The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-21

common. Life Is cheap now for those
who do not respect military rule IN the
edges of the burning hell.
d%ooDRICH's FLEET ARRIVES.
Admiral Goodrioh's feet Is here. To-
day he anchored off the Preside and
landed at the Preside wharves all the
marines on his feet and all the bl~uejaokets
not needed to guard ship. There are now
1000 soldiers OF all arms, marines and
bluejaokets at work. The fresh men are
needed and the arrival Of the troops from
Monterey and down the coast will be well
come. We need them, all that will come.
THE BURNED AREA.
1t Is pretty nearly impossible to make
a general statement Of the real burned
area. Not even the fire chief could do
that accurately. There may be areas Of a
block or two, over in the middle Of the
business district, which escaped this strange,
slow moving fire. Certain little districts
are out OF sight in smoke and unmentioned
in reports and their fate is uncertain. In
general this may be said with certainty:
The business district and the tenement
district south Of Market street arc gone.
A few small parts of the Mission may have
beer saved, but that is destroyed for the
most part. Telegraph Hill, the Latin
Quarter and Chinatown are gone. Mob
Hill and the landward slope Of Russian
Hill are burned over, and there is unoer-
tainty about the sea slope Of Russian Hill
but it probably escaped.
The Pacific Heights district Of fine resi-
denoes is saved; this is the only consider
able district that escaped. The fire tugs
and the engines working with suckers
saved most of the wharves and some Of
the warehouses lying directly on the water
front. The Pacific Mail dock burned, and
SO did one OF two other small docks. On
the other hand, the wharves suffered
rather severely through the earthquake.
The greatest loss was the sinking Of China
Basin with the freight yards Of the Santa
Fe. Many millions had been spent In pre-
pairing this land.
The rest Of the standing buildings are in
the scattered suburbs. They have no
more importance in the property value of
San Francisco than have the outlying dis
tricts Of The Bronx in that Of New York.
1t is about fair to say that three-quarters
of the improvements on real estate have
been destroyed. and that the only buildings
Of Importance that escaped were certain
fine residences along Pacific Heights,
WORK OF COMMITTEE OF SAFETY.
The Committee Of Safety is at work.
II il taking the food situation out of
the hands Of the military and preparing
to establish depots in the camps and at all
parks az soon as the city cools of. Cheer
full news of coming relief trains has been
reaching va all day. A subcommittee
crossed to San Francisco this morning and
examined all the bank vaults in districts
which had cooled enough TO let them APP
proach. They found that the vaults are
probably intact and that the currency in
them is safe. In fact the loss in this regard
will be smaller proportionately in San Fran
cisco than it would have been in any Eastern
or Middle Western city.
C%alifornians Use gold and silver by prefer
ence; a dollar note is a curiosity, and one
of smaller denomination than a fifty ia
seldom passed. Therefore, the supply Of
paper money is small and that of gold and
silver large.
THREE CONCENTRATION CAMPS.
The city slept last night in three con-
centration camps-at the Preside, Golden
Gate Park and Fort Mason. Many Of the
rich, even, deserted their mansions to sleep
out of doors, for fear that the fire lire,
stopped at Van Meas, might sweep on and
take their houses with it. There were a
few tents, but mainly they slept N in the
fog and the heavy dew, wrapped in blankets
and bundled in quilts. There were some
curious makesh hits tents formed Of quilts.
hangings. PORTE res, even old clothes, just
to hide the nakedness Of those who had
loosened their clothes for the first time
in two days.
By each little group, lying out on the grass
and under the trees, would be a small bundle
Of household belongings. Up and down
the broad avenues of the parks the troops
patrolled, keeping order. This was difficult
at times, for the second hysterioal stage has
succeeded the paralysis Of that first day, and
people are doing strange things. A man,
running half naked, tearing at his clothes
and crying The end Of all thing s has comet
was caught by the soldiers and placed
under arrest. Under a tent on the broad
lawn Of the children's playground a baby
was born. By good luck, there was a
physician there and the women helped out,
30 that the mother appears to be safe,
They carried her later to the children's
building in the park and did their best To
make her comfortable.
All night wagons mounted with barrels
and guarded by soldiers drove through
the park doing out wates. There was
! always a crush about these wagons and
only one drink was allowed to a person