The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-05-12

wealth IN my acquaintance VIII invest
his money in the new San Francisco
THE PROBLEM OF CLEANING
IN THE BURNED DISTRICT
According to careful estimates. the
mass of brick and other debris that
will have to be removed from the burns
ed district of San Francisco to permit
the rebuilding of the city aggregates
something between 100000 and H.
900, 900 cubic yards.
c. E. Loss, the well-known contrac-
tor who has been prominent in railroad
and other construction work through
out the country for many years past.
and who will be a leading factor in the
colossal task of cleaning the city, says
the removal of this vast amount OF
material would take five years if the
work had to be done with teams. Ac-
cording to a system which he evolved,
however, he hopes to see the ruins
cleaned up in from eight to twelve
months. He proposes to remove al the
debris that now filters four square
miles of the city by means OF cable
ways and bunkers that will facilitate
the easy and economical loading of the
material into railroad cars for convey
ance to dumping grounds outside of the
city.
THE problem of cleaning I'D the
burned district is a gigantic one" 81 id
Mr.. Loss yesterday. 1T is so Stupen>
dous that property seem to be
all at sea in the matter, and are start
ing off. excitediy. hiring teams to clear
their property without any idea as to
where the material can be dumped, or
A.
A MATTER OF URGENCY BUT
HASTE IMPOSSIBLE.
1.-The situation is one that presents
a case of great urgency, but it is a
matter that cannot be unduly rushed.
/ have evolved a system for handling
all the 10000 900 or 100000 cubic
yards of debris from the business dis
trict, and it is the one feasible scheme
that can be formulated. I propose to
handle this material by means of
bunkers and cable ways. 1 have Sc
cured permits for the erection of bunk
ers. and have ordered material and ma
chnery which will be erected at the
earliest possible moment. 1t will take
thirty days. however, to get things in
working order. After that the debris
VIII beSln 10 disappear from the burned
district as if by magic. 1 expect to
install facilities for handling the entire
volume of debris to be moved. but our
work will depend, of course, on the
contracts We secure from property
owners. Already we have made con-
tracts with many owners of large hold
ings of downtown property.
Our system, briefly, is this: We
hun of rio
nient places throughout the district.
The material will be conveyed to these
bunkers by cable ways and from the
bunkers will be dumped into railroad
cars. AS is well known, permits for
the laying of railroad tracks through
out the burned district have been
granted ito the transportation COM
panies, and the work of laying tenn
porary tracks to handle this business
is now being rushed. The railroads are
the only institutions that can handle
this business. To remove all this
debris by means of wagons would take
five years. To handle it in trainloads
is the only feasible plan. We will be
able To load car after car from our
bunkers at a minimum of cost and
With the least possible expenditure of
lime, and the cars will then convey the
material to dumping grounds outside
IF the city, economically and expedi-
tiously. We have closed deal with