Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-10-14
THE FIRE.

chicago. 10. L ne Dawn OF eaCn DAY brings
brighter prospects and the hope of the ener-
getie men who made Chicago what it was, il
strengthened.
Twenty-one columns of the Tribune this
morning were filled with advertisements Of
with applications to put up new houses. One
man made sixteen contracts last night.
Little is doing in produce circles, but COM
mission merchants and grain dealers are hard
at work preparing to open on their usual
scale by next week.
The agents of the Etna Insurance Com
pany are paying their losses which they claim
will reach $3,O00,000. Evidence is accumu-
latng that the loss of life is greater than here
tofore estimated.
The county supervisors to-day resolved to
rebuild the court house at once.
The amount of funds saved from the vaults
of the banks added to the balances in New
York leaves them an amount of cash equal to
forty or fifty per cent. This with the insur-
ance that will be paid insures the collection
of seventy-fve per cent. of the loans by the
banks.
The Liverpool, London and Globe insur-
| ance companies have ordered the payment OF
their losses Immediately. The aggregate
losses of their companies is about million.
The loss of the Commerce of Albany is S4O,-
600. This company has been placed in the
hands of receivers. 4----..
The following elevators were burned: -
Munger & Armour's, Galena, Illinois Central.
Hiram Wheeler's National, and Vincent,
Nelson and Co. The following elevators
were unframed; Illinois Central, Flint &
Thompson's, two of Mum and Scots, two OF
Armour, Dale & Co., the Burlington and Old
Iowa and Illinois River. - -
The total amount of grain remaining in
elevators is 100000 bushels. Temporary
trade rooms are established at 81 and 52,
Canal street.
So far none of the bank vaults found are
| injured. The Union National is in perfect
condition, and every dollar of the millions OF
deposits in the Fidelity Safe Deepest Co.'S
| vaults is safe.
| The Tribune says that there is one way in
which the government may be of a substan-
tial benefit. The government must have pub
| lie offices here, custom house, post office,
court rooms, &C., and also warehouses.
These are absolutely and Immediately neces-
| sary. Let Congress provide for these to
be of the most liberal dimensions, and
the best class of Congress will appro-
pirate one or two million dollars to be-
gin this work at once and order their
construction. 1t will do more to restore
confidence and stimulate private enterprise
than any impracticable attempts to loan the
public money to back up the stockholders OF
insurance companies. The fact that Con-
gress voted Ave million dollars to build the
necessary government buildings, would be
the best tidings to unemployed labor of the
city.
! There were eighty nine newspaper estab-
lishment destroyed in the burnt district, EN-.
bracing dailies and monthlies.
! This afternoon Postmaster Eastmore adj.
dressed his clerks in body. He said it wa.
his grateful duty to thank them for their per.
feet fidelity in a time OF calamity. The Post
master General had promptly telegraphec
words of sympathy with the post office en-
ployees and the people, and also clothed the
! postmaster with the requisite authority anc
! directions looking to the re-establishment Of
the office.
1t is rumored that Henry J. Ultman bank.
er, was murdered instead of suffoeated His
body was found near the banking house
which he had evidently just left, with money
and valuables in his arms.
There has been some unpleasantness for
day or two in regard to the management o.
the contributions of relief funds, &c., but
thoroughly organized committee was effected
this afternoon, consisting of the Chicago Re-
lief and Aid Society assisted by prominen
citizens. All bills will be audited by the ex
of some well know citizens, the comptrollel
and mayor. This organization makes thu
following suggestions: