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*VOL XLIII.. W'4r 0. t tY?AY. APRIL 24. 190q. TWICE A WEEK. EYIEW OF SITUATION SAN FRANCISCO A CAlEFUL SURVEY-NOT AS BAD AS MIGHT BE. Cliff , House Sound and All Ocean Frot--No More Danger of Fire Unless Orders Are Disobeyed -Ntmber of Deaths by Earthquake Exag gerated. A special correspondent of the News and Courier at Oakland, Cal ifornia, under date of April 21, sends the following review of the situation to that paper: The fire, while not yet quite out, is nearly over. It is simply finishing up the corners of the city. Tomor row everything should be cooling. I made a personal inspection of the ruined section today, paying particu lar attention to the banks and the fl nancial situation. In a general way it may be said that from Van Ness avenue eastward to the bay every thing is gone. West of Van Ness avenue the city is burned in spots south of the Western Addition, and it is said, although I did not see this part myself, that the Mission is gone. all except a small fringe. It is now reported that, contrary to first news, the Cliff House Is Safe and that all of the ocean front es, caped. There is no more danger of fire, unless the residents disobey the may or' prder and make fires in their )Aouses. There is not a safe chimney in Ban Francisco. It would seem that the report of deaths in the earthquake are exaggegt9d. However, about a were shot, by soldieiks6r looting and rioting and two men were lynched for robbing stores. The po lice and the troops -are confiscating whiskey wherever they find it. Fri day's whiskey caused some of the sol diers to go on the war path, but this is all stopped now and the offenders are under military arrest. Al day long the Procession of Refugees asking .for the ferry to escape to Oak land continued. There was a corre sponding movement from Oakland to the country districts, so that Oak. land remains at about the same popu lation. The Elks, who are maintain ing a relief camp in Oakland, had 3, 000 guests. On Friday nig0ht they had to ask for extra military guard. It is estiniated that there are 50,000 in the region about the city dump and the unburned part of the water front and perhaps twice as nitny inl Golden Gate Park. All day there have been ru mors of an outbreak of smallpox. This appears ridiculous on the surface, for while in San Francisco as in most seaport towns, there is always some smallpox, the authorities are very strict with it and rush every ease dis covered to the pest house, which is in en isolated spot ten miles from the center of the cit'y. Besides the period of inoeulattion for small pox is. from ten. to fourteen days, and the mix-up of the population has been on for only four days. Soy if there were any eases unnoticed by ther board of health in the people who flocked from their houses to the parks, there would not have been time for the infection to de velop. The physicians here do -not take this report seriously. Thi thing which they -fear most is the regulpir camp fever. Now as to the Condition of the' Oity. Nob Hill, with its stately mansions, is all razed. The Stanford mansion, the stately Mark Hopkins Institute, some of the Art school, the' Hunting ton mansion, the Crocker house, are all on the ground. The walls of the Flood mansion-stand, but it is a ruin. The window frames and wood work of the Fairmount hotel, are burned and the *hite walls are blackened, but it stands and is little damiaged. The wholesale districts, the down. town- retail district, the banking n insurance districts. nay be counted oil *the map. Of the Olubs, The Cosmos, a little out of the centre of town, 1s the only one that remains. ~le 13o. hemilaui club's servants, who eg asleep in the buildii when the slhoo' came, got back ahead of the Qre 'and cut from their frames the vahtiable paintings of the club. They reseued also some of the best of its prop ty and $1,700 in cash. This was put fov safety in the Golden Gate Park tiu. scum, which is becoming a kind of I storage ware house for such thin President Halt told us that lie had seen a majority of the directors and that they will throw together a shack for temporary quarters as soon 6ll they can get the material. The fact that they are already considering.the future of their club shows as well ai anything can the spirit of the peo ple. They regard rebuilding as a mat ter of course. Some of the floors of the mills and the Merchants' Ex. change buildings are burned out, but the walls are in good condition and the framework remains solid and true. About half the floors are burn ed out of the Hayward's building, but the rest are all right. ..Buildings That Can Be Restored... All these are modern structures of steel. The floors of the Shreve build ing are gone, but none of them fell in and it can be restored. Shreve is a big jewelry firm. They lost their bric-a-brac and their silver plate in show cases, but the vaults are al right. A military guard suerounds the place. There is a guard also over the vaults n all the bank buildings. Th< bank vaults and safe deposit vaults in the Crocker Woolworth Bank were not even warmed through. Businese could be resumed in the ante-room of the safe deposit vaults. The Crplce building, which houses this bank, hai all its floors in place and the wallm are in faitly good condition. Thh .too, can be 'reitored :wthout .rebuild, ing. The same is true of ti Ubart building, except for the top part o th'tO floi-, which was damaged b3 the earthquake. In,the bagement 0: this building are the vaults of tli Union Trust Compgny, which are al right. Assistant Cashier Rosenbaun made an inspection yesterday and re ported that all specie and securitici are saved. Mr. Cdombs, the chie: engineer, has been through the build ing and reports that it wouild b( safe to open it tomorrow. The building of the First Nationa Bank was gutted by the fire from th ground floor up, but the directors sa. that the vaults are all right. Th( Mutual Life building on the oppo site corner of California and Mont gomery streets, was entirely ruinee by the fire. The United States Mint. is damaged, but standing. It is un der heavy guard of regulars. Th damage in the Hibernia Savings Banil at Market and McAlister streets, wai mainly on the ground floor, whicl was gutted. All the vault securitie: and specie are intact. The bank haj heavy deposits in its vaults and six teen cavalrymen guard it. The pay ing teller says that the bank stand ready to pay all demands in ful when it opens. Sam Daniels, paying teller of th Bank of California, stopped thie. au tomobile in which he was moving -hl family .from town to say that th vaults of that bank escaped. The Sloan building is a total loss Strangely enough, the City of Pari dry goods store, which was in a build ing comparitively old is in such; state that it can probably be repairel None of the floors fell. The stoel! which was heavy, is, of course, a lose The White House. the biggest dry goods store except th Emporium, is all gone. Its collape ing walls caught a fire engine. I coul< not learn whether any lives wvet-e los in this minor catastrophe. The mat vaults of the Bank of California ap near' to be safe. This is the center o the banking district. A heavy guar, of regulars watched at this point an, nilows trafle on California stree alone. President T. W. Helnman, of th Wells-Fargo Nevada'bank, says tha his institution is safe and can resum business when all the 'others ar ready. He said: ''We have arrange wvith Governor Pardec to declare lege 'oliday,~ C mn (Jy to (lay until es r'ry one is ready. The general fee 'n't of thie finncial interests is goo ?toiW andi it is their intention to se about, rebuilding the city at once, an we feel certain that the people *1 act with the banks and not try make a run. It -was Dangeroub Wilking in many parts of the financial di triets, for the walls and pavemen are very hot and one stood in dang( of scorching of? his shoes. The hes between the buildings is stifling. Bt the fire in this part is dead. T1 building of the International 1uili ing and Loan association is a wred The vaults are bulged, but the offiliO say that the securities are safe. Ti vaults of the London, Paris Ar American bank are all right. Whe the underwriters take stock on th fire they will piobably find that it wi not nearly so hot as the Baltimor Chicago and Boston fires. It wou damage a building taking a floor ( two, and pass on. The people lay th to the lazy burning of the red woo On the other hand there were cente of the fire whirlwind where ever thing seemed to be fused, melted ar ruined. Proceeding Up Market Street ,toward the ruined City Hall, I four the Grand Hotel razed to the groun The walls of the Palace hotel a standing, but the building is a los The Examiner building is gone. TI steel frames of the Call building, tf highest in the city, saved it, and ft in its interior seems to have stopp short of its top. They may be able save the walls. The ground floc where the National bank of the P cifle was housed, is a complete wree It is not possible to get at the vaults owing to the wreckage. The Parrott building, contalioj the Emporium, the largest dep#g ment store in the west, is gone. front wall and a part of a side W are goe, the rest are d9wn. T contained the quarters of the a preme court of California and t best library on the coast. The recor and the library are destroyed. B tween these big Market street buil ings were a lot of small and o structures of brick. The fire play ducks and drakes with these. Mc of them cast the walls in the stre and Market street all along is pilt with hilloeks of broken bricks, ov which teams and pedestrians climi In spots the soldiers were maki idlers work, clearing a passage, b there are not enough soldiers ju now to make the work effective. The New James Flood Building, at Market and Powell streets, on t site of the Baldwin hotel, burn eight years ago, stood it better th any other big structure on Mark Istreet. There is a little damage the office of the Western Natior bank on the ground, but its van are not even warm. The vaults we opened on Friday, after the fire h passed that part of the city. Ever thing was all right and the time lo was set for Monday. The vaults the Mercantile Trust company are i ported safe. The same seems true I the California Deposit Trust comur ny. The Pacifie Mutual tLife buildi 0 and the Italian Marine bank bui ing are total losses,.but the direct a o'f :the Italian' bank say that -they. a not afraid of the condition of , t vaults.. About the same thing may -said of the Germania Savings ba a and the San Francisco Savings t - ion, next door, on Kearney street. 4 a Sauturday afternon there were t' -confetences of Savings Bank Representatives. -at thme home of John Maftin. Thi discussed the amount of cash on lha aid the amount of Eastern holdiri immediately convertible. Mond morning at 10 o'clock all bank c ployces will meet for instruct io Will High, manager of thme Interi tional Banking corporation, remov . a large amount of specie to Oakla on Saturday in an automobile. A< tail of marines, under command t Lieut. Lang, accompanied him. offered Genm. Funston an adv'ance cash until thme government funds t rivp, and the offer was accepted. s These are skeleton facts. They g~ ano idea of the ruin of the city. It j dlesolation m,ultiplied. Especially 1 palling are the ruins of the Hill s .tion. The Region 'of Wooden Houses. ri There nearly every one lost his p ,t sonal effects. The inhabitanits thout i that the firp w~onMd not come tlian..i 11 and failed to get their things out un e til it was too late. There is one hor kor of the situation in the park and 'residio which did not tome to public . attention until today, The suffering ts f pregnant women is terrible. One r octor told me today that he had at Lt ended or observed seventy-four cases O of still born births in two days. The to hiilitary have the city under con t. rol against and everything is quiet, ut sullen. The officers say that they fear next week. The ruins will cool e Phe people will be getting about again a ond the disorderly and homeless will n have a chance to get together and [g move about. Whatever the military Lj authorities say it appears to an out e, sider that there is real need for fresh d troops. The men are worn out. The or.rioting among the troops on Friday il night may be ascribed as much to L burning nerves as to whiskey. It % seems probable that many San Fran r. cisco business houses will take up d quarters in Oakland and Alameda un til San Francisco is rebuilt. Every door is opened in Oakland, the people ,d are all working for the refugees. Fol . lowing the lead of the Elks, the Ma e sons are starting a relief camp. We s. have a lot of sick on our hands In ke Oakland, Alameda, and Berkeley, lo It is a matter not of epidemic, but ol ,e exposure, fright, excitement, hungej id and exhaustion upon delicate people. 'o. So every doctor is at work. The r, trained nurses are now all head nurses, %- Tpder them are working thousands ol k. Oakland women. Almost all the fe. ii male students of the University 01 Uplifornia are nurses in this crisis There was a movement at first among t4'sall dealers to gouge the people or , d prices. After two of these pla es had come near to being wrecket is they thought better of it. The bij a, dualers agree to hold prices norma ie an(I bread is now 5 cents a loaf er is erywhere, eggs 25 cents a dozen, witl e- othier prices on the level of last Tues 3- day's market. Governor Pardee re ld quisitioned today a large supply oj Ad tea and coffee in the Folger war< st. house. The- country may feel proud oi et Oakland. -Such of the schools of th< 3d Western Addition as are considere er safe have been turned into hospitals b. Special attention is given to womer ig in a delicate condition. One of th uit )itiful things is their sufferings it st this time. OLUE MEETINGS. Notice to Democratic Olubs. 3d By' order of the state democrati4 tn committee, at a meeting held ot ct April 5, 1906, a convention of th to democratic party of South Carolina i: al called to take place on May 16, 1906 ts in accordance with the provisions ol re the constitution of the party. id The presidents of the several demo Y- cratic clubs of Newberry county ar k directed to assemble their clubs oi of Saturday, April 28, 1906, for the pur 'C pose of electing delegates to the coun of ty -convention, which will assembli a- May 7, 1906, for the purpose of elect 2g ing delegatas to the state convention d- All shibd should meet, reorganize an< ~elect" 2elbg'ates on April 28th, a re above direct6d, in ordet' to be entitle< be to representation in the county con be vention, and in order to be represent ink ed by voting precincts in the cominj n- primary. hi S. S. Cunningham, vo County Chairman. B. B. Leitzsey, Secretary. Newberry, S. C., A pril 12, 1906. ely ri Tomaria. gs The Pomaria D)emocratic Club wil aly meet at Pomaria next Thursday after rn noon at 2 o'clock. "'. John C. Aull, lad' Secretary. idDead Fall. Ie- D)ead Fall D)emocratic Club wvi1 of meet at the Dead Fall school house o' rio Saturday morning, 28th, at ofo'clock. Every member is urged to b present. Joseph ~ B. L. Dominick, veJoeh .Alewvine, President. Is Secretary.. 3 ' Young Men's Club. IThe Young Mon 's D)emocratie Clui is hereby called to meet in the Cour cil Chamber on Saturday, April 21 aI1906, at 8:30 o'clock p. m. for .the pmt pose of reorganizing and for such other business as may properly come before it. E. C. Jones, T. H. Pope, President. Secretary. Central. The Central Democratic Club will meet at Central Academy next Sat urday afternoon at 1 o'clock. John D. Shealy, President. O'Neall Democratic club will meet on Saturday evening April 28th at 2.30. W. P. Pugh, G. S. Moore, Secretary. President. There will be a meeting of the far mers' Union immediately after the Democratic meeting. J. T. Hunter, Union. The Union Democratic Club will meet Saturday evening at 1 o'clock April 28th 1906, in Union school building for the purpose of reorgan izing and for such other business as may come up. M. L. Strauss, W. H-. Enlow, Secretary. President. Liberty. The Liberty Democratic club will meet at St. Lukes on Saturday, April 28th, 1900, at three o'clock, to organ ize for the campaign and to elect de legates to the county convention. G. F. Hunter, N. R. Lester, Secretary, President. St. Paul's. The Democratic Voters of St. Paul 's Democratic Club will meet at St. Paul 's school house on Saturday, April 28th., at 2 p. n. W. H. Kibler, L. I. Epting, President. Secretary. , Mulberry Club. The Mulberry Club will meet on Saturday ifternnon at 3 o'clock, April 28, 1906. Jos. L. Keitt. President. Old Men's, No. 6. The old men's Democratic club of No. 6, will meet Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock, April 28, 1906, at Long. shores, for the purpose of reorganiz 5 ing and such other business as may come ip. H. D. Boozer, 'J. B. Smith, President. Secretary. Trinity Club. The Trinity Democratic Club wil meet at Trinity on Saturday after noon at 3 o'clock, April 28, 1906, foi -.the 'purpose of reorganizing and for -such other business as may come up. Mollohon. -The Mollohon Club will meet Wed. I nesday night, April 25th, 1906, al a Smith & Wilson's store at 8 o 'cloel I. .at the Molhon Mill for such pur - poses5 as may come up for considera. - tion. A. L. Knight, Oscar Wilson, President. Secretary. Jalapa. The Jalapa Decmocratic club wil meet at 4 o'clock Saturday, April 28 1906. S. M. Duncan, 1C. A. Matthewvs, President. Secretary. Garmany. Garmany Democratic Club wil mheet Friday afternoon at 4 o'clock ai Garmanmy Academy. B. F". Cannon, President. ''Mile. Aimo Blondel'' the ''wo man'' lion tamer, fatally torn by lion in a circuc cage at Gilman, Ill. John Kennedy, of Milwvaukee, Wie lie has played woman's parts fo years. Thie monkey house of the Londom Zoological Glardens is being eleanel b and overhauled under the supervisioi of the same expert who has charge o ,the sanitation of the House of Coin -mons. THE NEWS OF PROSPERITY. News Items Hedid Over From Last Week-Visitors From All Parts -Stores to Olose at Six. Prosperity, April 23.-Vye are in formed by the committee that all the stores in town will close every evening from May 1st., to September 1st, ot six o'clock except Saturday. This will give the clerks quite a nice rest and your corespondent will have time to go home and feed his little buff chicks and do around generally. We know that you have already published the marriage of Mr. Pearl Rikard, of Atlanta and Miss Bessie Counts on last Sunday but your scribbler wants to extend his congrat ulations and best wishes. We regret to lose Miss Bessie but it is Georgia's gain. Mr. J. C. Counts shipped one day last week about a car load of his fa inous grain cradles to the counties of Lexington, Saluda, and Edgefield. Mr. Counts also manufactures plow stocks, cotton planters, etc. Mary Lizzie Wise invited a number of her little friends to an egg hunt on Good Friday evening. It was much enjoyed by the little folks. Dr. Blakemore, a recent graduate in plharmaey of Alabama is now phar macist at the Prosperity Drug Co. Miss Nancie Merchant and Ethel Derrick, of Utopia, have been on a visit to Mrs. S. D. Duncan. Mr. T. R. Simpson, of Denver, Anderson county, is visiting his brother, Dr. J. B. Simpson in our town this week. Miss Sallie Pugh is visiting her brother, Mr. R. T. Pugh. Miss Alma Hartman has been on a visit to relatives in town the past week. Mrs. J. Q. Werts, of China Grove, N. C.. spent Monday in town with Mrs. J. A. Simpson. Dr. Orecer, of Atlanta, is here this week examining eyes and fitting glass. es to all who may desire his service. Mr. Louis Livingston of Charleston, paid his brother, Mr. H. K. Livings ton an KEnster visit. Mr. 0. L. Stuck, of Cheraw, spent a couple days with Mr. E. W. Werts. The Misses Miller, of Newberry, are Visiting their sister, Mrs. L. C. Mercliant. Misses Susie Langford and Lena Warner, of Columbia college, spent Easter at home. Ernest Sam Kohn, of Clemson col iege came down to spend Easter at home. Among the students at home for Eastor we note Jno. Pat Wise, Oeo. Harm1on, C. P. Barre, Perry Sehumpert Alden Pugh Moody Beden haugi, Trhy Koon, Frank Sheely and Carlisle fledenbaugli, Ed. Monts, I. E. Long, and Anmerle Singley. Mr. F. R. Fellers spent Sunday at home. Mirs. Thiompsoni anud children, of Abbeville, are the guests of Miss Lena Moseley, a former class mate at Due West. Miss Lucy Wheeler came down to spendl the Easter vacation at home. Miss Maude Miller accompanied her. We had the pleasure of shaking hands with our jolly friend, Col. W. B. Wise, wvho made a flyipg trip to his old( home to sp)end Easter. Miss Nell Jay, of the force of the Saluda Ad'voente, came over to spend Eastr' with her parents. Editor' Cargile, of the Advocate, was in town and much to your corres pondhent 's r'egret lie (lid not knowv it, until the editor had come and gone. We wvould have been glad to have iriven him the glad hand. Come again, Mr. Editor, and make yonrself known. Mi'. Bushnell Bowers wvent dlown to St. Matthews to spend Easter with his sister, Miss Della Bower's. Mr. and Mr's. C. F. Lathian, of Lit tIe Mountain, spent Monday in town. Mirs. M. A. H1am spent Easter wvith heri parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Stockman. Miss Marie Bobb is at home for a few days. Drm. 0. Y. Hunter attended the meeting of the Shriners and the banm quet in Columbia. IThere was an au tomnobile in our town and it did some high 'running. We heard several very severe criti cisms of the wny it (dashied about and the dlatiA t.o'horAeui and ospecialhy"to ,ladies driving.