The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-02
BACK ON EARTH.
Retail Business Is Being Rapidly
Resumed in Frisco.
Hundreds Of Merchants and
Mechanics Have Reopened.
IRON WORKS START.
Will Be Running With Full
Force in Two Weeks.
Warships Under Construction
We're Not Damaged.
IRON WORKS START.

San Francisco. Cal. May 2.-Condi-
tons of life are gradually becoming
more normal in this city and the work
of clearing up the wreck in prepare
ton for rebuilding in the downtown
section of the city is going on more
rapidly.
Business is being rapidly resumed
by retail tradesmen of every descrip-
tion throughout the destroyed sections
of the city. George Whitman, chair
man of the committee on retail trade,
reports that the following places of
business are open:
Forty-four butchers, % restaurants.
p bakeries. p fruit and vegetable
stands. II diaries and Is refreshment
parlors, So groceries and II rnisceI-
laneous establishments. including tail
ors. plumbers, dry goods stores, drug
gists and cigar stands.
The commission firms located along
the water front are doing a thriving
business. Yesserday's receipts showed
marked increase over the preceding
day and prices Of dairy goods and some
lines of green goods were lower. The
business of receiving and disposing Of
consienments is running along as
smoothly as can be expected under the
weeks
the garbage question will be disposed
of. An inspection of the reduction works
in the Potrero has been made and it was
reported that outside of the 100 feet Of
the tall chimneys repairs to the fur
naces can be completed in 10 days.
Men were set to work yesterday on
these necessary repairs and soon there
will be established a forced draught so
as to insure rapid combustion. AS soon
as this Is completed all refuse will be
iucinerated as in the past.
Mayor Schmitz has just made the
announcement that all time restric-
tions as to the lighting of dwellings
Will be removed today. with the sug-
gestion that candles be used exciu-
sively for Illuminating purposes until
electricity can be resumed. Petro-
leum for lighting purposes is espe-
cially prohibited until the water sup
ply is intact.
Soon VIII Have Water.
The Spring Valley Water company
expects to have the water front water
supply in commission within ten days.
By that time the pipes on the various
WharveS will have been overhauled
and shipping can be aceommo dated as
before the earthquake.
The United Railways was yesterday
given permission by Mayor Schmitz to
operate its cars until later hours in
order that the last cars, beginning to-
night, leave all terminals at midnight.
The United Railways has operated
seven lines, and with these three addi-
tionaI routes will be covering nearly
all sections of the ~unburned district.
The work of inspectingg chimneys Is
/ proceeding rapidly. The inspectors
are all architects or builders, and are
donating their services.
! Every chimney in every building left
standing in San Francisco will be thor
oughly inspected before any permits
are issued to make fires indoors. The
reports will be turned over to the board
of fire underwriters, the members of
which will make reinspectiOn and
1 then in proper cases grant the coveted
permission to move the kitchen from
the street.
Nearly all the chimneys in the hills
4 are found to be in excellent condition.
4 The chimneys of houses located in the
I fat sections of San Francisco are prac-
i tically all out of commission. Many of
the larger factories left unframed are
! starting up work with all the rapidity
possible under the circumstances. At
| the Union Iron works, 1900 men are
now employed and the management ex-
poets within fortnight to have the
| full complement of its force, nearly A.
| 600 men engaged.
! No damage was done to the three
new warships being built at these works
for the government, the cruisers Cali
fornia and Milwaukee and the battle
ship South Dakota. The steamer City
Of Puebla, which was sunk in the bay
has been raised and is being repaired.
Evorknnen are also engaged fixing the
steamer Columbia which was turned on
her side. The bulls Of the new Ha-
waiian-Amerfcan Steamship company's
liners were pitched about four feet to
the south. but were uninjured and only
need to be replaced in position.