The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-02-10
Stricken City Decides to
Find Profit Out of
Calamity.
HOPEFUL OUTLOOK
From the Runs of Mercantile Pal
-. aces Will Arise a Greater
Baltimore"
Decisive Action Instituted by the
City's Leading Men of
Affairs.

Baltimore, Md, Feb. 10.-Amid ruins
still hot and smoking, Baltimore begun
it's resurrection The apathy of Mon
day has given way to energy and
from the governor of the state to the
least private citizen the people of this
distressed city have aroused them
selves to meet the appalling condition
that confronts them.
The governor, the mayor and var
ious municipal officials, met and
threshed out the problems that are
theirs by virtue Of public office. From
this conference came decision that
Baltimore for the present needs nc
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 executive
committee to act in conju ctiOn with
the legislature.
The military officials had unusual
problems to decide and solved them in
a military manner, for every pass that
had been issued giving entrance to
the fire lines was revoked. No civilian
which stretches around the fire-swept
desert wherein safes and vaults con
tain untold treasure.
With equal prOmptneSS the chamber
of commerce held a general meeting
and issued a formal announcement
that reflected the prevailing hopeful
ness, declaring there are already such
evidences of recuperation that all are
encouraged in the hope of the early
restoration of every branch of trade
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
private effort toward rehabilitation.
Old buildings, long unused, private res
licences near the business section, in
fact every available structure, bears
crudely lettered signs on board or
cloth, announcing that within this
temporary Office is a firm. Names on
some of these signs are those that
rank high in the financial and com
mercial circles of the world, and in
those temporary offices men who for
years have known only mahogany
u6SkS WOI6 on Q6dl tables anu pain
boards. Labor is in demand and the
newspapers display advertisements for
men to begin the work of clearing the
ruins.
All things considered, the public
stock-taking that has engrossed the
business world of Baltimore is salts
factory. But this does not mean that
the great fire was a lesser calamity
than has been pictured in these dis
patches. The bald fact is that 140
acres of business buildings, represent
ing property to the approximate value
of 1925, 100000 was destroyed within
the journey of a clockhand. History
is marked by few calamities so vast
and so costly in actual values, but
with the passing Of the first great
shock and prostration, the brighter
side is coming uppermost and realiza-
ton of what Baltimore escaped is
dawning. A great cloud was lifted
when it was discovered that practical
ly all the vaults and strong-rooms and
safes of the financial concerns whose
buildings were destroyed were unhurt
A tremendous loss in securities had
been anticipated, and when vault after
vault yielded up it's treasure unharrn-