THE OAKLAND TRIBUNE.. JUNDAY, MORmNQ,:-JUNE, 100C Insurante Companies Slow in Paying Claims. faiuretof -fffbftrf Bros. k -Being Discussed Across Bay. IT ; SAN FRAXilSOO, June 2. Unless the insurance companies meet their obligations yith more speed than they have evinced since the disastrous lire, new San Francisco will be a very indefinite proposition. There is no chance to have the homes that onee crowded the district south of Market street restored unless the insurance policies of the property holders are paid. In fact, it may take more than the payment of the majority of these policies to once again house the naked lands below the slot. As "a rule most of the people south of Market street carried from $1000 to $1,"00 insurance on a residence that could not be duplicated for 1000. Now. unless these people that have lost their homes not only get their insurance money but have a few "heads" on the side, the vast acreage south of the tenement district will remain a cinder path. And as it is with the poor, so is it also with the rich. 3 The business man with a piece of land in a desirable location, who has to take just as much ginger out of An as did the left upper cut with which Battling Nelson opened his nose in the first round at Colma. Vhile Britt jumped in and out pretty well and landed a number of good blows, he never seemed to quite overcome the effect of the punch in the eye. It will be remembered that on the afternoon of September 9th last he never quite overcame the effects of the punch that Nelson gave him in the nose. Now the people that familiarize themselves with pugilistic dope are wondering whether a real good punch early in the game takes the steam out of Britt". If it does he has practically no chance whatever to regain his former eminence as a bruiser. A man has to be able to take more than one punch early in a fight to make a successful showing at the close. Notwithstanding the stories of McOovern's lunacy the punches that Britt landed on his head and face affected him but little. In the clinches the "Terrible Terry" had a shade the best of it, and when the ten rounds were at an end many of the last finished their present career as liquor inereiiant on, this side of the bav. v . . : : .. v :- i The Hilbert brothers were closeritohSclimitz administration than any mercantile firm in town.! fer a tyime tjiey had Abe Ruef for their attorney, and in the oorrier of each of their drummer's cards that fact was displayed in large type. The ' firm's letter heads also bore the legend, 4A. Ruef, attorney."' j o i i The row between Mrs. Inez Shorb Vjiite, Mrs. Kleaoor Martin's society leader, and Captain Herbtjrt (hum of the Red " Cross is making all sorts of fun for the eltthmen and the army set. Captain Gunn has certainly a b'autful military name. It is quite on a par with that of Ensign Pistol, Major Grape-shot and General Debilitv. So when Mrs.1 Inez Shorb White, whose feminine followers are not irrevocably unacquainted with powder, dubbed Captain Gunn "coward," all who heard of the incident saw unlimited fun in sight.
