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The Elbert County tribune., 1906-04-26

appreciation of the friendliness shown
by Europeans:
The president deeply appreciates
your message of sympathy and desires
me to thank you heartily for the kind
offer of outside aid. Although de-
clining. the president earnestly wishes
you to understand how much he APP
preciates your cordial and generous
sympathy"
The question of an additional ap-
preparation to meet the expense of the
work of the government in rushing
supplies to San Francisco and allevi-
ating distress in that quarter will be
brought to the attention of congress
Saturday. 1t was announced Friday
night that the war department has
forwarded to San Francisco one mil
lion rations days rations), some of
which has already arrived there and
most of which is due there Friday
night; tentage for $4,000 people has
been forwarded
Washington, d. c., = The house
Thursday appropriated S1,000.O0O for
the suffering and homeless in San
Francisco and other California towns
and gave the secretaries of war. treas
ury. navy and commerce power to CO.
operate with the mayors of the strick-
en- cities that the very best results
might be obtained In affording relief.
The resolution later passed the senate
and was signed by President Roose-
welt.
Washington, d. c., - President
Roosevelt, after a conference with
Miss Mabel Boardman, of the Ameri-
can National Red Cross, Thursday
issued. in the form of proclamation.
an appeal to the American people for
aid for the people of San Francisco.
He asked that all contributions be
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-04-26
LOOKING UP MoNrooMpnY STREET

LOOKING UP MONTGOMERY STREET
But these were the men and women
of the surface. Far beneath the street
levels in those collars and passage
ways were other lives. Women, who
never saw the day from their darken-
ed prisons. and blinking jailors were
caught like rats In huge trap. Their
very bones were eaten by the flames.
And now there remain only the
holes. They pit the hillside like .
multitude Of ground-swalIow nests.
They show depths which the police
never knew. The secrets of those bur-
rows will never be known, for into
them the hungry fire first sifted its
red GOALS and then licked eagerly in
tongues of creeping flames, finally
obliterating everything except the
earth itself"
New York, N Y, = Ofcers of
the large fire insurance companies
having their headquarters In this city
announced Thursday that losses by
earthquake were not included in the
fire insurance policies written for Cal
ifornia, and that such Losses could not
be allowed. even IL tho companies
were SO inclined, for tho reason that
the laws of New York state prohibited
it. The rulings on the losses by fire,
however, will, It is said, be broad, tho
insurance companies apparently agree
ing that to draw tho lines with any
severity. whatsoever would be ex-
tremely unwisc In the face of such
an appalling disaster where the suf-
fering Will no doubt be widespread
William c. Robb, secretary OF the
New York board of underwriters, said
that all the buildings which have been
dynamited win have to be settled for
by the insurance companies, since the
statutes Of the state of California. re-
gardleSs Of whether the statement II
included in the policy or not. provide
that the insurance companies are LA
BILE for the damage done by dyna-
mite.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-04-26

ands of the homeless were making
their way with their blankets and
scant provisions to Golden Gate Park
and the beach to find shelter. Those
in the homes ON the hills just north
of the Hayes Valley wrecked section
piled their belongins in the streets
and express wagons and automobiles
were hauling the things away to the
sparsely settled regions.
Downtown everything is ruin. Not
business house stands. Theaters
are crumbled into heaps. Factories
and commission houses lie shoulder
ing on their former sites. All of the
newspaper plants have been rendered
useless
1t Is estimated that the loss in San
Francisco will reach from $150, ,000,-
900 to s20O.00O,O00. These figures are
in the rough and nothing can be told
until partial accounting is taken.
On every side there was death and
suffering. Hundreds were injured,
burned, crushed or struck by falling
pieces from the buildings and one Of
them died while on the operating ta-
BILE at Mechanics Pavilion, improvised
as a hospital for the comfort and
care of 300 injured. The Number of
dead Is not known, but 1t is estimated
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-04-26

collapsed with every occupant. There
was no warning Of the awful catas-
trophe. First came slight shock fol-
lowed almost Immediately by a second
and then the great shock that sent
buildings swaying and tumbling. Fire
broke out Immediately. Every able
bodied man who could be pressed into
service was put to work rescuing the
Victims Panic seized most of the
people and they rushed frantically
about. Toward the Ferry building
there was a rush Of those fleeing to
cross the bay. Few carried any effects
and some were hardly dressed. The
streets were filled Immediately with
panicstricken people and the frequently
occurring shocks sent them into un-
reasoning panic. Fires lighted up the
sky in every direction in the breaking
dawn. In the business district devasta-
ton met the eye on every hand. 1t
is said that two ships at anchor In the
bay were sunk.
San Francisco, CAL, - Thursday
dawned on a scene of death and de-
struction. During the night the
flames had consumed many of the
city's finest structures and skipped in
a dozen directions to the residence
portions. They had made their way
over into the North Beach section
and springing anew to the south they
reached out along the shipping Sec
ton down to the bay shore, over the
hills and across toward Third and
Townsend streets. Warehouses, whole
sale houses and manufacturing con-
Germs fell in their path. This COM
pleted the destruction of the entire
district known as the South Of Mar
ket street" How far they are reach
ing to the south across the channel
cannot be told as this part of the city
Is shut on. After darkness thous-
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-04-26

ports here Thursday show that ten
people were killed in the earthquake.
The hall of records is destroyed as we'll
as the hall of justice. All the main
buildings are badly damaged. r. H..
Tucker, in charge of the Lick Observa-
tory, says: mo damage was done to
the instruments or the buildings of
the observatory by the earthquake"
San Francisco, Cal.,-The fol
lowing appeal for aid has been sent
out by Mayor Schmitz to Gov. Pardce
and shows the destitute condition of
the people and the city's 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 bed
ding. food and tents"
Washington, D. c., Every
branch of the government service
from the president down, is bending
every effort to bring to the arth-
quake sufferers speedy relief. The
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-04-26

ed with coffee and sugar: two cars
OF crackers and breakfast foods:
two cars OF bacon. two cars of eges;
one car of canned meats; two cars Of
potatoes; two cars OF canned corn,
peas and tomatoes; two cars of pro-
visions to be contributed by the
Manufacturers association; one car of
blankets and comforts; two cars of
bottled spring water.
The Santa Fe railroad will haul
the train without cost from Kansas
City to San Francisco. and will rush
II through.
Both the Union Pacific and tho
Rock Island railroads made the sams
San Francisco.
w. p. Trickett. commissioner of
the Kansas City Bureau of Trans
portation. will go with the train
and will see that the food goes to the
needy.
Los. Angeles. Cal. Strange Is
the scene where San Francisco's Chi
natown Stood" says W. W. Overton,
"ho itttntu LOS Angeles frlUHt
among the refugees. mo heap OF
smoking ruins marks the site of the
wooden warrens where the slant
eyed men of the Orient dwelt in
thousands. The place Is pitted with
deep holes and scared with dark pas
sageways from whose depths come
smoke wreaths. All the wood has
gone and the winds are streaking
the ashes
While men never knew the depth
of Chinatown's underground CITY,"
says Mr.. Overton. they often talked
of these subterranean runways And
many of them had gone beneath the
street levels, two and three Stories
But now that Chinatown has been
unmasked, for the destroyed build
ings We're only mask. men from tho
hillside have looked on where its
inner secrets lay. In places they can
see passages 100 feet deep.
THE fire swept this Mongolian sec
ton clean. 1t left no shred of the
painted wooden fabric. It ate down
to the bare ground and this lies stark,
for the breezes have taken away the
light ashes. Joss houses and mis-
sion schools. grocery stores and opl-
um dens. gambling hells and thea
ters-all of them went. The build
ings blazed up like tissue paper
lanterns when the guttering candles
touched their sides.
From this place. l. following the
fire. saw hundreds of frightcrazed yel-
low men flee. In their arms they bore
their opium pipes their money bags.
their silks and their children. Be-
side them ran the baggyj yjtrousered
women. and some of them hobbled
painfully.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-04-26

San Francisco, Cal, = San Fran
cisco Thursday night was the city
desolate. IL seemed that the acme of
its misery was reached at dusk. when
flames burst from all sides of the
beautiful Hotel Fairmont. the palace
that above every other structure was
apparently most strongly entrenched
against the attack of the all-consum-
ing fire. And surrounding that lofty
pinnacle of flame, as far as the eyes
could see to the south. to the east and
far out to the west lay in cruel fan
tastic heaps charred and smoking all
that remained of prosperous city.
The metropolis of the western slope
was in ashes.
Thursday had been another day of
an uneven struggle of man against
unconquerable element of nature. Acre
after acre has been ground into dust
and ashes. despite the heroic perse-
verance of the iiremen to limit the
confiagration. Thursday night there
was hope that the worst has been
nearly reached and that when Fri
day dawns the end will have come
but the hope is faint indeed. II the
flames can be barred in their devas-
tation of the western addition then
"hnis will be written to the great dis
aster
But San Francisco is not discour-
aged. Its best and highest class has
already begun to plan for restoration
and to care for the stricken ones and
the relief will be immediate Total
subscriptions of slS0.000 were an
nounced- Arrangements were made
for the immediate relief of the needy.
The baking of $4,000 loaves of bread
daily will begin Friday. Free trans
portation will be provided by the
Southern Pacific to destitute persons
desiring to go to interior points.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-04-26

san Francisco, Calf - Thousands
upon thousands of people We're fleeing
from the fire Thursday. They are
fioclSing to the ferries, to the parks to
the military reservation and to the
suburbs Residents of the hillsides IN
the central portion of the city SEEM
ingly were safe from the roaring fur
mace that was consuming the business
section. They watched the towering
mounds of flame and speculated as 10
the extent of the territory that was
doomed. Suddenly there was whis-
pered alarm up and down the long line
of watchers and they hurried away To
drag clothing, cooking utensils and
scant provisions through the streets
From Grant avenue the procession
moved westward. Men and women
dragged trunks, packed huge bundles
OF blankets, boxes of provisions-ev-
erythicS. Wagons could not be hired
except by paying the most extortion-
ate rate.
But there was rn panic. The peo
pie are calm. stunned. They seem not
TO realize that the city is destroyed in
- fSa ee'' p'DihNoo PidhlS COn-
cerned; they tell each other in the
most natural tone that their residen-
ces were destroyed by the flames, but
there is no hysterla, no outcry, no crit.
icism.
San Francisco, Calf = A wind of
high velocity was late Friday night
blowing from the northwest over the
fire-stricken districts and the water
front threatening the cutting off Of
communication with Oakland and
Berkeley. General Castor has order
ed out squadron of men TO endeavor
to keep the flames which threaten the
Union Ferry station, the only means
of egress from the city from being
destroyed.
The water front emergency hospital
was endangered and the officials in
charge were prepared to move from
their quarters. The wind was of such
velocity that brick and granite walls,
weakened by the earthquake and the
subsequent fire. were falling into the
streets. Market street, the principal
avenue of escape from the city to the
ferry may be blocked up thus shutting
off practically the only means of es-
cape.
Hoped to Save One-Fourth.
San Francisco, Calf = The fire
was at noon Friday positively stated
to be under control, with the proba-
bility that one quarter of the city ly-
ing west of Franklin street and known
as the western addition northward to
the Preside will be saved. The stand
made at VanNess avenue was general
ly successful, the flames crossing that
avenue to the west in but few places.
The strongest fire at noon Friday was
toward north beach. east of VanNess
avenue, but will be controlled
San Francisco, Calf. - The people
of San Francisco, homeless and starv-
ing, are facing the awful calamity
which has overtaken them and liter
ally swept the great city of which all
were SO proud practically out of ex-
istence. with spirit of resigned forti-
tude which must command the ad-
miration of the world at large. There
are no evidences of weakness to be
seen among the crowds of stricken
people moving back reluctantly upon
aah I,~a -. u n
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-15
Nearly Forty Years Ago,

Dr Pierce discovered that chemically pure glycene Of
proper strength is better solvent and preservalve OF the
active medicinal principles residing in most OF our 1ndig
enous or native medicinal plants than is alcohol AS Its
use is entirely unobjectonable while alcohol as is we'll
known when used in small portions, for protracted
period does lasting injury to the human system espe-
cialy in the case of delicate women and children.
He found that the gycerine, besides being entirely
harmless possesses intrinsic medicinal properties OF great
value. Its nuritve properties Dr Fierce oeeVes 1ar
surpass those of codiver OIL emitting it to favorable con-
sideraton in all of ncpient consumption especially
when is combined with the active medicinal principles
extracted from Black Cherrybark Queens root Stone
root Golden Seal root and Bloodroot in his ready
put-up medicine the wGoden Medical Discovery" Be
sides its superior nurtve properties, gycerine is
very valuable deiulcent and thereby greatly enhances
the remedial action of all the foregoing roots In the
cure of severe coughs, bronchial, throat laryngeal
and other kindred affections of the airPassages and
lungs. In all "wastng diseases" where there is
loss of flesh and gradual "running down" OF the sys
tem the gycerine certainly plays an important part
m 1essenng the breaking down and wasting OF tissue
and in promoting assimilation and increase of bodily
weight It is, in Dr. Pierce's estimation, powerful
reconstructve agent in all of impaired vitality and
especially valuable when associated and combined with
snch superior alternatives and tonics as in "Goden Med
al Discovery" Its wonderful solvent properties also
play important part in the of gasones, severe
constipation with dry and almost mpacted stools. Gly
cerne also of the very best anti ermens and as
such conteracts the excessive fermentation of foods in
the stomach present in most OF indigestion or dys
pepsa Thus the pain beching OF noxous gas bloat1ng
and other dsagreeable symptoms and the
Stone root Golden Seal root Boodroot and other ngre
dients of vGolden Medical Discovery" greatly
sisted in their action in completing AS will be
seen from the writings of Drs Bartholow King Scudder
Coe Engwood and other high authorities these agents
confidently be depended upon for the most positive,
curative action in all atomic weak states of the sto
ach accompanied with distressing indigestion dyspep
sa Read from the writings of the authorities quoted
under headings of Golden Seal root Stone root, Black
Cherrybar Bloodroot Queens root and Mandrake root
and you will find that all these ingredients
mended remedies for indigestion dyspepsia. All
ingredients of vGoden Medical Discovery" combined in
such proportions that each enhances the curative action
of all the others.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-15
MISS SUTTON MAY DEFAULT
Woman's Tennis Champion Declines
to Defend Title at Private Expense

1t has been definitely settled that
Miss May Sutton will not go to Eng
land this summer and defend her title
as tie woman tennis champion of the
world unless she goes as the repre-
sentative of America and not at her
private expense.
The young woman has decided that
she will not pay out of her private
funds the $3.50 or $1,000 necessary for
her to make the trip and defend the
title unless immediate action is taken
by citizens and sportsmen who glory
| in the honor attached to the possession
by an American girl of the world S
championship the title will return to
England or revert to the former cham
pion, Miss Douglas of London, whom
Miss Sutton defeated for the honors.
1t is not improbable that such action
will be taken forthwith, as the Country
club of Los Angeles has under con-
sideration the proposition of under
taking the matter of raising the neces-
essary money to send Miss Sutton to
England for purely patriotic reasons.
| The subject has been unofficially dis
cussed by local trade and business or
| ganizations, but no action has been
| taken as yet and it is deeemd rather
out of their jurisdiction. Z
However, in view of the fact that
| Miss Sutton is the worlds champion
and would probably remain such if she
made defense of her title, it is consid-
cred probable that the funds will be
Forthcoming and that she will go to
England in June to play in the cham
pionship tournaments.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-15
BILLIARD EXPERTS MATCHED
William Mcguire and Frank Remission
Begin Play Tomorrow Night, VIM
ner to Meet G. w. Kennedy

William Mcguire of San Francisco
and Frank Remission of Los Angeles
will begin play in a series of three
games at 14.2 Billiards, balk line to-
morrow night at Henry Berrys Hoff-
man parlors on Spring street.
This series will be qualifying series,
the winner being matched to meet
George w. Kennedy, who recently won
the balk line championship of South
ern California.
Three games will be played, begin
ming tomorrow night. The Monday
and Tuesday night games will be 300
points each and the Wednesday night
game will be 400 points.
The winner and Kennedy will meet
in championship contest two weeks
later at Berry's parlors in series of
games at 1000 points for the champion
ship held by Kennedy.
Mcguire is one of the most expert
cue artists on the coast, and the balk
line game is his particular style. He
and Kennedy have played in matches
and Kennedy earned a great amount
of praise and fame by winning from
Mcguire.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-15

Of the cardiac hea nerves, with rapid regular irregular
Prof Maera Medica Hahnemann Medical College, Chicago
Wm Paine NJ. D., Author of Paines Eptome of Medicine,
New School Practice of Medicine and OF the Medical Properties
and of Concentrated Medicines writing of Consonn 1.-THE
active medicinal principle residing in Colnsona Canadensis
Stone root e." not long SINCE had patient who was SO
much oppressed with vavuar disease OF the heart that his
friends obliged to carry him upstairs He however,
gradually recovered under the influence of Consonn and
mo NOW ing ito bis @ 90 @ SIC
maady With them it all work, and it fearuly
warned the afflicted that death was near at hand Conson
unquestonaby affords relief in such and in most instances
effects cure He further "In of persistent asoes
(drop where the ordinary remedies fail to afford anything
more than temporary relief Cononn produced permanent
cure"
Prof Scudde d. histreatise entitled rspecifc
Medication" says "Colnsona (So6e root) is specific in
ministers throat chonic aryngits" He continues
ut proves beneficial in other of chronic aryngit in
chronic bronchitis phthsis (consumpton aaying ira
ton checking cough favorable influence
upon the digestive processes improving the Appetite facilitating
of the urinary tract regard of the most direct and
valuable agents of the Materia Medica and that @ gu
satisfaction to WhOe0er employs it,"
The above strong endorsements OF of the most valu
able ingredients contained in "Goden Medical Discovery"
Colinsonia Stone root. Its virtues however
extoed attest from and observation
in watching the beneficial action of the "Dcovey" in heart
affections laryngit bronchitis, incpient CONSUMPTION and
other ailments noted above
feebled muscular structure the heart and has direct influence
atomic (wea and daed otherwise impaired conditions
trits where the circulation defective either alone
bned with hydasts is of first Importance They increase the
appetite and greatly improve the digestion and assimilation of
tood GOOD for rectal pains and piles OF the pregnant
Is heart tonic of direct and permanent influence Excellent in
the bicycle heart in rheumatic inflammation and cergymans
sore throat."-F. Elingwood, M. D.
REMARKS. We can refrain at this point, from calling
attention the wonderfully beneficial effects produced by Stone
in vaular and other diseases of the heart described by
Drs Paine Hale and Engwood The latter it will be noted
says "s direct and influence
He especially recommends for the socaed "bcyce heart