Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1889-09-23
WORKAT JOKNSTOWN
Results Of Pluck and Industry
in the Stricken City.
THE PROGRESS OF REBUILDING.


sion and Many Temporary Structures
Are Erected-A Disposition to BuIId
ON High Ground--Tardy Distributions Of
the Relief Fund.
JoHNsTowE, Pa, Sept ga look
through the devastated city Of Johns
town at this date, fifteen weeks after
the great disaster, is interesting as wei
as instructive The efforts that have
been put forth to relieve the wants Of
the suffering people and make the place
irwin habitable have not been barren of
results, although it will be a eng time
before the wonted smile Of contented Inc
dustry will again rest upon all the peo-
Pile of the valley. The town is rebuild
ing after a fashion, but the buildings
that are now being erected do not COM
pare with the stately edifices that for
merry graced the thoroughfares of the
city.
Everywhere the busy hum of industry
Is heard. and artisans are plying their
trades with skill and dispatch to fashion
homes for the homeless and build houses
in which the growing business Of the
place can be transacted.
Al woodyaIe and conemangh.
In the beautiful borough OF WoodvaIe.
where not single dwelling house was
left where there bad been population
of 1900 people, little has been done
toward rebuilding the place. A deposit
OF sand and other matter an average of
four feet IN depth covers almost the
whole of this borough. None Of the cell
lars have been cleaned out and the flood
deposits yet remain. number of
''Oklahomas" have been located in the
lower end of the borough and few
larger houses have been erected.
IN Conemaugh borough. where hun
dreds of houses were swept away and
the large Gautier mills were leveled to
the earth, but few dwellings have been
erected. At the site of the Gautier
works, however. hundreds of workmen
are busy digging material and machinery
out of the sand. Within the past week
or two. also, several departments of the
works have been rebuilt and at this time
there is a great deal of bustling being
done to put the works in running order
as rapidly as possible.
Between the Two Rivers.
One of the beautiful sections of the
town before the flood was that part
from Franklin street, between the two
rivers and down toward the Point. In
this section was located the fine free
library of the Cambria Iron company,
scores Of handsome dwellings, the most
beautiful IN the place; the large muni-
cipal building and many fine business
blocks. When the great rush Of waters
came this place was struck with the full
force Of the direct onward wave, as the
mighty current refused TO follow the
winding course Of the stream, but kept
In a direct track, striking diag0nally
across the streets toward the stone
bridge. Not a building was left stand
ing for width of SOC feet, and but q
few in any part Of that territory.
Johnstown as II Is Today.
Although such clean sweep was
made here q view taken today shows
that in the territory embraced in this
section diagonally across the lower end
Of town there are fully 100 new build
ings erected, exclusive of the fifty new
business buildings in the public park,
and many others are in the course of
construction. The buildings erected are
OF every variety, but are all frame and
mostly very small. There are q dozen
or more saloons, most of them contain
ING only one room. where business is
transacted. Among the larger new
buildings are the new Red Cross lodging
rooms. where about sixty business and
professional men and women of the
town are furnished with free sleeping
AiNtt@ &CA1a "A livery SARAN&C MCN1 &EtG CAtC
OF the park is probably the largest build
ing yet erected. While most of the
dwelling houses are small four roonaed
buildings there are a few quite hand
some residences being bailt On the site
Of the old municipal buildings the eight
iron cages OF the city lock up have been
set up.
building Higher Up.
The improvements in this section Of
the washed out district are marked, and
in addition to the building operations
the work on the new incline of the Cam
bria Improvement company, which can
be seen against the hillside opposite,
shows that there is q determination upon
the part of number Of the people TO
build their homes higher up, where
foods cannot reach them hereafter.
Down IN Cambria borough, below the
stone bridge, the site Were half the
town was swept away. is dotted over
with new buildings. mostly dwelling
houses of fairly comfortable class.
That Johnstowu will be rebuilt and
become greater than ever seems almost
certain. Most of the structures. erected
now. however, are intended to be only
fempofary. as the people have not money
to put up trick buildings. neither can
the workmen be obtained to do perman-
ent work fast enough. That 3 better
class OF buildings will 20 up in the near
future Is quite likely, and 1t is also very
probable that some OF the now item
p0raryn buildings viii be in use decades
from now.
Suffering for the Relief Money.
The failure 70 promptly distribute the
relief money has had very retarding
influence upon the town. Hundreds OF
poor people, who have absolutely noth-
ing but what they get from this fund,
have been greatly injured BY this kind |
al management Had they received /
their money they could havglmade some |
kind Of provision for winfsf, but as il Is |
cold weather viii find them with no
shelter for their families. There is much |
bitter feeling among the people On &C.
cosint Of the delay and many are cruel |