The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-30
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burning Of the William Crocker mansion.
The Olympic Athletic Club has an arohi-
tect at work on plans for a new building.
The old one was pretty badly wrecked.
Kau d. Washington Dodge, city assess or
occupied his old bachelor quarters in tho
club building, he would have been lilled
Els bed fell three stories into the huse-
ment 1t happened, however. that Mr..
Dodge was in New York city at the time
being married.
Gen. Fred Funston has made this state
ment regarding the necessity of keeping
the Federal troops in San Francisco:
The situation here is peculiar. Tho
Government has never been called upon to
cope with lust such conditions as prevail
here, and it is my belief that the Wal De-
partment does not fully comprehend the
unusual difficulties under which we are
working.
"The presence of Federal troops ia alb
~solutely necessary to the good of the city,
Neither tie State, municipal nor Red Cross
authorities can adequately perform their
regular duties without the aid of the reg
ular troops.
"The impression seems somehow to have
reached the War Department that our
troops are doing regular police duty. but
this of course is an erroneous understand
ing of the situation.
"The troops are on duty and acting in
conjunction with state soldiers, municipal
police department. and Red Cross, merely
as moral support, as 1t we're.
The Federal troops are subordinate to
municiral control and in my opinion should
be retained on duty. In fact. we should have
5000 troops here to carry on the work, In
stead of the 2,j0n now on duty
Chinatown has been shifted again. Once
more the meek Chinese have had to pack
stheir little Kits and take mp the march on
foot. Tho committee and the military
authorities shifted them first from Fon-
.tana's canning factory near Fort Mason
TO the Preside golf links.
Yesterday Il committee of citizens liv-
ing and keeping refugees on the borders
of the Preside came into headquarters
and protested. They said the odors of
tpeanut oil and of untamed Chinese blown
in from the golf links made life nearly I'M
,bearable IN that district. The soldiers
found a new location on the military parade
grounds above Fort Point. and all that is
left Of Chinatown was transferred there
this afternoon
g. ~ - eNlN- anu 'Il' Nv J'y N'' "'''S
has created among the hibulous popula-
Ition-that the ban on the sale of liquor
will he removed next Wednesday. From
a wide open town, which drank red liquor
without regard to hour or day, San Fran
cisco has become absolutely dry, Even
the drugs torres have been forbidden, under
PENALTIES of which they are afraid, to sell
liquor in any form.
The real San Francisco is as dry as the
theoretical Maine in these days. There is
no doubt that this temperance clause in
the army regulations has saved a great
deal of life In the first night Of the fire
the poorer streets we're filled with drunken
men. filled mp with free liquor. undoubt-
edly this cost many lives.
The fire and Cupid together got gay
with a pair of young San Francisco lovers
and gave them the strangest honeymoon
on record. 4 young man named Steven
son had won a certain young woman whose
name is now Mrs. Stevenson. The we'd
ding was set for April IL, the night of the
earthquake. They managed to find each
other and he had a license in his pocket
already. So that night at the residence
of the Rev. DR.. Adams, a Congregational
clergyman, they were married without
uOWtIH TOuI 'dlultS' sluCh III TIC lpIo
of bottles, furnished the illumination.
The couple spent the night in a private
hotel which the fire. fortunately, did not
reach that night. In the morning they
started out. the bridegroom dragging the
brides trunk at the end of a rope and carry
ing his own suit case. They walked from the
Western Addition to the ferry station. three
miles. The only way to the ferry was
II. AF-la. .,-A. t. llAaIy1 frNr,
the ferry building they met a squad of
soldiers who were making pedestrians
throw bricks. The bridegroom was held
up at the point oC a gun and told to get to
work. He pleaded that it was a bridal
trip.
That's the tenth time I've heard that
dodge to-day, said the sergeant. dig,
you!"
, The fearful bride sat on her trunk for
five hours and watched her husband break
ing his back. Then the regulars lo' them
go. But the word had been passed down
1.-THE line that it was a bridal couple, and
n COMPANY Of militia halted them a block
further bowman maiethe tr'degroOm work
again. After two hnuis they melted at the
sight of the brides tears and let them go.
They had been eight hours getting to the
ferry.
Secretary Of State Curry and Jack Barry
more, the actor, We're two Of the mon who
were caught on the third day. Curry had
to work four hours and Barrymore three.
Aside from the group Of steel structure
buildings in tho business district which
,atiIl stand and which will be the nucleus Of
TIE new San, francisco, there Is a cluster
Of foundries and factories south Of Howard
street which were not injured at all and
which are in full blast. 1t is said that
much structural steel for rebuilding can be
produced in San Francisco itself. Despite
the fact that it is Sunday there were thou
sands Of laboreTs at work. preparing the
Yay for thousands mora who are TO work
in the months to come.
, The first sign of an Amusement enter
prise was fathered to-day by the munich
nality. The Sunday afternoon band con-
certs in Golden Gate Park are always a
feature of life in San Francisco. The city
Government managed to gather the frag-
ments of a band, which discoursed all the
afternoon in the bandstand to cheer up
the homeless campers.
There were church services, as on last
Sunday, and again the porches of the ruined
churches did duty as chancels, while all
denominations had services in the open
air of Golden Gate Park.
n Gen. Greedy, who has taken charge of
rol;af pnaasures leaving To Flnston tho