The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-02
CANDLES TO BEAM
IN FRISCO HOMES
Mayor Schmitz Removes Light
Embargo-Stores Open to
Thriving Business.
DEAD MAY REACH 1900.

DEAD MAY REACH 1900.
San s5G fodsS MaH the aeSrs
a Thousand additions to the death roll
I would not be surprised If the number
reached $500.
San Francisco, May 2.-Conditions of
life are gradually becoming more nor
NAL in this stricken city and the work
Of clearing up the wreck IN prepara-
tion for rebuilding in the downtown Sec
tion is going on more rapidly. -,
Business is being resumed by retail
tradesmen of every description turnout
the destroyed sections Of the city.
George Whitman, chairman of the
committee on retail trades reports the
following places of business open: For
ty-four butchers, twenty-nlne restau-
rants, twenty-five bakeries, twenty-five
fruit and vegetable stands, seventy,,one
diaries, ffty-one refreshmen5 pariors'
fifty-three grocery stores and seventy
one miscellaneous establishments, IN
Guiding tailors, plumbers, drygeeds
stores, druggists and cigarstands.
Do Thriving Business.
The commission firms located along
the water front are doing thriving
business. Yesterday receipts showed a
marked increase over the preceding day
and prices Of dairy goods and lines OF
green goods were lower
E In less than two weeks the garbage
question will be disposed of. An in
spection Of the reduction works in the
Potrero has been made and it was re-
ported that outside Of the 100 feet Of
tall ehi1nneys repaired to the furnaces
can be completed in ten days. Men
have been set to work on these repairs
and soon there will be established a
forced draught so as to insure rapid
combustion. AS soon as this is COM
pleted all refuse will be burned.
IT, Homes to Be Lighted.
T. Mayor schmitz has just made the an
: nouncement that all time restrictions
as to the lighting Of dwellings will be
removed today with the suggestion that
candles be used exclusively for llum1'
mating purposes until electricity can be
resumed. Petroleum for lighting pur.
poses is especially prohibited until the
water supply is intact.
The Spring Valley Water company
. expects to have the city front water
supply in commission in ten days.
The United Railways has been given
permission by Mayor Schmitz to oper'
ate its cars until later hours in order
! leave all terminals at midnight. Seven
2 lines have been in operation already
and with these three additional routes
will be covering nearly all sections OF
the unburned districts.
ALI Chinmeys Inspected.
! The work Of inspecting chimneys is
all archit ects or builders and are do
mating their services for the benefit Of
I householders. Every chimney in every
j building left standing In San francisco
5 will be thoroly inspected before any
permits are issued to make fires indoors
Nearly all the ehimneys in the hill
are found to be in excellent condition
Chimnevs Of houses located in the fla
section are practically all out Of com
mission.
Factories Start Up.
I Many Of the larger factories left un
harmed are starting up work with al
stances. At the Union Iron Work
1900 men are no unemployed and tn
management expects within a fortnigh
to have the full complement of its force
nearly 1000 men, engaged.
No damage was done to the three nev
warships being built at these works TO
the goyernment, the cruisers Californi
South Dakota.
The steamer City Of Pueblo, whic
was sunk in the bay has been raised
and is being repaired. Workmen ar
also engaged fixing the steamer Colum
bia, which was turned on her side. Tn
hulls of the new Observation-Disclosures
company's liner were pitched abou
four feet to the south, but were unir
jured and will be replaced.
To Ask Presidents Aid.
Victor n. Metcalf, secretary of con
merce and labor, who is here as the PEI
sonal representative of the presiden
will be requested to lay before tn
president and his cabinet the pla
proposed by former Mayor James I
Phelan Of having the government qua
antee large municipal bond issue b
San Francisco to rebuild the city
This action, it is said, was unofficial
decided upon at conference held la
night at Fort Mason between tt
finance committee Of which Mr.. Phi
Ian is chairman and the mayor. It
proposed that San Francisco shall issl
municipal bonds in the sum of 5000
100000, to run q series of years, ar
the payment Of which is to be guara
teed by the United States. To ISIS,
such a loan it will be necessary
amend the city charter and have Il
legislature remove any other obstacle
To Rebuild Chinatown.
Fifty Chinese owners of property
old Chinatown have decided to rebui
on the sites where their buildings we
destroyed. Legal advisers Of t.
Chinese, the Chinese consul general al
the vice consul, gave it as their OPT
ion that owners and lessees of land
Chinatown cannot be deprived of t.
right to rebuild if they so desire.
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