The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-05
LYNN'S HEAVY FIRELOSS.
OVER EALF OF TEE sEOE AND
LATTER HOUSES DESTROYED.

Eighty Shoe FlRs, fifteen Sole
Leather Cutters and sixty Dealers
n Tops, St1eai1gs and Other Find
iazs Burned Out-The Disaster VIII
Not Affect the Country a. Large
LIN, HISS, Dec 4-For the first time
si1cs Ire big fire i i possiols = maze =
reasonably accurate canvass OF the situs-
Ton IS y relates . the shoe industry. Il
s7Psas -hzt fully % PER cent Of the shoe
AID lsather houses Of The ctr are burned
Out Tie number OF Soc firms burned out
vas over eighty, while fifteen SOLE leather
cutters, and about sixty dealers in tops,
s-l-teoings a1d other shoe findings were also
bu-ns1 Out % thess shoe firms only one
OF tEo have bsen able 70 carry on business
b. finding empty baildings in Lynn.
GOING 70 Adjoining TOWNS
Owing 20 the fact that the larger part Of
TIE business PORTION was swept away, there
are 0u- few buildings II Lynn able 70 meet
ths requirements # the firms burned out,
and al Of the available factories in edjoin-
ing toWns are being looked up 70 be ussd
temporarily. The Lynn factories are being
rebuilt: One firm 1in g 10 Marblehead,
one % Berkeley, one 70 NsEburyport, and
several others have country factories. and
~ al increased capacity VIII De able TO at
tend TO rhe bulk Of the orders already
taken.
SOME UNABLE 10 FILL ORDERS.
Other firms are in bad position, aud it
now looks as though in a few ias;a aces only
VIII they BE- able 10 carry out their con
tracts for the spring goods that they have
taken Some OF the largest houses have
notliled their customers that their spring
orders will have 70 be cancelled. While the
amount Of shoes burned was not as large
As would have been the case had
the fire come a few weeks later
when the factories were busy on the spring
trade, still 1t foots up q large aggregate.
: ull estimates Of the loss Of shoes finished
and N progress Of makingj make total Of
l<,JIO cases. valued at the rate of 81 per
par as they run, at S75, 900. This is con-
sidered 70 be an underestimate. The loss in
sole leather held by sole-cutterss and manu-
fact1rers Is put at 10000. This is prin-
clPalIy Of the crop sole, insides and cut-up,
While the loss on stiffening. inner sole, etc,
VIII reach $50, 900 more.
a HEAVY LOSER.
K. E Hilland. who is entirely burned
out. had on hand 10000 sides Of crop sole
leather and II 300 cases, of cut soles, valued
- IA az NFcI WHICH bQeF6 was
insurance of only S37, 900. The loss of
morocco leather is put at about $1,000
dozen, taking the stock Of the four morocco
dressers with the supplies in the maaufact-
urers hands. These skins are estimated as
worth, on an average, SIP per dozen, or a
total loss Of $3.50, 900 on morocco. The shoe
machinery destroyed had a total value of
s266, 400.
WON'T AFFECT THE TRADE AT LARGE.
That the business of the country will be
seriously checked by the fire is not thought
probable, as the orders given can be trans
ferred TO other houses. Taking out of the
way of 80 many large shoe factories, if only
temporarily. will tend to increase the bust
ness OF the houses left, while the loss of
stock, machinery, etc., which must be re-
placed, viii have strengthening effect on
the general market. That the town will
be built up at an early date is true. but the
ire will have caused temporary spreading
of the immense shoe business of Lynn, and
it now looks as if it may take some years
TO bring this business back.