Arizona republican., 1906-04-25
A WEEK OF TERROR
 BROUGHT TO AN END.
San Francisco Steadily Recovering From
 Its PrOStratiOn
President Roosevelt Represses the Rising Spirits of the People by Message Based Upon Misinformation Re garding Treatment of Their Fellow Chinese Sufferers

San Francisco, April 24.-This was the seventh day since the earthquake jared the city so severely and started the fires that laid it in ashes, and, as with the preceding days, Tuesday took up the accumulated impetus of Monday and added so great a volume of force of it's own that Wednesday will dawn on situation that is a long way to- ward the normal. Such marts of trade as remain unburned are opening for the transaction of ordinary business. Temporary structures are being run up for the accommodation of others, clear ing of the devastated area of its ruins is well under way, the inquiry into the condition of the bank vaults is com pleted, the organization and prepara- tion for service of the street railways are so far advanced that the company has expressed its readiness to resume business as soon as the mayor would permit. The water company has an nounced the completion of such re- pairs as will enable it to supply a to- tai of twelve million gallons of water. In fine, there is all the evidence to put dl | those who predicted that San Fran cisco would never rise again.
 The citizens of San Francisco had | done so splendidly in the face of such an appalling catastrophe that some | little consternation was created this morning when President Roosevelt's proclamation was read. turning over tl | Dr. Edward Devine of the National Red Cross the management of relief measures and the distribution of the ! great funds so generously appropri- ated by congress and recommending to ! the people of the United States that their contributions of food and supplies and money should be diverted into the same hands.
 If there was a momentary feeling that the men who had endured the hea and burden of the day were being un- fairly treated by this diversion of au- l thority into new and foreign keeping it was soon dissipated by the reflection that the action of the president Wal the result of transformation. At tn conference at Fort Mason, attended b! Generals Greeley and Funston, Mayo 1 Schmftz, Governor Pardee, Dr. Devin, and some others, it was agreed tha this was the case and that Dr. Devin himself should frame a telegram to tn president informing him of the splen did work already done and of his per feet willingness to assist in forwarding the measures already undertaken
 What hurt even more than this wa the suggestion made in the letter iron President Roosevelt to Secretary O | War Taft that reports had reached hin that less charity was being shown tn Chinese who dwell here than the white and directing that if this be true, tn situation should be remedied at once If the people of San Francisco are no in love with the Chinese, it was fel that the name they have earned in tn past for charity and open heartednes should have saved them from any pos sible reflection that they would hay
 permitted any human being-whit black or yellOw-within their reach [ suffer. Mature reflection. however brought the conviction that the trut had not reached the president, and
 special message was sent him, signe by the constituted authorities, recount ing the exact facts. The message Wa as follows:
 "President Theodore Roosevelt,
 White House, Washington;
 "All reports that the people or ths