Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-05-04
MEN MUST GO TO WORK
Police Arrange to Send All Idlers to the
Chain Gang as Migrants.
INKS ARE AGAIN OPEN FOR BUSINESS
Deposits at All Institutions Greatly
E1oeed Withdrawals
ELEVEN DAYS RATIONS IN SIGHT
General GreeIy warns the Finan@a
Committee that End OF Avail
able supply of Food
is Near.

IL Near.
SAN FRANCISCO. May s.-No plan has
yet been decided upon for securing funds
for the restoration of the city. Although
various schemes. some OF them apparently
feasible, have been submitted for the gen
eral committee, none of them has yet been
given even the semblance of Official en-
dorsement and the local financiers continue
to worry over the problem, hopeful that
| the early future will produce a solution
that Will relieve San Francisco from It's
great burden Of municipal and Individual
distress. Each day at the assembling OF
the general and finance committees the
subject has been up for discussion, but
/ those bodies are conservative and cautious
and Il is probable that several Of the
/ great financial centers of the world will be
consulted before any definite position is
! formulated.
| Other than an early morning FIRE that
| threatened the safety of the several hun
dred patients in the Preside hospital today
| passed without special incident.
/ Removing the Debris.
| The gigantic task OF cleaning up the
great ruined district was commenced today
on broader lines. The curtallnlent of the
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/ the police to arrest as vagrants all able
/ bodied men without visible means of sup
! port who refuse to work. has had the
| effect Of removing many idlers from the
streets. and added materially to the
strength Of the army engaged in municipal
| houseclesninR.
The larger railroads have made good
/ progress in running spur tracks into the
burned sections and next week will begin
! to remove all useless material which will
! be used in other parts of the county for
filling and grading. Although the water
supply in the ruined part OF the city is in
creasing daily. there is not yet an adequate
flow to use in case Of fire. and all cooking
is still carried on in the streets.
Banks Resume Bnsiness.
All banks resumed business today and
all reported that deposits exceeded with
drawals The resumption of retail bust
ness grows as each day passes. The COM
mittee having this matter In charge re-
ports that 500 retailers are now operating
in new quarters. Most OF the larger
stores have commenced to pick up the ends
OF their shattered trade and are Installed
in tho residence section.
City Engineer Woodward today submit
ted a comprehensive plan for the rebuild
| ing OF the city. 1t included, the broaden
ing and extension of many streets, the pur-
pose being to insure better protection
against the spread of fire as we'll as to
beautify the city. In this connection
| Mayor Schmitz has advised against enter
tanning any extravagant ideas of the beau
tihcation of the new city. He estimated
that the replacement OF ruined municipal
buildings, including school and fire houses,
would alone cost 500 10000.
Rood supply Running Low.
General Greey gave warning to the
finance committee of the citizens relief
committee this afternoon that he had only
eleven days ratons on hand, that the
army could not furnish an ounce of food
beyond that already purchased or in sight
and that the feeding of the people is a
problem which demands immediate atten-
ton. After considerable discussion the
committee decided to have a summing up
of resources and needs tomorrow. Follow
ing this il is possible that an appeal for
supplies will be made to the country at
large.
Fire at PresidiO Hospital.
A fire which threatened the destruction
OF the general hospital at the Preside, in
which were over 700 patients broke out
at 4:l6 o'clock this morning In the hospital
laundry. A general alarm was sounded. and
besides the regular post fire organization
hundreds of soldiers turned out TO hght
the flames. The laundry building and con
tents were totally destroyed. but by tire
mendous efforts the FIRE was confined tc
that building.
The medical department OF the regular
army has been putting into practice the
experience gained in the camps established
, on the Atlantic coast during the Spanish
American war.
Surgeons and assistants who attended
the dying and the sick when typhoid fever
and other maladies decimated the regiment
, in camp have been safeguarding the health
OF San Franchises stricken thousands evei
since the earthquake and sanitary reGula-
tions have been provided In accordanc,
with the bitter lessons taught during that
period. AS part Of the general system
OF army relief there has been established
on level lawn south OF the music stanC
in Golden Gate park a complete reR
mental field hospital, probably the mrs
that has ever been erected in this city.
New Hospital Ample.
detail Of 100 men, under command o.
Captain II. II. l.. Gilchrist constitutes th'
Administrative force and the hospital nov
has a capacity of 800 patients. although bu
p eighty have been received to date. A con
{ signment Of odOrless excavator troughs
} which are pronounced the highest type o
2 sanitary convenience, have been received
. The system will be installed at once
e Every EFFORT is being made by the healtl
I commission to concentrate the hospita
{ work at few points possible and a
rapidly as the patients from the smalle
e en- ergency hospitals can be made com
2 Portable at the larger ones the small one
S are being abolished There Is a doubl
o purpose, concentrating the work ana a
Z the same time permitting scores Of ply
e sicians who until now have been givinl
all their time and attention to this work t
= give some thought 10 their own interests
i Twenty-siX Of the drug stores in the dis
e trict not wiped out by hre were deeide
p upon yesterday by the health commission
as locations for free dispensaries. With
three days at the most each OF these store
will 10 earppIlad Nth druCa ana urfU \