Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-08-02
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| with this and other quarters that can be OBJ
/ tanned in town. the next class of young ladies
| and gentlemen will be able 10 90 on with their
| studies without interruption. Every effort will
| be made that skill and foresight can devise and
/ will and energy carry into action during the
next five weeks to maintain the credit, the use
fulness and the future prosperity of the institu-
| ton in full force.
In view of the fact that the walls were of
| brick, and that the basement of stone and
foundation can again be used, and that so large
quantity of furniture was rescued by the peo-
pie, it may he safe to set down the loss at less
than S150.000, and it may fall as low as
$4,000, on which there is insurance to the
amount of 100000.
1t is said that when the first alarm was given,
the president of the board of trustees, Rev. A.
st. John Chambre, who was stopping at the
hotel on the opposite side of the street. ran
across and up into the gymnasium, and found
the flames were just bursting forth from all
sides of the room, having worked their way up
behind the ceiling. minute later the flames
and smoke were so dense that he was driven
from the room, and the fire was under such
Roadway that fire eXtinguishers were useless.
large part of the wall of one OF the wings
is down, and the outer wall of the opposite
wing also fell. The Franklin engine company
did their BEST but hand engine was of course
of small account in the presence of such con-
migration. The ruins at one place are still
smoking furiously, where some eighty tons of
coal lie buried under the accumulated debris.
People to-day are coming from long distances
to view the ruins.
The trustees held full meeting this morning
at the Universalist rooms in Cornhill, and at
their request we publish the following:
Notwithstanding the loss of the splendid
building of this institution by the disastrous fire
Of the 31st, the school will be continued. Every
possible arrangement for the comfort and con-
venience of the pupils will be made. The term
will begin on Wednesday, Sept. T. with full
corps of teachers, as follows:
Rev. J. p. Weston D. D., principal; VIM. A.
Post, A. B., classical professor; Ii. 5. Whitman,
A. b., scientific instructor; Miss NJ. A. Bryant,
preceptress; Miss NJ. A. Hardacker, German,
&C.; Miss Sarah j. Colvin, assistant teacher;
Louis H. Isenbeck, professor of music; Mrs. NJ.
Little, vocal music; Miss Alice Miner, painting
and drawing.
Immediate steps will be taken for rebuilding.
The trustees confidently appeal to the friends
and patrons of the institution to give it every
aid and encouragement in this hour of its sever
est trial. A. ST. JOHN CUAMBRE,
President of Trustees.
The assurances on the loss are in the following
offices Firemen's, SO 900; Shoe & Leather and
Eliot $500 each; Washington and National
$500 each; Home, New York, S10,0 900; Citizens
and International New York, $500 each Hart
ford Steam Boiler, S6000 Dorchester Mutual,
Quincy Mutual, Mechanics & Traders Mutual,
Lowell, Mutual Benefit, Boston, Bristol Co.
Mutual, Merchants and Farmers Mutual and
Narragansett, Providence, $4,000 each. Total,
S106, 900, divided as follows: $685. 900 on build.
ing, $4,000 on furniture, $4,000 on apparatus and
$4,000 on boilers