Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-09-14
HOPE FOR GALVESTON.
Business Men Devise Means OF
Restoration.
CITIZENS HAVE NOT LOST HEART.
The City VIII BE Rebuilt on Raised
Site-HOw the work of Caring For
the Dead Is PrOgressing-Attem
to Save Ships.

me- WY " III on
site-How the Work of Caring For
the Dead Is Progressing-Attem
to Save Ships.
Galveston, Sept. 14.-This sorely strick-
en- city has not lost its courage, and al
ready its business men have turned from
the contemplation Of disaster to devising
ways and means for recovery.
The relentless measures taken to check
vandalism and disorder have had their
effect, and the city is quiet again. Any
further outbreaks will be suppressed mer-
clessly.
Galveston will be rebuilt on her pres
ent site. Her solid business men and men
of finance have not lost faith and will
firmly stand by the town. Although heavy
losers by the disaster, they will aid in its
restoration to its former enviable position
i'll the commercial and maritime world.
There will be no falterng ON their part.
There may be skeptics, but this will not
shake their faith and determination, but
| VIII be an incentive to work the harder
for the rehabilitation of the city.
This determination upon the part of the
wealthy men Of the community who have
| large and varied interests will have an
inspiring effect upon the less hopeful and
| encourage them to remain and assist in
reclaiming and building up the places laid
waste by the storm.
1t is natural that there should be lack
of confidence after the frightful expert
ence through which the city has recently
passed, and from this want of faith the
city will lose in population and its volume
of business shrink, but it is believed by
those who still have faith in the city that
by persistent effort confidence will again
be restored and Galveston will again be a
prosperous, happy and progressive city.
Residence Portion Suffered Most.
There is no site in this immediate vi
cinity more secure or protected than that
Of Galveston.
| While the damage has been very great
II is not beyond repair. 1t is true many
business houses are badly damaged and
some will have to be rebuilt. However.
the great loss of property and life was
confined principally to the residence por-
tion of the city lying between Broadway
on the north, the gulf on the south and
extending from the eastern to and beyond
the western limits of the city
| Most of the buildings in this section
were frame, some substantially, but 9TH
ers very insecurely built, and they rap
idly went down one after another like
cookie shells and were driven with ter
riff, = force against those more securely
constructed, causing them to topple and
fall. Those in the mad whr of raging
waters were dashed against others, and
they went down.
| To prevent recurrence of the recent
disaster the whole surface of the city
will have to be raised from eight to ten
feet and houses erected not for show or
effect, but so substantially that they will
weather the storms prevailing in trop-
ical or subtropical climate
The rebuilding may be slow until the
effects of the recent storm are obliterat-
ed. After that it will be rapid and com
mepsurate with the great possibilities of
the chief maritime port of the southwest.
Little Business Before Month.
Several ship agencies have cabed and
wired that they expect to be in condi-
tion to resume business in week or ten
days, but this is decidedly doubtful, as
railway bridges will not be repaired in
that time, and the bayou down from
Houston to the head of the bay is so
| clogged with fallen trees as to make
barging extremely hazardous. 1t is con-
seryatiyely estimated that business in its
various phases will not be resumed in
side of month
| Every effort will be made to establish
rail communication with the mainland
at the earliest possible moment. j. w.
Maxwell, general superintendent, and J
w. Allen general freight agent of the
Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroad. ar
rived at noon yesterday for the purpose
Of comforting with General Manager Polk
of the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe and
Manager Hill of the Galveston. Houston
and Henderson railroads with the object
of combining their efforts on the recon-
struction of one bridge for all railways
entering Galveston for the time being
and thus rendering possible an early re-
sumption of railway traffic and the par
| tial restoration of business in Galveston.
Such a plan it is believed will be adopt
ed.
Two Grounded Steamships on.
Among the foreign steamships which
were grounded by the storm on Pelican
flats, north of the city, the Norwegian
steamer Gyller and the British steamer
Norma are off and berthed alongside the
wharf. The British steamer Benedict
is expected to be hoated without much
| difficulty. The British steamers Hilanus
and the Randall Castle, which were car
ried out farther on to the flats, will have
to be dug out.
The Roma, which was carried through
the railway bridge into the west bay,
and the steamer Taunton, which was car
ried in a northwesterly direction - miles
up the bay and stranded near Cedar
Point, will in all probability remain as
evidence of the frightful velocity of the
wind which prevailed last Saturday
night
The relief committee has decided not to
make public the contributions made for
the relief of the unfortunates, assigning
as n reason that it will excite the cupidi-
| ty of the negroes and worthless whites
and that they will refuse to work, relying
for support on the relief fund.
1t Is the determination of those in
charge of affairs to make all ablebodied
men work for what they receive.
| The Mexican Gable company, whose
cables We're twisted off and whose cable
hut was destroyed expects to have re-
! DairS made and to resume service today