The New York herald., 1872-11-12
1UE fine UU
Furious Struggle and
Final Triumph.
Graphic, Thrilling and Compre-
hensive Picture Of the Scene.
A SABBATH OF SORROW.
View of the Conflagration
from a Housetop.
Interesting Points Of Comparison Be-
tween the Chicago and Bos-
ton CalamitieS.
Boston's Firemen and Soldiers
Worn Out with Work.
Their Places Filled by Volun-
teers from Abroad.
Men Walking the Streets as if
In Nightmare.
PALE AND GnOSTLY FACES ON EVERY HAND.
A Pail Of Smoke Over the
Ruins OF the City.
Goodness and Confidence Be-
ing Slowly Restored.
One Hundred Thousand Stran-
gers on the Ground.
AN INVASION BY ROUGAS AND THIEVES.
Scenes and Incidents During and
After the Fire.
"A Well-Told Tale Well Worth
the Reading.

BOSTON, Nov. ii, 1s,l
The entire world has already learned something
OF the visitation by fire which will leave Boston's
name among the most sadly celebrated. The
story has been told, so far as cataoguing the
losses goes and sketching under the fearful pres
sure Of the moment the Impressions left by it's
splendor and its awfulness. Now, thank God
that the well-worn phrase that the g lremen have
got IT under control " has become q reality, may
be allowed to lead you back over the track OF
desolation. On Saturday evening" as night began
to fall nothing had occurred to alter the easy way
OF things in this staid city. Saturday night In
this city OF the Puritans is the gayest, the most
Care-f0rgetting OF the week. In contrast
OF the holiday Of rest which the Sabbath
Is, Saturday night means cheerful household cares
In some cases and light-hearted hilarity Others
It had been delightful day, and the sun never
shone on Boston in pleasanter mood. 1t sunk
away in the west to the music OF light breeze
and the lite hum Of the city. Boston, as America
playfully knows, is city OF narrow, quantity
crooked Streets the two which may be called prin.
cipal are Washington and fremont, as they run
generally east and west through the greater length
of the city On the north OF Washington street are
the dwellings OF the middle classes and those OF tile
richest lying beyond fremont street and around the
far-famed Common. Along Washington street are
the fancy stores, jewelry, millinery retail dry goods
boots and Shoes and all the other businesses which
create and are created In turn by the fair pro-
menaders, who in the bright afternoon, in all the
cities Of the world, go shopping. On it, too, are
situated most OF the daily newspaper Offices II
fremont street is the more fashionable of the two
Washington is close rival, though more
TINGED WITH COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY.
fremont etreet may be described as the Regent
street or the Boulevard des Italiens, while WASH
ington is the oxford street or the Rue de Rivoli.
Running from Washington street south In the direc
ton OF the water are certain streets-Sumner,
Franklin, Milk, Water and State These are
crossed irregulary by other streets-Hawley,
Kingston-a short street. but not to be for
gorten-Devonshire, Federal Congress, Pearl,
Oliver, Kilby, Purchase and Broad which
latter running down in q southwestery direction
from State until 1t reaches wharves, continues
along the water front and behind the wharves.
Within the limits have mentloned-that is bounded
by washington, State and part OF Broad on the
north and west and by Summer, part OF Bedford
and the water front portion of Boston on the west
and south-lies the great wholesale trading portion
OF the city, and this is where the fire ragged, de-
voured and conquered. Fortunate 1t is that the
great beehives where people of the poor and strug.
Cling classes nestle and hudde, lay far to the east
and west Of this circle have marked, which, too
was Indicated for destruction second only in
american annals to Chicago, or perhaps to
Portland. On the streets within this circle
were the proudest and costliest structures which
the hard toiling city had reared-great palaces or
granite, piled up as almost to shut of In their
very ambition to reach the skies the daylight from
the narrow pavements beneath 1t would be use
less 70 detail these buildings or their thrifty own
srs In a sketch. merely wish to set the scene in
the capital OF the Bay Island state. the so-caled
Athens or the Hub OF the Universe, as In halfjest,
halfearnest, Its denizens love to style it. When on
last Saturday evening, November O. at seven
O'Clock, the fire bells pealed out to ring up the
curtain on Its greatest drama in nigh one hundred
years, clang clang they sounsed; but Boston, out
side the Fire Department, little needed. Ali 1t
was In tones that would not be denied. In large
granite building, on the corner OF Summer and
Kingston streets, some hand, in carelessness, per-
haps or by that strange thing called accident, had
KrFDLED LITTLE HUNGRY FLAME.
Inside the massive granite walls 1t fed fatty on the
timbers, roared up through the elevator shaft as
through furnace chimney and leaped up to the
Mansard roof tapping 1t around and garing redly
out to the gaze OF the silver moon, as fiery
Sappho, pulsed with hot passionate blood, would
glare and goat beside the ice.cold chasteness OF
Diana. Cracking, Kissing and roaring IL poured
Its burning passion forth and piled dense clouds
OF smoke between 1t and the clear cold light above
It would have all the great piles around for its own