The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1871-10-14
CHICAGO.
WORK OF RESTORATION BEGUN.
Business Men ReSuming.
INSURANCE COMPANIES PAYING
The Bank and Safe Deposit
, Vaults all Right.
Money and Securities all Right
The Nicholson Pavement Unhurt.

THE SILVER LtEING-DETTBR PROSPECTS
AHEAD.
CHICAGO, Oct, 18.-ThC dawn of cacl
succeeding day brings brighter prospects
for this smittGn city, and the feeling O.
hope and faith which springs up within
The breasts OF the energetic men who have
made Chicago what it twas isstreDgtheneC
and extended everywhere.
business MEN REsUMIEG.
Twcnty.onG Of twenlyfour columns o.
this mornings Tribune are filled with The
advertisements of business firms who have
already secured new locations, and are
either now ready, or will be ina few days
to do business Stocks of new, goods Grt
already on the way here.
BUILDERS IN DEMAND.
Builders are overwhelmed with applica'
tons to put up new houses for business
purposes. One contractor had, last night,
sixteen contracts for substantial structures
to be erected at once.
COMMERCIAL PROSPECTS.
The 7riJunGs commercial article says:
there Is still but little doing in produce
circles, but our commission merchants and
grain dealers are hard at work preparing
10 open ont again on full scale just as
soon rs pCCuniary arrangements will per.
init, which will be in day or two, prob
ably by the first Of next week. Many OF
them are busy helping to distribute lood
and clothing to to the destitute. The re-
mainder arc fitting up offices in the viCini.
" Of the temporary Board OF Trade rooms
at numbers 81 and 53 Canal street, where
the Board will do business till the Cham.
bcr OF Commerce can be rebuilt Some
grain Is moving ont, and Iour charters
were reported to-day, 1t isexpected that
grain will bGmOvGd out much more rapid.
ly towards Monday, as the banks will be
able to make advances by that time.
WHAT THE BANKS CAN Do--rUNDs SAFE,
So far none of the bank vaults have
been found ut all injured. The Union
National, which were Mt first reported
blown up, are ina perfect condition SO
far as the contents arc concerned. The
safes Of the Fidelity Snte Deposit Co,
7. B. Bryan Il Co, were found when
opened, to have no heat in them and
every dollar of the millions on deposit
there were sale. Gins. Wilson tool; ont
100000 In fresh grGGnbaCks Tho com.
pAnyhavc established nn office In the RUNS,
and invite all to put their money and
other valuablGs there and deposit them,
free Of charge, until they can get better
accommodations The Savings Banks Of
the city announce that they will at once
pay all depOsitors whose deposits do
not exceed SEQ and not less than $40 TO
every dcposiOr whose balance is more
than that sum. The limit set in case
the latter class of dopOsitors is solely for
the purpose OF preventing II run by those
who do not stop to consider the demor.
ali2ing effect Of such an event.
THE INSURANCE COMPANIES.
Thcagents ofthc IEtna Insurance Com.
pany, are now adjusting and paying their
losses, which they say will not exceed
two and n half to three millions of dollars.
The general agents Of the Etna instr
mace Company are, as stated, here adjust
Ing and paying their losses Day, Allen Il
Co., wholesale groCCrs, were the recipients
Of ten thousand dollars, as they were also
ol ten thousand dollars from the Phoenix
of Hartford, whose agents nre also adjust.
Ing and paying their losses as rapidly rs
possible. VIM, Warren, Ogcnt OF the
Liverpool london RnA Giobh cOmpnnies,
lhl3morning received ~ cable dispatch
from these companies, directing him to
proceed at once with the adjustment and
payment of every dollar OF the losses, as
quickly as 1t can bc done. The losses Of
these companies aggregate about six mil
lions Of dollars,
The loss Of the Commerce Insurance
Company Of Albany Is about $ij0,0OO.
This company has been placed in the
hands of receiver by lis officers; but ii
claims that 1t will ply every dollar, and
That new stock will be at once subscribed
to proceed with thcr business.
j. u, Jones, President OI the Atlantic
Insurance Company OF New York, has
teIegrAphcd their agent here to issue ma =.
rlnG risks on any vessel loaded with grain
or produce for New York, IN policies not
to exceed fifty thousand dollars on any
one vessel
THE NICHOLSON PAVEMENT INTACT.
a noticeable fact, and one Of immense
Importance in the rebuilding uf the city,
Is thc almost perfect condition in which
lhe fire h0s left the Nicholson pavement.
The damage Ia so trilliug as not, to be
worthy OF mention Miles Of the pave.
menl on tue north side, are almost uu.
scorched and perfectly free Of debris and
even IN the South Division where b5th
sides OF the streets were built with lolty
brick and stone buildings, there is scared.
" point where carriage may not pass
through streets, except where the
buildings werO hOwn. up or partially
blown up in the cndeavor to s,on The
progress Of the llames, the ruins have nj.
most invariably iallen upon their own
sites. At the points where the pavement,
were burned at all, the fire only charrcd
them on the outside, and It is a question
whether this process to which they were
subjected, will not add to their durability
Loss OF LIFE GREATER THAN REPORTED
Evidence is accumulating hourly tina
the loss OF lite Is greater than we hav
yenlured to cslimute in these dispatches
ana thc great number Of persons still
searching Tor the missing members O
families confirm the statement that ther
are many OF these missing ones Quarteret