Bisbee daily review., 1906-04-29
humbert Says San Francisco Will Rise From Ashes
 Grander Than Ever
LOCATING BISBEE
 PEOPLE SLOW WORK.
Will Be Several Weeks Before Complete List of Dead Is Compiled - Does Not Be-
 Iieve any BiSbeeiteS PeriShed

Having spent a week in San Fran cisco. where he bent every effort to ward getting information for Bisbee relatives. G. F. Humbert returned to Bisbee yesterday evening. tired and worn by his exertions.
 Seen last night, Humbert stated that the half has not yet been told about the suffering and loss of the people of San Francisco. When he first arrived he found men. women and children everywhere begging for food and drink 1t was two days be- Gore they could be taken care of.
 It will be several weeks states Humbert before the full list of dead is compiled, and many whose rela, tives are now safe will be kept anx- fous until they can finally hear from them. As fast as possible the au- fhOrities are preparing official lists of the dead and injured.
 Humbert feels certain that no Bis bee people suffered death or injury in the disaster, though he can not say as much for ali the relatives of local people who were in the stricken city. This it will take time to determine.
 Out of the despair and dejection or Inc people. which followed the holo- caust there is rapidly coming order and system. The people are being fed and clothed and housed as fast as it can be done. The most of them are in good spirits. and look forward to the future with much hope.
 'If it were not for the fact of the earthquake" declared MT. Humbert ''the San Francisco disaster would not iu my judgment, be such a crushing blow, leaving out of consideration. of course, the loss of life. the injuries to people and the suffering they will en- dure. The earthquake, like the fire and also like the great Chicago fire is likely to occur again. So is any disaster which has overtaken a popu- Iztion in the past. But the people of San Francisco know that with a city built as are the newer portions of the business district of Chicago, ar earth. quake like the one they suffered would not have a very damaging eff. feet.
 ForestsIis Tearing Down.
 If you leave out of consideration the Call Building, the Palace Hotel the St. Francis, and perhaps one or, two other buildings. there were few buildings in the city which would not nave been torn down within the next few years. For the most part the buildings were of the character that Chicago Is now tearing down to give place to modern steel structures. The earthquake and the fire have done great deal of demolition work which would have had to be done by hand very soon. Looking at it in this way, the seriousness of the disaster is, in a measure. minimized Had IheEe been no earthqg5a.kE g5a.kE NrVr",,roaIo2s s9s, .s :, ancisc9 SS fr5y f1ry-,.~t's -1eSs sew vears In sNling a careful estimate of the dam age done and of the real effect it will have upon San Francisco these facts should not be lost sight of.
 Tn the old San Francisco there was not a stable foundation for buildings ur Market street almost to the Palace hotel There was not building there which was constructed as substan- tially as any of the skyscrapers of Chicago. If the foundations of those big buildings had been put down fifty or seventy-dye feet, as they are in Chi csgo, and then anchored there by e. ment foundations, as they are here, and steel superstructures put in, the earthquake would rot have affected them This is the way that the new San Francisco will be built.
 Owing to the equable climate of the city it will not be necessary 10 build the new buildings of as heavy construction as is used in colder eli. mates. With steel frames well an chored it would not be necessary to make the walls more than four or six inches thick. Take a building of that character and an earthquake Of the severity of the last one would have lit- tie effect upon it. Accordingly I dc eot think that when San Francisco re- covers from the severity of the first shock the fact of the earthquake win have very great effect upon the peo- pie.
 T am perfectly sure that the future San Francisco will be the most not in the world. Anyone who has be- come familiar with the topography of the city and with it's surroundings kxows that there is not another city in the United States, at least, which is capable of such paramount beautify- ing as is the site of San Francisco If you desire to beautify Naples, for all you can do is to follow the waterfront. Tn San Francisco you lave the ocean on one side, the bay en the other, and as beautiful country <s the san shines on on the others. Tn addition to that, you have the twin peaks and the beautiful hills and a tEousand and one features Of land scape and perspective possessed by no ether city. Accordingly, it seems cer- tEin that the new San Francisco will De a marvel of beauty"