The Greenville times., 1906-06-09

others. We went OUT TO see friends
at the Preside, Mrs. De Vol and
Mrs Funston and her sister. Then
to the Feiy building. where the
Southern Pacific men are all in one
Dig room, desk after desk, no pTi-
vacy and no quiet. / don't see how
they do anything Then 10 Oakland
where we took the train back to Del
Monte This was the most strcilu
nus day | ever put in, from 6 a. M.
fo a. n, when we got to bed, means
| 2 good many hours and i was Just
wreck next dav. not onl: from, the
eNertion, but most of all from, the {
absolute hears breaking sight of til. /
CITY I've told you all the bright,
side OF our trip-there are no words I
IN the English language to describe.
the destruction and ruin and dis /
tress. | love San Francisco with all |
my heart. There never was ANYTHING
as beautiful and happy. there never |
was such joyous, light-hearted peo-
pie and SO kind, so big-hearted. so |
unconventional and, the warmth of
its sunshine and the bracing tonic of
ITS winds from the western sea
seemed to be very part of its peo-
pie. The gorgeous cofors worn on
the street, while at first a shock to
people from the East, soon seemed
the only proper wear under the sun
NY skies and made the streets one
constant revel Of color. Desolation
would be desolation anywhere but
elsewhere. where the skies are grav-
er and the people are not so gay ana
go clad in sombre colors. this ruin
would not not be SO striking, the
change Ut SO appalling. To ride
through funs that seem endless and
to see the people confronting all all
this without tear, with a courage
that must be abnormal They are
: still dazed. they do not realize what
! they are facing, one breads the hour
: when they awake. There is no
water in our part of town. but
! little in the Richmond district and
Panhandle. Everybody is still cook
ing IN the streets. All manner of
stoves and screens around them. No
lights are allowed after ten-even
!, now-none at til for three nights.
, When | rode out the streets, | sim
] ply cried like a baby, but when l got
in my home, and everything looked
r so sweet and familiar and dear, I
: wanted to stay and told Caru |
y could not see any reason for not re-
: turning. He would not hear of it.
: Said Maj De Vol said in two weeks
r there would be a scarcity of food
: Those who can afford to stay away
y should do se-they have too many
s mouths to feed as it is. If one of our
children took sick how could we care
:. for them, in a house where all cook
ing must be done in the streets, nO
: food except daily rations provided
:, by the Government, for if there is
!, need they will confscate all food in
: the few stores open, no lights al
lowed after ten, and no hospital to
take them to no matter what their
needs-so we are to wait while
Y. longer. What is to become of them
u The United States cannot feed a
o quarter of million people much
n longer. The money given was enor-
a nous in amount, but IT is nothing-it
S is a drop in the bucket There never
1. was such problem before any city
n Chicago, Spokane, Seattle, had SO
much help from Eastern capital
and / hope we will, but oh, we have
such an immense territory to re-
t buld-twill take so mach time and
or what is to become of all the clerks
r in stores. the waiters.-my waiter
lc says there were over eight thousand
j, walters in San Francisco alone,-ano
Il, everyone who can will escape such
n, a scene of misery as long as they can
t; 1t will be five years before we car
r hope to feel that we have city
l. again and no matter how beautiful
n, it is and how dear to us, it will never
be the old San Francisco. The on
ID " land marks left are the Cliff
8 House. Coppes. the Fairmont. bu
I'd that is new. the St Francis o
"a course I mean in the business dis
d. trict But there's no "Zinkands nc
"Techau Tavern, no laits. ne
churches and no theatres and from
&C. Van Ness TO the water front nothins
- but miles and miles of scrap iron |
q was a clean fret left no reekin:
~ debris to bring pestilence ana ! mop
= our trade winds will prevent tina
,n usual typhoid which follows hre-
~ mortar dust will fill the lungs b''
Ill will blow away from the resldenc
=. district - another blessing In
a a earttouake was dreadful but the tlr
!. did almost all the damage and II on
y - IL moor Chief S,tlivans pet1tfo
ne for six big cieterns i" the brsines
a d;stricf. keot filed with sea watel
a. had been granted. there wo'ild haV
l. heen yerv little damage doi1e
;. few old buildings which should nay
~ long ago been condemned Woui
he Irave gone. many OF poor consti ~, u,
ton would have had to De idhe
~, down and the loss OF NE Wonld ~: ~
ne have compared with ti'eee
f af three hundred and fifty -, :,
emst m The autos did service untold an an
AN seemingly impossible; we ,r;ol rod
ter ter over debris and piles OF Co. o5,et snt
which seemed impossible, Tor ans
tb;no 70 90 over. Carls ehaHe'
snenf - hours without sleep carr,
,el ing p sick and injured to places ll; - {
Ter. safety on his machine The no no
CHI rors of those three days ana SI my x.
on can never be told, especially .h'
the s.5t night. hree aas' -
day nor night. except pillar i,
cloud by day. a pillar OF fire
night. and only coming des1fuell. II.
to anticipate hour by hour. MI
EFT Calvin. wife OF our General Man
ger, spent that night in Latayet
;.u Park with her little children. Nj
Ryan, daughter OF one OF the ,.
men. spent it in Jefferson Park a, a,
held the hands Of two WomenWl
died there in child birth. Gent
-. bred women and children huddi'