The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-10-28

/ son street are Hathaways coal Office,
one Of the Buckingham elevators, on
/ the lake shore, and the lind block. at
I the corner of Randolph and Market.
! Not q vestige Of any wooden building
/ is left IN sight, and the walls of the ma
/ iority Of the buildings in the district
described are leveled with the ground.
I In come instances partition walls have
not altogether fallen, but rear their
pointed heads high above the surround
j ing runs.
THE STREETS
The pavements are burnt, broken
and strewn with debris-not impassl-
BILE, but dusty and smoky.
MARKET STREET.
The buildings recently erected at the
corner of Madison street and hot fin
ished, is q pile of brick and mortar.
The old transportation Company's
wooden shed no longer distresses the
sight on the dock-it is all burned up.
On the opposite corner lies IN ruins
the old Garden City House, which the
writer saw erected twenty years ago.
/ Thousands will remember the old hotel
with pleasure, mingled with regret for
it's loss.
RANDOLPH STREET.
Eddy's horse market, near Market
street. is leveled, and the debris emits
the smell of burned horse flesh. East.
the great siX-story wagon maEufactory
of Peter Schuttler, extending along
Franklin street, was brought to the
ground. Not vestige OF Peacock S
jewelry store remains.
The great iron block on the north
west corner of Wells and Randolph
is mass of broken columns, brick and
mortar. This building made wreck
of the man who erected it, and is now
itself a dismal wreck.
Opposite lies shat which was once the
Metropolitan Hotel, around the memo
ny OF which fingers history of I'M
usual interest-the means which built
it having been stolen from the jewelry
store Of Isaac Speer some eighteen
years ago.
On the other corner, where stood the
favorite old Briggs House; is an I'M
shaped mass CT material, little conson
ant with the comfort, hospitality and
mirth for which that old hostelry was
ever famous.
Bleak, smoked, hollow and desolate,
upon the scene, near the walls of the
! Court House-scene of many distress
ing and exciting trial, of local legisla-
ton and public business. Not only
have the roofs ''buckled,' but the enz
tire structure looms up from where we
write ruined monument of departed
greatness. The old fence remains, with
the tessellated pavements, but the glory
of the tribunals and the Council cham
Der are things Of the past.
Across the street a heap of bricks,
iron rods and shattered ornaments of
stone mark the grave of the Fidelity
Safe Company's magnificent structure
and the stately Sherman House. Words
are weak to express the air of desola-
ton that hoverS around this corner, so
recently brilliant with business and
pleasure, The skull on the banquet
table could scarcely be more saddening
to reflective mind.
Last week, high in air, OH the south
east corner, stood bIillers jewelry store.
Woods Museum with it's half million
curiosities, and nights of tragedy and
comedy, graced the vicinity with its
fair front, beneath the Colonel's benign
portrait; clothing for the million enticed
the way-farer 20 stop and buy, and
vhlskey and stationery, nrintihss and
engraving, ma3c th1s section OF Ran,
dolrh Street a popular resort. This
morning tits desert.
And SO we could &c on, down TO the
axe, calling up hundred reminiscan
ces of.old and cherished times and places.
What memories cluster around the
Matteson House, the old Garrett block,
/ Tho auction house of shrill voiced But
ters, etc. Now the heart sickness as If
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 commodious-
ness and convenience than beauty. All
are gone.
The Board of Education rooms: bro
kers' offices the Northwestern Railway
ticket office; the United States and
American Express offices: the iewelry
stores of Roddin & Haniiin, A Van
/ Colt & Co., and others, and the dry
goods stores of J. B. Shay & Co, oil
well known places of business, are as
unsightly as a neglected grave.
/ No building in Chicago claims a
/ kinder remembrance than the old Ire
mont House. Its broken walls and tow
ering chlmney-stack speak nothing of
the elegance, sociability and comfort
/ that always met the traveller at the
/ threshold and made a friend of him for
life,
From the fremont to the Great
Union Depot is not far, but its wealth of
merchandise and stately edifices were
known far and near throughout the
West, but the eye dims and the pulse
goes slow when the ruin of this noble
mart meets the eye. Names of firms
who did business here might be given,
but they stand engraven in the hearts
Of many a country merchant, who has
protited by the courtesies of Lake ST.
Iobbers.
SOUTH SIDE.
The scene in this section of the city
is too appalling to be dwelt 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, Adams, Jackson,
Van Buren,, Congress, and Michigan
avenue, where 1t Was checked, the
Michigan avenue hotel being saved.
On Wabash it burned through to Har-
rison street. The last house burned
on the east side of Wabash avenue.
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