19063 Anxious Times 



by debris, all classes were at once disbanded for the Classes 

 season, and prospective candidates were granted ^^^'"^^'^'^ 

 degrees. Furthermore, as train service stopped at the 

 wrecked Pajaro bridge sixty-four miles to the south, 

 adequate provisioning of the student body soon 

 became impossible. We therefore sent the young 

 people away as rapidly as means of exit of any sort 

 could be provided. Those resident in the vicinity, 

 however, engaged in relief service, one of their efforts 

 being the establishment of lines from Peninsula 

 dairies to supply the children of San Francisco with 

 free milk. 



During the nights of the i8th and 19th the Uni- Camping 

 versity grounds presented a strange sight, for little ""' 

 jolts due to the settling of rocks into place followed at 

 intervals, and very few were willing to stay indoors 

 until the earth got over its spasms. The community 

 therefore formed a tentless encampment. At Roble 

 Hall the girls brought out their bedding and slept on 

 the ground, guarded by a ring of boys from Encina 

 under command of "Babe Crawford," a stalwart 

 football hero. On the morning of the 19th, Green 

 hurried by automobile to Sacramento, the nearest 

 unharmed telegraph office, with a bulky sheaf 

 of messages and letters designed to relieve our distant 

 friends of the prodigious anxiety caused by extrava- 

 gant rumors and early reports of the total destruction 

 at the University. These had spread, of course, from 

 points more or less remote and uninformed, local 

 systems having completely broken down. 



San Francisco, meanwhile, was being swept by a 

 devastating fire. From Palo Alto we watched the 

 lurid heavens, realizing — in some measure, at least 



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