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THE 'ARGUS, SATURDAY, MAV 5, 1900. IS GRANDER CITY TO RISE Californians Predict Bright Out look For San Francisco. ABANDONMENT IDEA ETDICITLED Mem Who Hare Faith la thm City Are Ready to Put Millions Into Rf fcalldla- W. H. Crocker Declares World's Moat Beaatlfal Maalctpalr fly Will Rise From the Rains. "Bigger, busier, better than ever, San Francisco will rise from her ashes." la the confident prediction or Callforuiana resident In New York, who have large Interests there, and they recently sup jorted their forecasts by Individual as surances that the earthquake and fire would not deter them from pouring In their millions to help upbuild a new city, says the New York Herald. "Many men have lost millions," said P. O. Mills, whose loss may reach $S, 000,000, -but," he added, with a quiz zical smile, "I fancy all of them are not entirely wiped out. Nowhere have I beard any sentiment except to bend all energies to buiidiug a new city as soon as the needs of the immediate sufferers from the earthquake and fire are provided for." Mr. Mills had not received any direct Information from San Francisco, and without details of the extent of his losses be said be was not In a iositIon to make a definite announcement as to bis plans. "You may say, however." he said, "that the Mills building there will be rebuilt, or remodeled If the walls are not destroyed, and made stronger and larger than It was before the catastro phe. One might as well think of aban doning the whole state of California as to consider leaving San Francisco in its ruins. If San Fraucisco alone had been destroyed there .might be some reason for hesitation in rebuilding it. but all accounts agree that other points suffered to as great or even a greater extent from the earthquake. "Californians are not the sort of men to despair. Even now, when the shock of the awful disaster is greatest, they are turning their eyes to the future. The city will rise again, better In many respects for this visitation upon it. It is the natural metropolis of the Pacific coast and by virtue of Its natural ad vantages never will take second place to Seattle and other coast towns. "We have had our lesson, and the new San Francisco will be guarded against a repetition of this visitation, so that its buildings will be proof against earthquakes, and anything ap proaching a conflagration will be im possible. Besides the regular fresh wa ter supply there will le thtre must be a secondary system by which we can draw upon the sea. To leave the land to lie Idle would be to pile even greater losses on those we have already suffered. It Is not to le thought of any more than the tragedy of-abandoning the entire state would be seri ously considered. "Like Chicago. Galveston. Charleston and Baltimore, San Francisco will rise again into greater beauty, and In n very few years her supremacy on the coast will again be unquestioned and nuquestlonable. It Is not the spirit of California to break under even so tre mendous a trial as this." Whatever else the new San Francisco may be it will lack one of Its great at tractions to tourists. Mr. Mills and all other Californians who have declared their purpose of rebuilding the city at once agree that there never again will be such a Chinatown as the city has been noted for. If the Celestials who choose to live there congregate again In a single quarter they will have to seek a location on 'the outskirts or at any rate well apart from the business or residential centers. "Barbary," where untold crimes have been com mitted for years, will become only a memory, It is agreed by the men upon whom must fall the heaviest burden of restoring the city. Other things may rise to take the places of Chinatown and "Barbary," but these at least will not again be tolerated. "There can .be no possible doubt that San Francisco will rise, Fhoenixlike, from the ashes of her ruins." declared Colonel Dudley Evans, president of the Wells-Fargo Express company. "This generation Is thoroughly Imbued with the spirit of the pioneers of 49, and it is a question of only a few years be fore the city will be greater and grand er than ever before. "It will have the experience and the mistakes of the past as a guide, and even if there should be another visita tion of an earthquake there would be little to fear with the provisions that will be made to meet such a danger. Some plan must be devised which will obviate the necessity of bnllding on the made land of the wholesale district. It has virtually no foundation to sup port the great buildings which rested upon it, and it seems to me likely that the merchants will move to the solid ground formerly known as Tar flat, south of Market street. "Our own most serious Joss, in my opinion. Is the magnificent collection of relics of the pioneer days of Califor nia. After being exhibited at the ..World's fair in Chicago and at the midwinter fair in San Francisco, they were stored In an attic and must have been utterly destroyed." One of the most significant move the other day looking to the rebuilding of the stricken dry was the hurrying to the scene of experts by the (ieorge A. Fuller company and the Thorn pson Starrett company. Upon their report as t how well the newer buildings of steal construction withstood the earth quake shocks and the fire .will depend In a great measure the plan of con struction of the new city. According to the latest reports, the J buildings of steel construction, after the pattern of the New York and Chi cago skyscrapers, were but little In jured by the shock, and in some in stances their walls withstood even the ravages of the flames, although their interiors were destroyed. It Is the opinion of Californians in New York that it will be found that the damage from the earthquake alone was incon siderable compared with the ravages of the fire, and upon this they, largely base their hopes for the future. "It Is misleading to lay the blame for the devastation to the earthquake," said Charles J. Brooks, a prominent member of the California society, who ha felt two previous shocks In San Francisco. "It Is the fire which is al most wholly responsible. Bearing that In mind, the plans for the new city will doubtless le made accordingly. From the evideuce so far at hand it apjtears that the steel construction buildings stood up without Injury, and I expect to see them the type of the future, with the stone work anchored to the steel body, as is the practice in New York. There will then le but lit tle to fear from earthquake shocks, and by an adequately protected water system the danger of a conflagration will be obviated. As It was, the risks In San Francisco were regarded by In surance companies as the safest in the country. The city never had had a se rious tire, and there is no reason to fear a repetition of this disaster If proper precautious are taken." Several of the men who predicted a brilliant future for the city spoke of the plans for beautifying It which have Iteen prepared during the last two 1 years by D. II. Burnham of Chicago, who recently finished a residence there. They pointed out the difficulties that have seemed to be insurmountable to the carrying out of those plans because of the unwillingness of the owners of Chinatown property to part with so profitable an investment, and now they declare the fire has served a good pur pose, along with the great suffering it has wrought, in clearing the way for the working out of ideals which many men have had for ye:irs. William II. Crocker, one of the great est capitalists of the city, who was on his way to Europe with his family when he was forced to cancel passage on the Celtic the other day, voiced the sentiment when he said In the St. Itegis, where he has been staying until he can make arrangements to return to San Francisco, that the calamity will give opportunity to make a more splen did city than the most cuthusiastlc have dared to dream of. "Within five years San Francisco will be greater and more beautiful than ever," he said. "To even suggest its abandonment is preposterous. By rea son of its location and harbor it is the natural metropolis of the Pacific coast. Everybody 1 know is determined to re build it stronger and finer and better than ever. A general scheme of fire proof construction will be carried out, with buildings of uniform height. Some streets will be straightened and others will be widened, and beautiful as San Francisco was, a city beautiful that will be the marvel of the world will rise from the ruins of today." Mr. Crocker has reports which Indi cate that enough remains of the Crock er building so that it can he rebuilt without having to begin at the founda tions, but in any event, he said, a new building will be erected on greater pro portions than the one which has been Injured or perhaps utterly destroyed. Archer M. Huntington, son of the late Collis P. Huntington, is of the same mind as all others who voiced predic tions with regard to the future of San Francisco. "Talk of abandonment of the city for Seattle or some other coast town Is foolishness." he said. "It will be rebuilt at once without a doubt on Improved lines. As to rebuilding our own resi dence there no plans have been formu lated. Nothing will be done In that di rection for some time at ail events." STOP DRINKING. Orrine Will Destroy All Desire for Whisky or Beer A Guaran teed Cure. Nearly every drinking man thinks that some time he will quit. He often swears off, but can not resist the crav ing for drink, and the disease for this is what It really is becomes so firmly fixed that it cannot be cured without medical treatment. A Michigan druggist. H. G. Coleman, has made a thorough study of the var ious cures for the liquor habit, and gives this as a result of his investiga tions: "Before taking the agency of Orrine, I went to considerable trouble to learn about it, and became confi dent that it was a thoroughly honest preparation and put out by an honor able firm. 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Thomas" pharmacy. STANFORD WAN'S STORY How University Students Were Dug Out of Ruins. LAST ONE BEACHED WAS DEAD. Others Were I'nconsclons and Radly Maimed Freshman Says He and His Fellows Had to Walk Over Brolcea Glass In Bare Feet Mrs. Stanford's Residenoe Split In Two. Clarence W. Waugh, a freshman at Stanford university, has written a let ter to his relatives In New York city describing the earthquake that hit the university and the work he and his fel low students did In saving a number of others who were buried in the ruins of one of the dormitories, says the New York Sun. The letter was mailed the day after the earthquake. Young Waugh says that the damage to the university is estimated by the authorities at $2,800,000. This Is how he describes the scenes when the earth quake tumbled the students out of bed in Encina hall, where he had his rooms: "Yesterday morning (April 18) about 5:13 I was awakened by the most ter rible sensation and noise Imaginable. The bed was jumping up and down In fact, all the furniture. You could not walk on the floor it was vibrating so. I finally got over to the door, but could not open It. All the time every thing was creaking and swaying In the worst manner imaginable. "Well, I Jumped out on to the window sill and spanned the large stone par tition between my window and that of the fellow's next door (I am up three stories). I rushed out of this fellow's room In my pajamas and bare feet. I am In the central wing and just above the clubroom. The chimney had fallen through the skylight, and the stoues and glass were strewn on the landing In front of the annex. "We had to walk over broken glass In our bare feet. If I had been able to open the door when I first tried I would have been on the landing when those stones fell. The night watchman certainly must carry around with him a horseshoe. He was Just stepping out of our wing on to the landing when a big stone fell down, sliding along his arm. The only thing he got out of It was n scratch on his hand. If be had been over to the right half a foot lie would have been killed. "Well, when the shocks were over we went back and dressed. AVe did not have to look very far to see where the worst calamity had taken place. There was a large hole In the floor of the foyer, and froiri the sides of it you could have a fine view of the sky. The massive chimney had broken the roof and carried it down with it. This Im mense weight carried the next floor and all the other floors with it down to the basement. About five fellows were caught in this big heap.' The floors were torn out so neatly that a human hand could hardly have done better. All the furniture, beds, ward robes, chairs, etc., went down in the heap. The wreckage was piled frqm the basement floor clear up above the main floor. "You 6hould have seen us fellows work then. We got In the heap and be gan clearing it so as to get at the fel lows underneath. Some of the pipes had broken and the water was pouring down into the pile. After a great deal of effort the water was stopped. The huge stones of the chimney and of the wall were in the heap. Fellows clothes were In the heap, and also their books. One by one the fellows were hauled out. Each one was unconscious and badly maimed. After two hours of dig ging Into the heap they finally came upon the body of the last fellow in the wreck. He was dead. Poor fellow, I feel so sorry for his parents, as he was their only son. His home is in Bradford, Pa. 'They had to press the stages Into service as ambulances. All rooms in Encina were more or less wrecked. Our new $S0O,00O library (uncompleted) swayed to and fro, and then suddenly the sides collapsed and Oie roof fell In. The new grand gymnasium the best In the world had Its foot collapse. The steeple of our magnificent church fell over, breaklug through the church roof. The first mosaic of Christ ou the mount fell down. The frieze on the top of the memorial arch broke and one foot of the arch Is out of place. Part of the roof of the new museum collapsed. The chemistry building had considerable damage done to It as well as to the bottles. The leautiful en trance tumbled down Into an unrecog nizable pile of stone, with the roof on top. The tall chimney was broken about twenty feet from the base. In its fall It killed the engineer. "One of the statues on the outside of the zoological building took a tumble of thirty feet. It dived through the cement sidewalk below and stopped at the shoulders. Mrs. Stanford's resi dence was split in two. The funny part about It Is that the split divided Mrs. Stanford's room exactly in half. In truth, It seemed as if the world bad come to an end. "All that night I slept out on the lawn In front of Encina. We kept a guard around all the university build ings. Roughly speaking, our loss Is $2, 800,000. Everybody thinks this a ter ribly, low estimate. President Jordan Just returned In time to witness the catastrophe. Yesterday morning he said that he hoped to have classes started today, but he probably said that to try to get the folows to stay. The committee which Inspected the buildings decided to discontinue In struction for the rest of the semester. Encina has been declared dangerous, and every one is moving possessions. I Intend to strike1 for a Job If there Is any." The Perfect The kind of Cocoa Beans that we use contain six times as much food value as beef. We buy only the highest-priced. Our Cocoa is nothing but Cocoa and that is why it is the most delicious of Cocoas. The WALTER M. LOWNEY CO.. Boston, Mas. CYCLI R.acycle. Crescent. Emblem B BICYCLES At JOHN KOCH'S, ON THE SQUARE. Ride the JOHN KOCH BRAND of TIRES . , Food Beverage Lowney's Chocolate Bonbons end Chocolate product. Dainty Wall Coverings For Spring. 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