Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-04-25
SOUNDS OF BUILDING
WILL SOON Be HEARD
Reconstruction Arrangements
Rapidly Crystalizing.
ToTTERINe WALLS DYNAMlTEI

NCW ilSSO III T1ISh SAdJNS VI SRt
ing From Ashes of OId-Compete
Order Seems To Be Established and
Attention Is Turned to the Future.
San Francisco, April 24.-Arrange-
ments for the reconstruction of new
and greater San Francisco are rapidly
crystallizing and soon the sounds of
building will be heard in every block
of the devastated districts.
A large squad of artillerymen assist
ed by the municipal authorities have
dynamited all the ttotering buildings
and walls. This work has SO far been
confined to Market street in order to
open a safe artery from the outlying
district to the water front. The dis
trict north of Market street and the
business section will receive the same
treatment after Market street is clear.
A commission last Sunday investi-
gated all the buildings left standing
upon the main thoroughfares of the
devastated city 1t was ascertained
that nearly all the steel frame struc-
lures had withstood the earthquake,
and although in almost every instance
they had been gutted, the fire loss was
confined principally to the contents.
The action of the Humboldt bank,
which will at once erect a new build
ing IL stories in height, may be cited
as typical of the spirit of reconstruc-
tion prevailing here.
Two months ago, plans were select
ed and contracts let for the building,
and steel for the construction is at
ready on the way west from the east.
Yesterday orders were given to go
ahead with the work of building. Build
expenditure of every possible energy
that money can purchase for the con-
Struction of the building.
The site is on the south side of Mar
ket street, 100 feet east of Fourth.
The site cost 100000, and is held by
its owners to have every cent of it's
original value today. The building will
cost $500,O00. The construction will
be steel and terra Gotta, a construc-
ton that has stood the test by fire and
earthquake. The whole habitable por-
ton of San Francisco has been organ
lied and districted for sanitary in
spection purposes in the most thorough
manner. There is no longer danger
of epidemic, because the health depart
ment, working with the military, Is
prepared to handle anything of the sort
before it could become threatening.
The embargo on merchant vessels
has been removed and shipping can
now be moved as usual. For the past
few days vessels of the Pacific squad
ron have been keeping vessels from
the east from the port, but this re-
striction has been removed by orders
from Admiral Goodrich, commander-in-
chief of the Pacific squadron, to the
commissioner of the port.
The full extent of the injury sus-
tanned by the big fort is as yet un-
known, as the engineering corps only
can disclose the full extent of the
damage.
Some of the placements of the big
guns have been cracked and twisted.
Some of the heavy concrete in the bot
tom and in the walls of the emplace-
ments bear unmistakable evidence of
having been given bad shaking up.
Conditions are said to be equally
bad at the Notifications back of old
Fort Point. AS it is now, the great
13-inch guns on both sides of the gate
constituting the main defense, are
practically useless. They weigh sew
eral tons each, but their adjustment
on their carriages Is as delicate as
that of watch. The earthquake de-
stroyed this, and it is believed it will
take considerable time and much labor
| before the big guns are in a condition
to do the execution they were intended
to do. The Lime Point batteries
stand out on an imenss bluff, tower.
ing hundreds of feet above the bay
The shock there was exceedingly Sc
we're, and is believed to have injured
the fortihoations at this point more
than elsewhere.
|
| and vaults in many buildings in the
burned district, says that the vaults
of the banks are all right, but that II
will be several days before they car
/ be opened on account of the heat. The
safes, which are covered by debris
will not be opened until perfectly cold
The big fire has obliterated China
town from San Francisco forever. May
or Schmitz informed Chief Of Police
Dinau Monday night that all of the
Chinese now in the city would be col
lected and placed in or near Fontana's
| warehouses near Fort Mason, and thai
the new Chinatown would be located
at Hunters Point on the southern ex
tremity Of the county on the bay shore
1t Is several miles distant from the
old Chinatown. All Chinese who have
left the oity and who return later, will
be concentrated at the new points.
The refugees are rapidly thinning
out of Golden Gate park and the Pan
handle. The police estimated tha
1000 people left the park Monday, ant
there are about 5000 left The rair
had little depressing effects on TN
spirits of the people seeking shelter
in the tents. A company of soldiers
was sent from Fort Mason Tuesday
morning to guard the va1uts at the Ma
sonic cemetery, where the papers from
the hall Of records are stored.