Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-29
My ONE PAPER sUSPENDS
Post Temporarily out of Business and
AdvertIEerE Resume Work.

Post Temporarily out Of Business and
Advertisers Resume Work.
SAN FRANCISCO. April est takes
more than an earthquake and a confiagra-
ton TO put the San Francisco newspapers
out of business. With a resourcefulness
that cannot but be admired, they sur
mounted all difficulties today and there is
little in their appearance that would indi-
cate the strain and stress under which they
have labored in order to present the news
to the public.
Only one of them has suspended. The
Evening Post, being upable to acquire a
plant in the vicinity Of the city, has re-
tired from the field for sixty days All
others are Issuing as usual.
1t must be remembered that at 5:13 on
the morning of the earthquake, April is,
power and water failed in every news
paper office in San Francisco. Still, in the
hope that the day grew these agencies
would be provided, the gathering OF news
! went on as usual. When the confagration
made It apparent that all plants. without
exception, would be destroyed, the Bulletin
put at work a force in it's composing rooms
and a handful was hand-set and some
hundreds 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, on the
other side Of the bay and there on Thurs
day morning issued a joint paper from the
office of the Oakland Tribune On Friday
morning they split forces again, the Exam
liner 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 services of the
Oakland Enquirer plant. Meantime on Fri
day the Bulletin, after a suspension of one
day, made arrangements for the use in the
afternoon of the Oakland Herald equip
ment and from these sources and under
such circumstances the San Francisco
papers have been issuing.
Ofices were hurriedly opened on Fillmore
street. which today is the main thorough
fare Of San Francisco, and from these
headquarters the news of the day, as It
was gathered, has been transmitted by
means of automobiles and the ferry service
TO the Oakland shore. There also were ac-
cepted such advertisements as have been
offered. The number of these is perhaps
the best visible sign at present of the
resurrection of the new city. 1t was noted
that in fourteen-page paper printed yes
terday by the Examiner there were over
nine pages of advertisements, and in a six
teen-page paper published this morning by
the Chronicle at least so per cent OF its
space was devoted to the same end. What
better evidence could the world have of
the indomitable purpose of the merchants
of San Francisco. II is TO be noted that
this issue Of the Chronicle, OF which men
ton has been made, was delivered this
morning by carrier at the residence of every
subscriber remaining standing in San Fran
cisco not later than Z O'Clock.
The maintenance of telegraphic commu-
nication with the outside world has been
one Of the most difficult matters with
which the newspapers have had to contend
The experience of the Associated Press in
| this respect will give an idea of the OBJ
stacles confronting other news agencies.
From Wednesday. April Is, until Monday,
! April p, there was neither communication
/ by telephone or telegraph between Oakland
/ and san Francisco. On Monday one tele-
| phone circuit with Oakland was estab-
| lished and the Associated Press used this
/ for Geographic purposes. The use of this
/ circuit continued throughout Tuesday and
/ Wednesday It failed. On Thursday the
Western Union, by extraordinary efforts
! ing order and by running wires In a
| roundabout way managed to get a wire
into the municipal headquarters at Frank
lin hall on Fillmore street near Bush
| This wire was placed at the disposal of the
| Associated Press and through communica
| ton TO the east established.