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Show , ASTORIA'S RUMS 'City Beautiful' Plan Will Avoid Construction of 'Shack Town' ASTOIUA. Ore.. Doe. 9. (By The Associated I'i .-s. i - Kain 1.11 from leaden skies today on the ruins of Astoria's As-toria's business district, helping the firemen to quench the smouldering I remnants of the blaze which Friday wiped out the heart of this century-old City. But neither the rain nor the Ifiloomy aspect quenched the spirit of Astoria's leading citizens, v. ho vipor-'ously vipor-'ously attacked the Job of rehabilitation. rehabilita-tion. J The vision of a "city beautiful" to replace the one gone up in smoke, was before the men who gathered to plan ithe reconstruction. To avoid tht Isprlnging up of a shack town" on the lashes, they made provkslon for the (erection of temporary structures out-Islde out-Islde the burned area under permits I Issued by authority of a committee ilrhlch took charge of the . mire local situation. An executive committee, composed of officials and business men. clothed itself with power to handle not only relief work and rcmmL-Mction problems, prob-lems, but to administer municipal affairs af-fairs until such time a orderly conditions condi-tions arc re-established (.1 LRDSMI I ; l l M NV. The relief work was well In hand toddy to-ddy and there was nr prospect of physical suffering. To provide meals for such as could not be accommodated accommodat-ed in the homes of tho citizens, national na-tional guard forces today began serving serv-ing meals from two rolling kitchens In one of the building3 which escaped the flames. Insurance adjusters established headquarters at the court house and sent out notices to all fire sufferers to send in their claims. No official estimate esti-mate of the aggregate loss was made, but the general opinion of business men who were familiar with local i onditions was that the loss would be between 110,000,000 and $12,000,000. j 00 |