While all this work has been started the removal of debris has been 

 going on at the rate of an hundred carloads a day, the streets are being 

 cleared and repaired, the water and gas mains have been reconstructed, 

 and the electric-light system fully restored. 



There is nothing feverish in this desire to rebuild San Francisco. The 

 men of the city are bending every energy toward rehabilitation, and as a 

 result the highest wage ever paid in the industrial history of the world 

 is being paid in San Francisco. The unions of skilled artisans all have their 

 minimum wage scale, but the demand so greatly exceeds the supply that 

 this minimum scale is not considered by contractors, who are determined 

 to have workmen almost at any cost. Naturally, this condition cannot last, 

 for workmen are coming in on every train. There is work for thousands 

 here, for it will take a long time to get back to normal conditions. 



With the rebuilding of San Francisco has come the rehabilitation of 

 the commercial interests of the city. How well this has been done may be 

 seen by a glance of the report of the clearing house. According to Brad- 

 street's, San Francisco took its position in the sixth place the week before 

 this magazine went to press. It is now above Pittsburg, and since Oakland 

 is now one of the clearing-house cities, and Oakland's business is San 

 Francisco's business, we may soon look for the Pacific Coast metropolis to 

 attain and maintain the position of the fifth commercial city of the United 

 States. 



For the week ending August 16th the clearings of San Francisco aggre- 

 gated $43,914,147, an increase of 9.3 per cent over the same week of 1905. 



Work of the California 

 Promotion Committee 



WHEN San Francisco was swept by fire on April 18th, and for three 

 days thereafter, the whole city was stunned by the enormity of 

 the blow. The first organization to recover from the shock and 

 get actively to work was The California Promotion Committee. 

 Before the flames were under control the working force of the 

 office was called together and the members told to hold themselves in 

 readiness for action. It was realized that the first work of the Committee 

 must necessarily be the counteracting of the wild stories sent out in 

 the excitement of the first few days during and after the disaster. The 

 confidence of the East must be restored and maintained, and exact con- 

 ditions portrayed in order that the world might know that the garbled, 

 and sometimes malicious, articles sent to the outside press did not state 

 the true situation. 



Arrangements were made at once with the editors of prominent news- 

 papers in forty of the principal cities of the United States to print twice a 

 week correspondence furnished by the Committee, and these papers, with 

 a combined circulation of two and a half million, have printed these articles 

 regularly every week since the series was started. In these articles have 

 been faithfully portrayed conditions in San Francisco and California as 

 they have changed from day to day, and up to the time of writing this 

 article the correspondence so furnished these Eastern newspapers has 

 reached a combined circulation of forty-five mililon. 



The editors of all the prominent magazines in the country were also 

 written to and data and photographs offered showing rehabilitation and 

 reconstruction. Many of the magazines availed themselves of the offer 

 and had articles based on this data. Other articles, furnished by the Com- 

 mittee, have been sent to magazines and accepted, and will be published. 



The Committee has kept close watch of the columns of all the prom- 

 inent newspapers and magazines of this and foreign countries, and has 

 been instrumental in sending correct statements to numerous editors who 



