The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-01
SHORTAGE IN
 FOOD SUPPLY Consternation in San
 Francisco. ONLY Ios CARL SOS IN ROUTE
 N Already 7oe s.Ave Been Distributed
 in the City. Mer no Are Able to work Must Do So sr They wiII Got No -,ation.-- Military Regulations For Oakland. Also.

San Francisco, April 3o.--A feeiins akin to consternation was created at the meeting of the general municipai committee today when Mayor Schriitz stated that the city faced shortage m the food supply. It had been the ropu- lar belief, and that of many oficiais ai- SO. that San Francisco, through the generous aid of the nation, had been placed in a position above want for q iong time to come and the mayors de- ciaration came in the nature Q. pain full surprise.
 Mayor Schmitz informed the general committee that from infornac,o: iii his possession 1t appeared that TOO car loads of food and supplies of various description had been distributed since the morning of the earthquake April IS. and the Southern Pacific, .hc Santa Fe and other transportation lines had information of only t0S cars on the way.
 If" said the mayor. this lnforma- tion Is correct. and I have no reason to doubt it. we will soon be worse off than we were week ago, If the n formation has gone abroad through tho is most unfortunate, for is is apparent that we are not.'
 Chafrman PheIan's Report.
 Chairman Phelan of the Committee on Finance, supplementing the remarks of the Mayor, said he had as yet Feceiv- ed no reply to his telegram to secre- tary of War Taft asking what the re- lief committee might expect out of the fund of $2.500.oe0 appropriation by Con- gress. and in the absence of such a reply continued to assume that this would be available. He had infornna tion,s however. that the $300.000 trans mitted Saturday by Secretary Taft was given him as president of the National Red Cross and was in no sense q con- tribution by the government
 As to private funds which had been placed in the hands of individuals here. he had received s25.o00 from General Funston, being part of the Guggenhein contribution. Tn transmitting this the general had said that he saw 10 fur ther reason 1nr any great expsndltprs on lat yS4 k, xfis preferred to have the money disbursed by the relief commit tee.
 Easing his calculations upon reports received within the past twentyfour hours, General Greedy stated this morn ing that the entire available food sup ply, including shipments on hand and those enroute. would be sufficient for the present population during period of fifteen days This reckoning is made upon the rate at which supplies have been consumed since the fire. Under the army ration system that will here- after prevail. General Greedy stated his belief that the same amount of food would last twenty-one days
 Must Get to Work.
 within the next seventy-two hours" said General Greedy, we shall be ob- liged to deal with another vigorous problem-the question of feeding able bodied male adults. The difficulty will be to distinguish In the cases of clerks, stenographers, music teachers and others who are actually unable to re- turn an equivalent for a days wages at hard labor. The men who are able to work will have to find occupation as fast as 1t Is presented"
 It was decided at a conference held here today by Governor Pardee, Con- gressman Kahn, General Greedy and Mayor Mott, that the distribution of re- lief supplies in Oakland should be also placed under military direction. Oak land. being the nearest large place of refuge from this city. has been obliged to attend to the task of feeding and housing thousands of unfortunate peo- pie and 1t is stated that the same mis- use of food by interruptions and mer- cenary persons has been unearthed there.
 Today the plan of General Greely for distributing food to people in want was commenced in number of the newly created districts and there was some diminution noticeable in the out put of goods.
 An unfortunate happening today was the destruction of a number of homes in the saved section of Van Ness ave- nue.
 Four Houses wrecked.
 The blasting gang was notified that certain insecure walls was menace to pedestrians and in order to blow up an unusually solidly constructed facade. was obliged to use large quantity of dynamite. As a result of the tremendous explosion four houses on the other side of the city's broadest thoroughfare were utterly wrecked.
 Signs of renewal of industrial ac- tivity were apparent in many parts of the burned districts today and the work of clearing away debris preparatory to rebuilding was in progress in a score of places 1t was said that plans for over thirty large buildings had been drawn and will be submitted to the au- thorities after the new building laws are promulgated.
 The mayor notified the board of su- pervisiors that he would appoint committee consisting of engineers, ar chitects. builders and lawyers to pre- pare plans for laying out streets and boulevards and reconstructlng San Francisco.
 Street car lines are being extended in all directions and the United Railwsy Corporation has promised to give the neople within q short time better system of transit than existed before the fire.
 Al the meeting of the finance com mittee this afternoon no plans were submitted for solving the financial troubles of the city and that question still remains open for future consid- eration.
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