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The Washington times., 1906-04-18
GOVERNMENT PREPARES
TO AID DISTRESSED
Army and Navy Will Be Instructed
to Give What Assistance
They Can.

While neither the War nor Navy De-
partments has been able to get any off,
cial communication through from the
scene Of disaster officials are rapidly
making preparations 10 give any aid
mat may be possible. The Navy De-
partment has only a few warships in
san Francisco harbOr. but instructions
vii be issued for them TO assist in tow
ing merchant vessels out Of the harbor
In case they are menaced by FIRE
The army. by means of tents, stored IN
the warehouses Of the quartermaster'
department in San Francisco. viii be
able 20 shelter in the neighborhood OF
lS'oOo and provide scant protection with
shelter tents for fully 5000 more. The
department has now at the depot there
1.7S2 ordinary tents, eighty-five conicaI
tents, with fifty more en- route; IA hos
pital tents that Will accommodate six
persons each, and 523 wall tents.
The Washington times., 1906-04-18
En- GAZE CITY WAS TOSSED LIKE FEATHER SHOCK CANE
VESUWUS is NOT
BLAMED FOR QUAKE
Geologist Hayes Attributes Disturb
ance to Shifting of Bed
Rock.

There is absolutely no connection
between the disturbances of Vesuyius
and that in San Francisco today" said
DR.. c w. Hayes. chief geologist of the
United States Geological Survey, at
noon today
The two disturbances are from en-
trely different sources and are simply
alike IN The coincidence of time. 1t is
the consensus of opinion among the
geologists in my Office that there is not
the slightest volcanic influence at the
bottom Of the trouble In San Francisco,
while the earthquakes in Naples were
the direct result of the eruptions of
Vesuvius.
The part of California in which the
stricken city is located is the greatest
earthquake country in the United
States The cause OF the disaster there
this morning is the shifting of the bed
rock. The disturbance is much the
same as subterransan mountain slide
The huge layers of rock settle and
the surface feels the shock. If the
records of the disturbances in that 10
cality IN the past count for anything
volcanic disturbance
There may yet be some shocks that
will be felt on the surface, but the
probability is that the worst Is over
Disturbances of this nature generally
come with slight rumblings. then the
great shock follows which does the dam
age. This may not be the case here.
The Washington times., 1906-04-18
EXAMINER REPORTS
HUNDREDS WERE KILLED
Market Street Blocked With Debris
While Fire Is Raging With
Great Force.

SAN FRANC .. Cal. April 1S.-A
terrific earthquake occurred here at SIS
this morning. The streets are bIockaded
with Debris. Big fires are raging in sew
cral districts. Several principal build
ings were slightly damaged. II is re-
ported that hundreds Of people were
killed IN South Market street, where
several disastrous fires arc raging. The
residence districts are safe so far as
known.
At 6,S5 a. m. a disastrous fire is eat
ing its way up Market street on the
south side. only three blocks from the
Palace Hotel Water mains burst and
the fire department Is almost helpless.
All business is suspended. Only one
wire Is working out of San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER.
The Washington times., 1906-04-18
CHICAGO HEARS FRISCO
IS BEING WIPED OUT
kilograms Received There Say That
Whole City Is Being De-
stroyed by Fire.

NEW YORK. April 1s-Tba Roo,
Island Railroad Company has racai,,e'5
the following message from its CbicagT
Office. tiI ed 11:45 a. m:
san francisco Is being wiped out by
co',nuous quakes and flames. Fire IS
WORKING I1c toward the docks unmoIested
water works are out Of commission. Ez-
timated dead. LOO
T. + Hutton & Co. have a dispatch
received l1:43 a m, saying:
The best and most accurate informa-
ton regarding the San Francisco earth
quake indicates the whole city is bein-
destroyed by fire. From the highest ele-
walton in San Jose. about twenty-1va
miles from San Francisco, the CITY can
be seen ahlaze- Estimated at LOO lives
lost at II:43."
The Washington times., 1906-04-18
CARTING THE DEAD
ALL OYER THE TOWN
Telegraph Operator Flies for Safe
rarrers, Preferring, He Says,
the Simple Life.

CHICAGO, Ill. April 1s.-The follow
ing message was received by the local
ofhcials Of the Postal Telegraph Com
pans
Fan Francisco. Cal. via Ashfork, Ariz-
April I2
There was an earthquake hit US at
olS a m today. wrecking several
buildings and Wrecking our Office. They
are carting the dead from the fsl1a,
buildings and fires all over the town
NO water and we lost our power. !
am going 20 get out of office, as we
nave a little shake every few minutes
and It's me for the simple life.
"R.
San Francisco, Cal, $50 a m"
The Washington times., 1906-04-18
THREE HUNDRED BODIES
RECOVERED FROM RUINS
Dynamite Is Useless and Flames Sweep
Belt Nearly Mile Deep and
Much Longer.

Los ANGELES. Cal, April 1s.-san
Francisco and Bay City report that the
loss from shock and results of fire will
reach into the millions. A hundred
buildings are burning in the section
razed by the shock. The streets are
filed with debris.
Fire which started in the section Is
being fought with dynamite, but there
is little progress in checking the
flames.
From Montgomery street east TO the
water front the city is in flames. Three
hundred bodies have been taken from
the ruins.
The Washington times., 1906-04-18
AN EXPLOSION DOOMS
TELEPHONE BUILDING
Many Lives Are Reported Lost and
Mills Building Is Reported
in Danger.

PORTLAND. Ore, April 1S.-The Paci-
fic States Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany reports that its main exchange at
2l6 Bush street, San Francisco. Is IN
flames 1t adjoins the Mills building.
An explosion blew the top off the tele-
phone building.
1t is doomed. as there Is no water
supply on account OF the cracked mains.
Many lives are reported lost. The Mills
building is in danger. Many fires in
different sections OF the city are re-
ported.
The Washington times., 1906-04-18
CALIFORNIA DELEGATES
LEAVE D. R. CONGRESS

The news Of the earthquake in San
Francisco was announced in the d A
r. congress at 1880 o'clock The Cali
fornia delegates at once withdrew from
the hall after announcing their inten-
tion Of returning home as soon as pos
sible
A resolution Of sympathy offered by
Mrs Charlotte Emerson Main of WASH
ington, was ad6pted. 1t was seconded
by Mrs Thomsof Galveston. and a Bal
timOre delegate.
The Washington times., 1906-04-18
FIRE ADVANCING ON
GREAT PALACE HOTEL
Partly Wrecked Examiner Office Is
Also Threatened by
Flames.

NEW YORK. April 1s.-WnIiam Ran
dolph Hearst received at Il o'clock, the
following message from the San Fran
cisco Examiner:
THE people are moving out OF the
Palace Hotel now.
The fire is almost up to the Offices
OF the Examiner and Call, and both
these buildings will doubtless be affre
within half an hour
The police have ordered everybody
out of the Examiner building.
All our presses are buried under great
piles of brick and sand.
The fire on West Main street is stead
Ny gaining headway."
The Washington times., 1906-04-18
SACRAMENTO QUAKES
FOR THREE MINUTES
Hotel Guests Were Panic Stricken and
Federal Buildings Were
Badly Damaged.

SACRAMENTO. Cal, April IS.-The
strongest quake in fifteen years occur
red here at SIS o'clock this morning.
The vibrations were northeast and
southwest, lasting three minutes. They
awoke the entire city and caused a panic
in the hotels.
Nobody was injured here.
Several large cracks were made in the
Federal building. The plaster in finish
ed buildings fell TelegTaphic communi-
cation with outside points was broken
for three hours. No direct news has
come from San Francisco.
Great anxiety Is felt about interior
points.
The Washington times., 1906-04-18
PRAYER IN THE HOUSE FOR
PEOPLE OF STRICKEN CITY

Chaplain y. Couden did not oficiate
in the House today. being absent on ac-
count Of the death Of his son. c. y.
Couden. a veterinary surgeon in the
United States army. who died at Seattle.
The Rev. John Van Schaick. jr. Of the
Church of Our Father. of this city. Of
fered the morning prayer, and invoked
the blessing of God on the absent chap
lain and on the people Of that section
Ct our country visited by sudden calam-
ity and affection"
The Washington times., 1906-04-18
SECRETARY SHAW
SUSPENDS MURRAY
Announces Action In the Case of Buf-
falo Collector Under
Charges.

Secretary OF the Treasury Shaw. after
"A conference with the President this af-
ternOoa concerning the Government Off
cials under charges at Buffalo. an
nounced that he would suspend Fred o.
Murray, collector of customs
The Washington times., 1906-04-18
FIRE LOSS EXCEEDS
DAMAGE BY SHOCK
Seven Confagratons Rage in Different Parts of the City
Property Losses Put at S2OOOoooo
Postal Building DESTROYED.

Private advices received in this city
late this afternoon. and Immediately
communicated to The Times, are that
seven big fires now rage in different
parts of the city of San Francisco,
there is no water to fight the confla-
grafton ard the flames now constitute
a more horrible menace than did the
earthquake.
Property losses, according to this in
formation, are put at So. .000,O 600.
The Washington times., 1906-04-18

Most of the damage by the shock was
done to the old buildings. All of the new
buildings are now standing.
The Palace Hotels greatest damage
was broken windows.
The Postal Telegraph building was
only partially destroyed, but suffered
great damage
OF the seven fires. which are spread
ing, the largest IS on Market street.
The Washington times., 1906-04-18
MANY DIE IN STAMPEDE
TO PLACES OF SAFETY
Shocks Stopped at 9 O'clock, But the
Population Is Fleeing Across
Water From Danger.

SAN FRANCISCO. Cal. April 1S.-The
last shock was felt at s.17
The ferries are all engaged in carry
ing people to Oakland and other points
of safety.
By thousands.
In the panic, many dropped dead in
the streets.
The Washington times., 1906-04-18
FELL FROM TRAMwAY

While working on the tramway at the
foot OF Third street southeast william
Stewart, twenty-One years old, fell
twenty feet 20 the ground yesterday
cternoon and was seriously injured.
The Washington times., 1906-04-18
Cleveland Felt Shock
About Half-past Eight

CLEVELAND. Ohio. April Is.-At s.34
this morning the instrument OF Rev.
Father Odenbach. ar 81. Ignatius Col
lege. recorded a slight earthquake
shock.
The Yale expositor., 1906-11-02
SAVED THE CUSTOMER TROUBLE
Neat Way Waiter Secured Tip from
"Close" Man.

There Is a waiter in Washington
cafe, who is the acme of polite atten-
ton, endeavoring in every way to
save his customers trouble. The 9TH
er day a man came in who was sized
up by John as probably little
close" but the service was fully up to
the standard The bill came to so
cents, and the man handed over a
dollar bill.
John then proceeded to help the
man into his coat.
where's my changer" the custom
err asked.
Change. sab? Oar amt none-dat
was nah tip, tank yo', sah!" John said
with a bow.
But | hadn't given 1t to you,' the
man protested
lob course not, sab. All wouldn't
low yo ter go ter all dat trouble,
sah!" John said, with another bow,
and the man went out, looking tribe
dazed.
The Yale expositor., 1906-11-02
BIRDS THAT ENJOY DANCING
Have Regular "6alI Rooms" for Their
Gyrataions.

Dancing is by no means confined to
quadrupeds; 1t is the principal play
OF many birds.
Perhaps the finest OF bird dancers
is the South American cock o. the
rock. These birds have regular dane
Ing places, level spots which they keep
clear of sticks and stones.
A dozen or more of the bird dane
ers assemble around this spot, and
then a cock bird, his scarlet crest
erect, steps into the center. Spread
ing his wings and tail. he begins To
dance, at first with slow and state
ly steps, then gradually more and
more rapidly until he is spinning like
mad thing At last, tired out, he
sinks down, hops out of the ring and
another takes his place.
Some OF the quail tribe are great
dancers, and so are the American sand
hill cranes. Ii is a most ludicrous
sight to watch a crane dancing; he is
so desperately solemn over the whole
performance. He looks like a shy
young man who has Just learned TO
waltz and is rather ashamed of the
accomplishment.
The Yale expositor., 1906-11-02

train to be slowly pushed back to Ar
gentine.
But Winton opened his eyes and
struggled to his feet unaided.
Not yet" he said i've left my
automobile on the other side of the
creek; and. besides. have a railroad
to build. My respects to Mr.. Darrah.
and you may tell him I'm not beaten
yet" And he swung over the rail-
ing and dropped off to mount the
octopod and to race it back to the
front
Three days afterwards. to a scream.
ing of smelter whistles and other
noisy demonstrations of mining-camp
joy, the Utah Short Line laid the final
rail of it's new extension in the Car
Donate yards.
The driving of the silver spike &C.
comDlished, Winton slipped out of the
congratulatory throng and made his
way across the c. & G. r. tracks to a
private car standing alone on It's sid
ing. It's rallied platform, commanding
view of the civic celebration, had
it's quota of onlookers-a fierce-eyed
old man with huge white mustaches,
an. athletic young clergyman, two
Bisques and goddess.
Climb up, Misteh Winton, climb up
and join u.s." said the ferce-eyed one
heartily. Virginia, heah. thinks we
ought to call each otheh out, but tell
her"
What the Rajah had told his niece
is of small account to us. But what
Winton whispered in her ear when he
had taken his place beside her Is
more to the purpose of this history.
II have built my railroad, as you
told me to, and now have come for
me-"
"Hush!" she said. softly. Cant
you waltz"
mo"
Shameless onel" she murmured.
But when the Rajah proposed an
adjournment to the gathering-room of
the car, and to luncheon therein, he
surprised them standing hand-in-hand
and laughed.
"Hah. you little REBEL" he said.
do you think you deserve that block
OF stock I promised you when you
should marry? Anseh me. my deah."
She blushed and shook her head,
but the brown eyes were dancing.
The Rajah opened the car door with
his courtliest bow.
Nevertheless. you shall have =, my
deah Virginia, II only to remind an
old man OF the time when he was SIM
pie enough 10 make business con-
federate OF charming young woman.
Straight on, Misteh Adams; after You
Misteh Winton."
THE ENDl
The Yale expositor., 1906-11-02

Judging the time TO be fully ripe, he
ducked under the Rosemary to bleed"
the air-tank
Winton heard the hiss of the escap-
ing air above all the industry clamor;
heard and saw the car start backward.
Then he had a fitting glimpse of a
man in grimy overclothes scrambling
terror-frenzied from beneath the Rose
mary. The thing done had been over
done. The fireman had "bled" the air
tank too freely, and the liberated car,
gathering momentum with every
wheel-turn. surged around the circling
spur track and shot out masterless
on the sleeper gradient of the main
line.
Now, for the occupants of runa-
way car on a Rocky mountain line
there is death and naught else. Win
ton saw, in phantasmagoric flash
Of second sight, the meteor flight of
the heavy car; saw the Reverend Bill
ly's Intellectual efforts to apply the
hand.brakes. If by good hap he should
even guess that there were any hand
brakes; saw the car. bounding and
lurching. keeping to the rails, may
hap, for some few miles below Ar
gentine. where II would crash head
long into the upward climbing Cav
Donate train, and all would end.
In unreasoning misery, he did the
only thing that offered: Ran blindly
down hts own embankment, hoping
h,,A Nl,aN he fut, ha
last glimpse of Virginia cllnging to
the hand-rail before she should be lost
to him forever.
But as ne ran a thought white-hot
from the furnace OF despair fell into
his brain to set IL abaZe with pur-
pose. Beyond the litter of activities
the decapod was standing. empty of
its crew. Bounding up into the cab.
he released the brake and sent the
great engine flying down the track Of
the new line.
In the measuring of the first mile
the despair-born thought took shape
and form. II he could outpace the
runaway on the parallel line stop the
decapod and dash across to the G. q
G. n. track ahead of the Rosemary.
there was one chance in a million that
he might fling himself upon the car
In mid flight and alight with life
enough left to help Calvert with the
hand-brakes.
Now. In the most unhopeful struggle
Il is often the thing least hoped for
that comes 10 pass. At Argentine
winton's speed was a mile a minute
over track rougher than a corduroy
wagon-road; yet the decapod held the
rail and was neck and neck with the
runaway.
The Yale expositor., 1906-11-02

stantly he did not stop to inquire. II
was enough that the Heaven-born idea
had been given.
Down out of that, Mortyl" he
cried. Its one chance in a thousand.
Pass the word to the men; I'll be
with you in a second" And when
Adams was rousing the track force
with the bawling shout of Every
body!" Winton looked up into the
brown eyes.
my debt to you was already very
great; owe you more now" he said.
But she gave him his quittance in a
whiplike retort.
And you will stand here talking
about it when every moment is pre-
cious? Co." she commanded; and he
went.
So now we are to conceive the mad
dest activity leaping into being in full
view of the watchers at the windows
of the private car. Winton's chilled
and sodden army. welcoming any bat
tle-cry of action, flew to the work with
will. In a twinkling the corded
pies. Oh CTOSS-lleS Hdu melteu 10 reap
pear in dollhouse balks bridging an
angle from the Utah embankment to
that of the spur track in rear of the
blockading Rosemary. In briefest
time the hammermen were spiking the
rails on the rough-and-ready trestle.
and the Italians were bring up the
crosslng-frogs.
But the Rajah, astute colonel of In.
dustry, had not left himself defense.
less. On the contrary, he had provid-
ed for this precise contingency by
leaving McGrath's fireman in mechan-
ical command on the Rosemary. II
Winton should attempt to build
around the private car. the fireman
was to wait till the critical moment;
then he was to lessen the pressure on
the automatic air-brakes and let the
car drop back down the grade just
far enough to block the new crossing.
So it came about that this mechan-
ical lieutenant waited. laughing in his
sleeve, until he saw the Italians CON-
ing with the crossingfrogs Then,
The Yale expositor., 1906-11-02
JAPAN LAND OF JueeLERs.
Old Wizard Amuses Dinner Guests by
Fooling Foreign Skeptle.

Japan Is the land of jugglers and
fashionable Japanese always have
them at any large entertainment they
give. One very clever old man goes
around in a single cotton gown with
two baskets full Of properties" over
his shoulders, and, putting them down
anywhere, performs his tricks, with
the expectant audience encircling him.
A hatful OF coppers rewards him suf-
ficiently and he goes on to eat fire,
disgorge eggs, needles, lanterns and
smoking pipes at the next place. At a
recent Japanese dinner a foreign
guest determined to have no optical
illusions about what the jugglers did.
He never allowed his glances to be
distracted and was not once of his
guard. Noticing this, the old juggler
played to him entirely. An immense
porcelain vase was brought in and set
in the middle OF the room and the
iuggler, crawling in, let himself down
into 1t slowly. The skeptic sat for
half an hour without taxing his eye
from the vase, which, he was con-
WINGED. was sound and firm and stood
on no trap door. After this pro-
longed watch the rest of the company
assailed him with laughter and jeers,
and pointed to lis side, where the old
juggler was seated tanning himself
and had been seated for some min
utes
The Yale expositor., 1906-11-02
senator spooner's Shooting.

Senator Spooner. of Wisconsin. 10
a successful hunter OF big game. On
one of his trips he had for his guide
Bill Murray. They were out looking
for bear or deer one day, when Muir
ray suddenly threw up his rife and
fired. The senator saw an animal
fall heavily, and called: We've got
him this time, Bill"
wet" sneered the guide. There's
no we about 1t. / killed him plain
enough"
Quickly making their way to where
their quarry lay. they found q fine
specimen of Jersey calf.
We've killed somebody's calf"
yelled the guide.
Senator Spooner gave him a with
ering look and said: William, you
should be more particular in your
choice of pronouns. We" isn't adapt
ed to this particular instance."-Mii-
waukce Sentinel.
The Yale expositor., 1906-11-02

Written by Woman-Hater.
Women may be outspoken, but they
are never out-talked.
The Yale expositor., 1906-11-02

Three miles more of the surging,
racking. nerve-killing race and Win
ton had his hand's-breadth 81 lead and
had picked his place for the million
CHANGED wrestle with death. II was at
the c. & G. r. station of TERRA
Blanca, just below a series OF sharp
curves which he hoped might check a
little the arrowlike flight of the runa-
way.
Twenty seconds later the telegraph
operator at the lonely little way sta
ton of TERRA Blanca saw a heroic
bit of man-play. The upward-bound
Carbonate train was whistling in the
gorge below when out of the snow
wreaths shrouded the new line a big
engine shot down to stop with fire
grinding from the wheels. and a man
dropped from the high cab to dash
across to the station platform.
At the same instant a runaway pas
senger car Numbered out of the can
yon above. The man crouched, flung
himself at IL in passing, missed the
forward hand-rail, caught the rear,
was snatched from his feet and trailed
through the air like the thong of a
whiplash, yet made good his hold and
clambered on.
This was all the operator saw, but
when he had snapped his key and run
out, he heard the shrill squeal of the
brakes on the car and knew that John
Winton had not risked his life for
nothing.
And on board the Rosemary? Win
ton. spent to the last breath. was lying
prone on the. rallied platform. where
he had fallen when the last twist had
been given to the shrleking brakes.
his head in Miss Carteret's lap.
Run, Calvert! Run ahead and
stop-the-up-train!" he gasped; then
the light went out of the gray eyes
and Virginia wept unaffectedly and
fell to dabbling his forehead with
handfuls of snow.
Help me get him in to the divan,
Cousin Billy" said Virginia. when all
was over and the Rosemary was safe
ly coupled in ahead of the upcoming
The Yale expositor., 1906-11-02
John Stuart Mill.

James Mill. his father. was a hard
man, a clever man, and a crank-a
hedonist capable of making himself
thoroughly disagreeable about the
greatest happiness of the greatest
number; a theorist who regarded his
clever son as a suitable object for ed
ucational experiments.
He would not send him TO school
because schools were the fortresses
of prejudice" and taught the wrong
things in the wrong way. He pro-
vided him with no playmates, and al
lowed him no holidays, lest "the habit
OF work should be broken. Francis
Gribble, in Fortnightly Review.
The Yale expositor., 1906-11-02
$50 Bushels of Corn from
One Acre in IS Months

Mr.. John Cosner has farm near Hidalgo, Texas He
has raised three crops of piece of land in the last
fifteen months Each crop yielded less than fifty bushels
to the acre.
ior the ground thaw in the Spring.
Almost he harss plant for the He
afraid weather will be cold
land by irrigation and inexhaube supply of
you will write Mr. Closner Hdalgo Texas, he viii tell
There other
in the Gulf Coast Country, of which will be gid
o tell
Wouldn't like small farm there where
depend on uncertain weather with irregular rainfall
Noo the land is cheap and you easy Twenty
will about $780, The of clearing is about S.
The irrigation varies You
we'll from river;
peighbor. But the those
need from the first which has paid
all expenses and left good surplus
The Yale expositor., 1906-11-02
Embarrassing.

You say It was not an interesting
orationr"
mot very interesting. The crowd
was so orderly and did so very little
cheering that you could hear every
word of the speech"
The Yale expositor., 1906-11-02
viii Hold Cremation Congress.

In order to combat the prejudice
against cremation in Belgium, it has
been decided to hold cremation con-
gress at Charleroi, under the direction
of the nationalist Federation.