The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-12

Lamb & Co, and there the concern dit
much OF its binding in connection witt
the printery Mr.. Lamb embarked on {
business career of his own not long ago
succeeding in the present location +. w
Cummings. one of the oldest members OF
the printers craft in Barre, Mr.. LIANT
to-day estimated his loss at 81 600, OF
which $4,000 was invested in paper
stock. His insurance. carried in three
agencies. will total $4,000.
The stock in the New England Fruit
store consisted largely of candy and con.
fectionery supplies. Mr. Laws was a
distributor for the Moxie company, and
a considerable store OF that beverage was
lost. In addition a new soda fountain
combining onyx with somewhat elab-
crate arrangement of mahogany and
marble fittings, was badly damaged. Mr..
Laws estimated the value of his stock
and fixtures at $500, and stated that he
| carried insurance to the extent of 81, 700
Others who are involved in the fire are
the city of Barre and the Joint owners of
the lower story. Under an agreement
made more than a half-century ago, the
city retained the use of the upper story
for meeting places, but the foundation
and first story We're owned by the heirs
of Nathan w. Morse and Stillman Wood,
The value of the city's half of the build
ing has been estimated at $1,000, and in
sllrance of 81 900 is carried in the insur-
ing fund established by the city council
a short time ago That section of the
lower story adjoining the Wood block
and occupied by the fruit company is
owned by Mrs. Helen Wood Fowler of
Worcester, Mass. who controls the Wood
block. The northerly half of the same
story is jointly owned by Mrs. Joseph d.
Taft and Mrs. Agnes Bradford. The
value of the lower story for business
purposes has been placed at $4,000. sol
that the entire building was probably |
worth $4,000 1t is stated that the lower !
story was nominally insured.
OF the other losses incurred, those of |
the tenants in the Wood block have not |
been estimated Early in the forenoon
water poured into a vacant office over
the flower store and trickled through the
ceiling to the floor and thence to the
basement Smoke worked an eviction
on the tenants and in the store of the ;,
f. d. Ladd Co. smoke and water filled the
basement, while on the first floor the
smoke was well nigh unbearable, albeit
business in the place was not suspended.
Damage to the barracks of the Saliva
ion Army was relatively large, for
of value which the officers
owned was destroyed. However, the hall /
vas not ornstely furnished and the loss
n dollars will not be large. The paint |
RS union did not suffer heavily.
The Town Hall" a Landmark.
Memories of Barre in the STRIPPING |
lays agone clustered around the ruined i
town hall" In other years it enjoyed
he more dignified title of town house. !
nd as such its functions conformed to a
he old fashioned New England ideal of v
public building, where the freemen a
light congregate to their own and the a
rofit of the community. The records u
how that in a town meeting of 1859 the y
oters of Barre authorized an expendi
ure for the erection of a town house. b
he project grew apace and early in De- b
nmber of the same year the town ia n