Omaha daily bee., 1906-06-17

drugs Another was that they were likely
at any moment to be seized and made to
work, than do which most Of them would
rather die.
Changes in Daily Life.
There has been a great change in the
daily life of the men and women OF San
Francisco. except where they have estab-
lished temporary headquarters In various
parts of the great burned section. The
men are busy. Fillmore street and Van
Ness avenue are practically new business
thoroughfares. Many business men have
leased stores in Fillmore street, while
others have erected one and two-story
buildings in that thoroughfare and are
reaping a harvest. Larger structures are
fast going up in Van Ness avenue and in a
few weeks that thoroughfare will be big
rival to the other street, which is further
up town.
Diamonds and other Jewels have been
sold since the fire. The candy shops are
doing livelier business than they ever did.
Women are busily shopping, and the hats
and gowns that they buy are not the
plalnest or cheapest. Prices Of necessaries
have not fallen; the cash is demanded by
the shopmen and paid by the purchaser.
! In fact, business is in many respects on
a better footing than before the fire.
| Not for more than a fortnight did the
people give up their Injuries. They seem
to have been of one mind with the French
man, who offered to go without the neces-
saries, provided he could get the luxuries
Of life The demand for Injuries is one OF
the most amazing phenomena OF an amaz-
ing experience. The greater part Of the
cooking is still done on the street. Even
where the chimneys have been repaired
no fires are yet allowed In the stoves
There is not water to save the poor rem
nant left of San Francisco If another fire
should start. 1t is most pathetic to see
, whole streets with stoves at intervals and
women standing in the wind trying to cook
a miserable meal for little family. And
when 1t rains the picture is full OF heart
break.
There il no laundry work-with rare ex.
ceptions. the people have no bathing facili'
ties. There are two great luxuries fol
which the millIonaires OF yesterday pathet
ically ask-for bath and a clean shirt
| waist
Famous Church Unframed.
Our way brought us to the fire limits
relates a correspondent Of the New Yorl
Times, and we were among streets named
for families of the old California days, Mis-
sion, Guerrero, Valencia, Dolores. o.
Dolores street we came to the quaint OLE
adobe mission built in 1776 by the Fran
ciscan fathers, from whom San Francisco
derived it's name. At it's threshold boil
earthquake and fire paused
In this part OF the city the earthquake,
was at its worst. Near by the valenci'
hotel stank eight feet and collapsed-th
streets and railroads are terrible to see
/ darraaaad md t,nffut In xr{nf
way. But the little adobe church IS Jus
as the padres left 1t, restful, reposeful,
bit of old Spain of the eighteenth century
The old adobe walls are not cracked an,
the old Spanish Madonnas, brown wit
age, look calmy out from the altar.
The only thing that had been disturbe
by the terrible earthquake was fine oil
Crusader, who had been thrown from hi
, pedestal: In one hand he carried a draw
sword, in the other an uplifted cross ii
; is back again on his pedestal and he SIT
| carries the cross, but the sword is broken.
, The old mission Is a graveyard; In
J are inscribed names OF long ago. An
here are everywhere evidences of IN
! earthquake. Vaults are cracked open an
! great marble monuments lie prone o
J graves near by.
We crossed the street for our perspeC
( tive Of this historical old mission, so mel
eifully spared in the midst Of so dire
calamity. We sat on a high granite col
ing, all that was left of the splend
! Notre Dame college, and across the wa
. was the little adobe mission on it's roc
, the mission bells, brought all the wa
? from Spain. Into their construction Tor
D ago were poured gold and silver orn;