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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1906-11-16

The freight traffic on the Grand Trunk
System through this loH Is gradually
increasing.
II. }. Goss aud Daniel J. Daley, at
torneys Of Berlin, y. II. were in town
Monday on legal business.
Fred LavalIee has returned to Island
Fond, aud has employment as a car re-
pairer in the railroad yard.
The chicken pie supper given Icy the
ladies Of the NJ. +. church Wednesday
evening was well patronizei, and a good
/ ly sum realized.
We are all glad to see Mrs. f. ;.
Cooper once more take up her residence
at Island Pcud arriving here last week
with her two children from IoSa.
Col. Sprague the well known insur-
ance man, was in town this week. and
as usual was the first TO distribute ser
vIceable calendars Tor 1907. First and
hest ! hi. r,,,,
Mrs. Carl llodslen returned to Rut-
land last Friday after a visit Of several
weeks in Island Pond aud Morgan. She
nm, Vrs1 ain ,r.,..ll,.....,.:. :. ~.
land ,,.h...t'; -. =.
is,. tr,I.
Examinations Tor applicants for posi-
''"hs As teachers M the public schools
Mrs Ana, = rn.;,h, - i,,.1 D.,
nov. w.l,a.,.,....'I r.,
hor j, ~, 80 Do -, ~. 80"
and s,,,r.1,,.
Inc "Fand Trunk announce their
annual excursion from Portland and
Intermediate points to Montreal Quebec
ana ~. Anne de beaupre, for Thursday
December 20 return limit January p,
-, ,;,... 49,. ''s '1'''''' Will
We are unable to CIV" any further
particulars OF the annual meeting Of the
ruin District OF Vermont, l. Q. O. F.,
heSuhd what Was published last week.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1906-11-16
A Card.

We, the undersigned, do hereby agree
to refund the money on a 30 cent bottle
Of Greene's Warranted Syrup of Tar if
1t fails to cure your cough or cold We
also guarantee 2j-cent bottle to prove
satisfactory or money refunded.
John W. Thurston. 2. j. Flaherty.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1906-11-16
A GUARANTEED CURE FOR PILES.

Itching, Blind, Bleeding, Protruding
Piles. Druggists are authorized to re
fund money ii pAzo OINTMENT fails to
cure i'll 6 to II days. soc.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1906-11-16
Letter TO NJ b Ladd
Island Pond, Vermont.

Island Pond, IeTa0Hf.
Dear Sir: Here's the difference be-
tween two pure paints one strong the
other weak.
c p Hanger, Staunton, Va, painted
two new houses, the houses exactly
alike one another pure paint, the other
Deyoe. D-yoe cost a quarter less for
paint and labor.
People generally are paying t~ice-over
for paint.
Yours truly,
q r W DeyOe & Co
New York
=. ;. J. W. Thurston sells our paint
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1906-11-16
Canaan.

p. ;. }. W. Thurston sells our paint
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-19
NO WORDS WASTED
Swift Transformation Briefly D
scribed.

About food, the following brief but
emphatic letter from a Georgia woman
goes straight to the point and is con
vincing:
"My frequent attacks of indiges
tion and palpitation of the heart cul
minated three years ago in suddeI
and desperate illness, from which
arose enfeebled in mind and body. TIL.
doctor advised me to live on cereals
but none of them agreed with me un
til I tried Grape-Nuts food and Postum
Coffee. The more 1 used of them tn.
more / felt convinced that they wers
Just what needed, and in short timt
they made different woman of me
Ny stomach and heart troubles wer'
cured as by magic, and my mind wa
restored and is as clear as it ever was
81 gained flesh and strength so rap
idly that my friends were astonished
Postum and Grape-Nuts have benefte,
me so greatly that I am glad to bea
this testimony Name given b,
Postum CO., Battle Creek, Mich.
There g reason.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-19
THE INSURANCE CARRIED
How the Risks in San Francisco Were
Distributed.

Chicago, April 19.-Fire insurance
companies had about $250,000,00O at
risk in the city Of San Francisco, the
estimate being based on the premiums
received in 1905. For years the Pacific
coast has been the one section of the
country which could be depended upon
for steady profit. San Francisco has
been the best profit producer of the
coast. It's loss ratio for period of
years has been the lowest, being less
than 25 per cent Of any city in the
country, despite the unusual proportion
of frame construction. As result Of
this unusually favorable experience
rates were low in that city and all the
fire insurance companies wrote literally.
On the other hand the proportion of
insurance to value was unusually small
partly because Of the overconfdence re-
sulting from the long immunity from
heavy losses, and also because there is
no reinsurance clause in use there. as
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-19
COMPARED WITH BALTIMORE
Earthquake Makes Frisco Insurance
Problem Different.

New York, April 19.-Never were the
New York underwriters so bewildered
in catastrophe as yesterday, when
they tried to figure their losses IN the
California earthquake Several place
the damages at $100,000,OOO.
A comparison with the Baltimore fire
of Feb. 7, 1904, was instantly drawn
in insurance circles. In that contiagra-
ton $7O,OOO,000 worth Of property was
destroyed, and the loss which eventually
fell upon the insurance companies was
approximately $39,00O,0O0.
Between that disaster and yester-
days there was the one great differ
ence in the fact that the fire under.
writer's are not liable for losses caused
by the earthquake itself. But as for
the damage to buildings which collapsed
partly and then took fire, underwrlt'
ers were uncertain during the day. AS
to the blocks of buildings which escaped
the earthquake and then were burned
the estimates were clearer.
Not a STANDARD Policy State.
f California is not what is called among
insurance men a "standard policy
state, and for many years most Of the
fire insurance poll, les issued upon prop
erty there contained a specific clause
excepting from liability for wreckage
thru earthquakes. Within few years
most Of the companies writing the bull
of San Francisco insurance have usee
the New York standard policy, which
contains only one clause in any way
bearing upon liability for earthquake
damage. That clause is as follows:
elf building or any part Thereof
fall, except as. the. result Of fire, al
insurance by this policy on such build
ing or. it's contents shall immediatel.
cease -. "a. .-,..- . - ...
Some companies have: retained al
OF P9ey Mh1eh bv earRb
quake Officials of these companie
were busy today examining the ques
4 ton as to how far this clause woul
exempt them from losses by resultan
fires. .-.s
The general disposition, however, wa
that the companies would raise no tech
nicalities, but wherever there could b
the slightest question the benefit of tn
doubt would be given to the polio
1 holder.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-19

Earthquake and tidal wave in the
Society islands, March 4 and s., 1869
(d) The depression Of the Mediter-
ranean.
e. (vesuvius in eruption April S, 1906,
and succeeding days.) .r..
Able Moreau's prediction was pub
lished in The Sunday Journal Oct. 20,
1905, in Paris dispatch of the New
York Herald cable service, exclusively
used in the northwest in The Sunday
journal. The dispatch read as follows:
Paris, Oct. 2S.-Abbe Moreau, writ
ing on the subject of the recent solar
activity, says: GAS the solar activity
will slowly diminish, it is highly prob
able that earthquakes will occur in
March or April next g..
1t will be remembered that Able Mo-
reau, in an article which was widely
copied, predicted the earthquakes which
few months ago devastated India and
which, he holds, were due to sunspots.
He maintained the following in an ar
ticle published this week:
"Thers is a connection between solar
activity and volcanoes and even earth.
quakes. ......
"The awakening of the internal
sudden change in the curve Of sunspots
if it rises or if it falls. The number
of sunspots is not alone decisive fac
tor; there must be sudden augmenta.
lions or diminutions.
Earthquakes, and especially vol
canic action, are localized on the lines
Of fracture of the globe, and particu
larly at the intersection Of these lines
I (a) The west coast of the two Amer
/ icas; (b) the line including the vol
canic districts Of eastern Asia; (e) the
South Sea islands and Australia, and
| (d) the depression of the Mediterra
mean, cutting the three first lines OF
fracture almost at right angles.
tThese are facts. hypothesis les:
certain have been suggested. The SUI
acts on the crust of the earth by caus
ing it's potential electricity to vary o.
by modifying the heat sent to thu
earth For both there would be a dila
ton or shrinking of the envelop.'
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-19
NIGHT SCENE In
HE DOOMED CITY
described as One Of "Unspeak-
ap4e 1ranaeu1' now II
I.0oneu IRON U1sya1lUe.

ga 4ancisco, April l9.-The city
lasr nlsnG resenlpled one vast shamble
with the red glare Of the fire throwing
weird shadows across the worn amt
panlc-strlcken faces of the homeless,
who wandered the streets OF slept Ilo444
exhaustion on piles OF mattresses and
clothing in the parks and on the side
walks IN those districts not yet reached
by the fire
Forgetting for a moment the trials
in the wake of the disaster, the scene
presented by the flames was of I'M
speakable grandeur. Looking over the
city from a high. hill in the western
addition, the flames could be seen roll
ing skyward for miles and miles, while
in the midst Of the squirting and with
ing tongues of red ire could be seen
the black skeletons and falling towers
of the doomed buildings. AT regular
intervals the booming Of the dynamite
told of the work of the brave men
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-19
CAN'T COLLECT
ANY INSURANCE
No Earthquake Policies, and
Others Don't Cover bulld-
lngs shaken Down,
Journal Special Service.

journal Special Service.
New York, April 19.-Millions for
IRE, but not one cent Tor earthquakes.
This is The insurance sltuatlon IN
San francisco. The owners OF proper
ty destroyed by earthquake cannot col
lect dollar under their fre-insurance
policies, even tho the buildings that
Tell were later swept by flame. But
in case a structure shattered by the
seismic disturbances should spread "a
blaze to an adjoining building, the
owner of that building can collect his
fire insurance.
AS far as the heads of the big fire
insurance companies with policies IN
this city know, no policy has ever been
written to cover disasters by earth
quake. There is not an insurance COM
pany in America that is allowed by its
charter to write earthquake insurance.
Henry w. Eaton, manager OF the
Liverpool, London & Globe Fire lnsur-
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-19
FIRES MAD MARCH
SWEPT ALL IN WAY
Flames Continue into Night, with
Firemen Powerless to
Check Them.

San Francisco, April 19.-At 5 pm.
last night the fremen were as far as
ever from checking the progress Of the
flames. ~
In the northern section Of the down
town business section the fire swept
around the Hall Of Justice and com
municated to Chinatown, proceeding
westward into the heart of that colony.
1t then began rapidly eating its way
southwark on both sides of Kearney
street and at this writing & pm was
within block of the California hotel.
This point is close to the plant Of
the Bulletin, an evening publication, in
which the three morning papers had
agreed to join for the issue of four
page paper this morning. That plan
was abandoned when the Bulletin was
found to be directly in the path of the
flames. = e.. r.
Palace Hotel Gone.
About 6 pm. the world famous
Palace hotel, built at a cost of mil
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-19
is tho ruip ID otlbr large ritios, roquir-
ing The eyfnor 10 marry q certain propor.
lion or insurance TO value.
Foreign Companies Policies.

0l0aSA SOAARaa10S 6OACA0S
The total San Francisco premiums in
1906 were $2,9S5 $40, OF wnlcn 81. 645,-5
io9 were written IN American com
panies and $l,24u,SSU in foreign COM.
panles. lhe latter proportion is much
greater than that ned ny foreign COM
spanles in the country at large. The
1,nlne and IMoseile, Tor instance, when
writes nowhere else In the United
States, nau nearly $5,0UO,0UU at FISK III
san francisco.
There were los fire companies doing
business in CallIornla last year. The
riremen's Fund, which as the leading
tire insurance company of san fran
cisco, STANDS third, the premium income
in the city last year. being $fi ,oOS, and
the Home Fire and Marine, owned by 1t,
mad $3l JOB. Local insurance men esti-
mated that the two companies had over
So, 100000 at risk. The Hartford had
$12,2as in premiums and the New York
Underwriters owned by 1t, SIT ,552, max
ing a total risk OF over ST., 100000.
The California Fire, which only re-
1sumed business last year, had large
premiums, and the Pacific underwriters
mad $2O,632. The PACING was recently
amalgamated with the Conservative OF
Los Angeles, which will be doubly a
sufferer, as that company wrote both
life and accident insurance. It had the
largest business on the coast last year.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-19
|MOREAU FORETOLD
It LAST OCTOBER
French Savant Predicted Califor-
MIA and Vesuvian Disasters
Many Months Ago.

Able Moreau, in Paris dispatch to
The Minneapolis Sunday journal, Oct.
20, predicted the catastrophe which has
overwhelmed San Francisco.
Not only this, but he announced that
the spring of 1906 would be marked
by four principal disturbances, and the
occurrences Of March and April have
fulfilled his prophecy.
Here is Able Moreau Is specific state
ment of the disturbances to be ex-
pected, and the verifcation Of his fore
cast: 60
(a) The west coast of the two Amer
icas.
Earthquake in California April 10;
tidal wave on coast Of Colombia and
at Panama, Feb. 16, 1869
(b) The line including the volcanic
district of eastern Asia.
Earthquake in Formosa April IA,
1860
(c) The South Sea islands and Aus
tralja --E aE-
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-19
SUCCOR PROVIDED
FOR SUFFERERS
Mayor Orders Shops to Harbor
Supplies for the Frisco
!.
Homeless.

San Francisco, April 19.-The mayor
has notified bakeries and milk stations
that their food supply must be harbored
for the homeless. $3.50 g.
Preparations have been made to place
tents in every park in the city, and in
these those who have lost all will be
given food and shelter. ~ ~
The prisoners in the city prison on
the fifth floor Of the Hall of Justice
were transferred into the basement of
the structure. Later, they were re-
moved to the Broadway jail, and, if
necessity arises, they will be taken to
the branch county jail on the Mis-
sion road.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-19
OPERA COMPANY'S
BELONGINGS GONE
Metropolitan Organizations Valu-
able Costumes and Scenery
{. Reduced to Ashes. -.

San Francisco, April 19.-The fire
reached the Grand operahouse, on Mis-
sion street, and in moment had
burned thru the roof. The Metropoli-
tan opera company from New York
had just opened it's season there and
all the expensive scenery and costumes
were soon reduced to ashes.
Destroyed in Minutes.
From the operahouse the fire leaped
from building to building, leveling
them almost to the ground in-quick SUE
cession.
The Call editorial and mechanical de-
partments were wiped out in a few
minutes and the flames leaped across
Stevenson street toward the fifteen
story stone and iron Claus Spreckles
building, which, with its lofty dome,
is the most notable edifce in San
Francisco.
Two small wooden buildings fur
nished fuel to ignite the splendid pile.
At first no impression was made, but
suddenly there was a cracking OF glass
and an entrance was effected.
Leaps to Dome.
The interior furnishings of the
fourth floor were the first to go. Then.
as tho by magic, smoke issued from
the top Of the dome.
This was followed by most spec
tacular illumination. The round win
dows of the dome shone like so many
full moons; they burst and gave-v
to long waving streamers OF flame.
| Thousands watched the spectacles
| with bated breath.
The tall and slender structure, which
| had withstood the forces of the earth
quake, appeared doomed to fall prey
| to fire. After a while, however, the
light grew less intense and the flames
i finding nothing more to consume, grad
nally went out, leaving the building
standing but completely Quilted.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-19
HEROIC OPERATORS /
GAVE WORLD NEWS
Courageous Photographers Stuck to
Posts Until They Were Com
80 PEELED to Leave.

New York, April 19.-That the world
received news thruout the day of the
San Francisco disaster is due III part
to the. courage Of the telegraph opera
tors there, who stuck to their posts and
continued to send news and other mes
sages in spite of great personal dan
ger. .s-..
The operators and officials of the
Postal Telegraph company remained IN
the main office of the company at the
corner of Market and Montgomery
streets, opposite the Palace hotel, until
they were ordered out of the building
because Of the danger from the dyna-
mite explosions in the Immediate vicin-
ity. The men went to Oakland, across
the bay, and took possession of the Of
fee there.
Last night the company operated
seven wires from Oakland. All mes
sages from the city were taken across
the bay in boats. yr..~ .-.t,
... Goes Thru Burning Streets.
w. G.. Swain, an electrical engineer
in the service Of the Postal company
to the main building in San Francisco
and got communication east. His last
message was timed 5:47 pm. He SAID
he was surrounded by severe explosions
of illuminating and sewer gas.
The Postal building was not de
stroyed up to o. CLOCK last night. The
roof only had been damaged. It was
surrounded by fire on three sides. The
cable apparatus Of the Postal company
was moved to the cable hut on the
beach, near the Cliff house.
The Postal company received com
mercial messages until 2 pm. in it,
San Francisco office. No attempt coult
be made to deliver these because tn,
city was under martial law and mes
sengers could not pass thru the streets
The company will move back into Sal
Francisco as soon as conditions per
nit.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-19
5000 MESSAGES .HUNG UP''
Chicagoans File Inquiries but Com
!, Panies Can't Forward Them.

Chicago, April 19.-Telegraph and
telephone offices were deluged last
night with thousands Of messages from
friends and relatives in this city, in
quiring for information Of the fate Of
loved ones in devastated San Francisco.
Hundreds of Chicagoans are in the
city, either on business or on pleasure
trips. while many residents here have
relatives who make San Francisco their
home.
One telegraph company last night re-
I. waiting to be dispatched e to The Pa.
cifc coast. Frantic men and women
who feared for friends or relatives tried
to bribe clerks Of the company and to
bring the influence Of business men to
bear to have their messages rushed
ahead Of the others, but the rule of
first come, first served was strictly
enforced. Another company reported
like conditions
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-19

ance company, explained today that the
insured can only collect on a building
fred while standing. Once a structure
is shaken down by earthquake the
writer's of insurance on it are not liable.
emo matter how fire reaches a stand
ing building,' said Mr.. Eaton, - i'm
less it is incendiary, the insurance
companies are liable. In this case Of
the confagration in San Francisco, the
buildings that withstood the shock but
caught fire after the earthquake, are
protected if policies have been written
on them' " ~
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-19
Damage at Navy Yard.

Washington, April IA telegram
received at the navy department today
from the commandant of the Mare
Island navy yard, sent, since the earth
quake, reports that 81 900 will cover the
damage done there. No mention is
made of any injuries to any of the peo-
pie of the yard.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-19
RELIEF GOES FREE
Freight Charges Waived on Supplies
for Stricken City. ..a-

Chicago, April 19-That relief sup
plies for San Francisco will be carried
gratuitously by various transportation
companies was indicated yesterday,
when within few hours after the news
of the catastrophe had arrived, the Ex-
port Shipping company announced, thru
President F. G. Bailey, that it would
agree to take supplies to the suffering
Mr.. Bailey said that clothing and
Food supplies would be transported as
fast as received - s.s-. =. =
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-19
CHARITY.

{ do you give much to charity7"
DWELL, I was held up by woman
who complained that she had nothing
to wear this morning, and / had to
write her out check for $50 before
she would let me 90.
81 eei when your wife holds you up
she holds you up properly. doesn It
Shelf
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-19
Insurance Companies to Pay.

Commissioner E. Myron Wolfe has
announced that the eighty-odd fire in
surance companies interested have de-
cided to pay dollar for dollar to every
one insured with them.
The companies will not discriminate
between fire and earthquake, and every
one insured will be paid to the extent
of the loss. But two of the companies
affected are Pacific coast concerns, the
others having principal offices in the
east or in Europe. All will stand the
loss without danger of failure.
Saloons Closed.
One Of the first orders issued by
Chief of Police Oman was to close
every saloon in the city to prevent
drink-crazed men from rioting.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-19
How's This?

We offer 500 reward for any case of Catarrh
that cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure
+. ], Cheney Co.. Toledo. Ohio.
We, the undersigned, have known F. 7
Cheney for the last 10 years. and believe him
perfectly honorable in all business TRANSACTIONS
and financially able to carry out any obligations
made by his firm.
--Walding, Kinnan & Marvin.
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. 6
Halls Catarrh Cure Is taken internally act
ing directly upon the blood and mucous sur
faces of the system. Testimonials sent. free.
Price, 75c per bottle. Sold by all druggists
Take Halls Family Pills for constipati
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-19

lions, fell prey to the confagration,
and the Croker building, across the
street began to burn.
One of the big losses Of the day was
the destruction Of st. Ignatius church
and college at ~Van- Ness avenue and
Hayes street. This was: the greatest
Jesuitical institutions in, the west and
was built at cost Of a couple Of mil
lions. M 80 -''s. - ~
Homes Are Destroyed. =,
At 7 pm. the fire had swept from
the south side of the town across Mar
ket street into the district called the
western addition, and was burning
houses at Golden avenue and Octavia.
This result was reached after almost
the entire southern district from Ninth
street to the eastern water front had
been converted into a .blackened waste.
In this sectior nwere hundreds of fac
tories, wholesale houses and many bust
ness firms in addition to thousands of
homes. 80 ~..5.,..>
Mayor Forced to Flee.
On the north, side the fire was not
making such rapid Roadway as in the
western addition, where there is a limit
ed water supply, and the fremen were
making desperate efforts to prevent fur.
Their encroachments Of the devastation
Temporary headquarters were estab-
lished in tents in Portsmouth square
for Mayor Schmitz, Chief of Police Di
nan and General Funston, but this site
became too dangerous about 6 o'clock
and was abandoned. Later the flames
swept the square.