River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-03

Chronicle, millionaire and political
leader, stood in front of one of these
little offices. Down the street in an
automobile belonging to ex-Mayor
James D. Phelan came Abe Reuf, the
triumphant Republican boss. When
he saw De Young he waved his hat
and called out hearty greeting, to
which De Young responded with gay
salute. For one not intimate with
San Francisco to fully realize what
this means he must be told that Reuf.
Phelan and De Young are the respec-
tive leaders of the most bitter and
antagonistic political factions in the
west
1t you still doubt that the millennium
is upon US go down the street two
blocks to where the relief committee
is working "A hours day from the
showroom of vegetable grocer and
you will find Gavin McNabb and Abe
Reuf with chairs and arms touching,
laughing at the same grim earthquake
jokes and putting the two craftiest
heads in San Francisco together for
the immediate relief of the afflicted.
A week ago as the bosses respective
ly of the Republican and Democratic
ranks, America could have afforded
no more striking instance of deadly
rivalry than would have been adduced
by mention of these two names.
Resurrecting Dry Goods Store.
From another cigar stand white
haired, estbetic Raphael We'll is resur-
recting the most fashionable dry goods
store in the city. He is old, wealthy
and practically retired. He could
easily turn his back on San Francisco
and live the rest of his days, the one
other place of his delight; but says
he: Il shall stay here and see it all
up again just as it was with perhaps
one difference, it will be about twice
as good"
Up and down all the streets one
can see curbstone fires, where the peo-
pie are cooking their meals in obedi-
ence to the municipal order to light
no fires in the houses. They being
without large ranges, small kitchen
stoves, improvised sheet iron ovens
and the old brick Dutch ovens are
used and from which are turned out
some wonderful concoctions.
Most Of the servants have either RUIZ
away or been sent away and the peo-
pie who get their own meals out Of
doors are among the best in the city.
Cooking their dinners in the streets
may be seen girls who have been edu-
Gated at Stanford, Berkeley, Vassar
and Bryn Mawr.
Spreckels Heir Born on Sidewalk.
But of all the astounding leveling
feats~ accomplished by the fire and
earthquake the most remarkable. oc-
Cured in front of the Pacific avenue
home Of Rudolf Spreckels, son Of the
president of the sugar trust. There
on the sidewalk, behind some screens,
Mrs. Spreckels was safely delivered
of handsome and healthy son. 1t
is free state, everyone beginning
over again, rich and poor alike, just
as the front rank broke from the line
the day Oklahoma territory was
opened to settlement.
Not Fair Shake; Start Again.
Young men who can swing small
capital to-day will be millionaires in
a few years. MilIionaires who today
are walking the streets mourning
over their ill-luck VIII never again
be flush. San Francisco, queen city
of chance, born of the gambling fever,
bred Of the gambling energy, dreamed
out of a gamblers visions Of wealth
and glory, with a fierce and terrible
grandeur, has smitten all who loved
her and said to the half million who
had sworn by her: .It's not fair
shake: start again"
Rescue Insane People.
Many stories of heroism lie buried in
the ruins, but some tales that make the
heart tingle are slowly fltering through
official sources. This is the story of the
noble work performed by Mrs. Kane,
matron of the Detention hospital, and
Policeman John Mclean, who was de-
tailed there the night of the great earth
quake. Theinsane patients at the ruined
city hall were kept in locked cells, from
which only the keys of the stewards
could free them. At the hour of dawn
on that fatal Wednesday morning, the
structure in which the courts were
housed was the first to fall. The weight
tense nervous emergency and the officer
the detention hospital, which was on
the ground floor. Steward Manville was
SO badly injured by the falling ruins
that he died two days later. Mrs. Kane
and Policeman Mclean, however, man
aged to rush outside to momentary
safety. Both of them are well advanced
in years, but the nurse is a woman of in
tense nervous energy and the officer
is man of giant frame. AS soon as they
reached the open court they were greet
ed by the terrified shrieks of the insane
that pierced through the smoking ruins
around. They refused to leave their
helpless charges, and both went back
into the chaotic debris
New Buildings Are Planned.
The work of rebuilding San Fran
cisco will proceed rapidly. Mrs. Her
man Oelrichs of New York has agreed
to repair the Rialto building and to
build again on the site of the Crossley.
She and her sister, Mrs. w. K. Wander
bilt,. Jr., have also stated that they will
put up solid Office structures on their
Montgomery street site.