The San Francisco call., 1906-07-07
WHO HIRES THE FAKERS?

stories of conditions in San Francisco that have
been published in certain newspapers OF the Middle
West: This should be determined by the Cali
fornia Promotion Committee and steps taken I'M
nlediateIv to counteract the effect of the lying
statements that are sent from here by so-cailed
special correspondents. These correspondents are
not men regularly employed on San Francisco
newspapers. but are unattached Hessians OF
journalism perhaps in the employ OF the siN-Dit
insurance companies.
One Chicago newspaper in particular, the DAILY
Journal. has been giving space to vicious stories
about San Francisco that bear all the ear
marks OF deliberate Misrepresentation Inc
Omaha Daily News, from the pen OF one +. H.
Wells has also added to the output OF falslty he
News has decency enough to qualify some OF its
reports but the Journal goes on day after day
with the most damaging accounts OF the situation
here in which there is hot even the shadow OF tact
Under date of June p the Journal published a
special" in which San Francisco IS declared to
be on the verge OF bankruptcy, making no effort
to clean up the streets nor making ready to
build modern structures. 1t spoke OF all OF our
buildings as being hopelessy wrecked; reported
q few fifteen-cent restaurants and "a haber-
dasherv store in a tent the only signs OF
commercial enterprise on Market street from the
Jerry depot TO the hills. The correspondent adds:
The city is at a standstill. Energy is lacking
and no one has money to rebuild. The whole sit
uation is tense to the breaking point"
The man that wrote the story must have known
that he was penning lie. If he was not lying de
hberatelv. then he never saw San Francisco and
wrote his message at some distant point where
reality could not interfere with the workings OF
his imagination. On the very date OF the filing OF
the dispatch the work that had been done toward
rebuilding San Francisco during the previous five
davs could have been summarized by the writer,
with very little trouble, as follows:
June 2o-Harshall buildings; work ordered to
begin; class A Eddy street; class B, Mason street
class A, Sutter street.
w s. Woods building, plans submitted.
Ten-story class for Davis estate ordered; loca-
ton Kearny and Sutter
Contracts let, twenty-six-large temporary
structures; all parts of the city.
Seventy-three leases signed
United RAILROADS announces that it is short of
workmen and could give employment to three
thousand more laborers.
June pm. A. Gunst, class A building plans
called for location Powell and Geary streets.
Large batch of buildings for Ryand estate; loca-
ton, AlcAllister street; contracts let.
Schroth building plans submitted; work to COM
rnence Immediately; class A, fourteen Stories
Stockton street and Union Square
Spring Valley Water Company, plans ordered for
class A structure Geary and Stockton streets.
George d. Toy orders two buildings constructed ];
one on Powell street. class A, twelve stories; the
other on Eddy street, class B. six stories
Burbank building, class A, Post and Stockton
streets; work ordered to begin as possible.
Remodeling of Hotel St. Francis announced.
Work started on California street on debris piles.
lTune 22-One hundred and seventy-ive more
leases signed.
New class structure ordered by T. s. Williams
after approving plans; steel bids called for
Geary-street cable road getting ready to operate.
Work started in Sansome street with railroad
trains to remove debris, and many burrkers con-
tracted for south of Market street.
June 24-Entre James Flood building leased
to the Southern Pacific Company for general rail-
road offices; work OF repairing ordered to begin i'm
uediately.
Announcement that a new ST. Ignatus Cathe-
dral would be built Immediately.
Complete coast train service of Southern Pacific
re-estabished.
Fuller warehouse and Magee twelve-story class
A building for Market street; plans completed and
contracts ready to be let.
Announcement made that ten millions of dollars
loaned on city bonds would be available in few
weeks.
Big Improvements planned for south Of Market
and report made that five hundred leases had been
signed within three days
After he has glanced over this record, we would
like to ask the editor of the Chicago Journal if he
thinks that his headlines Little Attempt Is Being
Made to Rebuild" Residents Out of Money" are
justified.
The Eastern press is being humbugged and there
are some reasons to believe that the "six-bit" ad-
iusters are doing the taking