The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-05-25
CARTER IS IN
EXCELLENT
HEAL H
Will Be Home on the
Manchuria, Arriving
May 81.

A letter received by Dr.-Judd in the
that Governor Carter was never in bet
ter health in his life than he was when
it was written. The letter was from
Mrs. Carter herself, and the informa
tion is therefore absolutely accurate.
The Governor, according to other in
formation received here at the same
time, VIII take the steamer Manchuria,
sailing from San Francisco today, for
Honolulu, and will be back in his Office
and ready to transact business on the
first Of June, although his physician did
not favor so early date when he first
went away. The effect of the trip to.
California having been SO exceedingly
beneficial, however, there is of course
no reason for the Governor to stay
away any longer.
The Governor was in Monterey, at
the Hotel Del Monte, at the time of the
. earthquake, anu mis- apartment was
badly shaken. but neither the Governor
nor Mrs. Carter felt any personal i'll
effects from the shock. The Governor
was out the next day collecting sub
seriptions for earthquake sufferers, and
went to San Francisco on the goth of
April and viewed the ruins there. He
has written as follows concerning his
trip to j. r. Gait, of the Hawaiian
Trust Co.:
''On the Goth | went up to the city
of San Francisco with a friend from
Tacoma. 1t was the second day after
visitors were allowed in the city. No
description can give any idea Of the
destruction. You would expect that
there would be piles of black, charred
ruins. Not a bit of it. Nothing as far
as you could see from Mob Hill but
squares of masses of bricks with an 0c
easional chimney upright. Outside OF
a few buildings at the center there was
nothing standing. You could take in
the contour of the land, its hills and
swales, blocked off in squares.
THE heat was so intense that it
burned everything that was combusti
ble. Glass was melted and on Third
street we saw places where it had run
on the street Cobblestones all cracked
off above ground. Nothing but tangled,
warped iron, plaster and bricks; iron /
lamp posts melted and bent over like /
,overheated candles. One funny thing
was that all over Mob Hill were I
feathers These We figured had been
carried up into the air by the heat and |
had settled down on everything.
= s'Outside the Flood residence there I
were the remnants of a few things
taken out into the yard, gold chair, /
some bronze statuary, an Italian gold {
and glass cabinet, and there were bits
of broken fancy china.
eve walked from the depot tc Mar
ket, then climbed over piles of bricks
up to the St Francis Next up Nobt
Hill. then down California to the Ferry
From the Ferry we walked up Mission
or Folsom, i don't know which, to
Fourth and Townsend, the depot. 1t
was fortunate that neither railroad nor
waterfront were injured, the fire stop
ping short of each. We saw men wlth
food, evidently dealt out to them. One
had a cooked ham, another bread, and
everywhere were cooking shaeks IN the
street as no lights or fires Were allowed
In any house. There We're funny signs
over the shaeks, such as, Hotel de
Shack. tDelmonico's' and Dew
Drop Inn Some of the business loea-
tions were already marked with tempo |
rarv addresses. with statements that
they were Crashed but not crushed,
: Bumped but not busted.
etWell, I am just back from horse
back ride and have played 27 holes at {
golf today, SO you see am fairly
well. {"