Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1906-04-30
WORK in HARMONY
CITIZENS Committee At San
FRANCISCO GET together.
Signs of Return to Normal Con.
ditions Witnessed by Issuance
of First Permit for Modern
Steel Structure 49, Street Car
Service Resumed.

San Francisco, April s.-Harmony
aud pledges Of good feeling marked
the meetings yesterday OF the various
bodies Of citizens committees and
representatives Of the army which are
administering the affairs of-San Fran.
cisco.
The last sign of confusion and mis-
understanding which at times existed
has disappeared.
The finance committee late yester-
day gave out the following recapitula-
ton Of the subscription fund:
Total out-of-town subscriptions, ST.
Gil, 0ss local subscriptions, 1918. 500 !;
total. 81, s3l. OBS; subscriptions prom
Used. but not signed, $40. 400: grand
total. $5,42l,43s.
The first signs of the return to nor
NAL conditions were the resumption
of street car traffic in certain sections
and the taking out of the first permit
for the erection of a modern steel
structure upon the ground occupied
few days ago by less substantial
one.
Archbishop Urges Union.
Arch bishop Riordan appeared at the
meeting Of the citizens general COM
mittee and in an eloquent speech
counseled harmony between those who
are striving to bring order out of
chaos, and predicted city greater,
more beautiful and more striking ex-
ample of American pluck and enter
prise than the old San Francisco.
Union should be our watchword.
said the archbishop, land whatever
differences may have existed between
the men of this community in the past
should be wiped out. The Catholic
church is perhaps among the very
heaviest losers, but We are undismay.
ed, and l come here today to tell you
that the noble men and women over
whom l have direction are at your ser
vice
These ringing sentences Of the arch
bishop were enthusiastically cheered.
Mayor Schmitz replied in a speech
equally eloquent, saying that bar.
mony already prevailed. and that
whatever enmity may have been felt
in the past was wiped out, and the citi-
zens Of San Francisco had but one Oh
ject in view-the immediate upbuild-
ing Of newer and better municipal
ity.
Dr.. Edward Devine, in behalf Of the
Red Cross Society, added to the gen
eral feeling Of the occasion by reading
telegram from Secretary Taft, in
which the latter told of the gratifca-
ton of President Roosevelt at learn
ing Of the harmony that now exists in
the carrying out Of the immense
work that has been put upon San
Francisco.
Oakland, Cal, April 2s.-The Tri.
bune says:
A we'll known engineer says that
the area devastated by the fire in San
Francrisco approximates 10, 900 acres.
or about Is square miles. There are
few cities in the world where so much
valuable property is contained in an
equal territorial area. Within these
fifteen square miles were nearly 100
banks, some of the finest buildings in
the world, thousands of mercantile
and manufacturing establishments and
III ore than $50, 900 inhabitants, besides
some 40, 900 transients.
1.-THE aggregate of fatalities will
prob bly, not exceed 700 and will GER
tainly not reach 1000. Notvithstand.
ing the enormous and widespread des-
titution, the homes Of $50, 900 people
are still standing practically unin-
jured. There still remain the great
at the Potrero, the Pacific
Mail docks. the stockyards at South
San Francisco, the docks and manu-.
factories along the waterfront from
creek to Hunters point, the
mint, the postoffice and large retail
district on Fillmore and Devisajero
streets.