificent heroism as ' I have wit
nessed here during the week of hor
ror. . -.. t t .
Divinity has mysterious ways and It
may be that he has chastened his people
to teach them faith, hope and charity.
Tha splendid goodness displayed here
one toward the other and the eager re
spond of the entire world to the needs
of urgency eertalnlx has done much to
restore confidence Id human nature. It
has made optimists of many who afore
time were given to cyniclam. "I was
never1 quite proud to be a human being
before. . It's really worth . while lq
view of what has transpired In the
Ban -Francisco Instance.
Another significant feature of thee
days of rescue, solace snd amelioration
Is the demonstration of the splendid
practicability of the automobile. In
company with a large and more or loss
reapectshle portion of a city I hava eon-
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considerable of a nuisance and fre
quently a menace. From this time for
ward my hat is metaphysically off to
ry last "bubble" of them. They and
their herolo drivers saved thousands of
lives. They have made It more nearly
possible to dispatch the work of relief
and maintaining order than any ether
single agency.
Among the moat thrilling Scenes I
hsve -ever witnessed, were the flights of
those Red Cross machines In the first
few days of frantlo confusion. They
ran the length of Market street, the one
direct way open, at 40, even 60 miles an
hour, weaving in and out of the retreat
ing army of refugees and the tottering
ruins. Their shrieking whistles sounded
a continuous promise of succor. Every
one who saw ' the automobile corps at
work in Ban Francisco will forever bless
them and the heroes who drove them.
.When the new Market street comes
Into being in that line where' the Lotta
Fountain, the Nstive Son's monument
and the never-to-be-forgotten memorial
dedicated to ' all mechanics are still
Standing to perpetuate the old city, a
new bronse should be raised. It should
be a flying motor-car with its Red Cross
flag at the fore, its tense chauffeur at
tha levera and its nurses and physicians
with stores In the set of rushing on the
wln" f tn w'nd", . th wrk,
humanity. It would be the moat typical
memorial of the awfulest disaster of
modern times.
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. There were Incidents that were better
forgotten, but they were individual and
few: enough ton-be quickly overlooked
amid tha general goodness of the con
duct of things.
The California National Guard made a
fool of Itself, but even its outrages will
be forgotten soon, because there sre so
many splendid things to remember.
I might recount a hundred stories of
things that hava transpired this week
that closes today. I might tell how an
other oorrespondsnt and I explored tha
ruins by n.ght, on foot and in the relief
automobile. And by night it is a wslrd
and fearful place. Saturday night we
walked, the long distance from the ferry
to, the Presidio near tha hour of mid
night. - We were alone' save when we
were halted by guards and for a Japan
ese boy who carried a burden on hla
back. Tha ruins by night when the
light from the smouMsrlng Area flick
ered upon them looked ss ancient aa
the beginning of time. They were as
grey and age atained as those of ancient
Rome and the three milea we trudged
wefe three mllea of continuous effort on
our pert to throw off the Impression that
it was all maks-belleve. I thought of
that last picture in David Belasco's plsy,
"Tha Darling of tha Gods," where the
figures move through the mass of a
thousand years. It seamed that we
walked for years through "the deaelation
wnion was as umiuess as eternity.
' I might tell of tha harrowing scenes
at the hospitals. Of the ludicrous things
thst happened amidst tha misery, of
sudden deaths that followed awlft upon
tne trail or those who-turned to crime,
of the lamentable killing of the innocent,
of the cruelty and barbarism of the
few, but it is of the many; the lovable
and lovtng many that I would write. OfJ
the triumph of humanity over all that
troubled and threatened and made
afraid. Of tha wonderful spirit of the
destroyed city, which after all is but the
spirit of Americanism the Indomitable
spirit that has artsen-to the high, clear
heights of sublimity in this crisis, mak
ing all men brothers, all Interest and
trial common. Sharing woe and death
and misery together with cheerfulness
and happy-go-lucky courage. The spirit
of a grand city cheerful, hopeful look
ing upward In its travail. -
All who saw these things will have
the remembrance of them deep within
their hearta through all of life. 'There
ara too many incidents to be told now.
We are too near the rumble and the
flames. In many an Ingle-nook those
now young will recount them to their
children s children and tell them how
a . princely city ley crushed and bleed
ing but 'rose again.
San Francisco Fire.
A. H. BIrrell, representing the Oer
manla Fire Insurance Compsny of New
York. American Insurance Company of
Newark. New Jersey the Traders' In
surance Company of Chicago, Illinois,
and tha Hamburg-Bremen - Fire Insur
ance Company of Germany, la In receipt
of advices from the besd office of each
of, these companies to ths effect that
losses' will be promptly paid in full.
The losses of the two first mentioned
companies, approximately two -million
and one million respectively, amount
only to- a portion of the net surplus of
the companies. The Hamburg-Bremen
Company writes thst the entire strength
of Its foreign office Is pledged to the
payment of Pacific Coast loases. -
The calls upon this sgency during
the past week show thst tne public care
fully selects those old, reliable -com
panies.
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Woodard, Clarke &
7 Fourth and Washington Sts.
SAYS ARMY AND MILITIA
SAVED MANY PEOPLE
Walter T. Bird, Former Portland
Boy, Writes of Experiences
With Guard, fi-
Walter T. Bird, son of N. Bird,
who Is in ssrvics with the militia in
San Francisco, has wrlttsn his mother
of his experiences. His letter follows:
- "I am safe and sound, but' this la the
first chance that I have bad. to write.
Two hours after the shock, I was doing
duty with Company D, First coaatt ar
tillery, N. O. C and only have time to
eat meals since, and paper la a scarce
article. .- . ..
'As - soon as we were ready, the
morning of the shock, the compsny thst
I belong to was sent to guard about 260
of the state's prtsonsrs, about 10 or II
condemned to hang, othere for life
terms, etc., and we hsd to watch them
until the afternoon of the next day.
That evening we were sent to move a
hospital of over 200 patients, wounded,
etc., to a safe place about seven miles
out In the country, which took us all
nltfht. Whenever we found a man with
a team, we took the- team In charge
and made him do what we wanted. If
It had not been for the army and mili
tia, 'there would not have been hSlf
ths people saved that were. ' - ,
"After that or two days and nights,
I was on duty at tha emergency hospi
tal, keeping people who - were nearly
frantlo looking for relatives and friends
in : line until the hospital attendants
could look after their .Inquiries. - Now
we are doing police duty and assisting
the health board to make people ob
serve sanitary . rules, etc. This after
noon Is ths first time I have had a rest
since the quake, hsve hud only abou't
six hour's 'sleep since.-" I ' ' : y -i j
PARDEE MAKES REQUEST
, FOR. FEDERAL TROpPS
(Special rtlkpatrn by faaed Wire The kmrsa!)
Washington,-April Kg. The president
has. received a forms! request from Gov
ernor Pardee for f ederet- troops, ' thus
making their use unquestionably legal.
BIG SUGAR' SHIPMENTS
- . MADE FROM LA GRANDE
' S)rlal Mooatrh In The Journal I
La. Grande. Or., April 2. One of the
direct effects of the San Francisco dis
aster has been made apparent In La
Grande by the increased demand on the
l.a Grande sugar factory. During the
at week the sugar factory at this,
Id tha long run because they outwear '
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