The Portland daily press., 1876-12-25
THE FIRES.
Losses by the IF Tres Friday Night, Iusur-
auce, etc.

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AT the time of going to press Saturday morn
ing (4.45 o'clock the fire was still burning in
the Savings Bank building and the prospect
was that the building would be total ruin.
But happily such is not the fact. The outside
walls were left and nothing of any consequence
was burned in the second story except the gas
Office. The offices were more or less damaged
by water however. As soon as the engines
were done playing Saturday morning an in
spection of the building was commenced by
Mr.. Fassett the architect, and Mr.. Whitne y,
the builder, and before eight o'clock crew of
workmen had commenced making repairs The
work was continued yesterday and will be
pushed forward rapidly. The walls of the
building on either side presented striking ap-
pearance, being completely covered with ice.
A large number of people focked to the place
during the day to view the spectacle. 1t is a
wonder that some enterprising artist did not
photograph the block.
The following is list of the insurance, eth
er additional to what was published 10 our Sat-
urday morning. issue, or specific, as in the
case Of the $4,000 on Masonic property.
On the Masonic furniture. fxings and libra
| ry there was $500 each in the Royal of Liver
pool, Liverpool, London and Globe, Queen,
| Boston, Underwriters, and Germania, total
of $4,000 There was $1,000 each in the Com
monwealth, and Boston, Underwriters, total
OF $4,000 Oh partitions, stucco and fresco work.
In the National of Hartford there were $4,000
| on the organ. In the Etna of Hartford, 5000
| on the Grand Chapters regalis. In the Wes-
| tern $1,000 on the armory. In the Scottish
Commercial, $4,000 on the regalia of the st.
Adams Commandery. In the National, 5000
on the regalia of the Dunlap Commandery. In
the Western, $4,000 ION permanent fixtures of
| the st. Adams and Portland Com manderes
In the Girard, $1,000 on the Scottish Rite prop
erty. The Grand Lodge had $1,000, Greenleaf
Chapter 5000, and st. Adams Commandery
$1,000 in the Etna. Total $27, 900. OF the
property in the hands Of the trustees $4,000
out of $4,000 is covered by insurance. Rol-
Inns, Loring & Adams had but $4,000, GU: of the
$4,000 on the Savings Bank building, in the
Springfield, the other $4,000 were in the Frank
lin of Pennsylvania.
The $4,000 insurance on the block will no
doubt put it 10 as good condition as before the
fire.
The savings bank was abundantly protected
by insurance, and will resume business after
Christmas as usual. The vaults are unnjured.
The Safety Deposit Vault was not injured in
the least and business will be resumed to-mor-
row morning.
The treasurer's office of the Gas Company is
removed to the Centennial block, third story.
The evening Office for orders will be at SS Elk.
chapoa strnat in the roono rnoantlu oonun;ad hu
Lewis Pierce, Esq.
The damage to Fluent block is not as serious |
as was supposed, and the cost of repairs is va
riousy estimated at from $1,000 to $780, The |
Museum is but little damaged either by smoke |
or fire. The curtain was wet a little, and some !
of the scenery smoked, but the damage will be |
trifing. The water ran off from the floor of |
the auditorium, and couple of days will put |
the theatre in condition to use. The offices on |
the second floor were wet and some of them |
somewhat burned where the fire went up |
through. Some of the occupants of the stores
were sadly troubled with water and smoke, but
they are all doing business except Mr.. Graf.
FAM.
There was $4,000 insurance. of which Dow
& Palmer held $32, 1000 and Rollins, Loripg &
Dow So, 500 each. The mortgage is held by the
Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York,
not the Hartford Fire Insurance Company.
Mrs. Bosworth. the millner, had $4,000 on
her stock, $4,000 each in the National, Western
and Connecticut
Sawyer the fruiterer, had 5000 in the Con-
necuicut.
Miss Wheeler, milliner had 5000 in the
Lancashire and $1,000 with B. Barnes, Jr
Miss Pike, milner, had $1,000 in the Allan
tic of Providence.
A. L. Farnsworth, furnishing goods, had
$1,000 in the Standard and $4,000 with Upham &
Clark.
Dow, Coffin & Libby had seven policies on
the property destroyed or damaged-one on
Fluent block, one for Bradbury & Bradbury,
and five for different Masonic bodies.
The firemen all worked hard and long and
did their utmost to save the valuable property,
but some Of the members of the hook and lad
nothing short of criminal One of thea ran
his hook through windows where there was no
sort of need of such thing except to injure
property. We are glad to know that these
cases are raresndeed A correspondent COM
plains that some of the policemen purposely
absented themselves from the fire and shaded
themselves under the lee of the post office
while valuable property was being destroyed
II is but justice to say that al majority of the
department worked with will until late in the
morning and succeeded in saving several law
libraries from a thorough wettng Uncle
Oliver, the wel-known night turnkey at the
police station, was aroused the first one when
the fire was discovered in Fluent Block. and
assisted Mr. Cook 10 getting two lines of |
hose from the City Building to the block where
the fire was. This hose probably saved the
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