The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1872-01-11

is a button factory, with pendulous and fas-
chatting strings Of buttons festooned across
the ar;stocratic windows. The bed rooms,
higher up, are lawyers doctors and in.uT-
alce Offices; and into the dormer windows
shoot large culver full Of Geographic wires
The next buildingis stylish structure
with bow front; bank president oocr ed
it in September, and is, perchance stiii an
exile in some OF the upper stories; but the
bow window in the parlor, the scene OF count
less ely flirtations: and pleasant family
siestas, Is now gaInished with ladies' stock.
inss hung up in graduated array, while
brown haln oral, swinging, a silent sentinel
At the door, and the variety Of fa:aale toy
gerry here and there displayed, complete the
story Of mammon's invasion. Further on
il pretty cream colored cot
tsge, the obvious creation Of pair who
we're at once lovers and artists. II is sci
little distance from the walk; it has the an
ole, and wings that are so charming and pic
iuresaue: a yeranda runs costly around 1t,
and along and around i, climbs vine a
cool and delightful sumner trellis. Here,
too. the barbarians have effected an entrance
and broken up the Eest. Barrels OF moiass,
es and vinegar and -four lie impude,itly and
lazily in the yard. A greasy looking man
with kerosene can; and boy slides ont,
giving his whole attention 10 candy. In tie
b,y window is symmetrical cob house, con-
structed Of bars Of soap; and brooins, mops
and Goldfish are disclosed through the leaiie.s
trellis. :,
"Dorn State street TO Twentieih-and
there is the largest dry goods store in the city
or the West. Field Letter 4 Cos. Here are
hapareds of clicks and thousands OF patrons
a day, busy along the spacious aisles and the
vast vistas of ribbons and iaces and cloaks
and dress goods. This tells no story OF the
fire. The ladies jostle each other as
of old, and the boys run mer.ily TO the in
cessantly cry of "cast." YET, madam, this
immense bazar was six weeks ago the horse
barn of the South Side railroad. After the
fire the hay was pitched out, and the oats
and harness and equine gear were hustled IN
to another building, both floors were garnish-
e., and the beams were painted or white
washed for their new service. Here where
ready made dresses hang, then swung sets
Of double harness; yonder where richly
robed lady leans languidly across the counter
and fingers the point laces, manger stood
and offered hospitality to a disconsolate
horse. A stranse metamorphis.-yvet 1t IL
an extreme illustration oft!e sudden changes
the city has undergone.
"The churches that are spared have been
curiously appropriated several of them by
the Relief Societies, others by institutions
that are OF the earth earthly. Here is one
oyerrun and utterly deluged by Uncle Sans
mail-given up in all its parts to the eNigen-
cies of the city postal service. One is di-
vided up for Offices; lawyer Offers to defend
your title; an insurance man volunteers 20
save you from the next fire; and in the re-
cess that used TO hold the choir, dentist
holds the heads and examines the months of
his victims. Another church is turned into
a watch factory; and still another Is possessed
by an express company, and over the official
desks in the vestry-room vaults, in painted
bow, is the suggestive legend, come unto
me, all We that are heavy laden.
INCIDENTS OF THE FIRE.
We COPY two new incidents from Walker 5
account of the FIRE:
"Mr. J. III. McNicke;, proprietor of Nc
Vicker's Theatre, going into his building by
4 side door from the alley, jus: as the flames
driven back by the heat ard the smoke. But
OIL TtdCIliI1S oi,Cu hC was IldSVh III
a still more dangerous plight, being caught
in one of the bowling currents of air, Gre
ated by the heat, which were whirling
through in an exactly opposite direction
from the main course of the gale. This
brought shower of sparks and burning bits
of timber upon him, and, before he could
escape, a tongue of fire was swaying through
the alley. Throwing himself upon his hands
ard knees, lie crawled on: to the next street
as rapidly as possible; but when he reached
a place OF comparative safety, he found him
self almost blinded by the heat and smoke,
so that he did not regain the full Use of his
eyes for weeks.
"At the burning of the Oriental Block on
La Sale street, opposite the Chamber Of
Commerce, 4 man remained in the third
story long after the building had fired, COM
posedIy carrying his goods to window and
dropping them out, when they were thrown
into an express wagon by his partner and
two friends. A rope was all the while dang
ling from the window; and when his COM
panions and the crowd impiored him 10 de-
sist from his work and leave The doomed
building, he would shout back, pointing to
the cord, this is my stairway, now don't
you fret for mey' At length, after every
staircase in the house was in flames. and
escape by the ordinary avenues were impossi-
bic, he came to the window with some books
and money from the safe, which he had
opened. Throwing the books 10 his friends,
he quietly showed the money into his bosom
aud proceeded to crawl cut and let hims II to
the ground by the rope, hand over hand, IN
the most approved sailor fashion. He was
within 4 few feet of the pavement, when the