, 1907-05-17
LARAMIE WILL SOON COME OUT
BRIGHTER ANR BETTER FROM
THE scoRcHINo OF THE
DEMON OF FLAME.
Plans Taking Form to Rebuild Burned
District With Handsome struc.
lures, Perhaps Modern Opera
House on Thornburgh Street Side
of Burned District-Some Of the
Phases of Fire In Cooling Embers.

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Laramie, the metropolis of the a
annie plain and n of the best towns
in the west, will not be permitted to
long remain blackened from yester-
days conf1agration. The debris was
hardly cool before plans had been
started for replacing the burned build
ings with others that will be an orna-
ment to the town. Mr.. Corthell closed
a contract after the fire with the w. h.
Holiday company for the erection OF
a brick building from the present brick
structure to the street, to accommo-
date the offices and job department Of
the Boomerang. His was perhaps the
first definite move to rebuild the burn
ed section.
Modern Buildings.
1t is now the plan, being discussed
and whipped into definite shape, to re-
build on the six lots from the alley
to the Laramie Drug company's build
ings, with the possibility of an opera
house in the second and third stories,
the first stories to be used for bust
ness purposes. To this plan Mr.. Carter
and Mrs. Wall, whose buildings came
through the fire with little damage,
are willingly agreeing. DR.. Gardiner,
who owned the buildings occupied by
G. E. Eggleston and Louis Miller at
III and 117k Thornburgh street,
started the movement, declaring that
he would replace his buildings with
brick, at least two stories high and
perhaps three.
Trying to Buy Lot.
Arthur Kingsford has undertaken
the purchase Of the lot at 113 Thorn
burgh, where his store stood, the own
err being John Eslinger of Salt Lake,
who Is being communicated with. Mr..
Kingsford had a telegram this morning
from his father, j. T. nj. Kingsford,
at Ogden, promising all the aid need
ed in purchasing the lots and erecting
a modern store building. 1t is be-
lieved that a similar plan is at work
on the Peterson lot, lis Thornburgh
street.
Carter Is Willing.
Mr.. Carter stated that he was strong
ly in favor of building and would CO.
operate with the other lot owner in a
scheme to erect the store buildings
and an opera house If h a seemed the
proper thing to do. Mrs. Wall is fully
determined to have her building re-
moved n a new n erected. Her
plans are tentative, awaiting develop
ment along with the other n in
the burned district.
An Ideal Site.
o w. II. Holiday, while express
ing sympathy with the owners of prop
erty destroyed by yesterdays fire, said
he did not believe the sites would be
long vacant, as they were ideal for the
KINDS OF business carried ON there.
They are handy to the depot, many
people making their way to those
stores during the wait of the train
here, and neat buildings along the row
would attract other purchasers. The
block Will be purified by the fire and
come forth respondent in new brick
and iron n stone. The block will be
one OF the smartest in the city in
Time"
In Temporary Quarters.
With one or two exceptions, the bus
mess men on the Thornburgh street
site of the burned district will be do
ing business in a few days. Mr.. Car
ter and Mrs. Wall removed their goods
to the old buildings, but Mrs. Wall
finds that her loss will be more severe
than she at first believed. The brick
one-story building in the rear. which
contained some of her property, was
almost entirely destroyed, the contents
being consumed and the walls only
left standing. She finds that her build.
ing was damaged to such an extent as
to make it practically uninhabitable,
her apartments in the second story