The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-04-26

ZION aDDfUDrldtlIS Sl.JNt,uuH. IElS
makes $4,000 600 given 10y the ma
liOnal government.
san Francisco, April 25.-The new
San Francisco which viii rise from the
ashes of the old was in its first stages
of rebuilding Yesterday. After five
days of confusion and almost super
human effort on the part of the citi-
zens of CALIFORNIA; metropolis in the
great task of Sheltering, feeding and
otherwise caring for the homeless thou,
sands, complete order has been re-es-
tablished and attention turned to the
future.
Throughout the great business dis
trlct where the devastation of the
flames was the most complete, walls
were being RACED, buildings that had
not disintegrated before the intense.
heat were being inspected with the
view of r~e-occupancy and ever ground
was being cleared for the Immediate
construction of some sort Of building
in which to resume business at the
earliest possible time. In short conf,
dence had been restored.
The assurance of the insurance COM
panles, the measures taken by the fed
eral institutions, the prompt and reas-
surfing word hat had reached the bust
ness men of San Francisco from east
ern financial centers-al these things
went TO clear away any feeling of I'M
certainty that might have existed in
the minds of the timid that San Fran
cisco would not be again what it once
was-the greatest center Of population
and business Of the Pacific coast.
Chicago, April 25.-''Theye is no req
sonable limit on the amount of money
which the national government is ready
TO transfer to San Francisco to be
available for rebuilding The city,"
Inc foregoing statement was mazda
today by Secretary of the Treasury
Shaw, who is in Chicago on private
business. Shaw continued:
The $1O,OoO.O00 which at first
thought vol be sufficient was mere
ly a drop in the bucket. 1t develops
now the extent of the calamity is be-
coming known and the San Francisco
subtreasury will be ~re-establlshed tenn
porarily in the mint and transfers of
money will be made through ii. There
will be no expense for exchange, the
money borrowed in the east being paid
from the u Francisco s~ubtreasury.
The destroyed government buildings
] expect to be rebuilt as quickly as pos
sible."
Capital Will Respond.
New York, April 25.-So far as money
in the financial institutions is con-
cerned, New York bankers are saying
San Francisco is as We'll off as before
the fire. AS was the case IL Baltimore.
the money will be available as soon as
the vaults are cool. But the conditions
in San Francisco are better in one re-
spect. There is a mint and q subtreas-
urN there and between them they have
$245, 600, 600.
Action taken by the federal author
tiles permits Withdrawal OF money from
the government funds on the coast on
deposit of funds with the subtreasury
here. In this way gold can I've trans
far,.nI INV talnrrn + ,,;+L ~ .o-. 80
the message the only expense to the
sender. Relief funds and money for
commercial use can in this way be
made Immediately available.
There was transferred in this way to-
lay 81, 700, 900 and 1900, 600 more went
onward in currency. AT the same time
hat they We're sending money west,
New York bankers took action to re-
oleniSh their reserves by ensa ging for
import Sc, 250,0 600 gold from London.
immense sums are to be paid by fire
insurance companies and fortunes will
oe. needed for reconstruction of the city.
out New York bankers expressed the
opinion today that the money for both
purposes would be supplied withou
tightening the money market to any
uncomfortable extent.
DR.. o. Mills, H. e. HUNTINGTON. Mrs.
Herman 1clrichs, Mrs. w. X. Vanderbilt,
IT., and George Crocker, large holders of
real estate in San Francisco, have ahund-
ant funds to rebuild the properties des-,
troyed by fire, and all expressed today the
intention of doing so at once.
Engineers in the employ Of two of the
argcst engineering and contracting con-
Germs in the city were sent to the coast
today to make reports on projects for re-
building.
Before San Francisco's ruins have cooled,
many orders will nave been placed for
structural steel for rebuilding. Owners of
some Of San Francisco's DESTROYED office
buildings who are in this city are already
sounding the market. and an order for
5000 tons will be placed next Monday from
plans accepted for a siXteen-story office
building projected by a San Francisco
banker six months ago.
Among local capitalists interested in San
Francisco real estate there is a belief that
in the congested state Of the structural
steel trades 1t will be impossible to obtain
material for reasonably quick deliveries in
San Francisco, and for that reason il NAV
be necessary to place orders in Germany
and Belgium.
Theodore Starrett, Of the Thomson
Starrett company, arrived today from Chi \
cago, and said that office BUILDINGS WITH
steel frames could be erected in San Fran
cisco which would withstand an earth
quake shock as severe as the one which