Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-28
PAPERS SURVIVE
QUAKE AND FIRE
SAN FRANCISCO SCRIBES STILL
UP AND DOING
Subscribers Whose Homes Remain In.
tact Have Chance to Read
the News Before Break
fast as Usual
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, April N.-It takes
more than an earthquake and confia-
grafton to put the San Francisco news
papers out of business.
With a resourcefulness that cannot
but be admired they have surmounted
all difficulties and today there is little
in their appearance that would indi-
cate the strain and stress under which
they have labored in order to present
the news to the public of this burned
city.
Only one of them has suspended pub
lication. The Evening Post, being un-
able to acquire a plant in the vicinity
of the city, has retired from the field
for sixty days.
All others are issuing as usual.
Power and Water Failed
1t must be remembered that at 5:19
on the morning of the earthquake,
April 49, power and water failed in
every newspaper office in San Francisco
Still in the hope that as the day grew
these agencies would be provided, the
gathering of news went on as usual.
When the confiagration made its ap-
pearance that all plants without excep-
ton would be destroyed, the Bulletin
put at work a force in its composing
rooms and hand bill was hand set and
some hundreds of copies run off on the
press giving the salient features of the
days news.
The morning papers, the Call and
Chronicle, retired to Oakland on the
other side of the bay and there on
Thursday morning issued joint paper
from the office of the Oakland Tribune
Issue Joint Paper
Friday morning the Call and Chroni-
Gle issued from the office of the Oak
land Herald.
Two days later the Call secured the
service of the Oakland Enquirer plant
Meanwhile on Friday the Bulletin,
after suspension of one day, made ar
rangements for the use in the after
noon of the Oakland Herald equipment,
and from these sources and under such
circumstances the San Francisco papers
have been issuing.
Offices Now on Fillmore
Offices were hurriedly opened on Fill
more street, which today is the main
thoroughfare of San Francisco, and
from these headquarters the news as
1t was gathered has been transmitted
by means of automobiles and the ferry
service to the Oakland shores.
There also were accepted such adver-
tisements as have been offered.
The number of these is perhaps the
best visual sign at present of the res
direction of the new city.
1t was noted that in a 14-page paper
printed yesterday there were over nine
pages OF advertisements, and in a 16-
page paper published this morning by
the Chronicle as least 80 per cent of dts
space was devoted to the same end.
Delivered to Subscribers
What better evidence could the world
have of the indomitable purpose of the
business interests of San Francisco?
1t is to be noted that this issue of the
Chronicle, of which mention has been
made, was delivered this morning by
carrier at the residence of every sub
scriber remaining standing in San
Francisco. not later than o'clock.
The maintenance of telegraphic COM
munication with the outside world has
been one of the most difficult matters
with which the newspapers have had to
contend.
The experience of the Associated
Press in this respect will give an idea
of the obstacles confronting the other
| news agencies of the city.
All Wires Fall
From Wednesday, April 1S, until
Monday, April 29, there was neither
communication by means of telephone
or telegraph between Oakland and San
| Francisco.
On Monday one telephone circuit with
Oakland was established, and the Asso-
| ciated Press used this for telegraphic
purposes. The use continued through
Tuesday, and on Wednesday it failed
On Thursday the Western Union by
extraordinary efforts succeeded in get
ting bay cable in working order, and
by running wires in roundabout way
managed to get a wire into the muni-
cipal headquarters at Franklin hall on
| Fillmore street near Bush.
This wire was placed at the service OF
the Associated Press, and through COM
munication to the east established.
News from the Associated Press
headquarters has gone over this wire
ever since.