The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1906-09-29
San FRANCISCO, THE
DAUNTLESS
IMPRESSIONS CLEANED BY ASToR-
las MAYOR ON HIS RECENT vIs-
TT 10 THE rIRE--RrvEN METRop-
Oils OF THE PACIFIC COAST.

Mayor Herman Wise. Just home from
ten-day trip to the famous old Bay
City, il full Of the live and alert spirit
that actuates that great and disabled
town, and in the following terse way
makes Known the impressions that be-
set him On his recent soioum there;
San Fmnciscos "The Dauntless" il
the title of little advertisement hand
ed to passengers upon all the trains ar
irving In that city. San Francisco Is
dauntless; anybody who views the wreck
and then watches those people going
about their business as ii nothing had
happened will gladly give expression to
the fact that aold Frisco is dauntless.
For miles from Van Ness avenue to
Market, and for miles again from Mar
ket street south, the panorama benunhs
the brain al it softens the heart.
All along Van Ness avenue and Fill
more streets private residences are lift
ed high in the air. plate glass front
put in and presto, there i the white
House Store the @Toggerv,r "Roos
Brothers, the aCity OF Paris the EN-
poriun,n and nearly all the well known
firms, besides large number Of new
firms that have drifted in since the fire.
Don't say the earthquake your Frisco
friends don't like that; they just had
q terrible fire, the same as Baltimore.
and Boston and Chicago and Seattle;
the old 40 spirit is still strong in the
breast OF your California cousin. "oh,
yes, it was a bad fire. but we'll have
a more beautiful city in a few years
/ am no Judge OF such things. but It
seems to me 1t will take few years
to clear that vast area, which looks
like a cemetery; 8 chimney standing
here, a fraction of a wall there, look
ing from distance like dilapidated
gravestones; but San Francisco is not
dead. Her best buildings are gone,
but brick and stone and iron and steel
are dead matter anyway; it's the spirit
of the people which lives, The frame
work dies, crumbles to dust, but the
spirit lives on forever. Take one man
or millions, what is earthly returns to
the earth, sooner or later, but the spir-
1t cannot die; the stronger the belief
in this something called the spirit, the
surer the Hereafter; this thing that says
to man, no matter what happens, |
win still live, still do things. You may
punish, perseeute, destroy the perish
able frame, but the spirit survives and
as it is with the individual, 80 it is
with the whole human family; they who
are conscious of the viii power, of in
telligence, Of spirit, or whatever you
choose to call it, will not give up, though
everything else crumble away. This con-
scious determination survives all and
newer, better, body or city or country,
win arise to be guided by that spirit
which gives it life and power and beau
ty.
As the foggy, windy, winter weather
approaches the necessity for warmer
quarters, imperils those in charge to
provide better shelter, so they are erect
ing houses in Jefferson Park, Golden
Gate and other squares, where tents
have kept the homeless thousands.
They are erecting little three room,
one story shacks, from twenty-five to
thirty in row and other rows or lines,
about ten or twelve feet back. The