The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-29
RUINED CITY IS
TERM|NED TO
BE ME- Oils
Efforts of Other Ports to
Gain by Calamity
Belittled.
Extravagant Spirit of 40 to
Be Absent in the New
Frisco.

- AN, FRANCISCO, April 2s.-This,
the second Saturday since the
terrible baptism of earthquake
and fire, which the city received, passed
in manner similar to every day of
the last week, the scenes of activity
along the streets indicating more than
anything else the determined resolve
of all classes to bring forth out of the
CISCO.
Despite the fact that Oakland, Port
land and Seattle are sending broadcast
their claims for recognition as metrop-
oils of the slope, there is nothing but
the most hopeful feeling among the
moneyed men here, and they feel GER :
tain that the natural advantages of the
city site will prevent any of those who
have left the city remaining away per-
manently.
Boom in Real Estate.
There was considerable boom in
the real estate market today, especially
SO far as the uptown district was con-
cerned, and it now seems certain. that
upper Fillmore street will be made the
center of the big retail district.
/ Despite this fact, however, realty
1 values along Market street and in the
districts south of that thorofare remain
/ firm, and none of the owners display
any great disposition to sell.
I Already orders have been given for
the rebuilding Of the Kohl, Mills, Mer-
chants Exchange, McDonough, Chron-
icle, Spreckels and Shreve buildings,
whose steel structures are still intact,
altho the interiors and outer walls have
been practically ruined.
/ To Widen Streets.
No definite action has as yet been
taken on the proposition to redistrict
the city and lay out new streets, and
it now seems likely that all the old
street lines will be followed, altho
wherever possible, the downtown thoro-
fares are to be widened.
Martial law still continues, but there
are hopes that a great deal of the pres
ent red tape enforced can be discon-
tinued thru the coming week.
There is no longer any terrorism by
uniformed men, the mayor and city
officials having issued strict orders that
; no one is to be molested unless he vio-
late the law, and in such cases arrests
, are to be made and the culprits brought
, before the regularly constituted peace
officers.
| TO End Butterfly Life.
There will sweeping changes in the
=. business methods of the great mercan-
tile houses of San Francisco as a re-
rect result Of the earthquake and fire.
Heretofore these firms have conducted
business on lines of lavishness that for
bade large margins of profit. The en-
ployees were paid higher salaries than
similar workmer in the middle west or
the Atlantic coast states and travelling
statesmen of long experienceswere given
virtually carte blanc. This meant
comparatively small balances on the
right side Of the ledger at the end of
the year.
Spirit of 40 Stayed.
The spirit of 40 has permeated the
trade here for half century, money
has been tossed about indiscriminately
by concerns whose clientele were both
extensive and gilt-edged and everyone
has been living high. There has not
been the system, the organization, the
adherences to prices that marks the re-
gime of such houses as Marshall Field
& Co. of Chicago, or Mays in New
York.
Two of the best known wholesale
that new era is to begin in a CONNER
cial sense just as soon as the local firms
are equipped for business.
To Emerge From Ruins.
fsSan Francisco after this calamity
is to emerge from the smoke and ruins
lust as the southern states have issued
forth from the trials of the rebellion
to take on the enterprise and business
energy of the NORTH said one of the
duo who talked freely with the under
standing that his name would not be
used
1sThe great gold finds in this state
the rapidity with which fortunes were
made and the open-handedness of the
average capitalist caused the impress
sion to grow in the hearts of genera
tion after generation of our people that
more money we spent the more We
would have.
IT have talked with number OF
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