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GREAT NEED FOR FOOD.
Police Stationed to Regulate Prices
for Supplies.

for Supplies.
dispatch from San Francisco last night
says: Possibility Of famine is already pre-
senting its hideous face. At best the city
never carried more than three days supply
of provisions and food, and now. with tho
wholesale districts and warehouses wiped
out, there is already a shortage of food.
Prices are in most instances more than
trebled.
This morning policemen were stationed
at some Of the retail shops regulating tbs
sale of foodstuffs, and permitting only a
small portion of goods to be delivered TO
each purchaser, the idea being to prevent
few persons from gathering i'm largo
quantities of supplies.
Reports We're received that numerous me1
caught In the act OF footing had been shot.
Military Unusually Strict
The military is unusually strict in OBJ
serving the enforcement of the order to
shoot all hooters. one man on Market
street. who found digging in the ruin
of a jewelry shop was discovered by T.
naval reserve man and fired upon three
times. The fellow sought safety in flight.
but the reserve man brought him down by
running his bayonet through him. Tho
bodies of three thieves were found lying in
the streets on the south side this afternoon
II Is impossible to verify the many re-
ports of shooting that are coming to the
press representatives. Concerted action OF
any kind. In fact, is out of the question.
and almost every official is acting on his
own responsibility, 1t being a physical i'm
possibility to communicate with superior
authorities
Streets Piled High With Ruins.
Every street is piled high with ruins. and
to add to this trouble there is constant
danger from falling walls. On miles OF
stI Gets the front walls Of ruined buildings
still stand swaying with the conclusions Of
distant dynamite explosions and the rising
winds. Frequently a crash Of stone and
brick, followed by a cloud of dust, gives
warning TO pedestrians of the unsafety Of
travel
All manner of reports of death and dis
aster are coming to the temporary held
quarters of the authorities, but these re-
ports are received guardedly. allowances
being made for the likelihood of exaggera-
ton, due to the confusion that prevails in
the stricken city.
Sailors Are Assisting.
A detachment of sailors from one OF the
warships is assisting the f1remen. officers
with drawn pistols are forcing citizens to
work People are leaving their homes and
fleeing to Golden Gate Park and the Pre-
sidio. All night long a constant stream OF
humanity walked the streets to the west.
One hundred thousand people slept out Of
doors Wednesday night, and last night tho
number of homeless reached 100000.
Already there is suffering from lack OF
food and water. San Francisco needs help.
and needs II quick One train got in over
the Valley route from Los Angeles Wednes-
day night with the supreme court on board
No trains are running on the coast route.
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ADvIcEs FROM FUNSTON.
Large Numbers Of People Are Leaving
San Francisco.

The War Department at 4:20 o'clock yes
terday afternoon received a telegram from
Gen. Funston, at San Francisco, saying that
the fire situation was progressing the same
as reported in telegram of 1885,
The War Department later in the after
noon received the following telegram from
Gen Funston at San Francisco:
Latest report regarding railroad COM
munication as follows: Ferry building and
wnarves to the north of Market street in
tact and out of danger. Ferry running reg
uiarly to Sausalito, Ttburon and Oakland
Railroad officials have established offices in
ferry building. Trains now running regu-
iariy via Stockton to east and north Report
Is that regular train service will be kept
up. Large numbers of people leaving by
ferries
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McCalla to Confer With Funston.

Secretary Bonaparte yesterday afternoon
sent the following cablegram to Admiral
McCalla. commander of the Mare Island
navy yard:
cisco, and If deemed desirable. you are au-
thorized to transfer TO him any stores and
provisions of the navy yard. keeping in
view the necessities of the feet Wire daily
quantities transferred"
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other buildings. The scene was terrIbIe.
Bilfows Of fire seemed to roll from half
consumed blocks TO other blocks. The
Spreekles building at Sd and Market streets
looked out of plumb.
4 remained In San Francisco until 8
o'clock and then took ferry for Oakland,
but returned to the burning city an hour
and a half later. | remained a few minutes
then made my way back to the ferry sta
ton. People by thousands were crowded
around. They clawed a the iron gates like
so many maniacs. They sought TO break
the bars. and failing in that turned on each
other. After maddeaing delay we got
aboard the boat and across the bay"
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committee. composed OF James NJ Phelan,
F. w Mailman. Claus Spreckels. j. Dow
ney Harvey, Thomas McGee ]. L. Flood,
william Babcock, w. e. Harm. M. H. De
Young and Robert J. Tobin. Before the
meeting was organized Claus Spreckels gave
go 900; Rudolph Spreckels $1,000; Harry
Tevis. 900; Gordon Handing, $4,000
eleanor Martin. s500o; ]. L. Flood, 5000.
with promise OF more
Committees were appointed to take charge
OF the relief of the destitute. and the work
has already begun and assumed some sys-
tenn.
Golden Gate Park Is the main refuge. and
supplies will be sent there. Boats are be-
ing provided to take people across the bay,
and thousands are awaiting themselves OF
the privilege. The University of California
at Berkeley has volunteered TO take care OF
2.e00.
Mayor Schmitz has appointed his COM
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Everything Possible Done.

Secretary Taft had conference with the
President yesterday afternoon about the
San Francisco disaster. When he came out
Mr. Taft said:
I'VE have done everything we can posi-
bly, do. l am now going to confer with
Secretary Bonaparte of the Navy Depart
ment TO see If we cannot cooperate in the
work of rendering relief to the stricken peo-
pie. l have not received any information
from San Francisco since the last dispatch
from Gen. Funston saying that the entire
city had been destroyed
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Training Station Little Damaged.

The Navy Department yesterday received
the following dispatch from Capt. Perkins,
In command of the naval training station in
San Francisco bay:
Severe earthquake in San Francisco.
City in flames. Have sent medical assistance.
Am in readiness to furnish other assistance
when needed. Mare Island can also furnish
assistance Training station not seriously
damaged"
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MEMORIAL CHURCH, STANFORD UNIVERSITY

dividuals to express their sympathy and
render their aid by contributions to the
American National Red Cross. They can
be sent to Mr.. Jacob II. Schiff New York
Red Cross treasurer, or other local Red
Cross treasurers. to be forwarded by tele-
graph from Washington to the Red Cross
agents and officers in California
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
April 49, 1905"
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first Is always the most severe and usually
followed by successive lesser ones
The San Francisco geological survey Of
flee was moved from there to Los Angeles
and consolidated with the local one only a
few weeks ago.
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ONE MILLION FOR RELIEF.
Congressional Resolution Signed by
the President

The President at o'clock last night
signed the Joint resolution appropriating
81 600 600 for the relief of the sufferers.
Vice President Fairbanks signed the Cali
fornia relief resolution appropriating 81 Co.,
600 for relief at 5:10 O'Clock and 1t was at
once sent to the White House. The Senate,
without discussion agreed TO the amend
ments to the resolution
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THE RELIEF MOVEMENT.
Many Cities Planning Extensive
Measures.

many C1IlOS EiauIllllk E4IGuSlVc
Measures.
Extensive relief measures for the stricken
city Of San Francisco are being planned in
New York. More than half million dol
lars was subscribed yesterday. Many small
contributions were made which have not as
yet been reekoned into total. In addition
to the relief fund.- 1t was announced that
Clarence Fl. Maekay, president of the Pos
tai Telegraph Gable Company. has offered
100000 TO the University of California. II
needed, toward the erection of new build
ings.
Yesterdays contributions came without
any organized effort. Mayor Mcclellan last
night, however, issued proclamation, APP
pointing representative committee OF re-
lief. which will meet and organize today,
when systematic work of securing funds
and handling supplies for the stricken Cali
fornia cities will be begun. The Pennsylva-
MIA and Erie railroads and Wells. Fargo Il
Co. have offered to ship supplies free or
charge
Yesterdays big subscription list was
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Sent Out by the Mayor and the
Governor

The following appeal for aid has been
sent out by Mayor Smith of San Fran
cisco to Gov. Pardee, and shows the destI-
tute condition of the people and their dire
need of food and shelter:
Send all supplies and tents possible to
Golden Gate Park. Have bakeries In small
towns bake all the bread they can. We
want bedding. food and tents
The committee of safety, consisting of
fifty prominent citizens, met with Mayor
Schmitz yesterday and organized finance
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eFIi Union IN my bare feet to telegraph ms
wife In Los Angeles. ] found the teleg-
raphers on duty but all the wires were
down. l sat down on the sidewalk, picked
the broken glass out OF the soles OF mys
feet, and put on my clothes.
.'Ali this, suppose took twenty minuteSs
Within that time below the Palace Hotes
buildings for more than three blocks were
q mass Of flames. which quickly spread Ia
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by St Gaudens. representing the Progress
of Civilization in America. and directly op-
posite this, through the inner quadrangle,
the Stanford Memorial Church. with its
mosaic front depicting the Sermon on the
Mount" This building cost in construction
alone, 81 100000, exclusive Of the mosalcs
and carvings inside and out, and it's marble
statues and art treasures from Europe.
Thanking the memorial arch the larger
structures are occupied by the library and
the zoology building on either side. respect
lively, and between them and the arch on
one side is the University Assembly Hall.
which Is quite a large and wel-equipped
theater. capable of seating as many per-
sons as the Columbia Theater in Wash
ington.
At some distance from the quadrangle
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STANFORD DESTROYED
Great California University
Wrecked by Shock.
BUILDINGS DEMOLISHED
Climax to a Long Series of Misfor-
tunes.
DEEP INTEREST FELT HERE
Estimated That the Losses viii
Amount to Fully Thirty Mil
lion Dollars.
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Alexandria County's Needs.

10 the Editor of The Star:
II Col. r. s. Lacey, who takes exceptions
to communication of mine in your valua-
bic paper, reads my article again he will
discover that l said bad elements of the
population (meaning of the DISTRICT fill up
on intoxicants and cross the river to evade
the police, knowing that the facilities for
enforcing the law on the Virginia side of
tne Potomac are not as perfect as on our
SIDE IL there is any reflection on the good
people OF the Old Dominion in what have
quoted l must confess that l fail to see it,
and would be very sorry to even think
thaL the quotation above cited included Col
Lacey or any other good citizen or official.
oOi s Lacey Is too familiar with the law
ana It's practices to make any misquota-
TONS Intentionally, but from the tone of his
communication 1t would appear to me that
ne rs accusing me of doing what he has
adduced to thoroughly establish the fact
that the lawlessness complained of had
peen perpetrated; that the perpetrators were
In some instances intoxicated and that the
officer at the bridge-no matter whence his
authority came-did just what the article
claimed. Colonel Lacey knows perfectly well
mat there is as much difference between
the government of the District and that OF
Alexandra county as there Is between Chi
nese SILK and the genuine article, and IL he
prefers the latter to the former he is surely
as unfamiliar with our government as he
claims I am with his. The authorities of
that county do as well by It's citizens as its
limited resources will permit. Being near
large city whose population is continually
growing makes greater demands on the po-
lice facilities of the county. A few consta-
bles were sufficient for all the requirements
OF the law few years ago. but the popu-
lation of the national capital Is reaching out
In all directions. and the Virginia side is
no exception TO this inclination. Improve
ments and better facilities for the accom-
mediation of the public are beginning to
branch out in the suburbs. The good cit
liens of Alexandria county adjacent to our
city should have desire TO be benefited by
some of these much-needed improvements.
1t would not look Wen to improve the cap
ital on three sides and let the fourth side
stand as IL was when the Indians possessed
1t In order to acquire the improvements
referred to 1t would, of course, be necessary
to extend the landmarks and paraphernalfa
of the District government to Its former
metes and bounds and then-and not until
then--will the methods OF a hundred years
ago be transformed Into those OF today.
II. r. McCONyEY.
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that Public Printer Stillings may designate
1t will be the duty of the new inspection
service of the official printery to carefully
inspect the machinery, as well as the work
ers in the establishment, with particular
reference to the quantity and the quality
of their work. The output of the machines
will be recorded with the view of determin-
ing whether they are giving the govern
ment the full measure of their capacities.
The department and industry of the en-
ployes will also, it is said, be looked into
by the inspectors, who will have general
supervision of the plant and its several
branches.
Chief Inspector Brown will be member
of the immediate personal staff of Mr.. Still
ings, and will from time to time make
recommendations as to necessary changes
in the office force and equipment.
The new inspector, soon after his arrival,
held conference with the public printer.
Later Mr.. Brown was seen by reporter
of The Star and he briefly discussed the
duties which he will assume in the govern
ment printing office tomorrow morning. HI
said he was well aware that the position
to which he had been appointed was one. of
considerable responsibility but he expressed
determination to give 1t careful attention
and devote to it untiring efforts. He appre-
ciated the compliment which had been paid
him when he was appointed to the place.
Purpose of Mr.. Brown.
Among other things Mr. Brown said: "As
I understand it, my duties in this new posi-
ton will be to assist Mr.. Stillings in main
tanning the highest degree of efficiency in
the government printing. Offices Acting
with him, l am to make thorough inspec-
lions of the printing offices in order that
any weak points, if they exist, may be de-
tected and at once remedied The purpose
is to keep the department upon the highest
business plane.
Political pull had nothing to do with my
appointment" he continued Il have been
informed that l was selected solely with
a view to my practical fitness for the duties
of the position. | am a printer and not a
politician. never having held a political Of
flee in my life.
Upon this point Mr.. Brown seemed anx-
icus to be accurately quoted. He said his
statement was a candid expression of his
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SWINDLER GIVES TROUBLE.
People Warned Against Man Collect
ing Money by False representations.

Because of the continued annoyance by
the colored man who has been styled the
collateral thief" the police have inauyu-
rated house to house canvass for the
purpose of warning people not to give up
money and to have them render assist
ance In the matter of having che man ar
rested. Two calls were made yesterday by
the swindier. At the house of Mrs Emma
Butler. $40 M street northwest. the po-
lice had been ahead OF him and he was
unsuccessful. Mrs. Butler refused to en-
tertain his request for 50 and the caller
hurried away from the house before she
could cause his arrest Later in the day
he called at the house of Mrs. Money. $50
I'D street, and said her husband mad been
arrested and wanted SO TO deposit as col
lateral Mrs. Money thought only cf tho
possibility of her husband being in .roube
and quickly gave the man the amount OF
cash that he requested.
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felt want at the printery, and II IS said
the action of Mr.. Stillings may be followed
by the heads of other government uepart-
ments In arranging emergency rooms IN
their bailiwicks.
DIR. Manning was born in Windsor. Nova
Scotia, and came to Boston when very
young. He received his early education
in the public schools and later attended
Horton Academy. After leaving the acad-
envy he entered st. Joseph's College, and
later served his apprenticeship in the print
Ing business at Boston. He was appointed
in the government printing Office eleven
years ago. and worked at night on the case.
He attended college during the day. AMI
graduated from the National Medical Col
lege of this city. Besides he received pri-
vate instruction from DR.. George Tully
Vaughan Of the Marine Hospital STAFF. and
DR.. John B. Wellington of the Casualty
Hospital stan. He pays frequent visits TO
the various medical clinics in Boston and
New York, and has written scientific artt-
cles for the various professional journals.
DR.. Manning has six children, five Of whom
saw him graduate in medicine. He mar
ried Miss Margaret Esther Doyle of Char
lottestown. p. E. l.: was appointed medi-
cal director al the government printing Of
fee February 8. 1905. the appointment being
non-political.
DIR. Manning says only those cases will
be treated in the emergency room which
arise during working hours. The patients so
treated will be referred to their family
physician should they require further treat.
ment. The emergency room will be mod
ern and complete In all its details.
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of the matter, but after a
reflection, he decided to call Mr..
Stillings who was waiting in the lobby of
the hotel. to ask II the announcement was
proper and correct Mr.. Stillings affirmed
everything that Mr. Brown had said in that
connection. The former stated that the of
flee had been created at his suggestion. 1t
was at his suggestion, also. he remarked,
that the appointment had been made
through the regular channels of the civil
service.
In the fall of 1874 Mr.. Brown, then
boy twelve years of age, called on the edi-
tor of the Oregon Guard and asked for the
position of devil in the office. Mr..
Brown served his apprenticeship and
struck OUT for himself. He worked as
an employee until twenty-one years of age,
when he became publisher. At twenty
four years he sold his newspaper and ac-
cepted a position with Chicago news
paper union as travelling salesman, re-
manning with the concern five years, SELL
ing paper, ink. type and printers machin-
cry. He went to another firm. where he
held the position of city and travelling
salesman for eleven years.
Mr.. Brown was recently engaged with a
big printing press manufacturer In speak
ing of his past and future Mr., Brown says
that during his twenty-eight years in the
printing business he has progressed from
the Washington hand press and Globe job
Der to the rotary web.
Mr.. Brown was born at Broekviile, On
tario, Canada. December 9. 1860.
Treatment of Injured Employees.
Another innovation at the government
printing Office win be put into practical
operation tomorrow. This will be the new
emergency hospital for the treatment OF
Ill or injured employees, recently created
by the public printer, with DIR. william J.
Manning, the printer physician. as medical
director. This institution viii ill a long
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PLEASED WITH PHOTOS
CHINESE DESIRED PICTURES OF
LOCAL SCHOOL WORK.

While visiting the public schools the
Chinese commission, recently here, noticed
in the Franklin building the photographs
taken by Francis Benjamin Johnston to
represent the entire system of school work.
Originally produced in duplicate, the pic
lures were sent in handsome cases TO the
Paris exposition of 1900. One set was re-
tanned by the French government to be
part of the permanent exhibit of the Min
istry of Education. The second set was so
admired by the commission that Mr.. Wan
Bing Chung. secretary TO the imperial
high commission. was instructed to secure
copies of the entire exhibit to be taken 10
China as an illustration of American meth
DDS of public instruction. Three hundred
and fifty photographs We're ordered, incluG-
ing series representing the methods at
West Point and at the Naval Academy.
So enthusiastic were the members of the
commission that they wanted TO know the
entire history of the pictures.
Children in Various Poses.
Miss Johnston had been visited by COM
mittee and asked If she could prepare a
series of photographs illustrating the OBJ
jective system of teaching in vogue In the
Washington public schools. Six weeks was
defined as the limit for the completion OF
the work. 1t was to contain $50 different
studies of the school children in various
poses These classes were all composed OF
from twenty to fifty or sixty pupils, all of
whom were of the most difficult age to be
handled successfully by a photographer.
Miss Johnston posed dozens of children
at once. no two groups anything alike. She
was successful in catching the children in
natural attitudes. and kept them there for
ION five TO twenty seconds, as the nature
of the light demanded. Not only that but
she went through school room after school
fifteen each
working day. She followed them, into art
galleries, into crowded streets and into
woods and dale. TO meet all possible con-
tingencies she always exposed two plates
on each group so that more than eight
hundred negatives were employed in the
short space of six weeks.
AS a result of the interest shown in the
school pictures Mr.. Wan arranged to secure
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81 Cash. SOC. Weekly.

a modern, drop-head Sewing
Machine of standard high-grade
make-a machine that's sold reg
ularlX in the exclusive stores for
$40. 1t Is guaranteed for ten
years and is equipped with full
set of an-nickel attachments.
We've sold this
IN a h | n e right o. -n
cial this week..
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EDDIS. Suddenly, on Thursday, February S 1905.
at 9:I5 PIN, at the Emergency Hospital, Ed
M0ND W. EDDIS. beloved husband of Lizzie
t. Eddis (nee Reilly. Residence, 706 22d
street northwest.
Funeral from his late residence, 700 odd street
northwest. Monday morning, February y az
$3.50 O'Clock. thence st. Stephens Church,
where will be said for the repose Of his
soul. 3
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the photographs OF the two commissioners
the military and naval attaches and other
members of the suite. Not the Least inter-
esting of the series are the pictures of the
secretary himself and of his niece Miss
Soon. who Is characterized as an up-to-date
southern girl based on an oriental founda-
ton.
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John Crimmins, a retired Chicago con-
tractor, Thursday shot his wife and then
shot himself. 1t Is believed his mind was
affected on account of Illness. Crimmins
died within two hours His wife is not ex-
pected to recover.