Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-05-04
Much OF Insurance Adjusted
and Business Places Rising.
UnprecedenledActiy Promised
10 The Building Trades.
Believed Contents of Vaults Are
Safe-Some OF Ambitious Plans.

Bangor, Me, May 3-Clearing the
| wreckage of burned buildings from the
streets dynamiting dangerous ruins,
receiving relief funds and distributing
supplies to the destitute-these activi-
ties, together with the settlement of in
surance the hasty establishment of
temporary places of business and plans
for rebuilding, occupied Bangor's at
o'clock tonight amounted to $50, 365,
and it is likely to exceed $4,000 by the
end of the week. 1t is certain that more
than enough money will be locally SUBJ
scribed to provide for the comparative
ly few destitute and there will be a
large sum remaining for the firemens
relief fund.
Much of the insurance has already
been paid, and within a few days there
will be plenty of work for common Ia
borers. while within a few weeks the
building trades will enter upon a long
period of unprecedented activity This
viii provide for great many who, had
the fire occurred six months later,
would have required assistance for a
long time.
1t is generally believed now that the
loss will not exceed s3.5O0,OOO and the
insurance will approximate $4,000, 600.
There is a general disposition to re-
build, and it is altogether likely that
the now structures will be of a much
more substantial character than those
destroyed, while the matter of a re-
arrangement OF streets lines is receiv-
ing serious consideration.
1t is believed that the contents Of
the vaults of burned banks are intact
Many safes have been opened and
their contents found uninjured. The
postoffice vaults contain $4,000 worth
of stamps, which cannot be recov-
cred for a week yet. A supply of
stamps for present use has been re-
ceived at the temporary postoffice in
the Y NJ C. A building. Letter
MALL is being distributed with rea-
sonable promptness. but last Sun
days newspaper mail has not yet been
sorted.
Telegraphic service is normal and
long distance telephone service is
provided at temporary stations. but
the local service cannot be resumed
for a week or more. Street car ser
vice is still limited to the Old Town
and State Street lines.
Military patrol is still maintained
at night and many special police are
vet on duty, but there has been no
disturbance of any kind. not even a
case Of larceny. and less drunkenness
than in ordinary times so that the
police and military have had nothing
to do except keep the sight seeing
crowds away from dangerous ruins
and prevent people passing through
closed streets.
Ambitious plans for rebuilding the
burned district with a parkway along
kenduskeag stream on which the new
public buildings shall face, are being
considered. Announcements of new of
flee buildings and residences to take
the places of the burned ones are being
made. The Morse oliver building at
Exchange and State streets, will be
rebuilt as will the Graham building
and the one already planned for Cen
trail and Harlow streets.
Reuel j. Preble and four University
of Maine law school students jumped
uninjured from the second story of the
Exchange building Sunday night.