The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-26

who had it the regular ten cent fare was
collected, but persons unable to pay we're
passed free. The soldiers who are getting
the streets cleared welcomed this, and
caught about half the men in the infiowing
crowd to press them into service as laborers.
The relief committee has taken thought
on the subject Of opening up retail trade.
1t is their intention to put as many small
shop keepers as possible on a self -sustaining
basis. This is a gigantic piece Of work,
and a subcommittee is already discussing
plans.
PLENTY OF MEAT TO BE HAD.
The meat famine of the first four or FIVE
days is over. The slaughter houses in South
San Francisco were not touched, either
by fire or earthquake. Immense consign-
ments Of meat on the hoof have been COM
ing in from the south, where the string OF
Miller and Lux ranches run from San Jose
to the Mexican border, and still more comes
every day from the east. The manager
Of the slaughter houses told the relief COM
mittee this morning hat there are 5000
sheep, 800 cattle and 300 hogs in the yards.
The supply seems ample for present uses.
Somuch food is coming into San Francisco
from the south that the Oakland relief
committee decided yesterday to send no
more wagonloads Of provisions to San
Francisco. Just at present the hungry
Of San Francisco will be fed from the Gov
eminent Commissary Department, How
ever, since the retail stores began to open,
with supplies got l~egitimately from one
quarter or another and since a little money
got itself into circulation there is less real
dependence on charity.
The Oakland banks hav helped in start
ing a supply of ready money. So far
the mint has sent them $780, 900 in coin.
Although they are not bound to do 20,
this being a period Of legal holidays, they
have passed out q little cash to each OF
their depositors.
10000 SENT OUT.
There was a time when the Southern
Pacific Company was unpopular in San
Francisco. The road is likely to live 1t
down in this crisis. The Southern Pacific
and the Santa Fee have put on all the pas
senger accommodations that they can
scrape together, and are rushing the people
East free. 1t il only necessary to get a
pass. In issuing the passes they give
preference to women, children and weak
lings, but the passes are issued to the full
limit of train service. Each road has Issued
about 80, 900 passes. Right OF way over
regular trains carrying paid passengers
il given to the trains carrying refugees.
The guards will not permit able bodied men
to get out, unless they are in direct charge
Of families. These are too badly needed
in the clea ring Of the city. Labor Is quoted
at Klondike prices, all the advertising
carried by the newspapers consisting OF
help wanted" advertisements.
800 PLUMBERS ARRIVE.
Three hundred of the plumbers for which
i. the Mayor issued q call even when the
city was burning have arrived and are at
work on the water and sewer mains. They
Esot several sewers cleared and flushed
Yesterday. This is good news to the sam-
tary oorpe.'
In fact, the Board OF Health has reported
that it finds the sick list but little greater
than under normal conditions. 1t has the
report of only one death due directlyto ex-
posture; the cases Of sickness which hard
ship has brought on are mild in form. u
contagious disease as there is exists in a mild
form; and there is no more of it than in
former days when San Francisco was u city
! and not a camp. The board lays it all to
the %promptness of the sanitary measures.
Here again San Francisco pays its tribute
to the army. Three hundred wagons are
~disposing of garbage.
By the end OF two weeks the water mains
will be working all over the city, Some
Eastern experts have thrown in a scare
about the possibilities of contagion in the
polluted water supply; and sensible people
are boiling their water. Typhoid is the prin-
- l-~.. l., th;a. htit Gon Fin Driann has
always been singularly immune from ty-
pboid.
The deputies Of the ~coroner's office have
buried 800 bodies. Twenty-Five more were
recovered yesterday from the ruins south
OF Market street. Chinatown and Tele-
Rrarh Hill nave not been searched for
dead; in Chinatown especially there may
be many still under the ruins. An accurate
death list is still an impossibility.
SMALL FROM BANKS.
The San Francisco banks, following
the lead of the Oakland banks, have opened
UP for business in the Post Office Building,
and will begin paying small sums out to
depositors. The San Francisco banks will
pay only $500 to each depositor. The limit
for savings deposits at Oakland is set
for the present at $50, with small discre-
tionary payments to commercial accounts.
The idea is to start on a small scale and
gradually increase as the city gets to run
ming. At the same time, the banks pre-
pared to receive deposits. To the surprise
OF the Oakland bankers there was more
money deposited than withdrawn, Prob
ably this comes from funds which have
reached the city since the disaster in the
pockets Of Fasteners arriving or business
and in registered letters containing bills,
This cannot continue long; for some time
1t nust be mainly outgo.
TELEGRAM sENr oUT BY MAIL.
Seven thousand kilograms which had
piled up without much hope Of getting on
the wire, were despatched East from
the Western Union office by mail to.
day. They will be wired on from different
places where they can catch a free wire.
The Post Office Department is seeing that
these messages are hurried through, and
they will probably reach the East, giving
relief to more than 1000 nXiou friends,
much sooner than II they waited their turn
In the orush Of Government, business and