Bisbee daily review., 1906-05-13

day, figuratively speaking. There are no rich. There are no poor. Men who have been rated as millionaires have condescended to stand in the bread line with their poorer neighbors in these times of. great financial and phy- sical distress. The public crib is no respector of persons.
 There will be less restraint put up on men here engaged in the effort to regain their lost wishes. And in this connection, T may say flat the saloon men, with the rest of the unfortu- mates, will be afforded every oppor- tunity to re-establish themselves in business. As to regulating the social evil, all that we can do for the present is to wait and let that matter adjust itself as the situation demands. But I feel sure we will have a wide open San Francisco until things adjust themselves following the completion of the rebuilding of the city. The sporting people will be here in flocks, and we will have a regular Klondike."
 Notwithstanding that all of San Francisco's former rival cities have the deepest regret for her misfortune and are without any selfish desire to take advantage of it, an interesting three cornered fight is going for that portion of business that the stricken city must of necessity lose and the proportion of population that she can not possibly hold.
 Oakland. just across the bay from San Francisco, which boasted of 100,- 900 population before the destruction of her big sister, seems to be leading by good wide margin in, the race for permanent growth. Los Angeles and Seattle, Wash, are running neck and neck. San Francisco have been told, will lose, temporarily at least, much of it's shipping business to Seattle. On the other hand, Los An geles is much better residence place than the Washington city, and for a period of three years has been forging ahead with seven-league boots stride that has been most remarkable. There are those who predict that Los An geles. the young giant that stands by the Sunset Sea 800 miles to the south Of old Frisco, Is surely destined to be the big California city of the 1 future that Is not more than 10 years away.
 Oakland has the big advantage over Los Angeles and Seattle. It was Oak lands bread that fed good 100000 of the earthquake victime in the first i days following the earthquake and fire, and it was Oakland that furnished the beds for the army of homeless to sleep in and homes for them to live | In. Oakland had a widely spread busi- ness district that was really too large | for the Oakland of before the fire, and | into the unoccupied store rooms that
 existed by the hundreds the San Fran cisco merchants established their of
 fees and begun to do business.
 The deposits in Oakland banks nat
 urally increased by the millions. The
 San Francisco institutions had been
 wiped out almost to the last one. Coun, try banks turned over their accounts to the Oakland institutions, and their | drafts are now being made on Oakland 1 instead of San Francisco.
 Oakland has 20 miles of water front the same mileage as Sans+Francisco But she has but little wharfage, com. paratively, and her business men do not seem to be of the type that will get together and build more. The busi.
 ness vitality that is so characteristic
 of the San Francisco merchant is not typical of the Oakland business man. I Although just across the bay, the lit tie bay cfty's general traits were wide Ily different before the earthquake They were more representative of the
 average city of the southland. Condi. tions will naturally force much busi