Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 9, 1872, Page 6

e ___ THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 0, 1872 ormment was Post axo de ed there i\zhmh mvemmeut lost what it cost to male 650,000, being the cost of th Offcs s Chstom House: oore was 22,130,050 in money, oa Tho closely estimated losses of the city of B s _amount {o $2,680,856.90, consisting of $wing itema: m:awk and furmifare. 17, ete.. E of tona,” engines horaos, ‘by the Gourt Houso. records of dand titles were also destroyed. County lost €620, ‘While their valno is very great; yet it is impos- =ibla .fl”io m.b: it. They wo;ldcn;n have o P with for sum, and yet it is possible thetin o few y:fr’s their absence will moi be mmach missed, Stated in » different way, the fire destroyed: Eigaty business blocks; ore hundred business uldings, not in blocks; sixtesn thcusand other buxlgngu, cliiefly residenices; thirty-two hotels; forty-esven churches ond religious establishe xezta; nine naw!lpupsroficee; ien thentres and i ton sobool baildings; five grein elove~ tors; ell ths public libraries, and three raile Toad depote.” Over gix - hundred firms, saiclesnle cor resail dealsrs in .tho leading trades, were burnt out,” and if all ths ste ;Ewudsmll, groceries, saloons, &e., carufi added up, the nwaber wenld emount o thonsands. 3omory fondly reealls the long fnd imposing viows of marble structures; of the Bontk Division, the vanished glories of Crosby’s Opars House, of Bookseum'g%ow, of Honore's new buildings on Dearbern strect, of the superh edlfico which Field & Laiter ocvapied, of Trx Trmuse Beilding sod MeVickers rejuverated Thealzs, of the notlopricate restdonces on 3iohe igan uven;:\e, xv_m'l t.hng s).\:dufl :::ez on \Wabash svenue, of solemn charohoe: of quiet ang retired haznts of Joarnin g.s’ e a The rocamulaziors of tTeé9, of mcience and art, were aliko swept wway. ~ Vast stooks of goods, the bressures of the Academy of Science, and the pickures of tha Acsdemy, were alike de- stroved. It is posrlyls to cstimate the worth of Wood, or 5:0ne, O: gaods, but whocan assess the valoe of ze geaociations of s lifetimo, or fitly BEpTaise t8% cousuaod rekics of the dcudz things wlicy, wosthless in themselver, wers to '.hs.r . PORSY7or articles beyond all prica, As a geaeral thing, when the houes or stora 9f 'a Ciicagudn bad bumt up, Lo hed sccepted the situnaan very good-nazmredly. Ho hai in- sured yomewhere. sither because he believed in » it, or because some agent had seduced him wita Jow ratas, or porsecuted hin with golicitations, &:ad whilo the smoke was yet curling aronnd his ruios he had rushed off fo his insurance office’ tomake proof of losses, and to get the money wherewith %0 start Bgain. He expectsd a con- tost over the amouns allowed, aad a suddsn de- precation in tho eatimated value of his honsa and goads, bus he knew he should obtain some- thing, and thereforo ke had kope. Bat on the 10th of Ociober, 1871, nobody drsamed of ‘proof of losacs, or of hisit~ ing after insurance sgents. The firsv and u: usl thought waa that the tremendous blow would grostrate all the comparies, and that nore "of them would pay more than 10 cent on -ABiir liabllitics, an amouxt so alight, in view of 7the west losses of the citirens, a3 to banily de- ¢arve consideration. The low premiums of somé bome companies, and the eeling entes- tained by many ! to insure in them wos to fostar home indusiry and keep in Ghicago money ‘which wotild otherwiss go had Iod to the plosiog ef onethird af all 'the risks i he ‘turmt district in Illinois compa- mios, all but five of which were located in Chicago. Many of tho mon who had aufared the most wers large stockholders in thase com; es, 28 well ag insurers, and wera Dot ealy umable to recaver their awn losses, but wezsp\mlmhlowbeuua{npon to make good “ipa loases af those who had insared in the com- 5 ga-sunm they ware interested. While this iploradle etato of ‘affairs did not apply to the eompanies, yat-it was gon: fearcd, assumed, i or rather that they, too, wonld go into . Wedneadsy'’s UNE, however, ‘contoined & card from the Live and Lendon. ! ey would o&?_v b u'{?“& ;m(_flmted to 33 9 and in foll. This' in- Wlligence hsd been rocsived Tnssdsy it was then looked upon as good to be true. Therenpon, per- had mensed in that company began to Tie chelr claims, and to consider how they would xsd their money. Then be coming o from okher companics. Bome Aesimres sg Intenilon of paying, and some % their wo ‘while the nugon a that would do 4ka best they conld. On tke heehagf these re- asily, afier the fashion of their tribe, and who Tenty th& part og‘ Euff or lnvm‘gg cupmm- on the erers. In znother of this ixse will be found & complets raview of fhaInsurance interest as regards the Are. The los=s of o be 9 Pro; can aceurately esti- rastod, and can gent be replaced. '%.sc of Tife cammot be valued, and can neverbe restored, persons who died hss never ey but_certainly ex- bodies found ; it is only won- kat there were rot more. The fire, be- gloning ¢ the hour it did, enrprised thousands, Tasny of whom were strangers, ignorant of the oity, ho were sleeping in upper stories of ho- Zals and in sach Tooms ia” busineas blocks. +. Xt 72l opon men maddened with Liquor and Blinded {0 3 sense «f tho they ez in- cwzing, It buyst opon the inmates of inflam- mshile Wooden tenements which burstintoa blazo befare the flames bad renched thom, and while the Inmstes were siill questioning what they shoeld try to save. Infirm men, helpless Wwomer, uud uncared-for children suddenly found them~ sielvas in afrosts throreed with fellow-sufferers dind with tesma. The Exmes were almost aronnd them, zad the very articles they carriod in their hands wers sometimes blazing. Thay were trampled wnder foot by the hoofs of horzes, &od, when they rosched the crowded and nazrow briéges over which Iay tho road to safely, they Liad o Sght in ardec fo aveid being thrust over them fmo the wavés below. Bo far 2s 15 kmown, but two persons died in tho North Diviston,—Jsceb Wolf and AMary Dealm,— hie sz old man who lived on Harrison straet near Jefferson, nnd she & girl, on Jackson strest near Clinton. ~ On the South Bido it is more dificalt to staie the exact truth. It is_possible thai the- all-consumming heai destroyed the very cekelelons of the victims, or that, criehed out of all recognitioa by infalin; walls, the frail relics of morislity wern x&moveg unnoticed when the debris wes burriedly carted -away, during the winter seauon. Afier the fire there wevas reports in circuiztion thet six men ‘had gono down with one bailding, 2nd four under anotier; that one weman had rushed madly into the fire and hed found an end thers, and that scores of men hiad been killed on Rush strest bric Foradey or iwo after the fize, whils people were 0 widely scatcersd, it was hatural to aseume that one who conld rot ba fcund had iehed. But day by day the number of miss- l‘ug Gecrensed, and itis probmble thas the namen are knowu of all of zny Woan the vaolt of Tax Jpromizeace who died. Yrizuxe Building was and the othi % Wen WL roowmed naighborioc i them on: believed si:u: I cut of from -t Toteedon. K - et ruskad a quassic ot peror yean alive in e cinroucy, s was agein. Sume of a8 that he made Li~ wee killek and roubed waile ou the sireess. Samuel Shawoross, = meschant tailor, who div buziness on Wathingten street, wiile ranning < khis shop, through tle ziley Ly Fiald & Leiter's stare, was croahed by tho [alling. walls of tha ing. --John McDeritt, a well-kncwn billiart S‘lnym‘, Whd was roaming around near the Po: fics, stupeflol wisk liqnor, undoubtedl: ding fiear thers, 1lough au attemp: was af. ‘wands mede by & newseaper to tring him to life at the remote West. H.P. Dewoy, su insurance 3 ngang perizhed in an sitemupt {0 s2cano from tin fol atory of Spesd's Diocx. A dronkan m: wihie trying to rap eouih {rom the Lave by Emnnds on Hickizan avenne,was also killed, Four other bodies were aiso rocogrized o ih: Souih Bide, Lxo of them of burglars who wou ing to riflz a Bozwh Weier hrses t wos in e North Divisfon thet the fate! fi%m the jca. numerona aad ghoski: eve, especially in river aad north of thickly covesed witk {h the acor, Li: flazaes raa slong & fsal as & z3un could walk, What wna woree, constantly leaping to ne: points, poth dne forwerd and latersily, and propageiing itaelf {acter than its vickims' cog Ffio beforo it,-even if they: had not z to mave any 0f their goods. Dot ‘ownsend and Wesson streais, and within blocks of Chicago svaoue “onan area ~ore than forty scres, there were .found. the B, iies of for{y-five poar. crea! Alre. Invess, | 1 a8 Bcoich Iady, was killed by a fnlll.ng wall, 2t " Indisco street, after kaving e separated from her family, and lost in the smoke. Johuny Beart died at Lill's Lrewery, while sttempting “to rescue the horses he ked” been in the habitof driving. Andrew Monahan, a Conetable; was snifocated on North farket etreot, sod otl:ers, overcome by or dostitule of straagth, died npon the strec Ope man wes_found t t0 8 cinder ina twenty-foar-inch _waler main, lyicg on tha stcw:d nesr the Water Works, and which he had lonbiless belioved would prove 2n effectual shield 2gainst the flames. In ope honss on Bremerstrect eight parsons, probably composing an entire family, wers found dead together. leze, too, thers wes much romancing. The Librarian of the Historical Society declared that half-a-dozen prominent citizens, whose nemes ke geve, hiad perished thera, and it was not an- 6l theyall appeared, one Ly one, to deny the stor, that its trath was questioned. _The Caroner extempcerized a dead-house ina Livery stable on Milwaukee avenue, snd the charred {ragments of humanity were at first car. ried there, as they were discovered in various rarta of the city. Of zeventy taken thare at £irst, but fourrotained s human form, the others being burned out of all shape. Monday, about three thonsand parsons called to look as, nnd, if possible, to identifs, the remains. The total number of deaths cansed by the bas been estimated at 3 little over thrus b ed, rot incladin still.born chitdron. In addition to the direcs Joss of life must be considered tho injurions reselts to many from the mflm and excitement whith thev were corj undorgo. They lay ont of doors oxposed to the chill night winds witkout sufi- cieat clothing or food, or they were huddled in- to barracks or unventilated churches. A few died from the hardships they underwent, and & few cases of ineanity occarred, of which the fll}‘;ng \m? nn‘acubtedly the incitinghcauee. or the peculiar to; of Chicago, tho losa of lifs would have: been incatonlsiia, Had thiscity, like many older ones, possessed nar- 0w 8ad winding etreets without ontlets, hun- dreds wonld have dicd where only one did, and hence it is natural that the grestest nomber of deaths ehould have happened just whers they did, in that portion of &iie Nerth Sids where the stréts are but lanes, and many of them, owing to the hap-hazacd wey in which sebdivisions viore formealy made bore, were no better than Llind alleys. ~ The numerons bridges, too, which connected the South and West Bides, also con- tributed sroztly to the sslvation of the refagees {rom the former Division. Had there been Lut ore, it is more than likely that the scenes of the Beresina would have been renowed. DISTRESS. When the sun set on the evening of Monds; the degrea of distress and despondency which prevailed in the city was_immeasarable. Tion- sauds of people, deprived of their Lomes, wWers hudéled fogother in churches 8d sclicol houses, crowded .;:3 the ab&dfi ofdmhfiree and fri td:. or encam pon the wind-swept prairies in the northwostarn part of the city, or along the shoras of the'lske. The cortemplation of so much suffering filled all who beheld it witha grief intensifiod by the thought that they them- selves might soon be enduring 2 similar fate, There wes no water, and the engines were help- less, even if they bad besn in good wnrkmg order and the force in thoro %ISCI line. canrge in the wind mighs bring back the fizmes from the North Divieion to the ons in which they Ind ariginstod. A narrov sf its east- em bank lined with blazing coal and lnmber yards, its western ono coverad with infammable material, way not 8 barrier to be trnsted. The esplosion of a kerosene lamp, an_sccidentel spsrk, might stert enother co tion on the West Side, which would eweep scross the city to unite with its predocestor. The wind, whick had never sonnded eo fearfully before, stil blew with unintermitting force, The rain, Iooked for as esgerly an frantically as by the pricsts of Baal, did not come. Bet pity for suf~ fering and the fear of eoon sharing it were not the only emotions which excited §e-gondancy and despair st that unbappy time. The merchan: felt that he was i the workingmen, none too well provided for the approsching winter, that all prospect of lator W gone, the clerk believed that he was thrown ont of employment and hed nothing beiter to da than to leave. It was thonght that the com- mercial prosperity of the city was at an ends that the trade which it hsd so Iaboriously built up wonld nzturaliy go to the other pleces which Yiad facilities for_fransaciing it, and thas West~ ern deslers would torn sway 0 St. Louis, and other points, for thoir etacks of goods. It wns nazertod thal it wonld be twenty years befors the city wonld zecover from the siroke it had re- ceived. It was aseumed that all the money in the vaalts of the banks had boen dsstroved, and that they were hopelessly gone, acd that the savingsof the poor, slowly pat aside from thei- wages, were gonenlss. Noone belicved that his insursnca was worth axything. Nobody scemed to have auy money on hand. Many were not paid off on Saturday, zzd of those who had been, had &hiosei of what they recelved. But while those who still had homes were tortured by the gloomy poesibilities of the fature, those who ‘were camped out upon the prairie had suffered in reality what othars were eaduring in Im:fi- instion.” Deprived of shelter, with efof.hing' - fited for the ndvanced season, they lsy upon the custy grass looking esstward where the smoke 1sy heavy above their onoe plessant homes, They bad nothing left but memories. The gradual ac- thoneands of objects cumulations of years, the to which associstion ‘had given immeasurable value, had all disappesred. Worse than that, 8ome mourned their: and others dreaded the worst for the missing. the confasion of & hrrried flight, families kad becoma wideiy scat- tered, and their component parts had drifted in all directions. Some sooght the fields, others found their way to fricnda in different parts of the city, and ofhers had tsken the irainsand found shelter in the surroanding suburbs, and doys wera to clapso before they were rewnited. But with all these sorrows, and in the presence of 8 disaster apparently £0 irremediable, thers wus very httle outwsrd displsy of emotion. There was little wecping and wringing of hands. The troubles of the hour ware borne 'n silence, at least, if not in rosignaticn. Hera and fhero pessons belonging to moro imvulsive and emo- tional reces lordly bewailed their fate, sad volubly told over their losses to ikose who would listen, and if nono would, they told them to the winds. Those who had suered the most generally had the loast 1o say; tho wcorched complaired more than the burned. Tueaday brougbt with it a clearor comprehen- sion of the situation, but not much to camse cheerfulness. The remainder of the city was still safo, but it was destitute of water, mot merely for extingnishing fires, but for cooking, and the other ordinavy purposes of life. It wea one of the absurd resnlts of civilization that 200,000 people, settled on the immediato shore of a great and inoxhaustible body of water, ehould ind themselves ntterly aba Joss how to get that mecessiry finid. They bad be- come 20 zccustomed to having = certain thinrdono forthem by the engines 2t'the Watar Works that ihey were unadle fo relum to the primitive waya of 1829, 3ad take pailsand go after what ihey :fi:eflai. In this dilemma they did the best ¥ kner. TUnion Park contained some ponds of moderate aize oud depth, supplied from tho Water Works, and which wers fall at the tineof thefire. Thither went at first the people from the immediato vicinity, with their sud bnckets, and wash boilere. Gradaslly those liv- ing farther off becams mindfal of thess foun- taias io the desert, and cama with wheelhasrows and carriagos, fillod with vessels for the holding of the precioun fiid. The park 10 ths ran- dezvoas of all the ieamsters. It was more erowded than ever bafore on the plaasantdst A Siucay oveniugs, and thera was anabundance I perainiiors, bnt they Leld pails, 2ot Berrole and water casts ware fillod tiraro along the stracis, grested a3 by tiro huad 0f 2 heuseheld wic b or Luske:, which he wanted fillsl Gral ally the Iaites grew eballuwes, bu they hold “ai watil the dsinand upon the= was over, prov- 1§ far betier roservoirs than the brick one i 1 West Division. ‘fizs oroamental csa. apoa oceasion. become the mnefal. ‘Tho varions actesian wolls supplied many, while oilers re- rorted to Whiat raunwater wad left in their cis- -erne. After s time the maina wero tapped, and, -y the use of locomotives and steamers, water was pumped into them from the Somth EBrarch, fuzishing » small but welcome supply 0 £ho buildings in that neighbe-hood. Tia deep-ont of the canal bad beon completed in® Jaly. =nd b weters of the lake were fiowing through it. Done for #ho. purpoee of draizins the it scrved the incidental purpose of alding the water sepply. The fiow from the newers leading iato the Soath Breach from the South Side of :ouree siopped with the firo, aad contributed sreatly to the purity of the water, which was Zoor stud enough, bt whish could still be wsol hile managing io zet along as thsy best comd, le tonghes of all were % the Watar Works, ‘kere Crogier & tailing, day e ng the debria which covered +3d Duering with eager oyes to sce whether thew -suld be male sorvicesble asain, now doubting, ow hopicg, but finally concinding that thers a8 & reasonable poseibility of =uccess. Dat these physical discomforie could be en- ared, for ther conld be turned into s jest. To © penailess can be made a source of amuse- mm:i: if &is ?lo:tbgmh‘cted iest there mig] a scarcity of ons did 2ot last long, and the fow rotail P who at- tempted 10 put up the price of their waras met withno countensnce, and becams unpopular. The nervous condition in which all found them- selves cansod them io lendsan easy ear and per- fect faith fo the moat alarming roports. g'eha thonsand-tongued Bumor never had a better field, and nover found more willing listeners, It ?au;efdtbuam&‘h:dbcen t while in the act of firinga , and had been. o7 on the epot by those why ofocted b Hr exact location “was stated. and those who told iho slory had it fromthe lips of witnesses. Nothing could be more circumstantially told, and nothing better voucked for. Ithad all the ap- Eumboe of truth, but none of the substance. us, men wero roported to have been lynched on Western avence, on Twelfth strect, and on Douglas place. No one knew when B2 00~ currence might happenin his own neighbor- hood, azd, 08 night came, grew more and more nervous ¢t every sound that scemed tobe cansed by & mufflod footstep. The following peragraphs will give an ides of what the Pnhliu ‘waa fed ‘on, aad what they took for gospel ~Bridget Hickey was arrested for sotting fire toa bam in therearof a house on Bureside stroet. t.llly #ome mistaken ideas of clemency, ske WES nof —Two men who were caught trying to sct fire to the Jesnit Church, an the West Side, were of withont ceremony, and the lookers- on were pleased to eay, “Berved 'em right.” —At about 11 o'clock, vesterday foranoon, a man residing on Fourth avenue canght & man in the basement of his bonse, number unknown, armed with hay and maiches, He gave the alsrm and the incondiary wascanght, acd stened and battered fo deeth. "He lies on the avonue yet, near Fourteenth streat. ¥ atiempted to help on the conflagration by igniting n clothesline saturated with kerosene, and” throwing it into s building on Thirty-soo- ond street. Ho rcceived his deserts at the hands of the firemen who saw the act, and now “eleaps in the valley.” —A man, name unknown, was ehot by a negro st the corner of State dnd Thirty-second streets. His offence was, that ke set fire to a bnilding to obtain better opportunities for pillage. —A man was seen hanging to a lamp-post on one of the avennes, dufint not cold, —A young man stated ‘that a masn was canght in the act of setting fire to the room in which be lived. There were no revolvers in the house, and the ruffian has escapod. True or false, and moat of them certainly were the latter, theso Lhinga kept alive s feeling of terror and distruze, 1t wasill for the man who got in the leo of a barn or fence to strike a light for his cigar. During the dsys immedistely following the fire, there wam a regular exodus from the city, and it is believed that £s many as forty thons=n pereons took their departure. Some were clerks and woskingmen, who were utterly cleaned ont, and had no place to stay and nothing to do, Aen gent their familics to relatives or friends in the country, there to ramain till homes conld be socared for them. to dttend to their business, The railroads for 3 few days gave free: ortation to all who wera in any way vonched for by the different Relief Committees, and numbers who might otherwise #m: staid found it an excollent opportunity for leaving the city for nothing. goans who happenad to bo away from home hurried back at fall and crowded the incoming trains, bat they did not equal those who loaded down the ontgoing ones. This ‘iatense nervousmess and apprehension showed itself most strikingly whenever the fira bells were heerd. Ordinarily nothing had been more onconcerned than the manner in which people listened to them. They would count tha £trokes, find that the alarm did not _come from their immediate noighborhoods, n and then give the matter no furthar thougkt, certain to all tha information thoy wanted in the morning pa~ pers. Baut all tha: was changed No matier whence the alarm was given, it became a mater of general concern. lott their hcuees, and looked to sea if they cozld obaerve eithor smoke toolong. The fear | X or flame. A fire broke out in the evening at the foot of Madison strect. ly 2o ons woald have paid any atteation to it, but tho cntirs pop- ulation of that etree: came out upon the side- walk, acd ssked the driver of each western- bound car whst the news was corcarning the fire, and be, transformed for the momant from the mere subcrdinate of a raileed company to a n;euegger of g:x.dd fid.i:xfs, informed Lhzm' szain an in, and square af:er square, that tke co; ot m was under control. ~ The burn- ing of & shaoty upon fhe praiie west of the city, reized a general turmoil, One result of this dread of fice was that no_time was loet in patiing it out, wherever detscted. Both fre. e amd citizens worked with desperste energy. Naz did the Istter ‘wait 38 usual for the arrisal of cugines, They worked the and frequently werethrongh With their work before the firamen reashed the spok, mr‘untmun toinduoe one cf tham 0 re~ quict. During 21l thees despondent days the quietand good onder o the ch wers pemariabe - Frers s less dromkennoes than usual, for very few sought con- salstion in that way. There wers few offensea agelnst Derson or property, and the crimiral classes seemed, for the mcment, 10 have become axdexly citizean, cazErTSG UP. Bat this period of masifest despondency and gloom was not of long duration, Tha msjorily, instead of weaping over thelr lonses, set to work to repair them, They tock for their mottd Rerfoot's slgn, “All gone ‘but wife, children, snd energy,” azd_acted up o it, “Thera wers numberiess sare hearts, but those who pos- sessed thexu were 00 procd to shaw i, oz were zsham- ©d t0 be thought less plucky than thelr follow-suffer- ers. It was ot fashionable to cry. The proper thing to do va to jest at losscs and £hame {hose who bad not suffered In the presence of eomuch good-zatare, an 2 person who had mot been burped oat felt himeelt erior being. This philosophical acceptance of the situstion showed ftself in ths notices paiated on bits of board and stuck mp among the This ‘‘removed on account the heat;" that one, “owing to over which he had no control.” Homes xero tranaformed into #tores, =nd signs siuck p at the ats location told the inquirer wheretogo, New frades sprang into existence, A with a8 wagor and painted side-boards block. ~ Others, provided with crowbars and chains, weat into the eate- business, Never was there such o oteers, with #0 much exeitement and #o many . Of iEe huadreds zud_hundreds of safes fow went throogh the trial unscathed, owaer of ons stood by wien i3 was extricated, vet smoking, from tha ruima. He waited for it to cool. He lsaned over as it was opened. Instead of bis books, his pracious bonde, bls valued Jewslry, he fouad only paper ‘and formless m=etal, and thea he curved the mantfasturer of that ssfe, and turned avay. The business of selling relics, {rom a fisco of the Court House bell to a pack o cards, or 3 paper of melted tacks, sprang into Deing. length of Bindolph strvet, from the bridge toSmts etreet, was devoted to this Industry, Man 2nd boys “jumpsd 3 elaim™ or took postestion of the cellar of » hardware of crockery store, and displas- od thetr trenatres upan improvized oonnlers or pros. trato stoves. Contractors for the removal of debria began to sanounce themselves. Wooden shanties Legan going up on the foundstion walls which had up~ held marble structures, The empéy West nnd South Side stores wero rented, sud merchaats telegraphed Bast oz new aiocks of goods, and West to tell ihelr castomers when to look for tham, Tueaday, 2 meoting of the Bourd of Trado was held in soms rodms socured on_Canal strust, where, aftera Commities bad Leen appcinted to co-operate with the munleipl satherities in the distribusicn of reifef, a rosolntion was adopted that =1l contraczs, not setied or. tho preceding Satarday, be cancelled.” This unwise Ppropasition was, howsver, reconsidered, on the motion of M. J. P. Zamsey, and, at meeting beld on Satur- sy, it was decided 'that all engagemonts ehomld be honored. Wedneedsy, ths Diroctors of the Caamber of Commerce decidad to rsbuild cn tho old site, and on thet syme day s moetig of the Usmkers wan held, 2t which Mr. Coolbaugh presided, and where it was determined to continus business, ' By evenleg, twelve of the baaks had found temporary oficas, many of them in the private residezoss of thdir officers, 2nd da- clared heir intention of beginning 50 soon'ss thelx nswhomes were in order. Thozgh 1t ws not knowa hat they coald do, yet their actisn asturally farpired grezh confidence, It was anderrtood that the vauity of the bants wire perfactly eafe. Thursdsy Lhey decided that they would betn at omcs to pay ont 15 mar cent to depositorn, and the serlngs bsnks amaounced thet tlisy would pav$20 to persons heving het aum ermose in (relr Lands, zod {0 pey o £l thoes baving less, This a-on on ' the part of the panks was cridieised at 10 Eme, bat thalr Policy is ow adsmittad 1o Bave boen By v sennd, iut mach of their - sta wea in the form of commercisl paper, and .y also wished to Xesp 0n Lund mones enogah £ 1ho ghipmen: of proluce escward. Neexy a8t s found no diculiy in resuming on the fallowicz :wsday, and found that the sums_oTerad for depasl - n9aR:od 10 more than thoee withdraws, Theassuranos ibst amethicg, st lesss, wiald be ob- :cined from he insursnce ccmpasies, added to the fn. cresiug hopefulases, Thies, 100, the oonizibations of sirter Siates were (34 pouring in. Thers was food for ho hangry and clotsing for the naked. Esstorn crod- Hiore ssal words of cheor and eaconrsgement, Fears of sraon and robbery were dylogout. The restors- tlon of the water supply was daily expected, and tie 3 oo of eonmci had Leen ket Tor the erection of the first bock ouflding in the Sonth Division. ‘Thoreday the wholesale had thelr meeting, Erocers and passed resolutions to the offect that ther zsk=d nu comproniie with thelr creditors. They only wanted time, £n.1 ¥ere determined to pay one_hundred cents on the dollar. @n ths ssmo day the Board of Super- visors mot, and adopted a Tesolction that when tho Qoart Hosme was rebuilt it should bo on the same ground. A Bar moeting was held o3 ths same dzy at Rice & Jzckzon's Hall, and preparstions were made for a s opening of the Conris. Owizgto the aifl- ~ulty of finding rooms, little businesa of importance was traassctod mntil thoy were estabilshed in the High School, Ghencs they were eubsequently removed to the asw Ciiy Hail. The Uniled States Courts found qua 2273 on Congress street, and remained thero tnkil theis ransfer to their present location in Farwell Block, Tho newspapers, oo, after stating at lensth what 22 been d ed, turned {he tright side of the gickare totelight. They pointad to the fact tha: Chicago still retained the geographical position which i1 madoft, and the raioids which. entred tmeres Of L $34,270 peraons in. the dity, 235,770 had sived lumbers went East in order o sewers and water injured. The Tyster the lake tunnel remained. the credit, reputation, and energy of i men of Chicago remained intact, sad with e what could a0t be_accompli 10 do business, 3 Those who bad prophesied that helf 3 cantury would to Luild the city changed iheir tuns, and Iowered the number of years to a dozen. Those who to leinsty poared in. Laborers and workmen, scenting constant came from all quarters. paired; the sireels wers £illed with bustle and orimation, and éay by day faith and confidence returned to the gorely tried inhabitants be required h3d fled from the city 2 duzlly Teturn. All the teams m:&:mymm of the employment and Ligh wages, Tha street r2ilroads’ wese e of Chilcago. Thee remaired fora time a feellcg of uscertainty to the location and distract, esoecially amang. growing out of the questions raised zs of the Corrt House and the Custom House. The ter, bad become to0 small to answer fthe parposca which it was lmezldnd{ =nd, though ihe wails of old structure el stood, {t wonld have been bave tried to do anythi; with thecs. House was evidently 2 ho 10 bo pulled down. crnment disposod of its share of the business by claricg that 1t would keep as closs to the old location as Pogaible,2nd the Council, after oneor two hested debates At meetings held in the Union Bieet Police Statlen, thing it could by determining to return At firat it thought of construciing did the £o the South temporary wizest Sk on the Court Housa Sqt butldings subscquedtly decidsd to take the ald reservolr on Adama srect as s centre, sand erect a brick butldiug around that, using it fer vaults. Trawork was push by tio Baard of Poblio Works, and qustiers were provided for ko City Government, which it witl forward not abacdon for many mobths, THEE SEWSP) sprS, AT the great newepaper ofices had been destroyed. Staats-Zeituna, Republioan, Dbeen deprived of presses and raterial, and compositors and employes wece scat Tax Times, Journal, and Post bad But Mondsy afternoon. tered in 2l directi ionz, Journai issued a snll extrs, in hand-bill form, and Ealf the msual sizs, present quarters. Tuesday mo TRmuE, had Jeased. Tocias % o Capal xircet, prrchased a Jot of job-ofice type, and made 23 trraugement for the use of the press secured e Journal, avd Wednesdsy morning a two- by F3re, eight-culumn sheet was published, giving < tailod sy account as possibie of the firc, Tlfiu Staate-Zeitung, Republican, 52 Mail tesured ey, Tho Zomes wking for 3 conmle of o As thl critical moment, when discourags men, given wey 1o desjondency, the newspa; with no ipery They the facure, ratler than to_the past. The torial of Wednesday's TRmoxz said : was_eubstani - | Tomaay, e yanc - e Uusiced thst “op- conquersble will" which had douo 50 much in the | sisira. ed in the fotare? past, plish It was apparext that in November, 1STI, the city was {ully as well of, Tolly 29 rich, thotgh not qults 2a able Ted also a8 3 Post Ofice and Federal Court-room, nscless to The Ooart wireck, and world have Gor- g tended to =nd when it was £o easy to have ariain tone, and their words of encourogs- mest anu %ups, read by all, contributed powerfully 2o revive coafidence, znd to incite peols o exertion. did pol attaript to nnderstat or belittls lotses, bt ilrey culled attention to tho brighter sids and ta lesding edi- their privato houses furnishod the cheapest lest meass of daing that, The result was, on the South Stde, tho sudden metamorphcais of War Dash svenus from a residezco fnto & business street. The Wives gave up their parlors and retreated up The names which had sppeared modestly on door.plates becare comspicuens upon eigur. The brildings t00_val for residenca pur- poses. Muaywho Lired thers leesed Cucte premices e s ) g 5-secon poved, 2nd rejoicing in eeveral subutaniial brick bailidoge, Suddeny & bost- f;l;emm On tho West Sido, thers That porticn of the city had al- Nothing conld ESvo bees. qain Canal street prior to fho fire. Hardlya team drovealong it, and o men walked there. Bt aa the Slecping Beauty wakened ot the. touch of the Fairy Prince, 50 did thesa desolato portions of the West Side, » day or two fler tho fire, - All the vacant butla- ings thero wora tzken in s moment. Two newspaper oftices established themselves there, and Canal beeame the lesding businesszirest of Ohirsgo,—tho pavemont blocked ~ with errisges, Elde- i thronged, with mon, Bufldlags on street, wirich had been enpty ¥ were evected, e BEapped n o ohee) Sedaced by the high ey offered, goms of {ho &mall retailers gave up their atores fo the large Sonth Side frms, Ofher smail doalers wished # hold op, but were unshle to stand the complition with theso prominent houses, sud sold out and moved yet further west. An old church, sn ant for iis’ possessor, ws converted {nto ato and proved s good fnvestinent for him. Theatrt manigers fought for the possession of a half-Anished bamn of 3 thestze, Whatever rent was seko? was paid, and that without question. Men struggied fer a place 10 do business as thoy wonld for plank on the ocean. Then whea 5 e bud hired s Blics, o wsa verzoptio £en: T8 iter, have a o’ up, and then Shblcha BT Fot whis the wlicl sort bim. T/The loa s ing dry goods firms established West and South Sido 8tores, and ald well st tosh, Tt waa soon generally admitéed that tho northern ex- trecalty of the South Division must cantinus to b the graat Lusiness quarter, but 1t was very plain that littls bullding could be dono there during the winter. The most that could be sccoorplished was to remave the dsbris and got ready for operations in the following spricg. A fow had the. means and deterrainati and ‘they bullt at once to resp am abundw harvest {n the following’ year, But those' who comd not do {his, looking nronnd for 8 Place upon which to orect temporary stractures, bethought themselves of the Lake Park, that nacrow strip of land fronting on a¥enae, and ex- tending from Madisen strect Deatly to. Trelttn. 1t had been Inid out as s park, bt lind becsme nzeless as auch, for the time belug at' least, Bo the permiasi anked for was granted, and a row of wooden buildings, same nsed for atorehouses and somo for stores, was sapidly run up all along that part of the zrenue, where they still remain, to be removed, bowever, in’ a few At atwet the amo time, the old market space on Bsudolph stoeet, between Halsted and Deaplataes, iven aver to tho meat doalers, who had been Esst Kenzio street previous to the and they hadsoon covered with sheds the gromn alioted to-them. Y, ‘Almost befors the ashes were cold, one-stary wooden Int- and for the do- bat the . 16 de- shauties begzn springing up in the South Division, cozrn oz, the midst of a cab 2 1 in_ tio | chiefly used for ssloons o ofices, but they havo neazly e e S 'flfflxm’-"‘}ufiufi all dimsp; with the exception of those on Lagalls o cumnlaiiins, i2o peopls of this onoe beantiful city resoired that. CIICAGO EXALY, LISE 40ADN. mica With wos on evory hand, wich doash in msay stean pliczs, with (w0 or \arse Biadred milltoas of Gt Barly Pirgrey st Sy fad dew ot tho Houra: of still brave, ang they look inzo the bas mever bocs £ hoca sach cheortal wimen are fotaro wizu audsunied hearia. 3 cilzmiy, sohas thero nave do 1a tho'face of desulation and Llessod As thero shall o mess iz ibis tryiag temo. ~ Hundzeds of train-loads of sisions aro coming forward to us with all speed every quaster, trom Mainsto Omaha. Som armirad—more will raach us befuro thass ed. Thres-lourths of vur inbabited ares. The water-sap) Iy will bo-speedily reaswod. eagines irom a di nived, and moe aro oa that apy fariher progrees should be made > by the flam or thas any new tire dneuld break out that wonld act aishad. Fain. ‘Biriy of the gad people of th walfer foom hunges oF Dakeds fease Bivoatroady il s2nod, Stz fres cn nelgnbos cities have alroady ar- A A A N and Adurs streets noar the temporary Gity Hall. They ‘wers erected at a time whon the sire jimits onlinance was not to Le abandoned, Early in spring. Tobuilding cominonced, 23 is relsted alsewbere, znd generally the buildings found occupants 60 soom as they were ed Bl a pemon attempt- ng to do businems there red under many dissdvantsges, Tha sireels obstructed with building _materfal, and wero by tarns muddy and dusty. ~ The sidowalis were often wanting, and biocked up when they ex- isted, and constant accidents from fallizg derTicks de- terred thoss who would not hova cared for lesser in- cumbrances. The boldest shoppezs saw litloto in- doce them to make own town when they conld get wht they wanted nearer home, and it will ba next sammer before the stores in tho burnt dis- trict of the South Divilon get their fair abare of cus- es, B instantly extiagaish e biscin, Lo oy loshiog e w52 | 1om, =d blac) @ clearing ams 3 debrl 5 day, 3 ihe hoat 1 &5 2z subdeed £kt tne | _Those who had nothing else to give Jast October, cal can be bapdicd. Fisld, Leltor & Co. | Wers profuse in ndvics to the woy in which the city recommencs business to-day, The moncyaad secu. | should be built. Among other seggestious, thus 3}4& &:fllm banka arc fi‘g- Tha e :,a?w =x§"!§nk-‘ tendered, was one to the effect that all the = o taciz eacrgies 1o bring s o adlctizn. aho o Thms Dundred misioss of SAplAl Tavesed in O e uld o pregate oo e ireet, o hioek, Lin dey 7o6ds i1 buuad to s2o us uga. Taey bavo bren built the ded "y millin L. d Wit special rafercaco to a great_commercial mart. Dog have the eye offended by 3 milicty aid & Dlaco ad ey canmo: (a1 S2stein Be. Ojengo st | Dodk-#toro slag by shlc. Bat this acrice. Dus mat Tiso ng: follgwed, and the yarions branches of trade ara locat- o W at the forces of na- ., roquire that the coadacted hare. to_reconsrue: our sure, £oless thin tha forces of reason, eactiangesof a gre=t regloa shonld yeam, may be ngui s capizal 4 Ten, tucal 1air ciiy, Du: 10 resuild it fire-proof will meaco as tua 20z, nokher, for we havs credit in cvery land, ol ons updulldicg of Chicagoio help us. Sy ekl BT ei i niads o w3 worst i3 e Wil be g, an ‘Christan fatiy'azd up! “ihess aro words & wero the immediste cause plised Lt ‘which ral Deariened host. For a time, the and faith pezf Ppapers preaching zed the fanctions of a e eonals " and with Wedneadsy's paper : Losr. from. inmournig. Ay ozo boy bleass address 29 Poik atvet. PZRSONAL, Olaro W. Adams,Iaave word ] street, whee you ars, £ Al Wi B, Chas. Hiteacock pizg, that Lmay et my trum, as'T nood 12 v H.R (ot: 304 £2mil; Can be foand, fcan Heformed Church, it coraerot Ann an siroes, Gor d last scea gning south, fell of e b g R -m?;‘n. " Ous i Wil B well Frder L Zama'in foll is 02 the wagou. o . 534 Stata streot. warded o2 reportiag to Arast Mra, Satida, Brown, Ist earl; Slonday moraing witha A-B. Featan: load of izraliure {om tho resicence o ‘Wil the two mea haviag c! of the lady and Joad Ppors az camer of £ulton aad Jedesson strots ¢ 5 A cumm X bridge. with a crociomag, oa is Sraith, of 181 Noga of trunks M. E. svonas.. Indy who gare = comerof Beis and will ploass call at 7% Wabash avense. Stondss afternoia. Dgaroes ste Fics 0 st the north ead of LaSalls strest tun- or 3t 2y Bousa cn CLEck sircst, neir Fallorion "2 Sddition to these sdversisemants, day by day Iong the reftgees wera Tany & jamms of adver not being generzlly known om the Ere- here the otiice of publication was; “bat shey Legan to coms in such guantitios as al, or at statemments of tho whereabouts of publishod, which sived these euderers weary ecarch, and hours of uneasta: Wetnesdzy's paper had but threa cading the next CE)‘ £0 make it alra ost impossible to handls them, It camo necessary 10 set them in as compact a form as possible, and éven than it was impossible to find oom for them all. - Among these wers many of businz=sea Tusg iato existence with the fire. Therowers OF vervicon to Femove eafes T om the cuias, sad ‘which o decipher charred books and papess, while soon. tormarn lowyess doputved of thake busin offered their eervices to make oat 1nst Chicago argauizatiors, The valus of the papors was attestsd by the eager- ees (hem. Al thmn%i: the mormug nal sireo in ‘ess alown Lo pose: houra a long iive of reopis blockaded front of TRE TAILUXE offico—wziting patiently, re c=ts in hend, for thelr tarn to come. News passed alcng, oxering ppers for ten or Aften centa; out, so greit feemed the poverty of the crowd, ive their economy, fit they preforred rather i gy oo centsexiza. The prize of the papers, rold outovar o = oo cents 3 milo | fire, which or 80 exces: to wadt Gift minntes 2ho countef as fivo cents, waa twenty-a) w3y, aad even! ey {far ten the door, =nd rashed off with thelr papa: in ek for something ix ~iation to tho eiections weat by w: ©0at, 3nd 2031y « swed to Eear, but anything in Dbren eaid, iz fully prezsesved. THR POST QFFICA. 1t must be remezzbeced that the Post Ofice had been baroed aad the Postmaster driven into 1bs incoavea. uercers =t Burlizgion Hall. Tao carrers had diminfahed, some Scattered and (s force of clerks di: tiem. The wires were so burdensd with mosmages % 824 coming that 2 took daza for one toget thronsh, =5 5 groat difs z=d, after it had arrived, i was s matter cnxayu:ofl:dfl:-_\p‘;:m Dl‘):omiz‘:;gm in tia perpleity the newspspers sort of 8. The literature of the fire *va3 not coafined to the ‘Tholoading publications of tha coan. aad the West, sm flhmr COTT u‘pu! l(!!d. ents here, t0 exert to the utmost thelr powers of de. Tuln sent off by Ty belito tho calumtty that Bas befallen us. orid ably Hever 2xon the ko of Itocer: R et e, B a: 2 20 94584 wo bzve suffared mast bs borue, baz the placs, the Ums, snd tho me3 are bore, 10 come botiom Sad work, up, Toata ot ta bov: X nd e Lot 3 Wesiern anic. Lat o3l ohaer of republication, for th much of fhs encrgy din. year. They were the tramoet calls rallied azd invigorated a scattered snd dis. the gospel of hope directary and an intelitgence ofice, X0 one knew where anyitlog was,—munivipl or Federal officee, banks or stores, Mezehacts desized to resch theircusicmers. Scastersd jes, desirons of corzing together, found i: proflt- ooy through tae pipers, and the * par- “fosta ™ riraled one shother in length and in cusioeity. Same of them wers 25 fallows, be- ginaing ALt 4 ebout 10 yosrs, taken Lincola P T by o 3 3o Sadlidy (ns carmags; imowiag of sacha at Tribane offics, 15 South P, Adams. 233 rotara watch glven P S Vel seenta o exy mugh. at the Am d Washington lofe just wess of Calego aranus sirucet, or any repors. tilo properts toa gontlamanat the TS\ Virocis on” Busday mighly surance comp th Deea to buy TR, a3 su alarming discouat, claimsagalnst :5-five cents in the remoter wrt of thy Mea boagat 3 paper, read it, and then sold it times wEst it ‘cost them. It was the goldm bour for the nowaboys. Thoy {o.ght for placss 3rvacd i rs to meke mors in 3 dsv than they liad boea in the hablt of dolag. ck, The thirst for news was zmaring, not so aeh for information concerning the cuter worid as fire, Tno October 1xedod. Nobody hoard from withe reia~ tiouzothe Az, wo matter how ofien it might bavo was e=d Wil avidiy, Away from tho cit; acopyofs Chicsgo pper was still mors (n doman: 1t wa2 some days gefare any wese seat oat Lo subecrib. v, and one wiiich found i3 way outside hs city was 3 curiceity, to boslowly read and thon care- tuemn baving b2en made homeless. It was diffienlt toaend out letrers, 2ad 2lmox impossibie to recolre ing themselvea very much as they plesse, and without 407 stlemptat arpengoment. Atia early day, Fleld & Leiter biiit on the corner of Market and and wese follawed br J, V. Farwell & Co., on the cor- ner of Market and Monroe sireets, The value of prop- erly in {at pact of the ity ruse copsidersbly, and it s though for a moment that the corree of thosa two prominent firms would make it the business cen Dbutthat point will doubtlers have to be looked farther east. The firs, bowever, has doubtlses per poseally expanded " tho ' ates ounpledfih{:; uatoess purpotes, and pred] ke creation of businees centres in {he West and the luwer part of the South Division,—a atatecf affaira de- sirable, fox many reazoms, All that portion of the South Divislon nozth of Harricon street will bo given up to business, and the buildings now accupied ns swres on Wabash cronue, berwesn that pointand Trwenty-second street, will retarn to their cld usca, The latter sirect, cast of Stats, will rexain what it is now, and will supply the demsnds of the incressing toa living south of there. On the Weat Side few things have been more noticeabls than the nure ber of bulldings which have boen erecied on Madison streer, reor Halsted. The former streat, which bas eutairipped all others on the West Side, ia business of s betfer class than ever appessed on it before. Juat alter th do patriots conceived thaidea of trans- ferring the location of the ity bulldings to their sids of tha iver, snd leaving the South Sids to take eare of itelf as best it might. This plsn of profiting by the | misfortures of ofhors was very abandoned, 20d the West Slie has guimed by the fire only high Teata for all the vacant bulldings it had, and 3 great 2monnt of buatnes which will never leave it, Many of ho stores on W street msy move off, and Conal street may come to ook almoat a3 dull as before, but there xxo other sireets which will remain asani- mated 38 they aro to-day. Exsty on Sondey the Mayor msucd 3 proslamstl on Mondsy the Aasor a fon. i o (e meaesary oo ok s o oF oo or tha expenses for the relief of the Futering ; that pubio crdes wotld. be Persersed, and that tho police snd special police being sppointod wrould be ble for the maintenance of pescaand the protecticn cf property. The headquarters of the City Government were hed in the Congrega- tlonal Church, at (Be cormer cf Washingion and Ann strests. Al persens were warned sgainst nny sots tending to endanger property, and it was further stated thot all engiged in any ds ton would be immediately arresied. Later o day, the Mayor iseued anozher o3, reqr all citizens’ to axerclas cantich in the use of firs in thelr dwellings, 228 wot o use kerosens lights, since thers would not be a suficient water enpply for several days. Aligood citizens wha were willing to serve were requested to Tepotat fha clty headauarters, %o be swora It s Egecial pollcemen, znd citizens wore requested to or- ganize & police for each block, and send Folice Headquerters. tobe clowed at 8 o'clock. This was supplemented by adother to the offect that the Sorgoanis of districts ‘would be 37 ed by the Polico Superintendent, and that 300 eltizens would be swora in 38 specisls from each district, who would be furnishad with raticns and supplies from headqnarlers, The military wers alsa declared investod with poiice powers, and it wan stated that they wonld co-operate with the city authorities in the preservation of order. These scagestions relative to organizing were yery genenlly acted npon, Nearly =1l wero tomporarily out of wozk, and thero waa o Iack of vezunteers for doy =nd night duty, Qaide s number were given badges during Tucadsy a ¢ Wednesday, sud patrolled the streots, but this ¢z . -:stion was soon discontizued, ba e for or- To- rot be- ol Toplaced by i .75 efective agemcies, The rosis dente of numerou blocks ualled However, in watch- ing their respeetive premises, and this was kept up for some time, Owing to tho desiroction of the South Sids gna works, that division was foft entirely in the darl, azd A:-Mmmmz. doprived of that sense of security s giva az night, wers paecially and pat Sradly hervons, - The gumwaorb on the West Side had £ot been injared, and thas disision was lit upas bat the police fotoe, never large encugh to protect the ‘more thmly-sstled dintricss i tho more remote pars of that Divirion, ad been temporarily reduced by the had swept awsy the homes of 8o many of is members, The wind still blew. No heavy ralas Dad fallen, Water was not to bo bad, and the Decessi- £y of gpecial vigilancs fo t a i {n that portion of struction of mosk of the remaining b designs er who ncted as if they had. They etop] few incipient fires, but they caugit no thieves snd no ane sitempting to et fire {0 an, ding. Little by litile, with the Teturn of gas aad water, these organi- mtons melted away. = Monday merning, Major Altrop, commanding & Norwegtin battalion, moat of whose memberalired up~ o the Wost Bids, tendered 1t 10 the. Polico authoritics, -iafl hom it performed specal palice duty for 3 oagls o Ou Tuescay evening, the Qouncil, fn order to pre- vout an spprehezded extortion, passed an ordinance cstchlishing tha of broed ' s:8 cents a loaf, and pearlty oa sll violating or attempting to vivlate tho reguiation. Wodnetday, tho Msyor fscued another order, stating {hat on the following day his offics would be remaved 40 the South £ 46, to the churek 3¢ fhe corner of Wa- bash aveue and Fedshect oonct; and. thero severd other branehes of tas overament alo foun: on. On the ;::;ngdry. s published anoth aton, ent the preservation oF Hn pees and goal onds of clty to General P, A, Eherlden, commanding the Military Divislon of ftie Misonrl, and whoso hesdquarters were in Chicego; and the polico were required to act with the Ltemtenant” Geners! in the preservation of order, Thin announcement was received with g ! and the yuins, The acco 9 thers, though ofic rather 2ighly colored, wero yet | gencral sxtsction. The wildest storics wero sbroad. mors sober than many of the stsiements which had at e reporta st persons had been canht st on ol o firs: sppeared priscaess in the remots Bridewall the destra thousands by the flames, the &daths from expose hpon the prairies, 2ad the homeleas condition of trew bundrod thousand people, wero Cilated upon. Nov wers the book-publishers uamindfal of 50 interesting the press. found only in country hom iven foll =l art, given a better flea of tho ed descriptions of 11 the writars, - VIS G BUSTNESS. og farce af tha blow wns in o:tride papars where the haaging of thieves during e nig1t Gt the e, the buralag us o ction w 12, 3dltion to these, umerons paz:.:lets were issued, it the fiery covers and stestling title-pages, which appeared for a long timein tho handsof trafm-boys, but arenow to be Shere thevare still gt belief. Th= photographers =180 st to work 40 500n 13 the amoke cleared away, and heve, by their ruing than all the Inbor- | ing Sro to Rouws, and banged 1 ISy of tho Baek e reBorie to bo n taelr way to iake what was left in the city. Tho beak vaulta would 590 be sccemaible, 8ad bankers and depositors wem which did nof, how- aliko unessy, For these rasors, 3 Sver, tora Gt to Lo very good Gnte, all hufled with amatitcation the scbsitimi of military. for civil dowsr, They wanked a stroag Govesnment and & ono- Tuiduy fternoon Governor Palmer had telocraphed ayor Alason, if ho thought tha presenco of or- S T anten, o D oo fo 852 o ooty d and, ues n £ty and order, and, belng Toquestod to froops, ednisdly moraing, with 1o parts city till mdc:mp:r the Y, When e e B 0 [~ General Dileacsfound .onhis arrival somo United States troops who had been ordered totho city by Geers] Sberldan, and, on the following ds¥, others arrived, makinga total af about seven huzdred, drat from Gmabs, Lesvenworth, and Louisville, = They wers at anco ascigned to guard duty in the burnk por- tlon of the South Division, where guards were chisfy Doecel, At the sxme timé General Sheridan dlrected Gezeral F. T. Sherman to_organizo a regiment of in- fantry, numbering 630 men, t0 serv 28 guards for tho protection of tho remaining porton of the city for twenty doys. This was done, snd thomen wezo s- signed 20 duty in various parks Gf tho city, especisly the soathern partion of the Soath Side. On Thursdsy end tho following Tuesday General Sheridan informed the Mayor ofcially ibat no cases f outbreak or disorder had been reported. Noat- thentfzated attempts at incendiarism had reached him, and the people were calm, quict, and well dlsposed. 1t nfforded him pleasure to call attention to the cheor- fal splrit with which the people of thie city met their losscs and sufferings. The city remained undes tho 0 of Genaral Sherfdan uatil the 23d of October. on day, the dzyor tendered him tho thanks of Chicago and ita peopls for the very efictent aid ho had rendered in protecting tho lives and prop- erty of the citizens, and inquired whether there WS any longer & necessity for - the contlaed ald of the military. To that, General Sheridan reslted that, if dcemed ko would disband the First Regiment of Chicago Volune teors, and consider himsclf relieved from the respon- 6ibility of the Mayor's proclamation of the Lth. The Alsyor thereupon fized the houe of G p. m. that day as tha ono at which the id requested of General Sher- dan should cease, This return to the ratural con 4o of affalrs was somowkzt precipitated by tho acck dental shooting of Colonel Thomas.W. Grosvenor, a welkkaown citizen, by a member of Gno of the come panies of Colonel Sherman’s regimant, on te night of tle 20t of October,—an unfortunate occurrence, which was the immedioto’causo of 4 protest by the Governor of the Stato aguinst the action of the Mayor and Gec- eral Skeridan. On the 24th of October, therefore, the United States soldiers were ordered to their poste, and the regiment of Ciricago volunteers was mustered out s the Tequest of several citizens, Genor asted the i authorilies ot Wshington to order four companles of infantry to the city, in order to gaani Trehensiona attempt to selzo tho stores deposited in tham. Tho troona were sent, but o oce casion for their use preseated itself, nad {lio disturb: ing infiuences of the firs, 8o far a8 {ba City Govern- ment was concerned, ended on the 23d of Ociober, : TATE 41D, On the evening of tho 10th of October Governor Palmer issued a cal for a speciz] seuion of tho Laturo, in order to consider what could be best dono for the relief of Chicago. Theyassembled on the 15tk ard after visiting Clicago in ordez fo seo for them: Bcives the damage done, and to consult with citizens as to what they desired, returned to the Capital. Com- mittees appotated by tho suthorities of Chicago csked, on behalf of that city, that tho Stato poy to {5 tho sum of '$3,000,000 ndvancod to make the desp-cul, and wisich was 1o bo repeid out of tho revenuea of the Ganal; that they bo relleved f0+ o tma belag of the smont of Stato and county toxes; and that the State Ba” chasg of tho Boor and he criminals of he county. The groat want of the moment was monos. The city was utterly destituto of fonds that it could nee. It had not s doilar with which tomeet the interest on its bonds or to pay policemen, The Boazd of Police Commissioners wera anxious fo have some badges manufactured to be issued o special policemen, but thog had not » dallar, and wero compolled fo £ive up thodes, At the oatict, it bad been Froposed by scmo that tho cliy borrow a hundred million ar so_from the Mptional Govermment, but that was soun dhendoned, The Legisiature, nearly a third of whese members woro abeent, | finally passed s bill, which went into immedisto operation, providing for the ‘payment to the city, on account of .3t was ardered that G per cont bonds, ten years, ba issued for that amount; thst ot than one Aifth nor moro than one-third ekould boap- plicd to the construction of bridges and public build- ings npon thoir original sites, and that the remainder should by applied {0 the payment of interest on the bonded debt of the city cnd the maintenancs of the Fire and Police Depariments, omo of the money was paid over by the close of the year, and was at once devoted o tho payment of {he polics, and to the otier most wrgent wanis of tho city. At the same time bill was passed to cnnblo warehousemen to de- Hver guin where the receipts had been destroyed by tho fre, and that was all the legisltion which was ‘Daszed Yor the benefit of Chicago for several months. Whea the Leglalature reassembled in November, time had shown that there wera two matter3 growing out of fhe fire which were deserving of tho et serl- ous_contideration—land-titles tazation. The Tecords of conveyances of lands in Cook County hid been destroyed along with the Court House, A gen- eral fecling of insccurity previled upon the sub- Joct of real estate. It was belleved by somo that a0l transfers, all Jomns based upon real estale, would come t4 an end,—that there would be neither buying nor borrowing. It wasasserted that possession vz the only proof of wnership, and that tho vacat Tots wonld be eeized by squatters, who could not bo ejected, since they would have more title than zny ad- verso 'claimant.” The popers witls ¢om- ‘munlcations from Lawsers and resl cstatemen. The Judges prapared a bilfon the subject, sud ofhor wera drated by lawyers of prominenee. o the su- ‘perior eaergy and ability whick men will bring to bear 10 8ave their own property, tho members of tho flires abstracs firms of the Gty had succoeded ia saving Dearly all theie while thoao of the connty had been sufezed to burn tp macared for, Those books saved, many of them st tho peril of life, cantained vas: amount of information relative to deodsnnd othar instraments con land in this county, and tho purchaso of these valumes aad the making {hem evidence was a prominent feature of nearly al Billa propared on this subject. In additior: fo this, it was proposed to provide for 3 simple proceeding in chancery by which the eloud that rested upon ovesy ce of Iaad in Cook County would bo removed, or Jor the cpoointment. of & of Commissioners Fhoso duty i should be to examine, aud report {0 the Cor urt, son in whom it found the tills fo each leco was Vst Numerous. wero introduced in the Hills Legislatare, and the subjact led to wearisomo discus- sions and hosted debates. Finally one was passed pro- ‘viding for the purchase of tho absiract books by the conjoint nction of the Cook Cornty Commiszioners and Judges, and also irg a shople chancory %0 establish title. It fartaer regulated the prices, and, 03 slight extent, the manner of doing Dbusiness of the sbstract men. * Under tho first part of it, nothing has yet been donc. Tho abstract men, who began by demanding » million and a_quarter for their books, Lave lowered their price about fio-hirds, but o conclusion bas yet been arrived at. Thero has been o wholesala resort to the Courts to establish title, snd tho abstract firms objecting to tho provisions of the Bill concerning them havo changed their method of doirg business, and no longer give abstracts, but sim- ply opinfons as to titles. Transfers bave bedn made, and loans hava beengncgatisied to no inconsiderabls extent, and tire us shown that much of tho sppre- bension entertained on the subject’ of land titles was without suficient cause, The loss of the records has been s great inconveaience, zud may yet be the sourca of dificulty; but many of the letters written on this subject Last October and Novembsr would read rather curiously in the Lghto: a year's experience. The nssessmont Yor State purposes for the taxes of tho year 1671 had beon burnt up, snd some steps had to bo taken to rostoroit. Until ihis was done, neither State nor county coald gota farthing from that quar- ter, and {ho laiter was greatly inneed of moaey, It waa also hoped that steps might be taken to avoid the paymcnt of the State tax on property which had been destroyed. ‘This, however, it was found, could not be constitntionally done. The clty tax books had been s2ved, but 1t was deemed emincrtly proper and just not t0 attempt to coilect the entiro tax imposed of thosa whose honses or stores hzd been destroged, and 2 bill was, therefore, introduced and passed o aliow of arebeto in such cases. After various umsuccessful attempte, 3 bill was passed providing fors_reassess- ment in Gook County, and under its provisions tho #ax2s of 1871 are now collecting. By another bill, the county was allowed tofssuo_tonda to the amount of $1,500,099, for {he robuililing of the Couzt Houss and Jail, which bonds have been put upon tho market. Cther billa were passed, providing for the restoration of Court records and alsd £or the removal of the chil- dren from the Cook County Reform School fo the State Institation at Ponkise, which, though resulting from the would nsve been n vise ihingto have done if it had never happened. A bill was introduced rhicl, it was Loped, world r:akn Jt easy fo oliain for. cign capital, secured by mortgsges on Teal estate, an R Eor)A onbiieas have pean beneficlin it8 ro- sults, but tho opposition toit among country mem- Dots wn 50 Tormidatie thas it could ot be pessed: Arst Tpesiings held. after the fire it At some of the e o was suggested that the Federal Government bo called upon to loan tho city $100,000,000 3% 5 por cent, the money to bo used in Tobnilding. But the press and citizans ly sow the impracticability of the proposition, but irstesd of it, called on Cangress to do ‘what had béen previously dono in tho css of Porte 1snd, and remit the duties on imported articles in- nature reasserted {ts elzims for food and shelter, A Diegira from the city immediately commenced. Mszy single persons, and even families, who wero 80 fortiy nalo 85 to have a staall amount of ready mancy, wenk to find friends or occupation {n villages Dot very rée mote from Chicago, A largs number of the homeless wereatonce faken into the homscholds of frien and acquaintances in he cify. Perhaps twenty-f thousand persons persons wero provided for by thei; ©03m exartions, lexving not {ar from seventy thousan in uiter destitution, 3ad needing immediate aid to saye hem from daath by starvstion and exposure. THS FIRST BELIEY ASSCCIATION. Alttough al wers parcicipants in the sreat, calamaity, cither dizectly o indirectly, thore wers met wantisg those who realized tho need of this hour. On Mondsy, Oct. 9, while the firs was still burning, a call was lssue for 3 felf meeting, to be bold st the’ comer of West Waskingten and Ank streets, at 8 o'cloc] o oveny ing. A%that hour the bascment of (e church wia od, Among those present wore Hen. R, B. Max. then Mayor; Gepercl Joln MeAsthur, Presidént of the Board of Public Works; T. B. Brown and Merk Shers idan, Commissioners of tho Board of Police nud Fira Degartmest; C, N, Holden, Esq., Tax Cemumiasloner Generai 1. N. Stilea, City Attornesr; Genewul C. T. Hotehkies, City ClezY, and the Aldernien, whosonsmes follow ; Thomas Wilce, . B. Batebam, Shmuel McCota ter, Pater Daggy, 1. M. Thompson, M. B. Balley, 8, 8. Gardner, J. L. 'Cauphell, TicoGore Schintz, - Witbeer B, G. Gill, Jimes Walsh, and H..0. Glsde. 3fayor Mason presided over the meoting, stating, in his Temarks on taking tho chair, that tho ooject of the s asexibly wos to bring about a concert of uctlon betwoen theznthorities and citizens in regord fo the prétection of the cily, und providing for the destltute, Generul Hotehkies was made Secrctery of -tlo mecting, On ‘motion of Ald. B, 3L Thompson, & comariitee of siy Persons wero homed by. die .Myor—two_fzom esch division—toest asn Keliel Comemittee, It was:cans stitated sg follows: South Division—. H. McAvoy and N. K. Fairbank; West Divisios—W, . Bstenam and Oryin E. Mooro; North Divison—3L A. Dovine and John Hé e Aayor swms aftorward added to tho Commiuice, g objoct of tho meating s exten~ sively discussed, it no definlte action was taken-bes fore adjournzent. onGaNIzATION. 0On Taesdsy morning the Belief Cormittes named mek at tie samo place und orgunized by elzeting Orzin lairman, G, T, Hocchkiss, Secretary, ‘snd 0.C.2. Tedasurer, and afterwerd apgommted the following con:mittees: 3. W. Preston, Esq., President of the Board of Trado, in chatgo of recuiving supplos <t the rilroad stafi and sending the ssme to the depots for atarsge an YHIE% Dertiiaon in chrge of t on, %, P, o on and distribution of supplies from depots ‘to Em.nu, H school buildings, and convents, . - e 0. G, Gibbs, Lsq,, of Chicago Ald abd Relief Jociely, in chargs of uistrioution of relief, G. W. Siamford acd Clark Glcb in chasgs of supplys ing Wager to Church snd Building Commirtee, A G, Law and G, DeClerque in aharge of Tallroad | passes. B Dr=. C. H, Eddy acd J. E. Gilman in charge of hos- plial snd medical supplics, . i Alderman Thornas iles in chazge of providing bare racks for sheller, ‘The headguzriers of the Gezeral Relte Committes, 85 it was calied, were fixed o the Ann Strect Congrega- * tional Canrch, Wiere all sub-committess wero .also To- - quired to meet. The General Cominittes Temsined in constant session. All orders issued for supplics wero signed by the Chairmaw and Secretary. A printed order was ot once iesued informiug the hemeloes that all the clurches aad school buildigs had been thrown open for their accomincdation, aud if £ood..and clotke ing could not ba obtained at ahy of these. points the Cormittes would take immedists mezstres 10 3o that they were supplied, 2 FIEST SYFORTS AT RELIEF. As 800m as it becamo known thuc tae churches and sciool-houses were thrown opea for the sccommods- ton of the desticute, they wera fiiled with tho thoc- £ands who weze witliont shelter, and who had speat londay night in the open air, = The. General Relisf Coramittee made eveiy exertion 0 gather them in. All persons wko hud vehicles were invited to use them in transferring the unsheliered from the pralrie, the pazks, or wherever they might be, to. the prille bulla-" ings devoted to their use, 50 great was the'diligonce, - ihat it ia thought exposed to the weather zf- ter Tuesday night, . Before ‘Cuuradsy all Were pro- vided for, cither ua stased, or_taken into private famx- lics for temporary accommodation, The Commiwee remeined day and night as the churches, Where they were ascisted in the ministrations of chiadiy by clti- zens of all classes, and espocilly by the of the West Division, who were anremilting iz their efforts 1o rulievo tho sufterings of thoss impoverished by tie 0. SCTNES AT THT CHUBCHES. x The chuzches wers ths principel censres of Gorrow and afliction of Chicago. ~ The scencs there witnesead. wero unique zud curious, but almost too pminful , for contemplation. Persons =ho had hover imown what it was to want even for the luxuries of Lfe, were obliged to 3ocept a3 a charity food to sllay their hupger, and a bard ficor to Eleep on instead of the 5oft bed to which in hoppier imoa they had beea ao- customed. It was heart-rending to listn to the varled ** takes of woe, o see tio motle; crowds distributed abuut the sacred buZdings in all the attitudes of pictureaque despair. Eere s mother who had been Separated from ber children 1a. i canfasion, £at, like Niobe, all tears. Thezo 3 Iads—a real Indy— driven from 5 bezutiful homo st midnight, was-seen scantily ottired but with fome rclic of Ber former riches sbout her pemson controsticg strapgsly with tho shabbicr garmenta. Old and young, coars and re- 1ined, intelligont £nd fgnorant Ware for the past diy or £w0 inextricably mixad and confused togeihez, 1t - as strange to note tke differont manner iu which the terrible grief w=s borme. Some wept withott res straint, “soms assumed an air of petient fordtuds or of .sulen resignation, while others wera queralons In_regurd tnmflé&kfafld witasion, sd us_in respect to specizl grief. Sympe~ Hhetto aesistance was rondersd be. she Lales and ges~ tlemen at the varigus centres of shelzer and relief, who could not themselves refrain from tearsas thoy re- l.lcvsd,aufuuint_h:irpuw:r. the diztroesea of the mul- titude, covTmuToTs SO amos>. | 2cessary ta speck ot leng this placo tho intensity of facling excited in other cisies by the news of the misfostunes of Chioago. There wrs mot a city or hamlet in tho conntry whese our calamity did not find sympathy. Bafore tho fire censed meetings of citizons and municipal logielatures wero ‘held, znd vast sums of money contributed by subscrip- Tion or by legislaive actlon, for tho relief of the deso- lated city. The countrs towns contributed in Xind; the cities, a8 5 general thin purchased such things as thoy the exigency. The first supplics arrived, and wers dis- trivuted on Wedpesday, It would be now impossiblo to tell to whal ety isdne tho credit of having first ministersd o our Decessities. Tood, clothing, and other necessary articles srTived from Cincinpad, St ZLonis, and Louisvilla almost simultaneorsly with’ the supplies from the interfor towns of Illinois, Cinctn- mati contributed bounteonsiy from the purses of hf private citizens and from the public treasury, St Louis and Louisville €1d thesame, Bpecialirains wexp. Tun from each of thess citien, the railroads genevously farvishing the moans free of charge. feelings of tho tracs: humanits, diss of gtiner municipalities came with mw to see that they were eguit=biy disicibuted, :e{'"'efi:g Dbusiness at homs Temainied for days co-aperating the relief auticrilies. Supplies from the smaller towns of the West followed in profusion, specdily. plemented by the contrivutiors of Eastern mumict) ities snd the towns of the Pacific slope. © The witols country played tho7oic of the Good Samarifan most adrairabiy, pouring ofl and winelavishly, and supplying liborally 2l needs.” Tho chazity which began at hums soon extended abroad. An electrio chord of pathy a5 touched which ran sround the whole evak~ ing 1ot meze abstract phrases of good will, bk can~ | erete cxpreesions of love and kindross, A Znore min= | nte account of whst was done.by aiens for Chicago | belongs to & later period of ouz story. ALAYOR'S A, 2 - At & meeting of the General Relief Committes cn Wednesday, Oct:. 11, his Homer, Mayor b - mitted, the following” prociamaiivz, Which wia sp- L Allaupplies of provisions 4nd clothig will-bs,rer cciyad and distribuled by chs Geners! Baler Comamity i teo of whichO. 2. Moore is Chairman, and 0. T. ‘Hotehkiss, Secretary. ; TeR 2. All contributions of money will be delivered toths Cisy Tressurer, David A Gaey who wil roceipt m[ znd keep the funds s o speclal relef fund, 4 3. All moneys depositsd nt other places for the relief: of this city will be drawn for only by the Mayor of this| city., " No monegs win be pald out of the spectsl rel fund except upon the order of the Anditing Commit Taylor, City Comptraller; Mancal Talco FmsT 1t is not 1 7, g3ve money, and cd meedful in g 5. Bailroad passes from the city will be ixsusd unq the direction of the Generl Baliel Committes, ner of Ann and Washington streets. tended to be used in tho reconstruction of thecity, the rincipal ones iron, lumber, glass, and fead. B ncomcss wes fatoaheo. ond passed the Houze withoat dificulty. In the Serate, however, it met the ogsnized opposition of the umber interest of Wisconsin and Iichigan, headed by Seuatora Ferry and Chandler, o opposition based on the assumption that the fres sdmission of Carada lumber would be epecially injuzious to districts which had themseives been devastated by fire. Defeated onco in the Sen- ate, it was resuscitated, 50 amended as to loss much of s eficionoy, and returncd to the Houso for con- i the amendment. ‘Tharo, on the motion of tho Hon. 3r, Fary order, £s ho to save Tl Frotha defoat hich he Monawas ablo t foresee, tho section in relation t0 lumber was stricken ont, an ihe bill becsmo & Iaw in that mutilzted condition. Owing to the Inte day at whish 1t pasaed, its Limited scope, =nd the cumbersome regulations of the Treasury D ent, this measuro has ot afforded Chiczgos 1o of tho Telief expected from it and has proved 0,bo bardly worth o timg speat id discaseing it. Congress also passed a bill sppropristing for. the purchasa of ground for a new Custom House, and for tho erection of the buflding. Unable, on acconnt of the exceseive mrices asked, to obtain tho block, on.ono corner of wrich the old one stood, it took whatis known aa the Bigelow Block. It was'then suggested, since the cify wonld baveto give to the Nation: Government & portion of Quincy street, that the lattor ehould turn over to the city the remains of the old Custom House, to bo used for tho housing of the Frea Library, whicll grew ontof the fire. Nothicg was ever dono coucerning this, except to make tho ssgges. tion, and the Rebate bill was all Chicago got fram Con- gress. i THE RELIEF. Bearcely less than ome hundred thousand people were rendored homeless by the conflagration. Of these, about sixty-five thoussnd lived upon the North Side, and the remainder were equally divided Dbetween tL:p two remaining divisions of the city. Thoso on the North Side found = temporary resting-place in Lincaln Park, aad on the open prairie nortiwestof the city, Thorest wero driven to the lako ehore, 3nd fled sonthward until they resched places opposite portions of the city untouched by thé flames. It is probable that, on Mondsy night, moro than half of thess alspt in the open air, :with nothing bt the sky o cover them. After the Arst excesa of ¥vor and exhaustion, INTERVEXTION OF TIE BELIEY AND AID S0CIETY. T At 0 meeting of the Genetal Relicf Society . at haad- quarters, on Thureday morning, it was Teported thet. 38 near als eonld be ascertained from the daizin pes. session of tha society, 70,000 peoplehad boen furnizhed with food and shelter by its ald,~al=o that provisdans and food were arziving in sufficlent quantices fo sup- plythe immediate necesslties of all the destifuta, Ap this ame mecting a proposition from the Clicago Relief and Aid_Saciety wss submitied {hrough Wirt Dexter, N, K. Falrbank, and 0. C. Gilibe, offering 1o take chirge in fature of.al fo- fiire receipt3 in money or in iind, snd distritute tha samo in the manner which sxid Sociaty may think best for the relicf of the poor and homeloes in the entirs city. The proposition was fully disonesed, and the following reselution wes adopteds Resolved, As the eense of this meeting, that tho ope tion'of the Chicago Relief and Atd Society te adopted as the means of distribusing the food and sup- piErsios me =) il eg, appointe 'y nigh gether with the M3sor, Comptroller, City Treasurex! 3nd two otber Aldermen from each Divisfon of the city, 1o ba eclected by the Mayor tnd_President of the Ghtcago Bellof and Ald Saclofy, bo sdded to the Direo- of sai ety. = It will bo observed that the resolution contemplated 3 compromiso between the two socioties, and an s Taagement by which the eficials of both should asget Tn the coniro] and distribation of - contributions ot morey and goods from other ploces. No further offic cial action was in the matter, and -the General : Relief Society were a Littls surprised to read, on the morming of Saturday, the 14th of October, the follow. ing pronuncismento by the Aloyor, published in-the Jjourzala of that aate: 3 3 P0CLAMATION. e A I bave doemed it best for the i A 10 turn over to the Chicago Belicf and Ald Bocicty ceatributions for the suidering peo] of our city. This Society {8 an incorporated om organization, having possessed Zor many years the %- - tire confidence of our community, and is Jamillar wi tha work to be done. The forcsof this Society 1s inadequate 10 this immense work, but they wil raps idiy calasge and exterd the ssme by adding prominent citizens to tho Tespective committees, and I call upon all citizens to aid this crganization in cvery poskibls WaY. & T 3lso confer upon them a continusncs of ihe same r heretofors. cxercirod. by the Citizens’ Commits niamely, the power to impress teams and labar, ::eémcmqummwht 85 oy be necesyry {ar