TTTE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JUNE 17. 1906.
TIMELY REAL ESTATE TALK
Eastern Men Tind Omaha a Little Bit
- Busier Tbtr fxpcted.
NO EMPTY HOUSES IN ALL THE CITY
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rroaprrtlre Intrntc la Vain la
Mara Thai Jastlfled, Aeeorfllasr
ta President Wattles of
Grain Bsraaaar.
Two men from the -sst who loan money
on westrn rlty property were In Omtti
lpst wee' looklna aftrr thplr Investment.
Ilo.fore thoy went away, on of them r
inarkil to his Omaha representative:
Wo have been ln the city two dajrr.
rind have r; ent most of the time out la
the residence . onion, , but we have seen
fnly two vs'irit nmisrs, and they are be
lli; repaired, rsdy for families to mov
In. We were In Des Moines, and found
sbout 100 vacant houses there. T.he facts
U not epeak lit of I.es Moines, for there
it usually more or less slu k In every city
in lh' mattt r cf houses for rent, bul they
i-ljnnk est 'Pi-Lilly well for Omaha. No one
I -eds better rroof of the city's growth
than tc see the number of new house"
.lilt lmvt been built in the last lew
months, and then have to search for days
tut a vacant houi.e."
A canvass of the real estata men for
their opinion as to the number of vacant
houses In tha entire city, would show tM
average guess to be below fifty. The
constant shifting of families allows this
many, but no one Is empty longer than
It takes one family to move out and an.
other to get la.
Suburban Omaha keeps on growing. A.
P. - Tukey at don have bought Ep worth
and are placing tha lots on the market.
Tha new addition Ilea west of Thirty-sixth
street and south of Orand avenue and
Immediately across the street south from
the recently platted Tukey Heights. The
ground is high, affording a sweeping view
of the surrounding country. The addition
was platted some time ago.
"The advance In Omaha real estate
values In the last two or three years Is
only a start for what Is to come In tha
next few years."
"In leas than ten years, with tho
proper management of the Omaha Grain
exchange, Omaha will be the biggest corn
.market In tho world."
These two optimistic statements were
made by Ourdon W. Wattles at last week's
session of the Real Estate exchange. Mr.
Wattles said the gradual advance In
values was warranted In every way, and
he could see only brightness for the fu
ture. Wyoming and western Nebraska, he
said, were on the very verge of enormous
development which would bring wealth to
Omaha in the way of trade. Another ob
servation made was that property s
lower, comparatively, than In other cities
of similar slse.
J. H. Dumont, who has been actively
engaged In business in Omaha for a great
k.,.i;... J.h . offl.. .t ii New York
Life bulldln.. His son, John R. Dumont.
who has just graduated from tha Unlver-
slty Nebraska, will be associated with
him, under the firm name of J. H. Du-
mont Bon. Mr. Dumont has for years "Well, I think their action Is just, for a
been one of tha leading spirits In the much higher flfure Is asked for the prop
Commercial dob and has been conspicuous erty than was asked two or three years
in every movement te help Omaha, It Is
expected that the new firm will be a live
factor In the local real estate world.
For some reason or other the letting of
tha contract for the erection of the Car
penter Paper oompany's new building at
Ninth and Harney streets is being held
up at the office of the architect. Inter
ested contractors are of the opinion that
the bide ran higher than the Carpenters I
expected, and they are calculating some
way of cutting down expenses. A large
amount of stonework is called for by the
specifications, as they stand at present,
md It Is said that the cost In this Item
could be cut down about 810.000, though at
the expense of the looks of the building.
The bids are said to have run well toward
$130,000. The building wlU be alx stories
high and 138 feet square.
annual picnic oi me eai jusiare
exenange win be held Thursday at Missouri
Volley, la., and every member who can
oi w.jr iruiu in. kiij i preparing 10 go. i
. . aW I- i a I
i uejr iibui uuiu will uv a uuu uwa
anyway, with the grocers and butchers off
on their picnic, and everybody else wishing
they didn't have to work. One train will
leave for Missouri Valley at 7:60 In the
morning over the Northwestern and an
other at 11:30 over the same road. Ed
Btoltenberg and 8. P. Bostwick have been
ti.r- iih .h.-V V . . J " r-
there, with shady grove and good base
ball grounds, which has been offered to
them fr r,t h.r Tk. ,,
tnem free of charge. The real estate men
of uiun..H v.n .1 .. ..
isld thTy would o; .Tad to do what' ti
could for the .ntrt.nm.nt th- m.n
from Omaha. Their offer to macb a ball
team against a team from the Omaha
exchange wae promptly accepted. Each
man will take his own lunch to the picnic,
but the committee, promisee coffee and
Eyeglasses
oug
"Over a
Counter"
In a dry goods or Jewelry store
may SEEM right when you first
put them on but they invariably
PHOVE INJURIOUS.
, Trust the examination of your
yes to an optician only and
trust the making of the glasses to
a competent, practical optician
We give you the service of BOTH
at ONB COST,
Eyeglasses if required $1 op.
HUTESOS METHOD.-
HUTESON OPTICAL CO.
213 5eatta 16th Street
Factory on tha premts
Samples of New Omaha Homes Building
NEW
lemonade. Tickets are going
pleasing to the committee.
In a way
An Incident which happened last week la
declared by local real estate men to be a
remarkable example of the confidence of
nonresidents in the future value of this
city's realty. It was a refusal by one of
the Folnomi of tlfi.VO for the property at
the northeast corner of Twentieth and
Harney vtreeta. now occupied by the publlo
playgrounds. As there Is a big fill on the
lots, $1S,000 la thought to be a fair figure.
The owner considered this offer, but Anally
decided not to accept It, believing the lots
would bring him considerably more within
a few years. He so stated In a letter In
which he refused the offer. The Folsom
heirs, cousins of Mrs. Orover Cleveland,
formerly owned forty-three lots In Omaha,
and are yet in possession of about twenty
of them, which they show no strong dis
position to sell.
A. P. Tukey A Son report the follow
ing sales in Tukey Heights, practically all
being sold for Immediate Improvement:
Lots t 8 and 8, block 1, to Alfred T. Win
ter; lot 4. block 1. to Effle E. Wllley; lot
6, block 1, to A. B. Emmons; lot 7, block
1, to Fred E. Parish; lots 13 and It, block
1, to Minnie C. Danlclaon; lot 15, block 1,
to Mary A. Richards; lot 18, block 1, to
Belle H. Dunham; lots 17 and 18, block 1.
to Jacob Hahn; lots 19 and 20. block 1, to
Oi W. Ritchie; lot 8, block 2, to Ezra
Knapp; lots 1. 8 and 8, block 8, to O. W.
Ritchie.
"I notice that the Board of Equalisation
Tng the assessed valuation of property
Jon Farnam street." said a realty man
who naa not been connected with any of
the recent deals along that thoroughfare.
ago. The real estate dealers ana ine cap
italists cannot expect to raise the price
of lots 104 per cent In a locality, without
the county wanting a bigger Income on It.
If the lots are worth the figure they are
held at today, they ought not pay taxes
on a basis of the valuation of several years
I ago,1
Gilbert M. Hltohcock will address the
Omaha Real Estate Exchange Wednesday,
June 80, at the regular 18 o'clock luncheon,
on the subject of "The Distribution of
Wealth." President Green's plan of having
a series of talks ' by business and public
men la orovin Immensely popular. The
lunch room Is filled each Wednesday,
Georgia avenue (or South Twenty-ninth
street) is experiencing Quite a Duuaing
boom and Is still leading the southwestern
Dart of the city as a nloe residence street
During tne past wee ""
let by Joseph R. campoen ior a ooum.
brick house to be erected on a lot owned
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by nim at 10U ueorgia avenuo, w..... .....
M mOOern in every repc.
about XS.O0O. TniS IS only one ui
brick residences that will take the place
of frame houses on this street.
"I took a walk down through the whole
sale district one day last wee," saao
C. T. Harrison, "and was deeply Impressed
there, way caca in t. vrn.n
muoh ln ral Ute all over the
.. th. a building as now.
cltT- there wis no suon ouuojub "
n. which in a-olna- un now are
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"Ubstantlal and Innuentlal factor ror
Whenever
an activity in propeny is -J
such prosperity in trade lines, it to evidence
that the growtn is no. oi
for the jooDers are "
of men."
SUNDAY MUSIC AT KRUQ PARK
riudlis Baa a mH mm
Immense nit With tho
Omaha. Pabllo.
Manager W. W. Cole feels very highly
complimented over the greatly Increased
attendance it Krug park this season. The
notable musical event of the last week was
the Maennerchor concert Thursday evening,
which was attended by thousands of lovers
of vocal and Instrumental music. The next
concert will take plaoe on July tl.
The next big event at Krug park will be
the annual picnic of tha street car con
ductors and motormen on Saturday, June
M. Easily accessible by slectrlo oars, with
quick service, Krug, park la the most at-
tractive outing ground In this vicinity,
Many picnics are already booked and the
dates for others are now being arranged.
The Royal Canadian band has taken first
place In the estimation of all who are
especially fond of muslo. The soloists, ln
particular, Mr. Rudolph Rodenklrchan,
premier soloist, comet virtuoso; Mr. Wil
liam Dunnlgan, xylophone; Fred Hender
son, trombone, and E. J. James, piccolo.
are each and every one recognised artists
In their separate lines of work and are
dally adding to their- already large number
of friends and admirers.
Manager Cole la In telegraphic corre
spondence 'now dally for tha greatest
summer park attractions obtainable and
has already closed with Chevalier Oargiulo
and his Italian concert band for one week,
commencing August 1. He la endeavoring
to secure the Clayton original Tenneaase
jubilee singers for next month.
Bpectal attractions are now being ar
ranged for to make the Fourth of July
program one of the most attractive and
pleasing ever offered tor the observance
ef the great national anniversary day at
Krug park.
A Wonder.
Everybody who has tried Buoklan's Ar
nica Balve for euta, burns and wounds, says
It s a wonder. IS eenta. Guaranteed. For
sale By Bbennaa aiocvnncii Drug Co.
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Hoialfl ON BOUTH BIXTELENTIi.
RAILWAYS AND GREAT LAKES
Factors in the Qreat Development of the
Northwest Commerce.
OUTLETS FOR AN IMMENSE GRAIN REGION
Plans Root Beta Developed Inclade
Transportation for Prodocts
of aa Empire FertUo
and Productive.
DULUTH, Minn., June l.-(Bpec!aU-Mr.
James J. Hill recently made the startling
statement that. In his opinion, by 1J10, only
four years from now, the population of
the United States will be 100.000,000, and
that when that time comes this country
will consume all the wheat raised within
Its borders. The man who makes this pre
diction belongs to the modern race of dis
coverers, the railroad builders. One: It
wss the northeast passage 10 vaumwy
which fired the ambition of the explorer.
Now It Is the avenue to new fields of pro
duction. The twentieth century Industrial
explorer ta the man who seeks sources of
supply for breadstuffs, ores, timber and
other material of varied character on
which depends the complex life of a nation
of many millions of people.
The railroad magnate who spends his
working days In an office hidden away In a
mammoth skyscraper seems far removed
from tha race of hardy discoverers who
Ave centuries ago made Amerloa known to
the old world. But, excepting, perhaps,
Ponce de Leon, who sought here the spring
of eternal youth, the pioneers among the
discoverers of ' the wetsern hemisphere
were seeking new routes for trade Just as
are their successors, who are today extend
ing steel highways Into regions which only
a few short years ago were Inhabited by
wild animals and Indians. It Is the unde
veloped areas of fertile land which now
attract the pioneer In railway enterprises
as well 'as the actual settler.
Eyes on tb. Northwest.
Whether this country will soon con
sume all the wheat raised within Its bor
ders or not, the markets of the world are
clamoring for supplies and In response to
the demand, the eyes of the Industrial
discoverers are turned toward the north
west. To dwellers In the southern and
eastern states, the term northwest still
means Minnesota, the Dakotaa, Montana
and Wyoming, Washington and Oregon;
but In these states, the northwest has a
wider meaning. If Includes not only a
great extent of territory on this side of
the line, but also a vast expanse of fertile
I Unda In Canada, which are now beln
tuea lnto trouotlV(. farm. .nd whi..h
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produ,.ing regions of the world.
I Wh.n I, nmc,a ..,iln, tha nrnriurt
of these Canadian wheat fields to eastern
markets. It Is significant that. In the opin
ion of railroad builders, the best route Is
that which Is afforded by the great lakes
This means that these inland waterways
are to see still further Increases In the
amount of their commerce. The lakes
m upbuilding of the northwest,
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0r alone has grown so rapidly that the
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wmuiBrcfl oi ins ooo many umes ex-
that ' 8U" A
rnroent buUeUn ,how, tn(lt through
the canals of the "Boo" during April f
thl Tear paMe1 t81.J67 tons of
tT,lghu as against l.S0O,18 ln April. 1805.
it year there passed beneath the aerial
ferry at the entrance to the Duluth-Bu
perlor harbor a total of 11549 vessels, with
a registered tonnage of 2t,Z16,164. In the
same time, there passed the Btatue of
Liberty in Kew York harbor bound to
and from foreign ports, about 6,000 ves
sels. New York's great coastwise trade
gave It Bret plaoe, Duluth ranking second
among American porta. That many of the
modern lake carriers rank In size with
ocean-going steamships Is shown by the
fact that the average net tonnage of the
vessels which entered and cleared at Du
luth In 1006 was 2,160. With the deepening
of the Erie canal on the east the prod
ucts of the northwest can be carried by
water for three-quarters of the distance
to the Atlantlo coast, aud this fact has
evidently not been overlooked by the men
behind Canadian railway projects.
Railroads la tho Plan.
The faet that American waterways will
thus be utilised by the men who are back
of the projects to tap the Canadian north
west adds to the Interest In the subject
on this side of the boundary line. Already
existing lines of road make a network over
the wheat fields of Manitoba and the Cana-
Tooth Talk No. 38
Kow, for the sake of argument,
compare a dentist te a hand ln
whist; granting, of eouras, the
brains to play the hand accord
ing to C. be use's book of rules.
The trump Is painless operating.
The prise, not a cut glass dmn
bought at a sale), but th patron
age of the people who have seusl
tlve teeth. Anyone Whose teeth
are not sensitive and do not hurt
whsn filled Is barred from the
game.
Of the four suits, my long
est Is the Painless Filling and
Crowning of Sensitive Teeth. My
next Is my specialty of Crown
and Brldg Work. I am short on
Hurting and Uncleanly Methods.
Evenir.g a "no trump" hand I can
still win with my Long fcult and
Next best. Laving only one of the
third suit and none of the fourth.
Come to my rooms and Til show
you the "system."
I VU, FICKES, Dentist. 838 Deo Dldg.
i 'fhoue Douglas 6 ST.
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dlan br&keman shouts Wlnnipegosls on
the shores of the lake of that name. Far
ther west, the Iron highways crons Saskat
chewan and Asslnlbola, provinces whose
names have only recently been made fa
miliar by the railway maps. Edmunton, In
Alberta, still nearer the Pacific. Is becom
ing a railroad center. The Canadian Pa
cific stretches through the new wheat fields
to the Paclflo coast. The Orand Trunk
Pacific Is being built westward and the
Canadian Northern tins already reached
Edmunton and consequently has but about
600 miles to go before It touches the waters
of the Paclflo. The new Hill line Is to be
pushed from Fernle, a town in British Co
lumbia, eastward across the prairie until
Winnipeg is reached, and Wlnnlpcb is al
ready Included ln the Hill system. The
Hill plans contemplate the crossing of the
Canadian Paclflo and the tapping of rich
country to the north of that line.
It is significant of the purpose of the
railroad builders that they seek to, find
routes through rich agricultural territory
rather than to hit upon the lines which
would prove to be the shortest distance
between two points regardless of the char
acter of the country which It traversed.
It is also significant, on the other hand,
that having laid their rails through the
wheat producing areas, the railway men !
thus seek the shortest roads to the nearost
points on navigable waters. One of the
strong points Advanced by Mr. Hill In sup
port of tho route he has selected Is that he
can connect the Canadian northwest with
Duluth over a country of easy grades.
All the other railways traversing western
Canada have or will have connection with'
the western end of Lake Superior.
Lake Superior In Command.
While the greatest of railway projects
now under way in the west center ln tho
Canadian wheat fields the building of va
rious short pieces of road ln the western
states tends to shorten the distance to the
ports at this end of Lake Superior. A
railway hiap shows many dotted lines
where such cuts are proposed. All these
additions to existing railway systems
mean additional commence on the lakes.
If a line Is drawn from the eastern end
of Lake Superior diagonally across the
map of the United States to the Pacific
coast at the southern extremity of Cali
fornia It Will be found that all the terri
tory north and west of this line Is nearer
to Lake Superior ports than to others on
the great lakes, and In ' shortening their
routes to the east western railroad sys
tems evidently have this fact ln mind.
Hand ln hand with the building of
western railways goes the development of
the country ln many lines. With the In
crease In population, regions which are
now devoted to farming and mining will
become the scene of many manufacturing
enterprises, and ln theli turn will help
to swell the total of the commerce of the
lakes. Already ln Minnesota steps are
being taken to provide cheap power for
many diversified Industries.
Harseialsg the Rivers.
In this western country the harnessing
of the rivers has already begun, and as a
result of the work now being done on the
St, Louis river, with its ultimate capacity
of 200,000-horse power, projects are on foot
not only for the establishment of mnny
manufacturing enterprises, bt also for the
electrification of some of the rallrosds
which now run north from Duluth to the
great mines on the Iron range. It has
been figured out that when Minnesota and
the Dakotaa have a population as dense
as that of Massachusetts the three states
will, contain not lens than 60.000.000 people,
whose needs will be served by 60,000 miles
cf railway.
That time, of course, is still far distant,
but the -present growth of population In
the northwest country Indicates that the
men who are year by year adding to the
railway mileage are making no mistake.
And should the time ever come when the
population of the northwest equals or ex
ceeds the present population of the coun
try, the proportion of the traffic on the
great lakes can only be conjectured, for
they will then be one of the chief means
of communication between east and west,
as they have always been since the days
when only the birch bark canoes of the
Indians were seen upon their waters.
HENRY MURPHYUP MONDAY
Bonm u ma baa Accused of Accepting
Moaey from Disreputable Houses
Tried Next WeeU.
The case in which Henry Murphy of South
Omaha is charged with accepting money
from disreputable houses for police protec
tion was scheduled to come before Judge
Button Monday, but owing to the fact that
John P. Preen, who will defend Mr. Mur
phy, will be engaged In another case the
Murphy trial will probably be postponed
until later in the week.
Muslo at ftanscom Park,
This Is the program for George Green's
band at Hanscom park Sunday afternoon:
PART I.
ftiarcn Tne Omaha l nn Bhn
us.s..uu Mum utii ai. Lonan s intern
musical piay, Ueorge Washington.
' Cohan
Louder Buck A Itasy Drag, New.. Inner
PART IL
March Stars and Stripes Sousa
Overture-From Dawn to Twilight. .Bennett
Walts-Tbe First Violin wilt
Overture Celestlsl. Rellirlous....Preiidyvlll
rHT 1IL
Intermetso Two-Step, Aunt Jane
Van Alstyne
Patrol The Hlue and Oray Dalbey
Hearts and Flowers A Flower Bona .
Tobanl
national Air Blur Dangled Banner....
Fatal Accident at Kansas City.
KANSAS CITY. June W K. R. Poitee
a conductor on the Twelfth strt-et elcctrlo
i me. was amea. ana Julio Lrtcn. a mo
turinan on the same line, suffered a broken
leg, as the result of sn early n oruln col.
Iision here today. Mo pasetigrs were In-
in Undeveloped Sections
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BOMB IIOMD3 ON THE BOULEVARD.
LIFE IN ME STRICKEN CITY
Busy Eoenei in the Wrecked Section of
Ban Francisco.
REBUILDING ALONG THt OLD LINES
Plaas for m City Ueantlful Discarded
by the Necessities of the Pres
ent lasurance Money
Held Hack.
There Is something doing In San Francisco
all the time. Constructive work and plan
ning Is going on day and night. The former
is not going forward as rapidly as cltixens
desire, owing to the delay ln settling the
Insurance. San Francisco newspapers and
correspondents unsparingly u'.'iiounce the
dilatory tactics of nre Insurance companies
ln dodging payment qf their obligations.
Feeling runs high ln this Important mutter,
so high In fact that the state Insurance
commissioner threatens to annul the char
ters granted certain companies to do busi
ness In California.
There are a dozen or more "class A"
buildings which came out of the earthquake
and fire with only daroaged or gutted In
teriors. The companies refuse to allow
Uie owners to make repairs under threats
that If they do so they will Jeopardise
their Insurance.
It Is known that they stopped the Wells
Fargo Express people from going ahead
with their fine struoture at Second and
Mission streets. They have also stopped
the St. Francis hotel and owners of the
new Shreve building, at Grant avenue and
Post street, from restoring their structures.
Here we have three' "class A" buildings.
Then there are buildings like the Kohl,
Mills, Claus Spreckels, Falrmount hotel.
Mutual Savings bank and others. All of
these structures ought to be crowded with
workmen refitting them, and such would
be the case were It not tor the dilatory
tactics of the companies.
Built oa Old Line.
The Burnham plans for "a greater and
magnificent city beautiful" have vanished
ln thin air. San Francisco will be rebuilt
on practically the old lines, so far as the
great retail and wholesale streets are con
cerned. The retail and wholesale districts
were the logical outgrowth of the city be
fore the Are and will maintain their prestige
ln that respect In the "Greater 8an Fran
cisco." Of course 'there will be some
changes, but ln the main the leading retail
and wholesale streets will remain Intact
The banks have gone back to their old
location, a very significant move, when tho
future growth and relocation of bustnees
ln the new city is taken into consideration.
The "class A" buildings will In their re
habilitation supplement the Influence of
the banks. They will be rallying points for
business growth and the sooner they are
refitted the better It will be for the cltys
welfare. The visitor five years hence will
find Market street will be the city's prin
cipal thoroughfare, the great artery of Its
business and social life. He will find the
Palace hotel, with Its world-famous court, j
restored, but Instead of a seven It will be
ten-story building, with the advantage
taken ln Its construction of every con
trivance for architectural effect and for
the comfort of its patrons which has been
devised during the thirty-two years since
the old hotel was built. The St Francis
will not be changed. There will be a new
Occidental on the historic site of the old
and a new Russ house, each built with the
Intention of keeping alive the old traditions
that are part of the story of the develop
ment of California and of the building of
San Francisco.
The banking center will be where It origi
nally grew, with the Imposing bank build
ings, which gave an air of dignity and
solidity to that part of the city, restored.
There will be the eame newspaper center,
with the well known bulldlns. The solidly
built Mint building, which withstood t
admirably both earthquake shock and fire.
will of course be at the old site ot Fifth
street, and the postofflce building, at tlie
corner of Seventh and Mission .streets.
There will, pf course, be many changes, but
all of them for the better, without making
radical changes ln the lines and character
istics of the city. Where thousands ' of
modern shacks and low brick buildings.
built a third of a century ago, stood before
the fire, modern structures will stand, and
streets will ln some places have been
sdded. '
Chinatown oa Old Site.
Chinatown Is likely to rise again In the
old site, the property owners ' promising
great and glorious things In the matter of
buildings.
It Is proposed to sink artesian wells along
the lines of the streets for a reserve supply
of water ln case of future accidents to
n:Jns. An abundant supply ot good water
Is available at 200 feet and It Is estimated
that the cost of the wells would not exceed
12,000 each.
Borne builders will probably try the ex
periment of erecting all-metal structures,
with asbestos or cork linings. The archi
tects say that the expansion and con
traction of the metal will constitute no
difficulty.
One block on Van Ness avenue will be
covered soon with forty three-story flat
buildings, each building containing six flats.
There will be a central court 100x00 feet, to
which there will be access from the street
for delivery wagor.s, and under the court
will be a big reserve tank of sea water
from the Paclflo ocean, in case of fire and
a failure of the ordinary supply. The flats
will cost SuOO.000.
The publlo employment bureau has closed,
there being "work for all who want It."
The earthquake drove the city's 1.000
opium and cocaine fiends out of town. Two
powerful reasons Impelled their flight One
was that they could not get a sufly of
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drugs. Another was that they were likely
at any moment to be seised and made to
work, than do which most of them would
rather die.
Changrea la Dally Llfo.
There has been a great change In the
dally life of the men and women of Ban
Francisco, except where they have estab
lished temporary headquarters ln variou
parts of the great burned section. The
men are busy. Fillmore street and Van
Ness avenue are practically new business
thoroughfares. Many business men have
leased stores ln Fillmore street while
others have erected one and two-story
buildings In that thoroughfare and are
reaping a harvest. Larger structures are
fast going up In Van Ness avenue and in a
few weeks that thoroughfare will be a big
rival to the other street, which Is further
up town.
Diamonds and other Jewels have been
sold since the fir. The candy shops are
doing a livelier business than they ever did.
Women are busily shopping, and the hats
and gowns that they buy are not the
plainest or cheapest. Prices of necessaries
have not fallen; the cash Is demanded by
the shopmen and paid by the purchaser.
In fact, business Is In many respects on
a better footing than before the fire.
Not for more than a fortnight did the
people give up their luxuries. They seem
to have been of one mind with the French
man, who offered to go without the neces
saries, provided he could get the luxuries
of life. The demand for luxuries is one of
the most amaslng phenomena of an amaz
ing experience. The greater part of the
cooking is still done on the street Even
where the chimneys have been repaired
no fires are yet allowed In the stoves.
There Is not water to save the poor rem
nant left of San Francisco if another fire
should start It is most pathetic to, see
whole streets with stoves mt Intervals and
women standing In the wind trying to cook
a miserable meal for a little family. And
when it rains the picture is full of heart
break.
There Is no laundry work with rare ex
ceptions, the people have no bathing facili
ties. There an" two great luxuries for
which the millionaires of yesterday pathet
ically ask tor a bath and a clean shirt
waist.
Famous Church Unharmed.
Our wsy brought us to the fire limits
relates a correspondent of the New York
Times, and we were among streets named
for families of the old California days. Mis
sion, Guerrero, Valencia, Dolores. On
Dolores street we came to the quatnt old
adobe mission built In 1776 by the Fran
ciscan fathers, from whom San Francisco
derived Its name. At Its threshold both
earthquake and fire paused.
In this part of the city the earthquake
was at Its worst. Near by tha Valencia
hotel stank eight feet and collapsed the
streets and railroads are terrible to see
depressed and twisted ln. a most vicious
way. But the little adobe church Is Just
as the padres left it, restful, reposeful, a
bit of old Spain of the eighteenth century.
The old adobe walls are not cracked and
the old Spanish Madonnas, brown with
age, look calmy out from the altar.
The only thing that had been disturbed
by the terrible earthquake was a fine old
.Crusader, who had been thrown from his
pedestal.- In one hand he carried a drawn
sword, in the other an uplifted cross. He
Is back again on his pedestal and he still
carries the cross, but the sword is broken.
The old mission is a graveyard; In It
are Inscribed names of long ago. And
here are everywhere evidences of the
earthquake. Vaults are cracked open and
great marble monuments He prone on
graves near by.
We crossed the street for our perspec
tive of this historical old mission, so mer
cifully spared In the midst of so dire a
calamity. We sat on a high granite cop
ing, all that was left of the splendid
Notre Dame college, and across the wuy
was the little adobe mission, on Its roof
the mission bells, brought all the way
from Spain. Into their construction long
ago wei poured gold and silver orna
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the chimes of the bells might ring all the
more sweetly. A terrtMe destruction lay
all shout the old mission. The great brick
Church of St. Francis, beside It, Is a total
wrerk. The hure brick walls are every
where cracked and a rain of brlrks poured
all over the mission church beside It
The little rhurch of the padres grandly
weathered the great earthquake, While the
magnificent brick rhurch simply melted te
pieces In Its grip. An engine was vn
then before It preparing to tear down the
menacing facade.
And here we heard the story of the brave
fight made to save the old mission.
Men would have given thHr lives for
It," said a woman near by. "It was the
church of their forefathers, and they had
grown tip In Its shadow."
The men grew desperate as they wntched
the fire sweep out to the mission and the
old church seemed doomed. People had
left thrlr homes and were fleeing before
the flames, when 300 men of the mission
made a brave stsnd. Fiercely they fcught,
tearing down sheds or cottages that might
feed the flames. An old well ln a laundrr
yard afforded help. The men broke Into
deserted houses, seised sheets, table cloths,
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courage born of desperation and rack nil
fought for that old mission as for his life.
And they won their fight.
When Genera! Funston on that memora- ,
ble morning sent the trumpeters through,
the city to announce that the fire was con
quered, It had stopped blocks beyond the
old Mission Dolores It had gnpe by oa
the other side. Almost the whole mission
district Is a wreck; Its buildings destroyed
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of the padres looks out upon It alL poace ?f
fully as of old. Its chime of bells still calls
the faithful vto worship, and its cross is
still uplifted to the skies. '
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