Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-11-16
FROM BOSTON.
A Calm View Of the Standardization
and Things In the Burned District
Preparations to Rebuild.
Salvage Greater than ct first Supposed
Fearful Accident TO an EmpIOye
at the Navy Yard.
General Appearance OF the Ruins
Measures Looking to Better Ar
rangements in the Re-Organ-
izatiOn Of the Streets.


ferers become better acquainted with tn
nature and extent of their losses, tn
feeling Of confidence grows stronger tina
both home and foreign insurance Office
viii in time liquidate their entire debts
Salvage Is found TO vary from fifteen .
sixty per cent, and schedules of save
property are being made out as rapidly a
possible, and policies and proofs Of losse
are in some cases already sent in, worl
of adjustment viii be pushed forwar,
with the utmost celerity.
! Between three and four hundred thous
and dollars worth Of goods stolen, hav
I been recovered, and a lot Of unclaimel
property awaits Identification at Cit
Hall.
There are but few new items to b
gathered relating 70 the fire. The saf
4 Of Messrs. J. NJ. Beebe < Co., in Win
throp square, was opened, but nothinl
remained OF its contents except a few
ehsrred books and papers. Messrs. Hos
well, Kingsley q French recovered from
/ their safe lot Of silver-ware in dam
aged condition, snd portions Of thelfam
! lily jewelry were partially wrecked. Tn,
safe also contained a small lot Of golC
coin, which was melted. The property
in the larger portion Of the safes recov.
cred was ruined.
Several steamers are still playing upor
the ruins.
The site of old Fort Hill Is the scene
Of sctive neutrality-suspicious., about one
half dozen wooden structures being al.
ready finished and in process Of erection
Arrangements are being made al
Quincy, Massachusetts,, to give q wei.
come 70 Charles Francis Adams, who il
expected home next Monday.
Lewis Cohen, an employe in the navy.
yard, was terribly burned to-day, and
will probably lose his eyesight, by the
accidental dropping of a zinc-basket in
a bath Of liquid metal, which spattered
his face.
The Boston Advertiser Of to-day. saws
large gangs Of workmen have cleared
out the main thOrOughfares and torn
down many walls, and cleaned up some
great heaps OF granite, bricks and rub
bish. Devonshire street is now open to
Winthrop Square on the north end, and
about half through from Summer street
to the same point. High street is open
ed through almost its entire length, and
Summer street throughout. Con-
gress street is opened nearly to
Perkins street on the north and
nearly to Purchase on the south ends,
and Purchase street is partially cleared,
but there is yet a vast deal to be done
and heaps and towers of ruins,
picturesque and grand. Morton Place
and Hawley streets are yet choked with
brick and stone, and also Arch and
Otis streets. In Congress street there
are large masses Of broken granite and
bricks, in some places from four to five
feet deep, and blackened bales of wool,
and twisted iron, and broken pillars.
The tower Of Old Trinity, grand old
ruin, still stands with the rear gable and
part OF the side walls. The fronts of
the stores Of Macular and Williams, and
Parker, on Washington street, still
stand.
The guarded district grows smaller
and smaller each day. Yesterday the
line was considerably contracted, and
tomorrow 8 large portion of the terri
tory on Tuesday closed to the public will
be open.
The Herald says the matter Of laying
out the burned district upon a new plan
is receiving the personal attention of
large number Of citizens and city Off
cials. There are two distinct PROPOSE
tions, one of which viii without doubt
be eventually adopted. The first, which
may be called the popular one, is this:
The passage Of law, at the special ses-
sion Of the Legislature, authorizing the
city to take possession of the whole ter
ritory, to obliterate all the present streets
and property lines, so far as necessary,
and lay out the district upon an en-
tirely new plan, with a sys-
tenn Of wide, straight streets and
sell the land bordering on them to those
who wish to occupy it, with the build
ings for business purposes. The advan-
tages Of this are readily seen, that if it
is done the whole Of the present system
Of sewerage and paving must be over
and the gas and water-piPes,
hydrauts and cellar.walls, a
majority of which are yet intact and
very valuable, must be torn up and rem
dered almost worthless. The cost would,
Of course, be enormous. The second
plan is the conservative one. This con-
templates the widening, Strengthening
and extending Of streets; perhaps,
The discontinuanee Of q portion Of
iOme Of the small streets.