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New-York tribune., 1906-04-21
SECOND MILLION NEEDED.
Mr. Taft Says Thursdays Appro-
priatiOn Has Been ErCeeded.

Washington, April 2o.-Secretary Taft. while
testifying before the Senate Committee on In
teroceanic Canals received at p m. to-day a
message from the War Department that another
million dollars is needed TO buy supplies for San
Francisco sufferers.
The Secretary after reading the message said
I'VE have already contracted for 81 100000 worth
of stores and expenses incident to the work.
This message, Of course. should go TO the House
at once"
He said that he would send II there for action.
IF l am guilty OF any impeachable offence
(referring 10 the law prohibiting expenditures in
excess of appropriations in connection with this
disaster, I shall crave your Endorsement of my
course" he said in explanation OF his desire to
do everything possible for the sufferers without
delay
Congress will acquit you" said Senator
TaIiaferro, and other members of the committee
assented feelingly.
After finishing his testimony before the canal
committee Secretary Taft said he would send
in Tomorrow his request for an additional ap-
preparation. He will accompany it with state
ment showing what the government is doing for
the California homeless.
Speaker Cannon and Chairman Tawney OF the
Appropriations COMMITTEES intimate that there
will be no delay in granting another appropria-
ton for the San Francisco sufferers
New-York tribune., 1906-04-21
REVEALS CHINESE DENS.
BurrO1cs a Hundred Feet Deep Laid
Bare by Fire.

Los Angeles. April 2O-"Strange Is the scene
where San Francisco's Chinatown stood" says
w. W. Overton, who reached Los Angeles to-
day from San Francisco. mo heap of smoking
ruins marks the site OF the wooden warrens
where the Orentals dwelt in thousands. Only a
cavern remains pitted with deep holes and lined
with dark passageways, from whose depths come
smoke wreaths.
White men never knew the depth of China
towns underground city. Many had gone be-
meath the street level. two and three stories but
now that Chinatown has been unmasked men
may see where it's inner secrets lay In places
one can see passages one hundred feet deem
The fire swept this Mongolan quarter clean.
From this place l saw hundreds of crazed
yellow men flee. In their arms they bore opium
pipes moneybags. silks and children. Beside
them ran the trousered women, and some
hobbled painfully.
These were the men and women Of the sur
face Far beneath the street levels In those
cellars and passageways were other lives
Women who never the day from their
darkened prisons. and their blinking jailers were
caught and eaten by the hamss''
New-York tribune., 1906-04-21
BERKELEY FEEDS ARMY.
Sir Thousand San Frdnciscans
Sheltered IN University Toscn.

Berkeley. Cal, April 2o-Every train from San
Francisco is bringing hundreds of refugees. II
is estimated that at least six thousand home
less people have come here. and account of
the large influx the city practically has been
placed under martial law.
A thousand cadets OF the University of Cali
fornia are patrolling the streets. and hundred
special police officers are watching homes and
stores
Last night the campus and athletic field OF
the University of California were converted
into a great sleeping room. Tents were pro-
vided for women. and bundles OF straw were
scattered for the men. Under the oaks Of the
campus is an immense tent where the cooking
is done
Every church and fraternal hall IN the city
has been thrown OPEN The hospitality OF the
university and townspeople is being gratefully
accepted by the weary homeless, who in
fairly comfortable condition.
Many of San Francisco's injured have been
brought here and are being cared for by the
medical men of the city In emergency hospi-
tai. Many pathetic scenes are witnessed among
the sick. Among the patients women with
newly born children.
New-York tribune., 1906-04-21
DEATH ROLL GROWING.
Orer 800 Killed IN Three Hotels
Many Drop Dead in Streets.

San Francisco April 20.-From three story
lodging house at 9TH and Minna streets which
collapsed on Wednesday morning, more than
seventy-five bodies were taken out to-day There
are fifty other dead bodies in sight in the ruins.
This building was one OF the first TO take fire in
18th street At least one hundred persons were
killed in the Cosmopolitan. in 4th street.
MANY persons dropped dead to-day from heat
and suFocation.
More than $50 persons reported dead IN
the Brunswick Hotel. Seventh and Mission
streets.
The only building standing between Mission,
Howard. East and Stewart streets is the San
Pablo Hotel which is still occupied and open for
business.
The shot tower at 1st and Howard streets is
gone. This landmark built forty years
ago. The Risdon Iron Works partly de-
stroyed. The Great Western Smelling and Re-
1ning Works escaped damage. as did the Mutual
Electric Light Works. the American Rubber
Connanv the Vista Gas Engine Company and
Folger Brothers coffee and chop house
New-York tribune., 1906-04-21

sands Of our people are sleeping in the open ns
without sufficient covering We parueuAS
need adeouate supplies OF disinfeCtants 10 estao
lish sanitary camps; also drugs and hospai
materials committee OF fifty has been ap-
pointed Chairmen OF the subcommittee ass
Commissary committee. Rat bbi Vorsanger; nous
ing homeless committee, ". ]. Barnett hnah''
committee James d. Phelan.
All kilograms addressed 10 Franklin Han Hs
lief Committee San Francisco. will have prenpt
attention by chairman OF proper committee. -
YOUR telegram you speak OF ready cash. Mosa
suggest that Considera bic currency OF snaA az
nomination be sent This Is importanr 40 80 =,
our banking quarters are destroyed. we Wou,i ,i
greatly appreciate IL New York bankers Noula
arrange TO cooperate with California oaAs.. oisa,
with a view Of securing temporary RELIEF so . saa
fiscal operations may be resumed at the eafns,. ~,
date possible San Francisco Will rebuild w,
want 10 resume the transaction or our u'uA
business in the shortest time possible.
EUGENE f. SCHMIrZ. Mayor
New-York tribune., 1906-04-21
HARTMAN OFF TO AID.
Railroad Nan Speeding to San
Francisco ON Special Tram.

Chicago. April 2O-E. II. Hartman 49,
through Chicago to-day on his speciai t'"-.
San Francisco He was In the city les'
one hour, arriving at 80 a m ana isH'.,, ,''.',
over the Chicago & Northwestern ROAD 49,
before $50 -,,,-
IT have issued orders he said. 'tna' ',' -,
alton in San Francisco Is 20 be considefeu
everything else. All the Hartman hne' -. ssv.
steamship lines in which 1 am intefese "a
been instructed TO do everything poss "a
with the utmost energy, FOR the rsn'l ,.st
people OF San Francisco. These ordets az -.
San Francisco is TO have precedenee at q" A..
over all classes OF business. l have o.us. '~,,,.s
collection and immediate sending oi ,,t
from Los Angeles. Sacramento OaAiA,- Oa--,,r.r
other points. All other shipments 0i H- ~-.,..n
character that may be given to tae 10 ,,l.
lines for transportation TO san Frah0i any
of course be handled without charge san
kind l am of the confident opuiiOI viii 10
Francisco will be rapidly rebuilt, an an as rap
greater than ever. i am going tltuuss irtsnd 20
idly as possible on special tram AZ - 70 aid
that my orders are carried ouI essv ess caa
in their execution as much as PO''
by being on the ground myself
New-York tribune., 1906-04-21
WILL REBUILD At ONCE.
Sckmits Thanks Government, and
asks Fitting Federal BUILDINGS.

San Francisco, April 20.-Mayor Schmitz to-
day sent the following telegram TO President
Roosevelt
San Francisco April 20.
To the President OF the United States Wash
ington.
Generous contribution Of 81 900 900 from the
federal government for relief OF destitute persons
received and deeply appreciated. The people
overwhelmed by your generosity. All of this
money will be used for relief purposes. Property
owners determined 10 rebuild as soon as fire
ceases. City will Immediately proceed TO pro-
vide capital for the purpose OF reconstructing
public buildings. schools. jails. the hospitals
sewers and salt and fresh water systems The
people hope that the federal government will at
once provide ample appropriations to rebuild all
federal buildings a scale befitting the new
San Francisco We determined to restore
to the nation its chief port the Pacific.
EUGENE p. SCHMITZ, Mayor.
New-York tribune., 1906-04-21

maddened bull. At least dozen persons IT Is
said, were killed.
The death is reported of DR.. ]. c. Stinson'
well known young physician and former MEM
ber of the City Board of Health. who was killed
in his room al the California Hotel on Wednes-
day morning. When the great shock shook that
building the side of StinsOns room. in an upper
story caved in, buryng him as he lay IN oed'
With hard work he was subsequently taken out
but death had evidently been instantaneous
ONE GIFT OF S3.OO0.O00.
"The Call" says this morning that a presi-
dent of one OF the San Francisco banks has
TELEGRAPH phed directions to his manager TO place
100000 in the hands of the Citizens RELIEF
and Restoration Committee, to be used at lts
discretion in attending TO the immediate wants
of the stricken people of San Francisco Other
subscriptions have added S19150O TO the fund
The residents of Oakland, Alameda ana other
cities across the bay are making great efLorts 10
care for the refugees who are coming In from
the city by the thousands. Churches and large
halls have been thrown open for their accom-
modation.
The work of clearing up the wreckage at the
waterfront in the business section began this
morning. One hundred men were employed there
under the direction of the Street Department.
While firemen were blowing up the cable power
house at Sutter and Polk streets and the Nc
Mutt Hospital and the St Dunstan apartments
near by yesterday, in a vain effort 10 check
a Roman Catholic edfce, which had withstood
the shock, caught fire. A fireman with hose
tied 10 his belt scaled the high steeple and
played a stream on the burning section and the
blaze was extinguished Thousands of people
cheered the deed. The handsome building was
New-York tribune., 1906-04-21
OAKLAND THE REFUGE.
THOUSANDS ARE FED.
Cjtu Tared to Utmost Rebuilding
Begun in San Francisco.

OAKLAND Cal April 2O-Oakland is a vast
CITY of refuge tonight and an intelligence once
for the thousands of survivors who have man
aged 10 escape from San Francisco great
mart of the cosmopolitan population OF the
metropolis has taken every available space In
Ell. c,tv and shelter and food are being pro-
v,ded though the relief committee is taxed to
the limit.
THE almost homeless task has been begun of
.r,,,g m reunite scattered families. of de-
ternninins whether the missing are dead or stili
safe somewhere in the great and tangled mass
q, STRICKEN refugees which spreads over all the
country
Messages are stacked yards high In all the
telegraph offices waiting to be sent Throughout
the world Conditions warrant utter despair anu
manic but through 1t all the people are uSi"s
to be brave. =.
Oakland temporarily has taken the place OF
San Francisco as the metropolis OF the faciN.
Coast. and hnanciers. bankers and mercnah's ol
g. Erancisco are here comforting and getting
,rto shane the first plans for the rebuilding OF
tho burned city and preventing widespread
financial panic. In the face or enormous lo's'
| the leaders of trade and commerce are cneeriui
| and confident that all will be we'll The Gov
| ernor the bank commissioners. the arcnfects'
the insurance officers and the representatives OF
| many Of the large commercial enterprises are
| now in the city arranging offices ana clearlhs
| the way for the smooth adjustment OF analr7
| that will tighten the heavy hand or disaster that
! has levelled everything in common ruin
| Leading men OF the state are here assisting
/ I'm the work of reorganization. The news tha'
| the money in the vaults of the banks of San
Francisco is safe and that all the banks VIII
pay In full as soon as calm replaces disorder
has done much to prevent panic.
| Construction companies have opened employ
ment Offices and tonight hundreds Of survivors
have been employed TO be sent Immediately to
the quarries, that there may be no lack oi
| building and repair material
Already many of the buildings damaged by
the earthquake OF Wednesday are being re-
paired and activity of healthy and reassurns
sort is stirring all about.
New-York tribune., 1906-04-21
NEW YORKERS IN SAFETY
LeaUe San Francisco on Santa Fe
Tran,-Were IN Disaster.

Tulare. Cal, April 20.-The following New
Workers left San Francisco last night on the
Santa Fe train. They were all in the earth
quake disaster:
ALLEN Digar York.
BAKER F. A.. New York.
BRIGGS. T. l.. New York.
BURNEs Theodore T.. No. 204 Ames avenue New York
CARLSON c. O.. jamestown. y. 7
CHAPMAN. c. No l45 East 92d street. New York
DALRYMPLE A
FRANKO Nahan Metropolitan Opera House, New York
GARwIN. ". p.
GENE. Mrs. VILE Fredonia n. Y.
GOLDMAN. Edwin. No. i67 East 11lth street New
York.
HANOLD. F. J.
Hell BROTER. L. II
HIRSCH Louis c.
HYNEs J. E. No i24 West i15th street New York.
LACROIX. Mr.. and Mrs. Emile.
IUTZ. W C.. No 102 East End avenue. New York.
M'INTYRE J. J.. No 67l East 145th street New York
MITCHELL. T. H.
MOLLER. Lillian May.
MONTGOMERY. j. C.
MOUNTEIM. l.
ORR {. +.
OWEN, Fred ".
QUINN. J. W.
RANDALL, ar. and Mrs. W. H. No. 1855 Lexington
avenue. New York.
RUSSELL, Yr J. l.. No. lsa West 18th street
New York.
SCOTT, Mr.. and winfield.
STRAUSS Louis. No. lo2 Park avenue, New York
wAIIBROCK J. H. New York.
We'll. Louis.
now proceeding from Los Angeles to New Yo1h y'
where his father lives.
New-York tribune., 1906-04-21
SCHMITZ TELLS OF NEEDS,
Dispatch to Nesc Yorker Asks for
Drugs and Cash.

San Francisco. April 2o-Mayor Schmitz to-
night sent the following dispatch TO Louis Cook.
of New York:
Grateful for your generous telegram Cali
fornia heartily thanks you. We need tents
bedding and food supplies. We require com
forters and blankets In large number Thou
New-York tribune., 1906-04-21
SIXTY CARLOADS SENT.
Big Supply Trains LeaOe Los
ANGELES for San Francisco.

Los Angeles. April 20-Stxty carloads of pro-
visions. clothing and other supplies for the San
Francisco sufferers left Los Angeles to-day and
tonight. Supplies piled high at freight
depots people bringing offerings in endless pro-
cession The Santa Fe Railway sent trainload
of provisions, with instructions to take on addi-
tional carloads of supplies along the way to San
Francisco.
New-York tribune., 1906-04-21
EAGLES TAXED FOR RELIEF

Chicago April 9O-RObert NJ Mnnehan ..,,.,ss
cagO. chairman OF the national boaFa " VL,sorl,sd
of the Fraternal Order Of Eagles. TO-DAY law
per capita tax Of s Cents on each egnser, or T s
order in the United States and Sahs.1sr~asted thss
relief OF distress IN California. IL - es'''
this tax Will amount 20 So. 0so
New-York tribune., 1906-04-21
scHMITz THANKS NEW YORK FIRM

Brown Brothers s Co. have received the follow
ing telegram:
Bank of California donating 80 900 received and
~ srcaty appreciated by the citizens OF San Fran
cisco EUGENE E. SCHMITZ
y. w Harris & Co. have remitted direct .2ooo TO
the San Francisco relief fund
New-York tribune., 1906-04-21
SAN JOSE'S DEAD. 10.
PROPERTY LOSS, S5, ,0Oo, 900.
Refugees Streaming Into Santa
Clara County-ProUasions Scarce.

San Jose. Cal. April 2O-Nineteen persons
killed in San Jose by the earthquake OF
Wednesday, and the entire business quarter was
wrecked. The damage is estimated at S5.oOO.O0O.
One hundred and ten persons were killed and
seventy were injured mostly patients. at Ag-
news Insane Asylum, near San Jose. The asylum
was ruined.
The damage to the Texas Pacific Milling Com
pany at Santa Clara. a suburb OF San Jose.
is S15O,OOO. The total loss in Santa Clara Is
100000. No loss OF life
At Gilroy. 100000 damage: none dead.
AT Hollister. 100000 damage; one man killed.
The Southern Pacific tunnel at Wrights, near
ly a mile long. caved in.
Hundreds of people are streaming into Santa
Clara County from San Francisco Strictest
martial law is in force In San Jose Mayor
Worswick has asked Governor Pardee for more
soldiers TO maintain order. A vigilance COM
mittee has been organized and placards have
been posted throughout the city saying that any
person found stealing or committing any law
less act act OF violence will be executed.
No one is allowed in the streets after dark
The Moreland Academy. a Catholic institu-
tion at Watsonville. was damaged. but no lives
lost.
Santa Clara College and Notre Dame convent
were not damaged.
Mrs Bert Haley. OF Oakland: Mr.. and Mrs
Kerrigan, Of Oakland; Thomas O'Toole Gilroy.
Mrs. Charles Costa, Mrs. Claude Ey erett, Mrs.
Warden and Fireman Farrar
provisions are running short in San Jose and
residents are excited over stories that thou
sands of half starved persons are coming from
San Francisco.
Oakland. Cal. April 20.-An Associated Press
correspondent who arrived here last night from
Santa Cruz reports that up TO noon Thursday
103 bodies had been taken out OF Agnew's state
Hospital, near Santa Clara. Official estimates
place the number of injured insane patients at
207 and OF these thirty were not expected to
live.
The main building OF the hospital collapsed.
pinning many of the patients under fallen walls
and debris. The padded cells had to be broken
open and the more dangerous patients were tied
10 trees out the lawn in lieu OF safer place.
The doctors and nurses stuck heroically 70 their
posts, and hundred students from Santa Clara
College went over in body to assist In succor-
ing the wounded.
Santa Cruz was not seriously damaged and
no lives were lost in the city. The damage to
buildings in Santa Cruz is $500. 900.
landslide on Iona Prieta Mountain buried
nine men in their cabins at the Hinckley Creek
mill of the Iona Prieta Lumber Company The
a hundred feet of earth. Another fatal land
slide occurred at Deer Greek MILL John Hannah
and James Franklin were caught in their cabins
and killed.
New-York tribune., 1906-04-21
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"Mr Quinn is injured and is on the hospital train
now proceeding from Los Angeles to New York
where his father lives.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-05-20
The Gym Work.

The new bleachers have been erect. er on both sides of the gym The vis- itors enjoyed the use of these Friday night, while viewing tn class work and basketball game which followed.
 Physical Director Rawlinson is grat- flied to find good material in some of the men for first-cass exhibition notwithstanding the short time he has had for preparation. The tumblers have responded we'll to his instruc- ton, and have acquired a considerable number of difficult stunts"
 The Juniors are attending well and working in spite of the warm wealth el. After the regular class work Sat urday morning Mr. Rawlin&on took the boys for long run on severa! of the streets, after which they returned to the gymnasium, where they got up much enthusiasm over an obstacle race and games.
 Miss Callie Jones' Kindergarten school had ben rehearsing in the audi torium of the building, and Nn in- sure a very good entertainment on the evening of Tuesday, May 22nd.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-05-20
WANT CAR SERVICE.
Petition To Be Presented to City
 Council by Citizens on Sixth.

petition is being circulated by citizens residing on East Sixth ave- rue, and elsewhere in the east end of the city, to be presented to the city council at the regular meeting Mon- day night, asking permission for the use on East Sixth of the CT" street car rail in the building of street car line on East Sixth, for purpose of giving the people residing in that portion of the city a street car ser- vice.
 Some time since, as was announced ir the Graphic, a move was made by the people of that section of the city to have line put on East Sixth ave- nue and it was then predicted by this paper that it would be but a short time until the people of that portion of the city would have a car service, which is badly needed.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-05-20
Mir. Cook III.

Mir. Cook continues very i'll, unable to attend to his duties. During his absence Mr. Ayres has been acting as membership secretary, at which he is very successful.
 MT. Wead is feeling somewhat bet. ter, although fall he got from his wheel last week and a slight ague from climatic conditions makes him feel little like work He is in Hrain- ing to try his strength in the exhibi- tion with Mir. James Larkin in wrestling bout. MT. Larkin is busy as usual on his membership commit tee, having passed the Rustlers and sained the top.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-05-20
-15siEs!i.,E..., .

Some Toronto Y. M c. A. men five years ago found that the baseball clubs were meeting in the public houses and the young men were get ting demora1ized. They were invited 10 meet at the association building. The up-shot was an inter-association baseball league, which now has thirty teams enrolled who play a foursir-see teams enrolled who play a fourseries of games. La Crosse is also played in season and twenty teams were on the field. The boys of the town are directed by association men in the Boys Workers Athletic union, in which are several hundred boys. On one day twenty football games were played on one large field. Over 800 boys and men are registered. This is the beginning of the control of all the sports by the Y. M. c. A. among boys and young men. La Crosse, hock- ev. baseball and football are now un- der their supervision.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-05-20
First Presbyterian.

The choir at First Presbyterian church under the direction of Mrs. F. E. Renfrow, assisted by some of the best local talent, will render the fol- lowing program Sunday evening com mencing at s o'clock:
 Organ voluntary Batiste. Doxology.
 Invocation.
 Anthem "How Beautiful Are Thy Dwellings, Ashford.
 Hymn No. $50.
 Duo, Come Unto Me- Campana. Trio, Protect Us Through the Com- ing Night Cushmon.
 Scripture Reading, Dr. Norris. Prayer.
 Quartet, "The Shadow so Beautl- ful.'
 Short address, Dr. Norris. Hymn No. 535, "All Hail the Power of Jesus Name"
 Quartet, "Hark, Hark, My soul' Shelley.
 Offertory, Violin Solo, "Because' Hetzel.
 Male Quartet, "The Night o1 Rest" Parks.
 Soprano Solo, "Allelulia, he IS Risen," Neidlinger.
 Trio, Sweet Is the Work Wle- gand.
 BenedictiOn.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-05-20
Trinity Church.

Sunday afternoon at o'clock at Trinity Episcopal church.
 Prelude, organ, Mrs. B. W. Bocage. Processional hymn, Jerusalem" :" choir. YA; Sentences from the Scriptures, se- lected. ar77 71 .7s s Anthem, quartet; Miss Dye, Mrs. Core, MT. Mather, Mir. Huber.
 Psalter, selected, rector and con- gregation.
 Gloria Patri, Schnecker's Magnii, cat.
 First lesson, Old Testament. Cantata, Burche, choir.
 Second lesson, New Testament. Easter anthem, Simpson, choir. Apostles creed and prayers. Hymn anthem Even Song, choir. Organ, Impromptu, Schubert. Offertory, selected, Miss Donaldson. Hymn, Holy Offering," choir. Te Deum, Festival, Root, choir Benediction, rector.
 Recessional hymn, Angelo, choir. A cordial welcome to all who attend this service.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-05-20

The Westinghouse Air Brake com pany is spending s110,0o0 in equipping a Y. M c. A. organized exclusively among it's empoyes at Wilmerdins, Pa For six years the association has had quarters in the company's office building, has extended it's even ing classes to the high school build- ing, held technical demonstrations in air brake study in the shops and has grown to be so necessary to the company that the management volun- teered to erect this building. It is managed by the men and there are between seven and eight hundred men and boys who are members. The company proposes to equip similar building for the Young Women's Christian association formed among it's employees.