Gilpin observer., 1906-05-10
To- REBUILD CITY
WHAT is NEEDED TO. RESTORE
SAN FRANCISCO.
SCHEME OF CITY ENGINEER

Rebuilding misunderstanding Wa.
ter Works-Reopening of Banks
Resumption of Business-WiII APP
peal for More Food.
pointed by Mayor Schmitz to discuss
plans for the reconstruction of San
Francisco met Thursday. E. H. Har-
riman was chosen chairman, V. P. Nc
Carthy, vice chairman, and Rufus P.
Jennings secretary.
Mr.. Hartman said:
~ believe that we ought to get to
work. We should talk less and do
more. / don't care il mistakes are
made. 1t is better to be doing some
thing than to remain idle. II you want
me to work, will pay man to do it,
i'll can get him, but if l can not l will
go into the streets and pitch bricks
myself
Mr.. Hartman said that it would be
futile to attempt to raise money unless
it was definitely known to what use
the money would be put. He declared
it would be impossible to go to the
money market with a haZy idea OF
what the money was to be used for.
Mr.. Reuf thought it should be first
decided what amount of indebtedness
the city could carry He wanted to
know what the chances would be il
the city were bonded for a large sum
and whether it would be just to saddle
the great Indebtedness upon future
generations.
City Engineer Woodward came pre-
pared with an elaborate scheme for
the improvement of the burned dis
trict. This scheme provided for wild
ening or extending a large number oil
streets.
No plan has yet been decided upon
for securing funds for the restoration
of this city. Although various
schemes, some of them apparently
feasible, have been submitted to the
general committee, none of them have
been given even the semblance of Of
fetal Endorsement and the local finan
ciers continue to worry over the prob
lem, hopeful that the early future will
produce a solution that will relieve
San Francisco from her great bur
den of municipal individual distress.
Each day at the assembling of the
general and finance committee the
subject has been up for discussion, but
the disposition of those bodies is to
be conservative and cautious. and it is
probable that several of the great cen
ters Of the financial world will be con
suited before any definite proposition
is formulated.
Other than an early morning fire
that threatened the safety of several
hundred patients in the Preside hos
pital to-day passed without special in
cident.
The gigantic task Of cleaning up the
great burned district was commenced
to-day on broader lines. The curtail.
ment of the relief list, together with
the decision Of the police to arrest as
vagrants all able-bodied men without
visible means of support who refuse to
work, has had the effect of removing
many idlers from the streets. and
added materially to the strength OF the
army engaged in municipal houseclean.
| ing.
The larger railroads have made good
progress in running spur tracks into
the burned sections and next week will
begin to remove all useless material,
which will be used in other sections OF
the county for filling and grading.
Although the water supply in the
ruined part Of the city is increasing
| daily, there is not an adequate flow for
use in case of fire and all cooking il
still carried on in the streets.
All the banks resumed business to-
day in their temporary quarters and
reported that at each place the deposits
| exceeded the Withdrawals.
The number of permits issued for the
resumption of retail business grows
larger as each day passes and 500 re-
tailers are now operating in new quar-
| ters. Most Of the larger stores have
commenced to pick up the end Of their
shattered trade and are installed In the
residence section.
Mayor Schmitz has advised against
entertaining any extravagant ideas OF
the Identification of the new city. He
estimated that the replacement OF
, ruined municipal buildings. including
school and fire houses, would alone
cost s10O.OO0,000.
General Greely gave warning to the
finance committee Of the citizens re-
| lief committee this afternoon that he
had only eleven days rations on hand.
that the army could not furnish an
ounce Of food beyond that which has
already been purchased or is In sight,
and that the feeding of the people Is q
problem which demands immediate at
| tention.
| An appeal for food supplies will prob
ably be made to the country at large.
| RELIEF FOR colORApANS.