The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-11
.$2,000,00O FOR
CLEANING UP
Baltimore Will Spend That Sum
to Remove Debris from the %.
Burned District.
Expert Insurance Appraisers De.
clare the Loss Will Reach
About $85, 100000. /.
Three Thousand Laborers Began
Work Of Removing Rubbish =
This Morning. =.
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s; Baltimore, Feb. 11.-Three thou
sand laborers reported to Street
Cleaning Commissioner Wyckes this
morning. After each had been pro-
vided with a Workman's ticket, they
were divided into squads, placed I'M
der bosses and marched into the
burned districts.
Accompanying the work1nen were
hundreds of carts and trucks. BY 8
O'Clock his force was busily at work
loading bricks and broken timbers
into carts to be hauled away. Be
sides this force several hundred rail-
road workmen under thes supervision
of contracting engineers of the Penn
sylvan1a and Baltimore & Ohio rail-
roads began to take down the iron
pillars and Orders left standing
around the ruins, which, in their pres
ent position, are dangerous.
$2,O0O,OOO to Clean Up.
Thus the enormous task of bringing
order out of chaos in the devastated
city has been formally. begun, and it
Is not to be doubted that it will be
resolutely executed. The whole city
has been reused to the necessity Of
pushing forward the resurrection Of
the ruined district. The magnitude of
this work may be realized when it is
estimated that the mere cleaning
$2,000,00O.
A number of individual merchants
and bankers announced to-day that
they have already made definite ar
rangements with architects and build
ers for the erection of new structures.
Already a thousand firms have
found quarters in other parts Of the
city while others are still seeking
places. Desirable locations are
scarce, and old buildings which have
stood idle for years have been quickly
seized by burned-out concerns. In
numerous instances business houses
outside the fire area are giving up por-
tons of their buildings to others.
Loss Is $S5,OOO,OOO.
A composite estimate OF the total
fire loss by twenty-five expert repre-
sentatives Of leading insurance compa-
MES Soutside Of Baltimore places the
figures at: $S5,000,00O. Some think
that the total loss will be reduced to
$70,000,000, as much salvage is being
dug out of the ruins. The loss to the
insurance companies is estimated at 70
per cent Of the total loss.
The Chamber of Commerce to-day
resumed the usual calls for grain at
the temporary .boardrooom in the Ma
sonic Temple.
Assistant Treasurer Dryden, at the
subtreasury, says the financial situa-
1911 IL 10e1A eAAiAOAC 10 Idp1ulyS approach
ing the normal. All banks are doing
business to-day, receiving deposits and
cashing checks. The subtreasury, he
said, stood readysto pay here all de-
posts that5are made at any other sub
treasury in the United States to the
credit OF Baltimore bankers. For this
purpose large shipments Of money
have been received, here. s@s.,s
Saloons Are Closed.
The streets lin the vicinity Of the
burned district were crowded to-day
with idle men,. So great did the crowd
become around the city hall that a de-
tachnent OF the militiamen was sum
moned to clear the streets. Hundreds
Of men,. mostly laborers. have come to
this city in hope OF getting work in the
fire district. All the saloons remain
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