The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-02


the reople A new and lntenas interest In
life. II has sven improved the health Of
all who we're strong enough TO pull through
the moderate hardship Of the first five DAYS.
There lsn't n blass person In the State.
An express wagon, acting a. q temporary
street car. took The SuS correspondent
driver had fitted II mp with eoap boxes
for seats. and he charged for the trip two
bits. which, being translated into the
speech Of the East, Ia Is cents. Every
n IL talking TO every one else without
introduction, and this driver turned to the
reporter with. u.
much to poor old San Francisco in one
week, how much will they do In a Year,
Just you ait down and figure this out.
This same optimistic. question citizen a
In a less lowly walk OF lie are putting to
tho stranger within their gates. Could
one look down Market street through a
tube which would exclude the bare. burned
walls from view, he would believe that
the city was holding another q. A. r. re-
union, so great Is the hustle aud so thick
the swarm Of pedestrians and vehicles.
The street is clear Of bricks. Every
few minutes comes an electric car, jammed
to it's roof. Never before was the main
artery OF San Francisco so busy. Already
on the ruins which pile high the sides Of
the thoroughfare squat the tents and
shacks Of enterprising business men. who
are rising superior to earthquake and fire
a Francisco has gone back TO first princi-
ples-it is 40 again-a 20 built on the ruins
Of 1905. Hardly is a pile Of debris carted
of before a load OF lumber is dropped into
its place; and the next day there is a little
shack with a sign on its front.
In the burned part Of the residence dis
trict, where wooden walls were levelled
flush with the ground and there are no
ruins Of brick and twisted steel TO remove.
the business mar builds an Office OF wood,
tar paper and corrugated iron. spreads a
canvas over II against the rain, clears.
a path through the debris to his doc and
begins to buy and sell, .
Among the tall buildings OF Market street
intermittent puffs Of dust leap fro m the
blank easements and sift down to the brick
heaps beneath, This means that the
owners are clearing up the hreproof offices
we're burned, and that within a few days
men may be sitting up over the ruins trans
acting business on the seventh and eighth
floors. They will hardly get any higher,
because 1t will take longer to get in ole
vators.
building in Market street three young
barristers have pitched a tent where the
Inside, they will tell you from behind a
soap box that they are ready to take a case
into the Superior court tomorrow.
Through the wholesale district move heavy
drays, carrying donkey engines. These
machines are dragging safes and strong
boxes from the ruins beyond the circle Of
the tumbled walls.
As zach charred and blistered cube falls
with a thud from the heap OF wreckage lin
ing the street like a dixie, a machinist with
a mallet and chisel sets about opening the
lock. The man whose whole business
career may depend upon the strength Of
this box stands waiting. Sometimes 1t ia
of black ashes layer on layer, I'll disturbed,
but still mere waters OF lsh,
In one safe opened Yesterday II was found
that a quantity Of gold coin had been fused
into humps, from which glittered the star
points OF twenty-five diamonds-all I'M
harmed.
Chairman James n. Phelan announced
Yesterday that the relief funds sent or re-
ported to him were 81, 1852, 500. Jesse Over
street, chairman Of the Congressional Com
mittee on Post Offices and Post Roads, tele-
eraphed to CONGRESSMAN Kahn Yesterday
that the COMMITTEES on Public Buildings
viii 60 ahead repairing or replacing all
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