Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-05-08
NEW EARTHQUAKE PROBLEM
Thousands Of Business and Professional
People in San Francisco Suffering,
NO WORK EXCEPT FOR COMMON LABoRERs
General GreeIy Reports that RRtiOns
Are Being Provided for over
Two Hundred Thousand
Persons.

have suddenly been cut off from means Of
! earning a living is enormous. The army
of clerks. statesmen, stenographers, book
keepers and trades people that poured into
the downtown sections each morning and
returned to the residence districts and SUI
burbs in the evening finds itself idle and
without prospect of employment. Lawyers,
doctors. dentists and their assistants are
in like predicament.
But a small percentage of these people
are capable of taking up manual labor. the
only kind that is now available, and already
on the streets and on the sites for new
buildings may be seen many Of this class
painfully and wearily engaged in the hard
est kinds of tasks.
What is TO be done with the great number
Of men and women who cannot get down
to the level Of the common workman is a
question that the city officials have asked
themselves and have been unable to furnish
a satisfactory answer
/ From this time forward the efforts of the
municipal officials and existing citizens
committees will be directed almost solely
to the task of reconstructing the city. Ac-
tive subcommittee have been appointed
and plans for practical work and accom-
| plishments will be presented to Mayor
/ Schmitz this week.
/ The construction of temporary buildings
/ continues in the burned portions of the
/ town and there are manifestations that the
/ mercantile element is undaunted by it's re-
verses. Tho relief work is proceeding
smoothly along the lines arranged by the
army, but a project is now being considered
| OF substituting for the bread line"
/ number of cheap restaurants, where hot
meals will be served at low cost.
RecOnStructing Relief Camps.
| After a quiet Sunday the people today
resumed the work of relieving the dis
tressed and planning for the reconstruction
of the city. The one great problem with
which the officials military and civil, feel
| they now have to deal with is that of col
lecting the refugees and getting them into
the smallest possible number of large
| camps
incidentally the question of sanitation is
| involved, for with people scattered every
where and some of them of far from clean
| habits, it is practically impossible to pre-
vent them from violating regulations,
whereas If they can be centralized all can
be carefully watched and the slovenly ones
can be forced to properly protect their
habitatlons and the ground Immediately
| surrounding the sites of their shelters Ii
is proposed to organize a model camp at
! Hamilton square. This mourning every
available able-bodied man in this camp
was routed out at an early hour and set to
work cleaning up the place. Not so much
as scrap of paper is to be allowed to lay
| about.
Engineer Dunn declares that the camp
will be kept in perfect sanitary condition
and if the male campers do not wish to turn
out every morning as cleaning squad they
had better arrive at system by which no
dirt or rubbish will be left about.
Systematic Work.
| The distribution of clothing, cots and bed
ding to the needy and destitute will be con-
Quoted on more equable basis hereafter,
and the authorities having control of the
! supplies have every reason to believe that
under the new regime now being inaugu-
rated there will be no waste and no reck-
less distribution of clothing to persons not
IN need of it, In the Crocker school build
ing, with its eighteen rooms nine separate
departments have been established, each
in charge of department head, and the
whole in charge of Captain Bradley of the
army. One department contains men
clothing and hats; another is given over to
wOmens clothing; still another is set apart
for children's clothing; then there are un-
= derwear departments, boot and shoe de-
partment, a department for kitchen uten-
sils. a department for blankets and bed
ding, cots and mattresses and so on.
The relief situation from the army view
point was summarized by the following
statement from General Greedy:
on Friday ratiions were issued to 273, ,62i
persons; on Saturday to 2SO,207, and the
acquisitions for Sunday We're for 264,O7O
but the actual issue probably will show
a decrease from Fridays figures.
As long the nRODla live 90
eminent tentage and receive government
rations they will have to behave theHI-
reveille blown and no strenuous restric-
tiOns enforced, but order must be pre-
served.
There are on hand now fifteen cars OF
flour and potatoes. / have instructed tho
finance committee that it is its duty tC
from the bread lines and it has promised
to take the matter up with the police.
Disturbance at Sea.
Far out at sea the Norwegian steamer
Hercules felt the disturbance that caused
such destruction here. Upon arriving
yesterday from COmoX, b. G.. Captain
Bjerick of the Hercules, reported that OF
April II, Is and 10 the steamer was in
strong southwest gales and mountainous
seas. On April 20, in latitude 44.2O north
longitude 156.27 east, there was sucl
heavy seas and gales that the steamer
~
BILE TO keep the Hercules on its way The
barometer at this time registered 1854
or the lowest Captain Bjerick has evei
seen at sea.
The first wedding ever celebrated il
Golden Gate park took place yesterday
1 afternoon when Miss Amelia Bartmanr
+ BECAME the wife of Rudolph Bossert. Th,
ceremony was performed by Rev, f. ID
Bovard of Berkeley, in the little summer
house just west of the conservatory
where the bride has been staying with
friends since April lS
The health department has ordered that
no milk shall be sold unless II is frs
! boiled
E3eIasco and Meyer will soon begin tht
construction Of a new Alcazar theater
II will be. a temporary structure one story
J high.
Investigate Americans Death.
LONDON, May The deaSh OF Howard
Carey Of New York who was dfgpoxraraT