The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-10-19

corner, so recently brill ct with bus
iness and pleasure. The skull on the
banquet table could scarcely be more
saddening to a reflective mind.
Last week, high in air, on the
southeast corner, stood Niller's jew
elry store. Woods Museum, with its
half million curiosities, and nights
of tragedy and comedy; graced the
vicinity with its fair front, beneath
the Coloners benign portrait; cloth
ing for the million enticed the way
farer to stop and buy, and whisky
and stationery, printing and engrav-
ing, made this section of Randolph
street a popular resort. This morn
ing it is a desert.
And so we could go on, down to
the lake, calling up a hundred rem
iniscences. of the old and cherished
times and places. What memories
cluster around the Matteson House,
the old Garrett block, the auction
house of the shrill voiced Buffers,
etc. Now the heart sickens as it
sees the bitter end of all these things.
LAKE STREET.
From. the bridge to La Sale street,
Lake street was built up on both
sides with business blocks of brick
and stone, remarkable more for their
commodiousness and convenience
than beauty. All are gone.
THE FREMONT HOUSE.
No building in Chicago claims a
kinder remembrance than the old
fremont House. Its broken walls
and towering chimney-stacks speak
nothing of the elegance, sociability
and comfort that always met the
traveller at the threshold and made
friend of him for life.
LAKE STREET, AGAIN.
From the fremont to the Great
Union Depot is not far, yet its
wealth of merchandise and stately
edifices were known far and near
throughout the West, but the eye
dims and the pulse groes slow when
the ruin ofGhis noble mart meets
the sight. Names of firms who did
business here might be given, but
they stand engraven in the hearts of
many a country merchant, who has
prOfited by the courtesies of Lake
street jobbers.
THE JOURNAL" OFFICE.
The old Journal building had a
location and a name in the hearts of
thousands of warm friends. For a
quarter of a century from it the pub
lie received the daily news, and here
public opinion met with censure or
praise, as it deserved. The old Of
fee has gone, with all its grateful la
bors, but the Journal still lives.
SOUTH SIDE.
The scene in this section of the
city is too appalling to be dweIt upon
with other words than those which
will in the most adequate manner
convey an idea of the reality which
seems beyond the power of tongue
or pen to relate. The streets that
are burnt over are Madison, Monroe,
J Adams, Jackson, Van Buren, Con-
gress and Michigan avenue, where
it was checked, the Michigan Ave
nue. Hotel being saved. On Wabash
it burned through to Harrison street.
The last house burned on the east
side of Wabash avenue. On the
West side, DR.. McChesney's (the
Wabash Avenue Methodis6 Church
was not burned, at the northeast
corner of Harrison and Wabash ave-
nue.. On State Street, 356 was the
last number burned. This Was the
south limit so far west as the track
of the Michigan Southern Railroad.
The long freight depOts (in and out
freighD were burned, with all their
contents; cars and everything as'far
south of Taylor, and west Of the east
track. Taylor street, the great lum
Der district, was not crossed, to the
south. Thus, in short, there is only
one building within the limits above
described which is not burned to
ashes, and this seems to have escap-
ed through a miracle-it is num-
bered 81 to SO Harrison street, on
the corner of North avenue. The
streets which run north and south
are Michigan avenue Wabash ave
nue., Stale, Dearborn, Clark, LaSalle,
Wells, Sherman, Griswold and Mar
ket streets. This section Of the city
contained the glory of our architect
ure, and the palatiaI residences of
some of our most wealthy citizens.
The names of individual owners can
not be given, but the prominent
business structures were the depot OF
the Lake Shore, and Chicago, and
Rock Island and Pacific Railroad,
on Van Buren, from Sherman to
Griswold, aud south to Harrison
the Pacific Hotel, which was ready
for the roof, and occupied a block
The CustOm-house, which is gutted,
the heavy whitened walls alone
standing. HOnOre's blocks, finished
and unfinished, on Dearborn, from
! Monroe to Adams, the Tribune build
ing, the Times Office, the Post build
ing, the Office of the Stats Zeitung
and numerous publications. The
elegant structure known as the Lake
Side Press building, on Clark, the
Young Mems Christian Association
Library, the Republic insurance build
ing, FarWelI Hall, McVicker's The