The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-05
CRANDER CITY TO RISE
Californians Predict Bright Out
look For San Francisco.
ABANDONMENT IDEA RIDICULED

Are Ready to Put Millions Into Re-
building-W. H. Croker Declares
Worlds Most Beautiful MunScipal.
ity VIII Rise From the Ruins.
Bigger, buster, better than ever, San
Francisco will rise from her ashes" Is
the confident prediction Of Californians
resident in New York who have large
interests there, and they recently sup
ported their forecasts by individual as
surances that the earthquake and fire
would not deter them from pouring in
their millions to help upbuild a new
city, says the New York Herald.
''Many men have lost Millions" said
d. O. Mills, whose loss may reach S.
100000, but" he added, with a quiz
zical smile, Il fancy all Of them are
not entirely wiped out. Nowhere have
l heard any sentiment except to bend
all energies to building a new city as
soon as the needs Of the immediate
sufferers from the earthquake and fire
are provided for"
MIR. Mills had not received any direct
Information from San Francisco, and
without details Of the extent of his
losses he said he was not tn q position
to make a definite announcement as to
his plans.
You may say. however," he said,
that the Mills building there will be
rebuilt, or remodeled II the walls are
not destroyed, and made stronger and
larger than 1t was before the catastro-
phe One might as well think of aban-
doning the whole state Of California as
to consider leaving San Francisco In
its ruins. If San Francisco alone had
been destroyed there might be some
reason for hesitation in rebuilding it,
but all accounts agree that other points
suffered to as great or even a greater
extent from the earthquake.
"Californians are not the sort of men
to despair. Even now, when the shock
Of the awful disaster is greatest, they
are turning their eyes to the future.
The city will rise again, better in many
respects for this visitation upon it. 1t
is the natural metropolis Of the Pacific
coast and by virtue of it's natural adj
vantages never will take second place
to Seattle and other coast towns.
I'VE have had our lesson, and the
new San Francisco will be guarded
against a repetition Of this visitation,
so that its buildings will be proof
against earthquakes, and anything ap
preaching a conf1agration will be i'm
possible. Besides the regular fresh wa
ter supply there will be-there must
be-a secondary system by which we
can draw upon the sea. To leave the
land to lie idle would be to pile even
greater losses on those we have already
suffered. 1t is not to be thought OF
any more than the tragedy Of aban-
doning the entire state would be seri
ously considered.
Like Chicago. Galveston. Charleston
and Baltimore, San Francisco will rise
again into greater beauty, and in a
very few years her supremacy on the
coast will again be unQuestioned and
unQuestiOnable. 1t is not the spirit OF
California to break under even so ire
mendOus a trial as this"
Whatever else the new San Francisco
may be it will lack one Of its great at"
fractions to tourists. Mr.. Mills and all
other Californians who have declared
their purpose of rebuilding the city at
once agree that there never again will
be such a Chinatown as the city has
| been noted for. If the CelestialS who
choose to live there congregate again
| in a single quarter they will have to
seek location on the outskirts or at
any rate well apart from the business
| or residential centers. ''Barbary,'
where untold crimes have been COM
mitted for years, will become only a
memory, it is agreed by the men upon
whom must fall the heaviest burden Of
restoring the city. Other things may
rise to take the places of Chinatown
and "Barbary." but these at least will
not again be tolerated.
There can be no possible doubt that
San Francisco will rise, Phoenixlike
from the ashes of her ruins" declared
Colonel Dudley Evans. president of the
Wells-Fargo Express company. This
generation is thoroughly imbued with
the spirit Of the pioneers Of 40. and IT
is q question Of only a few years be-
fore the city will be greater and grand
| or than ever before.
1T will have the experience and the
mistakes of the past as a guide. and
even if there should be another vista
ton Of an earthquake there would be
little to fear with the provisions that
will be made to meet such danger.
Some plan must be devised which Will
obviate the necessity of building on the
made land Of the wholesale district.
1t has virtually no foundation to sup
port the great buildings which rested
upon it, and it seems to me likely that
the merchants will move to the Solo
ground formerly known as Tar nat
south Of Market street.
"Our own most serious loss. IN my
opinion. is the magnificent collection
of relics Of the pioneer days OF CaIlror'
MIA. After being exhibited at the
Worlds fair in Chicago and at tne
midwinter fair in San Francisco. they
were stored in an attic and must nave
been utterly destroyed"
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