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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-04-25
New Milwaukee Train.

Manchester people and those re-
siding along the line of the Calmar-
Cedar Rapids branch of the Milwau-
kee will be pleased to learn that a
new passenger service will go into
effect on that line, April Both. Two
new trains will be put on, one leav-
ing Calmar at 600 a. m, north
bound. The new schedule showing
the Oneida time of these trains has
not as yet been arranged. Themorn-
ing trains will probably pass at
Oneida and leaving time of the
southbound evening train will re-
main unchanged. The northbound
evening train will go through Onei-
da between seven and eight o'clock
This service will prove great
convenience to Manchester people
and those residing along the Mil
waukee. Anyone can come from any
point north or south on the Milwau-
kee to Manchester and return the
same day. And anyone can leave
Manchester and visit any point on
the Milwaukee and return the same
dav
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-04-25
ANGEL OF CHARITY ABROAD
Money and Food Flow Westward in
Mighty Stream.


Chicago, April 23.-Never in the his
tory Of the United subsequently, III
the history of the world-has there
been such instant and generous,
overfowing response to the cry for
help as that which has followed the
cry from the Pacific coast. Contribu-
tons of individuals have reached I'M
precedented sums. Ex-AIayor Phelan,
now of Los Angeles, once of San Fran
cisco, stands out unique Ill this great
heartedness by giving $1,OO0,0OO.
Congress appropriated $2,5OO,OOO for
the sufferers.
John d. Rockefeller's 100000 dona-
ton has been eQualled by several indi-
viduals. William Waldorf Astor, Of
London, has given 100000; SO has q.
j. Burage, of Boston; so has Andrew
Carnegie. Corporations are doing well.
The Standard Oil has given 100000.
so has the United States Steel Corpora
ton. The Union Pacific Railway COM
pany will spend 100000 in relief work,
and haul all supplies gratis.
The Dominion government has APP
propriated 100000. The United States
government will give another million.
New York city has already raised ST.
100000, and still gaining. Chicago has
sent train load of food and her. con-
tribution is figured ut over $1,OOO,OOO
before it is complete. Boston and
Massachusetts promise 100000.
Numerous individuals have given lib
orally. The president has sent $1,000;
Senator KNOX, $500; William X. Van
derbilt and Kuehn, Loeb x Co., New
York, $25.O0O each; an unknown New
Yorker, $4,000. Lucky" Baldwin has
sent a carload of provisions.
Food, clothing and other necessaries
IRE going forward at II II emendous rate
BY tonight scores of relief trains will
be on their way and already arrived.
Their aggregate length will be miles,
Every road that reaches San Francisco
or that vicinity will be crowded with
the response of the nation to the call
for help.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-04-25
FIRE HAVOC
AND DEATH
IN A REYEL
Earthquake Brings De-
struction to San
Francisco.
THEN FIRE ADDS ITS HORRORS
THEN FIRE ADDS ITS HORRORS
Hundreds, May Be Thou
sands, of Lives Are
Sacrificed.

The greatest disaster that ever over
came an American city was suffered
by San Francisco when at 5:15 on the
morning of April IS the city was prac-
TALLY wrecked by an earthquake. The
shock lasted three minutes. Buildings
swayed and toppled over, burying
hundreds Of people in the debris. The
loss of life is enormous. Fire Mt once
broke out and as the water mains
We're broken the flames could not be
checked. Dynamite was used to blow
up buildings but all efforts to check
the flames proved futile, and the fire
burned oil relentlessly, continuing for
four days, and only stopping when
nothing worthy of the name of a build
ing i'll the business district and not
more than half of the residence dis
trict was left. Even now no estimate
of the dead can be made. Five hun
dred is as near accuracy as 5000, and
the property loss will probably reach
$500. 100000.
|. Prompt action characterized the mu
nicipal and federal governments ii
providing protection to tie sufferer:
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-04-25

The town of Tombstone in Arizona
has probably as frank a saloon
keeper as canb be found anywhere, and
he reminds one of the late Stormy
Jordan Of this state. His method
Of advertising is to state facts, as
following bears witness: Friends
and neighbors: / am grateful
for past favors and having sup
lied my store with fine line Of
choice liquors allow me to inform
you that 1 shall continue to make
drunkards, paupers and beggars for
the sober, industrious, respectable
part of the community to support.
My liquors will excite riot, robbery
and bloodshed. They will diminish
your comforts, increase your ex-
penses and shorten life. | shall con-
fdently recommend them as sure to
multiply fatal accidents and incur
able diseases. They will deprive
some of life, others of reason, many
of character and all Of peace. They
will make fathers fends, wives
widows, children orphans and all
poor. l will train your sons nj inf lei
ity, dissipation, Ignorance, lewdness
and every other vice. ! will cor
rupt the ministers of religion, OBJ
estruct the gospel, defile the church
land cause as much temporal and
eternal death as I can. l will thus
accommodate the public 1t may be
at the loss of my never dying soul.
But have family to support, the
business pays and the public en-
courages it. have paid my license
and the traffic is lawful, and if l
don't sell it somebody will. know
the bible says: "Thou shalt not kill,
no drunkard shall enter the king
dom of heaven, and l do not expect
the drunkard maker to fare any
better, but want an easy living
and / have resolved to gather the
wages Of iniquity and fatten on the
ruin Of my species. shall there
fore, carry on my business with
energy and do my best % diminish
the wealth of the nation and endan-
ger the safety of the state. AS my
business fourishes in proportion to
your sensibility and ignorance / wi.
do my best to prevent moral purity
and intellectual growth. Should
you doubt my ability refer you to
the pawnshops, the poorhouse, the
police court, the hospital, the peni.
Tertiary and the gallows, where you
will find many of my best customers
have gone. A sight Of them viii
convince you that I do what ] say
Allow me to inform YOU that you are
fools and that am an hoaest saloon
keeper"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-04-25
Wilken-Prabel.

The Lutheran church was the
scene Of another joyful event at elev-
en- o'clock this morning when John
B. Wilken of Langworthy, Jones
county, led Miss Emma Prabel to
the altar. Rev. Melchert OBLIGATED
in the presence of a large company
of guests, and made very appro-
pirate address. The bride looked
very pretty in an elegant costume OF
pau de crepe silk, trimmed in pearl
chiffon. She wore veil Of silk IL
fusion and carried a boquet Of white
roses. She was attended by the
Misses Bertha Salow of Earlville
and Mamie Schatz of Monticello,
who were dressed in white silk.
Bonnie and Arthur Hartman acted
as groomsmen. After cong,atu
lations at the church the guests as
sembled at the spacious home of the
brides parents where the afternoon
and evening was spent in feasting
and enjoyment. The house was
decorated throughout with pink and
white carnations and smilax. The
tables were artistically arranged
and loaded with all the good things
imaginable and to which all present
did ample justice.
The bride is the eldest daughter
OF Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Prabel, and
has grown from childhood among
US. She received her education in
the Ryan schools and by her winning
ways and pleasing manners has en-
twined around her many friends.
She is pretty girl, an accomplished
musician and housekeeper and the
lucky groom is to be congratulated
upon his choice Of partner. The
groom while stranger here is well
spoken Of and held in high esteem
where he is known. He is a large
land owner and has cozy home
fitted up for his young bride. It is
the earnest wish Of their hosts of
friends that their voyage on the
matrimonial sea may be one of peace,
happiness and prosperity. Ryan
Reporter.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-04-25
Crop Bulletin.

The average daily temperature of
the past week was 3 to degrees
above normal and there has been no
measurable amount of rainfall re-
ported in the state since the 18th.
Ideal weather conditions have pre-
vailed and good progress has been
made in farm work. Seeding of small
grain has been practically finished
in the southern half of the state, and
it is nearing completion in the north
err section. The acreage of oats and
spring wheat is probably little less
than the average of recent years.
Good progress has been made in
blowing and narrowing ground for
planting corn, the soil being now in
fair condition for working. Plant
ing early potatoes is in progress, and
some farmers have ventured to be-
gin planting corn on dry, warm soil
The pastures are beginning to afford
some forage for stock. Altogether
the week has been very favorable
and encouraging to farmers.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-04-25


Spreckels' building OH Market and
Third street will be occupied i'll few
days; the Union Trust building on
Montgomery and Market has only lost
the interior woodwork, and as soon as
men can put in the lumber it will be
ready for occupancy. The st. Fran
els hotel is in the same category, and
the work of renovating the interior
will soon be commenced. The story
from al the modern buildings is prac-
tically the same.
AS an earnest of what San Francisco
is going to do right away Mayor
SchmitZ has telegraphed Chicago, New
York, Baltimore and other eastern cit
les asking: "How many architects aud
architectural draughtsmen can you
furnish lis, and how quickly can they
leave for San Francisco"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-04-25
Red Ruin -Has-Geased and
Charity Feeds the 1.
Hungry.

The great confagration Mt San Fran.
cisco was finally brought under COM
plete control on the fourth day, leav-
ing practically three-fourths of the
city In ashes. The last fight against
the flames was in the neighborhood of
the big Ferry building, where thou
sands of people had hocked in tile
hope Of taking boats for other parts.
Then the people had chance to
look about them and begin to make
preparations for the future.
There are no hungry people herenow;
the gaunt spectre of starvation has
been hanished by the magnificent re,
sponse of the people of California, in
particular, and by the entire nation i'll
general, to the appeals that Went out
for assistance. Food by the carload
and boatland is pouring into Oakland,
in sufficient quantities to overwhelm
the committee which has in charge its
distribution. So great is the volume Of
foodstuffs brought into the general
depot at Oakland mole that the general
committee has made an appeal for
skilled labor for the handling of these
supplies. Grocers, butchers and COM
mission men have been requested to Sc
cure men who are familiar with ham
ding foodsuffs, in order that the
business Of distribution at the scores of
stations established may go on without
confusion.
1t must not be understood by the
charitable people of the country that
there is a surfeit of food for the suf-
ferers. While the supply is abundant
at this writing it is well for the pub
lie to remember that the homeless thou
sands must be fed and cared for by the
organized relief committees for an In
definite period. 1t is desired therefore
that contributions be continued every
where until the people who have been
rendered helpless and destitute by the
city's misfortune can care for them
selves.
The soldiers and the police are for
cling every available man in the down
town district of the city to work, no
matter where they are found or under
what conditions. One case which at
tracted attention was that of a young
man who was pressed into service by
the soldiers. He came clad in fash.
ionable summer suit, straw hat and
kid gloves. The minute the guards
caught sight of him he was grabbed
and ordered to help clear the bricks
and other debris off the car tracks. At
first be hesitated, but the sharp point
of bayonet convinced him that there
was no escape; for the next five hours
he was doing laborers work in spite
of his handsome attire.
Many Of the most substantial BUSH
ness men and property owners of San
Francisco already are in consultation
with the architects. While the work of
clearing away the debris goes forward
a corps of draughtsmen will be bust
!y occupied preparing plans for the new
buildings to adorn the city. T. w. Lili-
entlial. president of the Anglo Cali
forn.a lanl,. said: Now is the time
for every man to put his shoulder to
the wheel to build up the new city.
There is going to be new city, and
am going to do all can to make it tho
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-04-25

and make one last stand to save the
remainder of the city.
The cooperation of the artillery was
secured, and cannon was drawn to he
avenue to aid the dynamiters in blow
ing up the mansions of the milliOnaires
on the west side of Van Ness in Or
der to prevent the flames from leap
ing across the highway and starting on
their unrestrained sweep. across the
western addition. Every available
pound of dynamite was hauled to this
point, and the sight was one of stu
pendous and appalling havoc, as the
cannons We're trained on the palaces,
and the Shot tore into the walls and
toppled the buildings in crushing ruins.
At other points the dynamite was used,
and house after house dropped to the
earth mass of dust and debris.
The work was necessarily dangerous,
and many of the exhausted workers
who had worked through stretch of
forty-eight hours without sleep and
scarcely any food, through force of in
stinctive heroism alone may have been
killed while making this last desperate
stand. Many of the workers in plac-
ing the blasts took chances that spelled
injury or death. But it was all of no
use. There seemed to be an Irresistible
power behind the flames.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-04-25
PANIC 1,ElGNs IN THE CITY
Two Hundred Thousand People Want
to Get Out-Incidents.

10 Get Out-lnC10entS.
While the heroic fire fighters were
making the last stand at the line Of
Van Ness avenuea panic reigned among
the survivors in other parts of the city.
The Intense heat and the absence of
water have been SO terrible that scores
have become frantic and others have
dropped from exhaustion in the streets.
Probably 100000 refugees are strug-
Cling to get our of the city.
Crowdins all sidewalks in the threat
ened area are hundreds upon hundreds
of householders attempting to drag
some Of their effects to places of safe
ty. In some instances men with ropes
are dragging trunks tandem style, 9TH
ers have sewing machines strapped to
the trunks. Again women are rushing
for the hills. carrying in their arms
only the family cat or bird cage.
In the panic many mad things are
being done. Even soldiers We're obliged
in many instances to prevent men and
women, made insane from the misfort-
ing into doomed buildings in the hope
of saving valuables from the ruins. In
nearly every instance such action has
resulted in death to those who tried 1t.
AT I.arkin and Suffer streets two men
and n woman broke from the police
and rushed into a burning apartment
house never to reappear.
Ii. O.
to $40 TO haul load of baggage or
give any aid at all to refugees. Liquor
stores In the north end were broken
into by thieves and hundreds of men
We're carrying away the bottled liquors
when tie soldiers arrived.
When the mansions on Mob hill, the
Paramount and Mark Hopkins insti-
tute We're approached by the flames
many attempts We're made to remove
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-04-25
NATION QUICK TO ACT
President Issues Proclamati'
Calling for Relief.

PRESIDENT Issues REORGANIZATION
Calling for Relief.
The heart of the nation has gone out
to the stricken metropolis of the Pacific
coast-from far and near, in city, town
and hamlet, the angel of charity is
stirring the hearts of the people and
the hand of relief is reaching out from
all directions to CALIFORNIA; queen city
as she sits around the ashes of her
greatness. President Roosevelt is
sued proclamation calling on all to
spring to the relief of the destitute,
the war department. is straining every
nerve to forward tents and food to
the homeless and starving.
The cities of the country began
moving. Chicago, remembering her
own day of desolation, told San
Francisco to say what she wants and
it shall be sent at once. New York
is organizing relief on gigantic scale
in fact all the big cities are coming
to the rescue. Smaller towns have not
waited to find out what is needed =.
they have appropriated cash. Govern
ors. mayors, wealthy men, have all tel
egrnphed their readiness to respond in
the manner most acceptable. and fra.
ternal societies everywhere are re-
spending to the cry for succor.
San Francisco is city of ruins.
There is no pen that can describe the
scene of desolation left in the wake of
the terrible disaster that has overtaken
It. what made SAN Francisco fnmous
is nothing but heaps of smoldering de.
bris. Its magnificent buildings, it's mar
kets, its gay and happy throngs are no
more. Inhabitants are fleeing from it
as though from a dread pestilence. The
scene beggars description and the pen
of Hugo or Tolstoi would be I'M
equal to give an adequate idea of it.
And the fire is still raging.
inadequate as the foregoing is, it
enables one to family comprehend the
terrible experiences through which the
people of the stricken city have passed
Space does not permit of telling of the
hundreds of acts of bravery that have
naked the tremendous fight against
natures eruption and the fire; the pa.
tlecic scenes and incidents that were
ever present; the encouraging and
helpful attitude of one who was bereft
of all earthly possessions toward an
other similarly situated: nor it is pos
sible to tell of the conflicting emotions
that possessed the thousands of desti
tute; the distracted mother seeking hel
lost children; the splendid courage il
the face of starvation; the promp
and drastic measures of the author
tiles in breaking open stores and con
fiscating goods-an act made neces
sary by the shameless, heartless ant
inhuman attitude of the owners in in
sisting upon dollar a loaf for bread
and holding other necessities ut pro
portiOnately high rates. Incidents like
these can only be mentioned; it would
require page after page to tell of them
and even with such a report, the read
err would have to draw heavily upor
his Imagination to appreciate the mag
nitude of the disaster and the extern
and intensity of the suffering.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-04-25
cniNArowN is swept CLEAN.
Ashes Blown Away by Winds Leaves
Its Site Bare.

Ashes Blown Away by Winds Leaves
Its Site Bare.
Los Angeles, April Strange is
the scene where San Francisco's China
town stood,'' says w. w. Overton, who
has reached Los Angeles. mo heap:
of smoking ruins marks the site Of
the wooden warrens where the slant
eyed men of the Orient dwelt in thou
sands.
"The fire swept this Mongolian Sec
ton clean. 1t left no. shred of the
painted wooden fabric. 1t ate down TO
the bare ground and this lies stark,
for the breezes have taken away the
light wooden ashes. From this place
1, following the fire, saw hundreds of
frightened. craZed yellow men flee. In
their arms they bore their opium
pipes, their money bags, their silks and
their children. Beside them ran the
baggy-trousered women, and some OF
them hobbled painfully.
..These were the men and women of
the surface. Far beneath the street
levels in those cellars and passageways
We're other lives. Women who never
saw the day from their darkened pris-
ons ands blinking iailors We're caught
like rate in huge trap. Their very
bones were eaten by the flames"
Affairs in the Open Air.
San Francisco. April 23.-Had 1t not
been for the sight of the rude affairs set
up in the open air wherever San Fran
cisco's homeless thousands were
camped one would have had some diff
Guilty in finding any of the peaceful as
sociations of Sunday in this city yes
terday. Everywhere throughout the
burned as well us the remaining sec
ton of the city there was the greatest
activity. Streets were being cleared
of debris, laborers We're repairing brok-
en- water pipes. sewers and gas mains,
electricians everywhere were seeking
to disentangle the almost hopeless con-
fusion of wires-in fact. San Francisco
was in the first stages OF its regenera'
| ton.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-04-25
The Turk.

The Turk practices no trade, engages
in no commerce. They have proverb
which says, "The Frank has science,
the American commerce, the Osmanli
majesty" But, as majesty won't fill
stomachs. those who do not serve rs
soldiers strive to become functionaries,
and the men of the small villages, fail
ing in this, do nothing, and the work of
the fields and house falls upon the
shoulders Of the women. One chroni-
Gle states that occasionally the man of
the house crochets stocking or minds
the baby for short period
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-04-25

At a Japanese entertainment in
Washington for the benefit of the IA
mine sufferers in Japan, Masuji Mi
jakawa, a graduate Of the George
Washington university law school
and the first Japanese lawyer ever
admitted 10 the American bar, intro
duced the speaker, Senator Tillman,
as lone of the greatest, if not the
greatest, man in congress.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-04-25
OWNERS TAKE AN INVENTORY
Those Whose Buildings We're Modern
Find Them Remarkable

Those Whose Buildings We're Modern
Find Them Reparable.
Sunday property owners had an
opportunity to inspect some of their
holdings, and in measure to ascer-
tain what damage had been done. The
new modern steel buildings We're found
to be almost intact. In every in
stance it seemed that the earthquake
had not damaged them. The steel
frames We're in perfect plumb, and as
strong as ever. Cornices and fancy
trimmings fell, but that was all. Even
when the fire swept through them only
the woodwork was damaged.
The Fairmont hotel on Mob hill will
be rushed to completion; the Claus
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-04-25
pome.tic nookkeeninr.

''And what's your reason for increas-
ing the servants wages, prny?" her
friend asked.
Because my husband complained
TINT my dress and millinery bills
cqualed the household expenses, and
want to show him they do notion
don Tit-Bits.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-04-25

some Of the priceless works OF art from
the buildings. From the Huntington
home and the Flood mansion canvasses
We're cut from the framework with
knives. The collections are valued in
hundreds of thousands. Very few We're
saved. y
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-04-25
FIGHT AT VAN NESS AVENUE
Desperate Effort to Check the Devour.
ing Flames Described.

WS AuluS5 OcSCTlUeus
With each succeeding hour the de-
vastation and destruction in this
stricken and PROSTATE ruin of city
grew. On the third day Mayor Schmitz
and Chief Of Police Dinan saw that the
only hope of saving the western addi-
tion, with its forest of frame dwellings,
and the Richmond district, with its
thousands of homes, was to check the
cruel march of the wall of fire at Van
Ness avenue.
This avenue is ninety feet wide, and
the possibilities of checking the march
OF the flames here looked hopeful to
these who were figuring ways and
/ us III the hour of awful horror.
Tie orders We're given to concentrate
Gerry fire engine i'll IKE city at this ave-
rlie. to marshal troops Of soldiers there,
the police and all the army of workers.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-04-25
Low RATE
A CHANGE.

A Change.
OF the twenty-six barons who signed
the Magma Charta three wrote their
names and twenty-three made their
mark. This is all changed now. Ev-
cry baron can write, but only a few
succeed In making their mark.