Omaha daily bee., 1906-09-09

its tube quietly and satisfactorily, but the
brakes were found inadequate and the
prospect of plunging down the grade i'm
proved in consequence. The hill looked
very steep that morning and the bottom
of the incline seemed to rest in the waters
Of the bay.
consultation was held, and as the
last day OF the time allowed for compile
ton of the road was at hand, it was de-
cided that a trial must be made. The
gripman took one look at the abyss be-
low him and refused to risk his life. Mr..
HalIidie himself took charge of the dummy,
and fastening the grip to the rope, went
over the brow of the hill, and with Mr..
Britton, Mr.. Davis and six others, reached
the foot of the hill in safety. At the
bottom the dummy reversed and
picking up the cable the ascent was rapidly
made. The same afternoon car was at
tached to the grip car and amid cheers
from an immense crowd a successful
round trip was made. and the problem of
cheap and rapid transit was solved. In
few years the Geary, Suffer-, Union and
California street lines with their branches
were finished, and in 1888 the Market street
system abandoned horses as motive power.
Urgent Demand for Labor.
Persons at a distance, persons not ac-
quainted with the actual condition of af-
| fairs on the shore of the Golden Gate, can
scarcely comprehend the urgency of this
| need of labor" writes correspondent Of
| the New York Tribune Some indica-
| lions of it are afforded by the prices that
labor now commands here. Bricklayers,
| for example, receive 81 a day; plumbers,
Sc day; carpenters, from 81 to S;-and,
| in the dearth of the actual skilled artisan,
| any man who ever saw a pipe-wrench is
| a plu nber, and any man who ever mashed
| his thumbnail with hammer is car
penter The street railway companies
want, at least, one thousand day laborers,
| and those laborers can have 81 day and
| sleeping accommodation. The Ocean-shore
| Road needs from three to eight hundred
! day laborers. The Union Iron Works are
short of at least two hundred men. Con-
| tlnuous employment is assured, for hun
dreds of workingmen, throughout the win
| ter months-a time when building oper-
atoms In the east are, generally, discon-
| tinued; and that employment they can
obtain In a climate so mild that, under
its genial influence lilies bloom in jan
uary. The counsel that young men should
! go west and labor is, more than ever,
good counsel. under circumstances thus
| suspicious.
THE country in the vicinity of San Fran
cisco IL uncommonly prosperous In
Santa Rosa and the Sonoma Valley the
| condition of affairs is especially fine All
the fruit crops are abundant, Soon after
| the wreck of San Francisco some of The
residents in or near Santa Rosa sold out
and went to the east, but their places were
promptly filed. No improvements that
were designed before the earthquake have
| been abandoned. The disaster at San
| Francisco, indeed. while causing financial
loss, has stimulated business in the So
mona valley and in Santa Rosa, partly
through increase OF population. 1t should
especially be remembered that the great
business interests of California in general
the mining, livestock, lumber and fruit
industries-were not injured in the calam-
ity in the city. The grain crop, through
out the state, is good. The prune crop
will be normal in tonnage. though the fruit
is rather small. The apple crop, in Wat
sonville and neighborhood, will be ample
and OF fine quality. The crop Of hops Is
very large, but there is pressing need Of
laborers in the hop fields. and hundreds
might find employment in them, at once
| remunerative healthful and pleasant.
This is the need of San Francisco
labor. The earthquake and the fire are
things OF the past. 1t Is useless TO dwell
upon them. The inhabitants Of the old,
picturesque, bounteous, royal city have raj
lied to their task with splendid energy end
courage Their intrepid spirit affords an
inspiring example, and 1t will not be for
gotten. Their city is rising around them,
and 1t will be a more substantial and
beautiful city than ever before. The gem
eral and cordial wish Of the outside world
is that It may rise quickly. The one GER
tain way to accomplish that wish is to
make practical answer to San Franciseo's
need-the great, imperative, all-absorbins
| need of labor"