Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-05-03
THE SANITATION WORK
Efficient Service of Army Medi-
cal Department
IN SAN FRANCISCO AREA
Plans Adopted by Banks Of the
Clearing House.
ALLEGED FIRE-PROOF VAULTS
Auditors Estimate of the Receipts
and Expenditures of the City for
Coming Fiscal Year.
ALLEGED FIRE-PRooF VAULTS

army has been putting into practice with
| good results experience gained in the
| camps established on the Atlantic coast
| during the Spanish-American war.
| Sanitary regulations have been provided
| in accordance with the lessons taught dur
| ing that period. AS part of the general
| system of army relief there has been es-
| tablished on level lawn south Of the
music stand In Golden Gate Park q COM
| plete regimental field hospital. probably
| the first that has ever been erected in this
| city. A total of 100 men under command
Of Capt. H. H. L. Gilchrist constitutes the
administrative force and the hospital has
now a capacity of 800 patients although
but eighty have been received to date. A
consignment Of odorless excavator troughs
which are pronounced the highest type of
sanitary convenience have been received.
The system will be installed at once. Every
effort Is being made by the health commits
sion to concentrate the hospital work at
as few points as possible and as rapidly
as the patients from the smaller emer-
gency hospitals can be made comfortable
at the larger ones the small ones being
abolished This serves double purpose,
concentrating the work and at the same
| time permitting scores of physicians who
until now have been giving all their time
and attention to this work to give some
thought to their own interests
TWenty-SlX or the QruR stores III tHe uiS-
trict not destroyed by fire were decided
upon yesterday by the health commission
as locations for free dispensaries- WITHIN
three days at the most each of these stores
| will be supplied with drugs and Will be
placed in charge of competent druggists.
| The supplies will be secured from the main
drug supply station at the Preside and at
any one of these dispensaries it will be pos
sble to have filled free of charge all phy-
scians prescriptions.
The Banking Interests.
The commercial banks belonging to the
clearing house association have arranged
to open for new or special business. The
arrangement Is to receive all deposits that
customers may desire to make on new
accounts. The depositors may check out
these new balances without restriction or
limit. The plan for new or special business
was adopted in Oakland and other parts
| Of Alameda county, and so successful was
| 1t In its operation that the banks have
! now resumed regular business and are re-
ceiving more money than they are paying
out. The savings banks are most anxious
| to resume business but they are unwtll-
| ing to jeopardiZe the interests of their de-
poSitorS by opening their vaults a moment
before It Is quite safe to do SO the con-
| tents of several vaults mot savings banks),
having been prematureiy opened, having
been destroyed
A large proportion, if not a majority, or
the business men who were thankful during
| the conf1agration that their valuables were
| inclosed in ffreproof vaults, have awakened
| to an unpleasant surprise. Within the last
| seventy-two hours 576 safes and vaults
| have been opened in the district east OF
Powell and north of Market streets, and
| in not more than 60 per cent of these in
stances were the contents found intact. In
many cases a pile of ashes represented
thousands of dollars worth of accounts.
City officials Paid April Salaries.
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paying April salaries to employees. The
sum of 100000 was transferred to the
Western National Bank. where yesterday
the police received the money due them.
In this way s900 600 was added to the cur
rency in circulation.
While 1t is difficult to give exact figures
as to losses and insurance In connection
with the fire which has devastated such a
large portion of San Francisco. close esti-
mates have been compiled which show that
the actual property loss to the city is close
to $3.50, 600 600.
Trolley cars will be operated on Market
street today between the ferry and Vaen-
ella street and a little later as far west as
Castro.
Estimate of City Finances.
Auditor Horton has filed his estimate Of
the receipts and expenditures Of the city
for the coming fiscal year He figures the
latter will amount to a total of SS 64S, 400.
The estimate is made on an assessed VAL
uation of $e00,OOO,OO0. The receipts
figured at a rate of 81 on 5000 OoO OOO or
s6, 600 OO0 and 50, DDS, 100 from other sources
making tax rate, with cents for the
parks, of $1.0T The fire, however. has re-
duced the value Of assessible property and
the expenses will be greater than the au-
ditor estimates, that it is stated that
the taxes will be nearly So 80 on each $1oO
of valuation.
The water company has been authorized
to deliver water to every laundry in the
city provided the chimneys have been in
specte6 eight or nine laundries will be
opened VII 7nn two three days and this
will bring more relief to the city. Two or
three laundries have already been opened
for the use of the hospital service.
The local Japanese have undertaken sys-
tematically the care Of Japanese refugees.
Out of the 10000 Japanese affected by the
earthquake and fire, approximately 5000
have been sent to the Interior OF the re-
manning 5000 about 1900 are at the va
rious relief camps in San Francisco and
2 900 in Oakland.
The Japanese government has wired
contribution of $25, coo.