Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-07-06
LIKELY TO REBUILD.
Burned Opera House May Be Re-
placed at Early Date.
Losses and insurance on Damaged Properly
Preparations for Removal.


The Opera house of course is wreck
from Friday nights fire, and past re-
demption. The timbers and all the
framework of that floor are practically
gone and there is now left of the pretty
theatre not seating room for a fly.
1t is with the deepest kind of regret
that the people accept the loss of the
of the Opera house. 1t was a pretty
place, and cosy withall, and we have
all had lots of fun there, first and last.
Hon. j. Manchester Haynes has made
no plans as to what extent he will re-
build. His friends, however, think that
| he viii rebuild. at some time the
Opera house. How soon this will be,
| of course no one knows, as Mr.. Haynes
| is usually the case in such instances, a
| large number a very large number
who know more about what Mr.
Haynes plans are than he does HIM
self
However that may be, everybody
hopes that Mr.. Haynes will rebuild,
| the sooner the better.
The insurance on the building is $42,-
| 800. The cost Of the building was
| about $4,000 How much the loss has
been is impossible to now estimate
The four walls are all there, and it is
| thought that they are perfectly sound,
| and that all there will be necessary to
| do, Will be to roof it over.
A trip through the second floor shows
| that the Opera house part is gone, en-
| tire. The offices on this floor however,
and on the street floor, are little if any
damaged by fire. Soaked is no name
| FOR them, and they will probably have
to be replastered. and the woodwork
given sandpapering and message.
The city government suffered quite
loss on chairs, desks, etc, in the coun-
urer's office, about in the center of the
i Water street front. Clerk Mulli1en
was about. Saturday, in rubber boots,
| looking after things, as was also Mr..
| Townsend the genial collector. They
| fear that little water has got into
| The vaults, but only a very little, and
| amount to much.
| The Haynes & Lawrence Ice Co,
next door, will have loss on furniture.
and Office fxings. The companys
/ books and papers were in the safe, and
unhurt.
i Dr. Tucll in the Office opposite, on the
If $500 on stuff, which is uninsured. He
| thinks that he is mighty lucky not to
| have lost more. There the nremen put
| Up a great fight, and stopped its pro-
| gless. He lost some of his books, but
| Il large portion he saved. He also
| saved a valuable oak case with over
| $1,000 Of instruments in it. They came
out Of the mess unhurt, except for a
| little water, and the genial doctor has
1 been busy off and on, ever since get
i ing the drops wiped away, and polish
| ing them up for business.
/ Charles X. Partridge, the corner
store druggist, a veteran, when it
| being distracted as many another
| would be under such circumstances as
| he now finds himself. has gotten right
| Town to business. His valuable pre-
,cription books, he finds, though just a
| trjne moist about the edges, is perfect
! ly legbile, and now in the possession of
Frank r. Partridge, who will be pre-
| pared to put upany and allprescriptions
that customer may see fit to call for,
| in behalf of his brother, the much
burned-out Charles X.
| If there is any one place in the
civilized world that smells up loud,
is drug store after fire. The COM
| bination Of charcoal water and drugs
is the very essence of pungency, and
| the visitors who have poured in upon
the unfortunate mixer of medicines,
have had much to put up with.
Mr.. Partridge. and his clerk. Pink
ham, another good man, too, are ankle
deep in water. and neck deep in bot
Ties getting things Strengthened out.
come of the druggists Chinese bulbs,
and lilies from Central Africa, have