Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-11-18

POl SihsS OiIOil SOONto w ~ PANSS VI oUASOJ'
Many cases of shoes were placed in a
vacant let at the corner Of Purchase
street, but the great heat of the fire rem
dered their destruction so imminent that
they were moved to safer place. The
buildings ON Pearl street we're plain and
simple in their architecture. and pre-
sented remarkably substantial appear
ance.
FRANKLIN STREET.
In franklin street there is scarcely
wall standing, and in the smoking waste
no one could recognize the fine, wide
thoroughfare, with its graceful curving
lines and the noble warehouses, the pride
of the city, and taking rank with the
finest business structures in the world,
which lowered on every hand but thirty
six hours ago. The buildings on this
street were all granite, with the excep-
ton of the fat-roof freestone building
at the corner of Washington street. One
of the most imposing edifces on the
street was the double Mansard-roof block
erected within the last four years by Mr..
Patrick Donahoe, which was one of the
last to yield to. the flames The work
of changing Franklin street from street
of residences to one of warehouses was
begun in 1856, and the last of the orig
inal brick houses was torn down about
two years ago. Franklin street has
long been celebrated as having the finest
business architecture in America, and
when all was so good it would be diff
cult to select any one which was con-
spicuous above its fellows for beauty of
finish or thoroughness of construction.
The buildings were generally four or five
stories high with Mansard roofs.
HAwLEY STREET.
The buildings on Hawley street were
generally of brick or wood and were not
of costly or particularly substantial
character, excepting, of course, those
buildings on Washington street, like
Macullar, Williams and Parker's for in
stance, which ran through to this street
The principal trades of the street, were
the paper and twine business, machin
lists and carpenter shops, printing Offices
&c. The fire made clean sweep leav
ing hardly one stone above another.
ARCH STREET.
Arch street was occupied by elias
of substantial brick buildings and th
business transacted there was principal
ly dry goods and gentlemen's furnishing
goods. Everything on the street wa
leveled to the ground.
OTIS STREET.
The buildings on Otis street were uni
formly handsome, and were substantial
ly built of granite, four stories in heigh
, with Mansard roofs Every buildin
was thoroughly destroyed. and not
trace of the streets former grandeur re
mains 1t is an interesting fact that th
f two stores on this street, numbers II an
| II, owned by Miss Christine Nillso1
were burned. Miss Nillson was heav
loser by the Chicago fire. The prime
pal business of the street was the DIR
! goods. furnishing goods, and small wal
trade
, INJURY TO BUSINESS.
r The fire to the business community
/. one of the most disastrous that ever o.
| Cured in the country, and while but fe
j, dwelling houses were burned and but
0 comparatively small number of famili,
. left houseles, the finest warehouses an
: stores of the city and the entire spat
t occupied by the wholesale dry goot
dealers, wool merchants, boot and shC
!. and hide and leather dealers and clotl
b ing houses were entirely destroyed N
t wool house is standing in the cit
/ The whole of Pearl and High stree
; which were devoted exclusively to tt
), boot and shoe and hide and leather trad
5 are heap of ruins. Every wholesa
k clothing house, with single exception
n is burned, and but three or four dl
J. goods commission houses are left stan
e ing. The loss in buildings is immens
# and together with the large stocks of il
is ported and domestic fabrics that we
burned cannot be estimated at less tn;
$9O,O00,000. All the domestic wool
the city has been burned and the tot
Is number of pounds of foreign and dome
y tic, fleece and pulled destroyed by t
/ fire cannot fall short of 100000 lb
Ie while the entire stock remaining in til
Ii market consists of foreign wool and
p less than 5000 bales The destructi'
$ of boots, shoes and leather has be
n quite as complete as that of wool.
= though the stock of boots and shoes
IN warehouses is much lighter at this seas
Sc than it would have been a month lat
re and the loss viii consequently be less
the owners. Besides this, large qua
ties of boots, shoes and leather we
b. saved, which will materially Tighten
n loss to the sufferers. The wholes;
ID clothing houses, with one or two exec
er tions, were completely burned, althou
u . .o,.r; i oro bIo enc ptitv of roodc w.