Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-05-09

Throw a brick; every little bit helps.
ON Saturday following the disaster. IL
marriage licenses we're issued.
Women carrying dogs while the chill
dren walked was not an uncommon
sight on Market street
Eight women gave birth to children
IN Golden Gate park within an hour on
tho third day after the fire.
Two Red Cross doctors were put TO
work on hose line for four hours
on the water front on April %.
1t is estimated that there were 5000
parrots In Golden Gate park on the
day following the earthquake.
Family reunions are so common that
the society reporters have abandoned
all attempts Mt chroniclng them.
Nearly everybody is wearing their
collars turned inside out owing To the
laundries going out of commission.
What the people Of San Francisco
need more than anything are some con-
slgnments OF soap and safety pins,
A street car was used on Telegraph
avenue. Oakland. to pull over a wall
Of a building damaged by the earth
quake.
on Thursday last three premature
births occurred among the refugee Wo-
men on Southern Pacific train No.
west OF Reno.
A man carrying blanket IN which
were his two twin babies dead was one
Of the pathetic sights at the Ferry
building.
An enterprising photographer with
an eye TO business endeavOred TO get
corner on all the films and printing
paper In Oakland.
A man tied TO a chair securely and
guarded by n soldier was one of the
sights in Golden Gate park on Mon
day. He expected to be shot.
The sting OF formaldahyde in the Fer
~ building, at Oakland mole and on The
local cars Of the Southern Pacific inVsr-
iably brought tears to all eyes.
One pathetic feature WAS the number
OF lost children. Some little ones had
escaped with strangers and have been
in all probability carried out of the
state OF California,
Among the refugees IN Oakland eat
ing free lunch was White Hat" Me
earthly, n noted character around the
Palace hotel and an eccentric resident
OF San Francisco.
An enterprising Individual IN oak
land bought up all the postcards IN the
town and subsequently printed half
tone fire pictures on them and sold
them for souvenirs
Some enthusiastic and foolhardy fel-
low climbed TO the top Of the Monad-
mock building on Market street two
days after the fire and flung the Stars
and Stripes TO the breeze amid cheers
In one gang Of men working on the
water front with soldiers with loaded
rifles standing over them was observed
two u. s. custom officials, a minister
and several prosperous looking indiyid-
uals.
A man in a restaurant on Broadway,
Oakland, knocked table over IN his
rush for the door TWO minutes later
he came back with his wife, who had
been separated from him I'm tho pan
&c two mornings previous.
The following iottings from the note
book OF one OF the Deseret News spe-
cial correspondence WAS dispatched
To San Francisco To cover the great
calamity. furnishes some heretofore un-
published items IN connection with the
great disaster:
Twenty immigrants. on their way 10
meet friends and relatives IN san Fran
cisco, were brought In from the east
over the Santa Fe TWO days after the fire.
The Santa Fe people took charge OF
them and advertised for the MISSING
relatives in the papers Of Oakland.
Members OF the WEST Oakland Athlc-
Nc club fed 900 refugees az the club
house on the first Sunday following the
calamity. Ten male members spent