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Show : ; t! .2 . ju'j Clsi atch frcm Gcnator Newlands, frcm nil th? very rich men in the country, no word L3 t en Lcr.rd from any of them except John D. i: el-cf.ller and D.O. Mills in regard to the calamity calami-ty in California and what ought to be done. Mr. Hills ia his terse way merely says "a better and fairer Gan Francisco will be built on the ruins of old." Mr. Rockefeller has sent one very splendid splen-did gift that we know of. It is said of him that he Las established A free hospital in Oakland, and that Le has made many another gift that.no one knows anything of, and that he proposes to take an active, Etrong part in the rehabilitation of the wrecked city. Mr. Carnegie as yet has made no sign. Thirls the more wonderful because the theory of Mr. Carnegie Car-negie is that no man ought to die possessed ;of wealth, and we had expected, and we do notyet;give up the idea, that Mr. Carnegie would be heard from', not with any great gifts,- because' that is not .what California needs, but a movement in his own line, lie knows that San Francisco had some great iron works. He must know that the owners of those works, have, lost exceedingly, and It would not be much for him to send an agent to say to those men: "I am here to get behind you with a loan.. Let me see: what kind of works you. want to erect; let me" help you in the plans if you care to have me. Let me. advance most of the money, for you to repay as soon as you are able to, with just interest enough to show that it is a loan." - ;We believe that the railroads, that center or intend in-tend to center in San Francisco are planning now in what way they can help restore the city. That the men in San Francisco are all right, that their courage is not broken, is manifest enough when the ex-Mayor sends East for an architect to consult with him about the changes in the city, and when one firm, while the embers are still hot, gets a permit per-mit to erect a twelve-story building. It is clear enousrh that the old courace is not lost. That the city must be restored grows clearer the more one thinks of it. The Sacramento rises at the base of Mount Shasta and takes on in its course, the Pitt river, the Feather, the Yuba, the Bear and the American; the San Joaquin coming down from Tulare Tu-lare lake region takes on the Mariposa, the Merced, the Stanislaus, the Tuolumne, Kings river and several sev-eral more. They meet a little above San Francisco, to find an outlet through the Golden Gate. But these rivers represent the country which naturally turns to San Francisco for a market for, capital and for supplies, and that represents a region as large as all New England, with New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Maryland added, and that region centering at San Francisco, bay makes absolutely necessary the construction of a city somewhere on that bay, commensurate with the importance of the country behind it. . There will be ten thousand, perhaps a hundred thousand men, whom the earthquake and the fire ruined. They will have a hard struggle, but nothing noth-ing can stop the recreating of the great city, and the class of men engaged in the work will not build a mean city. The most of them have the spirit to build a 20,000 structure, even though they have to mortgage it for two-thirds of the amount, rather . than to build a 6500 building in tl$ beginning, ' and later have to put additions on it. They are : not like any other people on earth, and from the : tone that comes up from there, their courage is not ; broken in the least, and a good many of them are ! already treating the awful catastrophe as one of ; those incidents which men must not spend too much ,' time grieving over. The old city was sixty years in building. It will be hard to find five years hence ! very many traces of the late calamity, that is, unless litis succeeded by other and more terrible visitations : to rend the land and make obstructions in the har-bor. har-bor. 1 |