The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-07-07
TRYING TO QUEER
A STRICKEN CITY
Efforts Made to Keep Capital
Away from San
Francisco.
COAST CITY, HOWEVER,
WILL BE REBUILT
Sailors Strike Is Retarding
Work Now, as No Lumber
Is Arriving.

F. W. Bennary of San Francisco Is
a guest at the Kenyon, just In from
the coast city and full of enthusiasm
for her courageous people. Speaking of
things there now, from a personal
knowledge, he said
"Carpers and knockers are still try
ing to queer San Francisco. II it Is
not the fellow who failed TO get insur-
ance, II is sure to be the other fellow
who did get his insurance and has not
the courage to begin over again and
work up with the new city. We also
have knockers from all parts of the
compass Seattle and other sound
towns pray we may not fall, and seem
to hope we may. All of this is borne
by our people with good grace, and 1T
really nerves them to go ahead
Yes, we have the bread line yet, but
II Is growing smaller all the time and
beautifully less.
Frctted Under Martial Law.
THE saloons? Well. If you wanted
to know how great a place saloons
have in the public mind. you ought
to see the strings of people present
when they opened. Why, II was like
the opening of some great playhouse.
The far-seeing men In control feel II is
high time that law should be loosened
and natural inclination allowed fair
IldNs Hc ptoPlS nave llelteu
martial and rigid civic laws until II
was plain to the men In control some
thing must be done to bring the people
to feel that they were entitled to some
rights. While there are scorea of un-
ruly people I'm such a mob, there are
thousands of aw-abidinS men also,
and the collar was getting heavy on
these latter ones.
Strike of Sailors.
The sailors strike? That is the
worst of all. Everybody is crying for
lumber. and there is no way to get il
but by these steam schooners, and
when they are tied up the trade is
virtually lost. There are a few sailing
craft that make a f1ve-week trip to the
sound, but they cannot begin to sup
ply the demand. The case Is SO serious
that the city authorities Will compel a
settlement by one side or the other
We had an experience on the train
coming UP that goes to show how the
sharper still works the sympathetic
public, A man and woman, both well
dressed canvassed our train for sub
scriptions for an old man In one of the
tourist cars who, they said, was going
home to die. and needed money to help
him on. He lost all his friends and
was penniless, etc. Now. the people on
| that train were just from the city and
did not take kindly to the thing. Some.
of course. gave them money, but others
of US watchd the thing through, and
saw them go to their car and quiet
! ly put the money In their own pockets,
| laughing at their success. A commit
| tee Of three of us read the not act
| to them then and there and took the
money and returned it to Its donors,
| If the man had been alone In the trick
/ firmly believe he would have been
| thrashed by that excited committee.
Cared for at Home.
II tell you my friend, that helpless
| people are kept and cared for in San
| Francisco, and the man or woman who
| begs on the cars or in the streets Is
not deserving. II he or she begs in the
name Of loss al San Francisco"