The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-25
VERY ATTRACTIVE PRICES.
Le BoutilzirR Brothers
West Txventy-thrd Street.

down town in the earthquake days
when San Francisco never rent to bed.
The Poodle Dog has found a new home IN
Eddy street. Delmonico's is open in Fill
more street. Marchand's, Tait's, the Louvre
and sven that wonderful Coppa's, are all
doing business. Matthias is reviving bis
ancient glories in Broadway, while Balls,
where Won could get any kind OF a national
dinner with appropriate architectural sur
rouudings. from Chinese to Spanish, n
drink cocktails on a coffin in the famous
morgue has made a ne W start.
Had it been merely the earthquake there
would be scarcely a scar on the lace OF San
Francisco to-day, for all accounts agree
that scarcely , per cent. Of the damage was
done by the big shake. Not more han
$40 1000 damage was done to the st. Francis
Hotel by the earthquake, yet 1t Will take
we'll toward 81. 900 900 to restore the struct-
ure. The earthquake scarcely cracked the
plaster of the Palace Hotel, yet it will cost
SOC, 900 TO pull down the blackened steel
skeleton that the fire left.
San Francisco the refore looks forward
with the calmest hope to the future, Tor she
plans to build a system Of waterworks that
engineers have assured her will certainly
Withstand an cart hquake shock even heavier
than the one Of April ls. The new system
will include a series of huge reservoirs on
the aolide ground. All the fractures in
the distributing mains we re- on made ground.
and il is therefore planned to safeguard the
new mains in every manner known to
science. The engineers who have investi-
gated the subject, and they include some OF
the ablest in the profes sion, are unanimous
in the opinion that a waite rworks system can
be constructed that will b practically
o~uakeproof. II is upon this foundation that
San Francisco Is building so confidently for
the future.
San Franciscans are an artistic and an
art loving people. In their great disaster
thew lost hundreds Of beautiful things.
But the art life Of the city is reviving with
its material vitality. Up on the hillside OF
California street there is an attractive
two story building on the bungalow order
that a few weeks ago was a stable. 1t now
shelters an exhibition of paintings by the
man who is generally regarded as the fore
most living artist of the West, William
Keith.
In the great fire no less than 1000 can
vases from this painters brush, practically
his life work, were destroyed. But Mr..
Keith. though he Is we'll over 90, was not
crushed. He set to work while the ruins
still smouldered, and to-day you may see
in that ex-stabIe on California street sixty
| five paintings he has with amazing speed
completed since the disaster. Some OF them
are reproductions OF these that persisted,
but. when all is said and done, MI. Keith
has probably established a record.
No. San Francisco is neither crushed
nor il she broke. Outside the entrance
to California Field a week ago a man whose
hands proved him to be a workman and
whose shoes indicated that he was a plasterer
pressed up to the football ticket Office with
a stack of silver dollars in his hands. He
bought six tickets at 81 each and then re-
Joining a group Of his fellows who were
waiting the entire lot Of them trooped
Oavly into the grand stand to see the game.
As I passed a new building in Montgomery
| street Yesterday a bricklayer thrust his
head over the wall at the second floor and
| called to a boy in the street, dropping a
half dollar:
-Hev, Johnnie said he. run over to
the Dutchman's an git me a couple o.
| bottles o. beer an a two bit cigar"
The biggest retail butcher in San Francisco
declares hat he never did so much busi-
ness in MS lie aS now u ~ 40 III III tHo
high priced meats. Everybody wants the
choice cuts. The leg OF mutton, the poor
mans dinner, is a drug on the market. He
has 900 600 pounds Of the coarse cuts OF
Reef in a cold storage warehouse because
! the w~orkingmen who used to eat them
won't buy them any more. only the best
for them at present, they say.
This butcher has a brother-in-law in the
drv goods business. After the fire ne laid
in a big stock Of cheap dress goods, think
ing that there would be a demand only for
that price goods. He's got them yet. No
bodv will buy them. Few want to buy
piece goods either. The great demand is
for tailor made and high priced suits.
Some of these things l told to the banker
and some OF them he told to me as we sat
, on that unsympathetic brick heap while
the dawn grew from gray to purple, from
purple TO pink and breathed aslant the
mists thai lay upon the waters OF the bay
where have come and where will still come
the ships and the people OF all the earth's
nations. Then the sun rose upo a city
ruined but triumphant. And in memory
rang the sound OF that woman voice
singing to San Francisco, fresh and sweet
and regal:
Open thy window. beloved
Behold the dawnl