The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-05-04

make a detailed report to the war de-
partment, where final audit and
statement will be made
AT noon yesterday the distribution
of food was formally turned over TO
the United States army.
Abuses Will Be Stopped.
Many of the abuses that have been
prevailing in the giving out of sup
plies by the various relief organiza-
tions, each of which has acted indie
pendently. will be discontinued and
the direction of all the stations will be
centralized in the depot of the army
quartermaSter.
Reports from the leading hospitals
at the Preside and at Golden Gate
Park showed that the number of pa
tients is less than Wednesday. At the
general hospital in the Preside there
were $50 patients yesterday, which is
200 less than Wednesday.
Many Leave the City.
The decrease is probably due 10 the
fact that privilege of free transporta-
ton over the railroads to any part OF
the state expired at noon yesterday,
and many of the patients who were
suffering from minor injuries and
complaints left the hospitals in time
TO take advantage Of this.
Every source of water supply is be-
ing examined by inspectors to pro-
vide against any possibility of con-
tamination. The garbage of the city
is being taken out to sea on barges
and all unsanitary camps have been
removed and the ground which they
occupied quarantined The medical
supplies have been concentrated at
the Preside general hospital and dis
tributed from this.
Start Street Cars.
After considerable discussion 1t
was decided last evening to start
street cars this morning. The urgent
need of transportation overweighed
the arguments of those who urged
danger of further fire as a reason for
delaying the resumption of the cleo
trio lines.
The wholesalers association has de-
clined an offer from Oakland of
large tract of land on that side of the
bay for the location of wholesale es-
Establishments. The wholesalers reit-
Grated their intention of rebuilding
and opening up business on the old
ground
Get Ready for Business.
Temporary buildings for many
wholesale firms will be completed
within fifteen days. The wholesalers
have reports of 5000 car loads Of
goods now in transit between Chicago
and San Francisco and of $500 more
car loads ready for delivery as soon
as the congestion in the railroad yards
can be relieved.
The Union iron works. where many
of the best vessels in the United
States navy were built, and the Ris-
don iron works, both of which escaped
the fire. will reopen at once, giving
employment to many thousands.
Building New San Francisco.
The scheme for building the new
San francisco is in the hands of City
Engineer Thomas P. Woodward, who
is working his plans into shape.
If the city engineer has his way
there will be no narrow and clogging
streets in those sections of the city
laid bare by fire. Streets in the bust
ness district which have been proven
inadequate for the rush Of metropo-
lis will be widened by slicing the
private holdings on either side.
Iarket street will be left as it is.
So will Third and other streets that
We're repaired shortly before the
earthquake, but the commission and
wholesale sections will be radically
altered, both in width and course.
Re-EstabIished in Year.
Within month Market street will
be lined with temporary structures.
The Spreckels, De Young and Shreve
buildings, the st. Francis hotel, the
Merchants exchange and many more
of the first-class structures can be put
into shape at comparatively little ex-
pense. With these as a nucleus, there
is no reason why the retail ald
wholesale districts of the city should
not be re-established within a year.
Plenty of outside capital is assured
and many property owners living
abroad have cabled their representa-
tives here to begin reconstruction at
once.
10000 Buildings Gone.
A map just published here of the
burned district shows an area cover
ing 435 city blocks, III of which are
south of Market street and 342 at the
North end. 1t is estimated that the
buildings destroyed will be in the
neighborhood of 10000.
10000 Acres Devastated.
Oakland, Cal. April 28.-The area
devastated by the fire in San Fran
cisco approXimates 10000 acres, or
about fifteen square miles. Within
this were nearly 100 banks, some of
the finest buildings in the world, thou
sands OF mercantile and manufacture
ing establishments and more than
100000 inhabitants, besides 100000
transients. The homes of 100000
people are practically uninjured.
There still remain the great shipyards
at the Potrero, the Pacific Mail docks,
the stock yards at South San Fran
CISCO the docks and manufactures