Show 1 1 DISASTER ERASES cuss C DISTINCTION EARTHQUAKE AT BAN PHANOIC 00 PLACES HIGH AND POOR ON SAME LEVEL SIDELIGHTS ON THE GREAT CATASTROPHE Mllllanntre and Paupor Now Friends liuilnoai Being Conducted Amid the RuinsHeir to Wealth Damon Dam-on Slclcwnlk Ban 1 KrntictBco CnlThls town to on tho lovol In every sense of the word writes Richard Hurry You cnn ntnnd on Tnr lint nnd see Telegraph hill with no obHlnietlon lint a few kyucrnper Skeletons South of Van NOAH nvomin It IH I not even a junk heap No more RhotilR arc shot because there Is nothing to stem and they will have y to pay man lo carry off tho mnnslieil bricks UiiHHliin Telegraph and Nob hills which formerly mado such a magnificent metropolitan saddle against tho flolden Onto look no they do In tho prints of 10 when scrubby t bushes rambled IICTDHH tholr barren tacos They havo been scraped of foul and lair by a mighty muck raw rho homes of tlirccfunrllm of tho people are annihilated anti as one walks through tho desolation ho slowly realizes real-izes that tho world win never know what has happened that 100 Pompclls would bo swallowed In these ruins nnd + that California In tragedy ns In all t else has shaken her jaunty list In tho Ii taco of history and written llnls to tho volume Social Distinctions Leveled Yet these s111n hell buildings and lIes olato streets do not present tho significant sig-nificant leveling The material loss Is groat but It does not stagger the Imagination Imag-ination A tow hundred millions will 1 mend tho hurt and there aro many people J peo-ple horo today who think tho shakeup shake-up la worth tho leveling Society Is 1 r on the ground Lice to face Every artificial barrier Is swept away Tho octal distinctions built up In CO years jiuvo been obliterated with the same twlftncss nnd finality shown by tho lames toward the property Tho loss > f lIfo is small tho loss of social position posi-tion colossal Down to the wow k w-ow nothing counts but human loss Money has momentarily lost Its purchasing pur-chasing power Servants luxury habits hab-its prestige yes amity feuds hatred h t jealousy and contempt have disappeared disap-peared Humanity Is In tho flat and I every ono Is on tho level f i Mere are a tow random Incidents t picked from tho edge of the cataclysm Fillmore street n thirdrate metropolitan metro-politan artery has become for the moment tho business center of tho town Hero In dinky bakeries cheap candy stores tawdry photograph galleries 1 gal-leries and Insignificant lodging nouses H nre found nil that is left of tho greatest great-est business institutions on the Pacific g o Pa-cific const A snvmlll that formerly employed 4000 men has Its ofllco In n hall bedroom that used to rout for one dollar a week A bakery that employed em-ployed SCO carts before the lire Is operating op-erating out of a hand laundry that was run by three women Tho largest department r de-partment store In tho west Is being resurrected from n soda water stand that has been roughly partitioned tho front 14 by 16 feet space being used fortinolllce Ina roar room of similar ox h tent tho exclusive heads go for frl jolos and coffee warmed over an alcohol al-cohol lamp Odd Quarters for City Officials You can see tho chief of police In inn Francisco as easily as you could leo tho sheriff of tho most backwoods I County In Arizona lie sits In tho Indow of a corner grocery and as t rou pass on the sidewalk you glance It his bright taco and hear his hearty laugh The mayor Issues his orders from the lodge room of a secret society so-ciety Tho superior court Is being held In a Jewish synagogue while tho city and county records are burled Inn In-n tomb In the Masonic cemetery The newspapers thrt once occupied tho principal skyscrapers In the city are being operated from four little rooms In tho same block no ono of which has more than n 30foot front or a 50foot depth On ono side of each room you can see tho sign Subscription Sub-scription Department on the other Advertising Department while on each roar wall is hung a rough sign Editorial Department One Newspaper Office < v Bedroom One of the most fortunate papers after much maneuvering has managed to commandeer a secondlloor bedroom bed-room tho nature of whose previous occupants Is attested by tho notice Btlll hanging from tho chandelier Which reads Dont Blow Out the I One In this tiny room around two email tables is congregated the journalistic jour-nalistic talent that formerly conducted a worldfamous organ from n suite of 15 rooms In one of tho most magnificent magnifi-cent buildings in the weet If furlur proof were needed of tlw i Ins iertter of conditions II Mil hats been seen yeatenlay afternoon after-noon when Mlko De Voting of thq Chronicle millionaire anI 1 polltlnal lender stood In front of one of these < lttlo offices Down the street In an uitomoblle belonglnc to eII fIlYlf James n Fhdtm roam Abe flout thi triumphant Republican I boss Wh n ho saw Do Young ho waved his hat nd called out u hearty greeting to which Do Young responded with a cay inlulp For I ono not Intimate with Snn Francisco to fully realize what this means he must IIP told that Iletif Ihflnll and tin Vninc nrn fin rMnnr un on r rIve lenders of tho must bitter scot antagonistic pollilrnl factions In the west If you Rtlll doubt that the mlllcnlum Id upon iifl go down tho street two blockfl to where tho relief commIttee Is working 21 hours allay from the showroom of a vegetable grocer nnd you will find Gavin McNabb and Abe tent with chairs and arms touching laughing l at time soma grim earthquake joke and putting tho two craftiest heads In San Francisco together for the Immediate relief of tho afflicted A week ngo ns tho bosses respectively respective-ly at tho Republican and Democratic ranks America could have afforded 110 moro striking Instance of deadly I rivalry than would have been adduced by mention of these two names Resurrecting a Dry Goods Store From another cigar stand white haired esthetic Hnphacl Well Is resurrecting resur-recting tho most fashionable dry goods store In the city Ho Is old wealthy nod practically retired He could i easily turn his back on San Francisco and llvo tho rest of his days tho one other place of his delight but flays ho I shall stay here and BOO It all up again just ns It was with perhaps one difference It will bo about twice as good Up anti down all tho streets ono can arc curbstone fires where tho people peo-ple are cooking their meals In obodl cnco to tho municipal order to light no fires In the houses They being without largo ranges small kitchen stoves Improvised shoot Iron ovons nnd the old brick Dutch ovens are used and from which are turned out some wonderful concoctions Mont of tho servants have either runaway run-away or been sent away and the people peo-ple who get their own meals out of doors nre among tho best In tho city Cooking their dinners In tho streets may be seen girls who havo been educated edu-cated at Stanford Berkeley Vassar nnd Bryn Mawr Spreckels Heir Born on Sidewalk But of all tho astounding leveling rents accomplished by the fire and earthquake the most remarkable occurred oc-curred In front of the Pacific avenue home of Rudolf Spreckcls son of tho president of tho sugar trust Thereon There-on tho sidewalk behind some screens Mrs Spreckels was safely delivered of a handsome and healthy son It Is a free state everyone beginning over again rich and poor alike juitj as tho front rank broke from tho line the day Oklahoma territory was opened to settlement Not Fair Shake Start Again Young men who can swing n small capital today will be millionaires inn In-n few years Millionaires who today are walking tho streets mourning over their Illluck will never again be flush San Francisco queen city of chance born of tho gambling fever bred of the gambling energy dreamed out of n gamblers visions of wealth and glory with a fierce and terrible grandeur has smitten all who loved her and said to tho half million who had sworn by her Its not a fair shake start again Rescue Insane People Many stories of heroism lie burled In tho ruins but some tales that make the heart tingle are slowly filtering through official sources This is the story of tho noble work performed by Mrs Ktine matron of tho Detention hospital and Policeman John McLean who was detailed de-tailed there the night of the great earth inako Tho Insane patients at the ruined city hall were kept In lucked cells from which only tho Keys of tho stewards could free them At the hour of dawn on that fatal Wednesday morning the structure In which the courts wore housed was the first to fall The weigh tense nervous euergeucy and the officer tho detention hospital which was on tho ground floor Steward Mnuvlllo was so badly injured by tho falling ruins that he died two days later Mrs Kane and Policeman McLean however managed man-aged to rush outside to momentary safety Both of them are well advanced In years but tho nurse Is a woman of intense In-tense nervous energy and the olllcer Is a man of giant frame As soon as they reached the open court they were greeted greet-ed bv tho terrified shrieks of tho insane that pierced through tho smoking ruins around They refused to leave their helpless charges and both went back Into the chaotic debris New Buildings Are Planned The work of rebuilding San Francisco Fran-cisco will proceed rapidly Mrs Herman Her-man Oelrlchs of Now York has agreed to repair the Hlalto building and to build again on the site of tho Crossley She nnd her sister Mrs W K Vander hilt Jr have also stated that they will put up solid olllco structures on their Montgomery street site |