TEMPERANCE AND TRASSPORTATION



thankful for this tree-clad space which furnished camp
room for the refugees. From the General Hospital, which
opened its doors to receive the injured and the sick, Colonel
Torney directed the sanitation of the city.
    That signal corps which Greely organized as its old chief
laid its wires over the burnt district as over a battlefield.
The navy patrolled the wharves and the warehouses on the
wharves which its tugs helped to save. A section was left
to the National Guard, which the Governor refused to with-
draw on the Mayor's request. The remainder of the city was
divided into districts with subsidiary commanders under
Funston.
   The refugees were gradually removed to the two main
camps of the Presidio and Golden Gate Park, where they
could the more easily be regulated and health conditions
were better. Their tents were being arranged in streets with
numbers, military fashion; and thus San Francisco was in
need of a new city directory. Sanitary inspectors were on
sharp lookout for violations. The registration under Dr.
Devine was reaching a point where the deserving were fast
being separated from the undeserving. There had not yet
been time for typhoid fever to develop, but barring that
danger, there had been less sickness than was anticipated.
   It was the fate of the Mayor, who favored a wide-open
r6gime, by his proclamation to make 'Frisco tighter shut
than she ever had been since the first Spanish padre settled
down in the new land of the vine. The sad boast of many
was that they had taken the pledge-from the moment that
the saloons were closed. Despite the amount of whisky that
is drunk for health's sake, the absence of it caused no illness.
   For ten days after the fire not a single street car was
ruinning in the heart of the city proper. You walked or you
rc-0c in an express wagon rigged up as an omnibus, and in
this way you soon came to realize what a stretch of terri-
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