Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-11-27

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The losses and insurance are given in
detail below. 1t will be seen that the
majority were fairly well insured \
considerable amount of goods was saved
in the aggregate, thus reducing material
ly the loss.
THE BURNED TERRITORY.
The section of the village burned over
may be roughly described as triangular
in shape, otter Creek bounding it on the
south, the eddy of the creek on the west
and the cut through which the railroad
passes Oh the northeast. 1t is connected
with the south side of the creek by a
wooden bridge. Main street passes north
and south over the bridge.
Overhanging the creek and reaching as
far as Merchants Row, which extends
east from Main street, was the Smith Il
Sheldon block, owned, the north end by
Columbus Smith, Esq, of Salisbury and
the south end by II. L. Sheldon. The
Smith portion ran almost to a point at
the north end, but increased in width
toward the south; the Sheldon part was
wider and square, with Il wing on the
east side close to the stream. 1t was an
old frame structure in not very good re-
pair and out on farm its worth would
not have been great; situated where it
was it paid heavy rental. j. Speyer
occupied the wing as billiard room; un-
derneath him l.. Il. Adams, roofer, had Il
shop. The south end of the Sheldon
portion was temporarily vacant. +. p.
! Holton, matchmaker, had shop next
the vacant room. and beyond him was
| W. NJ. Cushmans meat market. Up
stairs Stepan Hrisko, commonly known
as ''Jefl," an Hungarian shoemaker, lived
and had his shop. These were all the Oc-
cupants of the Sheldon premises. w. G..
/ Danyew's barber shop was in the south
room of the Smith block, +. l.. Park
hurst. grocer, had the north end, and
over them was the shop of Charles Bru-
va, upholsterer and cabnet-maker.
The first store on Merchants Row was
the four-story Buttoph block, owned by
Mrs. j. l.. Buttolph. \ lane separated
it from the Smith & Sheldon block. F.
\. Farms worth, dealer in hardware, had
the lower floors; above were the offices
of DR.. l.. Z. Mcllen, dentist, and DR.. f.
| Hamilton, physician. Next east and
abutung on the Buttolph block was the
Battell block of two stories, occupied by
f. L. Cushman, dry goods. and X. 5.
Benedict. grocer. 1t was owned by
narrow building connecting the Bat
tell Llock and the so-caled Langworthy
building. which stood close by the rail-
way. In the narrow building Ovid Will
burner had his shoe shop and Mrs. Nash,
a widow with six small children, lived
overhead. Frank and Peter Bitney lived
in the basement of the Langworthy
building; Atwood & IIuett were to open
a market on the main floor of ii on Mon
day and had gotten in their furniture and
some goods, and above was the barber
shop and the residence of |. Remiley.
Gasca Rich and j. l.. Buttolph owned
these two buildings, Still further east
across the railway is r. Kidder's harness
shop. The railway is crossed at this
point by wooden bridge. All the build
ings constituting Merchants Row were
Joined one to the other and all were of
wood.
Directly across the street in front of
the Battell block stood the brick two
story Allen block, which faced the west.
On the east side OF it and overlooking the
railway was an addition of wood. c. A.
Wainwright had the whole of the main
floor for his grocery and restaurant. The
basement was occupied by j. b. johnson
for a meat market. On the upper floor
owned by the Allen estate and Mrs. Du-
gald Stewart has the use of it.
Coming now back to the creek bridge
on Main street, the first structure on the
west side was the wooden Cobb block of
three stories. 1t was so built as TO over
hang the creek. Mrs. NJ. \. Cobb owned
it. The uptown telegraph and express
Office was in the south end of the main
floor, the rest of which Byron Fleming
had for Il grocery. VIM. Jackson, pho
tographer, had the third story and II por-
ton of the second, the chief other occu-
pant of the second story being 5. f. Nee
kin, barber. North of the Cobb block
and built against it was the two-story
brick Sheldon store, which extended
north to the Merchants Row line. 1t
was owned by Mrs. II. A. Sheldon, Mrs.
G.. ID. Miner and Prof. Samuel Sheldon
and was occupied by DIR. w. ii. Sheldon,
dealer in drugs and medicines, boots and
shoes aud groceries. West of the Shell
don store and on the bank of the creek
was the Sun grst mill, two stories high
and of stone. W. b. Rose and DR.. Shell
don leased it and did custom grinding
and sold grain and feed. 1t was owned
by the Harmon A. Sheldon estate.