The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-24

lutely no truth in any of these statements
There is no epidemic of any kind, and no
present prospect Of any. Such statements
are simply doing harm to San Francisco
and injuring the country in general. 1t
would be deemed a great service to the
suffering people Of San Francisco and all
their friends if it could be published through
out the country that the conditions are not
so. FUNSTON, commanding.
e. Z. ScHMIrz, Mayor
The troops rule like iron. They continue
to shoot %marauders, and they have added
to their list tho men caught insulting or
assaulting women. In the disturbed con-
dition of things some of this work Is in
evitable, and the soldiers were even more
severe with it than with looting. There lie
a story from Golden Gate PARK about a
man caught in the act. Thu soldiers forced
him to dig his owngrave, stood him up before
it and shot him dead. There is at least no one
to contradict such tales. Half OF them must
be untrue; probably there is truth in the rest.
But l have seen bodies in the temporary
morgues bored through with rifle shots,
so that some of them must be true. The
conditions here make a study in the growth
of rumor.
THE KILLING OF II, c. TILDEN.
The raw boys Of the militia did a thing
yesterday which made the soldiers unpopu-
lar for the day. II. c. Tilden, Of an old
vigilantes family and a member of this
general relief committee, was shot dead
by militiamen while going about in his
automobile on relief work. He had been
/ taking refugees out of the city and was
returning by way of the Mission when a
party of militiamen on guard opened fire
on him-the other members of his party
say without even a command to halt-and
shot him through the heart. The shooters,
who turned out to he members of the oiti-
zens' patrol which il helping out the. soldiers,
are under military arrest. They say that
he was trying to take a forbidden passage.
Relief trains arrived all day. There Is
plenty of food. The machinery of the
military relief and of the food department.
Of the citizens committee is running
clihpDNuly 'N'lS 'lup "I' iNS "iiiO
can be found is employed in getting the
food across the freight ferry from Oak
land and into the parks and concentration
camps. All the bakers who can be found
in the city are working at brick ovens
turning the flour which arrived early from
Stockton into bread. There is a shortage
of yeast, but the Italian and French bakers.
of which there are many in the city, ara
working in their own fashion with soul
dough, and this helps.
A GREAT BREAD LISE.
The city is one great bread line. The
trucks of ~rations drive up to the parks,
the soldiers form the people into lines
and each takes his bread, his cooked or
uncooked food and his little sack of coffee
and departs to cook or eat it, The troops
play no favorites. Sometimes it takes
two or three hours to get through the lines.
and with three meals a day a man living
in the parks passes a good part of his time
standing for his food. The Rel Cross
sees that weak women and children are
provided for without waiting in line, Even
the people living in houses have to take
their chances with the rest of the crowd
in the parks near by.
SYSTEMATIC SANITATION
Systematic sanitation, too, goes for
ward. The concentration camp facing
on the bay in the thinly settled part Of
the residence district under Pacific Heights
is ready and occupied. This takes an
overflow from Golden Gate Park. Bar
ring tents, it has about everything which
the military engineers ALLOW for a regular
military e%ncampment, and the site is at
least healthful, being on a sidehill swept
by every wind that blows. From this
time on all drinking water served in that
camp will be boiled.
SOME LUMBER ARRIVING.
By great luck a lot Of lumber yards along
the waterfront escaped. Their stock
has been appropriated and will he used
for barracks in Golden Gate Park, Two
or three lumber schooners arriving from
the northern forest country we're seized
and the stocks will be used for the same
purpose. Further, the Red Cross, with
the approval of Funston, is going through
the standing residence district and making
every householder give over his spare
room to refugees.
Here generosity has been its own reward.
Those residents Of the Western Addition
who took in burned out friends or chance
acquaintance on the first day had a chance
to pick their company. Those who were
selfish about it must take whomever the
Red Cross sends, even Chinese and new
arrivals from Hungary. The Red Cross
r people are enjoying the grim joke Of this.
They trotted ten refugees up to the door
of a Pacific Heights residence yesterday.
4 The woman Of the house came to the door.
The sergeant in charge made a brief ex-
PLANTATION.
r Heavens" she said, looking them over.
, "You have brought me two Of my dis