The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-07-13
TALK ON FRISCO
BY LORD TALBOT
WideIy-known Travelling Man
Tells of Story of the
Rebuilding
ECREDlTORS DID GOOD TURN
FOR WHOLESALE HOUSES
Paid Bills Before They Were
Due, When Money Was
Needed.

+ "Lorsd'' Talbot, representing the Tr1est
lHat Manufacturing company Of New
lYork and San Francisco. is a guest
lat the Wilson. and brings up the per-
tennial Cheerful Liar" as usual In
ian interlude OF sanity, Lord" Talbot
lspoke of the conditions obtaining today
IN San Francisco. having spent the last
Eshree weeks In the devoted town. In
ha general way-and Lord" Talbot Is
nothing II not general-he said:
/ South of Market street, the work
hof the common people Is marvellous.
IAlong Third, Fourth. Fifth, Sixth and
tnon street. all sorts OF shacks or houses
.are erected, and the encouraging spec
ltacle of q distressed people helping
themselves Is everywhere.
The house l represent. as woll AS
i6core OF other houses, caught the spirit
of the time and need. and We used a
tdwelling on Sutter street for a distrib-
Iuting center. From such centers, ra-
Idiating throughout the whole city, have
lcome the resurrection OF San Francis
zoos retail trade.
Abiding Faith Shown.
1T is true they are temporary quar-
iGers, but they show an abiding faith
If the man who knocks San Francisco
CnOlCe or "DlTn COuIu over
ghe real situation as / have done, he
would forbear. There is something in
the business osphere-born, maybe.
lpf dlspair, but it is vital-which teaches
all of us. even we old timers that there
are heart and soul, even in trade.
Whore shall you place the fact that
merchants, in all directions, sent to
our house-and TO others-money before
IT was due? This literally occurred. Is
DIS not measure of the finer powers OIL
the human hearth 1t is decidedly prob
lemetical how many houses could sur
IVive, but for this remarkable feature
iof real heart in the business world
Bllls were not due but payment was
made.
They have begun on the Palace no"
uel, and some of us who saw the origi-
nal foundation laid by Harry Melgs
wondered If the new structure would
mold the brains and executive ability OF
the original builder. You know they
placed tons OF old railroad iron In that
Foundation. and so far as the art or
modern architecture then was known
1t was fireproof and earthquake proof
building.
Would Have Survived.
Let me say just here, that but for
the location OF the United States army
quartermaster's stores directly behino
a. IL 10 NOW KNOWN tnat the Pala ce
would have survived the trial Their.
were stored in that military post 4ou
barrels of oil. and that In burning fired
the hotel. It's walls are intact now,
and professional men have mapped oul
tho present working plan, and In a few,
months you may register again at The
Palace. Harry Melgs put his soul in
that building, and 1t is possible that
no landmark in the city touches tn,
nerve of sympathy like tho 'Palac.
hotel
"A fortunate condition was the To.
markaole financial power of the banks.
Never was so much money on deposit a
just before the catastrophe, and never
nave banks been so generous as these.
open, when IL was physically possible
10 do so. no man with q true accom-,
mas been refused the money due him.
Expcdients Result.
AS a result all sorts Of expedients
born of necessity. have been used tili
the man who knew the original citv
feels his heart thump with sympathy
as he looks over the present ghost OF
what he knows will again be San Fran
cisco. Commercial banks are open and
alive TO pressing needs, and If Is
known that their officers have mad.
concessions to the need OF the ho,n
such as would not be thought OF In or
dinary business transactions.
The shipping row has wasted irs
strength, which was built on taking
advantage of neceSsity-and that never
won In America-and now we shall have
all the lumber We want