The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-04-25
Chinese Fare as Well at the
Hands of Relief Committees
as Whites or Blacks.
San Francisco People Feel Hurt Over
the Action of the President Regard
ing Congressional Fund.

San Francisco, April 24.-This was
the seventh day since the earthquake
Jared the city so severely and started
the fires that laid it in ashes. and, as
with the preceding days, Tuesday took
up the accumulated impetus of Mon
day and added such volume of force
of fits own that Wednesday will dawn
on a situation that is long way to-
wards the normal. Such marts of trade
as remain unburned were opening for
the transaction of ordinary business,
temporary structures were being run
up for the accom- mediation OF others,
clearing Of the devastated area of its
ruins was we'll under way, the inquiry
into the condition of the bank vaults
was completed, the organization and
preparation for service Of the street
railways were so far advanced that
the company expressed its readiness
TO resume business as soon as the
mayor would permit, the water COM
pany announced the completion of
such repairs as enabled it to supply
a total of 900 gallons daily; in
fine, there were all the evidences to
put at rest now and forever the fears
of those who predicted that San Fran
cisco would never rise again
Sense of Humiliation.
The citizens Of San Francisco had
done so splendidly in the face of such
little CONSERVATION was created this
morning when President Roosevelt's
proclamation was read, turning over
to DIR. Edward Devine of the National
Red Cross the management Of relief
measures and the distribution of the
great funds SO generously appropriated
by congress, and recommending to the
people of the United States that their
contributions of food and supplies
should be diverted into the same hands.
If there was a momentary feeling that
the men who had endured the heat
and burden of the day were being I'M
fairly treated by this diversion of au-
thority into new and foreign keeping
it was soon dissipated by the reflec-
ton that the action of the president
was the result of transformation. At
a conference at Fort Mason, attended
by Generals Greedy and Funston, May
or Schmitz, Governor Pardee, DR.. De-
vine and some others, il was agreed
that this was the case, and that Dr.
Devine himself should frame a tele-
of the splendid work already done and
OF his perfect willingness to assist in
forwarding the measures already taken.
Feelings Were Hurt.
What hunt even more than this was
the suggestion made in the letter from
President Roosevelt to Secretary OF
War Taft that reports had reached him
that less charity was being shown the
Chinese who dwell here than the
whites. and directing that II this be
true the situation should be remedied
at once If the people of San Fran
cisco are not in love with the Chi
nese. it was felt that the name they
have earned in the past for charity
and open-heartedness should have
\ saved them from any possible reflec-
ton that they would have permitted
~aIy human being-white, black or yell
low-within their reach, to suffer. Ma
ture reflection, however, brought the
conviction that the truth had not
reached the president, md a special
message was sent him, signed by the
constituted authorities, recounting the
exact facts.
Message TO Roosevelt.
The message was as follows:
president Theodore Roosevelt
White House, Washington, d. C.-AlI
reports that the people or the Off