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Show The Fnter-Mountain Republican | Pases 1 wo 10. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, SUNDAY, MAY 27, 1906 1 AQas What she aqccompl. AD00 * APRL - zr «| $ ~" . tel <I ~ hi Al While z ar y ote Se - ¢ Se . : <> cry ~-e < section Of 86 fan) a [= = »LIOk 2s ers TING ABLE: eee Of rebuilt material. AI, their and of the richest business 1.528 ||) huild-:) A nd om 9 2 ings and four Jlumber yards, which with ther onte hay beer estimated at from $70,000,000 to $100,000,000, has bk and warehouse biuldings of modern type Statistics are calways.> interesting comparison and the fire destroyed followint BAL the | : *"0"! fr t! ght ‘ building. = building. F eee permits new district lows: ; . 2ee one-story 8S 10 65ae 5 18) to erect have ' = buisldir a eer ; i were all brick destroy: 5 it ‘ te 4 structures~ been in granted as fol-|" half-story ‘bufldinge- destroys ; | Hens r i} \ : 1 many - whoaoe did not win 3 ee ere ore 0 r na t 1 ‘ lit : | of i< PEN smot ee, tal ; f I i ty forr Pisa 1 { t s 76 fect ' ih) rat Cut ‘ | Ai hele <1 A j \ } : ' Cm wri; \ i with | oO ens) - E t cea ‘ Youd . t fark« ! : . : loxeheay + TALES Street I ‘ uniform : width i Tntiisa "al ( yard ie ee tr trom from me t neet omepee t te "a \ t ! eee to R cf front f den rom { trom: ‘ ni from ; » t fro 3 feet ves ' i . r fror oe from 9 © ; S pontion'-form-| Vi Light net re 20. Lee estern po ! om. n. from, eet re ) ! I ih : t , tr f p md r ey Chrough-and| chiar ie v ) td te | x I rap I Cha 1 i 1 mar ‘ ortoft F difficult ae ‘ tee ewidos 1 , feet, re-| t wy f t] ; 5 ' a e | i : f ‘ ee ey 1 ( artes |Fiatee ; ID - Me = - Se re a ee = for wel PP HR ig pavements were can for 11) fy Mm { ree see ! { I re { 61 i ‘ Ss nad : t sare he : } DD and} ind : of a treet there 1 t Balt : on i * ] ean t hut t ae } ; i1law : A ete ; ne pa Asst uilding : w 1 he at: final requir ) and in} describe what|was and realize that the| , ic - ees < Eg VALUE E i iy0 stood reife AY the } I I i i ; ntiquated fn i Nha hit the new ‘ n t 7 buildings S ‘ which have old are vastly superior is most casual observer, and ‘that . of every the Appeal ; r renou one of ; re-| : Tax Court of| the ich eh il aC lat u peop) The loan, together lex for 0,000 for of the with another | wh Sarr WEF buildings| there a ie To { u ; ul ; \ ) t } pogra i, and tthe in ent y ti 1 Ln } I cae j ge t S Oth tla = aor sullding snahan hy ) é St, ilicin $450,000 through : t hardly eems ca could tim have‘ : i i a rary, bulldimes ‘red, and were 11, S ri ne fey- 7 hats At 2 soon of and golden th: yellov h were data Wor hurried : burned the they } from ing reporter ' could turning ‘out for <t thelt heads, 0 while who sought soon had protection: under nothing left' but merchants on Charles sters, and $20 a load was the usual price while some persons paid moré In endeavorine to save books and valuable De ‘ eve a ‘ nD. paMA took I many ‘ men, anI ven wom dosperate ichiauces * A it required | most vigilanes on the mrt of the poi S to keep the frengled people from rustit into sure death Many men. remained in frontsxof their : places of business loading wagon » lor th e ppt hit flame (th approuching m i ised t es to run away, and the teams rush; ; ed : Ger through the cong added : to the fsoods awful scene cau t fire A number from flying had to be were abandoned, \ ons X t ve o wel ext eS am6 trom By o'clock = crethe f while hed eee 18 of leads spart other by 6 ; ad : city fre > } Ivinge sp treet, Fn at nee freely, on 1 ar ved the ; ¢! éy helped a tut Jt for . the shoaclh ' in the neighhorhood ke ri ri esting bers | the must Indian prov maiden their and or war of un aere i - r place d ind ; the flying sparks found 1 } 126,00) ) inflammable material 100,000| later the1f2 first skyscrap d -An hour nour { ce ef the ‘ 90,000 ers, the Tinion Trust. building on th northeast corner of Chark ind Fayette 1.000 streets, was ; on fire: from ground to roof , descent her ¢ und firriendly ce tte) a ( oJ, OO) + 1: I ne in member es already As the|rolledthe Pocohontas society repos-{|cently formed in Washington Mem- been) umtl , the ind other treet to the east bean: to move their goods. and vebiele of every descriptiton-dray hack laytons, priate carriage hand rls ind 1. fact everything that had wheels-were pressed ] into se rvite i It wawas al <t for) nto teamt wirve it to I I =f oO Lexington | mite wax used than hindered ce . : 125,00 | window glass . 50), 000 20,000 . 20,000 their extra ed ‘ PICSsOs COUT WYrk fire had to contend which singed fat Several ladies Se Vey ft ?bad o'clock 120.000 butt 130,00) from Engelsh sich adh . tc CRS Of DUldings, p16} Ther i "Pocoeach of pleasi architecture and' all!| husband d h . ' is to be » aea I os 0 blending Into the harmonious whole be-|®0tas day at the Jamestown tel AL tokening solidity ond strength Learning | Sitton, w hen the society will hold first their. lesson from the fire, many own-| Dlact - blocks : ee BOE caiaeas Mand the wit ) to Vest 160,000| roared across the , city at a rate One * ie : 150,000| miles an hour. Water is poWwerl 141,000} a solid sheet of flame wa ead. 25,0) ans 17,000 and f lives,; ; other brellas frames he ar ofas fit market build-|™ pkins hospjtal and Key : | nd: they includ ser estate warehouss ; a wholesale ye {Gaither office bullding & c market. : Hara LAPeraiie wianieent Nation us Marine bank f t st as also|54muel Kirk and Son ! face wes | . building west it t { Tanti "hese a " F ete , pt ' im shatt six red What ere {fs is taken} Hamburger institute, Was ana Z market nit Fully brick helr ; thetr evi-| it Ig} them tani jan Building Mi land fle tod was truck, which as t ;tons Those w . with flying sparks, ' and burned apparel - the following table which will show at a! --$_____ | glance the value of the old buildings and} te"3 cos one for $2,000,the Zeae ‘ini Pee f¢# Font > A theI prin r of CoM. | P2Pe z worth at least two and one-half times a much as the old ones, and in many cases} the value exceeds three times Here and! there are great tructures that represent ten times the value of the buildings that} occupied theI From Jformerly ; the! :site c y and frightful. waves risk =- co red} will be dredged to-a ‘depth of 28 ! l tae } ur ! nog ible to take care ind they | of the me interests of the port as and- the |incver ber rot hiatd eectha AlkS tie { bea: f Wesker ed wellvas sti ttlis Line fare the building was partially and-had demolished "Soe 5 to be r h rney were ploneers, however vy ed) 'to-restore the confidence a ane : ing an engine and} two) vat A in nine Haiessihck whet ‘ as to INTERESTING . timated books --_ made 7 at! bullding, World That Hop " ina the ¢ Ves ORARPLES i wrecol ! ar manner : ae ~ , OK ; \\ in I } ‘ ynce Paul 3 ( i LEAT office feet wider on' each:side,:thu WO) to develop the-eity Annex one for Sa eimai e ees peen erect- |) a : width, ei ec somewhat to the of the | 31,250,000 for the enlargement of the parks : nd making them far more hand- | and bulldir ft ; é : 12 yt) ta 5 Value old Value new} O00 :0 0: Marthig bullies 6ie Gee eee ss fr Bldg Bldg oft t et t wider story office bullding of lenit ur le COD water torage reservols k Cer > . $1,100. i off of the now new | cused f fs ane RoR $1 1K 000 Pre I t 1io0ls paving, On€ | i6-story building of The " delay to the rebuilding. but veral) for. $1.000440) for. public and © onel~ w a Bes Fr i k chanec ind the\ first t permit t te to » £1,000 000 Ag th al Baltlmore American 93, 000 500, 000 I o ¢ 7 ta structure on Centre Market Space| partment. wus ur . 40,000 100,000 wa ranted March 7, and the first-build-| work on they yuilding B3, 000 WLW} t erect was a one-story iff 1 These 1 ture Baltimore 60, 50 ) 590,000 reet ine wi oecuy 1) ! nd oa and Guara ist : Pratt 0 AY). March. 2 Another imilar building wa will hays i floor: wrea of 706.000 aA aus o ‘ ted on Light street. but when the imeet I will ‘ witter frontage Cc itor Bs £13, 000 provement were made to that thorourh 1 ) t The: w n front of and rc ) ean reets wa ‘ Burnt District ble nd hn . dey ceptSs what . od L {1 outols { iit t the cred oO. tne) De . least Adie add treet : I { ist ) Pa i that 101 . epithe lie i v ra Chef ) ty : ‘ o Balt : saltimiory 94's | j feetfto ae a ‘ to . : i 1 "tia a ( on ener : tr ait Ral ¥ of fort ; 5 i a tli \ i 2 A eee 2 a eaeriae LAIL ( te ‘mad Within y it . ea. f submitt \ . . ; OH a. WR) Coots \ . tore ? tO: as Figures and sta-)} finest business house in the ty wer in their way and! burning 1 ke box factories. Long tongue only way to ap-|of flame shot out of hundredS of winIs to make a trip) dows, curling upward and tossing from district and to see for) thelr tips myriads o wiliiant AEKS f, al en, and not until then,} From tlre housetops rolled a vast area of : ] true situation be grasped and the! fire. acres In extent. si ing In ereat placed the dent to the : é ee 4 on ‘ bh beautiful) rmAT? PARISONS: 1 pla building nelginborhood, predictions of two years ago were far|that danced and snapped in the sparkfrom correct, and that within three years, spangled cloud ef smoke at the most Baltimore will come back to On treets tl wople eathered horits own, with interest, and the new and. hor while here and there stood the . 1 > greater Baltimore will figure promin-! firen illantly endeavo to cheek ; ; entl uimong thegreat. cities of the! th while in and out: of the ‘lint [SOME rit I 1] to ' makit > 7 ri ‘ : : ith len of I re my fect} f , | 8tupendey tr i it | ye) | eon d throt rom" Tial' rLbm | |,yy earty ' tShwith iw : : } : : } ‘ Sette oy rl aivet , ath fa "i 2 Fe f vO <3 ( Hvertcs rica Raltimor : ‘ is 1 ‘ I eut 1 really YBRA , we f a i wn nea be 5 New our , ; Ver & is ri Kr eu iv ‘ eS th the great tongues of flamé leaped high tn the ay Almost at the same -instant..a strong southwest "wind sprang up, and great purning brands. were swept across the streets into. the windows of adjacent warehouses, «an nutes the fire chiefs realized it wus going to oO be a desperate s ind a *neral ed late by a alarm was sounded call for all available 1LUSs. So rapidly did the fire progress that the firemen were compelled to retreat, leav- has been accomplished. tistics are well enough vuut the work . \ ‘ Se eee oene ae a Ww it | NBitieittaee to ' | , It F ARR An es ' the spectator c hy re{a I » = ovements to ;omn fing ae ati : as first glance it woulda orale 3 oper s t uild j nee d "Hy and troyed, would but be & reat i issue the disparag } cove et f 5 but many of the new struct I reet fre 190] wndWel. the total num ey ato 2 ) ' I ber ‘of lots t t 700 of them Ww t ‘ for the de ae g#treet eats. ri widening of thi imIn | te figuring out the ercentage. OF 10% 1 proved the lock al trict in not {Included Calve et thoue} it ik eu d in the numly or J Ia ‘Ie sl DB Gukamocoulting for | féet ullding lestroved, thus.@ ‘ : { the diffe, ence etadatics. jn the . sta lar Place t Pra Those who went. through the erste Cac ration will never forget that ae here d t all day and the da. that followes tthe |.Lombar treet were : of I See, ere ; ' - city. could ever recover, ne be five Many predieti atic woulr : ten or oe 7 ne irs before the icity would ove not con it ar ware who who were were discouraged th there ihetoands not ' he i t ete th t Se ee it iff fire. he: itt section z tre tt e+ " vare bufldings, YP 1 Me f ord ! fr, rr ] f if - OCrne . I ; > ¢ of as many sixteen-story will D } 4 ) . t ‘ i i : I ‘1 \ ! t] th : Veale in con- | jn | Splendid quar I ( ‘ ‘. } = 1 can boast no- j the Baltimore News, in erecting a fine! stand, t the flames leaped ue six-story building for itself, was In keep-|stroying a numbe bulldings onacro Liberty jing with the general progress and the tr t hence ng up Meé lar nergy of the proprietors vaS an exalley to Fayette stree boring its wa ceptional criterion for all citizens to ap-| steadily In a northeasterly direction in th | preciate, and it was the sowing of seed on! path of the wind ; I ertile soll : By o'clock the appearance f the fire Ke & , il Ltlor nie rn Are the) bulldingsbulldings® < ze 3 twelye-story: bulldings. ly 1 thirteen-«tery building. 3 Sixleen- tory buildings. } According to their decla ed, value, t tee structure represent 00,00, mu pee ; ; : Tay estimate of the: Appeal Tat: court Mie toplace the! the value at $18.009,000. Aceordins mit figures of thedest: ‘Tax court atae value of the bulldines oy $12,903.59 a rit ¥ ) Lh { ul ‘ reat ' firenroo and: and | a F ey i h I I o cotta goods Us RS, se exe n pe 1 ; - > ! we - 7 mporary. k ro j 4 ‘ i A ; ' aer : mo , I yulldings) * bulldings buildings. rs buildings. bulldings é 182%ait al _ I / ; ul i ix one-and-one-half-story buildings . : five two-story buildings. ngs : { s terra of way was alarm banking houses as Baltimore. Practically | ges royed. The ffremen- fought desperjall of them are one story, but the wind carr generous proportions and ery brands, dropping them }eent architecture and their interiors on wooden cornices and Sm window sills, |resplendent with.the finest !mported mar-| causing dozens small fires' many | bles, set off with fixtures of bronze and| squares away, and again and again the {furniture of mahogany. It is estimated | firemen had to respond to the alarm {hat j.that on. buildings alone..the~ Baltimore [were turned in from various places. Dur| banks have expended $8,000,000. (ing the 24 hours there were nea less than The officers of the banks wheo.had aTi~| 52.-0f these alarms, »all..of..whichwere !vate~interests. Showed & Similar spirit; the result of las did thousands of others Whose prope Cte the first | ty was destroyed, and the splendid office' alarm it was every officer of ri re | buildings, warehouses ane stores. are) the fire depart was. be|mute, evidence of the ‘never-say-die"' | vond control rby cities |courage characteristic of the American were sent out is prompt The Johns Hopkins hospital, the chief} Washington s r al atus on « spe; revenue of which was Invested In. rent-/ cial train that broke ill previous records Is in the destroyed area, was in a perll-| over the id i} rallroad ous condition after the fire by reason of }while Ph Yew ¥ ut i the heavy loss, but Mr. John D. Rocke-/ score of eit an in and abou feller made the trustees a donation of}the state did I!kewise, untl by daylicht 10,000 and they have rebuilt the major! Monday morning he on thi ene rtion of the!r property, some 40 bre-|and fighting the e tiame fl 1231 fi » wit! é x os mie \ I houses in all. Many ne 50.000 ir cover from two to water throuwgchimto compartments good 18. wind front, but all under stre und en with and' Trust company, | siamese coupling it was impossible to hundred estates, be-| throw a stream of anv treneth to ‘the soon as their lots could econd floors ind the flames wep re ey have about tbhree3t] l s to their credit, inBy bulldings and wareie; 1 Bae an outlay of about! ine in $1,250,000 in |} Phe Baltimore American, in replacing | Lomb: jits former even-story bullding with a/| street LIGOF! ng ; 1 ify 7) r ad j Eta ] I re { , ee | biutiainne two-and-one three-story } Sar a : hol bu att t n vi ¢ frame. buildings bulldings = : ding yalf-story Dus pulldinge bulldipe: 1528 buildings, 4 lumber . d The records of {he oLteacot the building "" show _ s great2 ins xector that since the . gr tir r aN Pek as ' \ bullding- bulldings there were ry 1 bulldings. ry l buildings. on. ~ oe Be aii, "1 ; buildings. 7 a story tory : i IPS: vege A i mptl ; aj OF il : a er a iv buildings. F 2 S ten-story ' anaes . e : A a 36-one-story. buildings 1 one-and-one-half-story or nd ha 3 building two-story buildings. 2 twe : story bulldin mat three-and-one-half-story * building story buildin ind-one-half-story.'; building bulldings. ne-half-story na J oo : eral nd ae : 4 aE 3 mA 1%) y A ae a 1 i banks OES, \ little short of -marvelous,.and now, with- | ') °Pra in ® months; the district fs at least & ¢ e nae per 1 rebuilt ult a and i ver centnt that portion of the eyAh city Is covered by blocks of magnificent vf office most af fir iont eclaring to help the teen cine ie | ! structt steel, crete entered largely in the work, thus | making practically impossible another ! such conflagration, The banking interests of the city suf-| fered by the loss of their homes, fully a/ score of them going down in the wreck. | j but In every instanee thelr vaults were} found to be intact and business Was, promptly resumed in tempor: ueters while new qua rte thel> were being | erected n the rebuilding of their homes! the banks showed that ley were among | | the foremost in enterprise, and no city in| LL0KA. talt! ( ri the ‘Avorn Balt!mor from tl Gov ‘ February 7 and &, 1504 amatior over 140 acres of land,'‘ I .cltyedestroyed gray only belts, ir th pany, on the southwest corner of Liberty and German treets, guve thefirst intimation of fire, sending a ‘silent alarm: to all the fire compantes, Th i fire depurtment mad e 1 quick response, and the fireme ntered building, only to be drivyen a minutes later. by dense sm j structure. was vacated the is an los.on, the roof of tine bullding wa lifted, every pane-of. glass } of: blocks the re- the clan ‘ wre including and ‘ ie Cz pe ar fire of swept newsboys automatic / ecove very to ~ the world great which of the dry ¥ OWI He done Sunday, February.7, 1904, dawned and cold, and" the stillness: was | broken by the peal of: the ehurch if Ss Z La, has } recounting ) Ve : J Baltimore } . LITA P what |} jJuvenate itself from its devastation is of paramount interest andthe days that forgotten be to days the .are gone | are with the dawn of the new era, the visit of in the history an époch fire marked |} the of. the city, and as history it" rth AINTE LABGE bp: UO i Pr l. | 5 LS Cy He UU & z mas/| ( 7 } 7 7 <r = =| 322 Es] > > z > Laat { u ; " ; | LE Ll ro j roe: 4 DTV' IIB IT WERICALY (O28 IE CG LINED ERIE a gpl we lato SLL < x --Ea --- i Ea aes Goh Cj L_ CoN WAY + ‘Ou eaeLY o/ = s a a" © o, eet The Story of the Fire, "BALTIMORE STREET é rT * MUL OOL +o a <y -\ a t, | *] ( CALVERT STEEELT 3OVTH FEAL PAVETTE TORT OF IT WIDENED FROM OF TO C#FEZT DALTILE NEWS BUILDING QY THE LEFT } | a Continued | on Page eat Ten. |