Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-11-21


both sides of it. as well as those III Otis street
and Winthrop place, have persisted.
The principal wool warehouses were on
Congress and Federal streets. and part of these
streets is also in ruins. At this moment 1t
would seem that the fire has been checked on 4,
TIE eastern side of Washington street, and |
although it has consumed the rear of some of
the warehouses on that stceet, it has not
en- ;rokbthrough into that street itself. In
Broad street. Kilby street, and nearer the !
water, are large stores containing stocks OF
iron and imported goods, but the fire has not
vet reached them.
Old residents of Boston. who have not been
here for five years, should understand that
the whole of Fort Hill has recently been dug
down and carried away, and in lts place Is now
level plain not covered with buildings. The
crowded pauper population, which, till lately,
filled every tenement on Fort Hill, has been
removed to other and, at present. safer homes
The swarms of the poor, which, till recently, |
crowded the cellars of Broad street, have |
nearly all given room to the growth of trade,
and that street is no longer to be regarded as |
one of the lairs of this degraded population
To these two facts is it due chat so few people
are left houseless by this disaster.
Not more than five hundred families have
been unhoused. The real sufferers are the
most active business men of Boston. They
| represent mainly that Younger class OF mer-
| chants, and to whom, in the last fifteen years,
! the CITY owes its remarkable development, de-
|
able TO outsiders has been marked feature OF
Boston growth. These men, conscious OF the
immense advantages which the city had Tor
trade had avaled themselves OF large re-
sources to construct a system of warehouses
| which had superior IN this country, per-
haps none abroad, and to open new streets
which should answer their needs The old
byways in the more northern part OF the city
| had become crowded and inadequate. Ihey
looked with pride upon Pearl street. Franklin
street, New Devonshire street, and Summer
street, as business thorou9hfares nowhere
excelled. Every new year the development OF
the manufactures and commerce of the coun-
try and of their Own city had shown that they
built on no false hopes in constructing such
solid and expensive storehouses.
Of this city, more than any other IN this
| country. it is true that the different branches
of industry liked to remain together and work
side by side To speak of a Boston man Of
Milk street and Franklin street was 10 call to
mind the large wholesale and jobbing estab-
lishments of the dry goods manufacturers OF
New England. Pearl street and High street
we're to him the centers of the boot and shoe
: industries of New England; Summer street
I was that of the latest advances oil domestic
dry goods. These streets were occupied al
most distinctively for these respective pur-
poses.
. THE BOUNDARIES OF THE FIRE.
To strangers the consolidation of these
: different interests cannot be better explained
: than by saying that here, in the reSlor
. bounded on the water side, two-thirds OF ;
mile, on Washington street nearly hall
mile. and on the northern side and southern
l. side nearly half mile each, lay the yer.
" richest part of Boston.
IS 1t was perhaps, the wealthiest section Il
the country. In this district there we're feN
e dwelling houses. no hotel of Importance n
lg theater. no church, except Trinity and the OF
re South Church, which has as yet escaped tn
Or flames. The Cathedral block. which is dc
stroyed, was magnificent collection Of ware
o. houses. The site was formerly occupied b
I'd the Roman Catholic Cathedral the groun
Of having been purchased few years ago Il
an 81 square foot.
IN No banks have been destroyed except ii
or Revere, North America, and Contlnenta
The North Bank and the Bank of Mutual h
ed demption were in peril, but have not yet su
fered.
4 DESTROYED but have no reliable informatlc
he of the fact at this moment. The name
he the church indicates period when Bostt
IN was confined wholly to what is now known
,vo the North End, VIXEN this church, the thu
;S built in Boston, was regarded as the mo
southerly of the three. 1t was establish'
about the year 1860. The present edlfce VI
erected in the early part of the last centur
'uT With the advance of the growth OF Bosto
all the old South Church long found itself IN Il
ne no thern part of the city, and 1t Is mela
les cholv reminder of the origin of its name, if
be spared to-day, that IL Is ct the southe
VI point of that part of old Boston which
10 mains Opposite the old South Church,
ms the time of the Revolution, was the Provln
;al- house. which was used by the English Go
ernors as their residence of state. When
English army took possession of Boston, fin
ing, in the winter, no other building lar
de- enough for the training of cavalry, tn
ar. seized the old South Church, and used it a.
me- | riding school This insult to the people "
inf
upon the Colonists. The congregation owl
great deal of real estate in the nelghborho'
this and. like that of the Trinity Charch of n
, as York, are very wealthy. They MAINTAIN OIL
zen churches throughout the city, and were c.
templating the erection of very line chu
no in the region known as Back Bay. AS a la
gra- mark of the old times, there is no building
fore Boston the loss of which would be more
I'M GREETED by its older citizens.
in FRANKLINs BIRTHPLACE.
Immediately opposite the old South Chu
and was building, in the rear of the Transe
p of Office, which was built on the scene OF
J of birthplace of Benjamin Franklin. Fl
this house. it is known that he was carr
OH the day of his birth, to be baptized in
old South Church. Recent visitors to Bos
The will recollect that there was an inscription
1ght the granite warehouse ted there,
ging show that it was the spot where Franklin
~ Is born.
in The new Postofice, which has been, so
spa a barrier to the flames on the north, Is u
de- nificent structure of granite and iron, the
,fhce ner-stone of which was laid little more tina
Bos- wear ago. considerable part of the gro
burned over east of this building had,
cred antiquaries say, been gradually reclaim
rgest from the water, bat this was done long
Inch fore the present generation was born.
eyel- From an intimate acquaintance with
The commercial interests of the city, am abb
Dyed state that the fall trade in dry goods was
the sldered successful, and that the diffe
the houses had probably reduced their stocks
de- domestic goods to as low point as at
" ex- period IN the year. 1t is not yet time for
those stocks of the spring trade to accumul
Alers, These warehouses were the point OF deli
(at for the great manufacturing establishm
few of all parts of New England, and they
decd, goods in very large quantities at the plac
Vater- manufacture, to be drawn upon in cas-
:, and sales. This is true, in a limited degree,
Sta of the boot and shoe business.
re Tor The stock of wool was probably at its
/, Arcn largest, as dealers had held wool lately /
Pearl rise The recent difficulty in Transports
some caused by the horse distemper. had IN I
7 con- instances, prevented the delivery of WOO
n int no