Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-05-05
BIG FIRE A BOOST
FOR AUTOMOBILE.
Chug Wagons Remain in Service,
And Win Gratitude Of
People
GOVERNMENT RENTS CARS.
Pays Thousand Dollars a hay For
Machines to Carry Officers and
Messages Through City streets.

II Is the business ~ the daily news.
papers to tell Of earthquakes while the
buildings are still on the totter. and Of
fires while the bricks are still hot The
bricks Of Frisco are now cool and Thurs
day afternoon workmcn were busy throw
ing ties down Market street and stringlng
big steel rails over them, that southern
Pacific engines might haul away the
debris In carloads.
In the situation on the coast, the noNs
values are now IN the new Frisco and
not in the old and they viii deal wltn
wooden sheds where wholesale stores arc
once again accommodating OF property
values ON Fillmore street where the new
center Of the city Is located, and Of the
distribution of coin through ply enter
prises, that will once again uiakc possible
big aud prosperous racine coast com
munity.
The other point Of view Is that u the
SATURDAY. edition or the weekly magazine,
and here may be recorded wnst he rr.s'
co fire meant to the world, instead OF 70
Frisco, and what heroes are 10 be Gle.
waited In the gorifed huos " he blood
red conflagration.
From tins viewpoint the magazine nter-
a ttire OF the fire. and the later book pup.
lications will be written. aud " In their
hnal aggregate they do justice to the
great crisis. they will throw out INTO
bold relief the picture OF Funston monk.
ing his way along like fash IN great
automobile. The geese that cackled ana
saved Rome, when the invaders came near
have life more claim to glory than has
been sacrediy theirs all these centuries,
than has the automobile for us work ~
this great CRISIS I venture the sugges'
tion that San Francisco councils viii
xvit p1u
they meet to talk 1t over.
For they saw II flying from danger
point TO danger point, carrying rapidly
from wrecked buildings TO buildings To be
crew OF experts, or hurrylng over hot
bricks with Red Cross nags af'utter, 70
give II clear passage through the guards,
and carrying relief where relief was most
urgently needed. They saw the men who
ssIlled the panic--their mayor, and their
es-mayor who was his bitter enemy, side
by side on the fly In al auto car, to get
10 some point where II was al-important
they should be at once, and with them
they saw Funston. who had driven terror
into the heart OF every hooligan. and who
saved the city from the great calamity OF
a drunken orgy and a free play OF the
british passions that rise In souless men,
when their innermost natures are sudden
~ summoned to personal command
ALL OTHER MEANS FAILED.
These things were caught on the ny
while they saw their trolley wires twisted
and torn among their crumbled build.
ings, and their street cars burned at rest
in their last retreats, where the tracks
ended on the waterfront. their horses give
out for want OF food, and from overwork,
and the commanders Of the city scattered
beyond all hope OF telephones and tele-
graphic communications. 1t was great
day for the automobile and the machine
made good" In its opportunity 10 be
ella ssed among the vital elements In the
control OF the San Francisco situation,
People here. | have heard laughed
lltle, when Mayor Schmitz sent an appeal
10 the country TO send automobile parts.
as urgent rs his appeal for bread, but
those on the grounds knew that In the
first critical days the aut0cars were more
llfe-giving than even bread. and had as
much to DO az any other one element In
making for the wonderful triumph OF
Calmness and law and regulations with
which the funeral services OF dear old
Frisco" were conducted.
RENTALS ARE BIG.
The government IL now paying 1900 a
day for rental OF automobiles. The police
chief uses them on his daily round Of In
specting lettering buildings, while all the
roads leading out OF Frisco are thronged
With them carrying people and Their
household goods to new locations When
the troops took possession Of Market
street their first military Instructions were
20 impress all automobiles and this was
the hrs, instance IN America at least,
whore automobiles were impressed by the
military under the provisions OF martial
law one atltocar, stu on duty, has a