Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-05-02
lions, and relief for them will very
soon be cut off completely.
A FORTUNE IN SYRUP.

There's one at Alyiso. Alameda coun-
~, 1t isn't mapt syrup, but that
which IL made from beets on their way
through the sugar factory and the
lake tells just how one little fortune
oozed away like water from a broken
glass. The Alameda sugar factory IS
declared here to be the oldest beet SUI
gar factory IN the world. Its proprietor
was pioneer. and az lis business
spread he built biz watts or tanks 10
contain the syrup. These flled IN
area Of an acre or more and We're gall
vanlzed iron affairs erected on piles
When the earthquake came. the piles
Jared badly ana the syrup spilled out.
Below was q low land into which the
laws Of gravity collected 4 lake Of syr-
up.
AN HONEST CONFESSION
The owner Of the mill isn't cussins
fate. He is going after his Judgment
Now the foundation OF those tanks"
he argues. was built for tanks holding
100000 gallons " syrup. The last crop
OF hoets was heavier than usual and
the syrup increa sed In quantity. !
oughtn't 10 have taken the risk, but
did and nov I ought to be kicked II
was my fault they tumbled in-nOt the
earthquakes. Do you know J was fool
enough 10 run 20 900 600 gallons OF syrup
into thosc tanks. and got just what
deserved when the earthquake camt
along
This is a day for honest confessions,
aud the sugar mans was only one OF a
thousand that come up from all quar-
tors.
A BOYCoTTED FIRM
Goldberg. Bowen & CO. is firm
OF San Francisco merchants. and the
treatment IT got and Is getting from
the San Francisco public Is n great les
son IN the advantage Of having mill
tant. and Warlike public, acting In uni
son under what Is called the stress of
public opinion. The manager of the
Goldberg company sold a dozen eggs
for $3.50 Wednesday morning, April rs.
He got the money, and rampant pub
lie got him. First his store was confis-
cated-nut lOotef-and every article In
II was given away. by force of
guards, acting under orders from the
mayor. Now the Goldberg company IN
their big Oakland branch have flung a
banner, making public apology. side
stepping the blame putting Il on the
local manager and declaring they
wouldn't do il again for worlds. Also
they are on the relief lists FOR dona-
tons, and nobody would be caught
buying anything from them. Their
store is empty all the time, which is
the whyfor of the repentance.
ANOTHER INSTANCE.
The crisis made mean men meaner as
II made good men better and today in
San Francisco the mcanness Of whom
no h.t n Cd
20 his opportunities Is made manifest In
the public print, and he is condemned
from one end of Fillmore street to the
other, which means through the new
center Of town The captain OF the
:. :. Mongolia Is such man. He
wasn't good to- the steyedores, They
worked for Hartman, and lived south
Of Market. As the fire swept out their
homes, they rushed their families To
the company docks on the north water
front. where the Mongolia, a company
steamer. lay alongside and they rushed
their wives and children aboard, after
being refused permission by the cap
tain to do so, his language being that
his steamer was mo cheap boarding
house and they must take their people
elsewhere
HARTMAN DOCKS SAVED.
The Hartman lines didn't lose their
docks. for those stevedores fought Ike
demons to stop the fire. and when the
hour Of peril was over all that re-
mained In that vicinity was the H9r-
rimar docks. The Mongolia steamed
back 10 the docks in the first hour Of
safety. and the exhausted. starving
stevedores. who had made the winning
fight. had their wives and children
dumped upon the saved Wharves, un-
der the direct eyes and orders OF me
captain. The public knows the Who'll
story nov. and the Mongolia and its
captain were very glad To turn tail and
get away from the port. II he lasts
long I'm his place, It will not De because
his chief has not heard plenty about
what he did.
rs A MARKED MAN.
Another such man is the railway
agent at Niles. A woman refugee WIN
a babv asked permission to use the
station telephone TO connect with
friends In neighboring town, To ASK II
she could obtain entertainment mere
re said no. she'd have TO 90 DOWN 10
a public station half a MALE GHay' ana
when she said the train wouldn stop
there long enough for that, ana II she
couldn't be accommodated there she
must 60 on further 70 the homes oil o'her
frIends. ne said that was no affair OF ms
and she had TO make the trip. losing uer
train and chance TO 10 on furtheE
People who heard the c"nVersSu.uu
saw that she was taken care or ana the
station agent at Niles is marked man
IN that village.
YELLOW PRESS AGENT,
The man from the Yellow press Is tne
latest arrival on the scene OF action he
Is ambassador from the World selected
TO write M the final word on the catas-
trophe commissioner from the American
sent out TO turn loose all his hights OF
arid fancy over the ruins and MAKE
something more ghestly tnan sne Wl,
tering heaps themselves. You ma hlH
bursting with Importance into the o.
Aces OF Gen. Funston, who has trou-
bles Of his own at Fort Mason. or 'ly
ing to get himself photographed III an