The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-05-06

Adjutant Bamberry of the Salvation
Army has received some letters from
J Colonel French, in Oakland. where he
has made his headquarters temporarily
owing to the destruction of their. head
| quarters in San Francisco. The Colonel
| reports all safe and well, but says that
the Army has lost everything it had
and in some cases the officers lost their
clothes.
! In his letter dated April oath, the
| Colonel says: We are delighted to
| be able to say that every city officer
! has been seen or heard from, and all
| are we'll and hard at work, as far as
| they have opportunity, relieving and
| cheering the people in their immediate
tEfcinity.! Some are in hospitals and
others are in refugee camps. The same
is also true of almost every soldier.
Here in Oakland, the Beulah park
camping ground has been secured for
our own relief camp, and we have from
three to four hundred people there I'M
der our care. The Oakland hall has
not only been turned into temporary
provincial headquarters, but also the
relief headquarters and receiving sta
ton, and yesterday alone we served
1900 meals to refugees. So that you
see thousands are being assisted by US
with beds and food
In his letter dated the 2Sth. the
Colonel says: 1t will be of interest
to you to know that all our available
forces are at full stretch. Thus far,
we have provided over u. 900 meals and
beds, and 5000 garments, at our relief
camps in Oakland. In addition to this.
several of our officers are doing splen-
did service in connection with the
various camps that are under the
United States control. Two lassie Off
GERS served out upwards of 1900 gallons
of milk in one day alone"
THE SHOCK ESPECIALLY SEVERE.
A letter received from Santa Rosa
dated April %, is as follows: The
earthquake seems to have been eSpe-
cially severe in Santa Rosa. We have
not one brick building left. Most of
them just melted to the ground, not
one brick remaining fast to another.
Our house suffered very little. The
plaster is off in a few places in our
back hall and the tops of the chimneys
are down.
Our school buildings lost about all .
their plaster and We're somewhat in !
jured otherwise. We shall have them ,
ready for occupancy in week"
USEFUL AT LAST. /
The public Works Board had six
teams hauling election booths to Golden
Gate Park yesterday to house the
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RETURN STRAY HORSES.
The following advertisement appears
in the San Francisco Chronicle Of :
April 81:
IMPORTANT NOTICE.
All persons having horses which do
not belong to them are hereby ordered
to deliver them at once to 220 Valencia
street for identification, where proper
can be made for their
use. BY order
FREDERICK FUNSTON,
rigadier-General U. S. a.
E. E. SCHMITZ,
Mayor.
JAMES A. HASKELL,
rigadier-General, N. G. c.
METCALF WORKS.
A private letter received in Honolulu
Yesterday carried the story that Victor
Fl. Metcaif Secretary of Commerce and
Labor, waA caught in San Francisco by
the guards and compelled to work pill
ing bricks for several hours.
SAVED THE CANARIES.
There are some 500 canary birds in
Golden Gate Park, not in the public
aviary. but hanging from tent poles
and cherished by the owners In the
early days of the great exodus from
down town women who had almost
nothing else were seen packing bird
cages with their pets. The canary bird
was the first thing they thought TO !,
save and in all the trying times that
have followed these little birds are still !.
cherished and fed. In fact, all the :
domestic pets, the dogs and parrots,
were brought along, all but the cats
Il is a matter of remark in the district
not burned over that the cats seemed
10 have disappeared no one knows