Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-04-28
RISING FROM THE ASHES.
Heroic Work Under Great Difficultie. of San Francisco Newspapers.


 San Francisco, April 2S.-It takes more than an earthquake and a con- flagration to put the San Francisco newspapers out of business. Only one of them has suspended publica- tion. The Evening Post, being una ble to acquire plant in the vicinity of the city, has retired from the field for sixty days. All others are issuing as usual.
 At 5:13 on the morning of the earthquake, April IS, power and water failed in every newspaper of fee in San Francisco. Still in the hope that as the day grew these agencies would be provided, the gathering of news went on as usual When the confagration made it ap- parent that all plants would be de- stroyed, the Bulletin put at work a force in it's composing rooms and q handbill was hand-set and some hun dreds of copies run of on the proof press, giving the salient features of the days news.
 The morning papers, the Call. Chronicle and Examiner, retired to Oakland and there on Thursday morning issued a joint paper from the office of the Oakland Tribune. On Friday they split forces again, the Examiner retaining the use of the Tribune plant and the Call and Chronicle issuing from the office of the Oakland Herald. Two days later the Call secured the service of the Oakland Enquirer plant. On Friday the Bulletin, after a suspension of one day, made arrangements for the use in the afternoon of the Oakland Herald equipment, and from these sources the San Francisco papers have been issuing.
 Offices were hurriedly opened on Fillmore street which. to-day, Is the main thoroughfare of San Francisco, and from these headquarters the news of the day as 1t was gathered has been transmitted by means of automobiles and the ferry service to the Oakland shore. There also were accepted such advertisements as have been offered. The number of these is perhaps the best visual sign at pres ent of the resurrection of the new city. It was noted that in a four teen page paper printed yesterday by the Examiner there were over nine pages of advertisements and in a sixteen page paper published this morning by the Chronicle at least 90 per cent of its space was devoted to the same end.
 The maintenance of telegraphic communication with the outside world has been one of the most dif- ficult matters with which the news papers have had to contend. The experience of the Associated Press m this respect will give an idea of the obstacles encountered. From April IS until April g there was neither communication by means Of tcle- phone or telegraph between Oakland and San Francisco. On Monday one telephone circuit with Oakland was established and the Associated Press used this for telegraphic purposes The use continued throughout Tues day. and "Wednesday it failed. On Thursday the Western Union. by ex- traordinary efforts. succeeded in get A bay cable in working order and by running wires in a roundabout way managed to get wire into the muni- cfpal headquarters at Franklin hall on Fillmore street. This wire was placed at the service of the AssOci- ased Press. and through communica- ton to the east was established. News from the Associated Press headuuarters has been going over this wire ever since.