San Francisco's awful calamity grows upon one the more he sees of it. Again and again have we looked upon its square miles of earthquake-shaken, fire-swept area, and each time it seems more dreadful, more appalling, more incomprehensible. The great Chicago fire, the great Baltimore fire, the big Boston fire altogether were, all told, not to be compared with San Francisco's awful holocaust. All the fires combined, of any account, in the large cities of the United States in the last half century, it is safe to say, do not equal this. The people of the United States can not appreciate it. One needs to think in "trust figures" and over "trust" areas. He needs to see it and walk over its square miles of desolation. The stricken city and its people need help, and all the generous response of other cities north, east, and south is still in demand in all its actuality. Let no city diminish its contribution; rather let it be multiplied.
