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Show NEWSPAPER ill liPI HARVEST Secured Many Views in 'Frisco-While 'Frisco-While the City Was Bnrning. SAYS THE METROPOLIS WILL RISE FROM ASHES Work of Removing Ruins, However, How-ever, Will Be Expensive Expen-sive Task. W. D. Colo, a well-known young newspaper news-paper man nnd attornoy of San Francisco, Fran-cisco, was at tho Konyon from Ban Francisco Fran-cisco on Saturday, and was In the city throughout all the tlmo of suffering. His experiences were many and sad, but he has put them behind him, and takes up work In tho present day. Speaking of oxcltlng conditions, ho said: Relief Pours In. "I attended a. consultation between Mayor Schrhltz, ex-Mayor Phelan and several leading citizens Wednesday, at which It was said that cars of rollof were received and distributed, and that 107 Cars wero on the ground to be used. That the supply must be kopt up for tho next three or four weeks or great suffering suf-fering would ensue. Nearly all of the working clasa got out of the city, and most of those wno remained are not fitted for hard labor. City Will Be Rebuilt. "That tho city will bo rebuilt is a foregone fore-gone conclusion, but they have a city to tear down before they can build up another, an-other, and tho tearing down will take time and money. The Southern Pacific, tho Santa Fe. Flood. Fair, Crocker, Sharon, Phelan. Oolrlchs all tho moneyed people must get returns, and must got buildings on their lands to do so. ' Water Supply Scant. "The water supplv Is yet scant, and some parts havo no water at all. Tho hospitals arc tho worst sufferers. At the Children's hospital, through It all 'they had to carry water In buckets a long distance, and you can think what that must mean In such a place. The hospitals hospi-tals now standing and In U60 aro tho Children's, German, French, Presidio and Marine. Conditions at Park. "At Golden Gate park things are being systematized and much good Is bolng dono, tho peoplo bolng helped to help themselves In the earlier days much food and clothing was wasted, because unworthy un-worthy ones crowded In and took all they could get. All must stand In line now, and I have seen a man whom I know wns worth $200,000 before tho fire stand in lino an hour to .get a loaf of bread and an egg , , Garbage Is Burled. "All garbage is burled now and will bo cremated later on. I believe all tho dead are found now. Most nil of them were killed In the earthquake. "A. C. Plllsbury. who wns photographer for the Examiner for years, and myself got out at tho first flush of excitement, and with a circuit camera got tho only true pictures of tho awful pconcs, It was tho silver lining to the black cloud for us, and In truo newspaper fashion wo worked whllo others slept, and now shall reap our reward. Attitude Is Sane. "The pcoplo aro in a sane attitude men-tallv men-tallv toward tho terrlblo task beforo them, and know that tho way Is long and tho travel hard to a second San Francisco . . "President Calhoun of New York, who 13 the chief owner of tho United Railroads Rail-roads In San Francisco, ordered JS.COO.OCO worth of material for that piano beforo ho left Now York. lie took a sane view of tho needs nnd worked to meet thorn. The people are all Imbibing a llko spirit and some things will bring about tangiblo results." |