Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1860-07-20
THE CITY OF HAMBURG.

afford 10 the taveler better opportunity :
or reward for his examination than the
busy. commercial, and (for the Germans)
spirited republic of Hamburg. In its
history there is much to be admired and
remembered-the annals of little dem
ocracy, who have steered their bark for
centuries amid the whirlpools and shoals
of intestine feud and the hostile fleets OF
surrounding tyranny, cannot be devoid OF
interest. A writer in the Independent
gives the following incident in the his
tory of this city:
"On entering the city, the traveller is
struck with its cleanliness and modern
air. Let us in the beginning explain the
cause.
In the year 1912 the city was devas-
iated, during three days and nights. by
terrific fire, which laid the finest part of
it in ashes. On the day when the fire
broke out, the Senate and citizens were
about to celebrate the opening of the
Berlin Railway, mot then completed,
however, to BerIin.) One of the Sem
ators came to Mr.. Lindley, then the eele-
brated English engineer, who had built
the road, and said, 'On account OF this
confagration, Herr Lindley, we cannot
come to your railway; so do you come
and see how our Fire Department, which
you affect to despise, can do its duty
At that time the Department supplied lis
little sixpenny engines with water from
wagons which we're drawn to the requir
ed spot; and, as may well be imagined
in the course of the first day the confa
grafton got entirely beyond their con.rol
The burghers then changed their tone
and, instead of showing Herr Lindle,
what they could do asked him wha
they had better do! He indicated
:, dozen houses which ne advised them (
bIo1c up and stop the further progress G
the devouring element. But the old fc
gies cried out upon him for Il madmar
- and betook themselves again to thei
squirts and hogshcads.
In the course of few more hours, i
~ was called again into the presence of tn
assembled Senate, in special session
consider the case. They told him til;
. they thought he might as well blow U
those houses Gentlemen said
the houses are all on fire IF I we
sn to blow them up no,0, should scatt
Ic destruction to every remaining quart
- of the city. I as noU to late p B
what shall we do? i do not know
-. The senators, thoroughly frightened, ii
II plored him to do some thing, but for sol
r,s time his only answer WAS, too late
80 late 2 At last, however, he told them
- would try, and called for map Of I
H., city. After surveying it in silence,
= put his finger on the spot where th
were gathered, and said, l shall f
. blow up the Senate Housed Old foi
ism made vain remonstrance; in half
nv hour the stately palace was a mas:
ruins From this point Mr.. Lind
md made path two hundred feet in wiz
sI;. across the entire city, blowing up sew,
-, hundred houses, and the work of {
two truction was stayed.
/ the In the manner of its conception
mot execution, this exploit was some;i
nr of which 70 sane man would have riske
owes calm moment taken in connec
III as with existing circumstances, it was
is it evidence not of rash folly, but of tr
ends, cendent genius. If the man, the hero
ltiOn, not triumphed over the engineer,
logy. Lindley would never have staked
injury reputation on such measure, altoge
n ex- without parallel, as it was.
OF so There was no time for preparation
y are assistants went into house, told the
atoms mates that they were going to blow il
slight the frightened family said, Dear
Mr. are you ran out, and in ten minute
RS OF house, furniture and all, was scatter
whose the winds. Then to the next, and
and next.
ay or The streets were crowded with n
lFon directly in front, and everywhere i
i"'e vicinity; but all ordinary preca
'"e'' must be disregarded; the engineer:
I" 'n' the spectators freely exposed themst
'''e" and yet, by the blessing of heaven,
'"''s that dreadful day and night, only
- az life was lost, and that of q man VII
. ~ fire to the fuse, and foolishly went
d that
- to see why it didn't go off. My in
:. "a ant, in speaking of it to me, said /
cally, . 1t blew him into the Alst,
have .. "Oou' u
tanee of quater of mile, / infe
-. be never recovered Most of the