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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-04-20

armory, city hall, Knights of Pythias building and Odd Fellows building gone. .
 Napa - Many buildings shattered; property loss. S3O0O00.
 Buildings were rocked like cradles; postofice and brick build ings damaged.
 Suisun-Mile and a half of railroad track sunk three to six feet: loaded passenger train nearly engulfed
 Santa Rosa-Courthouse reported de- molished and 300 persons killed; city in flames: loss. s1.OO0.0OO.
 wstsonrille-Morela academy ds- stroyed by fire; several buildings col lapsed.
 Monterey - Chimney fell through roof of Delnonte hotel; eight lives lost.
 Santa CruE-Twslve buildings de- stroyed: conflicting reports as to loss of fife.
 At San Jose the entire business psrt of the town Is in ruins. The courthouse .un me nan of records collapsed All the hospitals gre crowded with injured people Tse lighting plants were ruin cd. aEd the city is in darkness. Sol dIers patrol the streets. and martial law prevails.
 The LICK sbserTstory has escaped damage
 Nspa. HoIlister. Vallejo. Redwood. sgisun- wats0nviIIe. Monterey. Stock ton santa Cruz GiIroy. BerkeIey. Css- tsyiTIe and Paiaro have all ben seri- ously dsn2zed. and great loss of life is reported
 santa Bsrbara uzs severely dam sgsd at the sane tine
 Brawley. a small town a the South ern Pscise. uas practically wiped out hy the ezrzh4uzke- EVsrY briek struc- tare i1 ths town vss deDosshed la sddifioa dszszs of xdotse h0zses were rss<S- and s1e ruias, taking Ere. were tz
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-04-20
SAN FRANCISCO CALL BUILDING.

supply will run out Every grocery in San Francisco has been taken by the authorities, and each family is being sold only one article at a time. In many places the police. and military prohibit overcharging.
 From the water front the burned city can be seen in all its smoky naked ness. From the Pacific Mall dock to Vallejo street on the west side, a dis tance of two miles. wreckage and ruin are the rule. Although the fire did not jump East street, the damage has been enormous. The filled in land facing the ferry building Is a succession of little valleys. some four. others six feet deep. The ferry tower itself Is out of plumb. and the big building is much twisted by the earthquake.
 Looking up Market street from the ferry building. the city Is a smoldering mass of ruins. Great msnufsctories. mercantile houses. banks and office buildings are nowhere to be seen, and only in spots is there so much as . tower. the monument of the burned structure.
 The ruin fin the commission and the wholesale district Is complete. Under the fsteful shock all the reokeries used as commission houses. many of them relics Of the days of 1s4e. collapsed
 The morgues of the city are % over crowded that the navy department st Washington vss appealed to to send the Pacihc squadron from the harbor of San DiegO to assist the city au- thOriries in buying the dead at sea. thus striving to prevent plsEue. which is deemed inevitable unless oatside help Is obtained
 The tower of the Hall of Justice ves badly damaged In the basement of the building Mayor Schmitr sstsblish- ed hzs headassrtsrsL Ihere vas nst
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-04-20
CLIFF HOUSE.

sleeplessness and exposure to the chill air. Restaurant prices have increased 25 to 100 per cent.
 There is still much confusion con cerning the loss of life in San Fran cisco. One estimate is 5000. There were twenty-seven corpses lying in Portsmouth square gathered from va rious sections. It is said that else where bodies are lying in the streets, there being no means available to re- move them. Three bodies were seen lying across the debris on Market street, some rude covering having been thrown over them.
 War department officials report the loss in goods stored at the quartermas- ters department at about $3,500,0 900.
 Thirty-six properties in San Fran cisco occupied by the Salvation Army were destroyed. They include provin- cial headquarters, public halls, indus trial institutions and officers quar- ters. The loss is great.
 Commander Miss Booth, in charge of Salvation Army work in America, has sent the following telegram to Colonel French:
 Received telegams. Appalled, at disaster. My heart is torn with sor- row. Deepest and tenderest sympathy with all sufferers. Will do all possible to help. God will not fail"
 All efforts to check the spread of the flames at Van Ness avenue. by blowing up mile of buildings on the east side of Van Ness avenue have proved fruitless. The fire has spread across that broad thoroughfsre, and from present indications the entire western addition, which contains the homes of San Frsncisco's wealthier class, is now doomed. The destrue- ton of the western addition of the city completes the work of the ravagins flames and marks the devastation of the entire city.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-04-20

people. There is great suffering and want of food and water. Thousands ot people lined enc of the parks waiting for the soldiers to distribute food and l water"
 1 The Western Union got this message from Oakland Point: Seven fire en- 1 zines from the east going past on fiat cars over Southern Pacific to San Francisco"
 Later this message was received from the same source: Fire engines returning from Frisco. City practically . doomed. No water"
 1 To the horror of the earthquake and nre is now added the fear of famine. The homeleSs arc numbered by the scores of thousands. Oakland and oth- CT towns on this side of the bay arc full of refugees.
 Thousands upon thousands of people are fleeing from San Francisco, the fire stricken. They are focking to the ferries, to the parks, to the military reservations and to the suburbs.
 Mayor Schmitz and Chief of Police Dinan have heen forced from place to place by the flames.
 Daybreak found them directing the municipal council, which Is commit tee of safety, from the Fairmount ho- tel, the beautiful structure that stood on the top of Mob hill. But that caught fre, and they retreated to the Cushing at Larkin and Sutter streets, then to the north end police station in Sacra- mento street. Here the council, com posed of the financial leaders of the city, met and decided to resort to the most heroic measures yet undertaken since the city has been in the path of devastation. Tho decision was to bom- bard the entire section of the city ly- ing along the east side of Van Ness avenue from Golden Gate avenue to Pacific avenue, sixteen blocks in all, containing the homes of many million aires and apartment houses.
 The military was notified of this ac- tion, and barrels of gunpowder, the only remaining explosive in the city, were taken from the Presidio, Fort Mcdowell, Alcatraz and other nearby posts. Hundreds of police, regiments of soldiers and scores of volunteers were sent into the doomed district to warn tho people to flee. These heroic ally responded to the demand of law and went bravely on their way, trudg- ing painfully over the pavements with the little they could get together Ev- cry available wagon was taken by the military to carry the powder
 General Funston is cooperating with Mayor Schmitz, who orders all officers to kill without warning all malefac- tors. When men have been needed to carry out the plans of rescue they have been pressed into service. In a few instances it was necessary to re- sort to the cooked revolver and drawn sword, after which there was no hesi- tancy.
 The Presidio reservation, the vast Richmond district of thousands of acres, Golden Gate park and the sur rounding hills resemble one vast picnic ground. Tents and improvised cover ings have been erected everywhere. fireplaces built in the streets, beds and mattresses thrown down all over the section. The people thus situated are philosophical. ...
 One great danger is that the food
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-04-20
New Coffee Plant.

A French botanical explorer has dis covered in Central America new cof- fee plant, with fruit of superior quail ity, to which he has given the name coffea excelsa- The tree grows wild and attains great height. At five years specimens are 25 feet high and older trees have been discovered that were 60 feet high. The coffee seeds are small, rounded, and according to andy, sis and expert opinion are among the best sorts known.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-04-20

men jumped wien his run was point ed was interesting. McMillan was ey erywhere directing operations, and his energy earned the admiration of sver those whom he forced to work.
 From Market street to Wilmington and from Sansom to the water front was another mass of flame to the north ward. The sweep of the winds carried burning brands into the outlying dis. trict and soon block on Mission street, between Twenty first and Twsn' ty-second streets, was ablRze. This was several miles from tho bvainess section, and it threatened with de. struchon, should the fire continue to spread, the southern residence section of the city.
 From rapid surveys it is probable now that S0,o00 houses were either par tially or wholly destroyed by earth quake, and the subsequent fire has swept the city from one end to the other. Hundreds Of buildings are burn ing without any effort being made to check the fire.
 The number of dead cannot be rough ly estimated. Four hundred bodies have been recovered, but hundreds perishsd miserably in the broken down wooden houses along the water front In the Mission and along Market street. Falling walls pinned down many vic tims, and they were compelled to suf- fer untold agony while the flames crspt toward them. .. <.
 It is believed that from 2.00o to 5000 lives have been lost. The number can not fall far short of that and may prove to be much greater. Fire and flames have added to the destruction, the ruin and despair.
 The earthquake worked astonishing havoc in San Francisco's famous Chi natown. The Chinese theaters and joss houses arc in ruins, and rookery after rookery collapsed, covering alive hun dreds of the Ceaestials. Panic reigns among the thousands of Chinese, and they Ill the streets, dragging whatever they can save from the wrecks.
 The Japanese quarter has been partly burned, and from the part not de- stroyed the people have fled in terror, packing on their backs what house hold effects they could tie together.
 When darkness fell thousands of men, women and children from the Latin quarter marched in endless pro cession toward the hills or to the water front, frantic to get away from the city lest other earthquakes follow and the flames trap them before they could make their escape.
 Artillerymen from the Presidio with their supply wagons and the army com missary wagons aided in getting the fleeing inhabitants and their baggage out of threatened quarters.
 Despite the vigilance of police and soldiers, many places were pillaged in the wholesale district Liquor stores were broken into and stripped clean. AS a result scores of vagabonds were lying drunk in the streets.
 A score of cities besides San Fran cisco are in ruins. Here are the sum- maries:
 Palo Alto-Leland Stanford, Jr., uni versity is practically destroyed. One report says only one building is left standing; loss, many millions; several lives lost.
 San Jose-Many buildings wrecked; sixty-f1ve killed. St Agnes Insane asylum wrecked and subsequently burned; 275 inmates killed; others roaming around country.
 Salinas-Spreckels Sugar factory de- stroyed; loss, $1,500.000; High school building, Elks' hall, Masonic temple,
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-04-20

ther gas nor electric light in San Fran. cisco, and the people used candles. The plant of one of the gas companies { blew up, and as a measure of precau- tion all the other gas in the city was turned of.
 The exact loss of life will never be known, as scores of unfortunates have been inoinerated in the flames, which made the rescue of those buried under topping steeples and falling walls i'm possible. Temporary morgues were improvised at many points, only to be razed by the flames.
 The fire has reached the western ad- dition, four miles westward from the bay front where Golden Gate park, known as the most beautiful park in the world. lies. In the western addi- ton are the cottages of the well to do business men, long rows of three and four story redwood buildings On . hilltop near the park stand the clus- tered buildings of the affiliated col leges of the University of California.
 A Washington dispatch says that President Roosevelt has issued an off, cial appeal for aid for the earthquake sufferers, the distribution to be made through the American Red Cross.
 The president signed the joint reso- lution appropriating $1,O0O,0O0 for the relief of the San Francisco earthquake sufferers, the money to be available at once.
 Clarence H. Mackay. president of the Postal Telegraph company, has tele- graphed to President Wheeler of the University of California at Berkeley saying he will contribute $1OO,0OO to- ward the erection of new building for the university.
 Portland, Ore, has sent $l25, 5,000 for the relief of the San Francisco suffer- CTS.
 The calamity has called forth univer- sal offers of aid from all cities and states of the middle west Money was offered from all directions, and rail roads agreed to carry all supplies free to the coast
 Chicago sent $7500O, and the work has barely begun there. The Chicago Commercial association gave S25,000 in five minutes. The Chicago Clearing House association subscribed $50,0O0.
 Adolf Kraus, president of the B'Nai Birth, has issued general order to the Jewish organizations to give freely for the relief of San Francisco.
 Oakland last night housed and fed probably 10000 refugees of the strick- en city across the bay.
 Thousands of persons besieged the telegraph offices, and the crush became so great that soldiers were stationed at the doors to keep them in line and al- low as many as possible to find stand ing room at the counters.
 Every boat from San Francisco brings hundreds of refugees. Many women are bareheaded, and all of them show fatigue as the result of
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-04-20
NEAT EMBR oIDERY DESIGN. If Making Dolly, Use Fine Linen or Nainsook, for Handkerchief 1,
 Get a Large Hem. i

The design shown here may be- worked on the corners of pocket hand- kerchiefs, doilys, etc. The parts show ing black in the illustration are holeh worked round with sewing-over stitches; the light parts are satin- stitch, the stalk parts in cording- stitch. The scalloped edges are
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-04-20
Irish Send Their sympathy.

LONDON, April 2o.-John E. Red mond has telegraphed to Mayor schmitz of San Francisco. on behalf of the Irish party and nation. an ex- precision of sympathy and mourning.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-04-20
Domestic Animals of Morocco

Domestic Animals of Morocco.
 Cattle raising is carried on in Morocco on large scale, but only by the natives. Moroccan horses are the finest in the world. Camels, mules and donkeys exist in large numbers, and are the only means of transportation throughout the country.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-04-20
Sorrow of It.

Edyth-Oh, well, don't you care if Fred is making googoo eyes at that horrid Miss Dumpleton. Remember there are just as good fish in the sea as ever were caught
 Mayme-Yes, know; but they are awfully particular about the bait this season-Chicago Daily News.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-04-20
Etrect,ve Lessons.

Foreign languages are now taught with the aid of the photograph in some schools. The machine reels off oratory, poetry and songs, while the children listen and note the accent and pronunciation.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-04-20

| worked in smaller scallops of button- hole-stitch. If the design is for handkerchief, it is good plan to obtain one of good quality, the width of the hem larger than you require the finished hand. kerchief to be. Mark the design in the corners and the scalloped border all round, then work; cut away the material beyond the scalloped edge. For a dolly, fine linen or nainsook should be used for the foundation.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-04-20
Depends.

Depends. Humps-Do you think it's a sin to contribute to campaign fnud? Loafieigh-Yes, if you don't land a lob by it!-Detroit Free Press.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-04-20
Reception Card.

Where several women receive to- gether, the names may all be on one card.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-04-20
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.

Closing Stock Quotatlons.
 Money on call hrmer at DOT cent prime mercantile paper. t,A@s per oent exchanges. ts42, ,4sS; balances. $S,s 1885,
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-04-20
New York Markets.

WHEAT-There was an opening decline in wheat due to poor Liverpool cables. fine weather and more liberal receiptsl manipulation and covering; May, @6 SSNc.; July. S5h@& 3I6o.
 BuTTER-Creamery. extras, per pound. NQ21kc.; firsts, 1S020c.; seconds. 1s617c. N NcHEEsE1state, fuil cream. large and small, colored and white. fancy, 14Ao. good to prime, lsiA@14c. common to fair, I1@l8c.: light skins. best, 10910Ac.; part full skins, 21aQDS14c.
 EGGS Fresh gathered extras, 2oc nearby, fresh gathered. frsts, 1sc.
 DRESSED POULTRY - Steady; fowls, old roosters, 101kc.; roasting chickens, choice, 15c.; do., fair to good, 1sQl4c. 1; frozep turkeys, as to quality, 1702oc. !;
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-04-20
Live stock Markets.

CATTLE-S Supply light; market steady; choice, Re0G5.S0; prime. sb.25G6.bo; veal calves. $5.50Q6.
 HOGS-Recsipts light market steady; prime heavies, mediums and heavy York CTS, $6S016.8; light Workers. $s. .70@S. %; pigs, s6.bOa6.sO; roughs. S.5096.
 SHEEP AND LAMBS - Supply light; market steady; prime wethers, HH@4 @l; culls and common, s2.50Q3: lambs. $4&6.5o
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1906-08-11
vandaIs at Work in Town.

Some niscreants tore down the
gate on the property of Miss Marie
Marshall at the corner OF France and
Henry streets Wednesday night
After twisting the iron gate from It's
hinges il was thrown on the side
walk where il might have MANNED
some passerby. AT the same time
rear gate on the hospital property
was torn from the hinges and placed
on the dining room steps.
Mr.. John Lydiatt. for Mr.. J. +.
Kenochan. offers SIS reward for
the arrest and conviction Of the
parties who did the damage 70 the
Marshall property. II spprehended
the guilty parties VIII DC dealt with
severely.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1906-08-11
York Circuit Court.

Yorktown. Va. Aug. S-.Circuit
court convened here Tuesday morn
ing. Judge. ID. &. Tyler on the
bench. His honor's charge to the
jury was especially interesting. and
brought terror TO the evil doors.
The Judge instructed the jury upon
the point Of selling liquor in local
option district. Under the statutes
the possession OF a United States
license to sell liquor IS prima fscie
evidence that IQuo- IS being sold.
Quite a number Of such licenses are
IN existence in York.
The grand jury brought in indiot-
meuts against four people for selling
LIQUOR and their cases VII De tired al
the October term OF the circuit court.
They gave bond ior their appear
arce.
Thomas Cooper. white. was IN
6;cteG Tor housebreaking. Conway
Howard ans Frank CoistOa were
presented for house breaking and
malicious cutting. The grand juTy
was engaged Thursday II a. ex
animation OF the commissioner ,.
books
Grand Juror Carnines. from Po
9uoson. was excused from further
service b. Judge Tyler on acooun
Of The death Of M. Csrmines' age
mother
among those present from thl
city were Attorneys =. L Henle'
and Frank ArDisteaG.
From B-uton District. Messrs
De :. Ass. Geo. Yeakei. D. 4
Powers and Capt. John Be,hune
were present IS iurynen-
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1906-08-11
CITY Council In Session.

The city council he'd a regular
meeting Thursday night. President
L. ". Lane II the chai-.
A rather exciting tine was had
over : compost heap maintained by
the Marshal people OF Ireland street.
Residents r. that section complained
OF i and asked thstthe council order
Il removed. Nr. Ly6.a1t. the for
Isl II charge OF Mss Marshall s
propery. couten6ed that !, was
not : nuisance. while M. =. 7.
Cloves and Councilman Proctor
he'd Tia, i was dangerous 70 The
heath Of the people nearby.
The council voted 10 issue At once
$1,000 OF the $4,000 recently
voted Tor public Improvements.
This viii pay to1 paving and the
new city isl. The balance VIII 20
be sold I'll needed
The health and ordinance con-
rnirtees have been called 10 meet a
<. +. Proc,ors barber shop nes,
Wednesday night. the object BEN.
70 draft a. ordnance or ordnance
relative &c the sanitation OF the town
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1906-08-11
Virginia Polytechnic institute.
State Agricultural and Mechanical
College,
ASouthernSchool of Technology

Fifty-c,ur Instructors. thoroughly C.
aniuu~d shops Laboratories and In
6raaries. Farm Of 100 acres. steam
hratisg and electric lights IN oOrmitor-
seA Degree courses IA Agriculture,
Hortscuissrc. Cs~i! Engineering. Applied
C.,css.istry. Applitd Geology. Geueral
Sciencc and MetaliErgy and Metallic.
peaphv. Shorter courses IN Practical
Agriculture and Practical Mechanics
Total cost OF session OF nine months.
incluuing tuition and other fees. board,
washing. text books. uniform. medical
Attention. etr. S2f6. e5. Cost 20 State
students. Si96.65
The pext session opens Wednesday'
seoteuber IS. 1906. For catalogue
ard other information. apply 20
j, 81. MeBRYpE, Ph. D.. IL. d.
President.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1906-08-11
A Hay Ride.

On Thursnsy evening at 7;SO
O'Clock a number OF young people
lett Williamsburg for York river on
q hay noe. given by the young men
in honor OF the following young
ladies': Misses Yancey Donegan.
Fannie Undertake. Jennie Timber
lake. Estellc Barlow. Grace Barlow.
Liza Barlow. Oracle Slater. Mabel
T;uer. Naggie Gore. Stella Wolfe
ard Annie Cha. .es. Committee:
Messrs. Henry Charles. Henley
Sweeney. Howard WynkooP. Bob
C-ffir. George Mitchell. OF Rich
mon6. Fred Jones. Clyde Hall ard
EDDIE Barlow. The party n a large
WAGON drawn by four horses and
slz;ltuliv managed BY Mr.. Ross.
reached the rver az lO.4S ?. II.
The supper. which was the most in
terescnE event. was spread on the
beach Of the noble York and was
declared BY al most enjoyable. and
everyone appetite was excellent.
Ms w. Z. Barlow. assisted by Rev.
Daniel T der. q. faithfully per
formed the.T duties as chaperones
tcr the merry nav riders. On re-
turning reached Williamsburg a. s
o'clock and the people were aroused
from their s.uInbers when there
arose three cheers for Williamsburg
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1906-08-11
4YChe1 Brooks.
General Insurance Agent

0eneraI Insurance Agent
representing the following
tirst-class Companies:
Va. Fire x Marine and Va.
State, Richmond. Virginia.
Home. of n. Y. Hamburg
bremen, Norwich UnIo n
Pennsylvania Fire and Fire
Association, of Philadelphia.
| also represent the Fidel-
ity & Deposit Co. of Md. and
the Fidelity and Casualty
Co. OF n. Y.
All business entrusted
whether fire insurance bond
or of indemnity on officials
or employees will receive
prompt attention.
Office Over spsnesr sres.' ssers,
, WILLIAMSBURG Va
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1906-08-11
NOTICE

There w.l be io.nt meeting Of
the Health and Ordnance Commit
tees "Wednesday night. Aug. IS. al
s q clock. al my barber shop. Busi-
ness OF great importance IS 10 be
transacted. and each member IS "
gently requested &c be present
K. Il Proctor.
chm Health and Ordinance Com.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1906-08-11

The znzuai useeting 81 the stockhola-
ers Of Chesapeake TeirpboDe and Teie-
graph Company viii be heis ~ sorE-
t0~n. gs.. Assuss Is. ~ 10 = N. Al
tbis nsest1ng wsn b considered the d.
position Of the sensirinx proceeds q
she safe Of hns srd s<tEkns sbe secop1 -
GEO. T. SMITH.
Pfrsi6<rs,
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1906-08-11

Wnile OH Expzys-s are c-suo-l-E
To- Z 0ooel zlc more elaborate
roa5 system they nus 1o- forget
t,st Z A. taxes money. 50 L ne
TX -zrrs are rziseG CO 70 rsise o.
jccro1s- TIE boards O supervisors
are Only cs1ylnE OF yo- s-Eges-
tols.