, 1872-11-17
BOSTON,.

Ih6 Efe88 opposed 10 tfecc1ElnH any
Relief from Outsidc-Tllo Fire to Be
Investigated Tho Chief Engineer
Severely Commented On-Iusurancea
and Salvage.
BOSTON, Nor. 16.-PubIic sentiment in Boston
is aTerso to accepting offers of money from
other cities at this time. The Globe, yesterday
morning, expressed itself as opposed to the &C
tion Of the Relief Committee in voting to accept
aid. The Adpertiser is mildly opposed to the
resolution OF acceptance, and the Transcript
publishes its non-concurrence.
This morning the Globe, in an elaborate lead
er comes out hat-footed upon the men who, it
says, would make Boston e beggar from the
whole Union, and publishes several letters from
citizens in support Of its comments. The Globe
says that the Committee, in assuming to speak
for the citizens Of Boston, have published to
the world their resolve that offers Of pecunlary
aid from all parts Of the Union will be gratefully
accepted, which is nothing more than
proud and wealthy capital OF New England is IN
poverty and distress, and subject OF general
charity. Boston, at this day, and notwithstand-
ing the fire, is receiving an income OF over
100000, 900, and to say that community thus
circumstauced cannot succor it's own poor and
needy, without receiving charity from abroad, is
absolutely absurd. "Where is the honest pride,
the fair fame, the integrity of good old city,
when she is made to stand like a beggar, with
pockets filed with money and securities, cap in
It says: 80 Mayor Gaston has proved himself un-
equal to the situation, and these sef-constituted
solicitors for charity for Boston hcEe grossly
nisrepresented the sentiment Of the city
There is general feeling that Chief Damrell,
of the Fire Department, permitted the FIRE to
spread through carelessness, and an official in
vestigation Of the rise and spread Of the conha-
grafton is to be instituted and the prospects are
that the excitement about the fire has only be-
gun.
The Relief Committee is to be called upon to
rescind its action publicly.
Harvard College suffered by the FIRE to the
extent Of 1861, 90, including the value Of the
land, and it will cost $500, 600 to rebuild. To
ward this it has 100000 good insurance, out OF
S21e,ooo, for which it was insured The perma,
nent loss is thus reduced to 3200, 1000. 'Thls, y
says President Eliot, "we must beg"
The fire VAS rather severe on the publishers,
but the Transcript, the American Home Aaga-
zine, the Wauerly, and all the week
lies and monthlies have secured new quarters,
and, though temporarily incom1oded, new type
and new presses and hard work will enable them
to BOON run smoothly.
Considerable sa1vages Of wool and leather are
being discovered among the ruins, the value
amounting to several thousand dollars.
NEW YORK, Nov. 16.-Ihe latest and lowest es-
innate Of insurance losses BY the Boston fire
gives the total amount as S48, ,572, 800, distrib-
1ted as follows: Massachusetts, companies
9,71o 900; Connecticut, 92,952,80o; NeT
York, $3.50 600; Maine, s4oo, ,ooo; Rhode Isl,
ss0,0o0; Missouri, S25,000; Minnesota, 810,-
600; New Jersey, 81, 1900; Ohio, S205, 1000;
Pennsylvania, S2,776.5 500; Wisconsin, 950,000
foreign companies, g, $4,000.
The wool dealers, it ia said, are fully covered
recovered from the ruins, their outsides burned
black, but the insides are good.
It is believed that the direct and indirect losses
will not exceed $40,000,0o0 after the insurance