Salt Lake Telegram | 1906-11-20 | Page 10 | Poor San Francisco

POOR SAN FRANCISCO. A correspondent of the Argonaut,- having chided San Francisco for not extending more honors to the warships built in that port, the Argonaut replies,, recalling re-calling the fact that San Francisco and California have often given clear evidences of their apprecia- ( tion of the navy and of San Francisco-built ships, : but says: ' - ' . j '. "But nowadays, any day, every day, is San Francisco's busy day. The poor city is so engrossed - in finding herself, in reconstructing her old lines, in getting in out of the wet, in tents, shacks and shan- ' ties, in trying to go to business without being held tip by thugs, choked by garroters, or killed by street ears, and generally is so bent on taking the clutch of official graiter8"from her throat, that her citizens are obliged to neglect some of the courtesies of life, indispensable in-dispensable and agreeable as they are in less strenuous stren-uous times." ; Is not that a sorrowful picture T That city that never asked favors, that rejoiced in helping the unfortunate un-fortunate and never dreamed of needing sympathy, much. less. help, from the outside world is it not pitiable to think of her so smitten and her people struggling, not for wealth or power as of-old, but for life itself Still those people will triumph. The excitement caused by the mighty cataclysm has passed, now the hard terrors of necessity are being burned into their very souls, but they are going to $rin. The' new, greater city is going to be built. It ill be slow work for the obstacles in their path are . " great; the insurance companies are slow, exactions of. organized labor are most trying, the 'discouragements 'discourage-ments are numberless, but they are at work and they iwill not cease until the city takes on again her sovereign sov-ereign power and her sovereign charm ; but in the meantime their burden is most-hard' to bear. We . hope that the knowledge of the sympathy that goes' ut to them will be a comfort at least. . - . . " i ' 1 ' " 1 " 1 11 ' r