The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-10-19
AirE,n1ond Dispattlt,
THURSDAY. OCTOBER 10, 1871.
{ sy THE CIRCULATION OF THE DIS
PATCH rs LARGER THAN THE COMBINED
CIRCULATION CT ALL THE OTHER D lily;
EEWspAPERs CT THE CITY.
CHICAGO kTEMs.
BUILDING HOUSES WITH DISPATCH.

CHICAGO lTERgs.
BUILDING HOUSES WITH DISPATCH.
With such forces as could be obtained,
however, the work OF building was carried
on yesterday and to-day, and the result fs
almost incredible. Along the lake fronting
Michigan avenue there are more than 10O
immense frame one-story warehouses In
progress, and some Of them actually rooted
In, aud ready for occupation Tomorrow or
next day. The first steps, have been taken
to set the judicial wheels IN motion, several
Of the school-houses being appropriated for
court and chambers.-John Hay, an Nett
York Tribune. ..';. s,..-...... .-.. =.
l. INSURANCE.. ~. -,,,.. ..,
The unexpected aid from majority .ol
The insurance companies Is, however, the
/. theme Of greatest comment and hearty ga
tisfactiOn. .-.-s : ~. . ...s- ,.,.a..t 3.
The local insurance companies ara en-.
tirely and irrecOyerably crushed, but will
probably return small share to The In
suIed. t.t.F
RESUMPTION OF TRADE. r.
The daily papers, almost rs well appear
Ing as before the catastrophe, arc now pub
lished regularly, and receive splendlQ pu-
siness. The regular stock aud iluanaiai re-
ports make good showing, and it is seen
that the regular routine Of trade Is steadily
| largely, and this great branch Of ChicagUs
| ancient wealth promises to suffer no dimu-
| milton BY the temporary interruption.
Capital in every conceivable form is pre-
pairing to pour IN. A great list of new
! banks Is announced with Canadian and
English capital. The great Bank Of Mon.
! treal is to establish branch here with a
fabulous capital. A western capitalist Is
also about to start private bank with
$500, 900. ......s. ia 4, ~. -. i
/ Sales of real estate are substantially The
same as before the fire, and that indicates
! pretty we'll the disposition of the busines:
men.-John Hay. .~#.
SHARP FELLOW. ..,s..
One man, while his foundery was disap-
pearing In smoke and ashes, bethoughl
| himself OF tumble. down editice on Canal
street, straightway secured 1t at rental o
1920, and now rents II In rooms anc
offices at So, 900, and has still room in i
for himself. . ,,.'.
NEARLY ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND HOMELESS
1 PERSONS. .s~-. ..
As close an estimate as can be reached
puts the houseless at $3.50. This is no
guess-work, however, Us the official list
show the number of houses and the mum
Der of people In the burned division. U
course all these are not on the charity @
the town. Many retain slight sums from
the banks, and have other resources; bu
the great majority must be cared for II
some way during the long winter tina
hovers over this northern country.
THAT HOUSE.
y / turned from them all this morning tt
hunt for the spot where the fire started. l
is the greatest and most brilliant appari
tion of the nineteenth century. Here th
fire began. The squalid little hovel alon'
remained intact in all that vast expanse
A warped and wea,her-beaten shanty Q
two rooms, perched on thin piles. with til
plates nailed halfway down hem like dirty
pantalets. There was no shahbier hut il
Chicago nor in Tipperary. But 1t stoot
there safe, while city had periShed be
fore 1t and around it. 1t was preserved by
Its own destructive Significance. 1t was
made sacred by the curse that rested OF
it-a curse more deadly than that Whicf
darkened the lintels Of the house OF Thy
estes. For out of that house last Sunday
night came woman with lamp to lht
barn, behind the house, to milk the cow
with the crumpled temper, that kicked Tho
lamp, that spilled the Kerosene, that tlret
the straw, that burned Chicago. Ant
there to this hour stands tEGt craven ll.tlt
house, holding on tightly to its miserable
existence.
!! went around TO the rear, and there
found the man OF the house sitting Will
two of his friends. His wife, our lady o
the lamp-freig GIFTED with heavier disaster
than that which Psyche carried to the bed
side Of Eros-sat ut the window knitting
approached The man Of the house ant
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sleepy, furtlve eyes. / asked him what ht
knew about the origin Of the fire. III
glanced at his friends, and said, civillE, ht
knew very little. He was walked up abou
9 O'Clock by the alarm, and fought from
that time to save his house. At every sen
tence he turned to his friends and said, ~
can prove it by them; to which the,
NODDED assent. He seemed fearful that al
Chicago was coming down upon him fol
prompt and integral payment of thut 5000,
600, 900 his cow had kicked over. Hi
neighbors say this story [that he knew very
little about the origin OF the tire] Is an IN
vention dating from the second day Of tht
fire. There was something unuttcrably
crotesque in this ultimate atom feeling {
sense Of responsibility for catastrophe 81
stupendous.
| ANINcR EDIBLE SToRY.-A physician
states that he has the means OF knowing
that five hundred children were born or
1 the prairie and on the streets of Chicago
during Monday and Tuesday nights of thu
fire. Wheeling Register.
REBUILDING CHIcAeo.-Twenty couple:
have taken out marriage licenses in Chicago
since the fire. The irrepresslble enterprise
| of the West becomes more and more ap
parent.
a man in Washington calling himself A
"a. Clarke has victimized General .. u
Howard In the sum of 500 by representing
himself to be Chicago sufferer.
The Chicago lake tunnel. by which the
city Is supplied with water, the tunne
nnder the main river and under the South
Branch, are all uninjured. These works
alone are counted. as constituting from
twenty to forty per cent. OF rebuilding the
city. E.
All the newspapers are still speaking ol
the s'fire. fiend" in connection with the
| Chicago copflagation. ''Fire, fend" Is
| first-rate word to have about newspaper
Office in times like these, but suppose we
Law it away now and let it rest awh1te.-
| Louisville Courier.
AS illustrating the intensity OF the heat
In which the largest and strongest struc'
lures melted like wax, NJ. Henson men,
| tiono fhof mi 1or Sfopa kl .oES like The