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SITUATION TODAY SAN FRANCISCO AS SEEN AFTER ELEVEN DAYS. DEFECTS IN PLANS CONSIDERED Army Takes Charge of Distribution of Food Supplies—Issue of Rations to Be Confined to Helpless Women and Children. SAN FRANCTSCO—The second Sab bath since the fateful April 18 has served as a clearing house in the af fairs of this ruined city. While the old-time quietude is missing, the day witnessed less of the excitement, con fusion and clamor of its immediate predecessors and the community at large has been enabled to make a calmer survey of the situation and to enter into a more intelligent and ra tional preparation for the future. All possible work was suspended for the day, and tired officials, who for nearly two weeks have labored inces santly, with little sleep, to bring a semblance of order out of chaotic con ditions, took advantage of the lull to secure greatly needed rest and to pay some attention to pressing personal needs. With the advent ot tne sabbatn came an opportunity to review the tremen dous accomplishments of the last eleven days to provide remedies in the defects in the task of judiciously caring for all classes of the destitute irrespective of race or creed. Plans for solving the tremendous financial problems that confront the city began today to assume tangible form and Sunday closed with the brightest pros pect that has faced San Francisco since three-fourths of its territory was laid waste. Probably the most important devel opment of the day was the promulga tion by General Greeley of his plan for the distribution of relief supplies. Re ports of theft, deception, misappropria tion, waste and extravagance have been constantly received since provi sions and ciothing began pouring in to succor the afflicted, and it is now be lieved that misuse of supplies ill hereafter be impossible. In the first days of the fire little or no attempt was made to keep check on foodstuffs, the main idea being to provide against want, and it is natural that under the excusable haphazard order of affairs many abuses should arise. But even when the lines were more tightly drawn unscrupulous per sons continued to take advantage of the general distress and it was then realized that the salvation of the sit uation rested in the army. So the offi cials of this branch of the federal gov ernment were called upon to engage in an unprecedented service. Responsible civilians will be in stalled under salary at the substations for the purpose of clerical work and daily records and checks will be kept. It is declared that the period of ex treme distress has passed and at the earliest possible moment the issue of rations must be confined to helpless women and children and refused to adult males, unless they are sick or in enfeebled condition. IT WENT TO WAR DEPARTMENT. Money Was Never Intended to Be Sent to 'Frisco. WASHINGTON — Commenting on the dispatches from San Francisco ex pressing the surprise of the citizens' committee that only $300,000 of the relief fund of $2,500,000 appropriated by congress is still available for re lief work. Acting Secretary Oliver of the war department pointed out that it was never contemplated that the appropriation should be spent by the citizens of San Francisco. The money, according to the resolution of con gress, was to be expended by the war department, was to reimburse that de partment for rations, tents, blankets, etc., belonging to the army, which were rushed to San Francisco, and also to purchase other relief stores. BRYAN SPEAKS AT JERUSALEM. Nebraskan Addresses Meeting of Christian Missionary Alliance. JERUSALEM—William J. Bryan, who Is visiting Jerusalem in the course of his tour of the world, on Saturday addressed a special meeting held in the tabernacle by the Christian Mis sionary alliance. He spoke for sev enty minutes with captivating elo quence on the life of Christ and His teachings, and expressed astonishment at the small proportion of Christians in America and Europe visiting Bible land. Good Wages for Expert Painters and Paper Hangers in Omaha. Owing to a scarcity of first-class workmen the master painters of Omaha are paying up to 50 cents per hour for skilled workmen. Open shops and plenty of work. Chief of Gendarmes Killed. LIBLIN, Russia—Lieutenant Colonel Pugol, chief of the gendarmerie at Cholm, was murdered last night. The assassin escaped. The Senate This Week. WASHINGTON—Railroad rate leg lslation continues to hold first place in the United States senate. There are three or four more general speeches to be made on the bill and when the last one of them shall have been heard. If not before, there will be an agree ment upon a time for taking the final vot. This is expected to be about May 10. Official notice has been given of only two more speeches. They will be made by Senator Clark of Arkan sas. who will speak Monday and by Senator Daniel. Will Send Two Regiments. WASHINGTON — Only two regi ments of troops, comprising in all about 1,350 men, will be sent to San Francisco to reinforce those there, in stead of 2,500 men as proposed by General Greely and sanctioned by the War department. The troops to go are the First cavalry from Fort Clark and Fort Sam Houston. Tex., and the infantry regiment from Fort D. A. Russell, Wyo. A telegram asking that „ .v th€ reduced number be sent was l Reived at the War department, and ^Sers to that effect were issued. - MILITIA REMAINS GOVERNOR DEFENDS TROOPS OF THE STATE. WILL NOT GE_WITKDRAWN YET No Official Charges Are Made Against Their Conduct—Major General Gree ley Recognizes the Mayor as the Head of the City. SAN FRANCJSCO—Governor Par dee was in San Francisco Thursday and attended a conference between General Greeley, Mayor Schmitz, Dr. Devine of the Red Cross and members of the citizens' committee of fifty who are advising the mayor. Governor Pardee brought up the question of the request of Mayor Schmitz and his com mittee for the withdrawal of the na tional guard from the city. The governor spoke highly' in favor of the national guard and referred to the splendid services its members had done in the war with Spain. He stated that he considered the request as a reflection upon a well organized and highly efficient body of men. The gov ernor said that he was very indignant over the attitude taken against the guard and the charges preferred against them. In fact, he was so warm over the matter that he thought It best not to make any further re mark. Mayor Schmitz immediately replied that he and his committee had not made any charges against the guard. On the contrary, he had thanked the governor for their service. If charges had been made they were made ny outside people. The object in making the request for the withdrawal of the troops was to place in control of the city the federal troops anil prevent misunderstanding and conflict of order. Major General Greely stated that so far as he knew there was no con flict of authority and that as a United States army officer he could not as sume charge of the state militia. The mayor was the head of the city and every request made by him had been followed and he would continue to recognize the authority of the mayor in giving directions for the safety of the people. The civil authority was superior to the military and the mayor is the only head he will recognize. There was a long discussion over the advisability of starting a number of the electric railway systems. The committee did not yet feel that all danger of fire from this source was pased and the mayor finally appoint ed a committee to investigate and re port on this matter. TEXAS TOWN IS DESTROYED. Nearly All Buildings in Bellevue 3!:wn Down and Several Killed. BELLVUE, Tex.—A tornado which swept through this place Thursday night destroyed everything in its path and as a result practically the entire town is a mass of ruins, only three buildings now standing, at least eleven persons are dead and a number are injured. The tornado was followed by fire, which consumed the wreckage. This report is being sent from the top of a telephone pole a mile from Bellvue. but it is as close as a wire can be had. The town of Bellvue con sisted of over 200 houses. RELIEF CORPS CALLED TO AID. National President, Mrs. Abbie Adams, Issues Appeal. SUPERIOR, Neb.—In a letter issued by Mrs. Abbie Adams, national presi dent of the Woman’s Relief corps, she calls upon each corps and department is the United States to adopt such methods as shall most speedily en able them to raise funds to provide aid for the San Francisco veterans and their families. The order specifies that contributions be forwarded to depart ment and national treasurers. BUILDING STEEL BEING RUSHED. Carnegie Company Makes All San Francisco Orders Emergency. PITTSBURG—Orders have been is sued by the officials of the Carnegie Steel company making all contracts for structural and steel material to be used in the construction of San Fran cisco “emergency orders” and giving them precedence over all other con tracts. Insurance Rates Advanced. PHILADELPHIA—As a result of the San Francisco conflagration the Fir* association of Philadelphia advanced its premium rates in the congested central district of this city 25 per cent. The American Fire Insurance company announced that it had reinsured in the Commercial Union Assurance company of England its entire outstanding risks except the perpetual insurance. Fencing Cases Dismissed. WICHITA, Kan.—In the federal court here District Attorney Bone an nounced that the cases of the twenty men under indictment for fencing gov ernment land in western Kansas would be dismissed if the defendants would remove the fences within sixty days. The defendants all agreed to do so. Dowie is Critically III. CHICAGO—Following reports that John Alexander Dowie is a very sick man. Overseer Jane Dowie, wife of the deposed head of the Christian Cath olic church, visited her husband in his apartments at the Auditorium an nex. This Is the first time Dowie and his wife have seen each other in sev eral months. When General Overseer Wilbur Glenn Voliva assumed control at Zion City Mrs. Dowie cast her lot with the new administration and since then had repudiated her husband pub licly. Senate Favcrs Naval Bill. WASHINGTON—The senate com mittee on naval affairs authorized a favorable report on the bill intro duced yesterday by Senator Flint au thorizing the expenditure of $300,000 at the Mare island navy yard, San Francisco. Mikado Gives $200,000. TOKIO—The mikado has donated $200,000 for the relief of the San Fran cisco fire sufferers. The leading busi nes men of Tokio and Osaka have con tributed a like sum. SCENE OF DESTRUCTION IN CENTRAL PART OF CITY. .^g..-.. ::: ,v WIND BLOWS DOWN WALLS AT ’FRISCO MANY PERSONS HAVE NARROW ESCAPE FROM INJURY. RELIC HUNTERS IN CLOVER Ransack Ruins in Chinese Quarters and Gather Many Souvenirs of Value—Matron and Police- • man Rescue Insane. San Francisco.—The strong wind that blew over the city Thursday afternoon and Friday morning carried to the ground a number of blank walls that had been left standing. The falling of those walls was an element of danger to the great number of people who crowded into the city to view the ruins. The walls of the building at the north east corner of Stockton and Sutter streets immediately behind the Pacihc Union club, fell with a terrible crash. A number of pedestrians and a party of men and women in an autemobile had difficulty in getting out of the way of the shower of bricks. The outer wall of the building at the corner of Market and Geary streets, where was once the Richlieusaloon, fell outward just as hundreds of people from the Oakland ferry boat were wend ing their way along Market street. Sev eral persons were struck by the scatter ing bricks, but no one was seriously in Rebuild Fairmount Hotel. Work on the great Fairmont hotel California and Powell streets was com menced Friday. A rough inspection showed that only the woodwork of the building had been destroyed and that the walls are in good shape. The build ing would have been finished by the first of next November and the opening it is expected will not be delayed more than three months after the date orig inally set. The effects of smoke and flame on the outside walls are being re moved and in a few days the great building will show few outward signs of the conflagration. Belie Hunters Heap Harvest. Relic hunters are reaping a harvest digging the ruins of the Japanese and Chinese bazar stores, particularly in the district formerly inhabited by the Chi nese. Hundreds of persons from across the bay have visited these ruins where assiduous stirring of ashes yields profits that are more than worth the labor. Vases of satsuma and cloisonne ware, brasses, bronze ornaments that in the days before the fire commanded high prices are being carried away by the of its western wing crashed down upon shooters of the kind formerly carried by the hired assassins of the Chinese dis trict are being found in great quantity. Rescue Insane People. Many stories of heroism lie.buried in the ruins, but some tales that make the heart tingle are slowly filtering through official sources. This is the story of the noble work performed by Mrs. Kane, matron of the Detention hospital, and Policeman John McLean, who was de tailed there the night of the great earth quake. The insane patients at the ruined city hall were kept in locked cells, from which only the keys of the stewards could free them. At the hour of dawn on that fatal Wednesday morning, the structure in which the courts were housed was the first to fall. The weight tense nervous energency and the officer the detention hospital, which was on the ground floor. Steward Manville was so badly injured by the falling ruins that he died two days later. Mrs. Kane and Policeman McLean, however, man aged to rush outside to momentary safety. Both of them are well advanced in years, but the nurse is a woman of in tense nervous energy and the officer is a man of giant frame. As soon as they reached the open court they were greet ed by the terrified shrieks of the insane that pierced through the smoking ruins around. They refused to leave their Damage in San Mateo. A reporter who made a trip to San Mateo county reports much damage at several places from the earthquake, but with not a single case of death resulting therefrom. Chinese In Oakland. Almost all the Chinese colony has moved over to Oakland, although some Celestials are huddled in camps in two or three places in the city. Across the bay they are being well taken care of by their countrymen. Shelter for the Homeless. Temporary structures have been erected in Golden Gate park for the housing of 40,000 people. The home less, who have been sleeping out of doors for nearly a week, were moved into comfortable quarters. Bailroad to Bemove Debris. The Southern Pacific railway of ficials have begun to build a track through the heart of the city and will run flat cars in for the wreckage that must be removed before new buildings can rise. helpless charges, and both went back into the chaotic debris. Fortunately, only six patients had been held by the insanity commission ers. These were all pinned in their cells, more closely prisoned than when they were under lock and key. McLean and Mrs. Kane went to work at once. Where they could not drag the prisoners through the gaping holes that great timbers had made in the walls they smashed in the doors with stones. After all had been rescued none of the lunatics proved to be injured, though frightened into imbecility by their ter rible experiences. In charge of the rescuers, the little band was marched to the Presidio, where the unfortunates were tempo rarily turned over to the federal au thorities. In the excitement of the ca lamity both Mrs. Kane and McLean for got that they had done anything re markable. The nurse went into the gen eral hospital, where she remained 54 hours on duty, without rest and the po liceman reported for duty as usual. New Buildings Are Planned. The work of rebuilding San Fran cisco will proceed rapidly. Mrs. Her man Oelrichs of New York has agreed to repair the Rialto building and to build again on the site of the Crossley. She and her sister, Mrs. W. K. Vander bilt, Jr., have also stated that they will put up solid office structures on their Montgomery street site. Thomas Magee, a real estate dealer, will start for New York on May 1 to complete arrangements for the erec tion of a 12-story steel building on Market street, just above the Mutual bank building. The Emporium, a large department store, will resume business on a large scale. A temporary structure will be built at the corner of Post and Van Ness avenue. ill lhu weens seven injurs ui rne new Monadnock building, which was in course of construction at the time of the disaster, will be filled with offices. "Capitalists are not in the least dis mayed or disheartened,” said James D. Phelan, chairman of the finance com mittee, and multi-millionaire. “Before the earthquake 1 was asked by certain capitalists to erect a large hotel on the site of the Phelan building at Market and O’Farrell streets. Since the disas ter the proposition has been repeated, and even urged. This shows decidedly that there is no lack of faith in the fu ture of the city.” Total Contributions. Chairman Phelan, of the finance committee of the relief and Red Cross funds, gave out a complete statement of money contributions received for the relief of San Francisco up to and including April 26. The list shows the grand total 01 $4,931,039, of which $213, 950 was contributed locally. Consuls Are Safe. The French, Italian and Danish con suls at San Francisco, who were re ported as among the missing, have all been heard from They had temporar ily become separated from their friends. Undergo Hardships. Monterey, Cat.—Thomas Murdoch and Miss Murdoch, his niece, of Chica go, who were in San Francisco at the time of the earthquake and fire, suc ceeded, after many tribulations, in reaching this city, where they are now safe and sound. Many telegrams of Inquiry were sent by friends and rela tives In Chicago before Mr. Murdoch and his niece were located. Insane Girl Buns from Train. Ogden, Utah.—Among the 500 refu gees from San Francisco Friday morn ing a young lady, Ella Felshaw, be came deranged a few hours before the train reached Ogden. She was the com pany of her iather, en route to Denver. When the train stopped she dashed from the first car and ran through the streets and was not located until after two hours’ search. Area of Burned Territory. Oakland, Cal.—A well-known en gineer states that the area devastated by the fire In San Francisco approxi mates 10,000 acres, or about 15 square miles. There are few cities in the world where so much valuable prop erty is located In an equal territory. Damage to Railroad Tracks. The railroad tracks through South San Francisco and near Holy Cross cemetery were badly damaged by the quake, sinking In many places as much as six feet. Considerable dam age was done to gravestones. ■ Depot Is Wrecked. At San Mateo the damage was consid erable, the Southern Pacific depot being wrecked and carrying down all the tele graph poles and telephone poles and wires with it. Country Roads Are Impassable. The coast towns of Pescadero and Half Moon Bay report damage to houses, but no loss of life. The coun ty roads to these points are impass able, owing to the large fissures in many places. Express Charges Are Fair. A transportation line for passen gers and baggage has been estab lished to the ferry and the authorities will not permit expressmen to charge more than 50 cents for the hauling of a trunk and 25 for smaller baggage. * OFFER OF MINERS IT IS REJECTED BY ANTHRACITE OPERATORS. SAY PROFITS ARE TOO SMALL Any Increase, They Aver, Would Have to Be Paid by Consumers and They Do Not Want to Throw Additional Burdens on Them. ?»EW YORK—The anthracite mine operators, through their subcommit tee of seven, at a meeting here drew up a reply to the latest proposition of the mine workers for an adjustment of the existing differences in the an thracite fields in which they refuse to modify their position heretofore an nounced. The operators call upon the miners to renew for a period of three years the award of the Anthracite Strike commission, or else to accept the operators’ propositions that the strike commission arbitrate the ques tion as to what changes, if any, shalll be made in the scale of wages fixed by the commission in its original award. The miners have heretofore declined this offer. The reply, which is addressed to President Mitchell and others of the miners’ subcommittee, says the miners present proposition abandoning all the various demands of the original com munication, seems to be based on the impression that wages in the anthra cite industry are unduly low. “Even before the advances which were grant ed by its award," says the letter con tinues: “But .if we disregard the sliding scale and assume that you simply mean to add 10 cents a ton as-the final increase in cost, this would result in increasing the wages of our employes 16,100,000 per annum; that is, 10 cents per ton on 6,000,000 of output. You say ‘it will not result in imposing ad ditional burdens upon the coal consum ing public. How can this be done? Where is the $6,100,000 to come from? We have shown you that in the larg est companies, the profit, without in terest and royalty, has yielded less than 3 per cent on the capital. The operators, therefore canot afford to pay this large annual increase without imposing additional burdens upon the coal consuming public. “We have offered to refer to arbi tration by the strike commission the question, what change, if any, should be made in these conditions but this offer you have rejected. You have stated no facts varying from those passed upon by the commission. The advances made by the strike commis sion have practically absorbed the in crease in price. Therefore there has been no increase in the profits of the harness upon which could be based any claim for increased wages. These considerations are all the more impor tant because, as we have shown, your proposition, if it included the sliding scale, would add 35 cents per ton to the cost of the domestic sizes and would increase the aggregate cost to the public of the entire product in the amount of over $12,000,000. INDIAN GETS THIRTY YEARS. John Walker Goes up for Murder of Nathan Lyon, a Tribesman. OMAHA—John Walker, an Omaha Indian, was sentenced to thirty years' imprisonment in the Nebraska peni tentiary by the district court for the murder of Nathan Lyon, another Omaha Indian, the murder occurring In December last. The murder of Lyon was of pecul iar atrocity. It was the outgrowth of a drunken brawl. Walker struck Lyon over the head with a club, killing him instantly, near his home, and then loaded the body into his wagon and drove away, with it, ultimately dumpin it out in the road three or four miles from his home. ■Street Cars Resome'Service. SAN FRANCISCO—The reappear ance of the first electric cars upon the streets of San Francisco since the great disaster was celebrated as quite an event. City and railroad afflciala and invited guests filled the first car started on the run across the city. Mayor Schmitz acting as motorman. Everywhere the sight of the car was greeted with cheers from thousnnds of pedestrians. A continuous service was reestablished later In the day in sev eral of the cross-town lines and thou sands of people were carried free. Don’t Want Beef Cattle. SAN FRANCISCO. Cal —Major Gen eral Greely issued the following notice through the Associated Press: "Please advise the public generally that beef cattle cannot be bandied as donations in San Francisco. Those en route will be cared for, but future ship ments should be discouraged.” Good Wages for Expert Painters and Paper Hangers in Omaha. Owing to a scarcity of first-class workmen the master painters of Omaha are paying up to 50 cents per hour for skilled workmen. Open shops and plenty of work. Excessive Supply of Food. OAKUAND. Cal.—Sixty carloads of provisions from various pportions of the country arrived over the Sonthern Pacific at the Oakland mole Friday. The supplies were immediately taken in charge by the relief committee for distribution in Oakland, San Fran cisco, Santa Rosa and San Jose. So great is the quantity of supplies that are now arriving that notice has been sent to the interior cities and towns of the state to hold consignments until the train loads on the way here have been used. Amending Land Laws. WASHINGTON — Senator Hans brough’s bill amending the existing law as to newspaper publications of notices of finai proof of homestead entry passed the senate. Favors the Tillman Bill. WASHINGTON—The senate com mittee on privileges and elections by unanimous vote authorized Senator Foraker to report favorably the Till man bill to prohibit insurance and other corporations from contributing to campaign funds. POPULARITY OF LAMPS. May Be Ornament to a Boom Day and Evening If the Shade Is Artistic. The steady popularity of lamps as a means of lighting the drawing-rooms and sitting-rooms shows that we can on occasion place beauty above con venience in spite of our national repu tation. Lamps are expensive to buy, a trouble to take care of, an anxiety to those who dread fire, and—most trying of all—a frequent source of odors not alluring. But the warm, subdued tones of their shade lights keep them far ahead of all rivals, which, though they may require of one merely the pressing of a button and the payment of a bill, they are reserved for the ha’ls and bedrooms and places of general util ity. Some compromise with conven ience so far as to run a wire ui the standard of the lamp and conceal an electric globe underneatn its close shade. But most people resign them selves to the extra trouble and fill with old-fashioned kerosene. A lamp may be, even in daytim’, one of the most ornamental items in a room's furnishings. Just how con spicuous it shall be depends upon the shade, which takes on every year a new aspect, having fashions as dis tinct as those which regulate sleeves and collars. ov-uu, ui uic newest dim jjieuicoi are fa; from intricate and may be easily made at home by anyone with good taste and neat Ungers. One of the neatest lampshades is made with quaint old engravings set into a shade of white paper surh as water cclor artists use. This style of shade originated in Paris and has just come into vogue in this country. It is formed of a single piece of paper joined in one place, and, top and bottom, it has a band of gold, either gilt paper pasted on or gold paint put on with a brush. The engravings are set into openings cut out of the paper and around the edge is a border of gilt for a finish. The engravings must be old, for age softens the paper colors and tones in the background to a beautiful shade, making a rich contrast to the pure white paper in which they are set. Two large and two smaller engrav ings are generally used for a shade, a large one oa each side and a small one in between. The shade is lined with asbestos cloth. The engraving may be cut from old magazines published in the early ’30's o'- from any old books.—Chicago Inter Ocean. HINTS TO HOUSEKEEPERS. A very effective table square was ; made at small cost from unbleached linen toweling. 20 inches wide. Two 1 lengths of linen were used and a line of heavy linen lace insertion was used to join the pieces. Narrow linen lace to match edged the square, and small, round medallions of lace were let in at eight corners of the cloth. It is a good thing to know that if nuts grow dry and tasteless from be ing kept for some time they may be wonderfully freshened by soaking them in lukewarm water. To have one’s kitchen free from smoke or odor when frying griddle cakes try adding one teaspoonful of melted lard to the batter, and do not grease the griddle. The use of nuts as every day food is increasing. One of the newest ways of baking apples is to core them and fill the centers with sugar and chopped almonds. They are really very much better than ordinary baked apples, and possess a higher food value. For polishing windows and mirrors there is nothing that does the work quite so well as newspaper, owing, it is said, to some quality of the print ers’ ink. Excellent dish cloths are made of knitted cotton, for they are very strong and can be washed and boiled again and again, and will come out like new. Every time a dish cloth ■s used it should be washed with soap and soda and hung out to dry. A •iirty dish cloth is a disgrace to its iser, says Home Notes. Children who are beginning to learn to knit are generally very willing to make dish cloths, but, when there is no little knitter and the housewife is very busy, neatly hemmed squares of coarse crash will answer the purpose very well, and these are made “in no time." Most fastidious housewives follow the old custom of carefully folding the counterpane at night, leaving the blanket exposed to the air. This is a mistake. A blanket, having a rough surface, catches and retains dust mors easily than the counterpane, which is generally of some material more close ly woven and more easily washed. An old-fashioned housewife recom mends the following method of remov ing fruit, ink and mildew stains: Mix cne pint of rainwater, one tablespoon ful of oxalic acid and one tablespoon ful of lemon juice. After using the solution wipe off with clear water any article that cannot be washed thor oughly. To remove varnish stains she recommended alcohol.—Boston Budget and Beacon. Shortening Words. A writer in the London Chronicle says: “Our language’s trick of decap itating words, as ’bus,’ 'phone' ant 'wig,' is not at all a modern falling Take the common words 'spend' and •sport.' Cur very early ancestors had the verb 'spendan,' and yet 'spend' is really a disguising abbreviation of th< Latin 'dis-pendere,' to pay out. 'Sport is another very old English word,- yet it is really ‘disport’—‘dis-port,’ to carry apart, which acquired the meta phorical sense of pleasure or amuse ment precisely as ^divert' and 'trans port A Stammering Child. In training the stammering child make him repeat slowly from a spell ing book a number of words of one syllable. When he blunders make him go over the word again, insisting that he does not hurry, and that he takes before each utterance a full breath rhen go on to words of two and so to those of three syllables. Make him at tack each syllable as a separate word and in the course of a few weeks you will find him able t» say many-syllabled words without a break. RESTORINGORDER THE WORK OF REBUILDING MAKES A BEGINNING. PLANS FOR TEMPORARY HOMES Streets and Lots Are Being Cleared Up After Much Confusion—The Pub lic Systematically Fed, as There is No Scarcity of Provisions. | SAN FRANCISCO—The new San Francisco, which will rise from the ashes of the old, was in its first stages of rebuilding Monday. After five days of confusion and almost superhuman effort on the part of citizens of Cali fornia’s mtropolis, the grat task of sheltering, feeding and otherwise car ing for the homeless thousands, com plete order has been re-established and attention turned to the future. Throughout the great business dis trict, where the devastation of the flames was ths most complete, walls are being razed, buildings that had not disintegrated before the intense heat were being inspected with the view of reoccupancy and even ground was be ing cleared for the immediately con struction of some sort of building in which to resume business at the earliest possible time. -In short, con fidence? has been restored. The assur ance of the insurance companies, the measures taken by the federal insti tutions, the prompt and reassuring word that had reached the business men of San Francisco from eastern financial centers—all these things went to clear away any feelings of uncer tainty that might have existed in the minds of the timid, that San Francisco would not again be what it was—the great center of population and busi ness of the Pacific coast. The general situation temporarily suffered a setback Monday because cf the chilling rain which fell in the late hours of the ni'ght and during the early forenoon upon the thousands protected only by canvas coverings and less impervious shelterings. While the rain caused considerable sufferings for the time being the sufferings were quickly ameliorated by the prompt ac tion of every relief committee, as well as by the voluntary acts of house holders. The people were fed tbday In a thoroughly businesslike and sys tematic manner. From the water front where the boat loads of provi sions docked there was an endless pro cession of carts and drays carrying food to the scores of substations es tablished throughout the city and the parks. At these stations food and drink, comprising bread, prepared meats and canned goods, milk and a limited amount of hot coffee, was served to all those who applied. About 1,500 tons of provisions are being moved daily from the water front. Large supplies of blankets, tentings and other material to provide cover ings for those who have been scantily supplied heretofore are reaching the supply stations rapidly. Barracks have been completed at several points and in these many people have found comfort and shelter against the in clemencies of the weather. MILLION AND HALF DOLLARS House and Senate Increase Appropria tion for Relief Work. WASHINGTON — The senate on Monday increased to $1,600.0000 the second appropriation of funds in be half of the sufferers from the California earthqnake, and this legislation, like all of the same char acter that has preceded it, was enacted without comment of any kind. With out debate the house concurred in the senate joint resolution appropriating $1,500,000 for the relief of the San Francisco sufferers. MONEY FOR SAN FRANCISCO Government Will Advance $15,000,000 as Soon as Security it Furnished. WASHINGTON — Secretary Shaw has given directions that $16,000,000 of public money be distributed among the national banks of San Francisco and Imedlate vicinity, which will in clude Oakland, as soon as the banks furnish satisfactory 6ecrThe sec retary was in Chicago Monday and his directions to this elf'”'t were to the treasury department here late this afternoon. / — - — ■ . .1. i i . Cherries at $105 Each. SAN FRANCISCO—The first box of California cherries was auctioned here Monday, one cherry at a time, tor the >eneflt of the earthquake sufferers, and brought $2,440. About 50 commission merchants and others attended the sale. The first cherry brought $105. ind others amount* ranging from $100 to fifty cents. Another Shock Felt. SAN FRANCISCO—A'sharp earth uuake. shock was felt here at 10:39 Monday. It lasted about three second* ind was from east to west No dam age has been reported. Traveling Man's Long Fast. PUEBIX), Colo.—B. K. CofTmann, a traveling salesman from Fort Worth, rex., arrived in Pueblo from Ban Fran ;isco. He says he had nothing to eat >r drink from Tuesday evening until rhursday morning, and that when he ooked over the city and saw the fall ng buildings and the flames shooting nto the sky. that he fell upon his lands and knees and buried his face in the sand, believing that the end >f the world had come. As a result of the strain his hair ]« now perfectly white. Brewer Busch Gives $100,000. ST. IXJUIS, Mo.—A contribution of 1100,000 was telegraphed to the Red CTross society by Adolphus Busch, St Louis’ millionaire brewer. Mr. Busch md family were caught In the SaD Francisco disaster, and suffered so rerely before making their way to Oak land. MEMPHIS, Tenn.—General Luke E Wright, first United States ambassador .o Japan, let Memphis Monday for the west, accompanied by his wife aad laughter.