, 1872-11-11

tnefe as at the other hotels. The fire was th
an,aoz9?,xb'ng a topic, aud the sympathies of al
patches were received. the lines being mo
nopolized BY the Associated Press. Much a1xiet,
was manifested to hear from friends, but it wai
, impossible to do SO.
AT THE SHERMAN HOUSE
o large and excited crowd tlronned the off;ca
eagerly awaiting the reading of dispatches
which came about every half hour each one an
nounting some new phase of the terrible disas
ter. Among the guests at the hotel we're severa
Boston men, whose distress and aolicitude con.
cerning the directions taken by the fire we're ,
painful to see. There was scarcely one among
them who Tas not more or less affected tinan.
cially, and not few, rs they learned the local..
ties touched by the conaagration, clashed their
hands in agony at the ruin which stared them in
the face. Scarcely less anxious we're our Chicaeo
people, who knew better than any one else what
it meant.
At THE "TR1BUSE" OFFICE
crowd OF fully five hundred people were col
lected at noon, and all remained there for about
three hours, eagerly awaiting the appearance of
The TRIBUNE extra, issued at ha1f-past o'clock
in the afternoon. About 10000 copies were
struck off, and in half m hour had been disposed
Of. In many instances, as many as five COPIES
were bought By those who wished to send them
| away. Not since our own great blaze 3 year
| ago, has The TRIBUNE Office been so besieged
with anxious seekers after news.
| CONVERSA lions With PUBLIC MEN.
| Rev. Edward Everett Hale, Of Boston, who
is stopping at the fremont House, in this city,
| WAS visited by 3 reporter OF TuE TRIBUNE veg-
| terday afternoon. and, in the course Of q some-
| what protracted conversation, said: stThe citi-
| zens Of Chicago who look with 30 much interest
on the sufferings Of Boston, should understand
the destruction wrought by the fire affects the
property Of the most active business in that
city, many Of whom were the most
urgent in rendering every service in
their power to this city year ago. The splon-
did warehouse of the Atlantic Mills, which was
among the first to give way, was owned by Mr.
William Gray, who was Chairman of the Boston
Committee that visited Chicago during the week
Of the fire. The great paper-warehouse Of
Alexander Fl. Rice, who was also member of
the Committee, is gone. The splendid new
warehouse of Nash g. Spaulding, one Of
the members Of which firm recently
received so gratifying Il testimonial from the
wholesale grocers of this city, was engulfed. It
OF losers in TIE SUNDAY TRIBUNE to show that
almost all Of the valued correspondents of Chi
cago business men in Boston share in the suf-
fering wrought BY the, great calamity. In an
Boston at this time, he said the conf1agra-
tion was another Of those instances
which illustrated the solidarity of all people
IN the world-a making of them, indeed, one
community. Those at the West would best help
those who suffer at the East by the utmost e1-
tension Of confidence and encouragement, and
by an expression of sympathy that would not |
stop with words, but show itself in deeds. The
men who had lost their fortunes in Boston we're
not men who would lie down and complain. |
enterprises and by prudent courage had shown !
themselves competent to win great VIC |
tories. In answer to an inquiry for |
explanation Of the fact which was
tho fire had made such quick work Of the sub !
stantia1 buildings OF Boston, Mr.. Hale said that
their destruction was due to the Mansard roofs, |
which, in his opinion, served as the vehicle for |
any permanent interruption to business feeling
confident that as in the case OF Portland the |
recuperaton would be rapid and certain. So far
as he had knowledge, most OF the insurance was
hsa S {sqost the u Eg5h 5h companies being
destroyed, be had no doubt that the lecture
courses, and other literary recreations, would
not be intetfered with, the more as the people
would seek in them relief from the contem-
plation of their misfortunes. He considered it
very fortunate that the large publishing houses
escaped the general devastation. With regard
to the loss, be said he had just parted with AIr. |
Kidder, the great Boston banker, who ridiculed
N1"AAAA~o |
the loss was might be judged from
tie fact that he could not recall one of the
wealthier members OF his congregation who
had not been overwhelmed by the calamity.
INTERVIEW WITH BENJAMIN E. GALLUP.
A reporter Of The TRIBUNE held the following
with Mr. Gallup of the firm Of Gallup
d Peabody, financial agents for Boston and the
New England States yesterday afternoon In
The fire in Boston in Chicago, MIR. Gallup said
that the OBJECT Was very serious, but would not
be as disastrous to the city as many seemed to
He said that the principal effect /
1t any rate Of interest for the next two weeks
'r longer that the larger portion Of foreign
:apital IN the city came from Boston
Ind New England. and that ne depended more
11pou the New England States for money
han upon New York; that our relations with
sew York were commercial, while with Boston
hey had been largely financial. BY the great
ire in Boston, money which was to be invested
lere will be kept at home, and thus the supply
# money from that direction would be cut OF. t
The reporter then inquired if the demand for I
money in Boston would not affect also our sup |
'ly from New York and England. Mr., Gallup /
aid that it would, d,-that New York and English I
capitalists would send their money to Boston,
aid 1lr. Gallup, even though these money t
ources be cut off, the result in Chicago will only
q serious to those men who have not COM c
leted their negotiations, for money to y
| /
t1natcly, this number is small. Thus parties I
iho are rebuilding will not be compelled to bor-
ow money at the high rate Of interest which
III be charged as result Of the fire. c
The reporter then asked if, as . result Of our
re, there we're not many men in Chicago who
'ould have to make large payments at an early
ate, and who we're depending upon tho easy n
Dndition Of Eastern creditors to get an extern O
ion of their paper, who would now be COM g
elled to borrow and meet their paper at once d
IT. Gallup said that Was rarelv the cnsa. that | 8,
lst after the fire, men who we're owing money tt
ere allowed an extension Of from three to five P
ears. and they had been generally careful to i
ogrow no money since that, except on long il
me. He said, that to sum the whole thing
p, he did not believe many men in r.
hicago would be crippled by the fire, and II
lat the work Of rebuilding would not oi
9nerally be retarded; that the effect would be | be
make money tight and in demand at almost A
" rate Of interest. 1lr. Gallup gave the re- it
,rter copy Of despatch he received yester- in
y afternoon from one Of the heaviest capital #
Is in Boston, dated yesterday, which is here th
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