The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1904-02-13
BEGUN ITS WORK
OF RESURRECTION
Distressed City Of Baltimore Aroused
to Meet the Appalling Conditions.
WILL ARISE FROM ITS ASHES
At "a Conference Held 1t Has Beo~
Decided That For the Present thu
Stricken city Needs No Outside
Help to Meet Emergency.

Baltimore, Nd, FEB. lu.-Aml0
ruins still hot and smoking, Balti-
more has begun its resurrection. With
the dawn of clear winter day, whose
brightness was in itself an inspiration
the apathy Of Monday gave way to en-
ergy and from the governor OF the
state to the least private citizen the
people of the distressed city reused
themselves to meet the appalling con-
ditions that confront them.
Needs No Outside Help.
1t was a day of conferences. The
governor, the mayor and various mu-
nicipal officers met and threshed out
the problems that are theirs by virtue
of public office. From this conference
came a decision that Baltimore, for
the present, needs no outside help. but
will endeavor with her own resources
and those of the state, to meet the
emergency. At this conference also
was developed the machinery for an
advisory legislative committee to act in
conjunction with the legislature.
Every Pass Revoked.
The military officials had unusual
problems to decide, and solved them
in a military manner, for Tuesday
night every pass that has been issued
giving entrance to the fire lines was
revoked. No civilian may pass the
Gordon of citizen soldiers which, after
48 hours of continuous dutW Tuesday
night stretches around the fre-swept
district, where lie safes and vaults
containing untold treasure.
With equal promptness the cham
Der of commerce held a general meet
ing, and issued a formal announce
ment that reflected the prevailing
hopefulness, declaring there are al
ready evidences of recuperation that all
are encouraged in the hope of the
early restoration of every branch of
trade"
Great Demand For Labor.
The stock exchange members met
and decided to rebuild as soon as pos
sible. The same story can be told of
practically every commercial body,
while on every hand is evidence of pri-
vate effort toward rehabilitation. Old
buildings, long unused, private resi-
dences near the business section; in
fact every available structure bears
crudely-lettered signs on board or
cloth announcing that within is the
temporary Office of a firm. The name
on some Of these signs are those that
l. hioI ;,, ha Rnoncio1
mercial circles of the world, and in
those temporary offices men who for
years have known only mahogany
desks, work on deal tables and plain
boards. Labor is in demand, and the
already contain display
advertisements for men to begin the
work of clearing the ruins.
CntnsthrODhy of Century.
All things considered. the public
stock taking that engrosses the bust
ness world of Baltimore Tuesday was
But this did not mean
that the great fire was lesser calam-
ity that had been pictured in these
Words that have been hur-
ried over telegraph wires, restored by
almost superhuman energy to meet the
waiting worlds demand for news, has
given but an inadequate conception OF
this catastrophe of a century. The
bald fact is that 140 acres of business
building, representing property to the
value of SIPS, 100000, was
destroyed within the journey of a
clocks hand.
Vaults Yield Up Their Treasures.
A great cloud was lifted Tuesday af-
ternoon, when it was discovered that
all of the vaults and
strong rooms and safes of the financial
whose buildings were de-
were unhurt. A tremendous
loss in securities had been anticipated
there, and when vault after vault yield
ed up it's treasures unframed, the joy
Of the guardians was boundlesS.
From one trust company's safe alone
papers to the amount Of more than
5000 O00,0 900 was recovered The news
cheered the whole city and encour-
aged immediate and thorough investi-
cation. Merchants and their assist
ants, smoke-soiled and begrimed and
hollow-eyed from anxiety and loss Of
sleep, worked like laborers in the
smoking ruins to uncover their safes,
and in nearly every instance they were
rewarded by intact contents.
Loss Is Placed at $125.OOO,OOO; In
Baltimore. Md. Feb. 10.-As yet no |
igures on loss and insurance that can
be regarded as official are obtainable.
Careful cancasses of insurance ex-
oerts, builders and business men place
he loss in round figures at $685. 900,
and the insprance at from eighty mil
ions to ninety millions