The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-28
STREET CAR SERVICE RESUMES.
Application For Permit For Twelve
 story HuildinE.

story Building. San Francisco, April 27.--Harmony and pledges of good feeling marked the meetings todays of the various bodies of citizens committees and rep resentatives of the army which are ad-
 ministering the affairs of San Fran cisco.
 The last sign of confusion and mis- understanding which at times existed here has disappeared and the first sign of the return to former conditions were the resumption of street car traffic in certain sections and the talk ing out of the first permit for tho erection of a modern steel structure upon the ground occupied few days ago by less substantial one. Archbishop Riordan appeared at the meeting of the citizens general com mittee today and in an eloquent speech counseled harmony between those who are striving to bring order out of chaos and predicted city greater, more beautiful and more shrinking example of American pluck and enterprise than the old San Francisco.
 The reappearance of the first cleo tric cars upon the streets of San Fran cisco since the great disaster was eel ebrated as quite an event. City and railroad officials and invited guests
 
 | across the city. Mayor Schmitz acting as motorman. Everywhere the sight of the car was greeted with cheers. A continuous service was re-estab- lished later in the day on several of l the cross town lines.
 The first building permit applied for and granted today was for a Twelve story steel structure to be erected by | Thomas -McGee. This is ono of the ftrot ghafa Auf l business men of San Francisco intend | losing no time in getting down to bus | mess.
 A cold rain fell for several hours last night and this morning and brought additional hardships upon the people sheltered only by tents and temporary buildings in the parks. To further add to their discomfort the
 wind blew a gale from the North all | day. scattering dust and ashes every where, in some places throwing down the tottering walls of burned build ings Tonight Is one of the most un- comfortable since the great fire. What to do with the unfortunate Chinese of San Francisco, a problem
 which has given the authorities con- siderable worry during the last few days has been settled. at least tenn porarily. Since the destruction of Chi
 
 ing in tents and in even less com fortable quarters on a large tract of land on the north side of the bay. Knowing the habits of the Chinese, the citizens committee and the mayor feared that if even a few of them re- turned to their old district and took up quarters the entire Chinese popula- tion would follow and the problem of moving them which has agitated San | fNr nu hn as great as ever Therefore, when the suggestion was made that the Chinese be moved temporarily to A large open tract of land in the Presidio reserva- | tion 1t was adopted immediately and here they will find a restig place until arrangements can be definitely made | for their permanent city at Hunters Point, a most desirable spot on the southern arm of San Francisco bay. The statement went out early today l that a large body of Italian and other Latin races camped along North Beach were suffering from lack of shelter of any kind. This is not entirely true. | The relief committee has had more diff l hculty in systematizing the work
 among these people than anywhere else and much of this discomfort has arisen through their own ignorance of camp life The unsatisfactory condi- tions, however, were considerably al-
 Ieviated In this district today. The finance committee late today gave out the following recapitulatlon of the subscription fund:
 Total out-of-town subscriptions, a.
 TOSS.
 Local subscriptions. $2l3,950. Total, $4.S31.0S
 Promised, but not signed $590, 400. Grand total, $5,421,4