Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1825-11-17


forwarded slip containing the follow.
ing distressing details Of an extensive
fire in that city -
Boston Courier Office,
Thursday, Non 10th, !, p. d.
FIRE.-Our cit, seems to be devot-
ed TO confagration. 1t becomes our
duty to record the occurrence OF ano-
ther extensive fire, which has destroy.
ed large amount OF property, and con
verted number Of elegant, commodi.
Gus and valuable edi6ces into pile OF
smoking ruins.
About half an hour before | o'clock
Yesterday morning fire was discov-
cred in the hat store Of MIR. W. Brown,
on the south side of Court-street. The
alarm was instantly given; but before
efficient aid could be obtained, the
flames had made such progress as to
set at defiance all exertions to contne
them to the buildings where they ORR
pinated. The wind was brisk at north
west, and waited the blazing combus-
tibIes 10 considerable distance, in the
direction of Water and Congress
streets; and at one time great fears
were entertained for the preservation
of Joys building (Cornhill square,
and the Old State House, both OF which
took fire on the cornices. Had the ex-
ertions to save these buildings been
fruitless, the conflagration could not
have been arrested without sweeping
a passage through 10 the harbor. In
about two hours and half, however,
the fire was subdued, after having de-
stroyed the row of brick buildings ON
the south-side of the street from the
Old Court House 10 the building on
the corner Of Court-street and Corn
hill, three brick and stone buildings on
the north side Of Court-street, the
house back Of Cornhill square former
ly occupied by P. Gayetty, and a mum.
Der of smaller buildings in the rear OF
those enumerated. The following is,
as nearly as we can now ascertain,
correct list of the tenants, with their
occupations, of the buildings burned
and injured.
On the south side Of Court-street,
Tudor's building $50 called) occupied
by Mr.. Bacon, apothecary, Messrs. H.
Fuller, Morey, and Dunlap, attorneys,
and Amin and Smith, engravers.-
The range Of brick buildings, almost
new, owned by Hon. Peter c. Brooks,
occupied by G.. IYheelwright, umbre!
la maker, Daniel Messenger, halter,
w, Brown. halter, A. Ellison, tailor,
and the offices of P. c. Brooks, Fl. &.
OTIS, jr. w. F. Otis, J. +. Winthrop,
L. Shaw, S. Bartlett, S. D Wood,
Sherman Leland, A. w. Paine, Angus
tus Peabody, James Savage, P. Blair,
George Blake, U. S. district attorney,
I. We,more, William T. Andrews
The adjoining brick building owned
also by Mr.. Brooks, and occupied by
O. G. Greenleaf, bookseller, ]. I. Aus
tin, county attorney, and Farnham &
Phelps, printers. The next building,
making the corner Of Cornhill, was
preserved with much difficulty, and
not without considerable injury.
On the north side Of Court.street
the elegant edi6ce belonging TO J.
Heard, jr. register of probate, occu-
pied by himself, {. P. Curtis, ]. Quin-
cy, jr. William P: Mason, attorneys,
and Wells & Lilly, booksellers. The
next building, belonging TO the estate
of the late Judge Dawes, occupied by
Mrs. Preston, milliner, and the upper
parts as a dwelling house. The next
owned by Mr.. Brooks, occupied by
Elias Payne, shoe store. ]. r. Adam,
attorney, and J. Hastings, manufacture.
err of printing ink.
On the alley leading south by the
Old Court House, all the buildings oc-
cupied by ] Farric, A. Moore, S. K.
Williams, and Z G. Whitman, attor-
nrys, and Luke Baldwin, deputy She
rif.
The house belonging formerly to Mr..
Gayetty, occupied as confectionery,
with some small tenements adjoining.
whose occupants names we havS not
learned.
The block Of buildings extending
from Cornhill square to Court street,
occupled,by Messrs Wolcott and Gel
ston, WelIes, GeIston & Porter, Still
man Willis, Kilby Page, and others,
was preserved with great difficulty,
but much injured in the rear. Nearly
all the goods and merchandise were re-
moved from this block to places Of safe
ty.
A fve-story building next above Mr.
Heard's, belonging to the President of
the United States, occupied by Messrs.
WEIGH and Eckley, attorneys, was con-
siderab!y damaged
We have not ascertained the proba-
BILE total amount of losses, nor whether
any Of Mr.. Brooks buildings were in
sured Mr.. Heard's we understand
Was insured at the Mutual Office
This h,;1Iipcr woc oracyoI bnf f.xy