The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-18
RAISE THE PRICES
San Francisco Masons and Brick
layers Advance Scale.
VIII Ask Seven Dollars a Day
After Saturday.
WORKMEN ARE SCARCE.
That Is Reason Given for the
Increase.
YORKMEN ARE SCARCE.
Insurance Companies That Re-
sort to Technicalities Marked.

San Francisco, May 1s--The Ma
sons and Builders association has
raised the wages OF bricklayers and
bricklayers helpers. Commencing
May Fl. bricklayers will receive 81
per day of eight hours and helpers 81
a day. This is an advance of 81 q
day for bricKlayers and so cents for
helpers. In q statement that has been
issued the builders association de-
clares the supply OF this kind Of skilled
labor is inadequate TO the demand and
that it has been FOUND necessary to
take this action as an inducement to
journeymen to come and help in the
rebuilding of the city.
F. L. Hadley, secretary OF the
journeymen bricklayers' union. Is OF
the opinion that there are enough
bricklayers here to supply the demand
existing, but many of them are tenn
porarily engaged in repairing china
neys.
Mark Insurance Companies.
That the Insurance companies which
manifest intention OF resisting claims
and evade payment of losses sustained
by policyholders in the great fire here
by resorting to legal technicalities will
be marked companies and may meet
with drastic action in some states is IN
dicated by the tenor of replies received
Wolf in response to his appeal to the
insurance departments of other states
to assist him in compelling the insur-
ance companies to deal fairly with their
policyholders in the present crisis. Com
missioner Wolf yesterday received the
following official communication from
Sam P. Davis. state controller Of Ne
vada:
Il understand that some of the
eastern and foreign companies are
Ia1,4 i
ties in the matter of adjusting losses
in San Francisco; that where houses
were dynamited to stay the progress
of the fames=hOuseS which in the
natural course of events would have
been swept away by the fire a few
the insurance.
Now it appears to me that the act
OF destroying these buildings was
alone what saved the rest of the city
from total destruction and no doubt
protected these companies from fur
Their loss. If this saving of additional
loss to these com panies is to be made
a pretext on their part to evade their
just Obligations in settlement of their
San Francisco liabilities it is prima
facie evidence to me that the COM
panies resorting7 to these technicalities
are dishonest. ard on proper show
ing of these facts will revoke their
license in Nevada
Found VaiuabIes safe
over 1000 persons, each wearing an
anxious and worried look, and inn
patient to examine papers and valua-
bles deposited in the vaults of the Cal
ifcrnia Safe Deposit and Trust COM
pany, stood in line yesterday awaiting
the opening of the vaults when the
brick and debris had been cleared away.
The contents of the boxes were found
| intact and most Of the depositors left
their valuables in the compart ments.
The Anglo California bank also opened
its vaults and found books papers,
currency and coin in perfect condition.
At a meeting of the clearing house
committee yesterday it was decided
that the commercial banks of this city
will open for regular business next
Wednesday. 1t is believed that the
extended delay has insured the banks
from any panic, that the confidence of
depositors has been restored and that
the banks have had ample time to pre-
pare for any run on them.
No Danger of Water Famine.
Health officer d. F. Raglan reported
to the board of health yesterday that
San Francisco is no longer in danger
OF water famine and that within a
few days the entire water supply will
be in a normal condition again.
According to DR.. Ragan's report. the
big 44-inch Crystal Springs pipe, which
was broken for three thousand feet,
ing into San Francisco now about rs
million gallons day, which he consid-
ers amply sufficient, providing there is
no waste.
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