The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-06-01

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mountains, broad macadamized r0aC
for autos, and have wide. sweepin
avenues planted with beautiful. flow
ering trees, and we win give perpetu.
delight to those VINO come to us to Sc
the thing that is different from that t
which they are accustomed.
1--WE met many, many people VIII
were coming to Honolulu. Mrs. Carte
and |, and although many got out o
California after the earthquake, I an
of the opinion that most of them vii
be back there next winter They hav,
to go somewhere. We were at De
Monte when the shake came. as vol
know, and although it disturbed the
people of the hotel greatly, we were not
worried. Indeed, we went back to bee
again after the first shock, and did not
get up until breakfast time.
BEAUTIFUL DEL MONTE.
"Del Monte is very, very beautiful.
If they only had our gorgeous flower
ing trees, the grounds would be perfect.
And the golf links are among the best
[ have ever seen. They are made par
ticularly beautiful by the wild field
flowers, which we do not have here. l
gathered bouquet of twenty-one varie-
ties of these, and it was a very pretty
bouquet indeed. The links are in charge
of Jimmie Melville, the teacher so well
known in Honolulu, and he has more
pupils than he can attend to and is do
ing wonderfully we'll
s'The disaster, You cannot realize
it. No one can, who was not in the
midst of it. A gentleman of San Fran
cisco who lived through the days of
fire, tells me that he can never get out
of his brain the sound of the tramp,
tramping of people, moving on from sec
ton to section as their houses and
places of refuge burned, and the con
slant scraping and scratching of trunks
and bundles over the pavements as they
went, dragging all that they could save
of their belongings behind them.
81 was in San Francisco ten days !
after the fire, and they were beginning /
TO clean up. Railway tracks run every t
where through the ruins, the waste !
debris is gathered up and hauled upon
humps under which the tracks run,
% fill in Mission Basin. There are tenn
oorary stores everywhere, and the first
business establishment on Market street
s the Regal shoe store, about opposite
he Call building. They leveled off the
bricks and drove their stakes right into
hem, and put up shed.
AN AWFUL DISASTER ~
There was nothing left in San
francisco, the burned district, that
would burn. Iron and glass were
Melted, and lamp posts leaned over like
christmas candles.
g A remarkable thing was the way in
which the Signal Service men followed
he fire with their wires, keeping Gen
raj Funston in constant touch with the
city. The whole place was a
ire, behind it, and right through it,
hese brave fellows worked, taking any
wire that came and following it over
nd under and through as long as they
ould, and then connecting with another
nd so keeping up their connections.
''The auto, too, was of great assist
nee. They drove them over piles of
ebris, and through the bloeked-up
treets. regardless of obstacles, and so
aved many who might otherwise have
ever escaped.
cit was an awful time. DR.. Hobby
old me of the body of a looter, shot,
hat swung in the window of Shreve's
lace for three days-but there was no
lore looting there. The regulars are
roud of their work, and with reason,
Though no man was shot by regulars.
f it had not been for them. the worst
ide of humanity might have been most
ppallingly shown.
- San Francisco will be rebuilt
Iany people nave gone away, it is
rue, but no more are going. 1t will be
pity if they do not take advantage
f the chance they have to rebuild 1T
S a city of beauty, with broad streets
nd winding ways to reach the hill
ops"
The Governor will be in his Office at
ne Capitol today.