Show SOME OME LITTLE COMPENSATION With characteristic optimism inherent inherent Inherent ent in the genuine American the peo pee people people pie of San Francisco are already find findIng finding Ing lug reasons for encouragement in spite of their losses and sufferings All of them are so glad to escape from the 4 ruins with their lives that prop property property erty losses seem trivial and personal discomfort a thing to be laughed at Eager to retrieve lost fortunes and re rebuild reV V build their city they have begun dis dIscussing cussing the tho bet best means of getting the most desirable results Among other things they have agreed that the historic Chinatown shall not be rebuilt or permitted to attain its old disreputable prominence Long a amoral amoral amoral moral and physical pesthole this mon monument monument monument of odoriferous which defied sanitary rules laughed at police 1 regulations and debauched the political life Ufe of the city has been wiped out Nothing remains of o it but ruins and uncovered passageways at un depths Its inmates have scattered its Us stenches and diseases have naYe been purified by flame its Us mem memory memory ory cry alone remains to recall the most picturesque colony In America Although efforts have been made from rom time to time tUne during decades to abolish the place It has retained ret its quarters and power political the de destruction destruction of Its buildings and the pos possibility of utilizing the tho ground for re respectable respectable purposes once more are among the few compensations com the San Franciscans find In the midst of their woes V |