Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-30
TELLS or NEW
SAN FRANCISCO
A. G. PARKE DELIVERS LEG
TURE AT AUDITORIUM
City to Rise Greater and Stronger
Than Ever, Says Speaker.
Kindly Feeling Has Como
to Stay

A. G.. Parke. member of the chamber
of commerce and one of the men who
took the first train out of Los Angeles
to the stricken city in the north, de-
livered a lecture on the New San
Francisco" yesterday afternoon at
Simpson auditorium.
The lecture was heartily received and
clearly demonstrated that the kindly
feeling that has existed between Los
Angeles and ruined San Francisco has
come to stay. The object of the lecture
was to encourage this spirit.
For the past ten days Mr.. Parke has
been associated with B. Fay Mills and
Ernest e. Baker in directing the work
of the relief corps in San Francisco. In
his lecture Mr.. Parke said in part:
"San Francisco, yesterday the proud
mistress of the Pacific seas, the COM
merce of the world at her feet, ships of
all nations sailing through her Golden
Gate and pausing in the waters of her
placid harbor to deliver their burdens
of wealth and freight of human souls
Nesting in a peninsular and on the
shores of bay 100 miles in length with
a gateway only one mile in width
land-locked and mountain buttressed.
Hers was the great reception parlor
where the Occident was introduced to
the Orient.
Great Property Loss
"The Demon Of Destruction, as IL con-
scious of the city's strength to resist,
sought to disarm it. Its water mains
were rendered useless. Pipes were
broken and great structures filled with
combustible gases. Electric flashes
were sent darting on missions of de-
struction. Smoke and flame were seen
surging from many structures. Fire
men, needless Of their own safety.
dashed to and fro with their powerful
engines only to find the water mains
empty. The city was doomed. Well
and forcefully has the press told you
by pen and picture the story of this the
worlds greatest property disaster, for
when the computations are made 1t will
probably register $500,000,0O0.
"As stood a few days ago upon Mob
HILL the home of the millionaires, l
perceived that fire is no respecter of
persons for when it had moved down
1000 acres of homes south of Market
street it commenced it's work on the
north side and every palace on Mob Hill
was laid low, only the chimneys stand
ing, and they, as spectral monuments to
charred ruins. From this vantage
ground one sweep of vision, aided by
field glass, reveals 1900 acres Of stately
ruins, the like of which was never be-
It
Tells of Coming City
"What of the morrow? And a cynic-
not San Francisco man-said to me:
San Francisco has lost her supremacy,
lost her millions, lost her hopes.
what of the morrow? And clasped
the hand of my old-time friend, Fulton
G. Berry, who fifty-six years ago Joined
a little band of like-minded men and
through the vigilance committee
cleaned San Francisco of its vandalism.
I entreated him, What of the morrow
and the old hero answered, San Fran
cisco will be greater and better five
years hence than it was before the
earthuuake.' This grand old man,
towering head and shoulders above the
common mass, begrimed with smoke
and cinders, when told that it was
necessary to blow up his $780, palace
on Van Ness avenue to stay the con-
hagration on it's westward march, said,
BLOW her to -, boys" and turned
away If this was cowardice it Is the
only record against him, for he refused
to see the destruction of his magnifi-
cent home.
Work of Los Angeles
your generosity fellow citizens, the
niagnanimity of your beneficence, Is
San Francisco's greatest inspiration to-
day. While there jealousies? Competi-
tion to cruelty? Did either look be-
gludgingly at the success of the other?
The nobility of your aid has buried all
that. Los Angeles, by land and water,
sent her ministering angels-surgeons,
nurses, food clothing-for the relief
of the stricken city. First to respond,
munificent beyond measure. Your pull
pit your press, your officers, municipal
and state, as one great family. forgot
your interests. Bankers opened their
safes-and best of all-their hearts.
Your people, moved by noble impulse,
forgot all class and caste. You stood
and still stand as one common brother
hood.
VIII Rise Again
"San Francisco shall arise from her
ruins, invent and construct some of the
most magnificent, stable and stately
structures in the world. In many re-
spects she will profit by your own city,
for she will be city of churches and
schools. The new San Francisco will
be a city whose God is love-brotherly
love-not Mammon. The commerce Of
the world will pass through her Golden
Gate Her poets, now in silence, will
again sing and they will sing of her
excellence, and the Orient and Occident
will vie in love with her and she will be
greater and better. for this is the re-
finer's fire."