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Show NOm'07 EOS ViSAM EN C77 C? liTUS, AN3 t common ruin. The big men of the State are here assisting in the work of reorganization. reor-ganization. v I The news that the money in the vaults of the banks in San Francisco is safe and that all the banks will pay in full as soon as calm takes the place of the disorder of the present has done much to prevent panic. The big construction con-struction companies here have opened employment offices, and tonight hundreds hun-dreds of survivors have been employed to be sent Immediately to the quarries that there may be no lack of building and repair material. ' J Already many of the buildings damaged dam-aged by the earthquake of Wednesday mcrning are being repaired,, and activity ac-tivity of a healthy and reassuring sort is stirring all through. Should the relief re-lief trains and money, to aid the homeless home-less arrive quickly, that famine and pestilence and wretchedness may not add their horrors to the present calamity, calam-ity, one with a sufficient amount of fortitude may look on the present plight of the city not without a strong confir dence in the future. I OAKLAND,' Cal., April 21. Oakland is a vast city of refuge and an Intelligence Intelli-gence office for the Innumerable thousands thou-sands of refugees from San Francisco. A great section of the cosmopolitan population of that stricken city has taken every available space that offers itself In Oakland, and shelter and food are being provided for all, though the relief committee Is taxed to the limit of Its powers. The' tremendous and almost hopeless task has been begun of trying to reunite re-unite scattered families, of getting trace of lost ones, of determining whether the missing are dead or still safe somewhere in the great and tangled tan-gled mass of stricken refugees that spreads Itself all over the country through a thousand highways on this side of the bay and in San Mateo county coun-ty to the south of San Francisco. Messages are stacked yards high In all the telegraph offices, waiting to be sent throughout the world. Conditions warrant utter despair and panic, but through it all the people are trying to be brave and falter pot. This city has temporarily taken the place of San Francisco as the metropolis metropo-lis of the Pacific- coast, and here the finance kings,' the bankers and merchants mer-chants of the San Francisco of yesterday yester-day are gathering and conferring and getting into shape the first plans for the rebuilding of the burned city, and prevent a widespread panic that in the first pall of the awful catastrophe seemed certain. In the face of enormous loss and the complete wiping out of the commercial life of the Empire city of the Pacific, the leaders of trade and commerce here are cheerful and confident that all will be well In the end. The Governor, the Bank Commissioners, the architects, the insurance officers and the representatives repre-sentatives of many of the large commercial com-mercial enterprises are now in the city arranging offices and clearing the way for the smooth adjustment of affairs that will lighten the heavy hand of disaster dis-aster that has leveled everything in |
