Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-10-19
SUFFERING EAsTPORr.
everybody Clearing Away the DEBRIS
F'teen Hundred Working People Out
Oh Employment-Mauy families Leay.
ing Town.


week among the merchants AMI East
| port was one of the few towns in the State
/ ~ reaslng II wealth and population
/ Every day iaborers were coming in from
other towns and found employment here at
good wages. Now, many are trying to get
oat OF town. to 90, they do not know where.
Some families have already gone, being un-
able 10 find shelter. Every day the distress
and suffering become. more apparent. As the
excitement INN diately following the fire
dies away the people are just finding out their
losses and too many find what they have LETT
too little Tor present necessities.
The business men held meeting Saturday
and passed the following resolutions:
In view Of the recent great calamity which
has visited the town, involving immense loss
TO the commercial, manufacturing, ard pro-
tesSlonai interests. the und rsigned, repre-
senting the above interests, respectfully ask
the moral support, sympathy and forbearance
OF our business connt ctions abroad to aid US
Ia Overcoming the result of this great mis-
fortune. Relying upon the assistance of the
! 'i'i' Nv NhNN o0i wv u CHFlSy iuuhotIN
and perseverance, and the moral support and
confidence of our business connections
abroad. we confidently hope to rise again
from the ruins of our present msfortunes to
position of comparative prosperity That
since the heaviest part of the burden and
most of the suffering must be borne by the
laborlug people, whose only source of income
has been swept away, leaving men, women
and children without food, clothing, or shell
ter, appeal to the business men OF other
cities and towns, especially to those who
have business connections with US to give
whatever financial aid they can to relieve
present distress and assist us in rebuilding
houses for the homeless aud reestabiishing
business enterprises which will provide em-
ployment for those who are wiliag 10 work
but can find no work to do. The relief com
mittee is busy. One OF its members Stephen
Shllock is making a thorough search for
families in distress, and has reports from
other members as to the needs of each. Aid
is beginning to come in and the following
contributions have been received. They are
small in proportions to the great needs but
are welcome:
Calais, $1,000 and provisions; Bangor, car
load of provisions and $1,000; + Russell &
CO., Boston, $l00 f. II. Peavy, Minneapo-
lis, $3.50; 1hos Norton, New York, 500;
Congress sman Boutelle, $40; Jed FRYE & Co.,
New York, 5000; Chas. Peavy, Minneapolis.
S25; W. II. Kilby, DIR. II. S. Kilby, Quincy
Kilby, Boston, $50; X. S. McCiaren, Boston,
SI00; NJ. A. Jewett & Co., Portland, 100 lbs.
coffee and 10 cases of cooked meats.
State Senator Gray of Philadelphia, for
mer resident, called the mayors attention to
the distress. a telegram from the latter to
the selectmen says that the Philadelphia re-
lief committee met and authorized him to
telegraph at once for the present condition
and prospe cts for work for laborers and for
rebuilding.
/ 4. c. Pike has call' the mayor of Bos-
tons attention and help is expected from
| Boston. Rockland will hold a meeting to-
morrow and send relet. Prospects for re-
building are not bright unless with the out
side aid of factory owners. Wharves will be
built th. fall but no fac ories until spring.
TIL sardine packing season opens the 18th
OF April and closes December 18th. No mer-
chants viii build this tall. Some will never
build. A few costly edifices will be erected
again as insurance rates will be high. The
only wharf left along the water front of the
. H., ,ft t,, ;p M;Il;Eap's - ob
was formerly used as the steamboat landing.
This is good fortune. 1t gives international
steamers a chance to land freight. Reports
about people missing is romance. No one
is missing
More merchandise have been stolen bv
New Brunswickers and carried to their homo $
| in Campnbeliy, Deer Island and Grand
Mansu WI bout paying duties in the last three
! Boxes of shoes, flour, pork, pig tin, pig lead
and every thing they could pick up they stole
and loaded into boats
Perhaps half the buildings burned took
fire from flying sparks These could have
been extinguished with good fire apparatus
and plenty of water, but neither was to be
had. The insurance adjusters are beginning
to arrive and will get at the details of the loss
and insurance IN two or three days. We
can give no accurate figures now but the ag-
gregate loss will be nearer a million than half
a million and about half of it is covered by
! insurance.
No body is sure how the fire originated,
but the last report is that two men in Capen's
| fa>tory were in the habit of cooking their
meals and sleeping in a room overhead.
| The fire was first discovered near the stove
where they cooked dinner Thursday and it Is
supposed the stove caused 1t.
The Custom House is a complete ruin. A
bill will be presented the first thing at the
next session OF Congress for an appropria-
ton. The old one cost 100000 but it was
not suitable for Custom House and post
office.
| The U. s. signal service station had to sus-
mend operations for a time, but the observer
still sends daily report. Woodsheds, barns,
skating rink, town hall, armory, G. A. r.
hall, bedrooms, kitchens, parlors and cellars
have been turned into offices and stores.