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The San Francisco call., 1906-06-05
AFTER THE TRAGEDY.

TO stand face to face with Death
to feel that you have looked squarely
Into bis unheeding and uncaring eyes
and have felt the touch of his clammy
mana upon you; then to have him pass
you by and to stand where the evi-
dence or his grim work is all about
you-this has been the recent expert
ence or men, women and children in
thlS city not by units, tens or hundreds.
out by hundreds of thousands.
II is an experience that cannot be
forgotten and only time can deaden
ithe flrst horror of it. | we'll know that
am far from the only person who
even yet sometimes goes to bed only
to feel it still rocking beneath him.
not the only one who wakes from
troubled dreams of that grinding and
rending which reused us from sleep
that morning.
And those who did not escape, who
looked Death in the face and then took
has hand for the journey into the
darkness-their vacant chairs are in
many homes if the homes yet remain
but the other day they were so strong
ana Well-how can we believe that
they nave gone from us forever? And
now shall the mourners be comforted
when the voice of their lamentation is
heard on every hand? Human words
are vain things when the awful voice.
or the Almighty has been heard. And
yet, even IN our gratitude that we and
ours nave escaped, the sympathy which
we know not how to speak goes out to
the many who mourn.
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-05
EMbASSADOR FROM
BRAZIL LAUDs THE
SAN FRANC|sCANS
Praises the Determination With
Which People Have Set
to Work.
Much Impressed by What He
Saw During Visit to the
Pacific Coast.

WASHINGTON, June At tried very
hard. indeed, to find the West about
which L had heard so much, but came
to the conclusion that it is myth.'
said Mr.. Nabuco, the Brazilian Embas-
sador, in an interview today after his
return from a VISIT to the Pacific
Coast.
There is no difference between the
people of your various States that 1
could perceive. At every station where
we stopped the people and the sur
roundings looked just as they do in the
East. | was astonished to find in places
almost unknown to the foreigners daily
papers with kilograms from all over
the world.
San Francisco showed US in its burn
ing ashes the same resolute, deter
mined people already beginning to re-
build their city and all full of the
energy and courage characteristic of
your race
The one thing about Americans
which must impress visitors more than
anything else is the absence of any So
called lower strata in your society. In
this country there are no women or
men of the sort always referred to in
Europe as the people, Men and women
here never admit that they are at the
foot of the social ladder and if they
are there they don't look it; they ap-
pear to be at the top. There are no
visible barriers to stop the rising of
the ambitious. Ambition is your life
and you seem all to be moved up by
automatic springs.
Il looked in vain for some place that
would look provincial. Even in the
heights of the Sierra, under the snowy
peaks, any little village would show
that 1T keeps well in contact with the
outer world. In Europe if one stops at
small station, even in the principal
lines of travel, one may find himself in
place where every essential of refined
life is wanting, but in this country
where all is change and interchange
railways, electric light. telephones and
all modern improvements are every
where This uniformity of your life
from sea to sea is amazing"
Mr.. Nabuco also visited the North
Pacific Coast and says he was much i'm
pressed by the industry and thrift there
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-05
MEMENTo MoRI.

No fairer day eer dawned.
rhc sun of morn rose from his couch OF
dreams
And smiled upon the world that yet did
sleep,
And all of earth. and all of sea and sky
Gave smile Ior smile unto the god OF
day
From hidden hooks wee murm'rin e
brooks stole forth,
And in their every ripple shone a sun;
And nesting birds flew singing DER the
earth,
Glad, and moro glad. than natures voice
seemed heard
In benisons of peace.
Twas that brief hour
Between the peace of night and stress
When nature wakes. but man is wooed
by dreams.
In homes unnumbered little children
slept,
Or smiled in visions that the angels
bring;
And mothers wrapped in slumber lay,
nor dreamed
That death drew nigh unto the babes
they loved;
And strong men slept, assured that all
was well
With those they held so dear. The
hour of peace,
Of perfect peace, it seemed, was with
the world;
And who could dream of fear? A
baby's Groom,
A mothers sigh in rest, sleeps tranquil
rest;
A fathers dreamless slumber-nothing g
more,
Save natures smile.
And then the Horror came,
Great buildings torn, and rent, and
rocked, and ground;
The clash of steel 'gainst steel, of stone
on stone;
The moan of earth-that awful, name
less sound
A reeling world, rocking sky above
The feeling-God! the feeling,-that
mans might,
His utmost might, is less than moth
ingness,
The shrieks that herald fear: the moth
er's plea
That God may save her babe; grim, tot
t'ring walls;
The groan that dies in silence, and the
pray'r,
Aye, half unuttered; life gone down to
death,
And then red chaos, chaos more than
And still great nature smiled!
Oh. Nature, thou
Who art the mother of us mortals, ALL
mast thou no tear for these, thy chill
dren, dead?
Hast thou no sigh for horror thou hast
wrought?
No wrinkled grief to speak thy hearts
distress?
We stand afraid, in grief that has no
voice;
Our hands are empty, and our lips are
mute;
Gray anguish waits upon our steps
and thou!
Naught save that tranquil smile: No
tear of woei
Here lie our loved; our homes are not
and thou.
Oh, not a single tear!
In midst of life
We are in death. We dream of safety
here
The great God speaks and, 10! our
boasted might
Is nothingness. We build our struct-
ures high;
His hand he lifts, and they are of the
dust
Mans pride is naught; on all he builds
God writes:
These are my own, to save them or to
crush.
All are mine own; my will I work on
them
Oh, crushed to silence, stricken in our
grief,
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-05
W. Friedman Will Build Class A Structure, Ten
Stories High, on Bush and Kearny.

Another skyscraper has been planned
for central Kearny street. The prop
erty owners in that district know the
value of the land and can see ahead
The latest owner who announces that
he will build early and reap the har-
vest that is coming to the men whose
faith in the future of the city is un-
shaken is w. Friedman. He VIII erect
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-05

a ten-story class A building on the
southwest corner of Bush and Kearny
streets
Plans for the structure have already
been accepted They were designed by
Architect Charles Pfaf. The frame of
the Friedman building will be steel and
the outer material stone and brick
The cost will be over S1S0,0O0
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-05

LARGEST LIBRARIES-Read citv.
1t is said that the Bibliotheque Nation
ale, Paris, France, with its 3.0O0. 900 vol
umes, is the largest library in the
world. The New York public library,
with its 1,O13.905 volumes and 240337
pamphlets, is the largest library in the
United States
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-05
THE NEW SAN FRANCISCO.

As the various properyowners their building plans
becomes evident that the San Francisco will be built
the lines the Old but generous
five years hence will principal thor
Oughfare the great artery of its business and social life
find the Palace Hotel with its wormous restored but
stead of will be story building advantage taken
in its construction of every and
Tor the comfort OF its guests which have been devised during the
thiry-twO years since the old hotel built.
The St Francis will be changed There will new Occi-
dental the historic site of the old
win le OIL keeping alive the old traditions that part of
the story of the development of California and building
Francisco The banking will be where originally grew up
with the imposing bank buildings which air of dignity
sOdy to that of the even more
imposing Emporium will occupy the Emporium will be
the same newspaper center with It's well known buildings The sod
built Mint building which wihstood admirably both earbouae
shock and fire. will OF remain the old street
ana the PoStoce building at the of Seventh
There w of many changes all of them for the
better without making radical changes
OF the city Where thousands of modern hacs build
ngs built third Of centure stood before the fire.
structures viii stand; places been wdened
and modern will have taken place hdeous
cobbs that the time of the fire had resisted the march of
Improvement who knew and loved the old San Francisco
Will have trouble in recognizing glance city by
WeknOwn landmarks find their about easily of
"
disastrous fire that ever swept ctv to make
San Francsco earthquake effective But one Of
the ordinary would have made
as complete job of without fire accompaniment
The price of gasoline advanced cents gallon which
puts an additional $85oOOO $5OoOOo
cohers On well; John Rockefeller wanted Europe
The Legislature organized for business got to real work
IN less than fifteen minutes The dispatch during remainder
OF the session will improve the popular opinion Legislatures
All that asked of the insurance
and this the people Of San Francisco prepared to Stand pat
The alliance between Hoke Smith
n
sight
this POpust
but the
by the Democratic Watson
SpTirghed
District
He prosecute
the Etafters-NRshington
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-05
CaIaxaras Big Trees.

Good trout fishing. Good table. Low hotel
rates. Splendid scenery the Sierra Rail-
way and only Sll for the round trip. Get your
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-05
Only Twenty Ma.ons mt Work.

SAN JOSE. June 4-Only about
twenty brick masons went to work TO-
day chiefly members of the local
union. Masons who have come in from
elsewhere are demanding IS a day.
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-05

California glace fruits and choice can
dies Full stock. Iownsend's residence
and factory. 12s0 Valencia ST. and the
Emporium, Post st. and Van Ness ave. .
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-05
IN ANSWER
TO QUERIES

PURCHASE SYSTEM-A. E., City.
Ihe purchase system in the British
army which was the payment for a
commission. was abolished in 1871
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-05
THE VOICE OFF RACHEL.

"a voice was heard in Ramah, Ia
mentation and bitter weeping; Rachel
weeping for her children refused to
be comforted for her children, because
they were not-Jeremiah 31:15.)
God of us all, whose fiat stands
Against the voice of woe.
VINO hold us in thy mighty hands,
To lift or dash us low,
We bow our heads unbowed by years
At even and at dawn;
Our eyes are fountains for orr tears
With. these; our loved ones, gone.
We mourn today our vanished friends;
We weep their hapless lot,
And still the olden cry ascends
Because our loved are not
That which We built is lying low;
Its ruins round us lie
One only voice our soul doth know
cry-and but cry.
God of us all, who know our way,
TO whom our lives are bare
We have no form of words to pray
Our sous are but a prayer
We%bow us to the very dust
One grief the common lot.
And still we weep, as weep we must,
Thatsthese, our loved, are not
And yet from all this one thing
one splendid thing-we have learned
That the fine heroism of men and wo-
men needs no foundation of firm pros
perity on which to stand; it bids de-
hance to all wrack which unheeding
nature may work; it is as indestruct-
ible as the spirit within this body of
clay. Our people stood where their
homes had been, and. asking no odds
OF the wanton spirit of destruction,
vowed that those homes should rise
again. Then they went steadfastly
unto their work. refusing to be de-
TERED by poverty or appalled, by ruin.
In all history there is no record of a
finer anniversary heroism. 1t is divine
1t sets the stamp of the God on his
vessel of clay. 1t thrills a man with
pride that his is part of such an hu-
manity, and with hope that he may be
worthy of such an heritage San
Francisco never can perish, or be other
than great, while her men and women
are what they now are proving them
selves to be.
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-05

GREAT MALyERN-F G., City.
Great Malvern, an English town and
watering place. is situated in Worces-
tershire County. England on the east
sloe OF the- Malvern hills, eight miles
southwest of Worcester and 120 miles
northwest by west of London.
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-05
Del Monte =. = Homc Rc.ort.

Hotel Del Monte. by the rea. near old
Mohtefey. is open as usual All outdoor
attractions Special terms for families
Who make this their horne.
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-05

FRENCH KING-M, City. Louis
xviii of the Bourbon line of French
Kings having died without issue Sep
tenber l6, 1924, he was followed on the
throne by his brother the Comte d'Ar-
tols, as Charles X. He was deposed by
the revolution of 1890 July 80 and was
succeeded by Louis Philippe of the
house of Orleans
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-05
OCCIDENTAL ACCIDENTALS S
BY A. J. WATERHOUSE.

dalf feeling that the earth doth totter
still,
Fen in this chaos. let us find belief,
He works no final i'll.
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-05

Miss Ina Coolbrish will go south 20
remain few weeks. her health heinz
greatly improved. but much better now
than before the fire
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-05

Mrs. Charles Rivers Drake
daughter. Miss Seeley. Of Los Ans-aiss
are visiting Mrs. Edward ~ Bo~rS =,
Piedmont
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-05

Haig Pattigian left yesterday morn
ing for brief trip south. but WIN re-
turn to this city before departing for
Paris.
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-05

Mrs Anna Won Meyerinclx has e~ive,
up her large home on Fulton street ana
has taken cottage at Larkspur for
the summer
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-05

mouse or orleans.
THE MISSION-C 6 C,itv Dwi-
nellie in his Colonial History of San
francisco defines the Mission of San
francisco as follows: "The term mis-
sion includes only the collection of
houses, vineyards and orchards in the
immediate vicinity of the church, in
cludlng the stock of cattle and other
personal property in the possession. of
the priests useful and necessary in
carrying on the establishments. The
mission lands were, lands adjacent to
the mission which were used for graz
ing purposes. They were occupied by
the priests only by permission, We're
the property of the nation and at all
times subject to grant under COLOMBIA
ton laws
PALACE HOTEL-Subscribe City.
The Palace Hotel in San Francisco
was opened October 2, 1875. AS orig
inally built it contained 99S rooms. IT'S
OF which were for guests. In its con-
struction 31,000,O0O bricks, 10000, ,O00
ieet or lumber $4,000 barrels of ce-
ment, $4,000 barrels of lime, $500 bar
rels OF plaster of paris and $500 tons
OF IRON were used. 1t contained twenty
miies OF gas pipe and twenty eight
Inlies OF water. pipe. The cost of the
oulldlng when ready for opening was
s5,000.0O0.
FLAG AND TRADE MARK - Sub
scsiber, City. The act of Congress of
1919 regulating trade marks has the
1oiiowing regarding the flag: mo trade
mark shall be granted which consists
OF or compromises the flag or coat of
arms or other insignia of the United
states. or any stimulation thereof. or
OF any State or municipality of any for
elsn nation 1t also provides that nc
portrait of d living individual may be
registered as u trade mark except by
the consent of such individual evi-
denced by an instrument in writing.
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-05

Mr.. and Mrs E. H. Tryon and 20,
will leave New York on the stean,s-
Amerika June Z for an automobiIe ro',,
of six Or eight months through EuroDe.
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-05

Miss Viva Nieholson is with Mr.. and
Mrs. Ernest Stent at Santa Barbara.
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-05

w. NJ. Crown, a prominent husi,es.
man of Oakland. has just returned from
Boston and other Eastern cities OF i'm
portance-
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-05

Mr.. and Mrs George L. Fish are To-
Gated in Oakland. having just returned
from Europe. Mrs. Fish is a sister OF
Mrs Samuel Gardner. whose wedding
took place a few months ago in Mrs.
Fish's apartments at the Palace Dr.
and Mrs. Gardner. with Mr. and Mrs.
Fish. left San Francisco in February
to visit the brides parents at their
old home in Scotland
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-05

Dr. and Mrs. Charles Minor Cooper.
who have been stopping at the Goodall
home in Oakland since the fire. will re-
main indefinitely on that side OF the
bay Dr. Cooper leaves shortly for the
East 10 attend a medical convention in
New York.
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-05

Miss Ruth Houghton is expecting an
Eastern trip in company with Mrs
w g.. Henshaw- MIS- Houghton. with
MISS MINNIE houshton. will leave in a
few days for the East. to be thu. s,,es,
of Mrs. Morgan Bulkley in Hartford.
Conn.
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-05

Mr.. and Mrs Harry Melvin will spend
the summer in the Russian River
region.
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-05

James ID. Phelan has leased the
Hought0n home on jackson street.
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-05

Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Shortridge have
returned from Oakland where thew
spent month. and are at their home
in Pierce street.
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-05

Miss Laymance of Oakland. who left
a few months ago for an Oriental tour
with Mr.. and Mrs John Britton, is ex-
pected home this month
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-05

has been the guest of Mrs. Nellie de
Pue Hickey at her Market-street home
in Oakland for the last fortnight Mrs.
Minor will return home by the overland
route this week, accompanied by Mrs.
Hickey. who viii remain part of the
summer.
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-05

The price of gasoline has been advanced gallon whcl
puts additional $350000 100000
Golfers Oh we'll John d. Rockefeller go Europe
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-05

1t took the most disastrous fire that
San Francisco semicenenna earthquake one
the ordinary annual tornadoes of the Middle
complete job of it without accompaniment
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-05

All that is asked of the insurance companies is squa
and this the people Of San Francisco are prepared to sa
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-05

The Legislature organized for business work
IN less than fifteen minutes The dispatch remainder
OF the session will improve the popular opinion Legislatures
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1906-11-30
HOW CITIES LOSE MONEY.
Municipal Plants Pay No Taxes and
Reduce Tax Receipts.

Municipal Plants Pay No Taxes and
Reduce Tax Receipts.
The subject of lost taxes is one that
deserves far more attention than it
usually receives from advocates of
municipal ownership. There is scarce
ly a municipal plant in this country
which mentions this item in its reports,
although it is just as much an element
in cost Of production as coal and
wages. The omission is readily over
looked, because it Is q negative OK
pense involving no direct payment, but
only loss of income to the city.
If you own q store for which you
are receiving a good rental and dis
possess your tenant in order to occupy
1t yourself the rental value of the store
becomes charge against your bust
ness, just as it was previously
charge against your tenants business,
and you are out of pocket unless your
profits exceed the rent you formerly
received. Similarly If city buys out
or otherwise dispossesses public serv-
ice corporation the real, personal and
franchise taxes formerly paid by the
corporation become charge against
the operation of the municipal plant
that succeeds the corporation, and the
city is out of pocket unless the profits
Of its plant exceed the taxes lost.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1906-11-30
Straw Rope Swings.

Korea is perhaps the Oldest country
In the world, and the customs and ac-
tons that go to make up the daily life
of the people are not at all governed
by the logic or tradition which moves
us or our enlightened way. They have
no clearly regulated sports. nothing sp-
parently that could be likened to a
national game. They pass most of
their recreation hours swinging in
straw rope swings and seem entirely
happy in the sport. The straw rope.
if we'll made, is extremely durable and
can stand considerable weight, as may
be judged when three ablebodied
young men impose their weight upor
the swing, standing on the shoulder.
of one another after the manner OK
acrobats. 1t may be very fine pastime.
but the average American, it is safe t.
say, would find in it vNy little apo, ".
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1906-11-30

A peculiar light giving animal found
In southern Californian waters Is the
heteropod. The metropolis, dazzling
white and almost shapeless. can often
be seen floating on the clear water.
Their bodies are almost transparent,
and they have In addition to long
tail powerful sucker. by which they
cling to seaweed. When these crea-
lures are irritated they seem to emit
light from all over the body, though
one writer describes one In which the
light-red In this case-seemed to radi-
ate from the center of the animal. or
all the light giving animals the salpa
10 said to be the most wonderful. Like
the heteropod, this animal Is provided
with claspers that enable 1t to fasten
to seaweed and rocks. So plentiful are
they in Californian waters that the
Santa Catalina channel, which Is from
eighteen to twenty miles wide and
about fortyfive miles long, is at times
literally covered with them as far as
the eye can reach. Covering the entire
surface and cleaning like gems in tho
sunlight. they present a beautiful pic
ture. These animals constitute del
icacy much sought for by whales.
Some of them shed a silvery light
while others yield blue and others red
light
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1906-11-30

Corroboratory information comes
that none of the Michigan railroads are
going to issue passes to legislators for
the coming session. Having had to
pay some 100000 disputed back taxes
this year, why, they don't feel like
sugaring members with the little ltho.
graphed pasteboards any longer. Think
of a member having to dig into his
weaselskin like common mortal every
Friday afternoon. when he wants to
run over to Detroit or to Chicago to
froiic with the elephant. No wonder
that even the bare thought of it is sad
dening. Don't think, however, that
they are going to submit tamely.
Fifty seven different varieties of the 1872
members have already announced their
determination to introduce az cent fare
bill. Saginaw Courier Herald.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1906-11-30
Find Homes by the Aid of The
Michigan Children's Home Society

Find Homes by the Aid of The
Michigan Children's Home Society
The Society has outgrown its Re-
ceiving Home and Hospital at st.
Joseph, and seeks to double its present
capacity.
To this end the society is trying to
raise Ten Thousand Dollars for extern
sion purposes.
1t therefore appeals to its friends
throughout the state, and to all who are
interested in the welfare of Orphan and
Friendless Children, to make Thanks
giving offering to this cause. The
society is doing most thorough work.
1t receives and provides for any child
that needs home, regardless of sect,
locality or condition.
No cause is more worthy of support
The work is carried on entirely by
Free Will Gifts.
Send your contributions to Alexander
McVittie, Detroit Local Treasurer, All
Stevens Bldg Detroit, or to Hon. Nelson
G. Rice, State Treasurer, St. Joseph,
Mich.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1906-11-30
CASTORIA
For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
s' 1ssss ses Of &z1zzzza.
80 a Socialist Sees 1t.

Every recognized authority Oh So
cialist economics. from Marx to Fcrri.
has been and IS an avowed economic
evolutionist. They all without excep-
ton recognize that public ownership
under capitalism must come before the
full Socialist programme can meet with
realization.
When the Socialist party shall sue
ceed to power in municipality, state OF
nation it will fall heir TO the holdings
of its capitalist predecessors. Every
dollars worth of property that we can
wrest from private capitalism through
public ownership will fall into the
hands Of the Socialist party without a
struggle upon its succession to power
international Socialist Review.