The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-05-07


had, you will soon build better city
than we built This struck us as a
pretty good remark to make. The
/ flames leaped across streets as wide as
| King street at Waikiki. Autos were
/ flying about by hundreds, carrying the
| wounded and exhausted TO the camp at
| Preside.
| We finally arrived within a few
| blocks of the street that led back to
| the ferry. Just ahead of US walked a
young woman about 20 years old, |
guess. She was well dressed and as
cool as could be. She stopped us and
asked if we could tell her how to reach
the ferry as she wanted to get to oak
land. where her family lived. She and
a brother and sister had been visiting
| in S. F. at the time of the earthquake.
The brother and sister We're both sick
in camp at the park, and she had
started alone to get to Oakland to tell
her family, and TO bring help. She ac-
cepted our offer to take her over with
US. We reached the street we had
come from the ferry on, when suddenly
We We're stopped by soldiers who said
fire was just ahead and we must go
back They said we could not get to
the ferry and must go to the camps at
the park for the night. On the south,
west and north We're flames On the
east was the bay, so we went there.
We looked in vain for tug boat or
launch. and at last we were told that a
tug was plying a half mile farther up
the bay that would take people to the
ferry We made for that, and after a
climb over rocks and sand we came to
pier where many people We're waiting |
to get on the tug. We made our way |
through the crowd, pushing and pulling |
the young lady till we stood at the |
edge of the pier. When the tug came |
along we managed to get aboard. |
Miss Bowen, the girl we were taking
along, was perfectly cool all the time,
women were fainting all
around us; and she laughed when she
spoke of her long walk. | shall never
forget that ride around the bay, the
flames raging on the shore and the
heat so intense it fairly burned our
faces. All the tugboats were throwing
streams of water from the bay on the
heavily loaded wharfs, but without the
slightest effect. The fire spread and
consumed every wharf north of the
ferry. We landed about 100 yards
south of the ferry, and walked up to
Market street. We had to wait half an
lour for the ferry boat to Berkeley.
So we went out in front of the ferry
building and watched the crowd pour
ng in. Chinese, japanese, Italians :
whites, all mixed up, like cattle. There
vas no water to drink except what had
'een sent across from Oakland and .
in tin cans. We took Miss :
sowen to her home in Oakland She
7as bright and gay all the time till she
cached her home and met her mother :
nd father Then she broke down q
ompletely. The whole family came L
nd thanked us for bringing the daugh
er home to them. One would have d
bought we had saved her life. They II
lade us promise to call on them and >
e went home. -
Uldrick and 7 offered our services as h
1ecial police in Berkeley. We were =,
ccepted and sworn in. But the Gu. CO. =.
University cadets returned that night, ;,
} they were put on duty and we have r,
Dt had to serve. !,
The fire is out today, after four days
I'd four nights Most of the city is A,
one. But plans are out for the imme h.
ate rebuilding of the city. l never W
lmired the California people as / do Iii
wv. Before the smoke is off the city D
ey are clearing away the wrecks and -,
,tting ready to rebuild. The homeless re
e being cared for in camps, houses in
e open and filed hospitals are -,
DIVIDED. One fireman fought the +,
mes thirty-six hours, when his lungs en-
We out and he was sent over here to CIV
taken care of. He is threatened an
til pneumonia. He took his fireman flo
y off his neck and said, 81 we worn es
at for fifteen years, but I reckon [
~ heeu - very Soon' Dut m,
"S9 Is PiuchS as thdt hIho Oh men Sc
ually are. Te
The ears are to run on Market street sn
morrow, though l don't know how W.
ay can ~,
Berkeley High School building is in If
ms The University is closed. for fla