The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1906-05-17

were damaged by the recent earth
quake in California. The lady writes to
the Courier as follows:
The enclosed clipping, which l cut
from your paper of May 1, is so mis-
leading, I want to give you a lew
facts about Los Angeles. Instead OF
being two hundred miles from san
Francisco, it is four hundred and elgh-
ty-two miles, the state Of California
being as large as all of New England,
Pennsylvania, New Jersey and part OF
New York. The San Francisco earth-
quake was known no more about here
than if in a different state until re-
ports came by wire. On the next DAY,
the 18th, we had a slight shake, Whlch
would hardly have been noticed under
ordinary conditions, and did no dam
age If the house your informant was
in rocked and shook somewhat as a
boat does in a rough sea-, he must
have been in very poorly built one
and any falling chimneys" must have
been all ready to topple down with
good wind, as the motion was very
slight in our own home. The geologic
conditions of the earth are so different
In Los Angeles from San Francisco
that scientists claim it very improba-
Bile, if not impossible, to have serious
trouble here. No one seems to fear 1t.
Our city has contributed nearly or
quite two hundred thousand dollars to
the sufferers in the north, with great
quantities of all kinds of supplies, and
is caring for from ten to twenty thou
sand refugees 1t is growing with
| tremendous rapidity the population by
| the late school census being over two
hundred and thirty-one thousand. If
you care for any of these facts | should
be glad to have you put them in your
paper (Which is always a welcome Wis
! itor to mel from an old New Haven
resident now living in Los Angeles,
one of the most beautiful cities in the
world.
The following. clipping, which accom-
panies the letter, gives some cold
! facts" concerning Los Angeles from
| the Los Angeles Times;
/. Los Angeles is more than four
hundred miles away from the scene of
the disturbance which has laid San
Francisco in ruins, partly by earth
quake shock, but chiefly by fire. Only
a slight tremor was felt in Los An
geles,
2. In all the history of Southern Cal
| ifornia, extending back to the days OF
the franciscan Fathers, about a CEN
fury and half, there has not been a
serious earthquake in this region.
g. Los Angeles and the country
around about, within radius Of one
hundred miles, while 1t has expert
enced some slight "temblors," has new
err had. within the knowledge of man
an earthquake shock strong enough tt
do any damage worth mentioning
hardly enough in point Of fact, tt
move a brick" (uness, indeed thu
brick were just ready to be topple(
over,)
4. In the entire history of California
land that Of the whole Pacific coast,
down to the day of the San Francisc,
catastrophe, less injury to property ant
less loss of life has been inflicted by
earthquake than has often been causet
by a single tornado in one of the east
ern states. And most of the damage II
San Francisco was caused by fire, a.
noted ahove.>
"A disaster similar to that of Sal
Francisco may never occur again Il
any part OF the United States. 1t Is a
liable to occur in Boston, or New York
or Philadelphia, as on the Pacific coast
6. Far from being shaken or dam
aged by the San Francisco earthquake
Los Angeles was the first to send re
lief to the smitten city, sending car
load after carload of supplies and thou
sands of dollars in money on the YER
day of the disaster.