The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-27
SYNDICATE PLANS
NEW METROPOLIS
Financiers Have Monster Project
to Make Oakland Great
Deep Sea Port.
With Plan Out Leases Are Sought
and Values in Across-Bay
City Leap.
THREE MORE SHOCKS.

THREE MORE SHOCKS.
Los Angeles, April PA message
from Salinas, l20 miles south Of San
Francisco, states that three more very
heavy earthquake shocks were felt
there last night, one at PM, another
at $3.50 and the last at 2 O'Clock this
morning. The shocks lasted about
four seconds each, but so far az
known did no damage.
News could not be reported from Sar
inas. BECAUSE of lack of all communica
ton. The damage at Salinas from the
earthquake last week is in excess OF
81, 100000.
The Salinas river is reported to have
sunk ten or twelve feet all along it's
course for miles. Nearly all bridges
across the river have been condemned.
Journal Special Service.
San Francisco, April 27.-Evidencs
has been discovered today that a group
of financiers, taking advantage of this
city's misfortune, seek to snatch her
commercial supermancy from her.
A syndicate has been formed to make
Oakland a deep sea port by building
docks and piers into deep water. One
of the syndicates is the Key Route ferry
and railway system, competitor OF
the Southern Pacific.
LII rs GuS luUenilOu, says Lie
speaker for the syndicate, to make
Oakland the chief maritime shipping
port on the Pacific coast.
Means Enormous Fill.
"The enterprise contemplates filing
out hundred acres of shoal water and
construction of mole capable to dock
ing the largest ships that enter the
bay;
is going up by leaps and bounds. Com
plant of extortion in rents is wide
spread and powerful influences are at.
work to keep the real estate boomers
within reasonable limits.
Hundreds of leases of business prop
sssy nave been sold since Monday for
double a1lastreble the figures originally
paid by the sellers.
All vacant houses have been taken
and people who have country homes are
leasing their city homes at fancy fig
ure and moving out Of town.
Frisco Pays Little Heed.
Meanwhile the extensive work of re-
| building San Francisco continues, the
| people, intent upon restoring the city,
disregarding the sinister threats of the
| syndicate. In many cases the assertions
4 are laughed down with. the statement
/ that it is impossible in the first place
4 and that San Francisco will be thriv-
i ing city ere Oakland could be prepared
1 to bear half the burden.
Ruins Swept Away.
Ruins are melting away before the
armies Of workmen and builders soon
will follow the wreckers, working upon
the plans that large force of archi-
tees and engineers are perfecting All
these contemplate better city than the
one destroyed and the determination
the metropolis Of the Pacific coast gains
rather than loses converts as time
The scheme for building the new San
4 Francisco is in the hands Of City En-
gineer Thomas P. Woodward, who is
working his plans into shape.
/ If he. has his way there will be no
narrow and cAogging streets IN those
Streets in the business district which
4 have been proven inadequate for the
rush of metropolis will be widened by
slicing the private holdings on either
Market street will be left as 1t Is.
So will Third and other streets that
4 were repaired shortly before the earth
quake, but the commission and whole-
sale sections will be radically altered,
both in width and course.
Temporary Structures Go Up.
! Within month Market street will
be lined with temporary structures. The
Spreckles, De Young and Shreve builds
ings, the st. Francis hotel, the Mer-
:, chants Exchange, and many more Of the
irst-class structures can be put into
shape at comparatively little expense.
With these as nucleus, there is no
reason why the retail and wholesale
districts Of the city should not be re-
established within a year.
1 Plenty Of outside capital is assured
and many property owners living
abroad have cabled their representa-
tives here to begin reconstruction at
onco.
Cars Start Today.
Cars will start to run on several
streets in. San Francisco, permission to
run cars on Pacific avenue, Fillmore
Chuch, Sixteenth street and various
parts of Mission street having been
granted by Mayor Schmitz late last
night.
Z pm, and the United railway viii
maintain a patrol of one man of each
block operated in the unburned dis
trict as a protection against fire.
Stores Boost Prices7
Over one hundred and fifty stores
!. were opened for business yesterday, but
before night numerous complaints were
received that storekeepers had raised
, prices to prohibitive figures.
Captain Rittenhouse of the United
, States marines, commanding the district
J from Bush to Oak and Fillmore tt
, Division streets, called at the cehtra
. police station last night and requested
: that detectives be detailed to investi
, gate some of the complaints made tt
) him that exorbitant prices are being
: charged in certain quarters.