Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-05-05
ARMY PEOPLE HAVE
ACCOMPL PLISHED MUCH
In Way of Strengthening Out
Mixed Conditions.
OF AFFAIRS IN SAN FRANCISCO

General Funston In an Interview De-
cIares that This Is the Largest Res
cue Work Ever Attempted by the
United States Army.
San Francisco, May 4.-The army
people at the Preside have accom-
plished wonders in the way of straigh-
tening out the badly mixed up condi-
tion of affairs in this stricken city.
In an interview on the subject today
General Funston said:
This is the largest rescue work
ever attempted by the army"
In the east they speak of fire as
the greatest castrophe of the age y
but those who have been engaged in
the work of relief on the ground do
not yet realize that 100000 people
pie were made homeless and penni-
less in a day, have been fed and shell
tered for two weeks and no man, wo-
man or child has gone hungry.
The relief committee wrought Won
ders, but in the end it must be admit
ted that without the army it would
have been impossible.
Every quartermaster's storehouse
in the country was emptied into ex-
press trains in a day.
For the first few days the tent cit
les that sprung up in the Preside
were without order or arrangement.
Many of the homeless were crowded
together in the wooden barracks.
There the conditions resulting were
not sanitary, and Thursday they were
moved into an organized city Of tents,
which had come by express from the
east. Possibly the only problem that
now remains for the army in this par
ticular camp is to fix the day when it
shall come down and the campers re-
turn to normal conditions.
"Rapid progress is being made in
the immediate supply depot at the
Preside, which will soon be able to
furnish the hospitals Of the city with
all the drugs necessary for the treat
ment of the sick"
In the matter of outside relief the
Southern Pacific officials state that up
to o'clock Thursday morning, 1,056
carloads Of supplies have been deliv-
cred in San Francisco from all Sec
tions Of the country. The Southern
Pacific people are of the opinion that
an additional 500 carloads of various
lines of supplies from the east will
reach Oakland during the next four
or five days
The cheering information was re
ceiyed Thursday that San Francisco
is not threatened with water fam
inc, and that, all of the city's sources
of supply are intact. Probably for
two or three more weeks, however,
there will be a necessity for conserv-
ing the limited supply that Is now COM
ing into the city for the reason that
the supply cannot be enlarged until
serious breaks in one Of the leading
mains are repaired.
The first sign of the resumption of
the real estate sales was given Thurs
day. Several transactions wherein
process of negotiations before the con-
flagration were completed on the lines
of the original terms, while new ones
were entered upon. In addition a
number of offers for reality, consider
ably below it's former value, were
promptly declined.
The clearing house reports all the
citys banks as solvent It's state
ment may be taken as authoritative
That does not mean that any bank
could pay out the full balances of its
depositors at sight, for the majority
of the money is loaned 1t means
simply that all banks could pay at
sight all checks which could be drawn
in the ordinary course of business un
der normal conditions, and all other
deposits within a reasonable time
The health of the city continues to
be good. One case Of typhoid fever
and six suspicious cases of the same
disease have been. reported in Sar
Francisco. This record for two weeks
is below the average.
This constitutes. it is claimed, one o1
the most remarkable reports known
to medical men. That almost an en-
tire city should be turned into virtual
ly one vast camp without preparation
for the handling of the sanitary situa
tion, and yet the cases of typhoid fe
ver should be limited to such a small