The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-13
AMUSING PHASES
 OF THE DISASTER
GIimpses of Camp Life Among
 Frisco Refugees
RELATIVES TRY TO MEET
Advertisements in the Examiner Tell an Interesting Story of the Earth quake's Aftermath-Com-
 edy and Pathos.
From the Washington Post.

From the Washington Post.
 Will William Catterson come to me at the hall of tustice?-Annie Catterson.
 w. B. Currier seeks wife and childrer Address, care Wass. Berkeley.
 W. H. and R. B. Bradley can find their mother at SIS Thirteenth street. Oakland.
 Sam Stevens: Come to my house with your wife and work.-E. T. NJ.
 And so they read-one solid page of per sonal advertisements in the San Francisco Examiner of April 22, four days after the earthquake. They are not humorous; they are calls for friends and relatives appeals of children for their mothers, and of wives for their husbands They are the real evidence of the distress and chaos that still hover over the city by the Golden Gate. Five hundred of these brief adver- tlsements tell story that cannot be written in any other way.
 Occasionally there comes a smile. For instance:
 Dear Rose: Tell me where you are?-- Henry
 Or this:
 Harry: am a little shaken up, but
  me up.-Walter.
 Or this:
 Will the ex-United States senator com municate with w. W. Williams, 1869 Eff ty-ninth street, Oakland?
 Of course, if there was only one eX- United States senator in town at that time, it is all right, but otherwise 1t would bear all the earmarks of confidence game.
 Me and My Hats.
 Interspersed among these queries con corning the personal whereabouts of in- dividuals is something like this: Cohen the popular price natter, has opened a branch store at 3019 Laguna street. Anxious friends will find him there, with new stock of up-to-date hats. Turning the page we find larger adver- tisements of once prosperous firms. Here is one that is typical:
 Baldwin & Howell have established tenn porary offices on the Presidio terrace
 The Southern Pacific railroad inserts 2 conspicuous advertisement to the effec that it's general offices have been estab 1 lished at the freight warehouse. The Elm | porium a mammoth department store l that formerly covered a block on Marke | street, announces that it has opened shop at 1906 Franklin street, mile iron ] the former business district of the town i We are not going out of business, ap l pearances to the contrary notwlthstand | ing" is the scare-head display made b, | the firm of Kiel & Evans. carriage build | CTS But like most all the other business , houses, their temporary headquarters arr across the bay" at Oakland. 1 A Case of "Skidoo" 1 Another smile is coming when the ad | Vertisement of the Cooks Tours, is en 1 countered in the midst of others of loca import. The Cooks Tours company an nounces that it is prepared to book tray , elerS for any portion of the world. NJ i doubt the bookings were enormous. a about all the residents Of the burned dis l trict saved from the wreck was a smal | supply of money and a great, big desir l to get out of the country. Even the California Powder works ha i the courage to advertise it's wares, an | this in less than a week after the earth i quake. The real estate companies seem t | be the only ones that saved all thei stock in trade. Lots are offered for sale "as soon as the debris is removed.' 1 Here is one for the skeptieal: Belden X Percival. For sale-A ney l earthquake-pr proof five-room cottage; cen traIly located no raise in price grab | quick.
 | me record goes no luTlHer, Dul pIoD l ably it was grabbed. Business in the Park.
 The San Francisco Examiner, in whio, 1 all these interesting stories appear, an nounces in it's own behalf that it has es i tablished a San Francisco office .at tn Waller street entrance of Golden Cat park. Letter paper, lead pencils an envelopes are given away to refugees"
 It is perhaps pertinent to add that i all these columns advising the public a to the temporary locations of all sorts O business and commercial houses. only on