The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-05-11


$4,000, a sum which in no way impairS
their financial standing. The buildings
. and fixtures are partly insured and this
VIII cut down tho loss to a less figure
. but how much cannot be stated with
any degree of certainty at this time.
The money on hand in the thirty-twC
commercial banks at that time was SIG.
551, 454, while the savings banks have
|; coin on hand to the amount of. SO, $685.
804. Add to this the SIC. $780, 1863 in spe-
Gle in the vaults of the ten national
banks, and there is an aggregate OF
$30,5I1 ,023 in coin Immediately avail
able The amount of money due She
three classes of banks from other banks
and bankers is about S37 ,9S7, 900, of
which, however, only $1S,0 900 due
from outside banks can be figured on,
the balance being due from other San
Francisco banks. This brings the total
money within immediate reach up to
more than $4S,000 900.
In the line of convertible securities
thzse banks held stocks and bonds val
ued at s91, 1901 One-third of this
total represents United States bonds.
This one-third, say 10000, 900, brings
the grand total of money within reach
of San Francisco banks up to $4,000, 900
and it is safe to say that sufficient ad-
ditional securities are so readily con-
vertibe that the total could be- made
$100, 100000 in ten days time
GREAT IS THE ARMY
! OF THE PETTY LOOTERS
There is much activity throughout
the burned section, many men being
! engaged in clearing away debris in
preparation for the immediate con-
/ struction of temporary buildings.
! warning was sent out to all those
! who have safes in the burned build
! ings advising them not to attempt to
open vaults or safes of any kind for
the present. Several persons opened
small safes taken from the ruins yes
terday and the contents Immediately
took fire and We're consumed.
There was less dynamiting of walls
today, most of the dangerous ruins
having already been RACED.
Army officers in charge of the refu-
gee camps at Golden Gate Park report
that conditions there are excellent and
that the refugees are so situated that
they. not only experience no suffering
but no discomfort. With few excep-
lions all tents have been made water
tight by being lined with tar building
paper, which was the principal sup
ply distributed yesterday. The occu-
pants of every tent have been supplied
with field cook stove and the refugees
in need are given a double army blank
ct. Within the last forty-eight hours
fully a hundred campers have left
Golden Gate Park to occupy houses !
they left in fear of fire or new places
they have found in the unburned dis
trict.
The Dominican Sisters have informed
the Associated Press that their college
at San Rafael was not damaged by
the earthquake and that studies have
been resumed in the institution. (
Greater in numbers than the military
forces guarding the lives and property
in this city is the army of hooters that
has taken possession of San Francisco.
From early in the morning until late at
night every boat that crosses the bay
brings hundreds of people whose sole
object in visiting the city is to dig
among the ruins and carry off such
articles of value as they are able to
find with a small amount of effort.
Laden with suit cases, baskets, bags
and satchels, they come eager to seize
from the streets and houses anything
that may have possible historical or
oecuniary value. Toward nightfall they .
vend their way across the bay. carry ;
ng the heavy profits of their days ,
abor. !,
CHINESE BURNED OUT
BURIED THEIR MONEY.
Although strict orders were given at +
he beginning of the military rule that S
LII persons detected in the act OF loot {
ng should be shot remedies of this |
description have been abandoned and 2
low the army of hooters is in full sway. I
In many of the Chinese and japanese h
torres when the fire approached the
roprietors buried large part of their /
toeks in the easements, intending to
eturn after the fire had passed and re- n
over what they could. They never i
anne back. The terrors Of the rocking a
arth and the sweep of fame was too b
1uch for their Oriental minds; but the t
)oters came, and everything that was o
f any use or value has been carried b
way. The merchants who hoped to D
ave something out of which they could
e-establish themselves will never find c
ny of the stock they left. "
Many residence sites have been 81
worked over and articles of gold, sill d
ave established guards upon their t.
remises. but very few of the owners In
homes have taken this precaution. q,
AT the ruins of the Hopkins Art In NJ
itute and the Stanford residence q
lard il maintained. and yesterday CT
en- and women who had been gather fe
Y relics in the ruins of other houses tn
ong Pine and California Streets COM OIL
aimed vigorously against the refusal W
the guards to permit them TO enter in
pom the ruins where the Stanford and eli
rocker homes once stood. Their pre- as
Gus knowledge OF the character of ii,
e house furnishings convinced them m
at the profits of footing there would tr
great liz
the ruins of many of the fam he
hotels the hooters have been very ar
And in the ashes OF pawn 70
oking establishments they have gath Pc