The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-25

for temporary interments: an Odd Fellows
crematory which can dispose Of forty bod
les a day has offered its services free. The
real extent of the loss Of life may never be
known, so d~isorganized was the work in
this respect during the first few days OF
confusion.
RULE AGAINST ADMISSION,
The troops are beginning to relax the rule
in regard to coming into the city, and the
business men are demanding that they re-
move the restriction on people having legiti-
mate business. Unless this Is done, they
say, there can be no start at getting the city
into working order again. With the relief
camps thinning out, the fire ~extinguished
and the danger of pestilence remote, this
looks like common sense. When 1t Is done
there will be a lot of family reunions. Many
refugees in Oakland know from friends that
their families are in some of the concentra-
ton camps, but cannot reach them; many
more are still lost to their relatives.
In the last two days people have taken to
posting placards with their names and tenn
porary addresses up and down Market
! street.
This, posted in the ferry building, Ia a
sample:
Herman Goetz Of 1873 Geary street Is in
Colder Gate Park near the Garfield Monu-
ment. He wants especially to hear from
his brother william"
TbeSa ho va baap a,roo ,i,r , III lo ~ in Can
Francisco and Oakland. In Golden Gate
Park they have nailed a regular directory
to the b%andstand.
PLACE FOR A NEW CHINATOWN.
The city authorities are showing a dis
position to settle the Chinese question early
in the game. The Chinese left in San
Francisco will be concentrated for b
time being in and about the Fontana cam
merry and warehouse near Fort Mason.
Later, the Mayor announced to-day, they
will be removed to Hunters Point on the
southeastern corner of the city, where the
new Chinatown will be built. The Chinese
| merchants and millionaries, men OF con-
siderable financial importance and heavy
owners Of property in the old Chinatown;
may have something to say all out this.
The tourists of the future San Francisco
will nave to take an automobile to seq
Chinatown.
ALL AUTOMOBILES SEIZED.
Speaking Of automobiles, the troops have
formally taken possession of every machine
! IN tour Tho stood Dratt,, far
out and the machines owned by the COM
| panies did invaluable service in transport
ing the sick and wounded on the first day.
| They nave all passed over now into the
temporary possession Of the soldiers. A
! good many private automobiles got sway
the first day or two, carrying families into
the country. The owners nave generally
brought these machines back and turned
them over, and some private owners at
Burlinghame and San Rafael have con-
tributed their machines.
Several automobiles hidden by their
owners were found in the stables of the
Western Addition yesterday. These were
taken over at once. The supply Of chauf-
feurs was rather short until to-day, when
several rich young men, seeing the need,
volunteered to act as public drivers in the
| period Of need. They are using automo-
biles for every purpose from carrying Gov
eminent messages to transporting supplies.
Just now extra horses would be of but
little use because the supply Of feed is short
again. Even the cavalry officers at the Pre-
sidio are wondering if they will be able to
feed their horses. To-day drivers Of ex-
press wagons used in the public service were
allowed to pasture their horses on the lawns
Of Golden Gate Park.
THE MOST TANGLED DISTRICT. ~~
The most tumbled and tangled district In
the city is not the southern fringe of Market
street, the area where the devastation was
widest and the loss of life greatest, but on
a little strip between Harriso on and Valencia,
Seventeenth and Nineteenth streets. 1t
was in this area that the Valencia Hotel
Eighteenth and Nineteenth streets and
Valencia is twisted out Of all appearances
Of houses. The car tracks at one place
run in a wavy line from one side Of the curb
to the other. The asphalt is broken an
though great bubbles had forced their
way through it.
At the corner Of Eighteenth and Valencia
there Is a hole ten feet wide. The asphalt
Is turned up from the centre of this hole
like the petals of a flower. and from it comes
a stream Of clear water. No one can tell
whether this stream comes from a broken
main or from q brook which used to run
down Eighteenth street.
Valencia Hotel sank ten feet into the earth
and pitched forward into the street. When
the debris Of the hotel was cleared away
1t was found that the asphalt pavement
before it had bulged upward to make a
mound four feet high. The hole into which
the foundations sank is filed with water.
The underwriters, who are In session
every day in Oakland, have tabulated the
amount Of insurance carried in San Fran