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Show I EMBASSADOR, REID PRAISES SAN FRANCISCO LONDON". April 10. Whltelnw Reld. American Bmbapsaflor to Grout Brltntn. wns the principal speaker toidpht at tho annual dlnnoi nf the Chamber of Commerce Com-merce of Luton, n town near th Embassador's Em-bassador's country place. Wrast Park. Mr. Hold described In an intcrestlnc manner tlio rebuilding of San Francisco, which city he visited recently. II said tho people of .San Frnnclnco were doing business aaln. Sometimes thev worked in slmntleo while Iholr new pla'ccs wore, belns: flnlslovJ. nnd many labored al depks inndo of hoards laid across two barrels in rooms where carpenters worn hanging d ooiti and pointers were at worlt on I he walls nnd windows. Thev were nt work with so much energy ibn'l In the month of December, after the lire, the bank olenilngs were thirty millions more than they were in tho mine month before the conflagration. A thing more striking than tho onrthouiiUo or the lire, or the rocoy. cry from both. Mr. p.old nid. was the spirit In which these Indomitable people of San Francisco confronted the disaster anil surmounted It. . |