The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-25

fellow citizens all over the land. The root
of this state Of affairs is what San Francisco
has called her magnificent isolation
1t is four or five hours to Sacramento, the
nearest city Of size; and Los Angeles Is
nearly as far away as Charleston from New
York.
There is no heavily populated surrounding
country to draw on or to take up the refugees,
although the State is doing the best it
can; and never. when you consider 1t, did
disaster make a cleaner sweep. 1t struck,
too, the centres Of distribution, and the
very goods which were there to be distrib-
uted. All the elaborate machinery by
which society moves in the modern inter-
dependence Of nan upon a Is broken
down.. One realizes now what a bulky, I'M
wieldy thing Is a city gone wrong.
More than 200 cars Of relief supplies came
in yesterday, mainly from the region west
of Salt Lake City. The givers had sensibly
thought Of a great many things for which
the people Of San Francisco never thought
to ask. The Southern California trains
brought not only food, cooked and I'm
cooked, but complete cooking equipments
for preparing food on a large scale. This
relieved somewhat the embarrassment OF
the department Of supplies, which has had to
resort to all kinds Of makeshifts. More
than half the bread OF yesterday was cooked
in ovens roughly made from the broken
bricks which litter Market street.
The people Of the Northwest thoughtfully
SEN a lot Of cheap furniture, such as beds
and chairs, which will help make the camps
comfortable. The beds vent to the hos
pitfalls, where half the patients have lain
on mattresses. Ships are coming, too,
either with relief supplies or with cargoes
which contain food and comforts, and which
the authorities seize, after making men,
oranda 80 that the owners can be paid.
The energy, the good sense, the courage
with which the army and the citizens have
arranged things are admirable. This chap
ter in the history of California is as dazzling
and wonderful as the story of the %argonauts.
No one would have thought it Of the careless
modern city.
NEW MAIN THoRoUGHFARE.
1t is certain now that Fillmore street will
become a great business thoroughfare,
second only to Market street. 1t has been
a street of residences and Of small shops.
But now the first trolley line is running
through it; all that is left of the city lies out
that way, and houses and small stores are
spoken for as places of business for banks,
agencies and wholesale houses. For months
it will be the new Market street.
The old Market street was deserted to-
day and traffic had to find its way into the
city by side streets. The standing walls
of some of the old, burned buildings were
tottering, and a small shock Of earthquake
which occurred late last night called to
mind the possibility that some of these
walls might fall. With the last explosives
from the Preside the artillerymen went
to work to reduce these walls. Most OF
them were down before nightfall and the
street will be safe tomorrow, The artillery
men were careful to work so that the pave
ment would not be piled up with rubbish
again, for the new Market Street Electric
Lines need it for their lines: and intelligent
work kept most of the rubbish from the
streets.