Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-13
TEETH PULLED

And he has been pulling teeth for
four weeks for the modest fee of 25
cents a TOOTH Furthermore. he has
been selling his signs to souvenir hunt
ers at quite handsome figure, making
a new one after each sale. He is now
| in a way to pull up stakes and take
his place among the rebuilders of San
Francisco.
A tent in jefferson Square park bios
somed forth with the sign of a young
woman who had saved a typewriter
and a poll parrot. She sold the bird
for enough to buy ream of paper
and, with a box to hold her machine,
she had office and equipment AS soon
as the neigh borhood of the square be-
gan to thrive as a business center she
had more work than she could do. Now
she has fitted up an office in the Atlas
building, on Mission street, and is far
more prosperous than she was before
the fire.
An elderly woman carried a small
oil stove to the Preside encampment.
She obtained Il sack of prepared flour
and a can of syrup. A board over the flap
of her tent soon proclaimed the merits
of Aunt Mary's Griddle Cakes. three
for g." Aunt Mary rose from griddle
cakes to coffee and homemade crullers
and now she calls her tent a cafe.
source of great revenue in the de-
vastated city. Even in the camps, where
the relief committees have issued ample
rations to feed the hungry, booths have
obtained the dignity of restaurants.
Thousands of men had no wives or other
! they could afford it purchased moderate
hot meals.
The washerwomen have flourished
by the hundreds, and residents in the
| nh, .fratc-
orally. The relief committees have fur
nished washtubS and boards and ample
/ soap to help along this industry. The
| result is that 1t seems that every day
is wash day among the4refugees. The
wealthy are sending out their wash to
| the refugees, as in the city itself it is
impossible to secure the services of a
laundress, and the few laundries that
are running cannot keep abreast of their
custom.
1t may sound strange, but it is a fact.
that there are the shingles of a nunlr
Der of women doctors fastened upon
| tents in the refugee camps. They lost
homes, offices and practices, and,
though there are ample hospital ac-
commodations and force of Red Cross
nurses and physicians attached to each
camp, they manage to get some pa
tients. Out here in California there
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the east and they are in the ma jority
among the destitute practitioners who
have established practices i'm what are
| called the canvas communities.
Then there We're hundreds of refugees
who got together a little money and
became fakirs. At first there was a
tremendous demand for photographs
and souvenir postal cards, and the con-
Germs that were printing them by the
tens of thousands advertised for agents
and trusted to the honesty of the pen
niless in allowing them to sell their
wares.
No license was needed at first for the
privilege of selling from booths and
tables, so that to start in business the
only stock i'm trade necessary was a
meager supply of photographs, a couple
of boxes and a board. During the few
weeks after the fire there was not "A
| square foot i'm the neighborhood of the
| Ferry building unoccupied. Among the
peddlers there were as many women
as men.
When the placards forbidding rum
maging among the ruins on pain of
being shot were torn down, there was
a rush to the hattened site of China
town for relics and souvenirs, and the
debris was stripped clean of china and
bricabrac that had been Scared by the
fire. Small boys gathered this rubbish
In baskets and hurried to Market street
to set up a barrel. or board.
The tourists bought these souvenirs
with such aVidity that the bona fide
stock was soon exhausted. Then the
canny youths collected scraps of china
and glass and odds and ends Of junk
from the unburned districts. BY the