JOTTINGS.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12507, 21 May 1906, Page 8

JOTTINGS.

(Fkcm American Exchanges.)

la tho faco of enormous losses, the complete wiping out of commercial life, tho iteaders of trade and commerce in San Fnanci'.co are cheerful and confident that all will come out right in, the end. The governor of the Bank of Commerce, the architect* the insurance officers, and tho ,pepreeeaitatives of many of the large commercial enterprises were in the city a few dayo after the disaster arranging for offices and clearing the way for the smooth adjustment of af-faii-5. T'ho big construction, companies hero have opened employment offices, and hundreds of survivors have been employed aod Bent immediately to tho quarries that there may be no; lack of building and repair material.

One of the particularly sad features of tha catastrophe was the drowning of a reoro or more persons in Mission. Apparently the earthquake was more violent at this point than anywhere cisc in th» city. Depressions of te-n feet were made. The mains of £ho Spring Valley Water Company were.broken at this pewnt, and flooded tho tenements. Many victims were pinned dm basements by falling walls, and had no recourse but to await their death by drowning.

One thousand dollars was offered the Western, Unioui Coimpany at Boston by Wa'lteT Scott Hale, a Bau Francisco millioniaire, if they would get him in communocatkra, with his wife and children in San. Francisco. The company oouJd not accent his offer.

At Boston a ■woman offered the Commercial Gable Company 2000 dollars if they would get word to her daughter-in-law in Sam Francisco and an answer by way of Giwtn. The company was unable to fulfil the commission..

A telegram from Los AmgeJce cm April 20th stated:—"Between Castrovi'lle and Monterey, along the railroad tracks and in the fields, mud geyssra are in, action. They are epouting a hot, bluish, isiiale-coloured mud to a height of from ton to twelve feet. The geysers are from four to ten feet apart. Ira other sections they are- fifty feet or iroro apart. The whole face, of the country is covered with, this mud in fomo places."

A sum of 150,000 dollars waa expected to b> raised in two weeks? by theatrical benefits'in Now York. Never in New York had no general a mcivemant been started. All business, differences were forgotten. Managers, actors, musicians, and singers of international repute, vied in offering their esrviocs. Benefit after benefit was planned, and it was with great difficulty that dates could be inado without conflict .of interest.

Many of tho famous sfcars of the Metropolitan Opera House Company, of N(-w York, were nt tho Palace Hotel, which nas destroyed. With them were fifty men and women connected with the business management of tho Com■pany. All the valuable scenery of the Opera Company was destroyed in the Grand Opera. House. The Company opened two days before tho earthquake for a two weeks' engagement with one of the largest advance sales in tho history of opera in this city. The stars were forced to flee from their beds in the Palace Hotel, and none of them were able to savo personal baggage, rich stajp costumes and jowellery. Eleven postal clerks were* taken from the Post Office ruins. All were alivo, although they ihad b«m buried in the bawwont for throe da vs.

When the mansions on Nob Hill, tho Fairmont, and Mark Hopkins Institute were approached by flames many attemnts were made to remove fomo of fho pricdcAs works of art from tho buildings. A crowd of .soldiers were cent to tho Flood and Huntington Mansions and Mark Hopkins Institute of Art to rescue, the paintings. From the Huntington, Home and tho Flood Mansion canvases worn cut from the frames with knives. The collections in tie throo buildings are valued at hundreds of thousands. Very few were taved from tho ravages of the fire fiend. An account of tho terrible sufferings ondurfd by the little children of San Francisco in the. earthquake and fire was brought to Los Angelos by several refugees. "Under our own " observation," said Mrs Huskey, '"was the case of one child ill of diphtheria, who was carried into the streets on Wednesday by her parents, ami died in agony on a lawn that morning. .Utter lack of water in conic districts pooplod by the refugees set the children to moaning and pleading for a drink. The men ot ruined families made every human effort to t-ati-fy the thirst of their little onr=. Failing, at last in desperation they procured whi.sky. Unable to longer withstand the pleadings of their

children.-mothers pourod small <ju||ra|H tics of the tiery liquor into the and other available receptacles jwfS gavo it to tho totb to drink. T*smm natural result was to greatly mcrwj2|sß tno pangs of thirst, and the aghtvfllH staggering children wa.» witnessed observers. ,, "sUB \\ bile live dying men were bei*Hp§ taken troin a cailap«sexl buildiagSS Second and- Jessie «lroots, FjsfoS% Hogan, Rogers, and Hubcr, of St. )M9& rick s church, granted them the tsfj| rites or the Catholic Church. vEgra coromony was pcrturmcii wiiiLe a Baiig of coping overhead tlneateiunl to era(j||! J tho prn.D.ig to ceatu. 'JL'nieo ot thought I i'nac the conhtry anil the J o?ived now* cf tho San Jt'ianeUre di»sa.vtor was duo in part to th rt jci mo u-u-graph operaiaiw u.ero, ; s:uck to their |,cc;s and w)ntinued*l|Sj j tend news and otner iui.-ss.igib in jof groat pert-oii a I tianger. iho optfcSgß j toi6 and olhc;ita> of tno Pu>tal ; graph Company remait.ivl in tho aitEtt'J ■office- of tho company, a; Mll ker : -Montgomery suwt.s, opju it« jjgflß Pnlaco Hotel, init.il they m\h< out of tho building because- ol dnnger from noarby dvnanino eiont.i. The men proeeedinl to nori.K; t'ho b;iy. and toak tho oflico t.lKio. All irom Ufc/'J ciry had to bo taken acruw iho lwats. Tho Asscciflt-.sl «itetj;r*B ; 1-fihed a boat servico for its news." 2-$ i A divj>atoh from tb« atF' j r«icLs : —"•Anyone who kno«t, g2« ! Francisco must realise that in the fin»f I tumble of tho tencment-hous* dbtni' j south of Market street many i crazy structures imi<t luivo ; board. Each of tlioo probably bn'rkfl \ ' its two or three, victims, and now the; iiot rush of flames has gone over ti»s io that Iwdios will t>;» constjqM> utterly. It unlikely that j will ever know just how many I were killixl." y ! "The horror of the situation," i one correspondent, "has «pr«»d to Oajtu ' land. National Guardsmen, realising' ; the dangor caused by the refugee jjjjc ing up in Oakland, have put iho also under practical martial law. Roonr< ( in hotels would sell nt ten times the*** regular were there any toeSf There are few instances of extorliotTa! , this respect, the people in their temper would not stand it. But etAj; few minutes there float through >m£ into town those missrabl?, ha,ggjfffe|; vevjiing iH!opie, which makes tho bmj a real hell." Tljk* I