The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-22
FIRE DYING OUT SLOWLY.
Nc Danger OF n Famine-EnOrts to Pre-.
vent o PestiIence.

vent . Pestilence.
OAKLAND, Cal, April N-Although the
worst is over, the stubborn San Francisco
fire still burns on. Turned back from
Van Ness avenue yesterday afternoon, it
set itself to clean up the districts which
it had missed in its first rush. Telegraph
Hill went, but the district lying north
Of Telegraph Hill and Russian Hill, and
known as North Beach, together with the
seward slope OF Russian Hill, had been
spared. The flames took that to-day.
The west wind is high, and early in the
day it became apparent that the wharves
and wharf buildings OF the north frontage
were in danger. So far the fire tugs nave
managed to save the wharves. but this
hot rush Of flames may be too much for
them. They we're doing the best they
could when the fire, spreading fan shaped,
ran along a fringe Of waterfront buildings
that were spared the first day and reached
out toward the ferry building.
This is the most important point in San
Francisco Just now If 1t goes the ferries
will have no places to dock and the refugees
will be cut of from the country Of refuge
along the Oakland hills. A police tug
brought news Of this peril to the fire police.
They left the fight at the comparatively
unimportant north wharves to the regular
fire engines and hurried to save the ferry
building.
All the afternoon long they kept streams
on the buildings which fringe the broad
esplanade about the ferry, and by 4 o'clock
the fire was checked at this point, Even
when the smoke was rolling down Market
street the steady procession Of refugees
kept up This is about the only time in
this fire when the puny forces of mar have
been able to a anything.
With a cloud of smoke ~overhanging
the district north of Market and a sullen
haas which obscures the sun above all
the rest Of the city the people consider
that the fire is practically over. They
have passed through too much even to
care about the burning Of a few wharves
and fifteen or twenty blocks Of houses,
for unless the wind veers, and this is not
likely, the fire has little more to feed upon.
FAMINE DANGER PAST.
The danger of famine is past. We
had lost faith in everything when we thought
that the people Of the country and es-
pecially Of the broad productive region at
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have half a dozen provision trains arrived,
but the farmers Of all Alameda county
and of northern Santa Clara county have
loaded all the provisions they have into
their wagons and brought them in to offer
without money and without price to the
committee of safety.
They brought crates of chickens, freshly
killed calves and hogs, wagonloads OF
dried fruits which they were holding in
their storehouses from last season. The
warehouses at Port Costa, the centre of
grain shipments, seem to be sending all
their -four. A carload Of unground wheat
was sent in to-day. The military, acting
with the Committee Of Safety, took pos
session Of all these provisions as they ar
rived. The names of the owners and rough
Inventories were taken, except in cases
where it was specified that the provisions
were to be given to the relief fund. The
others will be paid full value for their goods
when the relief committee gets to the dis
tribution of the funds, which are now
known to be coming.
The baggage car Of the Southern Pacific
passenger train coming in from the San
Joaquin Valley was loaded with miscel-
laneous provisions gathered in the small
towns along the line. The man in charge
reported that all over the southern San
JOAQUIN Valley the women were gathering
eggs and hard boiling them, so as to send
in food which would not need cooking.
The soldiers are piling up the supplies
in the Southern Pacific freight yard in
Oakland. There is enough to feed the refu-
gees here for a day or two at least and they
have been sending the surplus to San Fran
cisco. We cannot tell here what the famine
is over there, but refugees say
that the soldiers are managing to feed the
city. 1t must have been a close squeeze,
however, for it is definitely known that
for the first time they broke into the service
rations voted by the Government, which
had beer saved for great emergencies.
Rabbi Jacob voorsanger, at the head of
the sub committee on provisions, sent over
word yesterday that they had the famine
in hand. Into San Francisco there
came supplies from the small towns of the
Coast regioA by every train running on the
southern route. Even San Jose, Il is under
stood forgot her own desolation and cent
supplies. For there is no famine problem
Equinox Ginger ChampREne-Best.
Princtnnl arocefA, N. Y, Tel, 0l5i Franklin, -Adr.