The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-04-29

the discomfort OF those still residing
IN San Francisco. Thousands Of these
people crowd the ferry boats, block the
Few open streets with all sorts OF use
less vehicles and seriously interfere
win those engaged IN relief work. To-
udy tney added to the terrific Jam at
the main ferry depot and choked the
narrow passages cleared in a few
streets for the passage of vehicles
They overran ruins Of buildings wher-
ever safety would permit and were
absolutely ruthless II their frantic eff
forts to seize upon some article OF ks
tor1c and intrinsic value and cart It
away Some of these thousands prob
ably will find lodging and food at the
| expense of the relief committee thus
needlessly adding to the already ire
mendous burden of stricken San Fran
cisco.
Libraries Destroyed.
One Of the greatest and In measure
irreparable losses resulting from the
great fire is the magnificent Libraries
Of San Francisco.
when our branch collections are
brought together said Librarian
Clark I'VE will have q good working
library Of reference books and also a
fine collection of standard literature.
We have $750,000 that Andrew Carne gle
gave US, which sum is still intact and
Il
the square block of land bounded bv
Van Ness. Hayes, Franklin and Fell
streets, which was bought with bond
issue money and We have 81, 000, 900 OF
bond money available for a new Il
brary building. Our great disaster viii
result in hurrying the work of con-
structfon and doubtless the building OF
the new home for San Francisco's
books will begin in the near future.
Meanwhile the various branches of the
fExrln
for the return and donation of books.
Next week the trustees will meet to
devise method of circulation
Both of Immense Value.
The Mechanics institute library and
the Mercantile library combined a few
weeks ago. Their collections had not
yet been brought together, but both
library structures. the former on Post
street below Kearney and the latter on
Suffer street above Kearney, were
buried. In the two collections are 160,-
600 volumes and all were lost The Su-
tro library of 200 900 volumes, collected
by the late AdOlrTh Sutro, was de-
Stroyed. These books were stored in
the Montgomery barracks and in a
building on Battery street. The collec-
ton was of imm ense value as it con-
tanned some of the rarest books in the
United States. The library of the So
ciety of Pioneers in their building on
street Is gone OIl6 or It's price,
less eatureS was the typewriter rem
iniscences of pioneers bound in twelve
volumes. The Bohemian club lost its
library Of 5000 volumes, many of them
autograph copies from noted authors.
The French library of 10000 books,
which was in the Spring Valley build
ing, is no more The B'nai Birth Ii
brary contributed 10, 900 volumes to the
pyre-
New Library Gone.
The flames took the costly library
in the CTOcker mansion. Nothing re-
mains of the 80 900 volumes of the San
Francisco law library. The supreme
court lost its library of 10000 volumes
and the fine collections of Appellate
Judge Harrison, and of DR.. Taylor,
dean of the Hastings law college, are
in ashes. A few private law libraries
escaped the flames. notable among
these being the collections of former
Judge Stack and Superior Judge Car
roll Cook, which were in their resi-
denCes in the unburned district
To sum UP, Of all the big libraries
in San Francisco one alone is intact
but luckily that one is of great value
The Bancroft library, containing an
immense collection of historical works,
was stored at Twenty-sixth and Valen-
cia streets and is INDIANA ged.
This collection was purchased some
time ago by the University of Cali
fOrnia and doubtless will be taken to
Berkeley for the use of the students as
soon as possible.
Messages of Sympathy.
Mayor Schmitz today received many
cablegramS which had been DELAYED
from every quarter of the globe all
expressing sympathy fer the people of
San Francisco. Among these were
words of comfort and good viii from
Australian cities. Dublin's mayor and
other Irish officials throughout Ire
land; from New Zealand, from Baron
kaneko at Toxic, who sympathizes
with the American people From En-
glishmen and officials in India in
China, Japan, South Africa and MANY
other far-Off points where the news of
San FrancfScO's catastrophe is known.
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