Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-05-03

TO menace the man in the street Roor
TN and ripped-off metal cornices swayins
IN the stiff wind, beat and ring against the
gaping walls
Retracing steps to the ferry and taking
fresh start, you turn south along East
street (the water 'front.', and then go west
on Mission, the street south of Market
through the jagged walls you may see to
the south side of the city perhaps half or
three-quarters of mile, without finding
a building. Along Mission, Howard FOL
som and Brennan gangs of men, hundreds
or them impressed by the authorities are
shoFeIlhg narrow way through the heap
ing debris. Fires are still bla zing in some
OF the ruins, and nearly all the wreckaye
- smoking and smoldering. At one point
III the middle of Mission street men are
aoolns fuel to fire in which the carcasses
or horses and cows ara being done AWAY
WIN. The stencil is heavy. Wreckers with
caples and steam Windlasses mounted on
Trucks are dragging safes from the ruins
1Uu walk through this section of the city
without seeing a standing structure TIA
you come to the Rialto building. IT Is
burned out, the roof has crashed In and
me noruheast corner has collapsed. AT
ouH street you reach the west limit of solid
prlck construction south of Market end
enter the frame district. Hundreds or
squares mere were closely built with three
and Iour-story dwellings and tenements
4Heg were mostly fimsy structures of red
WOOD In this waste of ash are thousands
OF COOKING ranges and bath tubs Men
ana women who lived In the housas ara
picking and groveling in the ashes. 10
~ ii s STANDS the mint 1t Is a grim
and defiant old building OF gray go
and survived the fire
In the Mission.
Far down in the mission "a bje die
trlct which takes its name from the old
adobe mission church of Dolores the ara
went. Along Mission street It burned 10
10Th street. out Howard to nth. ont Fol
som to 18th. out Valencia to Goth, making
an irregular line across that mart Of tba
ot'S' ne mission from 10th to 30th street
ana from fotrero avenue to Castro (abouf
eighteen squares) was saved from fire IN, a
change OF the wind The houses are OF
Two and three stories, built for the most
part IN rows Earthquake effects are
manifest Every chimney Is broken off at
the root. Brickmasons are making re-
pairs Porches and steps are wrenched
away from the houses. Here and there
a house tilted till II would seem about 10
faN over. The inmates OF these houses
are cooking in the street In front of the
house, usually in the gutter, but often in
the middle OF the street kitchen has
been improvtsed. In many instances the
kitchen stove has been brought out and
about 1t has been built a little shantv to
shelter the housewife The kitchen shan
ties are built of blinds or shutters doors
sheets Of corrugated iron from the fire dis
trict. sheets of tin. packing boxes etc In
many cases the housewife Is cooking over
Are burning in the center of four bricks.
There are many fashions in these bricl,
cooking places. Meals are cooking before
the doorway of every dwelling in the city
in the swell neighborhood of Pacific Heights
as well as the humble mission. Women of
the aristocratic set and their daughters with
diamonds on their dirty hands, dilapidated
Paris hats on their frowsy heads and
dressed in begrimed and besooted gowns.