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Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-23
DEMENTED FLOWER MAN
DIES IN CONCLUSIONS
Reading Bulletins of San Francisco
Disaster Causes Man to Have
Cerebral Hemorrhase-Thought at
First Morphine Was Cause

Excited to point of frenzy by read
ing the bulletins on the San Francisco
disaster, Haney Caldwell, a demented
flower vender, rooming at 3001s South
Los Angeles street, was seized with
convulsions yesterday morning and
died few hours later at the receiving
hospital from cerebral hemorrhage.
Caldwell was a character about town.
He was regarded by the police as a
harmless, inoffensive sort Of man, ad-
dicted to the use of drugs.
Wanted to Help Sufferers
When found unconscious in his room
it was first supposed that the man had
taken an overdose of morphine, but the
examination at the receiving hospital
convinced the physicians that it was a
probable case of brain trouble. 1t was
learned that Caldwell has been very
much wrought up over the accounts of
the terrible fire in San Francisco and
spent hours spelling out the news on
the bulletin boards. He told a police
man Saturday that he was going to
donate half of his daily sales to the
relief fund and inquired where would
be a safe place to deposit his scanty
earnings until he had enough to help
out some Of the street peddlers in San
Francisco. AS far as is known Cald-
well had no relatives or intimate
friends in this part of the country. The
body was taken to Bresee Brothers
morgue.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-23
STRICKEN CITY KNEELS In PRAYER

SAN FRANCISCO o
and on the slopes of parks and the people of San
siding vicinity
On the steps St Mary cathedral the
Golden
Archbishop
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in
vestibule while
Close the graves m calvary cemetery the
celebrated
almost total darkness with
in
ring appeal renewal of
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-23
MAKE 10000 COTS
ON RUSH ORDER
HUGHES FACTORY HAS PLUCKY
FORCE OF MEN
From Proprietor Down the Company
Works Day and Night in Answer
to the Call of San Franz
cisco's Homeless

Ten thousands cots for the homeless
and bedless of San Francisco is the
gigantic task the Hughes Manufacture
ing company has undertaken to ac-
complish before noon today
Two hundred men are working night
and day at the company's plant, Fif-
teenth and Alameda streets, and as
5000 cots, or nine carloads were shipped
last night, it is evident that by noon
today every one of the 10000 will be on
the way to the stricken city of the
north.
1t is the spirit of the men that is
making this immense task possible Of
fulfillment. Since Saturday noon the
200 men have worked as they never
worked before. They worked until
Saturday midnight and by o'clock
Sunday morning they were again at
their machines and kept it up until
Sunday midnight Foremen, who Or
dinarily stand around and simply boss
the job, are at work at machines and
continue SO until they are ready to
drop from exhaustion
CoatIess and VestIess
Lester L. Robinson, the secretary of
the Hughes company, is working as
hard as any of his men. Coatless and
vestless, with shirt sleeves rolled up to
hise lbows and his hat jammed down
on his southwest ear, he was here and
there yesterday giving an order here,
a suggestion there and urging on his
men to their utmost endeavor. But
these men needed no urging. They knew
the need of the cots they were making
and the worthiness of the object and
this was enough to keep them to their
machines and hammers and saws until
their physical force was exhausted and
they were drawing strongly on their
nerves.
I'VE never could do this if it wasn't
for the way these men are working"
said Lester l.. Robinson. See that
man at that machine? That is Fore
man Brooks. Ordinarily he stands
around and bosses. He was at that ma
chine at midnight last night and at Z
o'clock again this morning and will
stay there until he drops. See that boy
over there? He has been running his
machine since early this morning and
relieved another boy who had to give
1t up because the pace was too swift.
"No other city in the country could
turn out 10000 cots in the time we have
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-23
ROBBED AND LEFT IN ROAD
After Binding c. L. BruntIey, Two
Hodups Rifle His Pockets and
Leave Him to His Resources

c. L. Bruntley, living at 7O1 East
Sixth street, reported to the police yes
terday that he was held up and robbed
of $45 by two men Saturday night at a
railway crossing near Edendale. The
men came unexpectedly upon him and
threw him to the ground. They bound
him with rope and after rifling his
pockets left him lying in the road. He
says he managed to release himself
from his bonds and returned to the city
yesterday morning. He was unable to
give an accurate description of the rob-
bers, who are thought by the police to
be thugs that came down from the
north
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-23
ASKS POLICE TO HELP HIM
H. j. Spooner, San Francisco Refugee,
Loses Address of Los Angeles
Relatives

H. ]. Spooner, one Of the refugees,
arrived in the city yesterday from San
Francisco, expecting to find a relative
who was stopping in Los Angeles.
Through some mischance he lost the
address and asked the police to locate
his relative, Charles w. Spooner, sup
posed to be stopping at one of the
hotels. Mr.. Spooner said that he knew
of numerous instances in which hus-
bands were separated from wives and
parents from children during the ter
rible confusion incident to the earth
quake and the subsequent fire.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-23
Eor the Italian sufferers

A dramatic and musical entertain
ment was given Saturday evening at
Mason opera house by the italian coll
ony of Los Angeles for the benefit of
the Mt. Vesuvius sufferers and also
the San Francisco victims. Signor
Domencio Russo, Natorp Blumen-
field and others were on the program.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-23
SPECIAL MEETING
OF LOCAL PIONEERS
TO SECURE PLEDGES

Ths pioneers of Los Angeles county
held a special meeting and arranged to
raise $1,000 to relieve the San Francisco
sufferers.
Although the notice of the meeting
was given out late and the attendance
was small, $3.50 was pledged. AS soon
as the money can be raised it will be
sent to the Society of California Pio-
neers of San Francisco to relieve the
needy brothers.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-23
Metaphyslclans, EestlvaI

The annual NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. May fes-
tival will be held in Blanchard hall on
May 8 and the net proceeds will be
given to the San Francisco relief fund.
Every effort is being made by the
members of the Metaphysical library
to swell the fund as large as possible.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-23
TO GIVE FIESTA
IN GRAND STYLE
AS FIRST PLANNED
SUCCESS OF CELEBRATION ASSURED
Disaster at San Francisco Will in no Manner
Affect Affair-Public Organizations Issue
Statements Showing Support to Be Given
the Project Will Be Generous

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Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-23
MAKES ELOQUENT APPEAL
FOR GREATER CHARITY
WHAT is HARDER TO BEAR THAN
THE CRY FOR BREAD?
Bishop conaty Exhorts Congregation
to Open Hearts and Home to the
Earthquake Sufferers Time for
Calm Patience and Courage

Sweet charity. almsgiving and
thanksgiving was the theme of Rt.
Rev. Bishop Conaty yesterday morning
in his sermon at the Cathedral Of st.
Vibiana. The bishop in a forceful man
ner depicted the city beautiful of a
week ago among the Easter alleluias
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-23

undertaken to do it, and only through
the spirit in which every one of these
200 men is working could we do it."
No Financial Reward
And most of these men were working
without hope of reward other than the
knowledge of having done what they
could for their suffering brothers of
the north. Almost without exception
they had donated their labor as the
mill had donated its plant. The lumber
and the canvas were purchased at first
cost, which will make the total price
of each cot less than ninety cents.
While all work on the cots Is neces-
sarily done hurriedly the finished
product would be credit to any home
in the land. All the lumber is well
dressed and well Joined and the canvas
is of a good quality. The cots will last
long after the need for them has passed.
An interesting feature of the cot MAX
ing was the interest the women of the
neighborhood took in the work. Many
of them went to the planning mill early
in the day and insisted on taking a
hand. They were set to work tacking
the canvas onto the frames.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-23
No Time Wasted

No time was wasted. Lunch and din
ner was served on the ground. Rough
board tables were laid and substantial
lunches furnished by AL Levy were hur-
riedly eaten.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-23

have meant the loss Of hundreds Of
lives but of thousands upon thousands.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-24

tional feeling and to draw the two parts of the country together, while it will i'll every breast with a deeper and wider patriotism.
 New Orleans will do it's full duty this week, and all who go there will return all the better for it. We cannot honor toe much the men who fought for IS throughout four long trying years, and it is to New Orleans credit that it has made preparations for a great reunion.
 In 1908 Birmingham will do likewise. Richmond will demand an opportunity to entertain and honor the grizzlel veterans next year, but in 1908 Bir- mingham's claims will not go un- needed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-24

teeth on edge to try to speak it, and as for singing it-waughi We venture to say that no body ever sang it or tried to sing it. and we doubt if it was ever heard of beyond the confines of the I'D office. The verse we quoted is sure enough poetry, both in sound and sense. It expresses something in way to oe understood. except. perhaps, in Virginia. The song was popular with the boys in gray and many time have VIC heard it rolled from the lips of the old 'rebs' at night after they had had their supper of beef shank and corn scramblings, and the way they enjoyed 1t was sight to witness If one of them had been called on to sing the stanza quoted by our con temporary, he would have called for the firing squad at once.
 The Dispatch may know more about some things than we do It may even know more about John Smith and Pocahontas. Jamestown and Wahunsona- cook, but it shouldn't tread on thin ice by contradictlng or trying to correct this paper on poetry and song. When 1t comes to these subjects we are there with the goods. and don't propose to be butted off the track by Ole Virginny
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-24
THE CLEVER HOOP SNAKE.
Chicaeo Inter-Ocean.

From the Chicago Inter-Ocean.
 That hoop snakes roll up hill I can vouch for on the authority of a man by the name of Bell. whom I knew in Ohio, and whose statements were accepted as gospel truth Out on his farm he had four hoop snakes that were as tame as kittens, and seemed to understand ev- erything he said to them.
 On one occasion Bell started at cider making and after the press was started and the cider began to fill the first bar rel 1t was found that the juice began to run out of the barrel joints because the hoops had not been frightened. The tools necessary to drive in the hoops were some distance away at the house. and 1t be- gan to look as if the entire barrel of cider would be lost. But the pet hoop snakes took in the situation and two of them voluntarily surrounded the barrel and held it tight until tho hired man came with the necessary tools.
 Bell told me that it was custom of the snakes In cider-maklng time to im- bibe cider until they became frisky, and then start to run races. They had fa- vorite course down a hill for some two hundred yards. and in returning always came back in hoop shape.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-24
Seyenteen-Year Locusts.

The department of agriculture has kindly exempted Alabama from an ap- pearance of seventeen-year locusts The insects will be due in the last week of May or in the first two weeks of June, and they are expected to de- your green things in fifteen states eX- tending from Massachusetts to Illinois in the west and South Carolina in the south. These swarming insects which have slept so long in the ground rarely do great damage, and perhaps they will do none this year. In Alabama they will do none, for the Secretary of Agriculture has said so and his word goes on this subject.
 But he says some of our Alabama counties will be visited by thirteen year locusts. and a thirteen-year locust is probably as hungry as one of the seventeen-year sort Both will come out of their shells well supplied with ,appetites. The thirteen year locusts will not appear outside of Alabama Georgia, North Carolina and Tennes- see, and many counties in the four states will have to get along with no locusts at all, unless they import them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-24
THE ORIGINAL OF "JoHN DoE.v

From the London Chronicle.
 The news that John Doe" proceedings are to be taken, for the purpose of pro- curing evidence for the American insur- ance prosecutions, revives memories of a fictitious parsonage well known to Eng fish law before the common law proce- dure act of 1852 abolished him. He fig nred in the old-fashioned ejectment ac- tion, for the recovery of the possession of land together with damages for the wrongful withholding thereof For vari- ous reasons of convenience and history, dating from ti7e reign of Edward H., did not proceed against B directly in such a case. Instead A delivered to B an entirely false statement from the fic- titious John Doe that A had devised the land to John for a term of years and John had been busted from it by the equally fictitious Richard Roe. Then Richard informed B that he was not go- ing to defend the action himself, but must do it, and so on. Occasionally, by way of variety. John Doe gave place to one GoOdtitle
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-24
San Erancisco,s Fire Loss.

The earthquake losses in San Fran cisco were not and could not be coy cred by insurance, and it is indeed a question as to the extent that losses from dynamite and other explosives in the efforts to check the spread of the confagration were protected. All such losses were, however. small alongside the destruction caused by fire in the absence of water supply The total fire loss on seven square miles of ter ritory is still put at $300,000,000 Th.s is a vast sum, and it cuts no small hole in accumulated capital. Every bit of property that was reduced to ashes reduced by that much accumulated wealth and all the economic nonsense in the world cannot change the nature of the loss.
 But the distribution of the loss soft. ems the blow. It is now estimated that about one hundred insurance compa- nies will bear $144,000, 900 of this loss, or in round proportion, one-half of it. About one-third of the insurance money will be drawn from foreign companies about $50,000000, in other words. At least fifty millions more of the loss will fall on capitalists and real estate owners throughout the country. In this way San Franciscos direct loss will be reduced to just about $100,000,- GOO. Chicago's net loss was nearly as great
 The insurance companies are heavily hit, but it is believed they are all equal to the burden placed upon them by the disaster. and that the claims against them will be literally considered and promptly paid. Heavy as the losses are, they will not make deep impress sion upon great country, nor in the long run will they prove a damage to our commercial metropolis on the Pa cific. About seven years of construc- ton work will it is estimated, replace the city, and it will9 be city finer, solder and better in every respect than the one that the earthquake and it's resultant conhagration destroyed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-24
Practical Sympathy.

Speaking of the earthquake, the phil osopher said last night: Nothing illus trates more than this overwhelming ca lam, the force of the much used axiom that one touch of nature makes the world kin"
 Tt takes a very real touch to prove it's truth" remarked the cinic
 Well, I don't know" said the phil osopher. 'the spirit of the times en- genders selfishness, the mad rush for money and all that, perhaps. Men are pretty cold-blooded when the commercial conflict is on but there are deep wells Of spontaneous sympathy in the human heart never fail in the time of suffer ing. Look how generously the whole country responds to this call. Sympathy is one of the finest elements of human nature. It is divine in it's essence. Civil ization has brought it's cause of callous- ness, but we can never get far away from the elemental Intellect can never smother the latent fires of emotion. Love is the sun of our nature. Without it this could be a pretty cold world It seems to me that these sorrows come as a discipline in the school of life.
 Ut is a strange irony concluded the philosopher, "that~the San Francisco dis trict, the Fl Dorado of the early ffties from which our first stream of gold flow ed. should now be so poor in It's hour of distress"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-24
LISTEN TO THAT!

From the Montgomery Advertiser
 We naturally expected the Richmond Times Dispatch to butt in If chance were afforded it. That paper has fairly good opinion of itself, and never misses an opportunity to show it. Some days ago We had an entertaining and instruc- tive editorial about a national hymn, In the course of which We quoted stanza from an old war song. the first line being: 'As I went up the new-eut road,'' and the Dispatch cuts in with this: We do not know the Cutters or the Kooglers, and feel no special interest in them, or in their productions. and if the Advertiser had confined its remarks to legitimate criticism, we should have kept out. But when it drops into quotations and mars d classic. we should be untrue to the south and southern traditions and southern poetry and poets and song writers, if we held our peace. The song which the Advertiser pretends to quote is as follows:
 ..I went up the new-cut road
 She come down the lane;
 I axed Liza Jane to marry me;
 She axed me want I shame.
 turned my back upon her side
 o. g long Liza Jane.
 Now isn't that stanza nice specimen to try to palm off an intelligent public as genuine poetrys It is enough to set ones
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-24
IN HOTEL LoBBIEs
Symphony Music.

''Fhe music lovers of Birmingham arc hungry for symphonic programme. and there will be doubtless large audience at the Jefferson next week. on the oe- casion of the concert by the New York Symphony orchestra. of which Walter Damroseh Is conductor" said a member of St. Panls choir. ''Damrosch is one Of the few great orchestra leaders in tho United States He has appeared twice in Birmingham, the first time in the eighties. under the auspices of Captain Frank P. oBrien, and the second time as the director of Graus Metropolitan Opera company, in Loheng in few years ago
 The solost, who is to appear with the orchestra here next week. Is Miss zudie Harris, the young pianist of Louisville. This artist, who came into public promi- hence through composing a piano con oerto of marked beauty and merit, is like wise known as the composer of a number of successful songs and pfano numbers, while her standing as a pianist is of a high order.
 Miss Harris concerto was finished early in 1905, and was first played in Europe by the composer, under the con ductorship of Pierre Monteux. Upon that occasion the work was heard by large audience. and received the unanimous .commendation of French critics The con- certo had its premier in this country when Miss Harris appeared with the New York Symphony Orchestra in Louisville, and a series of important engagements with the same organization was the inn mediate result. Under the direction of Loudon q. Charlton this talented musi- elan expects to devote a season to con certifying before returning to Europe"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-24
Coal in Mobile Bay.

Congressmen Underwood and Taylor are laying the foundation for the estab- lishment of coaling station near Forl Morgan in the lower section of Mobile bay by the short session of Congress next winter. If they can bring this about naval vessels and merchant ships would find there the cheapest coal in the world at the seas side.
 This, however, is based on the open ing of the Warrior to the forks at least. Three more big locks would overcome Squaw Shoals and then the river would have siX-foot barge navigation from the forks of the river abreast of Birming- ham, and the railroad bridges, to the sea. When that is accomplished bunker coal which is worth at the mouth of the mines $125 a ton can be carried to Mobile at a transportation cost of 40 cents ton, and can be put on board ship certainly at $2 ton Where else in the world can this price be found? Certainly not at Cardiff, or New York, or Norfolk.
 Nor is this all. Vessels could then be loaded with Alabama coal which could then be laid down in many parts of the world at prices that other coal producing sections could not compete against. A coaling station in Mobile bay is needed as a part of an Open Warrior, and when both are ready bunker coal, which issl1nown in this dis. trict as "run-of-mines, will be placed at the sea at price that will drive Pittsburg coal out of the gulf ports.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-24
ORIGIN OF NAMES.
. Boston Transcript.

From the Boston Transcript.
 It is appropriate for the historian to recall that the original Spanish name of the now stricken city was Mission de los Dolores de Nuestro Padre San Fran cisco de Asis', Emission of the Sorrows of Our Father. St Francis of AssisD, just as Santa Fes full name as translated Into English. is "The Truc City of the Holy Faith of St. Francis" In one case the shortcut Americans took the name of the saint, and the other his chief spiritual possession. But the griefs, or sorrows, of St. Francis, pcrpetuated in one of the principal streets of San Francisco, as well as in the famous old mission itself are peculiarly suggestive at this time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-24
SOME IDEA OF EXTENT OF RUIN.

San Francisco Dispatch in New York
 Times
 These facts will give some idea of the ruin:
 Every bank has been destroyed. every theatre has been wrecked and every hotel has been razed by earthquake and flames.
 Where there was a business section of unsurpassed activity in the United States, there is now only block after block of ruins In that district practically the only buildings whose conditions warrants be- lief that they can be repaired are the mint and the new postoffice and the new Chronicle building. The postoffice walls sank several inches.
 The new Chronicle building, which was not completed or ready for occupancy, was uninjured by the earthquake. barring a few cracked bricks. This building has and, while the old Chronicle building, standing at it's side, and reaching to a height of nine stories. Is gutted, the new structure is practically uninjured, it's top and three stories not even having It's glazed white brick soiled by smoke and soot. This Is perhaps the only tall build- ing in the city left practically intact, but its entire surface below the twelfth floor will have to be gone over, and the two months that would have been re- quired for it's completion will probably be stretched into six now.
 The whole of Chinatown has been wiped out so, also, have the humber residen- tial section in the Mission district. the fine Mob hill section and the Van Ness avenue quarter