The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-07-23
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, The Urgent Need Of Skilled and 4
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San Francisco, July 19.-The urgent
need Of San Francisco in these DAYS
Is skilled and unskilled labor. In all
the trades there is great demand for
good workmen which cannot be filled.
Brtcklayers are paid s. a day and
foremen SO. Carpenters and plumb
ers command S.. In fact there is
hardly trade in which expert men
cannot command from Sc to s. for
eight hours work. Labor unions have
sent out notifications to all parts of
the country that the supply of men
here is sufficient. and the result is
that no good workmen are coming in.
Even unskilled laborers are lacking.
The United Railroads, Ocean Shore
and Western Pacific could use 5000
laborers. but cannot get men. Many
laborers now at work removing debris
are earning from 81 to IS a day. I'm
less the labor unions bring in men,
builders will have to import crafts
men from all parts of the country.
Despite the warnings sent out, it is the
simple truth that for months to come
San Francisco will be able to furnish
work to all skilled and unskilled men
who apply. When permanent build
ing begins fifty thousand men will be
needed to put up hundreds of big bust
ness structures for which plans have
been prepared and for which material
Is now being ordered. The removal of
debris is going on even more rapidly
than a week ago. Large bunkers in
Front street permit of the removal OF
forty carloads of brick and rubbish
every day, and as soon as several adj
ditional bunkers can be built this
number will be increased to three hun
dred loads daily. Hundreds of owners
of lots are clearing their premises
with teams, and even by this slow and
laborious method perceptible improve
ment is shown in most of the down.
town business streets. The sprink-
ling of all main streets has reduced
the dust which made life a burden
during the first two months after the
fire. The United Railroads have done
good work during the week, having
completed the Suffer street trolley
line to Devisadero street. Only the
eastbound track is finished, but cars
, will be running on both tracks short
ly. Work is now being rushed on the
Haight street line, and also on the
Polk and Larkin street system. The
only features of the street car system
that are weak are the crosstown lines.
The Fillmore, Devisadero, Kearney,
and Samson street lines are in opera
ton, but the need is great for the
resumption of the Larkin, Leaven-
worth and Powell street lines. Little
permanent construction is now going
m In, MI 4f g.,
getting material, and because owners
are still expecting the mayor to make
some modification in the building law
that will limit the height even of class
A structures to one and a half times
the width of the street. Temporary
buildings, however. are going up by
hundreds, especially on vanness aven-
ue and nearby streets. 1t is now plain
that Vanness avenue will be the great
shopping street Of the new city. and
that the drygoods trade will desert
Post street and Grant avenue. The
result has been the transformation of
the homes on Vanness avenue into
stores and hotels and the leasing of
every available building site on the
avenue from Market to Jackson street.
All of the big drygoods, clothing, jew
elry and furnishing goods dealers have
obtained stores on Vanness avenue,
and most of these are already building
wooden structures. The grade of the
avenue will be lowered at Ellis street
and an effort will be made to put the
line of trolley cars along the centre of
the avenue. There is strong opposi
ton to this, but the necessities of
trade will compel this introduction.
Mayor Schmitz has made much NUM-
cipal history since the fire. His course
during the fire and in the strenuous
days Immediately after the disaster,
won him praise from his bitterest en-
emies. He has now set about to clear
out several commissions whose men,
bers he considers derelict in their
duties. He has demanded the resigna-
ton of all the police commissioners
because several have begun business.
whish Is only another name for graft
on saloonkeepers. He also has re-
solved to clean out the board of public
works. In this reform work he will
have the approval of the public. but
several of the men he is trying to
force out of their positions may re-
veal some ugly secrets in municipal
politics. Regain, one of the police CON-
missiOnerS who refused to resign, has
published letter to the mayor in
which he charges that Schpitz became
his enemy because he refused to aid
in the mayors grating schemes.
The Southern Pacific project to
bring freight into San Francisco by
rail by way of trestle across the bay
at Dumbarton Point, north of the city.
will be completed by December l. BY
this trestle and several tunnels the
heavy grade on the line entering San
Francisco from the south will be over
come. At present freight is taken
across the bay by ferry.
Clarence H. Mackay, in his own and
his mothers name, has given to the
university of California 100000 to
found a chair, of electrical engineering.