Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 5, 1879, Page 1

FIRE INSURANCE. 1.8, CRITCHELL, TIRE Insurance Agency. ~ Springfield, of Yass. Assets - $1,700,000 . Enterprise, (f Cincinnati. Assets $700,000 Meriden, 0fConn, Assets - - $400,000 First National, 0f Worcester. Assets $300,000 141 and 143 La Salle- MAJTOR BLOCK. coaL OAL, | Clean and Dry. 38 Market-st., cor. Randolph, 1 North Market-st. 267 Archer-av. With our docks located in different . INSURANCE, BTNA INSURANCE (0. HARTFORD, CONN. Cash Capital, $3,000,000.00 ASSETS, JANUARY 1, 1879. Real Estate, unfncumbered. Cashon hand and In baak.. Casl in the bands of Azeni Loans on Bond and Mortgage. paris of the city, connected by our own rivate Telephones, and also onr connec- gnns by the Am, District Telephone with ‘hundreds of other locations in all parts of the city, and our large force of men and teams employed, we are confldent that our facilities for the prompt delivery of Coal are unsurpassed. COAL! . UXDER COVER, DRY AXD CLEAN, TACKAWANNA AND LEHIGH, ALL SIZES BRIAR HILL AND ERIE. -- We control a large number of teams, and can make prompt delivery. E.L.HEDSTROM & CO., 93 DEARBORN-ST. YARDS [ e Briage. Foot of West Sizteenth-st. {Lumber-st. near Efghtcenth. OF THE CONDITIOXN OF THE _ ILLINOIS Trost and Savings Bank At the Clote of Business Dec. 31, 1838, -5 per cent bon T. & 4 per cent bonds el vl for e 580 Town of Cl i lcero bonds. T g o $273.518.38 $431,998.14 Capltat Stoek., e Due ijiors.. Undivided prog; $431,998.14 k County, se. 5‘“h=smniflgfi anlhlero!khe Illinofs Trust and Jilement is true 1o e best of my kanowledee ang. bes Btete of Tinots, 7562 Winols, Cook Co ‘muly swear that tne foregoing AMES'S, G1BUS, C: 3 JantCribed and sworn te before oo 00 oA e 7T, HN J. M TCHELL, ) Hotary Pu Comeet. sitest: INO. B, DRAKE, GEO, STRAUT, Dt~ TheChicagoStamping Co. " 10,12 & 14 Lake-st,, IMPORTERS OF TIVPLATES METALS, MANUFACTURERS OF Sf:xmpeg and Japanned Tinware, Groters’ Caddies and Druggists’ Boxes, Galvanizing and Tinuing a Specialty. PROPOSALS. Proposals for Army Supplies. - [ Coxutsiary. oF PCrcaasiNg axp Drror Y. No. 3 East Washington-st.. posalz, &'gfix"&fl'"fiz& “oboY oF this ad c. Wita s copy o 5 Tremen: attacied, il be riceivedst s ice an- Sk e D, h: » and_not i e per St T, Dot fo contaln Oll, extra, in 5-gallon cans, Two cqas 1 2 'i‘;n soumds upgin 8Dried Apples, {n 2-pound pack- DS Crackers (s0da, water, and butter), packed ¥ e wisp e perinetically sesled merici 10 etronz cases Dfm’fimm stafl. lined with paper, e a Srooved, aid strapped. & choice Leaf, keitle rendered, in i bordles Olftes. Aiaris 12 boities to s cas e 2 e iy 5 T0De Strapoed and to be in thorough shivping 5128 will e rece ved far the w! e R el onsappoin ot Actia) 184 De Fequired at time of oponing. SR 1, Sl b TEouirEd, sud o Z Uona, sag poill D& recelved subject to the usual condi~ Blan i mUE: be accompuned by samples. Disheg. Onmfnmnhr;lf;n {:I‘lli!i("rofl‘lin!omn lon will be fur o ce. : *TIZhL 10 Teject any or ail bidg is reserved. Mzjorangc, s, nmrexnflmvél'cfiaffi‘f}}.“é' Al FLOWERS. tEll‘mL flowers for recep- y Hons, parties, weddings. EARNHURES for hridsl and eveatog drosees at el ity perier. S Wbt 2 g . ¥ ] flimm:o&xtiluryflhrfiflgnu;‘:; ral Securlty. te, Count. ‘Eonds.. ‘Accrued Iaterest. . Total Assets of the Company .. Laabilic % Its large available cash resources and conservative mauagement afford to Policy” Holders in the Company unsurpassed indenmity. 3 - Tosses paid since date of organization, A. D, 1819, over FORTY-EIGHT MILLIONS of DOLLARS Chicago Branch Office, No. 172 La Salle-st. «THE FAIR,” TRE ] ea,rTléieFair! THREU.S. SUNDAY, JANUARY 5, 187—SIXTEEN PAGES. HONORE. PRICE -FIVE CENTS. - fanlty constraction of the building, the elo- | the basement. at all, the shavings, paper; and vator shaft carrying the flames almost in & | wood-work seeming to be smoked to pieces. moment from the basement to the dome; tho building; partly by the inflammable mansard, which was far beygnd the reach of the steamers; and partly by the intense cold, which had its effect, though an almost The Bldck that Bore His Name Gone Up. . the firemen. It is impossible for men, even those as well trained and so energetic as the Along toward 4 o’clock the roof began to blaze, partly by the immense quartity of wood in | first io one part and then in another. Every few n.inates large pieces of corrugated iron and timber would tumble to the sidewalk. The re- markable metallic figure on the bail which or- Demented the centre .of the Dearboro-street {ront, and which was ocee said tabe H. H. Honora imperceptible one, upon the movements of | motioning to Eastern capitalists, aisappeared in a short time,—was melted, pesbaps, by tho heat. The Mansard roof, composed of wood The Splendid Building Gut- members of the Chicago Fire Department, to | 204 torrugated iron, yielded gradually. to the do the full and absoluto measure of theirworlk | 13mes, and by a quarter of 5 most of it had van- when the thermometer is below zero, when they are handling hose through which pours a flood of water which is almost at the freez- ted by the Flames, isbed, the tire by this time having possession of sthe fifth floor, particularly that part south of the Dearborn street entrance, and, by 5 o'clock, of the whole of it. Below no flames were to be Post 0cs Building NEARLY DESTROYED, MAREET YALUE EET i), We had a narrow eseape, Move. and had ocur entire stoci packed and ready to be| And Takes moved. Buf, by the energy of our Brave and Weli- Our Post-Office 'Compelled to Make Its Third Up Temporary Quarters in the Singer Building. ing point, and when the ground on which | scen trom Dearborn street except in - the centre they stand is covered with ice-cold water to | Of the structure, Where the stairways were lo- the depth of nearly a foot. It is doubtfal | cdted, brands having fallen down through tho whether others conld have done as well as elevator and set the wood-work ablaze; but in they did, conld have shown the endurance, | i€ 3" the fire had worked its way down to the L - third floor, nearly all the window-frames having the prompiness, and the earnéstness which i 5 iemited. and the rear rooms, separated from they, under the orders of Marshal Benner, | those fronting on Dearborn street by o, haitway displayed yesterday afterncoxn. fitcen feet widle, were all lightedup by theburn- - As will beseen further along in thereport, | ing of their contents. - This. rear part arrangements had been made for securing | Was difficalt to get at, in fact, headquerters for the Post-Offico and the | ©0ld DOt be gotten at except from the roof of J. GOODWIN, Agent ° [] Many people burn up their dttle foitunes by paying Righ prices for the accessaries of life. Stopit.” Got e INTER-OCEAN TEA GOMPANY, 154 and 156 South Clark-st., C- COMSTOCK, Pros, §. 1L McCREA, Vice Pros. B, J. SMITH, Seccretary, TRADERS SOy Drifiled Fire Department and our Employes, we saved our Our Stock is upside down from the exeitement, which, in comsequence, we will offer on MIONIAY, Jan. 6, and during the week, OUR Xii- MERSE STOCHK AT COST until we get in shape again. Look at These Prices Large Damask Towels Seamless Fleeced-Lined Hose Store and Contents. Only 10¢. worth 25¢ Only 10¢, worth 30¢ 18-inch Hemmed Handkfs 18-inch Turkey Red Gents'. Underwear only 2c. worth 6c Hdkfs Oxly 4c, Worth 10¢ 20c and up ‘Buy your Groceries, and save from 5 1020 per cent per OF GHICAG’O, ILL. 18x25 Tidies o momh&‘ Thlnklwcb.fl. you will save in one year's time. 5 Only 12c, worth S0c el ' oy o s e AT Good Pure Teas, . N R . s AVYUAL STATENENT, s tom otmn- 7 i -Wool Gents' Hose, Best Gravulated. 0, Heary, the bet, 5 C’flfiéfim‘.!?ahm Honey which we ‘are ciosing fl,x'x? January l’ 1879' Linen Handkercfi:fs: : e at 123G¢ per pound. Give us & fr2a and be convinced that we can and will scll Sou groceries cheaper tnsn the cheapest. COLVER PACE ROVNE &40 We have always in stock many VERY ELEGANT AR- TICLES in Leather, Glass, and Wood, suitable as GIFTS, not only for this HOLIDAY SEA- SON, but for WEDDINGS and BIRTHDAYS. ISHAM & LINGOLN'S LAW OFFICE, Until further notice, will be found in Marine Bank Building, 154 Lake-st, GO 10 JOEN JONES, | 119 Deerbo and get your Clothes Thoroughly Cleaned and Eepaired. TFIRM CHANGES. DISSOLUTION. copartnership heretofore ex(sting between the ndoesiod. BDGEE the N name of W: P HeLaren & Co., of Chicago, 1lL, 1a this day dissoived by mutual conseat. W P. MELALEN, J.ARICE, Chicago, Jan. 2, 1879, 3. LOVE, artnership herctofore extsting between the R R R &Co., of Milwaukee, WIs., is tls day disolved by mu- tual consent. W, P. MCLAREN, Milwaukee, Jan. 2, 1878, J.'A BICED neis heretofore carried on by W. P. McLaren k.:c?:...b:? Chileago and Milwaukee, is tulg day consoll- dated and oreaufzed 38 3 corporation, yoder chi iavs of he State of Wisconsin, under the corporate name of ren "The_offices of the corporation Cimmber of Commerce: 1n Chicago, 1 nd {n New York, vore- “Tlic officer of the corporation are severally author- $rad, by resoration of the Board of Direetors, to $ne corporate name, W. P. MCLAREN Jan. 2, 1879. 3 ve will continue in the commission busl- Fy :LLhKnd Trovisions, nnder the Arm name of J. R love & Cor No, 13 Boone iilock, Lasalic-sl. TO BENT. TO RENT. STORE AND BASEMENT No. 254 East Madison-st. (Possession Jan. 1), opposite Field, Leiter & Co.’s Whoesale Store. Inguire at SILVERMAN’S BANK. TO RENT. Interest Accrued. not due.. ny (unincumbered)....... ... Cash on Deposit, Corn Exchange Natfonaf Bank. leeaca. - 53,210.25 2,622.50 Re-Insurance and Premiums, 8,138.97 Personal Property, Postage, an Express Stamps. 5,800.00 Premiums In due co lection ... = 30,900,086 Total Assets. .. -$822,736,20 LIABILITIES. Lossesnot due and ubadjusted.$ 14,004.71 Re-Tosuranco Reserve... 131,762.11 All other ciatms agalnst Com PROY ..., Total Liabilities... 13,680.00 59,496.82 163,239.38 Total amount of 2ation of Company.. ‘Book Par Value of 8tock, 8,045.59 132.64 Insurance Co., (incinnati Imported Willow. Baskéts 5¢, 10c, 18c, azd 22¢ CASH CAPITAL. SURPLUS.... . T e i Silver-Plated Rogers’ Knives, s 122,790,2 . < & 6 Knives and 6 Forks R ASSETS. 2 3 Taited States Bonds, 575,000, Good Cigars, & box and upwards market value.......... ..$620,375.00 1, . ! Cook: County Bonds, marke Lehmann's Pure Candies E:::::ewn“ .ifi;l:er L;n'x.-\. .].;.. d._; 56,371.87 At 12c, 14¢, and 16¢ per pound TIBTKEL TAIE.c-vrorereersororrs 20,000,009 Elegant Child's Rocking-Chair Chicago City Bonds, market : At 95¢, worth $2.25 value ...... J 13,026.25 “And'the dalance of our Unequaled Stocl: at Extreme Loans, secured by collaterals.. 1,000.00 Reduction. * Come nnd secure yoar ‘BARGAINS. THIS WEEK. The only House in the city that Buys BANKRUPT STOCKS and JOB LOTS FOR CASIL and RETAILS THE SAME at 10 PER CENT MAKRGIN. E.J. LEHMANN, “THE FAIR 198 & 200 STATE-ST., AIND 61, 63, 65 and 67 ADANS-ST. ART STUDIO,. P O et ooty Dhdes A PERSONAL CARD! Many thanks are due to my pa- Alton Railroad, and similar arrangements will speedily be made for the army head- quarters. The beneficial effect of the fire will probably be to expedite Congress to in- Stirring Scenes at the Burn- ing Building --- Hair- breadth Escapes. completion, may be fitted up for occupancy by the Post-Office Department, at least by late spring. There can be no question that this will be dope. For eight years now, the third largest Post-Office in the country has been living'in hired build- Loss on Building and Con- tents About $180,~ 000. the west wing. and ihat of the Howland Block (old Tlonore Building), just north of the alley, and from these positions water coald be thrown foto only the fifth floor. There were foar streums on the top oi the Howland Block, eight duce it to grant so large an appropriation | on the top of the west wing. seven on Dearborn that the Government Building, now nearing | street, and tive on Adams street. The two tirst mentioned did good execution,—tbat is, the water was thrown into ihe building; but, with one or two exceptions, the balance vere for o long time useless, since the water could not Le forced up bigh enough. + Only tne first-class stcamers could do that. Efforts were made Lo break the window panes with the sireams, bnt Gen, Sheridan Compelled to Beat a Retreat -Before the Flames, All the Stoff Removed - from the Post- © Office~Exit of the Alfon Folks, ings and has thrice been burned out. ‘It | they were unsuccessful, as in the csse at the will never do to éxpose the valuable property | Singer Building; so guns and navy revolvers of the Government to another such hazard,— | Were procured, aod bullets. and. buck- never do to put the citizens of this grest | S10% fired gt them. As fb was im- < . < possible to take aim, owing to the city to a renewal of the inconvenience they | ¢moie and steam which filled. the street, very Lave guffered. Congress xeassembles this | Jitle gluss was broken, the missiles generally week, and the first thing that the Chicago | hitting the stone front. Whena pane was struck Congressmen should do is to call up the Ap- | by accident the crowd yeiled. This was tho propriation bill, which covers the Govern- | only way water could be gotten into the stories ment Building, and see that it is poshed | Delow the fifth, and the attempt was finally throngh. sticcessful to a limited extent. R " Itis difficult at this moment to estimate The Fire Started in the Car- penter-Shop and * Ran Up. i been injured and precisely how far the in- The original cost- of the building was $100,- 000, loaned to Honore by the Connecticut Mutual, about $150,000 more which he suc- cecded in raising from various quarters, or consisting in land which he' traded io the contractors, and $30,000 expended in the renovation by the Connecti. cut Mutual afterit came intoits hands. There was also, probably, $50,000 worth of material in the old building. ~So far as can be ascertained, however, the damage by the present fire is limited to the mpper- floors, and it seems'as if £150,000 at - the outside ought to make good the loss. This, how- .ever, is a conjectural estimate, subject to a closer inspection to-day. There is good in- ‘surance to the ' extent of $100,000. The losses of the occupants—the Post-Office De- ‘pirtment, the Chicago. & Alton Railroad, Army Hesdquarters, law firms, ete.—will- .not exceed $45,000, and this-may be reduced - .in case the valuable law libraries come ont in -anything Iike decent condition. Experiences of the Elevator-Boy and His Machine. A Survey of the Building---Scenes -by Night. Conflagrations at Other Points in the " . Country. . - _THE FIRST FIRE OF 1879.° It is o little over o year since the citizens of Chieago have been interested or terrified, as the case may be, by-the sight of ‘a large| and disastrous conflagration. It-was in the laiter part of 1877 that the grand Singer’ Building, on the corner of State and Wash- ington streets, went up in smoke and down in ashes, and since then there has been noth- ing deserving the name of a conflagration, nothing which could fill the streets in the business centre of the city with an eager and excited crowd of spectators, until the blaze of yesterday, which destroyed one of the most beautiful buildings of Ghica- go. one of those which rose from the ashes of a predecessor oon.'after the fire of 1871,—the Honore Block. = It seems as if institutions, ns well a3 men, had their fates. This is emphatically true of the Chicago Post-Office, which . yesterdsy made its third move since 1871, and this move, the reporters of Tre TRIBUNE, who were early upon the spot, is given below. THE FIRST ALARM. The first inttmation of the fire received at the fire-alarm office wes from a half-grown boy, who rushed in and ‘said: “Fire in the Post~ Office.” Almost at the same moment boxes -No. 43, corner Monroe and Dearborn streets, and No. 47, corner of Adams and Clark streets, were turned in,—one at 3:27 and the other at 8:82. The young man, whose name is Michael Nugent, was employed in the distributing de- ‘partment of the Post-Office, and haa beea sent too, not, as it was hoped, to the Government | by the - hend of the department, Mr. Boilding, but overto the Singer Building, | Vierling, to give the alarm. .A string which was just construsted in time to ge- | with a key at either end was miven him. One of the keys fitted the fire-alarm box No. 47, and the otber some door i the building. Unfortunately, the youth got lold of the lat~ ter, and tried to open the sfgnal-station door with it. Of course he couldn’t do so, but he commodate it, ag the Honore Block opened its hospitable doors in July, 1874, fo receive the City Post-Office, then evicted from its headquarters .on Wabash avenue. It is fortunate that this last move was executed with much less loss tlan any of its predecessors. There was more time than in 1871, it is true, and there was also, perhaps, more system, and the destruction of the letters and other public property can- him, in Lis .excitement, that the other ome might fit, and, after five minuates of vain cffort, he concluded to run to the central office, about a block distant, and tell the operators. The Fire-Insurance Patrol rot an alarm on the me- the exadt loss, because it cannot be told | until to-day how much the “oiter walls have | streets about 2:30 o’clock vesterday afternoon The account of the fire, as furnished by " ) EARLY ON THE GROUND. . The sizht of fire-engines dashine through the caused copsiderable excitement among the resi- terior of the building has been destroyed. || dents of the business portion ef the city, as quite a gale of wind was blowing at the time, aud the intense cold made a conflagration all the more to be feared. The anxiety Was not allayed when a second alsrm followed the one first given, aud steamers {rom the outskiris of .the city came thundering to thes.enc of danger, which, as was speedily. ascertained; lav in tite Honore Block, corner of Adams and , Dearborn streets. The building was a ell-known one, occapled by the Post-Office, the Bilitary De— partment of the Missouri,.and a number of lawyers. k ‘ 5 e As. soon asthe location of the fire becamas geveraily known, crowds began finckiog in its direction, since an extensive blaze in such weather as Chicago was subject to yesterday has pot been kaown for years. In response to thr first alarm several engines werc promptly on the spot, but, notwithstanding the activity of the firemen in responding to the call, it was evident ugon their arrival that tie extioguish- , meat of the flames was beyond their power, and to make their progress through the doomed strmeture s siow as possible and prevent their spread to the adjecent buildings, was all that could be done. . 5 Just how the fire started is not positively known, although the general impression among those in the building was that its origin was taken near the boiler-room. However tais may be, it is certain . :hat it spread with almost mi- raculous speed, aod in a few. mowments from its inception egress from the upper flcors via the stairway was effectually prevented by vast vol- umes’ of thick smoke which rolled through them. Hardly had the first cozizes on tne ground taken their positions und bezen an inef~ fectual attempt to throw streams on the man- sard roof of the building, from which considera- ble volumes of smoke. and flame were issuing, when the sumewbat startling . discovery was made that several men were on the fifth floor with _NO MEANS OF ESCAPE save those which could be furnished from the outside. \hen this came to_the knowledge of the Fire Marsnal he at once dispatched men to the root of the burningstructure, and in 8 sbort time they had securely fasiencd to itarope, versisted in the attempt, it mever occurrng’ to | Which in its descent to the ground passed tix: window in which were the men whose chances for life were ditiuishing with every moment. When tbhe first of them seized the rope and gave it -a sbarp jerk to as- sure himself that it was securely fas- tened above, a hourse roar went up from 1510 Semi-Annaal Statsesat, Jan. 1, 1879. GAZZAM GANO, Prest, I trous for good-nature and forbear~ ance during the great rush of busi~ ness for the Holidays. I desire to ex~ plain to them that December has the shortest days in the year, many of which were very cloudy, and my work is printed slowly to obtain the softness, which is not usual in pho~ tography. No pains were spared in all of the pressure of business to H. BEATTIE, Secy. notice. not be compared with that which occurred in that memorable conflagration, 1871 that the Post-Office moved first. . Then it established itself in the old Methodist Church, on the corner of Harrison street and Wabash avenue, was driven out of there by the fire of 1874, and is now once more compelled to move on extraordinarily short A State and Corporation Bong Coliatera) Loans and Bills 1zeceivabl Accrued Interest.... Due from Insuranc: Cash in hands of Agents Fersonal Property. ... Stockholders' Lsbility (State iaw OFic). : LIABILITIES. 1 A First-class Residence on Michi- | Outstanding Lomes. Relnsurance, Reserve, - gan-av. south of Twenty-second-st., ‘“‘\f‘; :”“:" Liablicies 'S 96.332.68 i Net Assets... FURNISHED. Will be rented very oo st low to a responsible party. -Ad- dress K 2, Tribune office. TO REINT. Stores on State-st., herween Jackson and Vau Buren. Posse st of Inquire of; East Front.” Posseddion 1 of L UNION BUILDING, r LaSalle and Washington-sts. Ofiices to Tent. o etted by stearm. AppiyTo H. G. DOWEES. Clark-st. FINANCIAL. REMOVAT. EDWARD L. BREWSTER, DEALER IN NOTES, BOXDS, STOCKS, AND ALY LOCAL SECURITIES, HAS REMOVED TO 104 WASHINGTON-ST. Opposite former ffice. —NOTIORE. Tnz. o TiTE, CoxPTROL i OFFICE O TI K INGTON. D. C., Déc: 24 Notice 1 hereby Slven 10 ali persons whio may have clatms against the German Nstional Bank of Chicazo £t the same must be presented (0 dfanios M. FIOwor, e EAEe" aonthe Trom ihis e oo thereof, within thrée’ mor m this date, o he lowed. T RYOX: disall JINO. JA X e comptroller of The Curreacy. TAX INOTICE. The State, County, Clty, and South Park TAXES FOBR THE YEAR 1878 Arenow due and psyable at my office, &2 Ffth-av. ENOS AYRES, Collector for the Town of South Chlcago. Net Surplus. - ----$208,984.46 Losses’ paid [since organi- produce the very best work, even at the expense of declining orders, and every courtesy possible was extended to visitors. The business of the gal- leries is now transacted with the usual promptitude, and all of my patrons are assured that every exer~ tion will be made to give portraits in the very best style of the art. E. L. BRAND, Proprietor of Brands Studios Pzn".,igi i ck .1.66.6632,656.483.48 R‘{,:‘;Dk }u;}a"&:i'sf' i 170,00 | _ BOARD OF TRRADE ELECTION. atio o fabili- pefpesapayd Infies“ _s_c""‘i _'fl_‘i‘_l:‘. 6.25 BOARD OF TRADE ELECTION. crease in net surplus in z & 1878 heyond dividends 19,843.72 R ucts i WILLIAM DICEINSOY, o Whitun) E.E.RYAN&CQ., Agents 210 LaSalle-st,, cor. Adams, Agenciesinall the principal cltles of the Weatern Stazes. JEWELRY, Etc. NOTICE. T have romoved all my £oods houghs at Sherif's Sale from Stein's ‘* City of Paris™ Uuilar Store to 1ny whole. sale store, 123 Franklin-st.. where I will close ot the same and fixtures, 1o JOB LUTS, at very low fgures. The atock conslsts of Silver-Plated Ware, Fine Jewelry, Satchels, ct a full assortment of sl kinds of fancy zoods. In':xyfz"nt ‘of that class af goods will fnd It 10 thels nayan: tage to give me a call. Charles D. Metzler, 128 FRANKLIN-ST. SOAF. OUR BEKIN BOAP equals fi{d‘rm&t Soap; wtuhe; ;g ‘water; prevents rous or chapped skin. E.'ELSA%.. 4 GENT & CO., 125 State-ac. days to reduce stock. wio By us Nofasep N, of Wil FOR § H. W. ROGERS, Ji g ECTORS, J. 3. McDERMID, of MeDermiy, 311 FRENCI: of Sibley. Fovnohs o> CLARR, of Gallup, Clark & Co, W, J. POPE: of Pope & Davis. FOR 5y FLATT, of Piate & Thom. COMMITTXE OF ARBITRATION, J: MUBALL, of .\ufinnwflgfi}:{?‘ C. AL MAIL, of C. A. Mair & Co. T. J. LEFENS; of Selpp Drew| 3 Sk seter ing Company, n WALNKIE. CHARLES . RREIGIL. FOR COMMITTEE OF, £ OUNG ot 5. 11 Vecrer s, ALEX. GEDDES, of A. Geddos & Go- GEORGE STEWAIE, of Cronre = Co: o ST ", of Gebry ; Co. SO LARMINIE, of S, . Larminie s oo To fill vacany: P. RUMSETY, of l&um:‘u‘-y & Walker. . CLOTHUNG. L P o Cltling i, CLOSING QUT STOCK OF (READY-MADE CLOTHING 250 Fine Overcoats and Ulstera at o Great Nacrifice? OVER- 04 ULSTERS,fo0 #ros mostuens couen ue In the Custom Department lower prices o role for 30 Ve do good work. and please all rices here, PALMER MACKEY, N 151 Stateest. C. S. FRISK, Cuuter. A litlle after 3 o'clock yesterday -after- noon, an alarm of fire was given' from Box No. 42, at the corner of Monroe and LaSalle streets, A very few minutes afterwards a consolidated alarm was turned in from the same box, and the engires for a radius of miles around were hurrying to the spot and in o brief time, had made their connections with the. hose .and were st work upon. the flames, which had, unfortunately, owing to neglect, the peculior construction of the bmlding, and its inflammable character, gained such head- way that it wes impossible to stop them; and, though the firemen worked .with the zeal, knowledge, and determination charac- teristic of Benner’s boys, it was impossible for them to do more than to save the sur- rounding buildings. The grand structure on which their attention was chiefly concen- trated was practically ruined, involving a heavy loss not only upon the Connecticut Mutual Life-Tosurance: Company, . into whose hands it fell by the foreclosure of a. heavy mortgage, and ' which had also expended, during the spring and summer of last year, $50,000 in renovating the struct- ure, but also upon’ the hapless law firms ‘whose costly libraries were in great part con- sumed, upou the ‘Chicago & Alton Railrond, which had its headquarters there, and also upon tho Military Department of the Mis- souri, whose records, thofigh' probably saved in great part, were still somewhat damaged. The destruction is the more to be regret- ted, and is the more surprising, since the building was fitted up with all the appara- tuses for giving early notice of & fire, and also for extinguishing it. It was provided throughout with the mercurial fire-alarm, and also had a private pump of its own, of great capacity, and was furnished with stand- pipes which, it was expected, would snpply all the water that' was needed. Part of these advantages were neutralized by the | pairivg room, experienced considcrable difliculty banical telegraph, and were the first to reach T the seenc, one of the men turaivg. 1 Box o, | th expectant throng which flled tho strect be- 3 o ived— || 1ow, and which had been worked up to the *fif,sf’fif";f e o g e | Lighest pitey of excitement. by the Kuowlelz and G—smoke was issuing from the roof, | that buman life was in danger. The first . man though there was apparently no fire between it | 10 essay the verilons journey }o.e-@rth,nml salety and the basement, from the Adams street. Was W. H. Hosack, of Gen.- Sheridan’s force, & entrance, to which'a vast volume of smoke was j geotlemanin charge of transportation in the potring out. As the structure was fire stories | Department of the Missonrl. e grasped tho in height, with a Mansard roof 25 feet high,— | Fope irmly, and io an fustant was swioging in the lazter being beyond the reach of a eround -} Mid.air clear of the building. Down he came, stream,—Assistant-Marshal Shay saw at 2 glance that more help was needed, and at 3:40 seot in a combined second and third. This brought on the grouna engines Nos. 6, 7, 8, 9, 12, 14, 16, 17, | 2 on. 18, 23, 25, and 27, and A A Later (au | @rasped bis almost fainting form, aod 4:30), Nos. 19, 8, 20, 22, 2, and 20 were ordered | Bé Was - Durried .to a2 saloon in. the dewn by Caief Beuner. This made twenty-four | 3djoining building, where. by the ald of stimu- steamers and five trucks, all of which were at | 13uts, he was soon put to rivhts. But thets work by 5 o’clock, aud most of them were on | *vere four others to follow, and their move- duty the greater part of the evening. -| ments werce ywutched with intense interest. As near as can be ascertained, the fire broke | The second man to make the journey was . L. out in the basement near the, boiler, and spread | Howland. Hewas not as careful as Hosac thence into the carpenter-shop. A steam-fitter | 80d in passing the copings of the fourth-story named Harry Odenbaugh ran up-stairs sbouting | Windows bumped V}"‘W”l' »’"!jlffl“ them, no fire to alarm the occupantsof the different | damage, however, being doge. Then came T. rooms. In a very few miuutes, however, the | B Bakerand Cbarles Webd, and when each smoke was so dense in the hallways that escape | reached the ground cheers went up from the by the starways was cat off, and about twenty | crowd at their safe dcliverance from death. Dpeople, mostly women. employed in the bag-re- | Especial interest seemed to be taken in Mr. > : Webb, who is a middle-oged man and of con- siderable weight, and when he lacded safely siiding alone the cable as if its friction against his legs and body was nothing, and scvon reached 'the ice-covered sidewalk in a thor- oughly exhausted condition. Friendly hands in getting out of the upper stories. All, how- -, b ever, were rescued. The smoke drove out the | the avplanse was louder thad ever. The employes of the Post-Office,. but uot before | last ove to descend was Mr. W, S, those in the money-order oflice and stamp de- | Thompson. e baa been a fireman in his partments had put their books, ‘pavers, moncy, || younger days, and when he found himself with cte., into the vaolts. The men in the west wing | foar comrades, all being io the Quartermaster’s had to run for their lives, . this portion, | Devartment, pennedina littie room and sur- though separated from the maia building by a | rounded on every side by flame and smokc, bis court, filling so rapidly with smoke that they } courage and presence of mind never left him could mot save ansthing. The firemen, how- | for an instant, and he. waited until all bis ever, went in and hoisted the windows, and, the | friends hud been received sale in walting arms smoke being ariven out by the wind, the em- | below before making the journey. - ployes went to work witha will aud inavery | When Hosack reached the ground and had short time had sll the mail in the street, whence | becn assisted toa warm place vy friends, he it was carried to_the American Express Build- | was creatly exhausted, but fnan instant was ing and other places in the vicinity. Notalet- [ aoxious to rush into the street again v“d ter was lost; nor were many newspapers. Ev- | learn the fate of his companions. When erything In the distriouting department, stamo- | Alr.- Thompson - reached the sidewalk safe- room, and carriers’ room was carriedont, even |y and was led futo the place to the cases, no fire reaching the west wing, in | where Hosack had taken refuge, they clasped which these rooms were located. Perbaps the | each other by the hand,as ouly men can who only serious loss, beyond the furniture, to the | have faced death together, Hosack exclaiminz: Government will arise from the destruction of | * Thompson, old boy, by God! I'm glad to see stamped envelopes, which werein the basement, | you again.” . L about twenty feet from the carpenter-shop. The escape of these men was really the only No fire baa reached them at 6 o’clock, but they | thrilling incident of the fire, although several were soaking wet. scenes of an exciting nature occarred. Of ke The fire made its way from the carpenter-shop [ v2st volames of water thrown on the building into the storaze Tooms, and resched the roof | by the engines, s small portion only reached throngh the elevators in the south end of the | the flames, the remainder either being frozen i builginz. No particolar blaze was notieed in ! fzatasile festoons to the walls or falling to the