The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1906-05-04
SIN FRANCISCO PAPERS
Pluck of the Publishers in Sur
mounting the Difficulties Fol-
lowing Recent Disaster.
ONLY ONE DAILY HAS SUSPENDED
From the Day of the Earthquake the News
Has Been Furnished to Readers In
Some Shape-Chronicle Published 10
Pages Saturday With Eight Pages of
Advertising Matter.


Some Shnpe-ChrOnicIe Published 10
Pages Saturday With Eight Pages of
Advertising Matter.
San Francisco, April 29.-It takes
more than an earthquake and con-
fiagration to put the San Francisco
newspapers out of business. With a
resourcefulness that cannot but be ad-
mired, they surmounted all difficulties
Saturday there is little in their
appearance that would indicate the
strain and stress under which they
have labored in order to present the
news to the eager public OF this
burned city. Only one OF them mas
suspended publication. The Evening
Post, being unable to acquire a plant
in the vicinity of the city, has re-
tired from the field for 80 days. All
others are issuing as usual.
It must be remembered that at BIB
on the morning of the earthquake
April 1S, power and water failed IN
every newspaper office in San Fran
cisco. Still in the hope that as the
day grew, these agencies would be
provided, the gathering of news went
on as usual. When the conflagration
made it apparent that all plants with
ont exception would be destroyed, the
Bulletin put at work a force in its
composing rooms and hand bill was
hand set and some hundreds of copies
run off on the proof press, giving the
salient features of the days news.
The morning papers, the Call
Chronicle and Examiner retired to
Oakland on the other side OF the pay,
and there on Thursday morning issued
a Joint paper from the office of the
Oakland Tribune. On Friday morn
ing they split forces again, the Ex-
aminer retaining the use OF the Trl-
bune plant and the Call and Chronicle
issuing from the Office of the Oakland
Herald. Two days later the Call Sc
cured the service of the Oakland Ell
nuirer plant. Meantime on Friday the
Bulletin, after a suspension OF one
day made arrangements for the use IN
the afternoon of the Oakland Herald
equipment and from these sources ana
under such circumstances the San
Francisco papers have been issuing
Offices were hurriedly opened on
Fillmore street, which is now the
main thoroughfare of San Francisco
and from these headquarters the news
of the day as it was gathered has
been transmitted by means OF auto
mobiles and the ferry service to the
Oakland shore. There also were ac-
cepted such advertisements as nave
been offered.
The number of these is perhaps the
best visual sign at present OF the re
surrection of the new city. IL was
noted that in a IA page paper printed
Friday by the Examiner, there were
over nine pages of advertisement and
in 16 page paper published Saturday
morning by the Chronicle at least ~
percent of it's space was devoted u
the same end. What better evidence
could the world have OF the lndomlta-
Bile purpose of the merchants OF SAT-
Francisco. 1t is to be noted that tnts
issue of the Chronicle, of which men
ton has been made, was delivered by
carrier at the residence of every sub
scriber remaining standing in San
Francisco not later than o'clock.
The maintenance of telegraph com
munication with the outside world
has been one of the most difficult mat
ters with which the newspapers have
had to contend. The experience oil the
Associated Press in this respect Will
give an idea of the obstacles confront-
ing the other news agencies OF the
city. From Wednesday, April IL, until
Monday. April %, there was nelthci
communication by means of telephone
or telegraph between Oakland and san
Francisco. On Monday one telephone
circuit with Oakland was established
and the Associated press used this foi
telecraphic purposes. The use con-
timed through Tuesday and Wednes-
day it failed. On Thursday the Western
Union by extraordinary efforts sue
ceeded in getting a bay cable in work
ing order and by running wires in q
roundabout way managed to get a wire
into the municipal headquarters al
Franklin Hall on Fillmore street nedT
Bush. This wire was placed at tht
service of the Associated press and
through communication to the east
established. New. from the Assc-
ciated press headquarters has been
going over this wire ever since.