Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1906-04-28
DIFFICULTIES OVERCOME
Only One Paper Has Suspended Publ
cation, and II Will Reappear
Within Sixty Days.
SOME PUBLISHED AT OAKLAND
Hard to Maintain Telegraphlo
Communication With tho
Outside World.
DEPENDING ON TELEPHONE CIRCUIT
Associated Pre-, Dl,palohs, bT susoIal wlTol

Associated Press Dispatcher by susclal wiroa
San Francisco. Cal, April 2s.-It takes
more thnn an earthquake and q connagm-
tion 20 put the San Francisco newspapers
out of business. With q resourcelulncss
that cannot but he admired they SUR
mounted an difficulties, and today there
is little in their appearance that would
Indicate the stuin and stress under which
they have laborcd In order 20 present the
news TO the eager public OF this burned
city. Only one of them has suspended
publication The Evening Post, being
unable to acquire a plant in the vicinity
of the city. has retired from the field for
20 days An others are issuing as usual
IL must be remembered that at 5l3
o'clock on the morning OF the earthquake,
April 18th, power and water failed in
every newspaper Office IN San Francisco.
Still. in the hope that as the day grew
these agencies would be provided, the
gathering OF news went on aH usual When
the confagration made IL apparent that
an plants. without exception would be
destroyed the Bulletin put at work a
force in iis composing rooms and a hand
bill WAS hand-sot and hundreds OF copies
were run of on the proof press, giving the
salient features of the days news.
The morning papers, tho Call, Chron-
icle and Examiner. retired 90 Oakland,
on the other side Of the bay, aud there ON
Thursday morning issued o joint paper
from the Office OF the Oakland Tribune.
On Friday morning they split forces again,
the Examiner retaining the use OF the
Tribune plant and the Call and Chronicle
issuing from the Office of the Oakland
Herald Two days later the Callsaecured
/ the service of the Oakland Enquirer
nlant. Meantime ON Friday, the Bulle-
/ lin after q suspension of one day, made
Arrangements for the use in the afternoon
of the Oakland Herald equipment, and
from these sources and under such circum
stances the San Francisco papers hav'
been issuing. ,
Offices we're huriodly opened on Fill
more street. which today Is the mail
thorouqhfare of San Francisco, and from
these headquarters tho news Of the day
as IL was gathered was transmitted 10y
/ means of automobiles and the ferry
service TO tho Oakland shore. There
also were accepted such advertisement
as have been offered. Tho number oi
these is perhaps the best visual sign al
present of the resurrection Of the city
/ h was noted that in a l4-page papei
/ printed Yesterday by the E1amlnei
I there were over nine pages OF advertise.
menis. and in n l0-page paper publishee
this morning by the Chronicle at leasl
so per cent of its space was devoted q
the same end. II is 10 be noted that
this issue of the Chronicle of which men
lion has been made was delivered moi
later than z o'clock this morning by car
carrier nt every subscribers residence
remaininr standing In San Francisco.
The maintenance of telegraphic com
municaiion with the outside world ha
been one of the most difficult matten
viii which the newspapers have had e
contond The experience OF The Asso
ciatod Press IN this respect will give al
idea of the obstacles confronting th
other news agencies Of the city; IRON
Wednesday, April 18th, until Monday
April 23d there was neither conlinunlcii
tion by means Of telephone or TELEGRAPH
between Oakland and San Francisco. vi
Monday one telephone circuit with OAK
land was established and lhe AAso
ciated Press used this for telegraph
purposes. The use continued through
out Tuesday, and It failed wednesday
on Thursday tho Western Union, b.
extraordinary efforts, succeeded y
getting a bay cable in working order and
bv running wires in a roundabout way
managed 10 get a wire into the municipa
headquarters. at Franklin Hall, on tll
more street near Bush. This wire wa
placed at the service Of The Associate
Press and through communication {
the East was established. News iror
The Associated Press headquarters ha
been going over this wire ever since.