Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-04-28

ages Of human progress II has been
the fact that the devil was grabbing
at the hindmost that made the fore
most move. Oakland is feeding San
Francisco refugees with one HAND,
while she is grabbing at the San Fran
cisco trade with the other. The battle
royal Is on, and It Is knife for knife and
blow for blow. Here, there Is no quar-
ter, and nothing but relentless warfare,
VIII San Francisco rebuild?
Possibilities to amass dollars must
answer the question, and while Oak
land women are feeding San Francis
cos homeless, Oakland real estate men
are among them in hordes trying to
sell them homes, and Oakland giants OF
Industry are In constant consultation,
planning how they can steal from Sar,
Francisco some trade advantage. One
great move Is on already The Realty
Syndicate, which for years has
planned and schemed to deprive San
Francisco Of her prestige in commerce.
has let contracts for immense docks
along the Key Route ferry into thu
bay, and these are to be rushed 10
completion IN 80. days. Whsrves and
warehouses are to follow. II San Fran,
cisco retains her port she will have
10 De up ana lgntlHs.
SEATTLE ALSO BUSY.
Seattle, too, WAS handy, and. she Ia
rushing IN TO grab all that San Fran
cisco cannot maintain a firm hold up
on Seattle has long th;rsted for the
oriental trade. and Seattle Is now re-
ported here as rushing her docks and
waterfront facilities.
FIGHTING FOR CONFIDENCE.
Meanwhile the San Francisco people
are not idle. A canvass Of the bigger
merchants develops the fact that most
OF them are either open at new ad'
dress. keeping line on customers, oil
else are east trying to secure capital
TO rebuild. The San Francisco papers
are storming for confidence. They
print stories of street cars ready to
operate. Of telephone communication
with Oakland, of immense offers re-
fused for Market street frontage But
he who would move in Frisco must
take an auto, and then keep clear OF
most streets. A street car would have
10 be capable of running over brick
strackage to operate In most OF the
streets, and long lines of burned cara
at the ends of tracks down by the wa
ter front suggest that equipment suf-
fered some at the places they made
their last fight against the fire.
THE DEsoLATION OF DEATH.
Stand at the depots and listen to the
talk OF those who get tickets out. Many
swear they never want to see Frisco
again, and business men who are not
held closely to San Francisco are fg-
urng on Salt Lake, Portland, or Los
Angeles. The exodus to Los Angeles
has been marked, and Salt Lake viii no
doubt profit greatly from the situation.
Frisco is not going to spring up like
magic. Stand on Knob Hill and II you
didn't steady yourself to remember that
there are railroads out to places over
the mountain where there IL still life,
you would have hard time believ-
ing you were not beyond the end OF the
world. You can't overpaint the San
Francisco catastrophe. You can hard
ly grasp It. Standing there We'd
nesday noon, there came q roar and a
cloud of smoke, and as II cleared away
there was a great gap of clear air
where the eye had Just seen the noble
group of the Examiner, Call and
Chronicle. Now the Examiner was
| gone, and the Call and Chronicle re-
mained to keep their lonely watch over
the ruins.
South of Market, as far as the eye
could reach, nothing but ashes, gray
| nat ashes. No ruins, for the frame
| houses were here, and no trace OF any
| thing but Just fiat ashes. a sagebrush
| desert could not look more uninvitlng
and desoiate. The Mills building may
| 20 up again, but why the need OF n
| sky scraper now? All around Il for
miles and miles is ashes, and who VIII
reclaim these to make q big building
| pay? II was gold made them, gold
| that made San Francisco, and gave Its
flavor OF easy going. and It's palaces
| OF art, bohemian quarters, and resi-
dences. The Fair family, the Flood
| family the Stanfords, the Hopklnses,
| the De Youngs, the Spreckleses, and
! All of their kind builded through many
years from gold mine fortunes. Now
! nh that they builded Is wrecked, and
where Is the hope OF anything TO sub
| stitute IL, or the picturesque China
town that ended its career In n clashing
| OF gongs and hammering OF tom toms
| thai were calculated to scare away the
earthquake. and very nearly did II. ac-
cord.ng to the tales OF those who heard
! the nolse2
The new San Francisco Ia at least
! going TO be built by new men, and
the era of gold and glory or adventure
Is aver forever Stanford with his
millions built university TO perpetuate
the power Of his fortune II survived
The loss Of 100000 and viii live on
| into the new era. but his san Fran.
cisco residence Is only ashes and
burned nails.
THE RUINED RECORD OF STONE
Down at stanford the great Memorial
arch was carved deep In everlasting
stone. to perpetuate the power OF gold
in California. A frieze on which IN.
hest genius Of 81. Gaudlens was brought
| into reauisitlon pictured the story OF
the world from Adam down to George
thread Of progress across on the cara.
| vans OF the gold seekers, and ended
the tale with view OF a railroad trali
drawing up to the mouth Of a tunnel
where q California fortune maker was
| nj work.