The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-24

feed. But they are all pitifully thin.
What with tents, barracks, the exodus
10 the rest Of California and the plan OF
\ concentration in the standing houses of the
Western Addition, there will be shelter
for every one by the end of the month
When this is accomplished 1t may he said
that the era of rebuilding is definitely on
The water supply is coming better every
day. Nearly everywhere the order to boil
. drinking water is enforced The sewer
! department may get its mains to gong
NV the time the rain has drained out oil
them.
This morning a force Of workmen, lured
by the offer of double pay and driven by
the guns of the soldiers, went about clean
ting up tine detritus of the streets and parks
and dumping it into the sewer manhoIes
20 get il out of the way before the flow oil
rain water should be over. 1t seems now
that the officers of the army medical depart
ment will win out in their fight against
disease.
VIGILANCE o MM1TTEE FORMED
From all sides come scattering reports OF
movements to get together to enforce oraer
and TO straighten out the city. In the
Golden Gate Valley. near the Preside, the
citizens have formed a vigilance committee
the first since the famous one which cleaned
up the city in 1850. DR.. Donald NJ Gedge
ia president. and Harry Baehr, formerly
Auditor of the city. chief of staff. There
are 1870 members. These are all RESPONSE
BILE men. and the movement seems to be
tacitly approved by the authorities
In the basement of the Sacred Heart School
the Dominican listers have started a de-
tention hospital FOR the insane. \ good
many people with i~ncipient insanity have
been driven violently mad ny the strain
of these few DAYS. Since al the city police
stations have been destroyed the disposal
of these People has been a problem.
MILK SUPPLY KEEPS Up.
Luckily the milk supply Of the city m
from Ma rim county, Just across the bay
and the railroad lines in that direction are
running. Fairly in the game the citizens
committee sent agents to TIE farmers OF
this, district, representing to them the
necessity of fresh milk for the children,
and urging them TO keep up the supply IN
snite of damage by the earthquake. The
Il soldiers seize the milk a. fast as 1t comes
in. and see that it gets TO the children
There was plenty for this purpose yester-
day. and even some to STARE for adults.
STRENGTHENING oUT CAR LINES
The United Railways has a force of men
at work Strengthening out the street car
8 lines. Comparatively few street cars were
lost. Only one of the main car houses
was in the burned district, and the earth
Quake came at a time when only the owl
cars were running.
So when the tracks are in shape, and the
connection made with the lines Of the big
mower companies, the electric lines, which
run to the Mission will he started up 1t
will take longer to repair the plants OF the
cable lines, upon which the Western Add
ton and all the hill country depend for
rapid transit. The cable power houses are
doynand the machinery must be ruined.
The repairing gang found that at the
corner Of Mission and Seventh streets the
earth had sunk away for four feet. Here
thew tore M the tracks and began to grade
& in new earth. This is probably the mrs.
& active work for the recon- tructlon OF Sar
& Francisco. The sight of mon at work or
something except ruins does the eyes good
The cruisers Chicago and Marbleheat
have arrived from San Pedro. and thelI
blueiackets and marines have joi ned thu
patrol o.rv
Nightly singular. things have happened
here. They are now picking money of thu
bus hes in Golden Gate Park. When
small camp Of very poor refugees got w
and st arted to Join the bread line yesterda,
morning a puff of wind blew a piece OF
ereenback into the lap Of one Of the women
She followed the trail to a SPOT under tn
fB bushes, where torn greenhaCk s Law all about
Nh together with scme small change IN
camp got out and hustled. BY noon the,
had 7 ieccd together nearly 81 eco in bills G
large denomination.
Il 1t ma Rave been II sanity with the owne
M Of the | lis, T. it may have been conscience
stimulated 10y the earthquake. | Only tie
the story as it vas told to mo. No on
M here is willing 10 believe that there wa
ever 50 much paper money in San Fran
cisco.
M The barracka in Golden Gate Park will
a series Of buildings $50 feet long and divide
into two room apartments, fifty to the bal
racks. Eight ofthese b%uildingsare completed
The Government will keep on with TIL
work as long as the lumber lasts, or unit
there is no more need of the barracks TT
old, the very young and the feeble will b
accommodated in the eight finished bal
racks tonight.
The poorest people are in the camp
4f4l Fort Mason. They come from the tent
ments Of Telegraph Hill. While the
were very miserable during the night, abo'
H half of them found some kind OF shelte
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