Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-12-03
THE EAST SITS
UP AND TAKES
MUCH NOTICE
UNITED rnnss InAsnD wIan.l

San Francisco, Dec. 3.--San
Francisco is the recipient of many
expressions OF good will and appre-
citation owing to the remarkable
growth shown by its census figures.
Every days mail brings influential
eastern and middle western newspa-
pers containing editorials diIating
on the Significance of the enumera-
tion as evidence of the remarkable
rehabilitation of a city that four
years ago was little better than a
heap of smoking ruins. These ex-
pressions represent a significant
volume of national recognition of
the spirit that animates San Fran
cisco and the work which has been
accomplished here. Not the least
important feature OF this recogni-
tion is the moral effect It will have
on the settlement of the controversy
pending before congress concerning
national endorsement of the project
to hold the Panama-Pacific exposi-
ton in San Francisco
The indianapolis News says:
ITO tell how San Francisco re-
gained all It lost-and more; how.
from an ash heap with only a por-
ton OF its population remaining and
under cover, It built bigger and bet.
ter buildlngs-would be to recount
a story that has no parallel In the
history of the country. San Fran
cisco Is. and always will be unless
a catacylsm vastly worse than the
disaster of 1906 tumbles 1t into the
sea-"
The Inter Ocean discourses OF the
spirit that animated San Francisco
in this wise:
when the earthquake of four
years ago and the confagration
which It made devastating, had left
San Francisco ruin among Ameri-
can cities, there were timorous souls
who spoke as II there never would
be city there again. The sons and
successors of the men of 40 made
no such foolish submission.
"They went back and went on.
San Francisco lost many thousands
of people in that disastrous year.
But those of most value to the maxi
ing of a city came back. Those
who didn't come back were moro
than replaced by men OF more ener-
gy and more far seeing ambition
from elsewhere.
Thousands of enterprlsing Amer
leans saw that then was the time
for them to go to San Francisco to
reap the rewards of the strong and
bold who dare begin and who press
forward to Join in the beginnings.
For II was almost necessary to begin
at the bottom in San Francisco In
I1906 as it had been in Chicago ?5
years before The destruction had
been almost as complete,
1.-THE resources of nation flowed
in to help San Francisco. But they
flowed in so freely because of the
clear demonstration that the people
OF San Francisco promptly gave
that they were the kind of people
who help themselves. They were
helped because they deserved IT,"
The Chicago Record-Herald writes
thus of the progress of the bay cities
and the metropolitan area as a
whole;
"San Francisco is Oakland and
Alameda and Berkeley. With these
suburbs alone the total would be
swelled to 63O,9O3, and there are
other towns on the bay and In the
valley to the south that would come
in upon such an area as Chicago or
New York possesses. We note also
that the percentage of increase In
Oakland is 124.S per cent and thot
that of Berkeley Is 200 per cent,
figures that are indicative of the
vitality OF the district as whole.
"In spite OF the phenomenal
growth OF dashing rivals, San Fran
cisco remains the chief center OF
population on the Pacific Coast, and
no rivalry should permit of any
feeling toward II but that of gem
erous good will and admiration at
ter the terrible experience from
which II has made such remarka-
BILE and creditable recovery.