The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1913-07-10
B00MS AFTER FLOOD
Dayton, o., Is on Road to Pros.
perity Again.
Everybody In One Devastated Town
Working, and Wages Are Higher
Than They Were Ever Known
to Be Before.

Dayton, O.-Dayton is taking care
OF herself again. Only a few soldiers
are left doing police duty. Military
law is theoretically in force, and
AdJt. Gen. George H. Wood is still
here. The curfew has become a tech
nicality, and citizens may go abroad
till IL o'clock each night. The saloons
are open through the day.
Major Rhoades of the United States
army has gone, leaving the work c
sanitation and cleaning in the hands
OF the city authorities. Relief proc
esses have come to a s%tandstill, eX-
cept for the work of the Red Cross,
under DR.. Edward T. Devine of New
York.
The factories started running in an
Incredibly short time after the flood.
Their accumulation of orders in
sures rush work and overtime all sum
mel. With everybody working, wages
higher than ever known, and with 90
600 persons having lost part or all
of their household goods and clothing,
there could be no question about bust
ness. Dayton is already a boom town,
and must continue to be the busiest
city in the United States for many
months to come.
Every merchant who has been able
to get new stock has been doing a
volume of business from 40 to 60 per
cent greater than at the correspond
ing time last year-and this with
rough board counters, emergency fix
lures, and d~emoralized sales forces.
Treasury department officials sent
here to restore financial operations
told disheartened merchants from the
first that they would turn their stock
more times in the next six months
than they ordinarily did in five years.
The first months sales have con
WINGED most of them that this was a
correct prediction.
Every merchant of good reputation
has received astonishing ,favors from
houses from which he buys. Many
have Cancelled old accounts; nearly
all have extended their credit. Citi-
zens have been advised not to avail
themselves of the bankruptcy law, and
none so far nave done so.
Thousands Of carpenters, plasterers
and painters are at work. There is
still much mud and debris in the
streets, though nearly 10000 wagon
loads have been hauled away. Most
Of the boards, broken furniture and
the like was taken to the public
dumps and burned. At Mckinley park,
devastated by the flood, there was a
huge bonfire covering two city blocks,
with fire fighting apparatus surround
ing it.
1t is contended by a large element
that the work of cleaning has been
hampered by the opening of the
saloons, which opened ten days ago.
Four thousand men had been I'm
ployed on the cleaning work, many
imported. from Chicago and other
cities. Hundreds of them became de-
moralized through drinking and left
the city.
Immediate attention is to be given
the broken levees, in which only the
bad breaks have been stopped. The
government is giving attention to the
improvement of the great Miami from
source to mouth. Wal department
engineers have surveyed the district.
Revised estimates of the financial
loss very almost as widely as they
did at first. A survey by a company
of bankers and real estate men re-
suited in a total of $685. 00, 600, in
Guiding 5000 {, 900 for depreciation
of real estate. All the estimates prob
ably are too high. The chamber OF
commences estimate of mercantile
losses is $12, 0eO, 900. Not more than
one-third Of the churches and schools