The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1906-08-02

the loan. and what is ultimately to
become Of the 100000 that the refu.
gees are only to get a small part of
by paying for?
Thu politicians have al answer for
tais-the money will have been eaten
up in salaries. 1t is only necessary to
make the scheme of distribution com.
plicated enough to carry payroll that
will soon devolir it. The relief budget
will be $4,000 more for August than
for July, making it more than 100000
month. 1t is expected to increase.
even after the bread line is cut off and
the issuance of supplies of clothing and
household gear has been stopped.
The need for better sanitation is be-
coming more pressing as the winter
approaches. Several of the camps are
in menacing condition and will have
to be moved. Thousands of dollars are
being spent in laying floors of tents
that will have to be pulled up in a few
months. Physicians of the city are
pointing out the danger of an epidemic
ii the great community of refugees is
continued under canvas through the
fall when the heavy rains begin But
even the new home building corpora
ton cannot, hope to get up any wooden
structures of the sort suggested until
late in the winter. The new corporation
has not been fully Incorporated yet.
Not even tentative scheme of organ
ization has been drawn. The officers
of the corporation are men of many
affairs and can devote only small
part of their time to the matter They
are James D. Phelan, president; f. W.
Dohrmann, first vice president; w. T..
Herrin, second vice president, and f.
q. Drum, acting secretary. Mayor
Schmitz and Governor Pardee are men,
bers of the board of directors.
General Greedy advocates making the
refugees work now. He urges the cut
ting down of the relief to the barest
necessities, and also charging a small
rental for the use Of tent shelters.
las long as you baby these people,"
said the general when asked for his
opinion, they will not help themselves.
camps who will not work until they
are compelled to. They are having the
softest snap of their lives. Cut out
the soup kitchens, abolish the bread
lines, stop distribution of every sort
of relief, and they will awaken to their
situation. At present they regard the
relief fund as everlasting. They are
not mentally trained to look ahead very
far. Their stomachs generally reason
a rental would be charged for every
tent OF course some discrimination
would have to be exercised, as there
are many who are helpless-the old
people and the delicate women and
children. AS for the ableboded. they
should be forced to work, bo.h the
men and women.
'"There never was so great demand
for labor on this coast as at the pres
ent time. The Western Pacific rail-
road wants 1000 men, the United Rail-
roads 5000. Contractors are advertis-
ing wholesale for bricklayers and car
penters. So much for the opportuni-
ties for ablebodied men, AS for the
women, thousands of them could find
employment as servants and wait
resses. Why don't they take the jobs
offered them? Because it is too soft
a snap to camp ont in beautiful park
and be fed. 1t may be humiliating and
trying for the worthy ones to accept
of charity, but for the ma jority it is Il
picnic.''
There is no talk now about the i'm
mediate rebuilding of Chinatown A
pig tail is Il rare sight in San Francisco
today, whereas before the fire they
fluttered on every byway and highway
1t does not look as if there would be
any commodious hotels to house tour
lists this winter and the Cinnamon de-
rived so per cent of their revenues
from tourist trade. A shabby little
Chinatown has sprung up i'll Oakland
across the bay, but it is an unconl-
Portable Chinatown. There are no mar
row, dingy streets in Oakland and the
orientals have been forced to find shell
ter along Il wide thoroughfare within
Il block of the center of the city They
have rented several rows of cheap
frame dwellings. At least the dwell
ings are Il tumbledown sort of struc-
lures, though the rents are five times
what they We're before April 49,