Show MUCH MISERY IN INI REfUGEE CAMPS I J Cold Rain Descends Des e ds Upon Un Unfortunate y 7 fortunate Victims of San I Francisco Disaster SHACKS AND TENTS LEAKY STORM UNUSUAL AT THIS TIME OF YEAR San Francis FrancAs o May 14 The cold dis disagreeable disagreeable disagreeable agreeable rain which fell all this fore forenoon noon floon created much misery among the refugee camps and oven civen caused consid considerable Fable erable annoyance to householders who were vere coOking cocking co in the street Though it is the thern middle of May and andrain andrain rain is very unusual at this period the thea I ashes a hes which drifted into the sky sk during the three days of the tle t e conflagration tion are believed to have concentrated sufficient to cause many man drizzles for some time to come It Jt is most t at this particular time when a third of Sin S iscos population is camping Shacks Are Leaky Many lany of the tents in Golden Pa Pt Pate Pater to t tr park r ark the Presidio and Fert Mason are without plank flooring and become darr p it nce nee The shacks throughout the vacant lots In which many of the refugees are living are poorly con constructed and nd leaky It Is difficult to build outside fires in the rain and the homeless arc are without proper means of or drying or warming warm lug themselves them Happily Happli the th rain was of short Ih rt dura tion arid and the tJ e afternoon was wae ushered in bj by b bright sunShine At a meeting of the committee on special of the legislature lature today it was sas unanimously decided that the present lease law jaw should b bp amended so that lea Iea leau will u ill hereafter r b be permitted in the state This is looked upon by the real estate estat men as a most important step ste as they that under the rev Jew conditions building ill progress very rapidly rapid Ti Th The committee ommittee also decided to t recommend m en I n increase e on the inheritance tax ard arci ardon 1 on cn n corporation licenses licen es The state will be asked to authorize the issuance of ot bonds binds in lr the mm um of to bo be b a tax en n fl the Jhc tonnage of San Francisco for a of those tho e portions of or the tho nd destroyed d in tIe th ir nt calamity |