Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-05-03

SuIOuiCie, uilliOudlIe ann pOiucai
leader, stood in front of one OF these
| little Offices. Down the street In nm
automobile belonging to ex-Mayor
James d. Phelan came Abe Reuf, the
| triumphant Republican boss When
he saw De Young nc waved his hat
and called out a hearty greeting, 70
which De Young responded with gay
salute. For one not intimate with
San Francisco 70 fully realize what
| this means he must be told that Reuf.
Phelan and De Young arc the respec-
tive leaders of the most bitter and
antagonistic political factions in the
west.
If you still doubt that the millennium
Is upon us so down the street two
blocks to where tho relief committee
is working "a hours day from the
showroom OF q vegetable grocer snd
you will find Gavin McNabb and Abs
Reuf with chairs and arms touching,
laughing at the same grim earthquake
jokes and putting the two creftiest
heads in San Francisco together for
the immediate relief of the afflicted.
/; A week ago as the bosses respective i
4; ly of the Republican and Democratic
ranks, America could have afforded
no more striking instance 0: deadly
rivalry than would have been aadpced
, by mention Of these two names.
| Restricting Dry Goods Store.
/ From another CHAR stand white
. haired, esthetic Raphael Vol is resur
recting the most fashionable dry goods
store in the city. He is old. wealthy
and practically retired He could
easily turn his back on Sar Francisco
and live the rest of his days the one
other place of his delight; but says
he: 81 shall stay here and see it all
up again just as it was-wi.S perhaps
/, one difference, it will be about twice
as good
Up and down all the Streets one
can see curbstone fires, where the peo- :
pie are cooking their meals In obedi
| ence to the municipal order to light
no fires in the houses They being
without large ranges, small kitchen
| stoves, improvised sheet iron ovens
and the old brick Dutch ovens are
used and from which are turned out
! some wonderful connections.
| Most of the servants have either run
away or been sent away and the poo
pie who get their own meals cut OF
doors are among the best in the city.
Cooking their dinners in the streets
may be seen girls who have been edu.
Gated at Stanford, Berkeley, vassar
and Bryn Mawr.
Spreckels Heir Born on Sidewalk.
But of all the astounding levelins
feats accomplished by the fire and
earthquake the most remarkable oc.
CURED in front of the Pacific ayeprs
home of Rudolf Spreckels, son of the
president of the sugar trust. There
on the sidewalk, behind some screens.
Mrs. Spreckels was safely delivered
of handsome and healthy son. 1t
is free state, everyone beginning
over again, rich and poor alike, just
as the front rank broke from the line
the day Oklahoma territory was
opened to settlement
Not Fair Shake; Start Again.
Young men who can swing sman
capital to-day will be millionaires IN
few years. Millionaires who to-day
are walking the streets mourning
over their ill-luck will never again
be flush. San Francisco. queen city
of chance, born of the gambling fever.
bred of the gambling energy, dreamed
out of a gamblers visions of wealth
and glory, with fierce and terrible
grandeur, has smitten all who loved
her and said to the half million who
had sworn by her: "It's not a fair
shake; start again.
Rescue Insane People.
Many stories of heroism lie buried in
the ruins, but some tales that make the
heart tingle are slowly altering Trough
official sources. This is the story of the
noble work performed by Mrs. Kane,
matron of the Detention hospital, and
Policeman John Mclean, who was de-
tailed there the night of the great earth
quake. The insane patients at the ruined
city hall were kept in locked cells, from
which only the keys of the stewards
could free them. At the hour of dawn,
on that fatal Wednesday morning, the
structure in which the courts were
housed was the first to fall The weight
/ tense ucIFOuo SnSISSuCy duu tu0 VluCok
the detention hospital, which was on
the ground floor. Steward Manville was
SO badly injured by the falling ruins
that he died two days later. Mrs. Kane
and Policeman Mclean, however, man
aged to rush outside to momentary
safety. Both of them are well advanced
in years, but the nurse is a woman OF in
tense nervous energy and tho officer
is man Of giant frame. AS soon as they
reached the open court they were greet
ed by the terrified shrieks of the insane
that pierced through the smoking ruins
around. They refused to leave their
helpless charges, and both went back
into the chaotic debris.
New Buildings Are Planned.
The work of rebuilding San Fran
cisco will proceed rapidly. Mrs. Her
man Oelrichs of New York has agreed
to repair the Rialto building and to
build again on the site of the Crossley.
She and her sister, Mrs. w. X. Wander
bilt, Jr., have also stated that they will
put up solid Office structures ON their
Montgomery street site.
To Ask Loan Of Congress.