Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-04-25
SAN FRANCISCO IS
 FLAMING WORK
ARCHITECTS ARE BUSY PREPAR-
 ING THE DRAWINGS.
Just One Week Ago To- Day the City Was Laid Low-Many Men and Teams at Work-Govern-
 ment Mules Are Helping.

San Francisco, April 25.-It is a week to-day since this city was vis- ited by an earthquake which laid low the metropolis of the Pacific coast and started confagration un- equalled in the history of this coun- ; try. Although the glow of the dy- ing embers of the great fire still nightly illuminate the sky, the work of restoration is already well under way.
 Plans for the construction of the new buildings are rapidly being drawn and work on some of them will begin as soon as the ruins of the old sites are cold. Many of the new buildings planned are on larg- CT scale than those burned, giving promise that from the ashes will rise new San Francisco, greater and more beautiful than the old.
 In addition to the large force of men and teams already at work about fifty teams of government mules were put to work yesterday hauling away debris. Several more streets were cleared for traffic, numerous street car lines are ready for opera tion, while the repairing of the wa ter mains and the work of restoration of the gas and electric systems is making rapid headway. Work on taking down and rebuilding the ferry tower began to-day.
 The exodus from the city contin- ues. It is estimated that 60,000 per- sons were furnished with free trans portation yesterday to the different parts of the state by the Santa Fe and Southern Pacific railways. The relief work is now thoroughly organ ized. Many carloads of provisions and supplies are being received daily. Five cars were received from South ern California, among other things 5000 blankets, which were immedi- ately distributed at the transport docks by the marines. The blankets came at an opportune time, but are insignificant in number to what are actually required.
 The rain was followed by clear, cold night, causing much distress in the parks and crowded camps for want of dry bedding, blankets, cots and waterproof tents.
 As a result of Mayor Schmitz's sharp letter yesterday evening to General Roster, commanding the na- tional guard, in which the mayor called the generals attention to the fact that the city was not under mar tial law and that the drastic meas ures and arbitrary actions of some of his men which have caused so much complaint were illegal and requesting him to put stop to 1t, there was but little shooting last night in the dis trict over which the militia held sway.
 A looter, who, 1t is stated, broke into several places on Vallejo street, was reported to have been shot by a marine sentry. Several bullets fired from the water front struck a Red Cross launch in which Dr Dig gins, of the emergency hospital ser vice. was going from the Potrero dis trict to the Presidio. The shooting was done while the launch was of the ferry depot. None of the occu- pants was hit The bluejackets who patrol that section of the water front disclaim all knowledge of the shoot ing.
 The fact that two companies of the Fourteenth United States infan- try from Vancouver went to Oakland yesterday to do guard duty in that city indicates that the militia will be recalled.