The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-02

ues u Dynamite In blowing down dangerous
walls. Windows we're blown into the
rooms, plaster stripped from laths. apd
tlmbera torn from roofs and sides o. the
honsaa They we're shaken up ~ completely
that most ~ them will have "a bc torn
down. The soldiera we're In charge Of
blasting operations az thoss potnts Com
plant wus made 10 Mayor Schmitz, who
despatched n messenger ~ military head.
quarters asking that blasting be ~suspeuded
for the rest NJ the day Probably when ~
Ia resumed experts In the uss ~ explosives
will he put IN charge.
The humble and dsspised Chinaman has
shown his hand and N becomes apparent
WHY the Chinese Minister ont HE frst soc
rotary here, The merchants threaten TO
defect Chinese trade 10 Seattle and Port
land II they are moved 10 a district ~ far
ont a. Hunters Point.
Since the boycott In Canton, California
ans are beginning to understand that these
threats Of the Chinese are more than mere
bluffs. The First Secretary passed a hint
to this effect to Charles =. Wheeler. who
passed IL along TO the relief committee at
to-day's meeting.
The Secretary limited TO me- said Mr..
Wheeler. that already the Portland Chinese
we're trying TO get the big merchants 20
move up there So Chinatown may be
rebuilt in its old place after all. =.
The Chinese population Ia at least well
fed. however, and treated with no discrim-
ination in the matter Of relief supplies.
Complaints that the Chinese refugees are
starving have crowded the mails ever since
the fire started. DIR. Devine OF the Red
Cross has looked into thisa and reports that
there Ia no foundation for this impression,
which seems to have got abroad In the Eas t.
The Rev. David ID. Jones, fof years a mis-
sionary in China, has been going to all the
relief camps talking to the Chinese in their
native tongue and inquiring into their COZ.
dition. He finds that they are as well
cared for as the whitee. and finally the
representative of the Chinese Minister
has expressed himself as satisfied in this
regard.
There were more than twenty institu-
of homeless children. An investigation
has shown that in all the earthquake and
fire troubles only one life was lost In these
in situations. That was an infant two weeks
old in the Alexander Maternity Cottage.
1t had been very low and had not been ex-
pccted to last through the night OF the
nth. When the great. shock came the
tiny body twisted and when the nurses
got their feet and ran to take 1t out OF the
place they found it was dead. The nurses
in all these institutions stood by. their
charges and got them to places. OK safety,
Gov. Pardee has returned. from a trip
to Santa Rosa. He said to-day:
THE main street, running for half a mile
and q block to each side OF II, were abso-
lutely ruined. Nothing has been saved
! III tIllb ISL III III ~ O'ONf
but they are far from being down and out;
They are working with great spirit and
energy in clearing the ruins, and they Will
rehabilitate the place as soon as possible.
We are going to try to relieve them in some
way, but we have not yet found a way.
The relief funds, for the most part, have
been voted for San Francisco alone
The telegraph congestion " straight
ened out. The Western Union Ia in a posi-
ton to nnoun that IL can, handle, all
/ -, atA IN . Nrnparf1xr ma fhntInh thaT0 hnd
been no earthquake. So, too, tele phone
service 10 being resumed gradually. Six
lines nave been completed into Oakland.
The long distance telephone is now work.
ing all over the State.
'On the morning after the earthquake
the telephone company made con nections
between Oakland and Fort Mason, the tenn
porary City Hall, and kept It open through
most Of the four days fire. 1t SNOW estab-
fishing a line along the waterfront, and will
| district as fast as possible. The Merchants
Exchange has had telephone come ction
for several days.
The San Francisco newspapers hear that
the Mokelumne River, a good sized tribu-
tary of the San Joaquin, has fallen twelve
feet. 1t seems that the bed Of the river
dropped with the earthquake. Tracey
Lake, in the northwestern part OF San
Joaquin county, has dried up.
San Francisco lawyers, trying TO resume
business, arc III uu0 .edpost btidI,S .ioN
books. Few cities OF the United States had
so many or 80 good law libraries as San
Francisco. ALL. public and private. are
gone now except the library Of Hastings
Law College, which was in the ruined City
Hall. and, although not destroyed, is in the
ruins and unavailable Just now. Judge
John CARRIER and Judge Pillsbury were the
heaviest losers. The latter placed a valua-
ton Of 500, 600 on his books, and the for
mer says that his were beyond valuation.
The steamer Nippon Maru came in yes
terday from Honolulu and the Orient. She
reported that there was the widest exoit-
ment in Honolulu over the news OF the
| earthquake. The cable kept the. islands
| pretty well informed, but as nearly every
one In Hawaii has friends, relatives or
business connections in San Francisco
there was great apprehension. Most OF the
seventy-two cabin passengers were San
Francisco people, and the final stage OF her
trip was a voyage of mourning and OF ap-
prehension. She brought 400 tons OF raw
silk cons gned to Eastern houses, and mis-
o~ellaneous merchandise consigned to San
Francisco and the East.
The calamity has given San Francisco
a new psychology. II has created q new
and capable set OF pioneers; II has given