The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-04-27

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buiiding-W. II. CrocI.er Declares
Worlds Most Beautiful Municipal
ity VIII Rise From the Ruins.
Bigger, buster. better than ever. San
Francisco will rise from her ashes" is
the confident prediction of Calfornlans
resident in New York who have large
interests there, and they recently sup
ported their forecasts by individual as
surances that the earthquake and fire
would not deter them from pouring in
their millions to help upbuld a new
city. says the New York Herald.
MANY men have los millions" said
ID. o. Mills, whose loss may reach S.
100000. but" he added. with a quiz
Eical smile, Il fancy all of them are
not entirely wiped out Nowhere have
] heard any sentiment except to bend
all energies to building new city as
soon rs the needs OF the immediate
sufferers from the earthquake and fire
are provided for"
Mr. Mills had not received any direct
Information from san Francisco and
without details OF The extent Of his
losses he said he was not m position
TO make a definite announcement as to
his plans
You may say however" he said.
'that the Minis huildu" there will be
rebuilt, or rruudclcd If the walls are
not destroyed. and made stronger and
larger than ID was before the cataStro-
php. One misht as we'll think Of abau-
doun- the whole state OF California as
10 consider leaving san Francisco in
its ruins II san Francisco alone had
been destroyed there might be some
reason for hesitation in rebuilding it,
bu, all accounts agree that other points
suffered to as great or even a greater
extent from the earthquake.
"Califoruiaus are not the sort of men
10 despair. Even now, when the shock
of the awful disaster is greatest. they
are turning their eyes TO the future.
The city will rise again. better in many
respects for this visitation upon it. 1t
is the natural metropolis of the Pacific
coast ana by virtue of its natural adj
yanD@ef never win take second place
TO Seattle and other coast towns.
we have had our lesson, and the
new san Francisco will be guarded
against repetition of this visitation,
so that its buildings will he proof
against earthquakes, and anything APP
pr0achng a conhagration will be i'm
possible Besides the regular fresh wa
Ter supply there will be-there must
be-a secondary system by which we
can draw upon the sea. To leave the
Ian to lie idle would he to pile even
greater losses on those we have already
suffered 1t is not To be thought of
any more than the tragedy of aban-
doning the entire state would be ser-
ously considered.
Like Chicago Galveston, Charleston
and Baltimore, San Francisco will rise
again into greater beauty, and in
very few years her supremacy on the
coast will again be unquestioned and
umquestionahle. 1t is not the spirit of
California to break under even so ire
mend0us Il trial as this"
Whatever else the new San Francisco
m"f he it will lack one of its great at
fractions TO tourists. Mr.. Mills and all
other tallfornianS who have declared
their purpose of rebuilding the city at
once agree that there never again will
be such Chinatown as the city has
becI noted for. If the CeleStials who
choose to live there congregate again
In single quarter they will have to
seek a location on the outskirts or at
any rate well apart from the business
or residential centers. "Barbary."
where untold crimes have been COM
mittcd for years, will become only a
memory. it is agreed by the men upon
whom must Fall the heaviest burden of
restoring the city. Other things may
rise to take the places of Chinatown
ami "Rarbary," hut these at least will
not again be tolerated
There can be no possible doubt that
San Francisco will rise, PhoeniXlile
from the ashes of her ruins" declared
Colonel Dudley Evans, presi . 1t of the
WeliS-Fargo Express company This
generation is thoroughly imbued with
the spirit of The pioneers of 40. ana It
is Il question Of only few years be-
fore the city will be greater and grand
or than ever before.
1T will have the experience and the
mistakes of the past as a guide, and
even if there should be another vista
ton of an earthquake there would be
little to fear with the provisions that
Will be made to meet such 4 danger.
Some plan must be devised which will
obviate The necessity of building on the
made land of the wholesale district.
1t Ia; virtually no foundation to sun.
port the great buildings which rested
upon it, and it seems to me likely that
the merchants will move to the solid
ground formerly known as Tar fiat,
south of Market street
"Our own most serious loss. in my
opinion, is the magnificent collection
OF relics of the pioneer days of Califor-
mia. After being exhibited at the
Worlds fair in Chicago and at the
midwnter fair in San Francisco they
were stored in an attic and must have
been utterly destroyed"
One of the most significant moves |
the other day looking to the rebuilding
OF the stricken city was the hurrying /
to the scene Of experts by the George |
A. Fuller company and the Thompson
Starrett company Upon their report
as to how well the newer buildings Of