The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-05-11

al tHe uistricl III Wnlcn the work Is
being carried on. 1t is probable that II
the, looting continues the authorities
Will be forced to revert to the system
of allowing no one to enter the city
except those who have a pass explain
ing their business and their right to
be here
is PLENTY OF MONEY
TO REBUILD THE CITY.
A European syndicate is ready to in
vest s3.00O,0O0 in San Francisco realty.
The determination to place this sum
In real estate in this city has been
formed since the great disaster The
intention of the foreign corporation has
been made known to II. l.. Law, one
of the Law brothers, owners of a large
amount of San Francisco property. The
head of the syndicate cabled him of its
desire to get hold of sites and buildings.
The anxiety of the European investors
to secure real estate is taken as evil
dence of the confidence OF the world
I'm the future of the new San Francisco.
The first building permit, applied for
and granted, was for a twelve-story
steel structure to be erected by Thomas
Magee. This is one of the first sub
stantial evidences that the business
/ men of San Francisco intend to lose no
time in getting down to business.
| The work of rebuilding san Francisco
will proceed rapidly. Mrs. Herman
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. Vanderbilt,
Jr., have also stated that they will put
up solid Office structures on the Mont
gomery Street site.
The Emporium, a large department
store, will resume business on a large
scale next week. A temporary struc-
ture will be built at the corner of Post
and Van Ness Avenues.
In two weeks, seven floors of the
new Monadnock Building, which was in
course of construction at the time of
the disaster will be filled with offices
Capitalists are not in the least dis
mayed or disheartened James Phelan.
chairman of the finance committee and
multi-millionaire, said:
Before the earthquake / was asked
by certain capitalists to erect a large
hotel on the site of the Phelan Build
ing at Market and O'Farrell Streets.
Since the disaster the proposition has
been repeated and even urged. This
shows most decidedly that there is no
lack of faith in the future of the city,"
BRAVE WORDS OF CHEER
FROM A GREAT PRELATE.
Andrew B. McCreery, the millionaire
who owns the site of the old Western
| Union Building on the northeast corner
of Montgomery and Pine Streets in
which were located the offices of the
Associated Press is to begin Immediate
ly the construction of a six-story build
, ing of the best modern style. Mr.. Nc
Creery also owns the southeast corner
of Pine and Montgomery and will build
there later on. He favors widening
Montgomery street, saying that he is
willing to pay his share of the cost and
he states that he will not erect struc
lures higher than six stories. He thinks
that buildings on Market street should
be limited to twelve stories in height
and that those on narrower streets
should be limited to six stories.
Archbishop Riordan appeared at the
meeting of the citizens general COM
mittee and in an eloquent speech coun-
seled harmony between those who are
striving to bring order out of chaos,
and predicted a city greater, more
beautiful and a more striking example
of American pluck and enterprise than
the old San Francisco.
! "Union should be our watchword," +"
said the archbishop, "and whatever
differences may have existed between
the men of this community in the past
should be wiped out. The Catholic
Church is perhaps among the very
heaviest losers, but we are undismayed,
and | come here to tell you that the
noble men and women over whom l
have direction are at your service
These ringing sentences of the arch
bishop were enthusiastically cheered.
Mayor Schmitz replied to these senti-
ments in speech equally eloquent, say
ing that harmony already prevailed
and that whatever enmity may have
been felt in the past was wiped out and
the citizens of San Francisco had but
one object in views-the immediate up
building of newer and better munich
pality.
What to do with the unfortunate
Chinese of San Francisco, problem
which has given the authorities con
siderable worry during the last few
DAYS. has been settled, at least tempo
rarily. Since the destruction of China
town its inhabitants have been living
in tents and in even less comfortable
nuortars IN "A LARGE trnct of land ON tie