New-York tribune., 1908-04-14
PLAN NEW CHELSEA.
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the hospitals in ambulances were two VINO became
mothers after the fire started.
This forenoon the entire burned district was
given up to the insurance adjuaters business men,
state and city officials and the militia guard The
insurance adjusters. who esrly on the scene
were long in ascertaining that there was II"
chance for salvage. Some walls were st'hoihs'
but the nhammable parts OF practieaHS every
building of any size or Importance had been con-
sumed. A dozen of the fire engines from TINS ana
neighborng cities at noon were still at Work on
the ruins where small fires were smoUlderins- Al
the oil works at the extreme eastern emu OF the
district sveral tanks burning themselves out
and at a few places in Broadway broken timbefs
and other wooden material still blazed AT noon
It was possible however. to walk through all the
streets of the burned district. This was due TO
the fact that few buildings In Chelsea were more
fifty seventy-hve feet in height. while the
wooden structures which constituted the greater
part OF the buildings destroyed. We're almost
wholly two and half story frame houses or three
story frame tenements
ACTING GOVERNOR SENDS $1,000.
Among the features of the relief work during
the forenoon to-day were advices from the Mayors
of surrounding cities that they and their con-
stituencies stood ready to offer any sort OF AID
Lieutenant Governor Eben s. Draper acting as
Governor during the Illness of Governor Guild
sent his personal check for $1,000 for relief Mayor
Wsrdweil of Cambridge sent wagon load OF cooked
meats TO the afflicted people this morning. and
declared that the city of Cambridge might De
relied upon for substantial financial aid
temporary postoftice established in PARK
street holding early In the day and q bureau o.
Information organized in the basement OF the
building. A fortunate circumstance disclosed oy
investigation to-day that in no part OF the
city are the sewerage or water systems OF oI''eI
underground facilities put out of commission
The five liquor licenses which had been granted
IN Chelsea following the change of the city from
q license policy license at the last electloh
and which would have become operative on May L.
We're revoked to-day, and no more Will be granted
for the present. The liquor licenses in East Bos-
ton and that part Of Charlestown adjoining Chel-
sea were also suspended to-day by order of Police
Commissioner O'Meara. aid to the militia
and police in their efforts to bring about a conul-
tion OF order and safety.
the dawn broke the fire swept city the
first realization Of the terrible situation was made
fully apparent to the bewildered inhabitants.
A chill wind and a light fall of snow, which
later turned into cold rain, added to the misery
OF the homeless ones, who shivered in the shelter
camps the public squares and Fairgrounds
Frantic mothers and fathers roamed the streets
seeking missing members of their families Ihe
schoolhouses of the city, well as those OF the
neghboring cities and towns. were filed with lost
children, and OF parents made the rounds OF
these institutions.
At O'Clock the first bread lines were started.
those the side of the burnt district being
served at the district court rooms while those on
the upper side received rations from the high
school building. The lines regulated by the
militia. the applicants being obliged to pass be
tween lines soldiers before they were served.
The work of clearing away the debris was com
menced at an early hour, but under the greatest
difficulties as the workmen were in constant dan
ger from falling walls.
A special meeting OF the Chelsea Board Of Alder
men held at the high school building this fore
noon at which an order was introduced asking the
Legislature for authority borrow $4,000 TO re-
construct the public buildings that were destroyed
The order was referred the committee on public
property and finance and the committee was au-
thorized TO increase the amount TO S10OO00O II nee
essary.
The following is i list OF the buildings destroyed
having a valuation above $1,000:
City Hall, $4,000; state armOry, 10000 Masonic
Hail. $500; FItz Public Library. $4,000: Fay Gram
mar School $4,000: postoice block. $4,000: Frost
Hospital $4,000 Shurtleff School, $4,000; Highland
School, $4,000; ShawInut School, $4,000; Bellingham
School 10000: Water and Fire Department, $4,000;
Day Nursery. $1,000; Young Mems Christian As
sociatioa Building, $4,000; Granite block $4,000;
Gould Hail. 10000; odd Fellows Hail. 5000; Fire
Department headquarters. $4,000; Williams School,
$4,000; Central Congregational Church, $4,000; st.
Rose Catholic Church. $1,000; St. Rose Catholic
School So 600; Universalist Church. $4,000: Being-
ham Methodist Episcopal Church, $1,000; First
Baptist Church $4,000 St. I.uke's Episcopal
Church $4,000; New Synagogue. 5000; Sacred
Heart Convent. $1,000; Chelsea Savings Bank. So
600; County Savings Bank. $1,000; Chelsea Trust
Company $4,000 Boston Elevated Railway. $4,000,
Boston Backing Company, $500; Tidewater OH
Company $1,000.