Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-26
RETAIL STORES
AGAIN ARE OPEN
BUSINESS RESUMED ON A BIG
SCALE
People Who Are Able to Purchase
Provisions Hereafter Will Not
Be Allowed Supplies by
Relief Committees
say Associated Press.


SAN FRANCISCO, April 25.-Retail
trade was resumed this morning with
q rush in the unburned sections of the
city. Grocery stores, butcher shops,
delieacy establishments and the like
were doing a thriving business at an
early hour. On nearly every block of
Fillmore street from McAllister as far
as California street, business houses
were running full swing.
This condition of affairs was brought
about mainly through the announce
Inent made couple of days ago by w.
]. Bartnett, who issued a proclamation
telling the retail dealers that the
wholesalers would cooperate with
them.
The wholesalers made good their
promises and bright and early yester-
day morning wagons laden down with
meats, groceries, provisions, milk and
other necessities were seen laboring
through the streets on their way to the
various retail stores.
Rich People Seek Aid
Many of the dealers complained that
people who are we'll able to pay for
the necessities of life are depending
on the commissaries for their living. All
those in a position to pay for staple
articles are requested to patronize the
stores so that the unfortunate refu-
gees may have chance to obtain food
at the commissary stores.
An idea of the titanic task which
oonfronts the citizens food committee
may be gained from the number of the
hungry people fed yesterday
Throughout the city rations for 349,-
40 persons were distributed.
This of course is an average estimate
fDtt Of q
depots.
At one point provisions were given
out TO 672 people an hour for ten hours.
This station is neither one of the larg-
est nor one of the smallest, and Its re-
ports were used as q basis to strike an
average.
All flour that is being received in
sacks is being exchanged at the baker,
les pound for pound for baked bread.
Almost all the bakeries in the un-
burned district have opened and are
selling bread at the regular price Of 5
cents a loaf.
No Danger of Meat Famine
There is no danger of a meat famine.
The plant of the Western Meat COM
pany in South San Francisco is in per-
feet working order, we'll stocked with
cattle and in receipt of immense con-
sgnments of beef, either dressed or on
the hoof.
representatives of the company re-
ported to the relief committee this
morning that there are now in the
yards 1900 cattle. 5000 sheep and 5Ol
hogs.
More than $50 cattle are being killed
and dressed daily and sheep and hogs
go under the knife as they arrive on the
cars. The full quota of employees is al
work The Southern Pacific has given
orders that all cattle cars are to be
rushed to the city at top speed and are
to have precedence even over passenger
trains.
Some cattle are arriving from the
south but most come from the northern
part of the state and Nevada.
Working in Harmony
The meat company is working in har-
mony with the citizens committee fol
feeding the hungry. The company viii
Immediately rebuild it's burned whole
sale market
Wholesale grabbing of supplies by
some, while others are in dire want
has caused the military authorities tc
order a new system in the distributor
of food. Beginning tomorrow morning
kitchens and mess rooms Will be es-
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to all who apply but no food will be
given out to be carried away.
In the distribution of clothing pre-
cautions against fraud will be taker
by squads detailed to visit each teni
or shelter, list the occupants anc
tabulate their wants. Corresponding
orders will be given out, emitting the
holders to the needed clothing, bedding
or whatever stores are required.
1t is thought at military headquar'
ters that this work will be a great hell
to those who have heretofore been un'
able to reach the supply depots.
Mess Kitchens Provided
At the Preside there are numbers o.
mess kitchens ready to operate and ad
joining are large dining rooms, now oc'
cupied as shelters by refugees. These
people are being moved out into tents
Pitiful stories of suffering from eX
posure, ignorance and helplessness arr
flooding the relief committee from al
sides.
OF the great refugee camps that il
the Preside which is under govern
ment control seems most thoroughly
systematized and that in Golden CAT
park completely disorganized, thougl
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