The New York Herald Newspaper, November 11, 1872, Page 4

7 4 NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, NOVEMBER UW, 1872.-TRIPLE SHEET. Municated with the coa)-sheds on Tillson’s wharf, and by half-past eleven o'clock all the wooden buildings on the east and west sides of Federal street, running trom Summer midway to Pearl, were enveloped in flames. In this district are in- cluded a number of tenement houses on both sides of Federal street, mostly occupied by poor fami- Mes, a large number of junk stores, and all the WHARF PROPERTY AND VESSELS lying thereat, for which at thia time no provisions for their safety appear to have been made, After taking in the situation at this point attention was next directed to the condition of things on Pur- chase street, The west side of Purchase street from Summer to High was a perfect sheet of flames, as also was the east side of the street for two-thirds ofthe distance named. The occupants of the tene- ment houses on Gridley and Congress streets, and, in fact, those occupying tenements anywhere in the neighborhood, had removed their household goods to what is known as “The Damp," or that portion of fort Hill left vacant by the receut levelling. Trere was presented a terrible scene, AWFUL GRANDEUR OF THE FLAMES 38EN FROM OTHER PLACES,” The lurid glare of the flames lighted up the entire city, and newspapers could be plainly read for miles away. In Providence, which ls forty miles distant, an alarm of fire was caused by the Boston conflagration, somebody presuming that the fire wasin that city. The fire was also distinctly vist- ble in Stonington, Northford, Charlestown, Ports mouth and other places equally distant. Up and down the streets nurried and tumbled a crowd of utterly demoralized men and women, There were among these also, at the tea table yes- terday, those who were worth millions of dollars, but who are beggars to-day. MERCHANTS PRINCES AND LABORERS GARED. Merchant princes there were, whose word was as good as their bond; men whose single name at the bottom of a note for hundreds of thousands would pass upon the street without an endorser; but to- day they scarcely know where to lay their heads. Then, too, there were thousands of the hopeless poor about the streets. The dwelling houses de- stroyed were nearly all in a thickly settled Irish colony at the South Cove, and the plaintive Moans of these who were thus rudely turned out to battle with the world, destitute, attracted universal sympatiy. On every corner There was a little pile of househoid furniture, and every street was packed with teams, That the city was surely Lo be destroyed seemed altogether beyond question, and the haggard look and wild, Dbeseeching eyes of the crowds, showed only too piainly the effect which the assumption of this idea produced upon the little children who Were in the streets, half clad and _pite- ously imploring the relief which the commu- nity was powerless to render them. Old men tottering towards the grave watched with feverish anxiety the progress of the destroyer of their accumulations of many years, and young men, heartbroken, speculated mournfully in regard. to their future; but the despondency upon the lookers-on was but temporary. With willing hearts ‘and strong arms all lent themselves to the work of helping the unfortunate, and there was a gladsome exhibition of the principles of the golden rue. In spite of the terrible reverses there was a general expression of opinion that Yankee pluck had ever a better opportunity to show itself. “BOSTON SHALL BE REBUILT!)? ‘was the common cry, and the men who uttered it meant just what they said. Here is an instance. In front of a pile a’ smouldering ruins, in the cen- tre of what was yesterday one of the handsomest blocks of buildings on Washington street, stands the rough wooden sign, “The firm of Morse, Shep- ard & Co. has removed to No. 26 Chauncy street.” This firm has lost $400,0v0 by the fire, and there are hundreds of others who, like them, are deter- mained to recommence business as soon as possible. BOSTON 18 NOT DEAD yet, or if it is in a state of moribundity it presents Very lively appearance fora corpse. From the oe and rapid progress of the awful con- a tion it became apparent at about nine o'clock that the Boston firemen were unequal to the task of subduing or even checking its further progress; in fact, the whole city seemed doomed, and every citizen became sober and serious. The authorities immediately sent to the neighboring cities—Charlestown, Cambridge, and Cheisea for assistance, and in the course of an hour the entire departments of these several cities were on the ground! The fire flend still swept on, and the hundreds of streams which were poured on the “flames Were of no more consequence than @ single-scull wherry would have been to the pro- gress of a Cunard steamer. ‘fem “WE MUST HAVE STILL MORE HELP,” said the Chief Engineer, “or Boston ‘and all its suburbs will be in ruins before morning.” Tele- grams were then sent to more distant towns ard cities, and special trains were chartered and the right of way given for their immediate transporta- tion. Three steamers from Woicester and themen belonging to them were in Boston and at work within fifty-five minutes after the call for heip reached them, They came down on a special train over the Albany road, and made the forty-four miles in just forty-five minutes, Assistance was also promptly on hand from Lowell, Lawrence, Portsmouth, Portland, Manchester, Providence, Pawtucket, Stonington and various other of the cities and larger towns In this section of New England. To say that they all did gallant service would convey but a faint idea of the energy ALIKE BEG- end determination with which they ap- plied themselves to the rescue, But still the fire fiend swept on, One, two and three o'clock in the morning, and the Sremen were seemingly more powerless than ever. Afresh breeze wafted over the terrible scene of destruction, carrying in all directions sheets of devouring fame and showers of burning embers, It seemed as if NOTHING BUT A DELUGE FROM HEAVEN ‘would stay the progress of the terrible clement, Some rushed trantic and wild through the streets, some prayed, some moaned, a few drunken brutes cursed, but all showed by theif horror-stricken countenances that they keenly appreciated the horrible and critical situation. THE BLOWING UP OF BUILDINGS, the last terrible reso:t in cases of devastating fire | in large cities, was finally determined upon. Generali Benham, at Fort Warren, was sent for and before daylight he came up, with several companies of marines and thousands and thousands of pounds of powder. Tre marines were quickly distributed ayound the city for police duty, and under the direction of General ‘ee Benham preparations were miadée for the blowing up of asufficient number of buildings to cloar a space in the probable course of the flames, and. thus check the fire by robbing it of material for ite furious passion, At three o'clock this work of merciful destruction was begun, and the explosions which followed in rapid succession were, indeed, welcome’sounds to the ears of the Panic-strickep community, for it betokened @ foar- less, honest, radical effort to save what was now left of the burning city. Three discharges were made in a block om Devonshire street, and it threw the building partially down; but tt did no apparent good, for the flames jumpod over it almost instantly agaumand again. This work of destruction aad demolition wenton, each explosion shaking the whole city and breaking windows miles away. Portions of Federal and Congress atrocts Were blown up, but still the FLAMES WOULD OVBRLEAP THB VACANOY created. It was not until daylight that there seemed to come any good or relief from this wilful, but absolutely necessary, destruction of some of Boston's nest warehouses, and probably even then all these efforta would have been abor- tive but for the concentration of nearly all the fire engines upon one particular point. It was about nine o'clock when there camo the first sense of relief, that the Oremen might probably save the northern and western sections of the city, both of which had for hours seemed inevitably doomed to the same fate as the business _ portion. This feeling, however, was not universal, The wind waa asiill blowing’ fresh, and many shook their heads ominously and declared that the whole space, from the wharves to the Back Bay, and from the south end to the Charleston ana Cambridge bridges, would be in ruins before night, No pen can Picture, no brain can frame into thought, the effect that this appalling and threatening prospect had upon the people, EVERY ONS SEEMED PERFECTLY FRANTIC, wandering hither and thither in great crowds, and only adding to the consternation that raged through the ranks of the fremen and about the more immediate localitles of the raging flames, Merchant princes, who on Saturday locked their doors upon immense treasures, now found themselves not only impoverished but threatened with being made homeless by the terrible fiend. Almost insane, they flew through the excited masses, but where and what for they could not tell, All, all was consterna- tion. The ruined merchants, the impover- ished mechanics, the helpless and home- ess shop girls and the thousands and tens of thousands of other representatives of society, all united in the genoral mourning of what had and what might come. But THE ENERGETIC BUT EXHAUSTED FIREMEN still kept at work, and in the very face of gen- eral despair fought the flames more determinedly than ever, Between eight and nine o'clock was the most critical period in the whole conflagration. The whole of the Fifth ward had been nearly destroyed, and from Summer street almost down to Milk a clean sweep had been made of everything on the east side of Washington street. The old South church, the famous sanctuary of many generations, on the northeast corner of Washington and Milk strects, was now the objective point. If that suc- cumbed to the furious element it was generally conceded that the whole of the north and west ends would follow. Thousands watched the old spire with breathless anxiety and prayed fervently that it might be spared. The firemen worked with a determination, Inspired, it seemed, as if by Heaven, and for an hour or more not less than FISTY STREAMS POURED UPON THE ANCIENT TABER- NACLE and the burning buildings surrounding it. Steadily but slowly the brave fellows seemed to get the mastery of the flend, and finally, after hours of persistent toil, they came out triumphantly. ‘The old “South” was saved, and so was half of Boston. Thanksgivings mingled with tears and “God bless you’? were showered in profusion upon the timely saviors. But while this battle was being fought the fiery encmy was making @ flank movement in another direction Devonshire street, already destroyed on both sides from its southern extremity clear up to Milk, was now being mowed away upon the west side down to Water strect, and threatened to be, what subsequently was, one of the most disastrous fea- tures of the whole conflagration. At the same time the flames took a turn up Congress street as far as Water, dodging around the magnificent New Post Ofice structure and fastening its fury upon a large new granite building on the north side of Water street and immediately adjoining the elegant es- tablishment of the Boston Daily Post. The heat which now came from the burningof the sinuous structure was of a kind which need not be de- scribed, It was so intense asjto cause the streams which were vainly directed against it to as- gume all the COLORS OF THE RAINBOW, and the Water street front of the new Post Office crumbled under its influence as if it had been so | much glass. Tne danger which had before seemed imminent {rom the burning of the Old South was now repeated. Both sides of Washington street were threatened, and, of course, there would fol- Jow—no one knew what; but the wind went down and all apprehensions were again removed. The flames, however, inclined down towards Broad street and the wharves,and went with a speed | and destructiveness that were terrible be- yond description. It found its way across Water street and caught upon the window casings and roof finish of Simmons’ block, in which were the Boston Car Spring Company's office and the Hide and Leather Bank, and before the hour was passed the whole building was enwrapped, Ata quarter of six the building on the opposite corner of Congress, where was the Shawmut Bank and W. E. Lawrence & Co.’s store, caught, and in ten minutes all hope of saving it had gone, North- ward toward the Post Office and State street swept the flames, and all hopes of stopping them by water were shut off forever. Passing down nearer the water at six o'clock the walls of the | stone block where was §. Norwell’s store fell with a crash which sent the «parks, dust and flame far heavenward, and just before this | the fire took directly opposite on the northerly | corner of Federal and Milk streets, and began its career towards Kilby and Broad streets, State, Devonshire, Congress and Kilby streets and Con- | gress square were, as far as merchandise was con- | cerned, on wheels and afoot, for everybody was | moving everything portable, A large party of men were engaged in tearing down signsin the vicinity of Mi!k, Broad an@ Kilby streets and around Liberty square. ‘The buildings totally deatreyed on Devonshire street, between Milk and Water streets, were the Home Insurance Company, Eastern Express Com- pany and National Bank of the Commonwealth, At half-past ten o'clock the fire was confined toa comparatively small radius. f CONGRESS BLOCK ENWRAFPED, About hall-past eight o'clock Congress Block, @ massive granite building on Congress street, caught fire and all edorts to gave it were futile, ‘The Names communicated trom the rear of Con- gress Block to the brick part of the old Post OMco building, facing in Lindall street, early this morning, when there wore fears that the POST OFFICR BUILDING WOULD SUOOUMB to the flery clement. Every lettor and paper tn the entire establishment, all the iurniture, mail bags, and, in fact, all the vatuable movable property in the mailing department, were conveyed tn teams to the Custom House for safe keeping, Nothing was distarbod in the stamp and money order departments, As soon as the flames entered. the builiing from the rear they sproad rapidly through almost the entire third story, which . is occupied by oMces and by the following partica :— No. 7, N. P. Lovering; No. 10, Abel Abbott; No. 13, New York Fire Insurance Company; No, 17, R. G. F. Candage; No. 21, J. 8, Abbott; No, 27, Charles Cowley and Henshaw & Brothers, stock auctioneers and brokers, Postmaster Burt's private oiice was destroyed, but everything of value was removed to the Custom House, In addition to the offices the foreign and newspaper departments were consumed by haif-past ten, Meanwhile the flery monster was continuing its work on Congress street, and attacked the five story brick building on the corner of Water street, occupied inthe upper story by Baff & Stephens, printers; third story by G. E, Meacham, and the lower stories by Andrews & Robinson and J, Richardson & Son. The brick block on Congress street, next to Congress Block, numbered 24 and 26, was next attacked and soon laid low, a3 was also the famous Monks building at the foot of Con- gress square. THE SUB-rREASURY OF THE UNITED STATES, located in the same structure as the Post oMmee, was among the institutions ruincd, but not de- stroyed, The roof was entirely burned off, and also the inside cleaned out; but its immense valu- able contents were safely removed to the Custom House, While the Post OMice was fairly encased with lurid flame from the bottom to the top, while back in the rear of Congress square the large buildings that front on the east side of Devonshire were bursting out with forked flames, the writer met Chief Damrell on State street, near the qld State House, and tho features Of his blackened, burned and haggard face could be read as in a book the great anxiety that was stirring his very soul. “One word, Captain,” said the reporter. God's sake, what of the prospect ?” Shaking his head, and with a gesture that told more than words, “For “BAD! BADI! BADI!! God help burniug Bostun,”’ said he, and on he went through a dense volume of smoke to wiere a corp? of his nearly suffocatéd and famished men were struggling with the fend, At this time the fames were working rapidly to windward and back into Congress street. ‘The fire was not without its humors as well as its pains, One sturdy fellow, who had nevar read Hood's poems, threw a large mirror out of a win- dow on Bedford street and came down stairs ona dead run with a feather bed behind him. Another fellow, with whom I conversed, said his wife had sprained her ankle, and added, “1 don’t care much about that, though—not half so much as she does; the ankle can be cured by @ doctor, but there isn’t a surgeon in all the town can bring me back my ‘black an’ tan.’ He was burned to death, sir, recklessly, and through carclessness, I'd rather have given a dol- lar than had it happen." Some people looked upon the affair as a brilliant pyrotechnic display when it first broke out, but afterwards, when its rapid spread endangered their own property, their LAUGHTER WAS CHANGED 10 CRIFS, and there was great weeping and gnashing of teeth, The teamster, Alley, whose arrest for the murder and chopping to pieces of Abijah Ellis has been made known to the public, heard of the fire in his lonely cell at the city prison, and bewailed his captivity, “because,” he said, “1 should have such a mighty good chance to clear half a thousand dollars, if l only had my team.” Speaking of team- sters, by the way, it may be well to repeat CONTINUED ON TENTH PAGE. THE NEWS IN WASHINGTON. sbi The Comptroller of the Currency En Route for Boston—Secretary Bouatwell Will Move Promptly to Prevent a Moncey Panic. WASHINGTON, Nov. 10, 1872. The news of the disastrous fire in Boston has been the all-absorbing topic here to-day. One of the most interested parties is Secretary Boutwell, who has expressed a willingness to do. anything in his power to relieve the business community from financial embarrassment. He has a son, who recently embarked in business in the burned dis. trict. The Comptroller of the Currency leit here to- night for Boston, to examine the condition of the national banks. It is not anticipated that there will be any difficulty in proceeding with business. The only fear entertained is for the insurance com- panies, who will be compelled to put their bond re- serves on the market to mect liabilities, The newspapers here issued extras during the day containing the laest particulars. The tele- graph offices and the corridors of the hotels were thronged with anxious inquir- ers. One merchant, pow visiting Wash- ington, having a large dry goods store on Summer sirect, heard of bis joss at the tele. graph office, report putting it at $200,000, He said that would not cover half if the building waa a total loss, and left for home to-migit utterly be- wildered at the great calamity which has befallen him. All sorts of speculations as to Boston's future business prosperity is indulged among visitors here from Western cities. It i# believed that much of the capital invested by Boston firms in Chicago houses will have to be withdrawn, Treasury oflicials leave to-niglit to look after the property in the Boston Sub-Treasury. Mr. Bout- | well has telegraphed to the Assistant Treasurers of | Boston and New York that he will move promptly | to prevent stock gamblers from creating a panic. Secretary Boutwell received a despateh this alternoon from General Burt, postmaster at Bos ton, saying:— Our present Post Office and Sub-Treasury is now burning. The Treasury vault will not be injured, ‘The new building has suffered but little, ‘The entire block around the new office has been destroyed, The fre makes a clean sweep from the head o/ Summer street to Fort- Hill, Many despatches have been received by the Secretary of the Treasury from bankers and insur- ance companies, both im Boston and New York, saying that there is quite ® panicin those cities, ‘The Secretary telegraphed them that there is no reason for @ panic, and advises them not to yield, £8 he will do all he can to sustain them. Scoretary Boutwelt intended leaving Washington to-moirow, to remain away until Friday, on mat- ters of importance, but he will not now do 60, as business originating in the Boston fire may require his presence in this city. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Richardson was to have left Boston for Washington last night, He has been telegraphed by the Secretary to remain there. Ifthe bas already left Boston he wil! be in- termppted by the telegram and requested to re- mapeemer aire’ Currency Knox and Mr. Bige- low, Chie! of the Loan Division of the begin - partnient, le‘t for Boston to-night, at the tustance of Secretary Voutwell, to look a'ter the govern- ment's interest in that city, and to report to him the facts in the case, Mr. Leopold, Chief of the Sub-Treasury Bureau, was to have accompanied these gentlemen, but it was subsequently determined that ho should remain Loreto answer business demands from Koston and to send such supplies thither as may be necded for the Sub-Treasury. I¢ was only last Saturday that the examination of the accounts of the Sub- bron et Boston was completed. Mr. Conant, chict of the warrant ‘division of the Treasury Depart- ment, 15 now in Boston and will render auch aussist- ance as the Treasury ofticials may require. The Postmaster General has also taken action concern- ing Post OMice afiairs in Bos on, AID FOR THE SUFFERERS. Call for a Mecting of Citizens at the Chamber of Commerce To-Day. The citizens of New York are respectfully in- vited to attend a mecting at one o'clock this after- noon at the rooms of the Chamber of Commerce, corner Cedar and William streets, to express their sympathy with the sufferers by the fire in Boston on Saturday, 9th, and Sunday, 10th inst., and to take such action as may be deemed advisable, New You, Nov. 11, 1872, Phelps, Dodge & George Opdyke & Co., E. D. Morgan & Co. Morton, Bliss & Co. B. G. Arnold & Co,, Campbell, Hall & Co., Alex. T. Stewart, L. Roberts & Co., John Munroe & Co., Moses Taylor & Co., Drexel, Morgan & Co., — Ovirichs & Co.. Duncan, Sherman & Co,, Maitland, Phelps & Co., Join Taylor Johnstou, W. Howes, George M. Miller, Israel Corse, Richard Schell Charles H. Haswell, Wiilllams & Guion, Clark, Dodge & Co., Woodward, Baldwin & Spence, Montague & Co., D0, Bussing, Crocker & C Blake, Brothers & Co., Benkard & Hutton, Teftts, Griswold & Kel- Chas, H, Marshall & Co., logg, ol William Bryce & Co., has. H. Haswell, Wm. Foster, J, Hampden Robb, George A. Robbias, Henry A. Hurlbut, Fabbri & Uhauncey, Arthur Leary, W. E, Banker, Jonn A Marsh, BROOKLYN and others. asta SYMPATHY. The most sincere and earnest sympathy was ex- pressed in Brooklyn upon all sides yesterday upon the announcement of the terrible conflagration at Boston, made so comprehensively in the HenaLp., The minds of the community was fired with the subject, and business men who are connected with the sufferers of the “Hub,” in hundreds of instances were so un- nerved by the excitement consequent upon the awful calamity that it upset their chureh pro- ‘amme, and their pews were vacant in conse- tence. Upon every side, from morning till night might he peard the inquiry, “What is the latest telegram from Bostony? ‘Js the fire under wa ety? “Fearful catastrophe” “Awful calamity 1? “Terrible affair!” and similar exclamations were uttered by solid men, who wore anxious faces {i livelong day. Towards evening the news got abro: that tue fire fiend had been cut off in his onward march of destruction, and respiration of the anxious ones grew freer, The Board of Aldermen will meet to-day, when, if later advices warrant it, Measures will be adopted to extend solid financial aid and sympathy to the afflicted Bostonians. The City o1 Churches centributed $100,000 promptly to relieve the necessities of the Chicago sufferers, and her charity, which 1s unbounded, will not fail the Bostonians should succor be needed by them, THE NEWS IN CHICAGO. cae CuIcaGo, IIL, Nov. 10, 1872. News of the terrible conflagration in Boston did not reach the public here until this morning. Papers containing reports up to an early hour to- day were distributed. The news spread very fast, and soon crowds of people gathered in front of the telegraph and newspaper omces and eagerly read and repeated the pulictins giving the main points of the fearful disaster, so terribly similar to that which overwhelmed this city exactly thirteen months ago. Among the crowd were hundreds of our business men, many of whom were directly, and more indirectly, interested in Boston houses known to be situated within the boundaries of the fire, and many anxious faces were turned to the bulle- tins which chronicled the terrible story, “The fire still rages!’ Expressions of sympathy were heard on every hand, but the locality of the fire led to the belief that the amount of personal suffering involved was comparatively small, and that there was cause for congratulation that though the pecuniary loss would be immense there would be few or none houseless and suffering trom the necessaries of life, a8 was the case with so many thousands in the Cht fire. Mayor Medill Was at hia oice at an early hour, and as soon as he could ascertain that the despatches would reach the Mayor of Boston he sent the following :— Maron's Orricr, Cmicaco, TL, Nove 10-130 BM. f To Ty Mayor oF Bostox :— ‘The citizens of Chicago tender their deepest sympathy aiterial ald in their power to your afflicted hour of their fearful mistortunes. In what you most? T have called a public meet- ing for noon to-morrow to consider ways and means of Assistance. JOSEPH MEDILL, Mayor. The /nter-Ocean, in its first extra, says editorially, after speaking of the intimate business relations between Boston and Chica, The misfortune which has visited our sister city will not be without great injury tous, We have heretofore been sisters sympathy; we are now sisters in misfortune, Let us hope that the bonds of union between us will be stronger than ever; that the rude blasts of adversity will, like the tyrant’s chain, only the more firmly bind together the people of these rep- Ppresentative cities of the East and West,”’ PHILADELPHIA _ ~ cre, MOV- and all th people in this way can we bh iinet PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Nov, 10, 1872. The journalists connected with the press of Phil- adeiphia met this afternoon and organized with Mr. Clayton McMichael President and Mr. Willlam V, McKean Secretary. After some brief remarks In relation to the great disaster which has befallen Boston, the following resolution was adopted and directed to be sent to the Associated Press of Bos- ton'— Resolved, That we feel that we but anticipate the for- malexpresston of the sentiment of the citizens of this city in tendering our profoundest sympathy to the peoule of Bosten in the distress caused by the tefrible calamity which has just visited their city, UNJUST ASSAULT ON HARPER BROTHERS—A CORRECTION, FRANKLIN SQUARE, New York, Noy. 9, 18' Yo rue Eprror or THE HERALD :— Our attention has been called to the following allegation in your paper of to-day :— It may be stated that Harper & Brothers own one of the worst houses in the ward, which, on the au- thority of the ofticer, is rented to thieves and pros- titutes of the lowest class, Will you please to mention in your next issue that this statement is neither directly nor in- directly true. Respectfully, HARP! & BROTHERS, RUEINSTBIN AT THE GRAND OPBRA HOUSE ‘The enterprise of the management of this stately temple of art was evidenced signaily last night by the engagement of those eminent artists, Rubin- stein and Wieniawski, and their vocal assistants, Miles. Liebbart and Ormeny. The great Russian pianist was in his best vein and bis rendering of the works selected by him—a Becthoven sonata, @ Mendelssohn ‘Lied ohne Worte,” an etude by Chopin, one of Liszt's transcriptions and three of bis own characteristic compositions—was received with boundless applause by the andience, Wieniawski maintained his high reputation as a violinist In the eccentric “Carnival of Venice” of Pagauint, and one of his brilliant Polonaises. Both artists created such a sensation as was never be- fore known in th» Grand Opera House. Mile. Lieb- hart sung “ Angels Ever bright and Pair’ and Mile. Omeny the well-known “Non Piu Mesta.” The Ninth Regiment Band gave etfect to the overture to “Fra Diavolo.” ‘The audience was the largest that has heretofore attended these concerts, the name of Rubinstein being a potent attraction. He will make his last appearance at this house next Sun- day evening, assisted by his entire company. BURNED BOSTON. How New York Received the News of the, Fire. BOSTON AS IT WAS AND AS IT IS. The Losses of New York Merchants. AT THE HOTELS AND AT THE CLUBS. fo tS NT USS What A. T. Stewart Thinks of the Boston Conflagration. aed eerertiaemee: AMONG THE INSURANCE COMPANIES. _ Tho news of the burning of Boston was received in this city with incredulity at frat; but as the full truth of the frightiul disaster broke upon us New York was aroused as by an earthquake. Men Tushed to their buainess places to learn how they were affected, The papers were read with even quarrelsome avidity to flad what and how much was destroyed. The hotels, the clubs, the telegraph ofices “were filled with ex- cited beings all brimming over with the one absorbing topic, Many of the insurance companies in the lower portion of the city opened their offices as on week days. The scene was one universal pandemonium, in whion self-interest waa all predominant, Had the fire been in this city. the anxiety, the feverish, sickening dread could searcely have been stronger. All our business men were in some way interested in the interests of Boston, and our merchants were ag intimately identified with THE PREADFUL BVENT as those who themselves belonged to the desolated city. The fire in Chicago caused us to give forth an unusual cry of sympathy. But our pockets were comparatively safe. In this case the fire burned into our hearts with that acute flerceness which keeps spellbound the man at the gombling table. It was rage more than sympathy whic! impelled us, No description can do any justice to @ man who sees fade away in 8 moment the results of years of patient toil, and yet our city yesterday kne Franty thousand sach men—twenty thou- 84nd crazy, perebing men whose hope and whose future were destroyed, The HERALD gives below general review of the feeling in the city at the hotels, the clubs, the tele- graph oitices an: the newspaper Offices, a succinct summary ot New York merchants who have suf- fered by the fire and the extent of their losses, a. glance at the insurance companies, & conversation ith A. T, stewart, and all the points by which we feel most acutely the results of the burning of the good city of Boston. A, T, STEWART ON THR FIRE, Last evening @ HERALD reporter called at the m ificent marble palace of A. 1, Stewart, corner of pace on atreet and malin stehine, ft the urpose of gaining some information in regard to he iusnatrous calamity. We Stewart, ip compa with Judge Hilton, and a third person, received the reporter very courteously, but stated that he did not wish to be formally interviewed, In reply to the question if he had lost much by the fire, he pti fet that he had not, that it was a mere bagatelle, and that he was fully insured, but that he did not insure himself, ag was erroncously reported by some pone: He stated that the offices of the firm have en burned down, but that he did not think that the dry goods housed had ‘ost very heavily by the flre, as they had not much case goods or packages. Mr. Stewart also remarked that he believed that the people of Boston, like the pone of Calcaaes have a good deal of energy, and hat they would soon rebuild the burned portion of their city. ige Hilton remarked that New England owned all her railroads and all her banks and imsurance companies, and that she (Boston) would commourentiy recover very quickly from the shock of the dread- ful fire. As to the insurance companies, Mr. Stew- art stated that Boston was no doubt heavily in- sured in the Hartford and New York, but not so largely as was commonly believed in the English companies, Having no further information to give the reporter bade Mr. Stewart a good evening and Mr. Stewart courteously returned the salutation, after which the former withdrew. THE NEWS IN THIS CITY. Ee SOS Excitement in the City—Scenes About the Hotels and Bulletin Boards—A Sabbath of Consternation and Alarm— The Unprecedented Demand for Extras Containing the Latest News. The reception of the first news in this city created the greatest excitement, which wasiargely intensified when later intelligence more than con- firmed the first despatches. The street gamtns who are always on the lookout for an opportunity to turn a penny, early learned of the fire, and long before daylight vacated their cellars and garrets and besieged THE PRESS ROOMS OF THE HERALD and other journals. By daylight these swift-footed messengers had penetrated every nook and corner of the city, crying, ‘“‘Here’s yer HeRaLD; Boston in ashes; great loss of life!’ Staid fathers, who had retired to rest early and are accustomed to arise with the first flicker of daylight through their Venetian blinds, hurried to their doors and eagerly snatched the journals, not waiting for their accus- tomed newsman to bring them their great morning feast, the New York HERALD. Men of leisure, who had spent the evening at clubs and the fashionable resorts and retired with aching heads to sleep off the effects of the previous night’s carousals, lazily turned over on their blankets, rubbed their hlood- shot eyes and raising their windows called for the papers, and probably more persons en dcshabdille eagerly perused the journals than on any previous occasion. The result, as a matter of course, were late break- fasts and muttered curses on the part of the crabbed boarding house widow who could not get her hash-consumers down to breakfast until every line of the startling details had been devoured, and consequently late attendance upon PLACES OF PUBLIC WORSHIP. Indeed, hundreds who had before on previous Sab- baths resorted to the churches to listen to the elo- quent dissertations of their popular clergyman fur once gave him the cut direct, and, instead of de- voutlly wending their way to their pinsh-coverca pews, hurried down town to the oewspaper offices in anticipation of later particulars. By eleven o’clock the bulletin boards had a large number of readers, and the lobbies of the hoteis presented an appearance of life and activity sel. | dom equalled at so early an hour, if ever, on the | Sabbath. Persons who had friends in the strick- ened city, without waiting for their steaks, swal- lowed their coffee hurriedly and repaired to the telegraph offices to communicate with them by means of electricity, and the look of anxiety that was visible on their countenances clearly showed that such @ catastrophe as that which has falien upon the Hub thrills the hearts of thousands in sister cities, The Western Union Telegraph had but two offices open—their main one, at the cor- ner of Liberty street, and at AT THE FIFTH AVENUE HOTEL. At the Jatter place centred the anxious uptown residents, who clamored about the office for the latest advices, Three operators were on duty, and they had as much as they could do to receive the hundreds of messages that terror-stricken mer- chants forced in upon them through ‘the wicket. The excitement was so great and the importunities of the hundreds, who as early as ten o'clock filled every nook of the main floor, so annoying that the operators resorted to bulletins, which were dis played in the reading room as fast as they were re ceived. THE BULLETIN BOARD became at once the centre of anxious examina- tion, and excited men elbowed eact other rudely in vain endeavor to get up to the despatches. Scores were forced away disappointed, as many | were so intent upon secing the latest news that they took up their positions in front of it and could not be induced to vacate for the accommodation of others equally anxious to learn the extent of we | destruct lement that was sweeping across the nancea, Among these was Colonel merly of General fiper'a stam, who wus sufferer. A consul! a was had, and t! vergthing in tte At pete were nur 9 Boston itlemen, br and ‘Ox: cil y te leara we ae, —& lodzi be- for- & large tlemen tel ed . Bishop, President of the New ee tom and of requesting the A SPECIAL TRAIN,” 4 A favorable anéwer waa and notice bei sent to alb at bale past twelve carried to the homeg oi ruin and de- pe ly or! down in the general ruin. —_ inthe astermoon, the contains was withthe it diouty elbow his to the eo. Wi 2 was one fy the ‘rildent’ tn the Ye the oldest habitué of the-hotel. It Was & oo» PERFECT OF y discussing the chances: ‘the safsty of any por. tion of the city, and senenlnsine: upon the probable losses as compared with, the Chicago horror. ia the congregation of excited individuals were many insurance men and brokers, who knowingly dis- cussed stocks and prophesiod a panic ou the street to-day in securities, ‘The tusurance A wore loug ie Sow | several of the ventured the opinion that dozens of companies would take balioon excursions within the next few days. ‘ihe tux upon the capacity of the telegraphic lines con- tiaued all day, and nearly 4 thousand Genpalcnas were forwarded besides tuose received. After the appearance of the — evenin; ext: an: noun that the fire ha : *gueokad and there was no longer danger ot its further extension, the crowd breathed freer, and many returned to xomes they had not sce since the early morning. ‘Tue general remark was, “Great God, this 13 fearful! WHEN WILL OUR TURN COMB?" The fre-god had laid Chicago and Boston under coutiibution, ik it be New York or Puiladet- Phia's turn nex AT THE ASTOR HOUSE many residents of Brooklyn and the ‘adjacent towns collected early in the day and circulated be- tween there and the newspaper offices watching the bulletin boards andthe telegraph ofice. The rotunda, nearly ail day, was well filed, und the ex- tras, as they came wet irom the Telegram presses, were eagerly devoured. - By all the tri guests of the hotel leit for Boston. AT THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH OFFIOR, corner of Broadway and Liberty street, an ex- cited crowd watched the bulletin board all day, while the clicking instruments Mashed despatches to and from the threatened city. So great was the rugh that tne receiving clerks had great ate ry pee the rons correspondents who ti! to have €neir despatches take precedence in trans mission, a He mnatderable excite There was conside: excitement also at the Grand Central and Metropolitan hotels, where bulletin boards. were displayed, upon which were posted the latest reports. At the Grand Ventral were @ Lumber of Boston merchants, who were horror-stricken -On learning of the disaster, and a lps on Met ine Ase ere, hr scene of the ation. Amo! em W r. Blanchard, of the trm of ghase: Mergitt & Blan- chard; Mr. W. Whitney, the clerk; Frank Crock- ett, E. A. Paige and Frank Wetherell. The pro- prietor of the hotel has offered the hospitality of he establishment to the merchants and other sufferers (who for the next thirty days may visit the city) at hall the usual rates. Among those at the Metropolitan who hurried away to Boston was Edwin Sewell, who is a large suiferer. At the St. Nicholas bulletins were displayed dnr- ing the day, and while these were few, in the hotel the excitement was very great. Among the (rer! was George Francis Train, who seemed he most excited of all aa he stalked abont the hotel omce with a — ftoa- rose in his buttonhole. Mr. Clouse, the owner of the building corner of Somerset aud Kingston streets, where the fire first originated, and Mr. A. D, Nason, the occupant, were sojourners heré, The news of the disaster visibly affected both gentle- men, who leit for home on tho first train. Daniel Goodrich and Mr. Thayer, both large sufferers, also left the hotel on the special train. AT THE NEWSPAPER OFYI0ES the excitement, next to fhe ‘ifth Avenue centred about the bulletin boatd of the HERALD and Telegram offices, which were visited by hundreds. Throughout the long Sabbath afternoon, a long after tne appearance of the nimble’ lampligkter, the corner of Ann street and Broad- way Was quite animated in appearance, and the excited populace rushed wildly about alter every newsboy who appeared with extras, ‘These little “parcels of industry” reaped a rich harvest and partook of the general excitement. Not satisfied with the builetins put out by the newspapers they resorted to the So ae of manufacturing ex- citement, and, with shoe blacking, arranged im- romptu bulletins, which they posted up sround Printing House square and on the bulletins. Among these was-the following startling eifort of the juver nile paper merchants :— ne reeennnene ree’ POROLELELEODIOIONE DODOEL ODES EXTRA TELEGRAM TO BE ISSUED AT ONE O'CLOCK. H The fire is now raging terrific. Loss of life.. Over four miles of fire. Terrible excitement. ‘The people fleeing to Connecticut. Engines to be sent on from > Now, York to the fire. Chicago avenged | Look _ lol EXTRA TELEGRAM, RL IDILEOLELELELEDOSOLE LODE IE REDEIPLEDE LODE DEDEDE! AS a result of this extra effort on their part the little fellows sold thousands of the extras within @ few brief minutes, and, loaded down with cents, returned for fresh batches to supply the uptowa demand. At the Fifth Avenue Hotel alone several thousands were sold. On all the streets of gisery i in fact, the newsboys appeared and oxtras were in great demand, in hundreds of instances ladies rushing from their houses for the latest details of the conflagration. Indeed, in nearly Libs private residence some reside who have ties binding them to the great commercial centre of New England, and in consequence a saddened feeling reigned thronghout the vast city. On every hand expressions of sympathy with the unfortunate city were lavish; and if a subscription be started for the relief of the poorer sutferers New York will doubtless respond as generously as she did in October of last year, wnen Chicago passed through such an ordeai of fire and death. OUR FIRE DEPARTMENT were quick to tender their sympathy and aid te their brothers of Boston. Early in the day the Commissioners telegraphed to. know if they should send steamers to their succor, und Commissioner Blair remained at the headquarters untiliate in the day foran answer. The response came thank- ing the Commissioners for the oifer, but statin, that the New York steamers would not be required, THE FINANCIERS AT THE FIFTH AVENUE HOTEL, ~— Sights and Scenes at the “Sunday Stocks Exchange”=—The “Sfulls” and “Beara’® Discussing the Great Fire—Specula- tions to “the Market” To-Day— Secretary Boutwell to Lend the Ald of the Treasury to Stave Off a Panic=The Government to Buy Ten Millions of Bonds. At the Fifth Avenue Hotel, during the entire day and up to a late hour last night, immense crowded of bankers, brokers and business men generally swarmed in the most feverish state of excitemonts Locomotion in the vestibule was almost an impos- sibility, and the barroom, the news room, the corridors and even the hailways on the first foor were so crowded that it became necessary finally to secure the services of the police to make any- thing like a thoroughfare irom one statrcase to an- other for the regular guests, The vicinity of the telegraph office was THE CENTRE OF ATTRACTION for the masses, and the struggling for place an@ position near the desks was as tierce and a8 vio- lent as though each man’s life depended upon get- ting his despatch to the operator, Indeed at ong time late in the evening the anxious ones, whose all in the world probe ably depended upon the direction the fire had taken since the night previous, and who were desirous to learn independently of the newspapers what hope was really left them, fought among themselves like crazy men to get their despatches off first. It was iu vain that the opera- tives protested that they already had hua dreds of despatches lying on their desks awalting their (urn; no one wonld take No” for an answer, and every one insisted—some with wild profanity, others pleadingly, alinost with tears in their eyes— that his particular despatch was the frst handed in and should consequently be sent first. While chairs were being overturned and the general con- Jusion made worse confounded by the struggting of the crowds, certain of the operatives were busily engaged in calling out the names of those persons for whom they nad received DESPATCHES FROM BOSTON, It was really painful to see with what brutal vto- lence each one whose hame was called and whe happened tobe present dastied his way throug | the crowd, and to witness the wild, cager look that came over his countenance as he nervously tore open the envelope and with staring eye and bated | breath glanced over the contents, One ouly had watch the faces of these men to learm where the hope was crushed and where ruin was beyond a doubt, “thank Goa,’ ejaculated one old gentieman (a well known leather merchant, who avrtved 11 this olty only the night neevinns). as haread aloud toa frigad &