Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-04-23
Th Situation is Growing More
Encouraging and People Are
4 Not Disheartened
GREAT ACTIVITY ON SUNDAY
strss Car Service of Crude Sort
Ha Been Resumed and the Water
Supply is Now Good-Work of Clear
ing Up tho Debris Has, Already
Commenced.

the mdst of it's ruins today San Fran
cisco is beginning to take heart.
Iherel is food for all, trains
are tunning, street cars are in
operation, the postoffice is open. and
there \ a general renewal of the ac-
tivltlesof business life.
true, San Francisco can not walk
alone yet nor even stand upright with
out assistance. But the strong arm of
the iedTal government is around her.
General Funston is the nominal ruler
of the city, and behind him stands
president Roosevelt.
Ihe only laws recognized are mill
tary rulss, promulgated as the emerg-
ency rises ,and enforced with the bay
onet. The provost marshal is judge and
jury and the only process servers are
soldiers IN blue, with Krag Jorgensens
for warrant and subpoena alike.
Soldien receive the immense guam
titles of food arriving in Oakland and
San Francisco. The food is distributed
by soldiers from depots in charge of
soldiers. Soldiers guard the streets.
Soldiers are directing the work Of max
ing thoroughfares thru streets clogged
with the rubbish of ruined buildings.
Soldiers are in charge Of the camps
and army surgeons direct the hospi-
tails.
And San Francisco is glad that 1t Is
so. Anarchy would have followed
chaos but for the strong arm of the
soldier. There would have been fam
inc, extordon, theft and rapine. and
wild frenzy of drunken orgy but for
the soldier 1t has been the soldier of
the regulaI army who has brought or
der out ofchaos
No Rest on Sunday
Sunday Fas not day OF rest or OF
Sabbatharisn quiet and meditation.
Everywhere thruout the burned as
well as the remaining section of the
city there was the greatest activity.
Streets were being cleared OF debris,
laborers were repairing broken water
pipes, sewers and gas mains, electrl-
clans everywhere were seeking TO un-
entanrle the almost hopeless confusion
of wires.
Street car service of crude and
limited nature was restored during tne
day. Electric cars were running IN
Fillmore street and appear to nave
n,entv of mower. The service was free
to ALL The cars on Sutter ana "a
cific avenue were being hauled py
horses. Several other lines are IN op-
Grafton today.
Eamine's Specter.
,rhare ;s no fear of famine. More
food is piling up on the wharves -
OAKLAND than can be handled properly.
Everybody in San Francisco ana tne
IN fba ref,,ee camps across the bay
were fed yesterday-not simply on
bread and water but on canned meats,
canned and fresh vegetables eggs anu
hot coffee. There were oranges -
abundance, and In some places ~
cake and cookies. ,a
Food bv the carload and boatload
poured into Oakland Saturday ngnc
and Yesterday in sufficient quantitles
to overwheln the committee which mas
in charge its distribution. so grea.
was tha volume of food stuffs brougn1
into the general depot at Oakland mole
that the General committee made an
appeal for sk;,led labor in the handhng
of these supplies. Grocers' putcnels'
and commission men nave oeeH
quested to secure men VINO are lailiii,al
in the handling Of food-stufrs III oiuei
that the CONFUSION attendant upon tne
distribution at the scores Of statlohs
established might go on without con-
fusion.
surfe;t Of Food on Hand. =.
1t mnst not be understood by the
charitable neople of the country that
there is surfeit of food for the suf-
ferers. While the supply IS aDuhe,ail
at this writing, it is well 1or the puoiio
to remember that the homeiess 'lou
sands must be fed and cared TOT ny sile
organized relief committees Tor an IN
definite period. 1t is desired, therefore,
that contributions be continued every
where until the people who have peeh
rendered HELPLESS and destitute Dy the
citv,s misfor+,,na can care for them
selves.
Water No Longer Problem.
The wafer situation, while causing
inconvenience to the people, IS no long
er such problem About tWo-tnifus =,
of the remaining section OF the Guy 10
being supplied with sufficient water
for the pressing domestic needs. out' ol
course, there is not yet enough TO ne
had for fire fighting purposes. Because
of this fact the most stringent oruefs
have been issued by the militafs any. anu
civil police that no fires shall oe pun.
within any house and no lights, no.
even a candle light, can be showh a..
night in the houses. All COOKING lor
the present must be done on the SIDE