The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-06-14
TWENTY YEARS q

June 9-Chief of the Fire Depart
ment Wade, Assistant Fred Putnam
and Ed. sundberg, directed the work
of the fire department at the big fire
and all did able service.
Harrington & Knight found their
stock entirely destroyed, while Hance
Bros, their competitors, gave them
Office room and offered to fill any or
der that they might have from their
own stock.
w. A. SCOTS vaults in the Northern
Pacific Elevator Co.'s building proved
to be worthless and every paper was
destroyed.
Lisbon reported that thirty members
of the fire department in that city
We're all ready to come up when they
received e. phone that their services
were not necessary.
The board of education of Moorhead
offered the use of the school building
for the Fargo sufferers.
Skeoch secured baking ovens in
Moorhead n wired for tents in order
to open business again in Fargo.
The Citizens National bank obtain
e~d$temporary quarters in the counting
room of The Argus, while the second
floor Of the building vas occupied by
the u. S. court.
The Y. M. g. "A offered the city offic-
l u y " #lIlS# IGllG4 IIIltlJEOEhIE use
of their building which lis now the
Birchall flats and for nearly a year
practically suspended the regular work
of the association in order to help out
those u~nfortunates of the fire.
Alex Stern put 125 men at work
clearing off the fire debris and expect
ed to commence his new building as
soon as the foundations were cool.
There was 100000 Insurance on the
Keeney block-just the amount of the
mortgage-and the holder thereof
turned the money in to rebuild the
structure.
At a meeting of the grand chapter
of Royal Arch Masons al Jamestown,
d. M. Holmes of Grand Forks was
elected grand high priest and S. u. Hill
of Fargo deputy grand high priest.
A meeting of the citizens was held
and $50, 900 was subscribed for the re-
lief of the destitute. There were over
$500 homeless in the city.
Mayor Smith appointed the follow
Ing as a relief committee: Mesdames
j.. S. Watson, E. c.. Eddy, C. e. Web
ster, Fl. Amerland, E. B. Hance, S. S.
Lyons, A. L.. Wall and S. G. Roberts.
June 10. - The headlines over the
fire review articles in The Daily
Forum read as follows: Never Say
Die-John Haas will erect brick blocks
on the Greig-Freeman blocks on
BroadWay-Peter Elliott will build a
three story brick hotel just west of
where the Elliott house was-Every-
body keeping a stiff upper lip-The
Forum has ordered another new out
fit and the paper will continue to be
ISSUED"
The gas works couldn't work be-
cause the gas escaped faster than it
could be made. The company was
trying to get the connections shut off
in the burnt district.
Harry Hance secured quite a name
for himself as a fire fighter by his
brave work on the top OF Cranes
hotel, thus preventing the spread Of
He had a suit of clothes and his shoes
these. while Cashier Lyons gave hin,
$25 in cash.
A meeting was called at the court
house to request the mayor and city
council to license the saloons in
spite of the prohibition law. 1t was
claimed that $4,000 could be raised
by licensing twenty-five saloons. The
discussion was exceedingly spicy, but
a resolution was adopted in favor OF
the project.
The general committee appointed
for relief purposes consisted of G. "a,
Morton, g. w. Darling, n Rev. IF. Al,
Beard. The appeal OF the committee
stated that Fargo citizens were not
applicants of charity, vet there were
hundreds of families who had lost
their all insthe fire Of Wednesday.