The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-05-04
Story ofthe Fourth Day

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SAN FRANCISCO, Saturday, Apri
21.-Saturday morning broke raw ant
chill over the ruins of San Francisco
but hope came in with the dawn. The
! ferry building looming through the fog
still possible and the city open to helI
from the outside world
| At midnight the fire, doubling bach
through the North Beach district, was
| shadow of Telegraph Hill and threaten
! ing to make clean sweep Of the water
| front from Broadway to Mission. The
remnant of the fire department massed
| along the wharves. Seventy-two hours
without sleep, the brave fellows rallied
once more. They were fighting to keep
| the city open and save the ferry slips
from destruction Tank cars contain
ing oil were tumbled into the bay,
buildings were pulled down, every man
did two mems work. But it was not
until the wind shifted that the fight
was won. The flames turned back in
time to save the wharves. BY day
break the danger from fire was over and
the fremen dropped beside their black
ened engines.
The vast encampment in Golden Gate
Park was astir early this morning. All
the open space has been utilized; as
far as the eye can reach the lawns are
covered with rude shelter tents
Women wrapped in costly opera cloaks
shivered over small fires while the men
went out to forage for frewood OF join
the long bread lines on Eddy street.
The most amazing thing-tbe thing
which strikes every newcomers the
spirit of these homeless people. They
make a Jest of misfortune-they turn
calamity into wayside comedy.
One man managed to save a small
upright piano. How he ever got it into
the Park Panhandle is mystery. Seat
ed on cracker box he gives impromptu
ragtime concerts and his favorite selec
ton is . Home Amt Nothing Like
This And the hundreds of homeless
ones within the sound of the piano seem
to appreciate the grim joke.
At the Stanyan street entrance a
woman has erected tent-fonr sticks
with damask tablecloth spread over
them. Her furnishings consist of sew
eral articles of wearing apparel tied in
a sheet and canary cage. Over the
hangs a sign g Y our Fortune
Told Here Cheap"
MAKING A TRAGEDY
INTO A COMEDY.
One man has built tepee of ever
green boughs and he sits inside, the
proud possessor of the only silk hat in
5he Panhandle and a banjo with broken
strings. Three days ago that man had
| wife and comfortable home. Now
lie toasts bacon over a fire and eats it
With his fingers. If he can locate his
wife he will be perfectly happy.
One very prominent woman, in an
expensive tailor-made costume, sadly
tained and torn, had lost her little1
,irl.
81 do not think anything has hap
,ened to her, said she, hopefully.
She is almost II years old and some
ne would be sure to take her in and |
are for her. / only want to know
where she is That is all [ care about
ow'
Two race track men met in the drive
Tat.
''Hullc Bill, where are you living
ow?' asked one. i,
''You see that tree over there-that
ig one?' said Bill. 'WelI, you climb I
hat and my room is in the top branch
} the left, and they went away laugh
IL.
Another man wanted TO know wheth- !
+ the fire had reached his home. He
as informed that there was not L
ouse standing in that section of the
ty He shrugged his shoulders and c
histled. ''There's lots of us in the L
,me boat said he as he turned away. c
And these men who have lost every
hing are planning to begin all over
gain. Q
''Going to build?'' asked one man, [
no lost fortune and home inside of two
ours. '|Of course [ am. They tell
e that the money in the banks is all Z
zen wears ago / began with show
y his hands, "and | guess IN game L
do it over again. Build again? [
ell, / WONDER
These little things show the spirit c
it'll which the people of San Fran "
,sci have faced the worst that the s.
ties could send. They are down but
3t out. Il
The park is under military control.
rmed guards are everywhere, and
lille there have been hundreds of ru u
ors of shooting because of 1awless O
It's, actual cases are very rare. a
At 1880 all fires must be extinguished Il
the park. One negro lit cigar and ST
fused to put it out when ordered to it
, so. Put it out or / IL shoot it