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Show FIVE YEARS POR TR1SC0 TO START Anew Is Prediction and Other Cities and Gov-eminent Gov-eminent Must Help. SEATTLE, Wash., May 30. Jacob Furth, president of the Puget Sound National bank and distributer of the Massachusetts relief fund to Ban Francisco, Fran-cisco, returned today. In an Interview in the Post-Intelligencer, he said: "In my Judgment, it will be five years before San Francisco has more than a 'small start toward rebuilding. It will be more than a year before the debris can all be cleared away. Miles of great buildings lie strewn In heaps on the ground. The necessities of the people are great I made a suggestion to the relief committee that was acted upon that outfits for mechanics and carpenters carpen-ters be purchased and given to these men so that they might have the means of livelihood. This was done In many "In my opinion it will be five or six months before San Francisco can be approximately a self-sustaining community. com-munity. To support them will cost the outside cities and the Government seven or eight millions of dollars, but I think this can be raised." |