The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-07


tho rumors continue and some paniCky
depositora become scared. there II little
danger that the first day vt banking busi-
'e.- will SEQ a run.
a. II Hartman. president Of the Southern
Pacific Company. said today
The work Of rebuilding san Francisco
IL a work that concerns not only the people
Of this city and State but the Nation at
large. It concerns our national greatness
and welfare that San Francisco should
ri-c n greater city than IL Wa before the
events Of April M. East. North and South
appreciate This, and will meet what calls
may he made upon them. but. to Judge the
temper Of the men of this community, they
will be slow to make such calls.
" think that the self-reliant sririt Of 10
still animates them. II has shown itself
in the nov Tassing. and a little
later. when they have come to view their
situation with true IersI ective, they will
: show the initiative necessary to lii
the great ends they have in view.
This is a time for deeds. not words;
but il words will give courage to men of
faint hearts. let me say for the interest
that I represent that il shall be their aim
not to follow. but TO lead in the work Ut
! construction and creation"
ployed on public works has thrust itself
tlpon the notic, of the authorities. The food
s,ipply from public stations has been cut
of from the able Sodied men, and vet those
IADOIGIS VINO naNNN zone 10 WOIkI OT liz Guy
have mostly no money to buy food Frank
A Naest retti president of the Board of
Public Works. win go before the citizens
committee in the morning and ask for an
allowance of sos 600 to nav for the work
which has been done in the last three DAYS,
so that the men may have something to go
on This will be refunded by the CITY
later.
some typhoid has appearcd in the rel
fu9ee camps at the Presidio. The actua
number of cases il doubtful. Twenty pa
tients are under observation. but there il 80
much Intestinal trouble due to hardship
and canned foods that il is not possible
for the physicians to say with accuracy
how MANY have fever.
II is PRACTICALLY certain that there are some
genuine cases. They have appeared in tho
last two or three DAYS, and the disease
must have been caused by drinking UNI
hoiled water polluted in the early days Of
tha IRE
Chief OF Police Oman has issued further
orders Regarding the sale and dist
OF liouors' The rules are so strict that they
make Maine look like the Barbary Coast.
In tho Nrst nlac e. the sale of liquor for
beycrapes Is prohibited. Not ONLY il this
On the books. but it il being enforced by
the nolice
Then the drug stores may not sell the
"stlif" even on prescription. The pre-
scrintion dodge was overw orked after the
fire. In cases of actual necessity and
where a physician prescribes it the ap-
n,icant for frewater must 90 before the
secretar OF the Police Commission With
the physician and the prescription. This
hrinds p small vanity Of straight whiskey,
no m;yed drinks,
There has been some question OF the
leeaIitv of forcing drug stores to refuse pre.
scrinti9ns hut the commissioners are play-
ing on the safe side in their efforts to keep
dre~Inkenness from adding to the troubles
~ The noIice Afternll' il IL no great hard
shin FOR those who thirst, because any one
Via wants il badly enough NAV 20 across
tho hav to Oakland or Sa,lsalito.
Cani Gleason of the Police DEPARTMENT
is out of the hospital aud at work again,
His was one of the accidents that missed
count in the first day of The fire, He and a
sn,ad OF his men we're preparing 10 blow
m with kegs of pnrpowder, a building in
S Sto,venIon sfreet. a snnrk set off thu Tour
i,egs one inter the other, and the first
nvSiosinn shot Clemson and his squad across
he street and against the houses. Gleason