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CLAliKEiA Bi>WTO^ ; Lv.OKW<>t>D, BltOOKH *, CO. -J ■ ■ ^'^^l^^'i**''^ .rt»*j; : / ' S^.'wK-.'i,,,, 4'- :m(m 'M^i&nmm-'-' feXw .*( THE STORY OF THE |P* J' mtm (?" (% ok, |.| JUNE 20th, 1877. ii- BY GEOEGE STEWART, Jr.. OF ST. JOHN, N.B. ■ ''» "i BELFORD BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS. ST. JOHN, N.B. : R. A. H. MORROW; MONTREAL, P. Q, DAWSON BROS.; TORONTO, ONT.: JAS. CLARKE i& CO.; DETROIT, MICH.: CRAIG & TAYLOR ; BOSTON : LOCKWOOD, BROOKS & CO. 53 5"^ 260818 Entered according to the Act of the Parliament of Canada, in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven, by Bblford Brothkrm, in the olfice of the Minister of Agriculture. Tl HUNTEK, Rose * Co , PRINTERS AND BINDERS, TORONTO. Tl ! thousand Ice of the COISTTENTS. CHAPTER I. PAGE The Great Fire— Its Extent— Its Terrible Rapidity— A Glance Back- ward—What the People Passed Through — The First Fire — Protec- tive Movements — The People who Lent the City Money — Minor Fires-Fire of 1823--The Great Fire of 1837— The Calamity of 1839— The Trials of 1831— The King Street Fire 9 CHAPTER II. The Late Fire- Its Origin— Bravery of the Firemen- -The High Wind —The Fire's Career— Fighting the Flames— Almost Lost— The Es- cape from the Burning Building — Destruction of Dock Street — Smyth Street in Flames — The Wharves — Demolition of Market Square — Something about the Business Houses there— The Banks — Fire Checked at North Street 19 CHAPTER IIL The Fire in King Street— Recollections —The Old Coffee House Comer —The Stores in King Street— The Old Masonic Hall -The St. John Hotel— Its Early Days— The Bell Tower— King Square— A Night of Horror — The Vultures at Work — Plundering the Destitute 27 CHAPTER IV. The Fire in Germain Street— The First Brick House in St. John— Old Trinity — The Loyalists— Ourious Ideas about Insurance — The Rec- tors of Trinity— The Clock— The Royal Arms 36 IV CONTENTS. PAGE CHAFfER V. The Old Curiosity Shop on Germain Street— A Qnaint Old Palace — " Eubbitih Shot Here "— Notinan's Studio— The Mother of Method- ism— Dewtruction of the Germain Street Methodist Chiu-ch — Burn- ing of the Academy of Music — The Old Grammar School — Presby- terians among the Loyalists — The " Auld Kirk" — Saint Andrews — The Grants of Land — Legislation — The Building of the Kirk — Min- isters — The "Victoria" in Flames — Fascination of the Fire — The " Victoria " in Ruins — What naight have saved it 48 CHAPTER VI. The Odd Fellows' Hall— The Fire in Horsfield Street- The sweep along Germain Street— The Old Bajjtist Church— Some Early Ministers — Two Fiery Ordeals— The Brick Church— The Ruins— The Bay View Hotel— An Old Landmark Gone— The Blazing Barracks — St. James's — The Hazen House — St. Malachi's Chapel— The Fii-st Roman CathoUc Church 65 CHAPTER VII. A Hard-Working Manager — The Dramatic Lyceum — The Temperance Hall— The Water-Works Building— A Hard Fight— Another Rush of the Homeless — The Weary March of the Unfortunates — History of the Water Supply — Early Struggles— Changes — The Old Way — The St. John Water Company — Placed in Commission — The Com- pany to-day 76 CHAPTER VIIL Burning of the Leinster Street Baptist Church — The Varley School — Centenary Chapel — The Gas Works— $17,000 worth of Coal burned in Ten Days— The Tall Sentinel— St. David's.Kirk- The Reformed Presbyterian Church— The Victoria School — Gigantic Ruins — An Accident — Sketch of the School-house. 90 PAGE 48 COXTENTS, CHAPTER IX. V PAGE (^ueen Sciuare — IncidentH in the Burning — The Old Pitcher--" God is burning up the World, and He won't make another" — Saved from the Flames— Overtaken by Fire Three TimeH— The Night of Terror on Queen Square — Alone amMst Perils — The Lone House on the Square — Three People under a Table — The Sailor — " If I die to- night, sir, hunt them up"— The Escape — The Deserted Streets— An Anomaly — The Marine Hospital— What a few Buckets of Water did — The Wiggins Orphan Asylum— The Block in Canterbury Street— The New% Office— Savings Bank 101 CHAPTEP X. 65 Incidents — An Old Comer Burned Down — The Lenders and Borrowers — " Twenty per Cent"— The Shylocks of the Curbstone— The Hu- man Barometers — The Vultures of Commerce — Chubbe's Comer — The Old Commercial Bank— The Telegraph Office— The Bank of New Brunswick — A Hard Worked Cashier — The Post Office — Not a Mail Lost— Quick Dispatch— The Nethery House and Orangemen —The Royal Hotel— The Custom House— The Dead of the Confla- gration 114 CHAPTER XI. 76 90 The Old House on the Hill -A Wily Commissary— The Bags of Gold - What was Done at Midnight— The Dead of Night Deposit— The Old Vault — A Timid Money Lender -Mr. Peter Johnson — The Board of Commissioners — The Old Gentleman's Little Joke— The Inspection — How it was Discovered— The Fight with the Flames — " How much will I Get "—What he Got— The Oil Barrels— Dashing the Water on the Kerosene — A Lively Time on Reed's Point Wharf —The Bridge of Fire — On the Ferry-Boat— The Westem Union Telegraph OflBce- The First Despatch 129 va CONTENTS. CHAPTER XII. PAOE A Thrilling Incident— The Burning House— Thn Tall Figure on the HaU— E8Cfti)e Cut Off— The Only Way Out— The Street of Fire- Walking on Coals— The Open Boat— The Way to the Wharf— Ter- rible Suffering— The Awful Death on the Street -Worn Out— The Escape — Saved— The Firemen — How they Fought the Flames 144 CHAPTER XIII. A Chapter of Incidents — Agony on Board— Coming Up the Harbour — The Story of the Moths— The Newly Married Lady's Story— No Flour — Moving Out — Saving the Drugs — The Man with the Corn Plasters — Incendiarism — Scenes — Thie verj'— The Newspapers — En- terprise — Blowing Down the Walls— An Act of Bravery— The Fatal Blast — Danger and Death in the Walls — Accidents — The Fire and the Church -The Ministers 156 CHAPTER XIV. ' I went againe to the mines, for it was no longer a Citty " — The Drive by Moonlight — Through the Ruins— After the Fire- A City of Ashes — The Buried Silver—The Sentinel Chimneys — The Home of Luxuriance- -A Recollection — The Moon and the Church — Back again 167 CHAPTER XV. Aid for St. John — The Firf * Jays— How the Poor were Fed — Organ- ization of the St. John Relief and Aid Society — Its System — How it operates — The Rink — The Car Shed — List of Moneys and Supplies received — The Noble Contributions 175 CONTENTS. vii CHAPTER XVI. y^ PAGE The Odd Fellows and the Fire — Relief Committee at Work-— Searohiiig I i^ out the Destitute Brethren— Helping the Sufferers— The Secret Dis- tribution of Aid — List of Donations 203 CHAPTER XVII. The Losses of the Masonic Fraternity— Great Destruction of Masonic Regalia and Paraphernalia — Orp^anization of the General Masonic Board of Relief — Amount received in Aid of the Suffering Brethren 239 CHAPTER XVIII. The Destruction— The Loss — Estimates— The Acreage and Streetage — Has the Land Decreased in ^^ue? — Incomes swept away— What is Left — Hope ! — The Insuranct -The Corporation Loss — The Do- minion liOSB — Additional Deaths — The Wounded — The Orange Body 244 CHAPTER XIX. The Books we have Lost — " The Lost Arts" — The Li Varies of St. John which were Burned — The Pictures which were Lost- -The few that were Saved — A Talk about Books and Pictures— The Future — What St. John Men must Do — Acknowledgments— Conclusion of the Story of the Fire 259 idll ERRATUM The note on page 30, "This was the Old Friary," should come under pa^e describing the Hoesfield Street Theatre. ■I ! |f THE STOEY OP THE GREAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N.B. CHAPTER I. The Great Fire— Its Extent— Its Terrible Rapidity— A Glanoo Backward — What the People Passed Through — The First Fire — Protective Move- ments — The People Who Lent the City Money — Minor Fires — Fire of 1823— The Great Fire of 1837— The Calamity of 1839— The Trials of 1841— The King Street Fire. One of the most destructive fires of modem times occurred at St. John, N.B., on Wednesday, the 20th June, 1877. It was more calamitous in its character than the terrible con- flagration which plunged portions of Chicago into ruin, and laid waste the great business houses of Boston a few years ago. In a relative sense, the St. John fire was a greater calamity, and its people for a time suffered sterner hardships. The fire in the large American cities was con- fined to a certain locality, but in St. John an immense area of territory was destroyed in the incredibly short space of nine hours, and fully two-fifths of the entire city were laid in ashes, and one thousand six hundred and twelve houses B /t't^ ,! 10 THE GREAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. B. if '\ levelled to the earth. The fire raged with overwhelming violence, carrying in its wake everything that came before it. At one time three portions of the city were burning at once, and all hope of checking the conflagration died in the hearts of men as the terrific volume of flame thundered and crackled, and hissed in sheets over their heads. The blind- ing smoke rolled heavenwards in a thick heavy mass ; the flyin/T embers were carried along for miles, and the brisk north-western wind brought the destroying flame to a thousand households. Men and women stood paralyzed in the streets, fearing the worst and hoping against hope. Those who had worked all afternoon trying to save their property now sank to the earth and barely escaped with their lives, for the fire was upon them. Nothing appeared to stay the march of the fiend. Immense piles, that seemed to stand like an army of picked guardsmen, were swept away in an instant ; granite, freestone, brick and marble were as ineflfectual in staying the conflagration as the dryest tinder-box houses which fed the flames at every turn. Even old stone buildings that had stood for sixty years, in the outskirts of the city, and had withstood many a serious tire before, now crumbled and tumbled before the conquer- ing scourge.* 20( t^acres wered estroyed, all that part of the city south of King Street, regiments of houses, stores and public buildings were burned, and the fire was only stayed when the water-line prevented its going further. The boundary of the burnt district followed a line on the * The exact acreage, from actual meaourement, is 200 acres ; streetage, 9 '6 milea. THE GREAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. B. 11 :e, 9-6 eastern and northern sides of Union Street to Mill Street, Mill Street to Dock Street, northern and eastern sides of Market S(iuare, centre of King Street to Pitt Street, Pitt Street to its junction with the water ; thence around by the harbour-line to the starting point. In brief, this was the battle-ground through which the grand charge of the fire was made — unparalleled in its brilliancy by any similar exploit which the annals of military deeds unfold. Men, horses, rows of stoutest building material, steam, water, all succumbed and went down like chafi* before the whirlwind. Nothing was too strong to resist, nothing too weak to receive clemency. A glance at the earlier hiatoiy of St. John will show that destructive fires have been of frequent occurrence, and its people have suffered much from this system of devastation. In 1784, on Friday, the 18th June, the first fire of which we have any knowledge took place. At that time it was considered a terrible blow, and the sparse popu- lation thought that many years would elapse before the little city could recover from the wreck which the fire had made. Eleven houses were burned, and a large number of discharged soldiers of the 42nd Regiment were the prin- cipal sufierers. About this time a woman and child were burned to death* at the Falls, and seven houses in this quarter were destroyed. In April, 1787, the people decided to take active meas- ures for protection against fire, and accordingly the fol- lowing document was drawn up : " We, the subicribers, taking into our serious oonsidera- ■■ 12 THE GREAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. B. tion the alarming situation of the city for want of fire- engines and public wells, should a fire break out in any part of it, and, at the same time, being sensible of the pre- sent inability of the city corporation to advance money for the purpose, do severally promise to pay the mayor, aldermen and commonalty, of the City of St. John (or to such persons as they shall appoint), the several sums an- nexed to our names as a loan upon interest, for the pur- pose of importing from Lpndon two suitable fire-engines, and for sinking a sufficient number of public wells in this city. " Which several sums the said corporation have engaged to repay to each separate subscriber with interest annually, as soon as their funds will enable them so to do, as appears by an abstract from the minutes of the common council, dated the 20th March last : " City of St. John, N.B., 5th April, 1787. & 8. d. " Gabriel G. Ludlow (Mayor) 10 Ward Chipman (Recorder) 10 Jonathan Bliss (Atty. -General) 10 Jcuiies Putnam (Judge) 10 Christopher Bellop 5 ZephRingoler 10 Samuel Remdall 10 Gilbert & Hanford 10 Isaac Bell 5 Robert Parker 10 Bbnedict Arnold 10 William Wyly 10 Mark Wright 3 THE r.REAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. B. 13 £ C. C. Hall & Co 5 William Pagan 10 John Colwell 5 Thomas Bean 10 Francis Gilbert 5 Samuel Hallet 3 William Hazen 10 James Ruon 5 John Calipp 4 Isaac Lawton 5 Samuel Mills 6 Paul Bedell 5 William Wanton (Collector Custom) 10 Adino Paddock, M.D 5 McCall & Codner 10 Thomas Horsfield 10 John McGeorge ] Thos. Elliot [ - 10 William Bainy Thompson & Reed 10 Christopher Lowe, (King's Printer) 5 W. S. OUve, (Sheriff) 5 Wm. Whittaker 5 Peter Quin 3 Charles Warner 5 Abiather Camp 5 James Peters 5 Daniel Michean 3 Fitch Rogers 5 Munson Jarvis 5 Nehemiah Rodtj;ors 5 Edward Sands 3 H. d 13 4 0. ' 14 THE GREAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. B. On the 2nd February, 1786, the corporation ymd Peter Fleming £136 6s. 8d. for two fire engines. These must have proved ineffectual, for the reader will notice that the above loan was made up hardly a year afterward, and the present sum was raised for the special purpose of buying London engines, and sinking wells. The movement was not inaugurated a moment top soon, for in 1788 the following year, a fire occurred in the store of General Benedict Arnold, of revolutionary fame, which threatened to become very serious before it was got under way. Arnold's store was situate in Lower Cove, where the sewing machine factory adjoining John E. Tumbull's sash factory stood, till the late besom of fire swept it away. A good deal of excitement was occasioned at the time of the fire in Arnold's premises. His former partner, Hoyt, charged him with setting fire to the store. Arnold sued him for slander, and recovered a verdict of twenty shillings ! The next fire broke out in 1816 in a large two-story house on the corner of Germain and Britain Streets, oc- cupied by a military physician named Davis. The doctor and his wife were saved from burning by the heroic con- duct of their next door neighbour. A party of soldiers were engaged the next day sifting the ashes and search- ing for the silver which had melted ; not a tnwie of it was found however. T he fire of 1823 was a very serious one, and caused great destruction. It began on Disbrow's Wharf and took along with it nearly both sides of Prince William Street ; '■ 1 1 THE GREAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. B. 15 the old wooden building on the latter street, lately occu- pied by The Telegraj^h newspaper, alone escaped. The lot on which it stood cost Dr. Adino Paddock five shil- lings in 1786. During this fire over forty houses were burned, and the loss of property and goods was estimat- ed at £20,000, which in those days was felt to be enor- mous. The hre of 1837 will linger long in the memory of many of the inhabitants of St. John, It was the most wholesale destruction of property which the people had ever known. Many to-day contrast the misfortunes of that day with those of the present hour. Even when the flames were carrying death and destruction on all sides on that warm day in June, 1877, men stopped to compare notes and whisper a word or two about the fire of 1837. Of course the loss was not as great then, or the number of lives lost so large, or so much valuable property de- stroyed as at the present time, but the people were less able to bear the trials which came upon them then, and many never recovered from the shock. The city was young and struggling to gain a foothold, The city was poor and the people were frugal. They were not able to bear the burdens which were in a night entailed upon them, the magnificent system of relief from outside sources was not in operation, and without help of any kind save that which they themselves brought into re- quisition, the citizens nobly worked long and hard to re- build their little seaport town. There was a prejudice ft^ainst insurance, and many lost every dollar they posses- Pi 16 THE GREAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. B. sed. The hardships of those days are remembered by many who passed through them then, and who once more endure the horrors of a great calamity with almost Spar- tan courage. The time of the '37 fire was in the very heart of a rigorous winter, on the 13th of January, and we can only picture the destruction of Moscow to enable the reader to understand how terrible the sufferings of the people must have been, when snow and ice were on the ground, and not a shelter covered the heads of the afflicted women and tender babes. It was a day remem- bered long after by those who had passed through its trials. The fire originated on Peters's Wharf, and in a moment, like lightning, it darted along South Market Wharf and extended up to the ferry boat. Both sides of Water Street and Prince W^illiam Street between Cooper's Alley and Princess Street were destroyed. The old Nichols House was saved; it was occupied then by Solomon Nichols and stood on the comer of Cooper's Alley and Prince William Street, lately the site of Farrall «Sz; Smith's dry goods store. It was originally built of wood and it was a marvel that it was not carried away with the rest ; but it stood like an oasis in Sahara, or the old sentinel who was left on guard and forgotten after the army had fled. One hundred and fifteen houses were consumed, and nearly the whole of the business portion of the city, and one million dollars' worth of property were destroyed. Hardly had the people recovered from the disaster of 1837, when another scourge came upon them causing nearly as much destruction as before. This was in August, f^ ftW^ fgs |fi| ' i II ■ ^i; ^ ^, " 'MCV^JM , 11 ^' L n 'US0 ■ ■ at li'^ B ■% V^vsOl*^, r'^**. IT -^?H,j* ?5 1 I^H f'srl^^-^^Vrii 1 -« «? 9 1 'Hill ^. Mm mmmk I i^ ill ; u3 THE GREAT FIKE IN ST. JOHN, N. B. 17 18f39, when a firo started in Nelson Street and burned the entire north wharf, both sides of Dock Street, Market Square, with the exception of the house standing on the «ite now occupied by the Bank of British North America, and a house on Union Street east, occupied by Mr. Hegan, and lately the home of the Sisters of Charity. It didn't cross Prince William Street. The old Government house, Union Street, escaped. The spring of 1841, 17th March, was the scene of ano- ther fire, when four lives were lost and much excitement prevailed. Mr. Iloldsworth, of Holdsworth & Daniel, (London House) perished while endeavouring to keep off the sparks from the roof of his store. On the 26th August, a £30,000 fire in Portland carried oflT sixty houses ; and on the 15th November, 1841, a fire broke out on the South Wharf and burned the whole of that wharf together with Peter's Wharf, south side of Water Street, and the large brick Market-house in Mar- ket Square, which was occupied by butchers in the ground flat, and used for the civic offices in the second story. This building could have been saved, and was lost through gross carelessness. Incendiarism was rampant and the greatest excitement filled the public mind. In 1845, 29th July, forty buildings were burned from a fire which took its start in Water Street, and in 1S49 the famous King Street fire broke out in a store in Law- rence's building. The Commercial Hotel, then kept by the late Israel Fellows, father of James I. Fellows, Che- mist, was destroyed, together with the Tower of Trinity 18 THE GUEAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. B. Chfirch, which had to be pullod down that the Church might be saved. Pilot Mills climl)ed to the cupola and secured the fastenings by which it was brought to the ground. The lire in Prince William Street of March 8th of the present year, which broke out in the Vmilding owned by the Ennis and Gardner estate, and resulted in the loss of seven lives and nearly two millions of dollars' worth of property, is still fresh in the minds of our readers. Thus the reader will see that St. John has had a goodly share of the great fires, which, in a moment lay prostrate a city, and plunge her inhabitants into almost hopeless ruin. We come now to that day of our last and greatest tribulation when the city was shook to its very founda- tion and was well nitrh thrown out of existence. !l> I.., IJhurch )la and to the of the ned by loss of orth of goodly •ostrate opeless p:eatest 'ounda- CH AFTER n. Tlie Late Firo — Its Origin — Bravery of the Firemen — The High Wind — The Fire's Career — Fighting the Flames — Almost Lost — The Escape from the Burning liuilding — Destruction of Dock Street — Hmyth Street in Flames — The Wharves — Demolition of Market Square — Something about the Business Houses there — The Banks — Fire checked at North Street. The great iiro, for w« must distinguish it by that title, since in vastness it cverpowers all other similar calamities which have befallen St. John, originated in the late Joseph Fairweather's building, York Point, Portland, at half past two on Wednesday afternoon, 20th Juno. The writer and Mr. Frederick R. Fairweather were walking down King Street at' the timo of the alarm, and, in company with hundreds of others, visited the scene of what promised at the time to bo a very small affair indeed. When the place was reached, McLaughlin's boiler shop was in flames and all efforts of the firemen to put out the fire were checkmated at every turn by the fierce north-west wind which was blowing a perfect gale. In a few minutes the fire spread with alarming rapidity, and houses went down as if a mine of powder had exploded and razed them. The wind lifted from the roofs immense brands and sparks, and by three o'clock the city was in flames at a dozen points. Lower Cove was on firo, and the dryness of the hou:ies rendered them as useless to withstand the blaze as bits of paper would have been. The huge blazing brands 20 THE GREAT FIRE TN ST. JOHN, N. B. liU I !l ! were carried along in the air for miles around, anil where- over they dropped a house went down. The engines were powerless, and the firemen, though they worked like heroes, availed but little. The wild, mad flames, now in sheets, now with a million tongues of angry fork-like col- umns, dashed against the wharves, levelling them to the water's edge, ripping up the pavements of the streets, and crushinghousesout of existence in a single vswoop. Nothing could be done. The leaping demon swept all before him. Hare's Wharf with its buildings bowed before the destroy- er, and with a roar which thrilled every heart, and un- nerved every man who stood there, the whole force of the fire dashed into Smyth Street and shattered every building in it. J. W. Nicholson's wine vaults, Harrison's flour warehouse, Logan & Lindsay's storehouse, Robertson Place, which exceeded in value half a million of dollars, were snapped up in a second. The flames spread into Drury Lane and Mill Street, and soon both sides of Dock Street were in the common ruin. But while this was going on, the rear of the London House, in Market Square, was threatened and the old barracks in Lower Cove were on fire. A reinforcement from Carleton and Portland fire departments came to the assistance of the firemen at this juncture, and every man worked with a will. The hose was directed with admirable expertness but the high wind baflled the efforts of all who stood be- fore it. It could rise higher than the water, and it could travel faster than man. A mass of flames at the end of Smyth Street and Drury Lane burned close to an engine, THE GREAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. H. 21 where- engines ced like , now in like col- n to the 3ets, and Nothing ore him. destroy- and un- 'ce of the d every arrison's prehouse, million e flames lon both in. But ouse, in •racks in larleton ce of the with a pertness itood be- it could e end of engine, but the dauntless firemen, holding boards over their heads to protect their faces and eyes from the heat, gave battle to the relentless foe. It was a fight of water and human endurance against fire, and fire prevailed in the end. The unequal combat lasted some minutes, and it was only when death seemed imminent that the men drew away, and even then they only yielded the ground inch by inch, till they could no longer stand up before the charging enemy. The fire was now going with headlong speed down Dock Street. Frantic women wildly sobbing filled the roads with the few sticks of furniture and portions of bedding which they had managed to save. Children has- tened along crying aloud, and making the scene more dreadful as they ran barefooted over the hot sidewalk. Men with picture frames and books rushed past, calling and threatening, and moaning. It was a scene terrible in its reality. People were driven from street to street, and hurled forward, tiU, with horror in their blanched faces, they turned and saw in their rear the wild flames hemming them in. With many a shriek they dashed into the side streets. Some ran along Water Street, only to meet the flames there, and a few sought refuge in rafts and boats, and sped to Carle- ton, losing in the excitement every dollar they owned in the world. The old McSweeney lime-stone building, which came to a point on the corner of Union and Dock Streets, early succumbed and was a mass of crumbling ruins. It was near this edifice that a woman rescued her child from instant death, and pulled her 22 THE GREAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. B. !<> away just in time to escape being buried in a mass of stone, which came tumbling down in a thousand pieces. The Rankine bakery, another building known far and wide, suffered demolition, and was soon a heap of ruins. Some young men, three in number, entered a store on Mill Street, to avoid the dust and smoke. In a little while they saw with agony the flames burst in upon them from the rear door, ten or twelve feet from the entrance. They called for help, and attempted to gain an exit from the place which was now filled with heavy black smoke. Three times they sought the door, and every minute they began to realize the imminence of their danger. The flames and smoke drove them back, and now the water from the hose came tearing into their faces, knocking their breath away, and saturating them with the wet. Two jumped with the frenzy of madmen and the wildness of despair, and landed into the street safe, but paralysed with fear. The other man groped his way on his hands and knees along the floor and felt for the door. He suc- ceeded after enduring much suflfering, in crawling into the street. All that these three saved was on their backs. In the midst of the commotion in Dock Street, merchants were busily engaged in securing their books and private papers, and hurrying out with them. Some trusted to their safes and locked their doors. The sweep in this street was a clear one. The old *' Hammond House " went shortly after the McSweeney building, and the Figaro Opera House followed shortly after. This building was built a few years ago, as an exhibition hall, by Otis Small, THE GKEAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN N. B. 23 mass of I pieces, far and of ruins, itore on . a little >on them entrance, sxit from k smoke. Lute they rer. The he water smocking the wet. wildness laralysed is hands He 8UC- into the »acks. In erchants private usted to in this ise " went e Figaro [ling was As Small, I Esq., and leased to Major George Bishop, as a concert room. He occupied it awhile, and Pete Lee succeeded him in the lesseeship and management of the concern. Some excellent performances of the variety kind have been given in this building. The hall was comfortably seated and tastefully arranged. Latterly it was converted, by Prof. Neilson, into a ball-room and dancing academy, when it received its new name, " Figaro Opera House." Dock Street was soon in ashes, and it was while this street was burning that a grand rush was made by the merchants and private bankers, to the Bank of New Brunswick. Piles of bank notes, bills of exchange, mort- gages, bonds, specie, books of account, ledgers, &lc., &c., were placed in tin boxes, when practicable, and deposited, through the courtesy of George Schofield, Esq., of the bank, into the vaults. They were not a moment too soon, for now the splendid front of the Market Square was in a blaze, and Hall &L Fairweather's store on Sou|h Wharf was burning. An immense amount of damage was being done. On this square a vast deal of business had been done for many years, and leading merchants had made and lost fortunes on its site. The London House, Messrs. Daniel & Boyd's wholesale establishment, represented a large value. It stood in the centre of the square, and the gradual sinking of this structure was a sad but grandly imposing sight. It was here where enterprise was to be found, and Daniel & Boyd's name was ever the synonym for honesty, integrity, and truth. It was in this spacious warehouse where the busy merchants were to be seen, THE GREAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. B. : 'I J ! im eager to help the young men of the city, and anxious to develop the resources of the country. In every good work, in every deed of charity, Thomas W. Daniel and John Boyd headed the list, and to them many a young merchant to-day is indebted for that teaching, which, in after life, made him honourable in his dealings. This pro- minent house was startedin 1831by Holdsworth & Daniel. The fire of 1839 carried their store away, and for a while the firm occupied the store known as Jardine's, Prince William Street. In 1839, the land on the market square was purchased by Mr. Thos. Daniel for ^£4,000. (In 1811 this place was used as a blacksmith's shop.) In 1847, Mr. Thomas Daniel left the firm and went to England. His nephew, the present head of the house, Thos. W. Daniel, began business on his own account, and soon after 1852, he admitted John Boyd as a partner in the house, under the style of T. W. Daniel & Co. Shortly after the style of this firm was changed to Daniel & Boyd. On the comer to the right of Daniel & Boyd, No. 1 Market Square, was the staunch old drug establishment of the late W. 0. Smith, Esq. Mr. Smith, the father of our present ex- Mayor, opened here after the fire of 1839, and the business has been conducted here till the late fire, by his son, A. Chipman Smith, since 1871, when his father died in March of that year. In the adjoining store, so many years occupied by Lawton & Vassie, Messrs. Manchester, Robertson & Allison, may be said to have begun business. They left here, W. W. Jordan t'lklng the store, to occupy their commodious premises in King Street, which alone ^ ^ 4 -i O H M CO Lious to y good liel and I young hich, in 'his pro- Daniel, a while I, Prince t square ;in 1811 84f7, Mr. id. His . Daniel, ber 1852, ,e, under ;he style On the Square, ,te W. O. sent ex- business s son, A. died in io many Inchester, ibusiness. ,0 occupy lich alone THE GREAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. B. 25 kept off the fire from the north side of King Street. The saving of this building was one of the marvels of the pre- sent calamity. It really held the key to the whole of this side of the street. But for the laundry and the well managed protective means employed by the firm and their friends, the destruction of this house and the entire street would have been accomplished. Men stood idly in the courtway folding their arms and telling one another that the building could not possibly be saved, when Mr. Man- chester, in his short impulsive way, told them if every one did as they were doing, it could not ; but he intended to use every effort in his power before he gave it up. The firemen here worked with a will, and were rewarded with a splendid result. It was on this side of the street that the Western Union Telegraph Office was situated, and it and Mr. J. W. Hall's new building were the first to go. The Maritime Block — a splendid structure — in which the banks. Maritime, Montreal and Nova Scotia, were es- tablished, and which faced the Market Square, went down while it was yet daylight. In this building the offices of the school trustees. Dun, Wiman & Co., A. P. Rolph, Lum- ber Exchange, and Board of Trade were held. While Mr. Rolph was engaged in getting his things ready to move out, Mr. Richard Thompson's men were hastening in with silver-ware and jewelry, thinking in their excite- ment that this building was at all events safe. Mr. Thomp- son's loss is very heavy, and the damage to his elegant and costly stock is considerable. The lot on which the Sheffield House stood waa offered some years ago, at 2(i THK (UlEAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN. N. U. In 'I !l : })rivate sale, U) John Wilinot, Esc^., father of Senator R. J)uncan Wihnot, by James Brinnier, for £2,000. Mr. Wihiiot refused it, and attended the auction sale when it was knocked down to him for c£2,950. The j)olice office went m^xt, Watts & Turnei's, H. & H. McCullough's, and round a^^ain to the north wharf, carrying Lewin & Allin<:,d)am, Clias. R. Ray, W. H. Thorne & Co. (retail), and Thomas M. Reed, along with it. The destruction on the north wharf totally demolished the esUiblishment of Jas, Domville & Co., and the books of the firm which had been taken to the Maritime Bank for safe keeping, were subsequently burned there. The saving of the Bank of British North America, the only monetary institution in the city which resumed business the next day as usual, was one of those wonderful events which only occur at . are intervals. The fire roared lustily in the rear of the ; -ank, but something seemed to command it to halt there, and advance no further. A large barn went down, and now it was deemed certain that the bank would go next,but no, the fire crossed the square, dashed along Water Street, cut into Ward Street, destroyed a slip full of schooners and wood boats, slipped into Tilton's Alley, and rushed along with frightful rapidity on both sides of every thoroughfare in its way. On the one side of the city the fire was stopped at North Street, having reached J. & T. Robinson's houise and store. ;0r K. Mr. iien it office win & l),anvl on the of Jas. cli luid ir, wore (^iiArrKU III. Tho Kirc in King Street — llecol lections — The Old Coliee Mouse Corner —The Stores in King Street— The Old Masonic Hall— The St. John Hotel — Its Early Days — The Bell Tower— King Square -A Night of Horror — The Vultures at Work — riuiulering the Destitute. The fire entered King Street in the western side from Germain and Canterbury Streets. It began 1 )y l:)urning down Lawton & Vassie's l)rick store, erected on the site wliich contained the famous Bragg building. This stout l)uilding and Bowes & Evan's premises were soon buried in the common ruin. The tire went ak)ng King Street, destroying Mr. Sharp's dry goods store, Jas. Adams & Go's., James Manson's magnificent pahice, including his safe and all his valuable papers, John K. Storey's and Magee Bros., Imperial Block. This last place is quite historic. This block was erected in 1852, by the late John G'llis. It was built on the site where the memorable coffee liouse stood. Here of an evening for years and years the old men of the place used to sit and gossip and smoke and sip their toddy. Here in 1815 they met to learn the news of the war between France and Englan White, began trade. Messrs. Delia, Torre «& Co. occupied No. 30, and Geo. Stewart, Jr., Druggist, held the other store, No. 32. The present owner of the build- ing, Stephen Whittaker, of Fredericton, had lately begun the erection of a spacious rear addition, and improvements on a liberal scale had been commenced in the upper stories. The rest of the building was known as the Rus- sell House. This building went to pieces about six o'clock. The photograph rooms were destroyed before Pine's building went, and the flames sped quickly, carrying be- 30 THE OREAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. li. fore them the stores of Banlsley Bros., Hcott k^ Binning, W. K. Crawford, Geo. Salmon, and Hanin<^on Bros.' drug store, formerly Fellows «fe Co.'s establishment on Foster's Comer, corner King and Germain Streets. The contents of this store were quickly snapped up by the fire, and |)ills and pl^usters, soaps and perfumes were spilled about in hopeless profasion and confusion. Mr. T. H. Hall's twin buildings* were across the street, but a V)arrier like that was an easy jump for the infuriated flames. They leaped into the windows, attacked the wood-work, and with a strong pull the two splendid stone buildinhn. He was horn in Boston 1708, and on the departure (jf the Britisli troops from that city, while yet a child, he went with his father to 44 THE GREAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. B. Halifax. He graduated at King's College, Windsor, com- pleted his education in England, and was ordained minis- ter in 1796 by Bishop Inglis at Halifax. Some years were spent by him as minister among the Maroons, a dis- contented body of savages which the British Government placed in Nova Scotia to the great annoyance and fear of the inhal)itants. The Doctor spent .several years in con- nection with various missions throughout Nova Scotia untill819, when he became rector of St. George's, Halifax. He laboured as rector in St. John on the death of Dr. Wil- lis, for fifteen years, when in 1840 he resigned his position. He lived till 1854, when at the vanced age of 80 he died full of honours and respect. He was a man of eleva- ted tastes and liberal ideas. He loved science, art and literature, and was a well informed and polished writer and thinker. In 1833 one of the greatest calamities which ever befell man happened to Dr. Gray. His house in Wellington Row took fire, and before aid could come it was burned to the ground, together with the rector's wife and a female domestic. No sympathy could alleviate the suffering of the distracted husband, no words of man could take away the agony of his deep grief and sorrow. It pressed heavily upon his mind, and he was never aL'ain the same man. At this fire he lost his valuable library which contained many rare and costly books and manuscripts, together with the complete records of his parish. He was succeeded by his son, Rev. John William D. Gray, D.D., a very able man. He was born in 1798, at THE GREAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. B. 45 Halifax, and graduated at King's College, Windsor. He became rector of Amherst, N.S., and in 1825, when Dr. Willis resigned his office in St. John, a movement was made to get the rectorship for Dr. Gray. This was not done, however, for the father was appointed, and the son became his assistant. In 1840, on the retirement of Dr. Benjamin Gray, the sixth rector received the appoint- ment, which he held until his death, in 1868. For twenty- eight years this eminent clergyman laboured for his church and his people, and all remember him as a kindly, thought- ful, generous man. He had abilities of the highest order, and, whether as a preacher or a writer, his reputation filled no second place. He wrote with a nerve and a bold- ness which carried all before it, and his extensive erudi- tion and vast powers of concentration of thought made his works valued and esteemed. His notaVile writings were chiefly controversial pamphlets, and few entered the lists with him and gained a victory. His vigorous pam- {)hlets on the Catholic question, and the Moses and Colenso controversy will be remembered by many who read these pages to day, and all will regret that the great rector never published a theological book or placed his ripe thoughts on some enduring record. He was an able exponent of the Scriptures, and he wrote in a superior and beautiful style. His sermons were models of elegant English and sound doctrinal ideas, and no rector of Trinity ever filled the position so grandly and so loyally » as good old Dr. Gray. He died at the age of seventy years, and in tlie forty-seventh year of his ministry. He was jiccounted 46 THE GREAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. B. the best reader in the Province, and his delivery was for- cible, and distinguished for a certain gracefulness of style. The Rev. James J. Hill, M. A. succeeded Dr. Gray. He is a native of Nova Scotia. His failing health caused him to resign the rectorship in a few years. At a meeting of the St. John Parish, held on the 21st of July, 1873, the Rev. F. H. J. Brigstocke, of Jesus College, Oxford, was unanimously nominated to the rectorship. He had been in orders twelve years, and for five years had been curate to the Dean of Canterbury. Mr. Brigstocke assumed his duties in October, 1873, and is the present rector of the parish. The stained-glass windows in the chancel of the old church were placed there in 1859, and were presented by John V. Thurgar, Esij., a respected retired merchant of this city, whose old stand was burned down on the North Wharf durino; the ofreat fire. The old arms of Trinity Church have an historic inte- rest of very great importance. A glance at them will re- veal the fact that they are military arms and not those of the church. They have escaped fire once or twice, and in the early years of their existence witnessed many a heated controversy, and experienced marvellous escapes from destruction. The first we hear of them was in Boston where they adorned the walls of the Council Chamber of the Old Town House. On March 17th, 177G, they sailed out of Boston Harbour and were carried to Hali- fax, where they had a temporary abiding place in the old chapel there. They were afterwards placed, in 1791. in THE GREAT FIRE IN ST JOHN, N. B. 47 was for- of style. ay. He used him leting of 873, the ord, was I been in jurate to imed his r of the ■ the old Bnted by it of this e North i Trinity Church, where they have remained ever since, until Captain Hazen lescued them from the flames on Wednesday afternoon. A story is current that a hun- dred years ago, these arms were snatched from Trinity Church, New York, when that edifice was in flames, but this lacks confirmation, and the best authorities are una- nimous in holding that their peculiar biuld unfitted them for church use, and that they were certainly intended to adorn the walls of council chambers. That they were witli the British army, whether on its march or at its station, is settled beyond dispute. This ends the story of old Trinity, the most historic edifice in the city — the first church — the quaintest structure — thelastlink which bound the old and the new toijfether. The school-house frontinjx on Charlotte Street was burned at tlie same time as the church. Iric inte- will re- those of , and in heated s from Boston liamber |G, they o Hali- the old 701. in I CHAPTER V. f The Old Curiosity Shop in Germain Street — A Quaint Old Place — " RubbiBh Shot Here "— Notman's Studio— The Mother of Method- ism — Destruction of the Germain Street Methodist Church — Burning of the Academy of Music — The Old (Jrammar School— Presbyterians among the Loyalists— The "Auld Kirk" — Saint Andrew's — The grants of Land — Legislation — The building of the Kirk — Ministers — The " Victoria" in Flames — Fascination of the Fire — The " Victoria'' in Ruins — What might have saved it. The fire has destroyed Mrs. Lyons's " old curiosity shop," — an establishment known far and near as a place where everything, from a needle to an anchor, might be got. Mrs. Lyons is an old inhabitant, and for years was a constant attendant at every auction sale, and her judgment has more than once infiuenced and controlled the bidding. She bought everything, and, what is more curious still, she managed to sell it afterwards at a fair profit. Old books, old pictures, cheap prints, crockery, bedding, car- pets, furniture ; all had a home in that asylum for de- cayed rubbish. It was a pleasant place in which to while away an odd hour or two. The things were, at least, worth looking at ; and one could sometimes turn over a good book or two, or dip into the pages of an old maga- zine and find a bit of poetry here and there, or a pleasant essay that was worth glancing over. Of course, nothing out of this stock could be saved, and tiie curious and out- of-the-way knick-nacks of the people were swept away i Place — [ Method - — Burning Bbytcrians jw's— The L misters — Victoria' ' y shop, " e where be got. constant ent has )idding. us still, 01(1 ig, cai'- for de- o while :, least, over a maga- leasant othing •^ # THE GREAT FTRE IN ST. JOHN, N. R. 49 in a very short time. Mrs. Lyons is a ver^^ heavy loser by the calamity, and narrowly escaped with her life. Indeed she was reported missing at one stage of the fire. Mr. Notman's beautiful studio with its gems of neat things in art, and its hundreds of elegant picture frames, went next. The premises had only recently been opened, and the reception room was a perfect gallery of beautifully arranged pictures and chromos, and India ink cc^pies. A number of oil paintings, some of them of considerable value, a good many choice bits in water colour, some deci- dedly clever engravings together with pieces of statuary, and a bronze or two perished in an instant. Not a negative was saved, and the fine picture of Mr. John Melick's hand- some boy, which was so artistically finished in India ink by Mr. James Notman, shared a like fate. The studio was full of handsome work, and lovers of the aesthetic whenever they had a spare minute or two always wandered into Notman's and inspected the new things he had there. It was a place of resort for the cultivated mind, and the eye always rested on something pleasing and charming. This building went so rapidly that the occupants barely es- caped with their clothes. The fire crossed the street on both sides, and after sweeping down Mr. Edward Sears's house on the corner, and cariying with it Mr. Tremaine Gard's jewelry establishment, it rushed along levelling all before it, till Horsfield Street was reached. On this corner the Mother of Methodism was situated — the old Germain Street Methodist Church — called in olden times "The Chapel." This structure was located a few feet off 50 THR GREAT FIHK IN ST. JOHN, N. B. the street, and when the fire caught and hugged it in its grasp the concoui-se of people beheld a sight ncjt easily effaced from their memory. The flames shot up, and for awhile nothing but an avalanche of fire was to be seen. The hot, thick volume roared out and crackled as timber after timber went down before the whirlwind, and rent asunder in an hour, an edifice which had withstood the blasts of the elements for seventy years. In 1808, on Christmas day, this chapel was opened, and dedicated to the service of God, by the Rev. Mr. Marsden. The leading layman at that time was the late John Ferguson, an in- fluential citizen and a prosperous merchant. He did much for Methodism in his time, and it was through his exertions that the chapel was built. For many years this connnodious building was the only place of worship that this body of Christians had in the city, and the various clergymen who from time to time preached from its old-fashioned, homely pulpit, developed sterling qual- ities and superior talents. Among its body of laymen were men distinguished alike for their zeal and religious priiiclples. Such clergymen as Revs. Messi-s. Priestly, Wood, Dr. Alder, John B. Strong, Bamford, Wni. Temple and H. Crosscomb, will be affectionately remembered by old members of this congregation, as ministers whose interests were ever closely identified with those of their hearers. The present Chief of Police, John R. Marshall, has been a member of this church all his life, and for thirty years he has led the singing. It was an unpretentious building with no attempts at architectural display. A few yeai's THE GREAT FIRK IN ST. JOHN, N. B. 51 it in its ot easily up, and 'as to be ackled as vind, and vitlistood I IcSOcS.on iicated to le leading )n, an in- He did trough his iny years f worship , and the ;hed from lling qual- f laymen religious ,ly,Wood, imple and d by old interests Ir hearers, has been a years he building I few years ago, to meet tlie wants of the community, it was (ndarged and extend(Ml back, and the gallery was placed nearer the j)ulpit. While this building was burning the liospitable residences of James Lawton, Escj., and Win. Davidson, Escj,, were being reduced to ashes, and Dr. McAvenny's fine dental rooms adjoining those houses, went down also. The burning of the Academy of Music* took place almost at the same time. Not a vestige of this s])lendid hall re- mains to tell of the dramatic triumphs that have been witnessed on its sta0,000. 52 THE OREAT FTHE IN ST. JOHN, N. B. in before he died, and here some of the sweetest voices have been ht^ard eniulatin^^ the notes of the nightingale. This building, which for several years enjoyed a splendid re- ])utation, well stocked with scenery and properties, cen- trally and admirably located, seemed to melt into nothing on the day of the fii-e. The walls fell with a loud crash, and the grand temple of amusement, in which our people felt so much pride, was a thing of the j)ast. It was owned by a joint stock company, and the late Dr. George E. Keator was the first president. On his death. Dr. Allan M. Ring was made president, and he has retained the office ever since. John R. Armstrong, Esq., has been the secretary from the beginning of the institution. It is only about a year ago that it was frescoed and painted and greatly improved inside. The Academy presented a noble a])pearance from the street, and the reader can form an intelligent idea of how it looked from the illustration which we give. The Knights of Pythias, New Bruns- wick and Union Lodges, occupied the upper htory as a lodge room. It was neatly and attractively hi ted up, and the knights took great interest in having it properly cared for. The loss with which tiiis young organization has met, is quite large and is therefore severely felt. The last theatrical perfonnance at the Academy of Music was on Tuesday evening, 19th June, when Louise Pomeroy, an actress of charming genius, sustained the role of *' Juliet" in Shakespeare's traged; of the affections, '* Romeo and Juliet." On W' ay night she was to have performed "Rosalind' the seco 1 time in St. U THE OREAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. H. 53 John, in the delightful comedy of " As You Like It." The company then playing were under the management of Mr. William Nannary, with Mr. P. Nannaiy as assistant manager, and Mr. W. E. Kelly, of Halifax, business agent. Mr. George B. Waldron was stage manager, and his wife, Isabella Waldron, the leading lady. The otlK'r meiid)ers of the organization were R. Fulton Russell, F. G. Cotter, G. T. Ulmer.^ Harry Pierson, Belvin Ryan, Mr. Padget, Mr. Eberle, J. Reddy, Mr. Vanderen, Mr. Donaldson, W. F. Edwards, C Mason, Lizzie May Ulmer, Pearl Etynge, Little Bell Waldron, Mrs. Edwards, Mrs. Vanderen, Miss Hill, Mabel Doane, and Florence Stratton. All of these artists suffered by the fire. Some saved their wardrobes, only to have them stolen afterwards. After Dr. McAvenny's ottice was ])urned, the fire shot into Messrs. Miller and Woodman's double house, the late residence of Hon. A. McL. Seely, and it was soon shat- tered to its basement. The fire then spread as far as Duke Street, burning on its passage Dr. W. Bayard's house, and the old McGrath residence, which latterly contained Dr. James E. Griffith's office. On the other side, the Grammar School was the first victim after the Old Chapel. This building was a plain wooden house of rather squat appearance. It was erected on two lots of land, 80 feet front by 200 deej), which in LSOT were sold by Thos. Horsfield for <£l()0. The first teacher was James Brinmer. In 1818 Dr. James Patterson took charge, and remained head master till nearly the close of his life, w 54 THK GREAT FIRK IN ST. JOHN, N. B. Rev. Mr. Wainright, afterwards rector of New York, and who died Bishop there, was at one time a teacher in the Granunar School. The nifisters who have tauglit here have been judiciously selected, and the school has been very successful from the tirst. Messrs. Hutchison and Mannin*,^, and Rev. Mr. Schotield, and latterly Rev. Dr. Coster, are all gentlemen of line scholastic attainments and e'^icellent imparters of knowleetition for a grant of land on which to lay the foundation for a house of worship. It was .sent to Governor Parr, and on the 29th of June, of the .same year, the grant was issued under the Great Seal of Nova Scotia. John Boggs and others, for the Church of Scot- land, were the grantees. Their associates were Andrew Cornwall, James Reid, John Menzie, Charles MePherson, William Henderson, John Genunill, and Robert Chillis, their heirs and as.signs in trust. The document runs as follows, an.l sets forth that the gi*ant was, " for the erec- tion, building and accommodation of a meeting house or public place of worship for the use of such of the inhabi- tants of the said town as now or shall hereafter be of the Protestant jjrofession of worship, approved of by the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland ♦ » ♦ and further for the erection and building and accommo- ^iii li 66 THE GREAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. B. (liition of a dwellinj^^ house, outhouse, casements and con- veniences for tlie habitation, use and occupation of a minister to officiate and perform divine service in the meetin<^ house aforesaid, accordiui.;- to tlie form and pro- fessing' aforesaid ♦ * * ^^(1 further tor the }>uild- ing and erection of a puldic school liouse and public poor house, with proper accounno(hition and conveniences for the use of the inhabitants of the said Townsliip of Parr,* forever, and upon this further trust and confidence to secure and' o^vuei- of "(N)fiee Ho\lse * 8t. John wjis tonnerly called I'iiir Tuwii. and con- ,tion of a L!u in thu I and pro- ,hc l)uild- iddic poor icnces for of Parr * fidenee to id, and all iiiiiiodities respective ver, but to )ose what- ininj4 into e tlie pre- hs, and in ;eit to the >!)th June, ,aiiie year, uf Queen Carinar- ot. They ) hy 400 fee House 1 i !i 'A \ l\ .; ! I d' 1 1 1 4^ P' 'ii.4'< ,1. !.!..■ ll i!li., '.V' '^> '■\Vkt mm mm *■ 'I ill := .1 ii J fi tl hi S tl [01 SI ri" THE GREAT FIHE IN ST. JOHN, N. B. 57 Corner," survived the other trustees, who died before any of tlie buildings mentioned in the grant were set up. A change had come over the people's views since then, and the site was not approved of by those interested. It was not central enough, and in 1815 it was «lecietween the destruction of Trinity, the Germain Street Methodist, and " Old St. Andrew's." They took fire nearly at the sami^ time, and within an hour of each other the three were consumed. The fire was extraordinarily rapid in its work, and the frame bui!din«^^s setnnod to add zest to its voracious appe- tite. An engine might have saved the Victoria Hotel, but it was far away, and helplessly the people looked on and saw one after the other of their cherished churches, hotels, houses of entertainment and dwellings, sink down before the red glare of the serpent, which wound its coils round- about and encom])assed all with its fangs and fork-like tongue. It was a sight that the eye sickened at, and the heart grew faint, and despair fell ujjon the people, and many moved away. But there wt^e others who gazed on the tottering ruins with a fixed and glassy stare, and as li THE GREAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. H. G3 the hn<;e boulders came thunderiiii' down from tlie htiL,dits above, and the half famished Hames shot out in lon^^ thin lines from the windows, an assumed control, and Mr. John Edwards was appointed niana;;er. At the time of the fire the hotel was under the mana^^ement of Mr. Geor<^e W. Swett, a very [)()pular and courteous ijentleman. Many of tin; guests sought refuge in the scpiares, and some escaped from the building with scarcely more clothes than they had on. ('HAITKR VI. Thu Otltl Fellows' Hall -The lire in HorsHeld Street The Sweep .vhmg (leriiiuiu Street The «)l»l BaptiHt Church Some ejirly MiuiMterH — Two fiery ordeals - The Hriek Church -The Kuina The M;iy View Hotel — An old liUndniark gone — Tlie hla/inj; Barracks — St. .lanies's — The Hazeu House — St. Maluuhi's Chapel — The first U«)niaii Uathulic Church. The rndopendent Order of Odd Fellows is a very niuncr- ofis and widely respected hotly i)i St. John. Its roll of membership embraces ma)iy of the best names in the city, and the order has grown from a very humble beginning to ({iiite an influential position in the community. It is only a few years ago that some zealous meud>ers of the order banded themselves together and formed Pioneer Lodge, No. 9. In a little time the lodge grew so rapidly that it became too cumbersome to work, and new lodges had to be made — first it was Beacon, then Peerless, and latterly Siloam, in this city alone; besides, the order is strong in Moncton and also in Fredericton. An encani])- ment, too, fiourishes, and is largely adding to its member- ship. The Odd B\^llows' Hall was pleasantly situate in wliat used U) be No. 5 Fingine House. The hall was conuuodious and neatly furnished, and the ante-rooms were convenient and well adapted for carrying on the ex- ercises of the order. The ground flat and second story were occupied by Mr. Richard Welch, and the Odd Fel- lows met in the room immediately ovtjrhead. The loss ()() THE GHKAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. 15. by firo to the order was (juite extensive, thon^'h a jjjood er of valuable books, ineluding some high- priced and scarce volumes.* Some two or three hundred pages of his history were printed, ]>ut these were destroyed in the printing hou.ses where they were kept. Fortunately Mr. Hannay had with him om; copy of the sheets as far as })rinted, so the loss is not irretrievable. A portion of the unpi"inte«l manusci'ipt, liowever, shared the common fate of everything that came in contact with fire on that fatal day, and this the historian had to re-write. In this street the old Theatre once stoonals and amateurs nwl Shakspeare and Massinger to admiring audiences. Among the amateurs, some of oui' readers may remember, wei'e the lat«' Richard Seidy, who was account- ed a good actor in his day, and the late Col. Otty, whose Othello was a really creditable performance. While the Hre was rendering desolate this street, the other win«j' of it was ruthlessly invading (iei'main Street, to the very water's * Smith's IT'story of Virginia, VA. of ttV27, , and then in the occupancy of the inmates of tlie FFome for tlie A^ed, some of wh(jm orot away in hardly enoui^di tim«' to save their lives. Mr. Carey's Pai'sonajj^e was on fire very soon after S this, annil liuL,^ was openeeing built and he preached foi' a while in the basement, and in December, l^<(j(), the first sermon in THE GREAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. H. iho church }>r()jK'r was prcaclicd hy tlic sauw t'lair, made them cool enough to think of the water. The stn^ngth of iron cjiiue to them, and in a moment they were saved. It was l)efore this liouse that a woman fell on her knees and offered up prayer; and here it was that another woman, fearin*^' the judgment day at hand, gavr utterance to loud wails and cries, that sent a pang to ev«;ry heart. In the melee, Jin old lady belonging to the Home for tlie Aged was lost, and her feeble sisters in ay Ilonry Wright, (\)lloot<)r, and used as a private rosidonce up to ahout twelve years ago. It was built by day's work, and in those days the workmen received every Saturday night their j)ay in Spanish doubloons. Change was very scarce, and tlioi'e was no paper njoney. Mr. Henry Wright dii'd in 1829, and the house then fell into the occupancy of tlie lato Wni. Wright, Advocate General, and John Boyd, M.l). Mr. Wilson was its lessee latterly, and it bocanie an hotel under his nianagenient. It hold a commanding position, and looked far out to sea. Strangers always paused to look up to the splendid frvmt and «lefiant head, which re- minded them of the old strongholds which render historic every inch of the old land across tho blue water. And to-day, the I'uins look oven more pictures(pie and grand than the building did in its proudest days. Anotluu* land- mark has boon taken awjiy, and it did not long survive tliose who dwelt in its spacious halls in tho days of the Ion iT airo n' But while the tiro was busy with this portion of the City, it was also e.vtromely active and e([ually di'structive in the lower part of St. John. 'I'h.o bai-racks wrro oven burned d(»vvn long before it was doomed likely that the V^iotoria Hotel would go. The sparks travelling in this direction with groat ia[)idity, soon conniiunicated with tho long, low building which was built f(»r the troops in ]iie. 'I'he liuiiiiny; of tlie l>arraeks was \vitness(Ml I >y several tliousand persons, and, for a while, tlua'e were some who faiieiiMJ that tiie hiaze would eease witli the destruction of this piojKirty. I>ut, alas, for the fallacy of human hopes, Tlie^rtiat liead wa}' of tlie flame' was made, and lutthinL; couM stop it, till fiom she»;r exhaustion. it spent its(df. i^>ut the ea^^er wind kept fannini,' it into fui'V whenever it shewed siji" lis (»f abatement and not until it reached the harreii hanks alonii the water's ed»• K V! I O •n o > (|Uinti'r vi'c close (' L;rnuii(l V'oiiM Itt' liarraoks r ji wliilc, lid ccast' >, for till' lame was liaustiun. ^v i\'u\ it 1(1 bomt's. -; {){' tit't's, hult'rd of lite in rets were ,o lm M. Iloliinsoii, Ks<|., father of tlie a^'t'iit in this city of tlie Iknk of Nova Scotia, and tlie late Win. Wrij^ht. Tlie churcli was situate on the south side of Main Street, hetween Syihiey and Carmartlien Streets and tlie lots ran througli to SlieHield Street. The Sunday-sehool building was huilt in the rea)-. 'j'he ShelHeM Sti'eet Mission IToust! and the Carmarthen Street Mission I[(juse (Metliodist) were structures of late orif^in, an«l for a while did much goo«i in the locality where they were placed. The fire visited them very soon and they were hurned in a short time. All along Carmar- then Street tlu' flames s))ed ([uickly, coiupletel^' encin.'ling every house with which it came in contact, and whenever they met a crossing strecit the fire drove through it with seeming greater fury and impetuosity. 'I'he lately ereetew of comfortable dwellings just finished witliin the year — burned with a tremendous roar that was heard above tlie din, for blocks awav. In these liou.ses were the families of Robt. Turner, Fre sup])ose that the sparks could be carried to tliese points for the wind was op|)osite, and tlie open sijuare had, till late in tlu; evening, kept the Hames away and broke the connection. The ohl* Hazen House l)uilt by Dr. Thomas Paddock, which is still standing to-day, and ])assed safely through the fire, stood invincible at the head of a colunm of buildiii'^s. The fire was confined to its own seethiui/ territory, and this block between Leinster and East Kim; Stivet, and the whole oi King S([uare were safe. But as the night advanced,+ a house far away from the reach of • Tlu! lot where the Hazen HouHe now Htandn (Kin),' SouKht in 17'.H), Ity Mr. 'I'honiaH HorMhold for t'() 5m., anil hoM l)y liim five yearH latn for tf), to a imnilx-T of ^^entlemen who orecteil a ^rist mill there. In IS(H), they uhandoiied the eiit"ri)ri.se, and in 1S18, the B)»ot wiw UHed as a barracks at the time when one-third of the militia were called out for a few months, when war with the United States was threatened. A day or two after the fire in June, 1877, the Hank of New Bnuinwiek ojjened a temporary ofiicc there ft>r a few days, and a sohlier of the l>7th reKiment kept K'uard over thf building at night. t Tho fire broke out in rear of Dr. Boyle Travcrs' rosidence. Tin: (JUKAT KIKE IN ST. JOHN, N. 11. 75 [l*^ Strrot mth sidr. s tor that Loinster jiibts Imt r tbn)U;^Mi yoiid (lis-
  • after thf mrary oftuu' iinl ovtT tlif llvin;^' cindeis, was oliserved on a sudd«'n to be throwing' out llanies, and from that moment all knew thi^ easti-rn portion of the city was doomed to destruetion. ( 'hris- tian Kohertson's manunoth stable, witli its spK-ndid lively appointments, and lar^^'e stock of feed and liay, reprc- sentin;!,' larL,^e value, was oidy a plavthin;^ of the mommt. Old St. Malachi's ('hap«'l, thf hist Roman Catholic Church in the city, cauj^dit from the spaiks whieh w«'re borne on tlu; breeze from the stable. Its drstriietion was complete. The tirst service held by a cler;;yman of the Faith in St. John, was in the City Hall, Market S(puiro, |Si:t, by \ii\. Charlrs French. St. Malachi's Chapel was opeiUMl by that gentleman, October 1st, bSl."). AnioiiL;; the ministers wlio succeeded him in that |>lace were Father McC^uaile, who in ISI!>, had thirty women and thirty-five men for a conirrejxation, and Fathers Macmahon, Carrol, and I)um|»hy. Mr. Carrol «'ame from Halifax, and was the Ui'phew of the tirst Roman (^itholic Bishop of the Maritime Pro\inces — Bishop Burk. Of late yi'ai>iSt. Mala- ehi's was u.sed for school, h'cture, ba/aar, and other pur- jioses. Some of the most ehxpieiit I'lfoi'ts of J. C Fi-ri^uson and K. .1. liitchie, have been deliveicd tVom the jjlatform of this llall, on temperance and : ther topics. St. Mala- clii's was used as a church until the cathedi'al was openeil under Bishop Coiuiolly's eharLje. ^ IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) V // .// :/ ,v^ /i^.. 6 &. <;. -^ w 1.0 I.I tiililM 112.5 ilM |||m ?iii£ !!2.o 1.8 1.25 1.4 1.6 6" ► V] <^ /i 'a^ s. c-l # /. a^ ^, Photographic Sciences Corporation ^. S ■±^ V 4; <^ ^N-^ K^ 23 WESr MAIN STREET WEBSTER, N.Y 14580 (7i6) 872-4503 f<^ 1 ) /^o'^' f/^ %^ I \ «■ CHAPTER VII. A hard-working Manager — The Dramatic Lyceum — The Temperance Hall— The Water- Works Building— A Hard Fight— Another Rush of the Homeless — The Weary March of the Unfortunates — History of the Water Supply — Early Struggles — Changes — The Old Way — The St. John Water Company — Placed in Commission — The Company To- day. The cosy Dramatic Lyceum, endeared to old theatre-goers on account of many pleasant memories, was reduced to ashes after the fire had destroyed the marble establish- ments of Jas. and Robt. Milligan and S. P. Osgood. Like Robertson's stable it was not long in the throes of disso- lution, for it parted company with the earth in a few brief moments. It had been built a score of years and more, and for a long time it was the chief place of amusement in the city. Its builder was the father of theatricals in St. John, and no man ever did more for his chosen pro- fession than he. He worked with the vigour which only aii enthusiast feels, and now at th^ close of his long mana- gerial career, extending over a quarter of a century, he can look back with pride and satisfaction on the work he has done. He has taught the people all they know of dramatic affairs to-day. He has educated and elevated their tastes, and by the production of the great master- pieces of Shakspeare, Jonson, Massinger, Bulwer, Gold- smith and Sheridan, he has instilled into the mind?* of the citizens a love for all that is admirable and beautiful in our common literature. He it was, who at great pecuni- ary sacrifice brought such an artist as Oliarles Mathews I I THE GREAT FIRE IN ST. .'OHN. N. B. 77 itre -goers jduced to establish- ed. Like of disso- , few briuf md more, nusement itricals in osen pro- licli only mg mana- ntury, he work he know of elevated I niaster- ^er, Gold- ids of the autiful in Lt pecuni- Mathews here, and it was under his management that Charles Dillon, E. L. Davenport, Frederic Kobinson, Wyzeman Marshall and the famous comedian, Wm. J. Le Moyne,* played short engagements in our city. When the plain, but comfortable Lyceum was built, it was the first step towards a regular theatre that had been made, and in his early days, Mr. Lanergan had much to contend against and many old prejudices to break down. A hundred arguments were brought to bear against his enterprise. Many good people, unskilled in a knowledge of the world and who had never in their liv^es attended a theatre, were the most open in their denunciation of it and its teachings. Fathers were exhorted to keep their boys at home, and men and women were enjoined not to attend the performances in this " devil's house." But Mr. Lanergan showed his patrons tliat he could furnish a species of amusement harmless in its char- acter and respectable in its quality. He selected from the wide range of plays only those which taught good lessons, and the ladies and gentlemen he secured to give utterance to the thoughts of the masters in literature, were persons of irreproachable character and conduct. He saw his efforts rewarded at length, and during the last ten years of his career his audiences comprised the elite of the city. The old Lyceum was ever a pleasant place. It was cosy and easy and roomy, and one could always see an acceptable performance on its little stage. The build- * Mr. Le Moyne's second appearance in St, John was at the Academy of Alusic, in October, 1876, when he appeared in a round of favourite characters from Dramatizations of Dickens's ^lovels, under the manage- jnent of Mr. Charles H. Thayer, of Boston. 78 THE GREAT FIRE TN ST. JOHN, N. R. ing was sold to the Irish Friendly Society a few months ago and it was used by them for concerts, entertainments, &c. On the night of the fire it was under engagement to a minstrel party.* * As many readerH take interest in the programmes used on first ni^'hts of theatres we give a copy of Mi\ Lanergan's opening bill, at the Lyceum. It mns as follows : ST. JOHN DRAMATIC LYCEUM. South Sidk KiNo'fi Square, St, John, N. B. Manager and Proprietor Mr. J. W. Laneroan. StoAje Director Frank Hea. Scenic Artist D. A. Strong. Machinist and Properti/ Maker D. J. Moriarty. Ticket Master T. A. Allison. ' ' TI108C who live to please, M\ist please to live !" GRAND OPENING NIGHT ! The above new and elegant place of amusement will open for the first regular Dramatic Season, on Monday evening, June 15, 1857, with a full, Efficient and Talented Dramatic Company,— comprising the following well known Ladies and Gentlemen : Mr. W. A. Donaldson, \ " N. Davenport, V... From the Boston Theatre. " N. C. Forrester, j " Frank Rea From Wallack's Theatre, New York. " F. S. Buxton' From The Canadian Theatres. G. F. Tyrrell; J. C, Wallace; E. B. Holmes; D. J. Moriarty; p- Moriarty and J. W. Laneroan, ^''' FR^ic rTa!''''''''' } • • • ^'"'"^ Wallack's Theatre, New York. Miss E. Homan From the Boston Theatres. Mrs. F. S. Buxton " Canadian " J. C. Wallace " N. C. Forrester " Boston " and " J. C. Moriarty Tlie entertainment will commence as above with the National Anthem / GOD SAVE THE QUEEN, By the Orehcstra. -After which an Original opening Address written, and to be delivered by G. F. TYRRELL. Lane ROAN. New Yt)rk. THE GREAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. R 79 After this temple of art was overthrown the fire burned along the square till it struck the Hazen building, now owned by C. M. Bostwick, who had but recently renovated To be followed by Sir E. L. Bulweu's Chaste and Elegant Comedy in 5 acts, entitled Money ! " 'Tis 11 verj' pood world that wo live in, To lend, or to spend, or to give in, - But to heg, or to borrow, or to ^et a man's own, 'Tic ■♦he very worrit world that ever wiis known." Alfred Evelyn Mr. J. W. Lankimian. Benjamin Stout, Esq (first appearance) Fhank Uea. Sir John Vesey " " N. C. Foukbstek. Lord Glossmore G. F. Tyukell. Mr. Graves (first appearance) Mr. F. S. Buxton. Sir Fredk. Blunt " " N. Davenport. Caj.t. Dudley Smooth " " W. A. Donaldson. Sharp J. C. Wallace. Toke (first appearance) D. J. MourAUTY. Clara Douglas Mrs. J. W. liANEiiOAN. Lady Franklyn (first appearance) Mrs. Fkank Rea. Georgina Mrs. J. C. Wallace. The entcrtahwients of the evening will conclude with the Amusing farce, with NEW READING, of Mr. & Mrs. PETER WHITE. Mr. Peter White Mr. F. 8. Buxton. Major Pepper " N. C. Forrester. Frank Brown " E. B. I Iolmes, Widow White Mrs. J. W. Laneroan. Mrs. Peter White " Frank Rea. Kitty Clover " J. C. Wallace. PRICES OF ADMISSION. Parquette 1b. 3d. — Dress Circle 28. fid. — Private and Family I^oxes $4, 5 & 6 each. '' Kff" Private and Family boxes can be secured in advance by api>lication at the Box Office. Doors open at half past 7— Commence at 8. Ladies unaccompanied by gcntkrticn not admitted. Good order Ih expected and will be rigidly enforced. Printed at Day's Job Office,. 4 Market Street. 80 THE GREAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN:, N. B. I; I! lii ."'! it from top to bottom. But this corner house was too much for the fire, the fiend was baffled in its object, and though late through the night it made several inefficient attempts to raise its head, when the morning dawned, the Hazen Building was still safe and defiant, for the flames were at its feet helpless and weak. The fire crept along the s(|uare aTid passed the burned district when it divided itself into two wings. The right body went up Leinster Street, and the left wing proceeded around by the square, attacked the Court House, was repulsed, when it burned the buildings adjoining No. 2 Engine House, and made a sortie in rear of the jail. It was well nigh successful in its object, and indeed a por- tion of this edifice was burned. The prisoners were made secure, and a grand exit took place under the immediate supervision of Deputy Sheriff* Rankine. Two or three of the culprits managed to escape, but they returned next day, after wandering about the city, and gave themselves up, fearing lest they would starve in the desolate and destitute town. The jail successfully resisted the flames, but not so the old Temperance Hall which stood beside it. This antiquated and wholly unattractive meeting- house was put up about thirty years ago, and was origin- ally intended for a school in connection with the poor- house, which stood on the corner of Carmarthen and East King Streets. The Temperance Order was organized in St. John, May 12th, 1847, and the leading men were Hon. S. L. Tilley, C.B., Lieut. -Governor of the Province, Chas. A. Everett, the Smilers, John Rankine, W. H. A. m- THE GREAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. B. SI was too ject, and lefficient dawned, for the Thti fire district lit body roceeded ise, was ag No. 2 jail. It d a por- 3re made imediate or three led next iinselves ate and e flames, i beside neeting- 3 origin- he poor- md East ,nized in en were *rovince, V. H. A. Keans, S. B. Patterson, O. D. Wetman, and of later years Samuel Tufts, Edw. Willis, A. G. Blakslee, J. A. S. Mott, and Sheriff Harding. The organization mot in King Street till they were burned out, after which they settled in the Temperance Hall near the jail, where they have remained ever since. The interior of this block was burned, and only the Court House, which was opened for the first time for Supreme Court uses by Judge Botsford at the January Circuit of 1830, the Registry Office, and the City Prison were left. It was only by dint of the most strenuous exertions that these buildings were kept proof against the levelling qualities of the left wing, which again and again reared its front till it was firmly laid low at eleven in the evening of that terrible day. The old poor-house in Carmarthen Street was hemmed in by the united forces of left and right, and it easily suc- cumbed without even a show of resistance. The defence of the office of the Superintendent of Water Supply* was one of the memorable events in connection with the history of the fire. In the yard people from all (piarters of the city had stored their goods in the vain hope that the fire could never reach them. The situation of the office seemed to promise safety. It was far away from the business portion of the town, and no one dreamed of * On these premiscB was situated the St. John Meteorological Obser- vatory. This was destroyed, but all the instruments belonging to the Dominion were saved. Night and day observations have been made here under the snperintendeuce of Gilbert Murdoch Esq., C. E., during the last 26 years. 82 THE GREAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN. N. B. ! > its Ijcing attacked from the contingent which moved along Carmarthen Street. Here at least many persons thought, was a place of safety. From fom- o'clock in the after- noon, while the rich row of buildings in the Market Square were sti'uggling against overwhelming odds, load after load of furniture, merchandise and general chattels poured into the spacious yard, and even the office itself was for a time a vast warehouse. It was only when the work of the incendiary showed itself in Leinster Street and old Malachi's toppled over, that the destruction of the well-ecpiipped office was considered imminent. Then it was that heart-sick and weary men and women, who had worked all day, and who had lost nearly all they possessed, and had hoped what little they had taken to the water- office yard would be saved, began to realize the situation. Where could they go now ? Where could they take tho only remnants which reminded them of the bright home they had had that morning. Twice had they gathered up the fragments, and in each removal the little heap grew smaller than before. But it was worse now. In the after- noon teams could be had for five dollars a load, and now as high as thirty, and even fifty dollars were refused by inhuman drivers. Calamities sometimes make bar- barians of men, and the nearer the flames got, and the hotter the breath ©f the fire became, the more exorbitant was the price asked by owners of vehicles, and the more inhumanity mankind exhibited. Women cried and groaned as they fell on all that was left, and some begged i< THE OREAT FIRE IN ST. JfTHN, N. H. 83 1 along LOUght, ! after- Vlarket Is, load ihattcls e itself len the Street ;tion of Then m, who rly all ey had , began now ? which ad that gments, smaller after- ad, and refused ke bar- and the )rbitant le more ed and begged pitconsly for help. But when they got a dray or a sloven, where could they go ? The wild behemoth coul 98 THE GREAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. B. what they believed up to this moment to be their surest safe<.,n.iar(l, encircled in tlie fury of the flames, going down before their eyes. First the wood-work around the sashes gave way, and lights shot from half a hundred windows, and the crash of glass as it was hurled to the pavement showed that the great fire had abated not a jot. The hot slates on the roof came down the giddy height in scores, and one man pinned to the earth by a fallini,' slate was carried away insensible of pain but with a two- inch wound upon his scalp. The flames crackled for a while and then the dull, heavy sound of weighty bodies falling inside sent a shudder through the waiting, watch- ing crowd below. The woodwork snapped and sang in the blaze, and the great stones on the windows and cor- nices crumbled into fragments. And still the watchful and waiting crowd stood in the street, straining their eyes trying to look through the smoke, and seemingly unable to comprehend it all. It was only a building that was burning after all. Only another splendid edifice to add to the total of this day's fell work. Yes, this was the last, surely it might be spared. But the despoiler would not leave one. All, all must be swept away in the general scourge. As the last vestige of the school-house went down all hope for the city passea away from men's minds. If that strong building could go so easily, where would the fire end. Men who had lost their stores and houses wandered about aimlessly, surveying the work of sorrow that was THE GREAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. K 99 going on so unceasingly and relentlessly. Tt was a hope- loss thing now to try to save anything. The V^ictoria School-house, of which an illustration is given, was begun in the spring of 1875, and was occupied in the following May. Messrs. McKean*.^ Fairweather made the design, and it was erected under their supervision, by Messrs. Flood &; Prince. It cost S4i>,000 ; heating, $4,000. The workmanship and materials employed in its construc- tion were of the most substantial character. The founda- tion was on piles, capped vdth Georgia pine ; and the base- ment above ground was laced with gi'anite. The fronts [Were of pressed brick, relieved with Preston bands, win- dow heads and cornices. The slope of the roof was slated [and the deck was gravel roofed. The building was 82 feet [on Duke Street and GSfeet on Sydney Street, three stories 'ith high French roof, and a basement 12 feet high. The )asement contained two play-rooms, janitor's apartments md furnaces and fuel. The 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors contained four rooms each, 28 x 32, with clothes-rooms and teachers' jlosets. The top floor had two rooms, 26 x 30, and a large Exhibition Hall, 16 feet high, 26 x 75. These rooms were jparated by folding doors and could be thrown into one )om on occasion. The building was heated by hot water, id ample provision was secured for ventilation by means tubes carried between the floors and entered through a lain central shaft through the centre of which the wrought pon smoke pipe was carried. A central projection on hike Street of 4 X 24 feet was brought up as a tower, above le main roof and finished with a steep high roof. This l! ' I 'i ' f 100 THE GRKAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. B. roof and the main roof were finished with a cast iron crestin*:]^. The lot was enclosed with a neat iron railini- set in a free stone wall. The school-house was well equijiped with furniture. In Duke Street the meeting-house of the Disciples of Christ — Baptist — was situate. This church was built of wood and of course burned very rapidly. The memb(.'i-,s had their first place of worship in Charlotte Street where Mr. Jack's buildings were. About twenty years ago thev removed to this building in Duke Street. Brother Tuttlc was the first pastoi* and Mr. Eaton was the second, Bi'o. Pat- terson the next, and Elder Geo. W. Garrity was the fouitli and last. A few years ago a division took place in tlk' church, and a new edifice was l)uilt at the head of Jeif- rey's Hill, and about half of the members of the old con- gregation linked their fortunes with the new order of things. The old Madras School on the south side of Duke Street, and the Roman Catholic School-house on Sydney Street, ad- joining the Victoria School and which was formerly taught by the Christian brothers were burned also. CHAPTER IX. Queen Square — Inciilcnta in the Burning — The Old Pitcher — ** (lod is hurning up the Worhl, and He won't make another " — Saved from tlie flames -Overtaken by i''ire three times — The Night of Terror on Queen Scjuare — AU)ne amidst Perils — The Lone House on the Square — Three People under a Table — The sailor — " If I Die to-night sir, hunt them up" — The escape — The Deserted Streets — An Anomaly — The Marino Hospital — What a few Buckets of Water Did — The Wiggins Orphan Asylum — The block in Canterbury street— The Ncirs office — Savings Bank. Somp: of the most teri'ible incidents of the fire took place (I'ning the burning of Queen S«£uare. The tlanies carry- ing away Mr. Hanson's residence on the coiner of SyiUiey Street and the square, had entered Mr. A. L. Pahner's [house soon afterwards, and then the whole block was hur- ried to destruction. The square was tilled with the sav- ings of the peo})le, not alone of those who lived hard by, but many things were here that had been carried to the va- Icant space from a long distance early that day. There was [bedding in abundance, and all round about little heaps of peroral household stufi' lay guarded by women and boys. This for a time was the haven of safety, and the broad ield looked like a vast warehouse. Chairs and bedsteads md even stoves and old pi}>es were piled in hopeless con- ision one upon the other. In the hurry people had taken that which they had seen first, and the common things of lie kitchen were saved while the rich furniture of the Irawing-rooui was left to perish. A man congratulated ^ — m M HI li I 102 THE GREAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. B. himself upon saving an old tub and a dipper, while the books in the library lay untouched save by the fire, and private papers that he could easily have slipped into his pocket, burned before his eyes, A lady told her husband to be caieful and take a bag which contained the massive silver plate of her family for a century, and in the mov- ing it was found that he had saved the rag-bag instead. A man who had been a prosperous merchant lost his all, and the little savings he had scraped together in a decade of yeai-s seemed to melt before him, but he that night knelt and thanked his God that his wife and child were by his side. These treasures were near him and all else might go. He had his strong and willing hands still left, and a firm spirit, and though for a while he would miss the little comforts he had been accustomed to, yet would he battle with the world again, and in the coming years try to win back some of the fruits he had lost. Men in the excitement knew not what to take first, and pianos were thrown out of three-story windows, while car- pets that had worn worthily and well till they had become heir-looms in the family, were carefully borne down stairs on the broad shoulders of stout porters. A thousand human beings stood in the square watching the flames lashing the buildings before them. John Boyd, Esq's residence, one of the handsomest buildings in the city, richly furnished and equipped with costly books, w&» attacked on both sides, and soon forced to yield and go down like the less substantial buildings at its side. The house of G. B. Gushing, Esq., was of wood, and it was nut THE GBfiAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. B. 103 loner before the site on which it stood was level with the ground. Before the house of Mr. E. L. Jewett, once the home of the late Dr. Gray, had taken fire, a gentleman tried to save it by standing on the roof and dashing a pitcher of water on the sparks as they caught vulnerable spots. For an hour or more he stood there with his pitcher, when it became evident to him that no effort that he could make would save the building, and he got down, leaving the pitcher standing on a ledge of the chimney. The fire shortly afterwards burned the building, and left the long chimney standing against the sky; and the next day when the spot was visited, and people walked over the heap of ashes that had once been a household, all that was saved was the old pitcher, that still stood on the ledge of the chimney solitary and alone. It told the story I of the desolation more eloquently than tongue of oi-ator [could speak, or pen of a Macaulay could describe. The house of ex-Mayor Woodward, with its hundreds of curi- [osities and old relics, including Major Andrd's gun and a score of Continental dollars, caught in the rear, and lived )ut a few minutes in the flames. But so it was all round the square. When Mrs. Stevenson's strong house was foing to pieces, a flock of pigeons hovering near it were Irawn in by the heat ; they whirled about for an instant, burned and rushed into the vortex, and perished in a jcond. A cat, maddened and wild, cut oft' from all icape, dashed along, when the fire pursued her, and she bood still. On Thursday morning she was still standing the same place. Her frame only could be seen, with 104 THE GREAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. B. ■ -* OB' o < head uj) and tail erect ; it was a ghastly sight. It was § during the conflagration on the square, that a little child, five years old, sat by the window of his grandfather's house, then in fancied security, and looked out at thi^ flames. The little fellow for awhile could not speak. He ^ became [)ale with terror, and with a loud cry he burst out with this thought : " 0, pa, pa, come and see ! God is burning up the world, and He won't make another, and g He won't make another !" It was in vain they tried to g pacify him, he still continued his cry, and it was only § when far away from the dreadful scene which roused so ^ strangely his youthful imagination, that he became calm. 2 But there were other incidents in this quarter of the t city whicli deserve more than a passing notice. There "* were deeds of heroism done and hours of agony endured that should be recorded and remembered. There were exploits exhibiting a broad humanity and great self-sacri-s fice i^erformed, that should not be forgotten or go down^ unrecognised. We had heroes in our midst that niglit,5 and the man who climbed three stories of a house envelopeib in the tlames, and snatched the sleeping infant from itss crib, and brought her safe to her agonized mother in the^ square below, is as surely as brave as " he who taketli aj city," or marches against the invader of his country. If? there are decorations of honour to be given, let them bej bestowed on those noble ones who ^saved lives that dayj A case has come under the writer's notice which deservoS| the fullest publicity. Mr. D. R. Munro, after working at John McDougall's place in York Point for some time, aiid B. K m w rht. It was I El little child, g ;randfathor's 3 I out at the § t speak. He g he burst out ^ iee! God is 5 another, and they tried to L it was only o ich roused so ^ became calm. J uarter of tlu- < Lotice. There " gony endured There were reat self-sacvi- g n or go downs st that night, 5 use envelopocb if ant from itsg mother in the J who taketh ai s country. 1{| n. let them be' ives that day j hich deservobj ,er working at ome time, and to rebuild the Institute very soon. The reader will notice from the cut which is given of the Ori^hanage, that it presented a very pretty front, and was exceedingly well Imilt. In Mecklenburg Street, all that fine block of buildings, on the north side, beufinnini!: with the residence of Mr. John R. Armstrong, and followed by Mr. John W. Nicholson's castle, the houses of the Messrs. Mageu and others ; on the south side Mr. Vaughan's well-built house, and on the corner the Stevenson property, mentioned just now, burned very readily. Mr. John Magee's family escaped with their lives only. The fire in Canterbury Street levelled a block of Iniild- ings that were the boast of the city. They weie built with greatcare andespecially designed for the gieat whole- sale trade which was done there. The street is a narrow one and runs from King Street to Princess Street, and is crossed by a small alley called Church. Of late years 112 THE GREAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. B. the street has grown from a comparative by-way or short cut, to an extensive wholesale stand, where merchants of large means and good business capacity have met their clients and customers. The stocks kept in these spacious warehouses have ever been large, and the appliances with which the stores were supplied actually made business a luxury. The centre building was erected and occupied by the Hon. Thomas R. Jones, wholesale dry goods merchant. His shirt factory v^as situate opposite, next door to the Printing House of McKillop &l Johnston, who used to print The Weekly Watchrrum. The second pile was built by the same merchant for Messrs. W. H. Thorne & Co., wholesale hardware merchants, and the building on the south of the present edifice, was erected by The North British and Mercantile Insurance Company, Henry Jack, Esq., agent, and leased to Messi^s. Everitt & Butler, wholesale dry goods merchants. Mr. Jack's office was in this building also. The Daily Neius' office was between th(3 latter and the Savings Bank. It was erected some twenty years ago by the present Queen's printer and former proprietor of the Daily Neivs — the first penny paper — George E, Fenety, Esq. The present proprietors, Messrs. Willis & Mott, purchased it last September. This year they made several improvements on it, enlarged it in the rear and improved the inside. They had begun work on the ground flat when the fire changed the a.spect of affairs. All that was saved were three pages of type, and the late fyles of the paper. These were carried as far as Reed's Point, and were only considered safe when they reached water mark THE GREAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. R. 113 The building was of brick. The offices were down stairs and consisted of accountant's room, editor's office and re- porters' room. The Savings' Bank on the corner of Prin- cess and Canterbury Streets was a building of singularly handsome proportions. It was built in the year IcS.jO, by the St. John County Provident Society, which up to this time had an office in the old Commercial Bank building. In 1872, the Dominion Government took it off their hands, had it renovated thoroughly and changed, and commenced operations in it in 1873, as a Dominion Savings' Bank. The Assistant Receiver-General and Dominion Auditor had offices in the bank. Matthew Stead was the architect. The old Post Office in this street was leased a few months ago to The Paper Company, who had it repaired and well fur- nished. In the upper story The Wntchman office was located. Messrs. Bowes & Evans' larore stove establishment, and John Vassie & Co's wholesale dry goods house, en- trance on Canterbury Street, were greedily devoured. Thtj little street suffered severely, for it represented a very large sum of money. Two well-known institutions were also burned here, Conroy's hair-dressing establi.shment and McGinley's barber-shop. <^^'^u'i. CHAPTER X. Incidents — An Old Comer Bmne'l Down — The Lenders and Borrowers "Twenty percent."— The Shylocks of the Curbstone— The Human Barouu!ter — The Vultures of Commerce — ^Chubbs' Corner — The Old Commercial Bank — The Telegraph Office — The Bank of New Bruns wick — A Hard Worked Cashier — The Post Office — N .t a Mail Lost — (^uick Despatch — The Nethery House and the Orangemen — The Koyal Hott'l — The Custom House — The Dead of the Conflagration. Bf.yond all question the successful resistance to the flanus at the residence of James H. Moran, Es(j., at Chi])iimu s Hill, prevented the spread of the fire to the norths in pci- tion of the city. That house was attacked with i; at fury from front and rear, but the extraordinary and well applied labours of Mr. Joseph Dunlop, and his crew of workmen from the shipyard, aided l»y the city firemen, kei)t the Hames at bay. The window sashes cauglit sev- eral times, and the men finding neither timber nor axes, boldly grasped the sashes with their naked hands, and despite some severe burning to themselves, they succeeded in tearing them away. This saved the build- ing and stopped the spread of the flames along Unioi' Street and beyond it. Mr. Moran was at his summei rQsidence in St. Martin's during the conflagration, but on hearing of the calamity he hastened home, and made the journey of 32 miles, it is said, in two hours and forty- five minutes. While the fire was in Mill Street, a bright little fellow of thirteen, named Johnny Law, performed a; Mr k. THE GREAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. B. 115 I Borrowers - -The Human ner— The Old New Bruiis % Mail Lost— ti— The Koy.il ion. » the flames Chipiimn s rt^ci-n pcr- wiih ':.u at y and well ■J is crow of ty liremen, uight Hi'.y- V nor axes, (I hands, ves, they the buil(!- intJ" Unioi' IS siunnie. ation, but and made and forty- i act of considerable heroism and though tfulness. His em- ])loyer, Mr. W. H. Gibbon, halishment in charge of this boy, who had the forethought when he saw tile' flames coming near the store to save the books and papers. The flooring above his head fell while he was glutting out, V)ut by crawling on his hands and knees, he managed to ett'ect his release from a captivity that would soon have resulted in certain death. Besides this he saved a number of articles from the house, and saw to th(! succevssful removal of Mrs. Gibbon and her young children. There was gieat ruin in Piince William Sticet aftei- the Hre. A good deal of the wealth of the city, and some of the chief buildings of the place wei'e situate here. The des- truction of the Imperial Building belonging to the Messrs. Magee, and which was occupied by them and Messrs. Mac- lellan & Co., the bankers, was but the work of a few moments. A large quantity of valuable merchandise like- wise perished, and the newly conmienced block of build- ings ad joining exhibited even a vaster extent of ruin than it did on the night of the last great \\w which raged in ciiis locality, and which cost the city seven lives.* Mr. ll(jbert Marshall's insurance oflice, on the corner of the ^'aiket Sijuare, and indeed the whole of Prince William Street, both sides clear to Heed's Pcjint, were reduced to ashes and debris. Jardine's groc(!i y store, Mt^ssrs. Wis- * March 8th, 1«77. 110 THE GREAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. B. ;ii; 11^ dom k Fisli's belting and heavy goods establishment . Benson's millinery store, Steeves, Bros., J. k J. Hegan <.V Go's., Beard & Venning, The Devebers, James R. Cameron & Co., W. H. Hayward & Co., George Philp's banking house, and ChublVs book store on the one side, were as completely wrecked as the row of stores on the eastern part of the street which contained Barnes &; Go's book- store, Peiler's piano warehouse, and Professor Devine's music store, the splendid book and publishing establisli- ment of Messrs. J. & A. McMillan, which was first built in 1831, and was afterwards burned in one of the groat fires \ ^"h succeeded that year, and, about 1842, was re- built in e shape in^which the fire found it the other day, the insurances offices of H. R. Ranney, Lawton's drug store, Stevenson's shoe-shop, Valpey's, Sheraton vV Skinner's car})et warehouse, Simeon Jones k> Go's., East- ern Express, Francis', and Z. G. Gabel's corner store. Chubb's Corner — the home of the curb stone brokii, and the place where more gossip has been talked duriiii; the last forty years than would furnish the stock-in- trade of forty well-organized sewing circles — was an early victim, for it went down with Furlong's palace about the hour of six. The mention of Chubb's Coriiei awakens a thousand memories. For many years it en joyed the distinction of being the great centre of commer- cial speculation. Men came here to meet men who had money to lend, and those who had none came to borrow it. Stocks and merchandise changed hands on this spot a dozen times a day, and tlie cautious bill-broker wliu 1 n> il! THE r.REAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. H. 117 t-ablishment, never had any funds of his own to len,(KX). If" ■Mli 1 1 ■• 126 THE GREAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. B. ii :' bj, :\ it some years ago and removed to his own premises nearer King Street, and Mr. R. S. Hyke, after it was modernized a little, assumed the management. The lire in Water Street proved to be very destructive. Tisdale's comer, at the head of South wharf, and the home of the hardware business in St. John for many years ; the grocery establishments of C. M. Bostwick and Geo. Robertson ; John Melick's office, the ferry floats and waiting-room, as well r- Adam Young's large stove warehouse and the Messrs. McCarty's place of business, were soon carried away. The good old house of Robt. Robertson & Son, that for half a century wielded great influence in the community, and whose ships to-day ride many oceans, with its stock of sails and rigging, lasted scarcely longer in the terrible heat than an hour's space. Walker's wharf and the premises in Ward street suffered greatly, and it was while trying to save his property here, that Captain William M. B. Firth lost his life. He was last seen in Prince William Street, blinded by the smoke and scorched by the flames, trying to make his way out. It is thought that finding all hope of gaining an egress from the suffocating street, he sank down in the roadside exhausted and weary, and death came to him there. His body was found the next day, but it was not until Saturday that he was fully recognised and claimed. He leaves a sorrowing wife and five grief- stricken children, who spent the terrible days of his ab- sence in the greatest agony. There were many rumours ^bout Capt Firth while he was missing. Some said that THE GREAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. H. 127 smiscs m he was all right in Carlcton, others averred that lie had gone away in a ship, while others again stoutly maintained that they had seenhini put out to sea in a boat an«l that he would turn up all right But when these tidings reached his poor wife, she always turned with a sad smile of grate- fulness to those who brought her such news, in the ho]>e that it might cheer her up, and said that her heart told her better. Her husband's place was by her side, and he knew it as well as she. What would he be doing out in a boat so long, when he did not even know whether his wife and family were alive or not; no, she never believed the rumours which came to her, thick and fast, as the hours of those anxious days went by ; and when the e«^an to j^now more and more anxious. Every day he i;re w worse, until at last just as the connnissioners had arrived and Mr. Price was getting- ready to show tliem around in the moin ing, and give them his papers to examine, and show them the money, the friend acted on tlie thought which was burning his heart out, and ho sent for Peter Johnson. Now Mr. Johnson, who figures in our narrative, for the first time, was a negro, and he it was, who, in the dead of niglit, when all was still, wheeled the mysterious bags of bullion to and from the old vaults in the Commissariat. Tlu.> money-lender sent for Peter Johnson and told him that he had altered his mind, and that the l)ags and their con- tents nmst be home again that very night. Peter pro- ceeded at once, and stealthily approaching the vaults, opened the heavy doors with his key, got out the money, and wheeled it home again, and Mr. Connnissary Price slept on in babe-like innocence. And so did his friend. And so did Mr. Peter Johnson. And so did the Board of Commissioners. In the morning, Mr. Price rubbed his [hands and dressed himself with scrupulous propriety, that he might meet his masters in a becoming manner. And I the Board of Commissioners got ready too, and they drove I round to Mr. Price's in a body, and before entering on their duties there was much merriment among them, and lone facetious old gentleman who was always joking and [saying good things, you know, remarked to the others in [Jiis delicious way, that almost every man had a price, l)ut 132 THE ORKAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N.B. none had a Price like their'.s. and then he chuckled and slapped Price on the back, and Price chuckled, and tlic Board chuckled, and I have no doubt whatever but that Mr. Peter Johnson and his master would have chuckled too had they heard it. And then the ])ai'ty went down to the office and began to overhaul things, and everything was all right, and the books were found coiTcct. And then a stupid old member of the Board asked to have the mo- ney brought in to be counted, just to comply with the re- gulation, not that they doubted friend Price. O, no, but an absurd form demanded it," &c., &;c. And Mr. Price was affalile and kindly, and said, " O yes, gentlemen, I shall be- quite happy to show you the funds which are all safe in the vault, I assure you. Saw them myself no later than the othei' day," &c. &c. And eveiyone said that was all right, and the iron doors were unlocked and swung back! But where was the money ? Mr. Price was as pale as deatli, and turned to the astonished commission, when he said, " Come, gentlemen, now a joke is a joke, what have you done with the money ? " But Mr. Price discovered before long that the world was not quite a smile, and he was marched off to prison, and the facetious old gentleman said to the gentleman who only wanted the money produced to gratify an absurd whim of the Government, " Who would have believed it ? " And so the Inspectors walked out, behind Mr. Price, who was placed in durance vile and suffered as we have seen. In 1843 Mr. Oliver Goldsmith, a direct descendant of the poet, and a gentleman who wrote poetry too, occa- THE GREAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. B. 133 sionally, and whose " Rising Village," a companion piece to " The Deserted Village," was not without some slight merit, called on Judge Ritchie and told him that he had received orders from the Government asking for tenders for the old building on Rocky Hill, and he suggested that he had better tender for it. The judge did so, and to his great astonishment, his was the only tender sent, and he got the whole of the property, including the house and a stone barn which were on it, for £500 sterling, three months after his tender was accepted. He immediately rented it to Dr. Simon Fitch, who was beginning practice and who occupied it for a number of years. It was idle for a while after Dr. Fitch left it, and then Judge Ritchie had it altered and modernized, and he and Mr. L. J. Almon lived in it. It was still located high up on the rock. The [judge, whose taste for architecture is well known, often planned the style of building he would like to put up. In the evenings after reading a while it was no uncommon I thing for him to draw near to a table, and with pencil and [paper plan buildings of infinite variety. It was good em- ployment for the mind, and less expensive than actual [building, and the paper houses could be altered and im- jproved and altered again at very little cost. One day the pudge planned in earnest, and his ideas took practical jhape. He pulled down the high house, excavated the rock and proceeded to build. In 1852 he began work md by the month of February, 1854, his building was )retty well up. He had expended some five thousand )unds on it, and was about leaving for Fredericton when 134 THE (mEAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. B. Mr. L. J. Almon came in and remarked to him that aftci he was in Fredericton a week or so he would feel I'athci foolish to get word that his building was burned down, and that there was no insurance on it. This troubled the judi^c, and he began to feel quite uncomfortable. He told Mi Almon to lose no time but go at once and effect insurance, Mr. Almon put £5,000 on the unfinished edifice. The jud^i went to the cai)ital, sat in the Assembly, and in a few days received intelligence that his building had been burned to the ground. He returned to St. John at onct and began to rebuild. This time he proceeded with great care, and the chaste and handsome building destroyed the other day was the result. The first occupants of the officts wereW. H.Tuck, DufF& Almon, Chas. Watters,Geo. Blatcli, Wetmore &z> Peters, E. B. Peters, St. John Insurance Co., the Electric Telegraph Co., D. S. Kerr, Chamber of Com- merce, Thos. T. Hanford, the Masonic body and sour others. The stores below were not rented for some time after the building was ready. The Society of Free and Accepted Masons, after leaving the Old St. John Hotel, met for some years in the upper story of the residence of the late Mr. Marshall, fathei- of Mr. John R. Marshall, Chief of Police. This house was on the corner of Princess and Sydney Streets. When Judge Ritchie's building was finished, the Masons rented j about half of the top story, and had it finished and fui nished for masonic purposes. They have occupied the^ apartments ever since. Up to January, 1868, the various lodges in the city held their warrants from either of th ?Sl THE GREAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. B. 135 Grand Lodges of England, Scotland, or Ireland. Tn the Province there were twenty -six lodges, viz : twenty English, three Irish, and three Scotch. When Confeder- ation came to pass, it was deemed imperative by the lead- ing masons of the Province, to separate from theii- re- spective parent Grand Lodges in the mother country, and form a new Grand Lodge of their own for New Brunswick. This conclusion was reached only after mature reflection, and when it was found that the great political changes which had taken place in the country rendered it neces- sary. Three Grand Lodges were already represented in the Province. The Gmnd Lodge of Nova Scotia was work ing,and the Grand Lodge of Canada would be formed soon. Unless the craft established a Grand Lodge in and for the Province of New Brunswick, the exercise of masonic ju- risdiction by so many governing authorities would only tend to hopeless confusion and detriment to the Order. It was a thing which could not be helped. Either an Independent Grand Lodge of New Brunswick must be formed, or a general Grand Lodge of Canada would be created, which would have entire jurisdiction all over Canada. At a preliminary convention of masters, past- masters and wardens, the subject was fully ventilated, and the motion to form a Grand Lodge of New Brunswick was carried by a large majority. The office of Grand Master of the new Grand Lodge, was first offered to R. T. Clinch, Esq., who was then District Grand Master, under the Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of England, but he de- clined the honour on account of the position which he 13G THE GREAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. \i. -lil lieM. Bunjainin Lester Peters, Esq., was then elected ( iiaiul Master )»y acclamation; William W'^eddeihurn, Esq., Deputy Gland Master ; Hon. W. P. Flewelling, Senior (Jrand Warden; David Brown, Junior Grand Warden; Rev. W. Donald, D.D., Grand Chaplain, and Wm. H. A. Keans, Es(]., Grand Treasurer ; Mr. W. F. Bunting was made Grand Secretary at the meeting in January, ISGS, and the following officers were ap[)ointcd : John Richards, Senior Grand Deacon ; Benjamin R. Stevenson, Junior Grand Deacon ; John V. Ellis, Grand Director of Cei-e- monies ; Robert Marshall, Assistant ditto ; Jas. McDou- gall, (Jrand Sword Bearer; John Mullin, Grand Standard Bearer ; Henry Card, Grand Organist ; James Mullin, Grand Pursuivant; Edward Willis, S. S. Littlehale, Robt. R. Call, Hugh A. Mackenzie, Thos. F. Gillespie, John Wallace, Grand Stewards, and John Boyer, Grand Tyler. Grand Lodge was instituted in January, in the year of masonry, 5868. The craft has made great progress, and preparations before the fire wei'e n foot for the erection of a fine new hall in Germain Street. The greater por- tion of the stock was subscribed, and operations were to bo begun at an early day. The brethren lost heavily by the recent fire. All the warrants were destroyed, but these can be replaced. The private lodges met in several instances with irreparable losses, and the ful^ set ^ jew* Is, which Bro. Oliver Goldsmith several tgo presented to Albion Lodge, No. 1, was not the K . of these. In the summer of 1863, the St. John Gyr iiasium (joint stock) Company began building the Gymnasium, which n electod urn, Kwcj., r, Senior Warden ; in. H. A iting Wcas iry, 1868, Richards, n, Junior of Cere- i. McDou- Standard s MuUin, lale, Robt. pic, John md Tyler. e yenr of ^ress, and e erection eater por- is were to eavily by eyed, but in several '' iewt'ls, presented e. liuni (joint ini, which Tk. Uii>'Uii4l>..«|..,.nM Lilli <;•> Mottn-ral INSIDK THE SAVIN(;s BANK Photo, by fi. V. Siincnson. a ii o b la m of K),' liu ne fir( Po inc hii THE GREAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. B. 137 was located opposite St. John's Pivsliytoi-ian Chiircli, Kintr Street Kast. Its dimensions were 40 x 10(1, tlinv stories front, and the Gyninasinm proper was 40 x NO. The cost was a little over ^5,000. The huilding was heated by steam, well lighted with <,'as, and neatly and tastily arranged, containintij bath-rooms, parloui's.drawing- rooms, fcc. The first president was John W. Cudlip, Ksij. Mr. J. S. Knowles was secretary, and Fre[)eai- to take in the deadly ]>eril in which every one on that wharf stood. The crowd stood about idling away, smoking, vii>dows. He worked away at this for some time, never THE (JRiiAT FIRK iN ST. JOHN, N. II. 147 rished by eath. in Strci't, workiiitn ives. Mr. rhicli, like d im]nei;- and luid and tools up every- swept the nd sprtad tivery thing bed to Have His sons Iker Frink time. The ,t nothing IS of funii- •e the win- Mrs. Turn- lumed, ami ,pe by thf :e. It Nvas house was lin the rear the cellar from the pime, never divaining that the tire was so near him, or that escape would soon hf cut ott". lie had lost his hearin'' some years before, and lid not hear the roar of the Hre nor feel its aj)proach. His .son James was up-staiis hattlini!; with the tire, and Air. Frink wji.s on the roof James Turnbull, realizing in an instant the condition of his father and his infirmity, and knowini,' well the determined cha- racter of his nature, was about to rush into the cellar and tell him how near the tire was, when he tunu'd and beheld a dark shadow in thedociway. It was comin*^ towards him, and for a moment struck terror into his soul. The tall figure of a woman, deeply robtMl in black, holding up a long train in hei- hand, and with lu'ad-dress all aflame, stood before him in the hall. He advanced towards her, as soon as he could recover himself, and at once tore off the burning head-dress and stamped it with his foot. He then l>rushed the kindling sparks from her dress. She seemed demented and enable to understand the nature of these proceedings. Indeed she remonstrated with him, and begged him not to destroy her b-iuiet. TJte Jive hadcrazed her brain, and after esca}»ing from herhouse she had wandered into Mr. Turnbull's hla/ing residence, unheedful of the terrible burns she had received, and not- withstanding that she was on tire herself in several f)laces, James, realizing the state of affairs at once, coaxtjd her to go with him to the cellar to see his fatlier, but she hung back and implored him to leave her there. He was forced to drag her unwillingly along, and together they both ar- rived at the place where the father was still labouring to 148 THK (JIIKAT FIRK IN ST. JOHN, N. B. ii oxtin^auHli tlu' firo that was coming from all sirushe«l against the exposed flesh of the tliree hmnan heings, and wore it to thi; hone. It was lik*- Roin(^ invisihie fiend. Before them they saw no flames, hut a dead white heat that was all the more ten-ihle he- cau.se it could not he seen. Kvery time the covering was removetihle heat burned their very eyeballs. The trees alongside wej-e grasj)ed by this unseen ]K)wer, and their trunks were twisted and turned in its cobra-like eudirace. Every • thing in the road seeme*! charged with an element that appeared to draw the tiames on. Though Main Stieet is one hinidred and five feet wide, and tlie fire was for the moat j»art confined to the houses on the side of the road, a cat coidd not run the gauntlet that night, and live. No one can realize the awful jiower of the heat, which the MesHrs. Turnlndl an V 'P ence. It was a trial that can never be blotted from their memones. So nmeh time was lo.st in trying to induce their charge to continue on with them, that their chance of escape by Charlotte Street was cut ofi', and the only hope that re- i In ^^'■'y^L^, ^hc was n effort, Imt lay n\ leave cat fin\ to save iiu;ltir.|^ • e\|)eri- oin their ir charge 'Hcai>e l>y ! that re- TTIE OREAT FIRE IN ST. JOnN, N. R. 151 maincd now, wan to return hy the terrihle route they had come. The hattle had U) be fought ovei' again. The race hack had to he run once more. The boat must he crossed again, they nmst go nearly two blocks forwaid, or die in their tracks. Tlie street was iuW of smoke now, anur!»ed tlicir clotlies, and the wild heat and the scorching Hamea were madly teaiing through to tlniir faces. Their charge remained as helpless as befor(>, and there was something |>itiable in her beseeching eiies, that almost tempt^'d them to acce«le to h«'r recpicst iuvl leave her there in the street. Hut not a moment nmst now be l<>st, the lire-king was trampling down all Ix'fon^him. The two men seized her. She struggled and would not move. They dragged her to the boat, and she fell from their now ])owerless arms. Weakened by the tire, and sick at lieart at their ill suc- cess, they could tlo no more, and could scarcely resist themselves the desire to stay there by the u})turned boat, and yield their lives back to Him who gave them. The old lady fell back, and died with a .smile U})on her lips. The men, too weak to carry hei* furtliei', placed her clo.se by the boat, and shouted loudly for help. Hut the streets were bare <•♦ )»eople, and no sound couM be heard but their own vc/jci's rising above the crackling of the flames. They ran ovvv the lava-like street, stopping every now land then to catch breath. On, on they sped, the y(juth- |ful spirit of the one luung roused when it lagged, by the bispiring words of the wiry and vigorous elder. It was a I terrible jouiuey, fraught by direfu- dangeis on I'very sirle. 152 TIIK (JRKAT FIKK IN ST. .TOHN, S. H. I Each foot of thn way was fijaiiKMl by a strujiff^lo, every yanl was won l>y a liattlr. It was not until (Sirmartlien Street was reached, tliat fatlier and son could realize that they were saved. They ri'nioved the covering from their l)(.'ads, and looked hack at the road they had ])assed. A nionunt more in that fire would have been their last. A figure was coming t(nvards them, as they, arm in arm, almost ieele, every iiiiirthen lizo til at )iii their ised. A last. A in arm, 3(1 t«3 i)e boy halN<. I.N llIK lUslANCK. Photo, by (".. F. Simunsi.n y *%•#■*■' «...^l^' riilM K W 1 1,1,1 AM .STREET. Photo, by (i. F. Siiii'infon. THE GREAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. IJ. 153 was the first man to erect a wootlen shanty and send a Ma^ flyinfjfroni its sunnnit. A large number of persons escape* 1 from the resistless and giant-stridinf^ Hames hy means of rafts and small hoats. Others got a friendly sail to Partritlge Island in the tugs and steamers whieh ap{)roached the wharves whenever it was safe to do so. Many of those who were on Reed's Point Wharf and the Ballast Wharf got away in this mannei'. The contingent of firemen from Portland worked with a will, and did much to check the Hames — as much, in- deed, as mortal man could do in a fire like this, with a high wind blowing a perfect gale all the time. The city firemen peiformed, with their brethren of tlie adjacent town, signal service. They drew lines round the V)urning buildings and trie«l ngain and agan to confine thr- formed in the vicinity of King Street East, and down to- wards Pitt. Here they were partly successful, and n Uojin I— Coming ("p tlu' IliirWotir — The Story of tlu- Moths -The Newly Married L;itly'-> Story Xo Flour — Moving (hit -Saving the I)iug8 — The Man witii the Corn- I'laslers — IncentliariHUi -SoenoH — Thievery -The NewHjiapers Knter- prisc — lilowing Down the Walls -An Aet of liravery -The Fatal Blast — Danger and Death in the Walla — Accidents -The Fire antl the Churches — The Mmiatera. As the "Empre.ss" was sti'aiiiin;^ up the harhoui-, fioin Digl>y, on the niglit of tlie fire, tlie passi'n^^'rs (jii lioiirch many of. whom belonged to St. John, hrlu'ld tlic eity in thimes. Some of them even saw fiom the water tlieir own residences on tire, and witnesst'*! tlie alarming rapidity of the flames and tin' almost powerlc^ss idlorts of the peoplr to stay their rava^^^'s. (Jne can iinao^iiuj the fetilin^^s of thosi' passen^'ers who had left childi«'n at home, a!id who now he^'an to ex])erienct' the j^neatest an^nush and sutft-rin^^ What mastrated her. Sh>' _tn.nk. 156 THE GllKAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. IJ. Tlio.sc were terri})lu moments of sutterin^' — awful moments of uncertainty. AuKjng tlie curious incidents of the Hre wliich are con- stantly comin<^ to the surface, is the rather good story wliich is told of one of our neatest housekeepers. Her house is noted for its spotlessnt^ss, and some who profess to know, say that such a thing as a spider's web could not be seen about the premises, even in the cellar or wood- shed. The lady has a natural abhorrence of those pests, the moths which ic'ill get into oiu' furs sometimes and defy all the camphor and snuff in existence to keep thtui out. One day, alxmt six months ago, some handsome newly upholstered chairs were purchased, anurned down, and with 'i> all that was in it, wliile her own house was ahout half a mile from the vicinity of tlie fire. I'he lady was (piite annoyt'd when the folks cau\e in for a ni^^lit's lodging that night, shortly aftei" tea was ovei-. (■onsiderahle eonsternati(m prevailed among the people wlien it was known tliat nearly all the flour in town had heen humed. 'J'he i*stimated loss was considere(l to he ahout fifty or sixty thou.sand harrels. One man is said to have hurried out and paid .SlS for a harrel, while tliere were several persons who paid twenty cents a loaf for hri'ad. A good many p(M)ple who feareil the tire was coming their way moved out. and put their furniture, etc., in tlie street, and watched it till after midnight, when the ex- pected flames not arriving, they marclu'cl the effects hack again. The goods were almost as mm^h damage out of each. ()!ie young man, whose face hore tlie j)icture of healtli, l>a these which (^xalts a nation, and makes us fed that the world is not altojTfcther a fleetinii show or ;i snare. The cry of incendiarism was raised during the first TIIE GREAT FIRF, IN ST. JOHN. N. R. 159 y wore jx and out of itiire of enouj]jli for thr n soap, or, Mrs. ; witli i\ IK I corn Uifht hr ;oo(l for. , admiic ors !inff and the ght of the inside as The trains er igniting deafening of the wall a thunder- 2 Battery, was covered with the debris, but escaped uninjured, save a few scratches on the arm and a cut or two. Clunner Walter Lamb, of No. 10 Battery, was stricken down and every one deemed him dead, the smoke and debris com- pletely hiding him. The second 701b blast was still burn- ing, and was momentarily expected to go off, when Lamb's hand was ob;:erved to rise over his head and touch his cap. In a moment five men, unmindful of the terril)le fate Virhich threatened them, rushed in and bravely dragged from the mass of ruins, their fallen comrade. He was borne away just as the second charge went oft* with a roar, car- rying away at a bound the remainder of the wall. Stones and bricks flew in everv direction and John Ann, all ,e pon- ;. See anding lOon is Be how ^ars be- a dark le glit- coming soaring ver our if ul the is, how eavens, face on ng and llook at toluinns \i those THE GREAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. B. 171 sentinel chimneys standing so erect, and so regularly in line. Ah, that is where the old ban-ack stood, and those chimneys, no doubt, heard many a well- told tale of the bivouac and the battle-field. Could they but speak to- night, what reminiscence would they relate of Lucknow and Cawnpore, of the Heights of Alma, and bloody plain of Inkerman. What stories would they tell you of the gallant fellows who on bleak winter nights gathered round their base, and chatted and talked of battles fought and won, and the great deeds of bravery they had seen. These high chimneys have many bits of histoiy locked within them which the world shall never know. They stood there when the city was almost as bare of houses as it is now. They have seen the busy workman, and heard the sound of his axe and saw ; they have seen the city grow more and more strong and beautiful ; they have watched its growth from a mere hamlet to a metropolis ; they have witnessed the erection of noble structures on sites where trees and bushes flourished before ; they have seen St. John on the morning of the 20th June prosperous, enter- prising, and full of energy and life ; and they have seen her again before the sun went down, stricken to the earthy with her buildings in ruins, and the work of almost a hundred years in ashes. The old sentries keep guard to- night, blackened and bared. Turn the horse a little this way. Now look up the street. Do you see that pile of bricks and mortar and those heavy stones lying near ? That debris is all that is left of a house where in my youth, I spent many happy mmmimmmmm. mmm 172 THE GREAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. B. hours. I must take you into my confidence and tell you that the owner of that house is to-day a poor man. The day before the fire he was comparatively comfortable, rich I should call it, but the way wealth is computed now-a-days, I will content myself with saying that he was comfortably off. He had his carriage and horses — such splendid drivers, and how well he kept them — he had a library, and such books, and he knew what was in them too. History, belles-lettres, biography, science, all depart- ments were here. You could read if you chose on an idle afternoon, in that alcove off the library, over there, a few feet from those bricks, anything your fancy dictated. I used to love to sit there and pull down his books — not to read them always, but merely to skim the cream off' a dozen or so of them of an afternoon. He had some charming old books which he always kept in the ex- treme corner of his case. I remember with what awe I used to approach this section, and take down from the shelf his luxuriant copy of Milton, printed early in the eighteenth century, and illustrated with a grand old por- trait of the blind bard. I read Pope's Homer here for the first time, and actually waded through the Chesterfield Letters, I used to sit over towards the left of where we are now, just close to that old stove-pipe which you can just see peeping through the Jjricks. I may live many years, or I may pass away to-night, but I shall never forget that dear old house, and the many happy, happy hours I spent there. Come away. Somethiag seems to choke me, and one wants all his strength these days. Con- i n THE GREAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. B. 173 !ll you The rtable, [iputed he was — such I had a Q them depart- ! on an there, a [ictated. ks — not am oft" a td some the ex- ,t awe I om the in the |old por- for the terfield where ich you lay live ,11 never , happy ems to . Con- tinue along in this direction. We shall see all that is left of many beautiful houses from here. There's the Wig- gins' Orphan Asylum. The tower and the walls are there. What exquisite ruins they are. Let us look at them awhile. One can almost fancy he has seen somewhere a picture of the remains of an edifice that looked like this. I can almost hear the guide tapping his cane on the walls, and telling me to note how excellently preserved the building is, and how admirably the builders put it up. See how solid and strong it is, and hardly a discoloration marks its hamlsome front. That dingy and dismal-look- ing old wooden building near at hand is the Marine Hospi- tal — that was saved all right. Did you notice the jagged, fringe-like edges of that building which we passed just now, in that bend near the road ? How intense the heat must have been there to wear it down like that. And did you observe that wooden door lying in the vestibule scarcely touched by the flames, while everything around it was burned to a crisp ? What odd freaks the fire takes sometimes. Drive a little taster keep well to the left. The streets are full of stones and broken brick yet. We are now coming past Queen Square, and let us look in a moment on Mecklenburg Street. What a beautiful sight those burning coals make in Mr- Vaughan's house. You can see better by the left, there, now stop. See the pale light is above, the deep blood-red light is below. What a curious meeting. You can scarcely see the dividing line between them. Drive through the street to Carmai*then, take in on the way Mr. Nicholson's mi 174 THE GREAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. li. Castle, and the houses of Messrs. Magee on the left, and before you turn up the street look at that immense mass of burning coals belonging to the Gas Company, blazing away like some volcano in a state of eruption. There are smouldering fires all round the city, and ruins upon ruins meet us at every turn. My heart sickens at the sight. Let us drive home. We have visited the ruins by moonlight. CHAPTER XV. Aid for St. John -The First Days— How the Poor were Fed— Organizatioit of the St. John Kelief and Aid Society — Its System — How it Operates— The Kink — The Car-shed — List, of Moneys and Supplies Received— The Noble Contributions. No sooner was it known abroad that a j^reat fire had swept away the principal portion of St. John, and that thousands of people walked the streets, homeless and hungry, than, with wonderful unanimity, generous offers of aid came pouring in from all sides, for the relief of the ruined city. Large sums of money, cargoes of supplies, and carloads of breadstufFs, furniture, and clothing ar- rived ; and committees of citizens, notwithstanding that they were burned out themselves, and had suffered se- verely, forgot everything in the desire to do good, and instantly proceeded to take charge of this relief, and administer it to the needy. The spacious skating rink was at their disposal, and this splendid building soon became the house of refuge for over three hundred home- less persons. These men, women, and children lived, slept, and ate here day after day, for a week and more after the fire. The rink was also converted into a provision store- house, and from its centre the poor, daily, received the necessaries of life. The ladies' dressing-room was thrown into a clothes department, and froui this place the wants of applicants were attended to. Of course the system employed at first was very loose, and while many deserv- 170 THE GREAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. B. ! ing persons received aid, others, again, who had no claims on the fund, fared equally as well. The committee took the ground that it was better a few impositions should occur than that one deserving person should " go empty away," and accordingly none were refused alms and other assistance. The greatest credit is due to these gentlemen for their kindly and disinterested labours. While in office they did nmch good, and the generous donors of the material which was so freely sent, can rest assured that their bounty was not misapplied. Everything passed through the hands of His Worsli ip. Mayor Earle, the chief civic officer, and was by him placed immediately after its receipt, in the possession of the proper ones who were delegated to receive it. But this committee could not be expected to distribute the relief, after the first week or two. The sums of money, and the immense quantity of supplies, which continued, and still continue, to come, and the large increase of applicants who only now began to realize their loss, caused the work to grow more and more arduous and cumbersome. Some regularly organ- ized system of administering aid must be devised, and a proper board of workmen selected, who would be paid fairly for their services. This was what was done in Chicago, during the days of her calamity, and our people wisely considered that a leaf out of her book would an- swer the purpose. A meeting was called, and though some dissatisfaction existed at the precise Tnanner in which the thing was done, yet, after all, the error in such times as these should not be accounted as anything THE GREAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. B. 177 very serious. The movers meant well, and eveiy one could not have a place on the board of directors. Mr. C. G. Trusdell, the General Superintendent of the Chicago Relief and Aid Society, was sent down to St. John to give what counsel he could, and relate his ex- perience to the people, and point out to them the beauties of the organization which obtained in Chicago during her troubles. He counselled the instant formation of a similar society here. He knew its workings inti- mately. It was thorough ; it was business-like. No one, after the system was in full working order, could impose on the managers, and order would come out of chaos, and confusion no longer exist. His words had weight, for he had passed through the fire himself ; and steps were at once inaugurated for the establishment of " The St. John Relief and Aid Society," with full control of the funds and supplies. The men who were selected for the task are those in whom the citizens have every confidence. The Directors are : — S. Z. Earle, Mayor, President. W. H. Tuck, Recorder, Vwe-Premlent. Chas. H. Fairweather, Trecisurcr. ^ James A. Harding. Hon. Geo. E. King. HaiTis Allan. Fred A. King. Andre Gushing.] James Reynolds. H. J. Leonard. James I. Fellows. Wm. Magee. Chas. N. Skinner. Ezekiel McLeod. Gen. D. B. Warner. 178 THE GREAT FIRE IN ST. JOHJf, N. B. A. Chipman Smith. John H. Parks. E. Fisher. Aldwinen Maher, Peters, Ferguson, Kerr, Adams, Duff ell, Brittain, Glasgow, and Wilson, with L. R. Harrison, Secretary. These gentlemen then organized the St. John Relief and Aid Society, and assumed charge at once. The moneys were deposited in the bank, to the credit of Chas. H. Fairweather, the Treasurer ; and General D. B. Warner, U.S. Consul, entered upon his duties as General Superin- tendent, and opened his office at the rink. The sufferers by the fire^ who had lived in the rink up to this time, were housed in tents on the barrack green. The rink was thrown into compartments. Fully two- thirds were placed at the service of the store-keeper, who dealt out the provisions, the manager of the furniture department, and the overseer of the space allotted to clothing. The space directly in front of the door- way is occupied by the different officers who perform the pre- liminary work. The gentlemen's dressing-room is devoted to the use of the visitors, and the other dressing-room is where the General Superintendent is to be found. No more admirable system of giving out help to those whose wants require it, could be formed. It is perfection itself, and though mistakes may occur occasionally, on the whole it moves like a piece of well-appointed machinery. The reader must understand that thousands of applications are made daily, and all sorts of tricks are resorted to by THE OREAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. B. 170 those whose necessities require no help, and every dollar given away to the undeserving, is so much carried from the mouths of the honest and honourable, for whom this magnificent donation was made. The greatest care must be exercised, and it is the business of quite a staff* of officers to see that these impositions are checked, and no one is served twice on the same order. No one lias been refused aid, if he was legitimately entitled to it. The actual working of the system is an interesting study. Everything is done regularly and methodically. There is a substantial reason for every movement, and it is surprising how quickly the officers can detect an informa- lity, or notice any attempt at deception. A brief account of the system as it works will be interesting to many Upon entering through the main entrance, the visitor will notice, in stepping down to the floor of the rink, a number of benches. On these the applicants sit, each awaiting his or her turn, as the case may be. Before them are the inten^ewers, six or seven in number, seated at convenient desks. The applicant steps up and answers the questions propounded on a sheet of paper. This document is signed, and one of Mr. G. B. Hegan's (the chief of the clerks' staff) clerks numbers it. It then goes before Mr. Peter Campbell, the superintendent of visitors. He allots it to the visitor of the district to which the applicant belongs, for his name and address are on this paper. The next day this house is visited, and the wants of the residents being made known are entered on the paper, if in the opinion of the visitor, after thorough examination, they come under 180 THE GREAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. B. the projier head for relief. The applicant is told to call at the rink, where he receives orders for fuiniture, cloth- ing or provisions, or all three if he needs them. After that has been gone through, it is only the question of a few minutes when he gets what he wants. He presents each ticket to the department of the various supplies, and after receiving his (juota he passes out. The process is very simple, though it appears at first sight a little involved. It is the only way, however, by which a complete check may be put on what goes out or by which every dollar's worth of supplies can be strictly accounted for. Cases calling for immediate aid often come before the managers. The applicant's needs are urgent, and he cannot wait two days. He must have something now and at once. Even here the wheels of the system are not clogged. In half an hour or less he goes off with a day or two's full supply. An inter- im ticket is furnished for just such cases as his, and he gets enough on that "Immediate Relief" card, in advance of visitation to keep him from actual suffering, until his regular supply can come to him in due course. The plan adopted to prevent fraud works excellently, and without the remotest possibility of a mistake. This is the famous vowel index system and there is no better way than it. This is in charge of the book-keepers under W. 11. Stanley, the Chief Book-keeper, whose fine ability has full scop e in the management of this department. A complete registration is made of the name and number and resi- dence of every applicant. The vouchers bearing these statements are fyled away in packages of a hundred, and THE GREAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. R. 181 it is only the work of a few seconds to find out all about the applicant as soon as he presents himself. In this de- partment only the "issued" docmncnts are kept. Before they pass into the book -keeper's hands they are retained by another set of clerks, who hold them until the supplies are issued; when this is done the words "issued to " are written down on the face of the voucher in red ink and at once recorded at the book-keeper's desk and fyled as before mentioned. Mr. Hegan, whose desk faces the door, performs his functions with excellent executive skill, and the other gentlemen in charge of the different departments have the system at their lingers' end and already show much familiarity with the work. It is the duty of the visitors who call on the people named in the circulars handed them, to make every legitimate enquiry and strive to learn the fullest particulars of the applicants, as much depends on their report to headquarters. This duty is entrusted to persons of discernment and reliability, and few complaints have reached the General Superinten- dent of negligence and incompetency. As soon as they occur, however, the offenders are promptly dismissed. The Provision Department is in charge of Mr. Geo. Swett, formerly Manager of the Victoria Hotel. He has an efficient staff of clerks, and his store-room reminds one of a well regulated wholesale grocery store. The meat is cut up into convenient pieces by butchers, and the whole management here is reduced to a system; Mr. Swett is always courteous and looks carefully after those under him. Mr. Kerrison is chief of the Clothing Department, and 182 THE GUKAT FIIIK IN ST. JOHN, N. B. Mr. F. CJhuison, is tho principal officer of tlie Furniture Room. MisH Rowley is Superintendent of the LaodH King Street. Allan, Harris Brass-founder Water Street. Allan Bros Foundry men " *• Allan, J. Howe Provisicms South Mkt. Whf, Allan, John Tir miith Canterbury Street. Allen, Geo. Em Commercial agent. . . . Prince William Street. Ames, Horace T Ship chandlery Walker's Whf. Albert Mining Co Albertite Pr . William Street. Armstrong, Aaron Bonded warehouse .. . '* ** Armstrong, Bros Founders Main Street. Armstrong, John & Co. Dry goods Prince William Street Austin, W. H Livery Stable Princess Street. Andrews, Wm. Moun- tain, & Co Manuf. Agents Prince William Street. Arrowsmith, J. E Victualler Germain. Abel, Mrs Boarding-house " Aitken, Allen & Co. . . Machinists Sydney Street. Anglin, Hon. T. W. .." Freeman " Prince William Street. Almon, L. J Insurance Princess Street. Brown, Silas H Builder Pitt St. Ballantine, J. E. & Co.Boots andshoes(retail)King St. Barbour Bros Provisions South Mkt. Whf. Barbour, M. Dry goods (retail) Prince William St. Barbour, Robt. — . . .Painter Bardsley, Bros Hats King St. Butt, W. F Bonded warehouse Nelson St. Brennan, Henry Oyster saloon Water St. Barnes, A. B. & Co. ..Hotel-keepers Prince William St. Barnes & Co Booksellers ** ** Benn, J, C, , , , , Insurance , . , Germain St, 184 THE GREAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. B. it (( <( <( (( (( (t (( Barnes, Jos. W. «fe Co. Diy goods (retail) .... Market Square. Betts Azor, W. T Comm Ward St. Bridgeo, D Boarding-house Prince William St. Bartsch, A. J. H Watches and Chrono- meters Beard & Venning .... Dry goods Benson, John Millinery Beek, Henry S Bookbinder Bell, Joseph Painter Duke St. Bellony, John Pictures Dock St. Bent, Geo. R Musical instrnraents, organs Main St. Bent, Gilbert Provisions South Mkt. Whf. Bertain, G. W. E. . . . Ship-owner Prince William St. Berton Bros Groceries Dock St. Berryman, Drs. J. & D. E Physicians Charlotte St. Best, Norris Metals Water St. Bone, Peter Liquors Smyth St. Birmingham, Michael " Dock St. Biddington, George ... ** Canterbury St. Black, Wm Ship chandler — Ward St. Blackall, Michael Coaches Prince William St. Blanchard, W. E Women's wear Germain St. Blizard, S. G Lumber yard Britain St. Blizzard, Wm Fish packer Prince William St. Bostwick, CM Provisions Water St. Bourke, T. L Groceries and liquors Dock St. Bowes & Evans Tinsmiths and stoves Canterbury St. Bradley, Bros Block & pump makers Breeze, Dudne Liquors and groceries, bonded warehouse burned Brims, A. & Son Brewers Wentworth St. 73 H W 58 O M O If n *^ > z s C <• a: O St. St. P9 50 O •n H > ?1 V C < <• SB X o .Or ,' // »■ f *"^^; /:'• )i^'' '/.^ •;-.-';y>'v'-;'^-:-v;c ■■I THE GREAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. B. 185 Bruce, J Boots and Shoes Sydney St. Brockington, H. & Co. Tailors Germain St. Brown, John C Gommission «fe W. I. goods Brown's Wharf. Brown & Nugent Liquors Dock St. Bums, G. M Boarding-house *' Bruckhof, Wm. Mouldings, Germain St. Bullock, Jos Oils Nelson St. Baillie, Chas Fly tyer Prince William St. Bumham, C. E.,& Co. Furniture Germain St. Burpee, I. & F. & Co. Iron and hard ware.... North wharf. Butt, John H Tailor Germain St. Buist, A , Liquors Water St. Buxton, Thos. B Liquors Dock St. Brundage, Thos Sail maker Merritt's wharf. Brennan, B Liquors. Canterbury St. Bank New Brunswick,Hon. J. D. Lewin,Pres. Princess St. Bank Nova Scotia, . . J. M. Robinson, AgentMarkot Square. Bank Montreal, E. C. Jones, Agent. ... " " Brown, Miss Milliner Germain St. Bustin, A. T Circulating Library. . . Germain St. Bayard, Dr. Wm Physician " ** Brewster, E. E Bottler Dock St. Burke, John Undertaker Princess St. Bryden, Bros. & Co. . Bakers , Bertaux, Geo. E Ships Prince William Street. Cain, Antony Liquors & groceries... Mill St. Callaghan, John " " Reed's Point. Cameron J. R. & Co., Oils and lamps Prince William St. Campbell, P. & J . . . . Blacksmiths Union St. Campbell, Thos Gas fitter Germain St. Carleton, Robt Blockmaker Wood St. Carroll, David Plumber Princess St. M 186 THE GREAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. B. Carvill, Geo Iron Nelson St. Carvill, McKean & Co. Merchants Office, Walker's wharf. Chubb, H. & Co Stationers Prince William St. Churchill, David Fancy goods Prince William St. Clarke, Alfred T W. I. goods Smyth St. Clarke, James Flour Inspector Clarke, G. H Auctioneer Prince William St. Clementson, F. & Co , . Crockery Dock St. Climo, J. S Photographs & framesGermain St. Coholane, John Grocer Dock St. Collins, Francis Commission Dock St. Connolly, Capt Nautical school Water St. Colpitts, Thos. R. : Photographer Germain St. Conroy, H. & Son Hair goods Canterbury St. Corbitt, John Block & pumpmaker. Ward St. Corbitt, Samuel Furniture Prince WiUiam St. Cornwall, Ira, jr., Insurance Agent Princess St. Cotter, W. & Sons, .Victuallers Prince William St. Coughlan Daniel Clothing Dock St. Coughlan, U Liquors Ward St. Coughlan, Thos. L. . . .Jewelry King St. Cox, Joseph....! Stone cutter Crawford, W. K Books King St. Cruickshank, James F.Ship owner Office Maritime Bank Cushing, Andre & Co. Lumber Office Prince Wm. St. Cotter, B Fruit Dock St. Cochrane, F. J Drugs Charlotte St. Daniel & Boyd Dry goods, wholesaleMarket Square. Davidson, Wm Lumber Office Water St. Davidson, Wra. J Tugboats " " " Dun, Wiman & Co. , .Mercantile Agency " Maritime Bank. Dearborn & Co Spices Nelson St. De Forest, Geo. S. . . .Provisions & W I goods. South wharf. 8 wharf. 1 St. n St. mSt. 5t. Mcn. St. am St. ime Bank Wm. St. lare. St. lime Bank. THE GREAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. B. 187 Delia Torre C. & W. «&Co Toys :....King St. Deveber, L. H. & SonsMerchants Prince William St. Devine, George F Sheet Music " " ** Dalzell, J. W Furniture Germain St. .Devoe, John D Liquors & groceries... Water St. Daniel, Dr. J. W Physician Germain St. Dodge, Isaac A Blacksmith Doherty, Wm. & Co... Clothiers Market Square. Domville, Jas. & Co . . . Merchants North Wharf. Donovan, Jeremiah... Boots and Shoes Dock St. Driscoll Bros Ship-owners Water St. Driscoll, M Ship-chandler " Duff, Alexander Tug Boats " Duffell, Henry Lumber Charlotte St. Dunham & Clarke Architects Prince William St. Dunn, J. E Insurance Ritchie's Building. Dunn, Jas. L., & Co... Iron and Ship-owners. Smyth St. Dyall, James Gas-fitter Water St. DeBlois, T. M News Room Prince William St. Doody&Tole Plumbers " " Driscoll, Daniel Liquors Carmarthen. Eastern Express Co... Jas. R. Stone, Agent.. Prince William St. Eaton, Geo Commission Nelson St. Emerson, R. B Tinsmith Germain St. Emery, Oliver & Co... Provisions and Ships.. South Wharf. Erb & Bowman Flour North Wharf. Everitt & Butler Wholesale Dry Goods. Canterbury. Everett, C. & E Hatters Prince William St. Everett, Geo. F. & Co. Drugs King St. Elder, Wm Daily Telegra/ph Prince William St. Ellis & Armstrong Evemng Olohe {< (( Finlay, Hugh Prinier*9 MiicelUmy, .Prinoe William St. ■■■HHm 188 THE GREAT FIRl!: IN ST. JOHN, N. B. W' I Finnegan,*H Liquors Prince William St. Flinn, Geo Saloon Canterbury St. Fairweather, H. H Coal York Point Slip. Fairweather, A. C. & G. E Insurance Princess St. Fairall& Smith Dry Goods, Retail Prince William St. Fairbanks «& Cf Gilders King St. Farrell, Michael Clothing Prince William St. Ferguson, John C . . , . Grocer and AuctioneerSouth Wharf. Flood, Michael Builder Wentworth St. Finn, M. A Wines Water St. Fisher, Samuel Shoemaker Charlotte St. Flewelling, G. & G . . . .Matches Water St. Foley, H. T Notions Duke St. Foster, John Grocers and Liqu^.d. . .Prince William St. Foster, S. K Shoes Germain Street. Foster, S. R. & Soji... Tacks North St. Fleming, J. W Liquors Britain St. Francis, Manuel Shoes Prince William St. Furlong, Thos Wines Water St. Fisko, Dr. J. M. C Dentist King St. Fitch, Dr. Simon Physician Princess St. Firth, Wm. M. B Wharfinger Walker's Wharf. Frith, Henry W Clerk of the Peace Princess St. Fitzpatrick, F. G. S... Bonded Warehouse. ...Nelson St. Ferguson, Miss Gordon House King St. Gabel, Z. G Rubber Goods Prince William St. Gallagher & Young . . Coopers Ward St. Gard, W. T Manu. Jeweller Germain St. Gerow, Geo. W Ship-owner Prince William St. Gibbon, W. H Coal Mill St. Gibson, W. C .Watch materials King St. Gilbert, & Co Merchants Prince William St. Griffith, Dr. Jas. E. Dentist Germain St. lam St. St. Slip. liara St. liam St. irf. I St. St. Uiam St. street. Uiam St. '^harf. >t. liam St. li. Uiam St. lUam St. THE GREAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. R. 189 Gilmour, A. & T Gleeson, Patk Griffin, Bros Godard, J. W Gorman, Thos Grant, J. Macgrr-jor . . . Green, Nathan Greenough, A. R Gould Bros Gunn, Thos Guthrie & Hevenor . . Gale, E. W Guy^ Stewart & Co. . . , Gardner Sewing Ma chine Co Gregory, Hugh S Grace, R. Gorrie, Henry Gavin, P .Germain St. .South Mkt. Whf. Tailors Provisions Fish Ship chandler North Whf. Provisions Ward Si. InsuraiMie Robertson Place. Cigars Prince William St. Saloon Dyers Tailor Bakers Charlotte St. Insurance Prince William St. .Lumber Office, Water St. <( (< (( (( (( (i Princess St, Stevedore North Mk. Whf. Umbrellas, etc Princess St. Tailor " Liquors , .% Water St. (( Hall, David H Sewing Machines Germain St. HiU, Rowland & Co. . . Crockery Mkt. Square. HaU & Fairweather . . Flour South Whf. Hall, Thos. H Books King St. Hamilton, Lounsbury & Co Manufacturer's agents Germain St . Hammond, E. P Sewing machines King St. Holden, Chas Physician Princess St. Hanf ord, Bros Commission N elson St. Health Lift Co R. J. MofFatt, agent .. Germain St. Hanington, Bros Drugs King St. Hanington, Thos. B. Auctioneer Princess St. Harding, Chas. E. . . . Lumber yard Reed's Pt. Harding, John H. . . . Mining agent Prince William St. 190 THE GREAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. B. (( (( it n. tt Harrison, J. & W. F. Flour North Mk. Whf. Harrison, Matthew ...Boots and shoes Prince William St. Hart, S. H Cigars " " Hammond, John Shoemaker ** ** Hatfield & Gregory . .Ship chandlera North Whf. Hatheway, Dr. J. C ... Dentist Germain St. Hatheway, Dr. Can.... " " Hatheway, W. H Fiah Hawker, W Drugs Prince William St. Hay, A. & J Jewellers King St. Hayes, Edw Baker Mill St. Hayard, S. & Co Hardware Prince William St. Hamilton & Gray Barbers Hayward, W. H Crockery Hegan J. <& J. <& Co. Dry goods Hevenor & Co Brass-founders Water St. Hillman, W. H Silver-plater Charlotte St. Hilyard, C. E Commission North Whf. Holstead & Co Trunks Water St. Holstead, John S Stevedore Horn, John Liquors Hubbard, W. D. W... Auctioneer Canterbury St. Hughes, John E Custom House broker Prince William St. Hunter, James Locksmith Princess St. Hunter, Roger Printer Dock St. ■ Hutchings & Co Mattresses Germain St Hutchinson, Geo Jr... Jeweller ** " Hyke, R S International Hotel . .Prince William St Hinch, James United States Hotel... Charlotte St Henderson, Jas D Fruit, etc Princess St Hancock, F M Fish • . . .St James's St (( (i Isbister, O R S . Painter Dock St IncheKT, Dr. P R Physician Germain St THE GREAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. B. 1!)1 St. St Isaacs, Joseph Tobacco Mill St Irvine, Bros Grocers Germain St James, S K F Ship broker Walker's Whf Jardine & Co Wholesale and retail grocers Prince William St Jarvis, C E L Insurance Princess St Jarvis, WmM " " " Jack, Henry " Canterbury St Jewellers' Hall King St Jewett Bros Lumber Office, Water St Jewett, ED&Co " " " Johnston, James J Tailor King St Jones, Simeon, & Co. Bankers Prince William St Jones, Thos R & Co . . Dry goods (wholesale) Canterbury St Jones, Wm Tailor King Scjuare Jones, Mrs.Wm Florist Germain St Jordan, Jaa G Ship broker Lawton's Whf Jordan, WW Dry goods Mkt Square Kivenear, Wm Liquors North St Keams, AG " Dock St Kennedy, Jas Grocer South Whf Kennay, E E... Organs, etc Germain St Keohan, Thos H GUder '* Kerr & Scott Dry goods Mkt Square Kilnapp, Geo Shoemaker Germain St King Bros Groceries Princess St Kinnear Bros Commission Nelson St Kirk, J T «& Co Clothing Mkt Square Kirkpatrick, Hugh .. *• King St Knowles,SN Trunks ...GermainSt Kavanagh, M Liquors Dock St • Knox & Thompson. . . .Furniture Princess St K^odell Geo A. Printer. , Church ^t 192 THE GREAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. B. Kaye J J & J S Insurance Princess St Kain Mrs .Green grocer Prince William St Lumber Exchange H J Leonard, Sec ...Market Square Larter, S Shoemaker Carmarthen St Landry & Co Organs King St Lautalum, E & Co.. . .Junk Union St Lauckner, S J Baker Sydney St Lawton, AG Drugs King St -» Lawton, Edmund " Prince William St Lawton, James Wharfinger Lawton's whf Lawton, J. Fred Saw manuf North St Lawton, W G Dry goods King St Livingston, John Watchman office Canterbury St Leach, Danl E Billiard saloon Charlotte St Lee J W Stoves Princess St Lee Mrs Intelligence office *' " Lee & Logan, Grocers Dock St Leonard, R J Ship broker Water St Leonard S & Co Fish & ships Water St Leonard, Robt Sail maker Water St Lester, E H Auctioneer King St Lewin & Allingham... Hard ware Market Square Leitch John & Co Wooden ware Germain St Lewis Wm B Sbip smiths Britain St Lipman S & Son Cigars King St Littlejohn Thos Liquors North wharf Lloyd & Co Coal Lloyd's wharf Lockhart, W A Auctioneer North wharf Logan, Lindsay & Co. Grocers King St Lordly, Howe & Co., Furniture , Germain St Lorimer, J B. Grocer. Carmarthen St Lorimer, Wm " South wharf Lunney, Thos Clothier Dock St THE (iREAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. H. 193 (( (( << (( (( (( Lunt, Enoch & Song. .Steamboats Dock St Lyman, C E Machinery agent Market square Lear, James Manufacturer's agent. King St Lyons, Ann Second-hand store Germain St Lawton, Benj Boat . builder Nelson St Lordly, Mrs Brunswick Hotel .... Prince William St McAllister, James. ...Dentist Germain St Maclntyre, R & Co... Paint manufacturers.. Sydney St Maclellan & Co Bankers Prince William St Magee & Co J T ... Tinware Magee Bros Dry goods Malcolm, Andrew Grocer South wharf Manson, Jas.L Dry goods King St Maritime Warehous- ing «& Dock Co Office, North Whf Maritime Bank Jas Domville, M.P., President Mkt Square Maritime InsuranceOffice North Whf Co Wm Pugsley, jr, SecyPr Wm St Maritime Sewing Ma- chine Co F S Sharpe Charlotte St Marshall, Robt Insurance agent Pr Wm St Marsters, John F Custom-house broker.. " •* " Martin, Wm Clothier Dock Masters, A W Oils, «&c Nelson Masters & Pattersc^i . . Provisions South Whf Maxwell, Elliott & Barclay Shipsmiths Nelson Maxwell, H & Sons... Lumber Britain May Jas S Tailor Pr Wm St Mc Andrews, Robt. . . .Shoemaker Gtermain St McAndrews, R jr Grocer King St McArdle, Patk " Pr Wm St 194 THE GREAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. B. Macfee, Wm Blacksmith Ward St McAvity, Thos & SonHardware Water St McCafferty, Hugh . . Liquors North Whf McAvenney, Dr A F. Dentist Germain St McCourt, Patrick Merchant North St McCarthy, Timothy... Coal Water St McSweeney, John. — Shipowner Office, Union St McClnre, Jas & Co. .Photographers King St McConnell, Jas Boots and shoes '* • McCormack, Jas Clothing Ward St McCulloch, H & H ADry goods Mkt Sqr McDonough, M Tailor Germain St McDougall, John Cabinet-maker Mill St McFarlane, John R...Soap and candles " McFeeters, WW Clothier Mkt Sqr McGivem,RP .... Coal North Whf McGill, L Shoes Mill St McCoskery, C A Liquors Pr Wm St McGovem,W F Hatter King St Mclnnes, J A Tailor , Princess St McKenzie & Scott . .Stone cutters Charlotte St McLachlan, D & SonsBoiler makers. York Point Slip McLauchlaUj Chas i& Son Ship-broker Office, North Wharf McLaughlan, D J . . . . Commission North Whf McLean, Wm M .... Ship-broker Office, Peter's Whf McLaren, L Physiciax \ Charlotte St McLeod, Geo Meroi^je at Water St McMann, L & Sons. . W i goods Smyth St McManus, J N Clothing Mkt Sqr McMillan, J i& A Booksellers & station- ers Prince Wm St Masonic Hall Ritchie's build Princess St McSorley, J Groceries & liquors . .Duke St THE GREAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. R. 1J)5 Melick, John Ship-broker Water St Meneloy, W Bluckniaker Ward St Merritt, E M Liquors Dock St M erritt, Chas Capitalist Water St Miller, JO Confectioner Charlotte St Milligan, J & B Marble- cntters . King Sq Mills, Alf Chronometers Pr Wm St Mitchell, John Carver Mitchell, John Boots «& shoes Pr Wm St Moore, Wm Painter Germain St Moore, Robt Auctioneer King St Moore, Ellen Milliner King St Morrisey, W C Undertaker Charlotte St Morrisey, Patk Liquors Duke St Morrison, Geo jr Grocer South Whf Moulson, Jas Grocer Water St Moynehan, Daniel Clothing Dock St Mullin, Bros " Dock St Mullin,JJ " Prince William St Mullin, John Boots and shoes King St " " Liquors Dock St Munroe, John J Trunks Princess St McGinley, W Barber Canterbury St McKillop & Johnston Printers — . ** " McKillop, John, & CoGoo Em Allen, agent.. Prince William St McLeod, Ezokiel Official Assignee Princess St McAvity, John D.... Grocer " " Muldoon, E Liquors Duke St McDonald & Hatfield Clothiers Dock St McAleer, Mrs Liquors Duke St Michaels, M Tobacconist .Prince William St Major, Wm Toys (( ti Nash, Thos Crated waters .Dock St 196 THE GREAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. B. New Brunswick Paper Co T P Davies, manager Canterbury St Nicholson, J W Wines Robertson Place Nicoud, Simon Jeweller Germain St Nixoii, Geo Glass and paper hang- ings King St Noble, Geo A Boot-maker Canterbury St Notman, W & J Photographers Germain St Normansell, H S Victualler Duke St O'Brien, Richard Liquors Germain St O'Gorman, John Groceries and liquors Dock St Olive, WH. Ticket agent Office, Prince WmSt. O'Regan, Chas Ship broker Office, South Whf O'Connor, T J Boarding-house South Whf Osgood, S P Marble-worker King Square Oulton, Bros Ship-broker Office, Water St Oddfellows' Hall Germain St Odell, Mrs Fancy boxes King St O'Hara, Chas Barber Mill St Provincial Building Society C W Wetmore, Pres... Prince William St Paddock, M V Drugs .Mill St Partelow, C J Liquors South Whf Partelow,GL " Ward St Patterson, WH Jeweller King St Patton Bros Liquors Water St Patlon, Danl Liquors Dock St Peiler, E & Bro Piano dealers Prince William St Pengilly, T M Drugs Pengilly, Oil-clothes Percival, Purchase & Co f Fancy goods King St <( (( (< <( THE GREAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. B. 197 Peters, Albert Tanner Britain St Peters, Thos W Capitalist Prince William St Phillips, Miss S Hair worker Germain St Philps, Geo Banker Prince William St Potter, C E Painter Germain St Potts, J W Grocer Water St Powers, M N Undertaker Princess St Powers, Stephen Liquor Mill St Price, James Tailor Princess St Prichard & Son Iron Merritt's wharf PuUen, James H Painter Charlotte St Purchase, Wm Watchmaker Dock St Provincial Ins Co. . . .H H Rqpvc^ agent. . . .Princess St Pattison, Geo Tinsmith Church St Purdy, Wm H Shipowner Maritime Bank Quick, Augustus Ship Chandler Water St Quinn, P J Dry goods Market Square Quinn, Wm Blocks , .Britain St PiTikxiie, Thos & Sons. Bakery Mill St Ranney, H R Insurance Prince William St Reeve, H H " Princess St Ray, Chas R .Agent Market Square Raymond, Thos F Royal Hotel Prince William St Redmond, P C Clothier Market S([uare Reid, Mis.': Kate Boarding Reed, J & li ....... . Shipowners Water St Reed, Thos. M Drugs Market Square Richardson, Alex & Co. Saw manufacturers... Union St Ring, Z Shipowner Maritime Bank Ring, Allan M Homoeopathic Phys. . . Germain St Rising, Wm Grocer. South wharf Risk, John Broker . . .Nelson St mmm 198 THE GREAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. B. Richards, John Liquors Prince William St Roberts, D V Ship chandler Water St Robertson, C A Livery Stables King's Square Rodgers, James Liquors Charlotte St Robertson & Corbett.. Grocers, retl. King St Robertson, D D & Co. Ship brok-^rs Smyth St Robertson, Geo Whs grocer Water St Robertson, Le Barun.. Cigars Prince William St Robertson, R & Son . . . Sailmakers, &c Water St Robinson, C & Co Undertakers Princess St Robinson, C E Shipbroker Reed's Point Robinson, T. W.. . , . .Salt, W I Goods Union St Roop, John Sailmaker Water St Ross, John Saloon ; Prince William St Rogers, John Tailor Prince William Sf. Ring, G Fred Commission Maritime Ban k- Rowan, Archd Gas&tter Water St Ruggles, St Clair Grocer Charlotte St Runciman, John Gasfitter Water St Rural Cemetery Co ...G Sidney Smith, Sec Princess St Russell, J H Hotel King St Rolph, A P Agent Duke St St John Gas Light Co A Blair, Pres Carmarthen St " Halifax Lith- ograph Co L D Clark, Manager... Church St Mutual Ins Co O D Welmore, Sec ...Princess St Building Soo C N Skinner, Pres ...Prince William St Board of TradeS J King, Sec Market Square Salmon, Geo Variety King St Sancton, G F Tugboats Office, Water St Salmon & Cameron ...Photos King St Scammell Bros ... Ship-brokers . Water St Scammell, C E, & Co Ship chandlers .../... (( « (t .( « THE GREAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. B. 199 St Schofield & Beer Produce Walker's Whf Schofield, Samuel Ship owner Office, Prince William St Scott & Binning Dry Goods King St Scott, Geo A Provisions & groceries Prince William St Scott, T A Saloon Charlotte St Seely, A McL Merchant Germain St Seely, D J Comm, etc Water St Sharkey, P & Son Clothiers King St Sharp&Co DG " Sharp, Laban L Jeweller ** Sheraton & Skinner . . .Carpets Prince William St Shinner, F S Grocer King St Small & Hatheway ...Steamboats Office, Dock St Small's Hall Dock St Smith, A Chipman . . .Drugs Market Square Smith, Geo F & Co . .Ship chandlers North Whf Smith, H R Bookseller King St Smith, Wm Ship-smith Snider, G E Auctioneer Robertson Place Sparrow, Geo Saloon King St Spence, W A Hay York Point Slip Stafford, Jno W Liquors Ward St Spring Hill Mining Co Coal Office, Water St Starr, RPifeWF " Smyth St Steeves Bros Merchants Prince William St Stephens AFiggures.,. Grocers Dock St Stephenson & McGib- bon Lumber Office, North Whf Stephenson & McLeanPro visions, etc North Whf Stephenson, Robt Boots and shoes Prince William St Stewart, Geo, jr Chemist King St Spencer & Wortman... Patent Medicines Church St 200 THE GREAT FI.IE IN ST. JOHN, N. B. Stewart, John Grocer . , Carmarthen St Stewart, Luke Shipbroker North wharf StewartjRobt Toys Germain St Stewart & White .... Furniture and Auc- tioners Prince William St Storey, J K Dry Goods King St Strang, Saml Commission South wharf Street, A LB Wines Princess St Suffren, Geo Jewelry , King St Sweeney, John Boots & Shoes Prince William St Swift & Johnson .... Painters Church St Saunders, James Boots and shoes King St Street, W W Stadacona Ins Co ...Prince William St Temperance i 11 ... King St Talbert, A J Dry Goods Dock St Taylor Bros Shipowners Prince William St Taylor & Dockrill Grocers King St Taylor J M Commission North wharf Tennant, R H B Shirtmfr Prince William St Thomas, Geo Shipbroker Water St Thomas, Geo E Adjuster " '' ThompsoUjG F & SonsPaint mfrs Princess St Thompson, Richd .... Fancy goods Market Square Thomson, Wm & Co . . .Shipbrokers Smyth Street Thome, W H &■ Co... Hardware Canterbury St Thurgar & Russell... Liquors North wharf Tippett, A P Manufacturers' agent. Water St Toll, James, Fisherman Water St Troop & McLauchlan.Ship chandlers Water St Troop & Son Shipowner WaterSt Trueman, James .... Grocer South wharf Tufts, Francis . .Provisions, &c " '* Tufts, H K Boots & shoes Prince WiUiam St ? ^ " O 2; o H a > o w > St 1 1 \ \ V V V, V] Wi \Vj Wi Wa Wa Wa Wa Wai Wal Wat Wet VVel, Wet: Wala Wetr Whit Whit Wliit, Whit THE GREAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. B. Tufts, Samuel Grocer Germain St Turnbull & Co Flour, &c Ward St Turnl)ull, J E Sash factory Main St Turner, James D . . . . Oysters Water St Turner, Joshua S Fruit " "•* Thompson, Mrs AnnieBoarding house Germain St Travers, B Physician Sydney St 201 Valpey , J H Shoe mf r Prince William St Vassie, Jno & Co. . . .Dry Goods whs Canterbury St Vaughan & DonovanBoots & shoes Princess St Vaughan, J R Boots & shoes Prince William St Venning, J H Engraver Germain St Vroom & Arnold Ship-brokers Water St Ward, Wm M Liquors Charlotte St Walker, Jno & Co. ..Ship chandlers Walker's wharf Walton, Wm Crockery King St Waterbury , Wm Hardware King St Waterhouse, L H Coal North wharf Watson, A C Fruit Water St Watson, W C Shipbroker Nelson St Watson, W H Groceries & liquors... King St Watson & Co Books " " Watts & Turner Dry Goods Market S(iuare Webb, W E Cordage Smyth St Welch, Richd Tailor Germain St Wetzell, R - • • Ice-dealer Prince William St Walsh, M & Son Boots & shoes Reed's Pt Wetraore C W Broker Prince William St White, G *& V S Merchants North wharf White, James E Stock broker Prince William St Wliite, Thos Confectioner Germain St White & Slipp Flour North wharf N 202 THE GREAT FIBE IN ST. JOHN, N. B. Wheeler, Miss White & Titus .... Whiting, GH Whiting, W J .... Warn, Win & Son. — Willis, E, & Co Willis & Mott Wilson, Gilmour & Co Wilson, JN Wisdom & Fish Wishart, John Wetmore, E J .... Wills & Rubins.... Woodworthj J L . . Weiscoti", Jacob . . . Walker, Thos Boarding Charlotte St Flour, etc North Whf Agent Canterbury St Flour, etc South Whf Barbers King St Paper Collar Manuf s . . Canterbury St ' ' Morning News " " •' * " Mantels Prince William St Liquors Church St Machinery Prince William St Merchant Walker's Whf Flock Manuf North St Ship-smiths Water St Agent Mispeck Mills ... " Liquors Prince William St Physician Princess St. Young, Adam Stoves Water St Yeats, A, & Sons . . . .Iron Union St CHAPTER XVI. The Oddfellowsi and the Fire—Relief Committee at Work — Searching out the Destitute Brethren — Helping the Sufferers— The Secret Distribution of Aid— List of Donations. The Society of Oddfellows is a Mutual Relief Association, one of the first duties of its members being to search out worthy and distressed brethren, and relieve their necessi- ties. The member who neglects to carry out this noble principle, violates his obligation. The order has obtained a strong foothold in the city, and many benevolent men have joined it that they might thereby be actively instrumental in doing good to their fellow- men. The brother who suffers, and whose family re- quires assistance meets with no obstacle in his way, for a liberal hand almost as unseen as those blessings which come to us disguised, is near, he receives the offer- ings of his companions, not as charity, but as his due He is an Oddfellow, and that talismanic word is all sufficient. In his time he had helped many. When his turn comes the same rule is observed. The mode of giving relief is twice blessed. It is done in secret, and without ostentatious parade. No member ever deems his spirit crushed when he takes aid like this to his family. And no widow, however proud, thinks for a moment that she is accepting alms, when her immediate and other wants are supplied from the "Widows' and Orphans' " Fund. Sq 204 THE GREAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. B. anxious are the ineiubers to have it thoroughly understood that the aid that m given is not that which is known as charity by the outside world, but is the legitimate due of the Oddfellow, that it is expressly laid down, that no member, however well circumstanced he may be, can re- fuse the sums which are from time to time placed at his disposal. If he be sick he receives weekly a sick benefit allowance. This he is bound to take. He may if he choose, it is true, donate it back to any fund he likes, but it is preferred that this should not occur. In addition to money benefits the order provides something else which is more enduring than money, and which cannot be bought at any price. The member is no sooner sick than he finds a warm-hearted brother by his side, eagerly trying to in- terpret his wants, and perform some little act of kindness that may perhaps assuage his pain for a time. In a hundred ways this excellent society does good. The dis- tressed are relieved, the sick are watched over, and the dead are buried. Where it is necessary, the brethren sit up during the night with ti.» patient, and in a thousand ways the good work goes on. Up to the present time no calamity has disturbed the prosperity of the Order in the Province. Indeed, on the contrary, its career has been wonderfully successful. The ditlerent lodges have grown prosperous, and the two prin- cipal funds, the " Widows' and Orphans'," and the " sick benefit," have for some time had quite a respectable bal- ance at their banker's. These still remain intact, and are held strictly in trust to enable the ends of the society to THE GREAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. B. 205 i} d the the The prin- sick ftbal- are ty to be carried out when required. The recent fire, of course, destroyed a considerable amount of the property belong- ing to the oi'ganization ; but the actual suftering was con- fined to the private members of the order. Many of these endured great hardships, and met with reverses of no ordinary kind. Men who had all their lives helped others, now found themselves in a moment dependent on their friends for relief for pressing needs. They had saved no- thing from the burning, and some of them who were in- sured had trusted to offices which went down with the general crash. The result was immediately apparent. Some- thing had tv> be done and at once. Their distressed and harassed members must be relieved. The whole tenets of the order demanded this. The common humanity which dwells in the hearts of so many members cried out to the afflicted ones, " Your loss is ours ; we are ready to divide with you." A meeting of the leading members was had on the 22nd June, at the Oddfellow's Hall, Town of Portland, and steps were taken for the administration of immediate relief. The same spirit which actuated the brethren here seemed to prompt the members abroad to deeds which can never be forgotten while a Lodge or an Encampment exists. The chairman^of the meeting, D. D.G.M. Murdoch, on the evening of Friday, announced to the assembly that the Lodge in Moncton had generously contributed S25, and asked to be dra%^ v. on to the extent of one hundred dollars, and Brother White, of ' "ngor, had forwarded the handsome sum of three hundred dollars, and offered more if needed. Offers of assistance came wm nai tmm 206 THE GREAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. R from Boston, Chicago and elsewhere. These tidings were received with great joy ))y the members. They knew now of the sympathy which was felt for them abroad, and their fii\st duty was the organization of an Executive Com- mittee. This was done on motion of Bro. Vradenburgh» and one member from each Lodge, and the Encampment were appointed such Committee. These wei G. Mc- Clure, of " Siloam," N. G., Court of " Peerless," N. G., Torrance, of " Beacon," N. G., Hea, of " Pioneer," and Henry Hilyard, chairman of Portland Town Council, of the Encampment, together with Bros. Gilbert Murdoch, and Rev. G. M. W. Carey. A sub-committee was subse- quently appointed on the recommendation of Bros. Vraden- burgh and Kilpatrick, whose duties it would be to seek out and report to the Executive Committee any brother they found to be in distress. This Committee vas very judiciously selected, and comprised the follow gentle- men : R. R. Barnes, James Byers and J. Rubbins, for Beacon Lodge ; H. A. Vradenburgh, W. A. Moore, and Alex. Duff, for Peerless Lodge; F Barnes, Hamon and A.J. Smith, for Siloam Lodge ; and John E. Hughes, J. A. Paul, and Jos. Wilson, for Pioneer Lodge. Action was then taken on the telegrams received, and a committee was appointed to attend to the replying of the same, and the transmission of the thanks of the St. John Oddfellows to their brethren in the United States and Canada. The Executive and sub-Committees held a meeting immediately after the session of the General Body, and the following officers were appointed : D. D. G. M. Gilbert \ were vnow 1, and Com- 3urgh» pment >. Mc- N. G., ," and acil, of irdoch, subse- raden- to seek brother s very ^entle- ns, for 1 Alex. Smith, il, and ien on ited to mission ethren eeting y, and filbert THE GREAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. R. 207 Murdoch, Chairman; R.Radford Barnes, Troasiiror ; and John E. Hughes, Secretary. Tlu^ meeting then adjonrnetlj and all futvu'e sessions of eomniittee were ordei-ed to take place in Room No. 9, Park Hotel, where the three heavls of the Department of Relief would hold daily meetings, re- ceive reports, and supply all assistance needed by the brethren. The system has worked a Oldtown, Maine, Torratine Lodge 115 00 Dover, Maine, Kineo Lodge 50 00 Brampton, Ontario, Golden Star Lodge 50 00 Portland, Maine, Oddfellows 478 00 Oshawa, Ontario, Corinthian Lodge 50 00 Chicago, 111., Northern Light Lodge 10 00 Portland, N.B., Peerless Lodge 140 00 Stratford, Ontario, Aaron Lodge 25 00 Granville Ferry, N. S. , Guiding Star Lodge 30 00 Goderich, Ontario, Huron Lodge 80 00 Spring Hill, N.S. , Eureka Lodge 50 0«1 Petitcodiac, N.B., E. J. Ritchie 1 00 Woonsocket, Maine, Palestine Encampment 10 00 Lewiston, Maine, Golden Rule Lodge . . 125 00 Belleville, Ontario 50 00 Stellarton,N.S., Fuller Lodge 50 00 Vale Colliery, N. S. , Moore Lodge 50 00 Staynor, Ontario, North Star Lodge 30 00 Eureka, California, Humboldt Lodge 50 00 Toronto, Canada 50 00 Rhode Island, per J. T. Driscoll 200 00 St. Catharines, Ont., Union Lodge 100 00 SUPl'LIES. Charlottetown, P. E. I., Bedding and Pnn'^isions. Portland, Maine, 4 cases Clothing LIST OF DONATIONS. MONEY RECEIVED. Amherst, N S . . . $500 00 h 00 THE GREAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. R. 209 Augusta, Me 81000 00 Aiinapf)li8, N S 554 00 Accident Ins Co, Canada 200 00 Aberfoyle, Ontario 200 00 Armstrong, Ed (New York)' 5 00 Albert Mines, NB 115 00 Ayer, Ontario 200 00 Attleboro', Mass, Methodist S School 15 00 Arichat, NS 307 00 Boston 5000 00 Boston Felt-roofing Co ^ 100 00 Bank of British North America 2433 33 Bathurst, NB 400 00 Brantford, Ont 10(K) 00 Brockville, Ont 500 00 Bath, Me 1300 00 Bayside, St Andrews, N B 90 00 Brockville, Midland Counties 200 (X) Brookville, N S 5 23 Bell, Mr., Dublin, Ireland 48G 07 Boardman, Gorham, New York 100 v"K) Boynton High School Children, Eastport, Me 2 38 Bang'T, Me 7000 00 BeveriJge, B. & Sons, Andover, N B 100 00 Bridgetown, N S 393 02 Bridgetown, Me. , Congregational Church 14 65 Bowmanville, Ont 300 00 Beder, S, New York 4 00 Bucksport, Me 320 00 Billing, W W, New London, Ccmn 100 00 Burt & Henshaw, Boston 50 00 Buffalo Board of Trade 332 08 Buffalo School Children 1000 00 Borgan, Capt, ship " Tros " 5 00 210 THE GREAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. B. Baltimore, Md Boston, Theatre Benefit Belfast, Me Bowman, J L, Brownsville, Penn Blanchard, Chas, Truro, N S Boyd, John E, Three Rivers, Quebec... Baird, John, & Go's Employes, Alamonte. Berlin, Ontario Chicago Union Stock Yards Chicago Clearing House Chicago Produce Exchange Chicago Board of Trade Chicago City Charlottetown, P E I Canning, N S Clarke, Dodge & Co, NY Canada Screw Co, Dundas, Ont Canada Life Ins Co Crerar, Capt W G, Pictou, N S Carleton County Council, N B Clarke, Ontario, Municipality of , Campbell, J W, Chicago, 111 Commercial Union Ins Co Citizen's Hose Co, St Catharines, Ont Carmody, Rev Canon, Windsor, N S. . . . , Caton, Judge, Ottawa, 111 Campbellton, N B Clifton, Ont Chatham, NB Crain, Marshall, Brunswick, Me Chatham, Ont Chatham, Ont, Masonic Concert Clinton, Me, Masonic Service Cornwall, Ont $541 97 886 03 524 00 25 00 10 00 10 00 13 00 300 00 1200 00 1000 00 1000 00 5274 10 10,000 00 5000 00 279 90 250 00 200 00 500 00 50 00 1000 00 400 00 50 00 , 2500 00 200 00 10 00 50 00 . 147 00 300 00- 700 00 25 00 500 00 . 169 18 63 00 300 00 THE GREAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. B. 211 $541 97 886 03 524 00 25 00 10 00 10 00 13 00 300 00 1200 00 1000 00 1000 00 5274 10 0,000 00 5000 00 279 90 250 00 200 00 500 00 50 00 1000 00 400 00 50 00 2500 00 200 00 10 00 50 00 147 00 300 00- 700 00 25 00 600 00 169 18 53 00 300 00 Dominion Government f20,0(K) 00 Dorchester, NB 615 00 Digby,NS 700 00 Dalliousie,NB 200 00 Dublin, Lord Mayor of 480 67 Dover,Me 245 75 Detroit, Mich 1000 00 Dominion Organ Co, Bowmanville, Ont .. 102 00 Dungannon, Ont., Orangemen 29 10 Elliot National Bank, Boston 647 00 Eldon, Ont 500 00 Fredericton, N B 8000 00 Fuller «fe Fuller, Chicago 50 00 Flanagan, R J, Newcastle, NB 5 00 Fredericton Lime Rock Church 24 00 Fowler J &G, Charlottetown, PE I 100 00 Fox J J, Magdalen Islands, per J V Ellis 25 00 Gal.t, Ont 500 00 Gaelph, Ont 1000 00 Garr inge, Wm, Chicago 4 25 Glasgow, Scotland 14,600 00 Grand Rapids ''friend" 100 Guysborough, NS 121 00 Grace Church, Detroit, Mich 97 42 Gloucester, Mass 100 00 Grey County Council, Ont 500 00 GaltChurches 674 17 Grant, Capt I I F, Bermuda 5 00 Halifax, NSBay 1 08 Halifax, NS 10,000 00 Hawson, John Gloucester 5 00 Hallowell 500 00 Hamiltcm, Ont 13,900 00 Hamilton, C C, Comwallis, N S 5 00 212 THE GREAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. B. Harvey NB $15 00 H.alifax Garrison 5G4 71 Hne John Keo (2) James Gilmour James Ritchey John Ritchie Wm B Aitkin R*j{lo R Evans John Richey Thomas Ilankinc Thomas Doyle John Wilson Chas McLean J Henderson H Hondorson Rev J R Narraway Andrew Kennoy L H Waterhouse Wm Nixon D DriscoU R Wotsell George Sparrow & J S Richard- son Wm Finley WENTWORTH STREET. E E Lockhart Thos Dobson G Sparrow George Blatch C Sparrow (2) J W Fleming H Whiteside John Fitzpatrick H Coflfey M Barnes C Flaherty CESulis B P Price (3) James Moulson (2) John A Anderson B McDormott R B Emerson J T Barnes George Dohorty (2) C Cathers (2) Alex Steen WiUiam Hill (2) Knox and Thompson (4) John Carr MAIN STREET. John E Tumbull (4) John Woodley J G Jordan A Steen (2) JTole James O'Brien Wm Bowden Wm Coxotter & Michael Tucker T M Reed Sarah L Collins (2) D McDermott P Vanhom James Mahoney (3) j James Moulson 230 THE GREAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. B. Jane Halcrow L Markie a .J Sulis (2) VV^in LewiH J iV J{ Mageo J W Nicliolsoii G U Kent (2) A L Kuwlins D Kni^'lit F Mahoney Ed Thmmott Wni McKinney Archibald DibV)lee (leorge Thomas Jolin Gntlirie Mary ^inn Hatclitt' James McKinney OV Troop Rector and Wardens Si James' Chnrch Langstroth Andrew Armstrong BRITAIN STRKRT. Sarali McFadden Jane liarl)our John Collins J(»hn Scott H Sjjears Thos Miller Thos McCullongh Thos Crozier Jas Price Wm J Colson V Mc(ionagle C Lark ins H VV Pnrdy E Mnrray Heirs D HatHold Jas McAvity Wm Furlong John Abbott John Bartlett Albert Peters Mrs O'Keefe Geo Garraty B Coxetter E Thompson Margaret McPartland F Stewart D Jordan (2) Wm Ennis Jas Nicholson Robt Barbour Albert Betts W H Purdy C Merritt (3) Geo VV Belyea J Jardine Jus G(trman J Moore (2) Lawrence McMann (2) J l»ackthall F M Hancock C J W ard Mrs Jas Bell W H Hatheway John Hutchinson Peter Besnard, Sr (3) R Johnston (2) J Hayes Neil Hoj't N Carroll M Barnes Heirs L H DeVeber (2) F l*heasant A Doyle R Dalton W J Pratt D RoV)in8on W A Magee S McGarvey Bridget Murphy Thos Bisset Bridget Farren J George Ed Duffy J E Tumbull (.) THE GREAT FIui. IN ST. JOHN, N. B. 231 E Thomi.Hon (2) John Moraii (2) John Crowley W H Quinn ('^) F S Williams (2) John Wishart D J Schurman Mary McCiirdy H Maxwoll S a Blizar.l Thoa RobinMon ST. JAMES STREET. O Clino R Clino J Kemp John Hridges W I Whiting J McLarren E Thompson Patk McManus Wm Leahy S Rutherford John Doody John Sherrard John Knowlea John Sears (',i) C Cain Wm Furlong (2) Bridget Murphy John Watsftn Thouuis Viall Geo Young J as Ellis E L Perkins (2) Wm Simpson Alice McKean P McGonagal M Burk Mrs Thos Hanlon Samuel Fisher Eliza Wilson John Wilson, jr J & A Campbell D Sullivan R Holmes C Moriarty John Runciman Robt J Caldwell W Caaey School Trustees Rev VN'illiam Scovil John Fisher John Cain Rev Wm Scovil and Trustees of Wiggins' Orphan Asylum J 1 Hake Wm Duffell Thos White Thos Pike F P Robinson John Winters J as E'rice Wm Giltillan Jane White (2) Wm Russoll Mrs David Millar Heirs Thos King P Condon Jos Akroyd David Stewart Patrick Furrie Chas ( )8burn Elizabeth Spence Rev M Ritchey Thos Kedey Wm Lewis (3) M Flood John Wishart John S Mullin J«>hn Littler Heirs Daniel Hatfield Heirs F Dibl)leo Purdy heirs B Coxetter T G Merritt Heirs R Sands 232 TUE GREAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. B. Caleb Larkins T F llaym(»nd Mrs l^'rancis Clemontson D J Schiu'iuan Thos Littlejohn Chas Sinclair John Callaghan T M Reed PITT STREET. Silas H Brown Henry Lawlor James Cummings F Jordan Rtibecca Fisher Ed K Fish«r D S Robinson James Hewitt C Lawton (2) HHEFFIELD STREET. Gilbert estate Matthew Th(jmp8on (2) James Carr E Vanhom James Brown Heirs Geo McKelvie (2) John A Anderson R Robertson Margaret Hennigar Joseph Kinipson Fei^uson & Rankino (2) Y M C AsBociati(m M McVane (2) Robert Ciinnitf John Kirk Alex Harvey Jane Wjisscm Mrs. P. Riley J H Anthony John McCabo (2) John Woodbm-n C O'Keefe Richd McOluskoy Thos Furlong Isaac Woodward John Boyd Geo B Gushing R Gruikshanks John Fisher A McDermott Purves & Moore J Drake E Magee John Porter Rector and Wardens St James' Church Stephen & James Gakos S Dunham Mary Ann Pointer Catherine O'Neal (2) Daniel Smith Joseph McCullough McKelvey heirs Trustees Methodist Church David Dodge Elizabeth Nixon Lewis Wheaton Goo Anning Joseph Sulis Jas Vanhom N^, QUHBN SQUARE. A L Palmer Jas Manson (2) W B Smith John Horn J W Barnes ;t Jaraea' irch \1K\V Kl'.'iM C.lK.r.N St^lAKi; tb>llMrl>..i.l ■■■■«l •>-••« Lt* >•• Monlr'«l CRKMAIN SIRKKT, SHOWING VICTORIA HOTKL. J JH h c B J n T D J< G( CJ Ja THE GRKAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. R. 23n D Robertson (2) Mrs Charles Brown Chaa Brown John Stewart and lieirs of F. Tufts John Tucker H. Jack John Foster R Lon^niaul Thos P Davies H. Hawkins Jessie Day Mrs Alex Dalsell J H Harding J U Thomas Joseph Snlis Geo Riley and heirs Roht Riley (2) J O'Connell Wm Davis and heirs John McNicliol Mary Jiersay John R McFarlano James McCart (2) £d Edson Mrs Jane McPherson Heirs John Thom>is Hugh Kelly S Benterell John Hamilton Margaret Homer, Heirs John Roberts Geo S Fisher Robt Turner John Mc Brine (2) R Ca88i«i> {2) Thos Jordaa D. S. Kerr Joii'i Pettingill C Flood (2) Oe<» Suffren Chas E Raymond gUKBN STRKKT. j John Fitzpatrick I James (Jalla^her (ieo .1. Nixon A. Quick Heirs R Bayard R .1 Leonard G F Soley (2) Alex Steen Hugh Carswell Mrs .John Millidi,^' H S Normansi'Il- Heirs John Whitney John Wilson, jr Johyi Wilson (2) Margaret and heirs .Joai'i>li Hanley (2) Thos Doylo Andrew Evans Robt Marshall Wm Black F M Hancock Alex McKelvy Wm Pike (2) Heirs D J McLaughlin, J McFarlano Thonuis McAvity, jr Robt Hick son M Francis D hrown Mary Crothurs an«l heirs John Crc )thers Ann Thomas Amlrew Kenlian Mary Williams .lohnScalloii (2) Simon Leonard MECKLKXHUKU HTHKKT. Jas Hutchinson and heirs .los Stevenson (2) ichard Longmaid H Vaughan 234 THE GREAT FIRK IN ST. JOHN, N. R. .John ViiHsio CItuH Maclean Heii-H.laineH Wliituuy Margaret [lilliuaii C Mclver Cliaa Whitney John Dyora Marv Dockrill VV M Jordan J as EinerHon J as McNicholl Heirs Joseph Atkins Mary Ann McLean F L Lewin T VV Seeds Henj Uodgo John Ennia John Dick James Woodstock P McArdle Peter Fhuinigan Mrs Francis Ferguson (2) Joseph Bell Jolm McSorley (S) Heirs R Bayard (2) A Blain Peter Bosnard (JJ) Mrs Livingstont! Mrs W Fraser .lohn Marven S Tufts J Shannon <) Bailey Trustees Mtidnis School Soely »fc Besnard 11 W Crookshank Susan Stephenson B Brennan (2) R(»bt Thomson (2) Samuel ier Andrew Gihuour tt Hohertson, jr S K Brundage Phuihe Bookhout Martin liurns Edward Purchase Thos Dobson Ann Atkins Jas Knox Francis (Jallagher Mathow Steen Wm Causey CJeo V Nowlin Andrew Armstrong W McVay Wm McKeel Heirs Aaron Eaton .I(»hn Magee William M>igeo .1. W Nicholson .) R Armstrong DUKE MTKKKT. Joseph Henderson H Henderson Wm H Randall Wm McBay J Wilkins, sen .1 Wilkins, jr Wm Francis James Adams Mrs (lilchrist James Saunders Wm Whitney Sarah Partelow Ed Purcluise (2) R«)))t S Jones Geo Sparrow Mary Ann McLean (2) M Morrison Charlotte . I ones Michael Burns P Bushfan William Wright Heirs William Melody Margaret Hartuess E Bnrnside THE (JREAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. W. 235 Howard D. Troop John Marvun •lohii Cook Janioa Adams Sarah Ferguson Heirs Eaward Itruuda^^o (2) W Skophons Jacob Seoly Tnistoos Christian Church John Wishart L A Watcrhouso James Milligan Sarah Jane Ferguson Ooorgo A Thompson John Richards W F Butt Arthur Daniel (2) lloirH Daniel Culhert Janu's Vnrnon Mrs. EarU^y Sarah (jillis J. O'Connell l*otur Dearness Heirs Michael Mc(iuirk (2) Ann Jane llitchiit (ieo Stock ford (Caroline W M>d Hugh Davidson Susan Chittick (2) .J *fc R Reed OKA NOB STUKKT. VVm Meneally John Smith Andrew (Jray M. Hennigar ('2) Andrew Kinney (2) Jas Adams W R MacKenzio D MacKenzie W E Vroom G E King H D Troop C W Weldon A C Smith R R Sneden £ J Harteaux Joseph l*richard (4) Jane Co«>k iFames McLean Catherine Allen Tliomas Johnston Henry Lawlor Ji Murphy James E Wliitiaker .F R Woodhurn / (J Gabel James Estey Charles Drury Ennna J Daley .John Sweeney J W Hall Cr McLeod J A Venning R Blair Margaret Sinnott Heirs \{ McAfee Heirs Wm Bailey •fames Morrison Heirs .* Williams Princksh Sthkkt. Alexander Barnhill W J Ritchie E Thomi>8on Patrick Bratlley J C Hatheway E Sears l» Fitzpatrick Wm Burtis A Buist .las Hunter 236 THE GllEAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. B. i Knox & Thompson John Hurk J H Lee, Tlios Rogers John Anderson (2) John Miirpliy B Bustin (I Bent Marj^arot Hunter John Nugent Mary Craig James H Hartlett Mi's David Miller Th(»8 Miller James Bustin Fred Dorman O Doherfcy Adam Young C E Robinson John Hoaley John (lardnor Mrs Mary A& E E Lock hart (2) Heirs of (Jeo A Lockhart R W Thome H Williams W Sandall Robert McAndrews James Robinson Susan and heirs J ilohnston Ann Hamiltim and heirs Clara Dean William Fogg Maiy Ann Eilswurth J V Troop Simeon Jones Alex Lockhart Trustees Centenary Church (2) Heirs John Mason Heirs Tliomas 1* Williams W C Drury T A Codsoo .1 W Scammell D Henderson C W Whitney A D Wilson Mrs Ellen Smith John Doherty Trustees J S Turner Thomas Bustin P Halpin B Pateraon Barbara Clark W C Godsoe James Trueman Ed Willis Joseph Miller Robert Law Cieo Thomas Judge Watters Benj Lowe H A Hatheway (2) Harriet Trueman W Walton (ieo Mathews (2) S A Dixon E M Merritt Michael Thompson (2) Rev Alex McL Stavely H S (Jregory Helen York and Captain TIu>b York John Anderson Jas Sullivan (ieo F Thompson J J Munro J E Ganong T G Merritt Jane Woods John Burke Mrs Jas Drake G C Wiggins W H Hay ward M. N Powers Catherine and heirs Michael Donnelly F A Wiggins Rev Mr McCarty Trustees James Leitch Charles Patton THE GREAT FIRE IN ST. .JOHN, N. H. 2.S7 LEINKTER fSTKEKT. F Cassidy James Milligan Lydia Gardner (2) Joseph Edgar Mrs Wallace Mrs Samuel Bustin Trustees of liaptist Church Jane Rutherford H L Francis Mary Murray Francis McDevitt Trustees Varley School Mrs E Lunt and heirs Jos Lunt A W Msisters Silas H Brown James Sullivan Mrs Lydia J Calhoun Joseph Reed W H .t 1) Hayward A H Eat(»n John Corr S K Foster John (ialla^her Dennis Sullivan Heirs Win BaiUiy Francis Hewitt (2) John Roop (2) Geo W Masters G V Nowlin Chas H Dearborn G Merritt Gilbert Murdoch T C Humbert John McHrine (2) CHURCH STREET. ain Thos G A Knodell M Thompson Geo Pattison ThosS Wetmore James H Peters MrB Jane Di8br()w Kllon Mahoney Ed Miiher A Bow(!s R T Clinch an)in Mitclioll Mary Pithllor Wni PoturH Hoirs H Chubb JoHoph Nichols Janios li Kuel iV!^ Robert Light Mra Chafl (J Macdonald (3) .Io8 VV Hall (2) VV H Scovil K T Clinch and huirs E Barlow UNION STKKKT. J C Hrown oHtntc I'utor and .lohn (/anipbull Daniul Donovan M TH Lantaluni (2) .1 W Hall (2) tlohn (lallivan John McSwtKUiy (3) linirs D.I McLaughlin C Lawton •laniua Dover .] Frccl Lawton L HurnK .J Hogan >l(»hn Lloyd Haru heirs Mrs .John Hrye(mconi|)uttMl, aiul found to lir niiiclj jL^reater tlian was at fii*st supposed. Tlie |)rivftte lod^r^s saviMl notliin^', and all tlieir warrants, i»aiuiers, jewels, clothing, and other parapliernalia were lost. Some of tlu^ni even () : Alhion, No. I, $.Sr)0; St John's, No. !>, ahout Ji^OOO; Leinater, No. 9, and New Brunswick, No. 22, foot up to $7'')0 each ; and Hiln Jiia, No. ,S, to ^H'tO. The ( 'hapters hav(^ also fared hadly Carleton Royal Arch (yhapter, formed in 1802, lost the seal and Sl,l')() worth of property ; wliile N(nv Brunswick ( *hapi«'r meets with a loss of $1,47'"). There were two Knc€im]>ments which met in Masonic Hall. St John Kncamj)ment not only lost S*<2..SOO woith of property, whicli included the rich re<,ailia of the order, the jewels, banners, chevters, and Lfenei*al j)arjiphernalia, hut also the seal of the F]neampment, and the re«^ilia in the armory, which was owned hy the private meml»«^"^. This latter consisted for the most part, o"^ t)i»' '-jiapeaux. 240 TIIK GREAT FIF^K IN ST. JOHN, N. B. Hwnnls, ln'lts, (gauntlets, haldrics, a])ron.s, etc., usually worn l»y thi' Sir Kni^^lits when on parale to the masonic stiif THK UIlE/fr FIUK IN ST. JOHN, N. B. Notwitlistjiiiiliij;^', liowovor, that tliry haoanl of relief and procee«led to care for the wants of tlie brethren who harethren in distress. The hoard meets eveiy day, in the office rented for the purpose, from four to five o'clock to consider apj)lications and ^nantsucli rclii'f as they deem advisable. In the administration of the fuml at tlu^ir disposal the hoard extMciscs j^reat dis- criition and discrimination. Not only are brethren of the craft helped, but the hear*^ ' of their widows and orphans are m.ule «jjlad. Often the boanl does not wait for a dis- tressed brother to make application for relief, but other means are taken to find out his necessities an«l aid is sent to liim whenever this can be ascertained. All benefits are {.(ranted \n money, and ran^^e from sums of twenty to fifty dollars, payable by check signed always by the treas- Vied ivion, to )()ard from such ion of it dis- of the |)hans a dis- other s sent '.nefits ty to I trijas- THK rjRKAT FIllK IN ST. JOHN, N. H. 243 urer, and one other oHieer oi'tlie hoard. As soon as inoiiry is receiveil it is :iO (M) ♦' Grand Lodge of Canada I ,(XM) (K) Illintiis '2;t7 75 " Craft in Charlottotown, P. E. J :WK) 00 " " Nowfoundland ,. . . 'SM 44 '* Mjwonic Jleliof Hoard, Moniphis, Tcin.... 04 7f» " St. Andrew's Lodge, Hangor, Mo \iit (H) " St. .John's Lodge, Bathurst, N. B 50 0(> " Star in the East Lodge, 01dt<»wn, Me 00 50 " Alexandria Lodge, St. Mary's, York Co., JH. B 20 (H) ii IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) 1.0 I.I 1.25 IIM 12.5 :: ™i- iiiiM J ii ill! 2.0 1.4 1.6 oSs. ^ /^ <^ /}. /a '^ e. el. ^5 ^# . ^m. W -> / "^y ^ '^ o 7 /A Photographic Sciences Corporation €3 i\ :\ \ '^ *?,< ^' 6^ ^^> %^ oldly and ,he people enterpris- Many are I solid rock on. They t, and they over their ird. They ght things , not flatter ar land has J over san- ling to bet- ermination -that kind md clothed uscle still sn to work leen worse. [idings — we jme happy Lnd shops — rUK r^MPOKAKY W. i;. TEL OFFICE. THE GREAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. B. 249 we have lost a hundred comforts — but, thank Grod, we have not lost our glorious hope in the future. In that hope is our salvation. It is that hope which stirs us on, which quickens our energy, which tells us that it might truly have been worse. It is the one beautiful thing that is left to us. It is the angel which smiles back to us when we raise our eyes upward. It is the figure in the cloud which says to prostrate man, " Rouse, rouse yourself! all is not lost, there is a future for you all." Ah, yes, it might have been worse. There is desolation all around — there is death in many households — there is mourning and cry- ing and moaning — but hope still sailing grandly near us, so near that we can almost touch her, still smiling sweetly on us, tells us all will yet be well and bids us be of good cheer. The number of houses burned on the seveial streets in the city, is sixteen hundred and twelve. They were located as follows : — Georges Street 10 MillStreet 20 Drury Lane 17 SmytliStreet 20 North Street 6 North Market Slip 8 Hare's Wharf 1 Uobertson Place 1 Fire Proof Alley 2 North Market Wharf.. 11 Nelson Street 18 DockStreet.. 26 Market Square 6 Q 250 THE GREAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. B. South Market Wharf Ward Street Petera' Wharf Johustou'a Wharf Lovett's Slip St. John, "Water" Street Canterbury Street Prince William Street Germain Street Charlotte Street Sydney Street . - . . Carmarthen Street Wentworth Street Pitt Street Sheffield Street Main Street Britain Street St James Street Pagan Place Harding Street Queen S(i[uare, south side. Queen Square, north side. St Andrew Street Queen Street Mecklenburg Street Duke Street Horsdeld Street Orange Street Princess Street Church Street Leinster Street King Square, south sille. . . King Street 16 10 11 2 1 51 10 05 87 84 75 59 34 38 52 58 101 08 9 15 10 10 17 80 44 105 17 42 106 10 45 6 60 Total. 1612 16 10 11 2 1 51 19 95 87 84 76 59 34 38 52 58 101 98 9 15 10 10 17 80 44 105 17 42 106 10 45 6 60 1612 THE GREAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. B. 251 The number of people render ed hoiuelcHS f oot up to about thirteen thousand, and the number of familie.s to about twenr y-ieven hund red. As near as can bo ^'ot, the insurance on merchandise, furniture and buildings, is placed as follows. This is not (piite correct but at this hour it is as nearly correct as can be ascertained. It will average this at all events, and amounts in the aggregate to about seven millions of dollars. gueen ^700,000 North British & Mercantile 800,000 Lancashire 500,000 Provincial 100,000 Liverpool, London tfc Globe 480,000 Guardian 420,000 Canada Fire & Marine 50,000 Citizens 200,000 National 140,000 Royal 520,000 Commercial Union 420,000 Royal Canadian 350,000 Western 90,000 Imperial 480,000 JStna 246,000 Hartford 148,000 Phenix of Brooklyn 60,000 British America 27,000 Stadacona 320,000 Central, of Fredericton 60,000 St John Mutual 75,000 Northern 600,000 Canada Agricultural 8,000 Most of the Insurance Companies paid up at once. 252 THE r.REAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. B. " The Stadacona " pays its liabilities within a year. The *' Provincial " has suspended but promises to pay in time and the condition of the " St. John Mutual " is quite hope- less, and will pay scarcely anything. The " Central " of Fredericton, N.B., will pay in a short time, it is said. The loss to the shipping will amount to about fifty thousand dollars. The St. John Corporation loses heavily, and the insurance which was held on some properties is exceedingly light. The City Hall cost, at the time of its purchase from the directors of the old Commercial Bank, the sum of $23,000. Since then a good deal of money has been expended on it. The insurance was only $15,000. The Police Court and station on Chipman's Hill, which were both bunied, the one a wooden building and the other of brick, had insurance to the small amount of $2,000. The Fish Market, useful and by no means orna- mental, was insured for $600. The Lower Cove Ma^'-Qt, the upper or second story of which contained a public hall, and was used by temperance societies sometimes was insured for $1,200. In the rear of the first floor of this building, a lock-up was situate, for the accommoda- tion of delinquents and law-breakers in that portion of the city. The city stables on Carmarthen street were uninsured, as was f:\j the toll house at the Carleton ferry landing. The building occupied by Mr. May at Reed's point, and which was owned by the corporation, was insured for 1,000. Two cottages on Orange street were insured for $3,000. These were occupied by Mr. A. J. H. Bartsch, the^watch-maker, and by Mr. Chas. Parker. Mr. r. The in time ie hope- tral " of id. lut fifty heavily, lerties is le of its Bil Bank, oney has $15,000. U, which and the iiount of ans oina- Ma^^et, a public raetimes floor of ommoda- lortion of •eet were ton ferry ,t Reed's ;ion, was •eet were A. J. H. Iker. Mr. THE GREAT FIKE IN ST. JOHN, N. B. 253 Samuel Phillips' residence, on JJuke street, and which belonged to the corpora^^ion, was insured for $400. The warehouses on Pettingill's Wharf had insurance to the amount of $5,000. The barrack and sheds belonging to the city were uninsured. Two-thirds of the fire alarm was destroyed, and all the watering-carts, slovens, hose, &c., belonging to the corporation, were burned. No. 1 engine-house was destroyed. No. 2 experienced a little damage after Dr. Travers' house caught fire. The side- walks can only be replaced at a heavy cost, and the dam- age to the wharf property is enormously large. The Dominion Goverrtrrent loses about half a million dollars. The Custom Hou.v and Post Oftice will be rel)uilt at once, and plans are rheady prepared. All the Govern- ment military stores were burned, and the three hundred rifles belonging to the '"2ti<1 battalion were lost. Most of the new uniforms belonging to the corps perished like- wise. None of the Dominion Goveiiiin^nt's property wos insured, and the loss will therefore be complete. The list of callings has been carefully gone over, and shows a return of the following, who have be en burned out : — Architects 4 Auctioneers 7 Bakers , 11 Banks 5 Bankers, Private 4 Barristers . 80 Blacksmiths 10 Block and pump makers 8 1 1 254 THE GREAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. B. Boarding-houses 65 Boat builders 5 Bookbinders 5 Book sU)res 7 Boot and shoemakers 38 Boot and shoe stores 14 Brass founders 6 Builders 27 Cabinet makers 9 Clothiers 29 Commission merchants 93 Confectioners 6 Dentists 9 Druggists 8 Dry goods (wholesale) 14 Dry goods (retail^ 22 Dining and oyster saloons 10 Flour dealers 32 Fruit dealers ... 7 Grocers (wholesale) 40 Grocers (retail) 102 Gasfitters and plumbers 9 Hair dressers 13 Hardware stores 8 Hotels 14 Insurance agents 29 Ironmeichants 8 Licjuor dealers (wholesale) 27 Liquor dealers (retail) 116 Livery stables 8 Liimber merchants 12 Marble works Merchant tailors 36 Ne n spapors 7 THE GREAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. V.. 255 55 5 5 7 . 38 14 . 6 . 27 . 9 . 29 . 93 . 6 . 9 . 8 . 14 ,. 22 .. 10 . . 32 .. 7 .. 40 ..102 9 13 . 8 . 14 . 29 . 8 . 27 .116 . 8 . 12 . . 36 .. 7 Painters 13 Photogi aphers 6 Physicians and surgeons 15 Printers (job work) 10 Riggers 7 Sailmakers 5 Ship chandlers 14 Ship smiths 8 Stove dealers 8 Tobacconists 7 Undertakers 4 Watchmakers and jewellers 12 The following list shows the manufactuiing establish- ments, using steam power, which were destroyed, and gives the number of hands employed in each : — No. of Name. Business. hands employed. Jeremiah Drake Block maker 5 John E. Turnbull Sash factory 18 Armstrong Bros Foundry 10 T. Ilankine & Sons Bakery 30 S. R. Foster to the re with TITE GREAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. B. 269 the great things in literature, but our thoughts will wander back to the days before the fire came and robbed us of all those delights which peopled and filled our homes. But we must not give way altogether to gloom and despondency. We must try and forget the past and devote all our ener- gies, all our brains and skill to the rebuilding of the homes and workshops which have been scattered to the winds. We must never rest till the great end is accom- plished ; we must never cease working. As Christians, asl / men, as the proud descendants of a sturdy and stalwart race, we must show the world that we are not a genera- tion of pigmies, and that from these very ashes and iniins a brighter, a more glorious and more prosperous city will arise and resume her old place as tl>e metropolis of the* Lower Provinces. I have told the story of the great fire in St. John in my own way. I have tried to do justice to my theme. Like many others I have passed through the flames, and received as it were my first " baptism of fire." My book has many imperfections. It was necessary that it should be hastily prepared. My publishers demanded this, and gave me a fortnight to write it in. I can there- fore claim nothing in favour of the book from a literar^^ point of view, but this I can claim — the history is reliable in every particular. Not a statement within its pages was committed to paper until it was thoroughly and reliably avouched for. I have verified every word which this volume contains ; and while the haste in which it was prepared precluded my paying much atten- 270 THE GREAT FIRE IN ST. JOHN, N. B. tion to style, the book is a complete record of the tire as it was, and not as a lively imagination might like it to be. Before taking leave of my readers, I must publicly thank Mr. Joseph W. Lawrence for the splendid aid which he gave me in furnishing the data and historical information about our old churches and other edifices. I had full access to his records and commonplace books, and through these means was enabled to verify much that had come to D^e in an imperfect condition. To Mr. Gilbert Murdoch, C.E., and Mr. Wm. Murdoch, C.E., of the Water Works and Sewerage Departments, I must also return my thanks, for valuable information about the water supply, for the capital map which accompanies this volume, and for facts connected with the acreage and streetage of the district burned. General Warner, Mayor Earle, Mr. A. C. Smith, Mr. John Boyd, Mr. A. P. Rolph, Mr. Dole, Mr. Hiram Betts, Mr. Elder, Mr. J. L. Stewart, Mr. McDade, Mr. O'Brien, Mr. Stanley, Mr. G. B. Hegan and others, also largely rendered me assistance in collect- ing information, and to these gentlemen I return my grateful thanks. The little picture of the ruins, by moonlight, of the Germain street Baptist Church, was very kindly supplied by Mr. John C. Miles, a St. John artist of good reputa- tion. I have great pleasure in acknowledging his polite- ness here, and at this time. In conclusion, I might add, that to Mr. E. Lantalum belongs the credit of sounding the first alarm of our great fire. lire as e it to iiblicly id aid itorical ces. I books, T much To Mr. D.E., of I must 1 about npanies age and ', Mayor . Rolph, tewart, |. Hegan coUect- rn my of the lupplied reputa- polite- Intalum ir great ADDITIONAL LIST OF DONATIONS. MONBy. A friend ^2 00 Ailsa Craig Presbyterian Church, Ont, 18 60 Ayr Knox Church and Sacred Concert 76 00 Allendale, Ont. Methodist Church 6 60 Augusta, Me 820 40 Barrie, Ont 166 00 Baltimore, Md 80 62 Bobcaygeon Orangemen 15 00 Bangor, Me, 5,000 00 Belfast, Ireland £300 Stg Buflfalo, N. Y ^179 83 Chicago Union Stock Yards 105 35 Chippawa, Ont. Trinity Church 38 65 Chicago Apollo Musical Club, Concert 990 75 Chicago, lU 2,060 00 Chatham, N.B 250 00 Capt. Thompson, as. ** Britannia," 600 00 Charlottetown, P. E. 1 500 00 Charlottetown Odd Fellows' Entertainment 208 00 Departmental Clerks, Ottawa 445 53 Edinburgh, Scotland £»00 Stg Ed. L. Evans, Rondeau, Ont. 2 00 E. ^ ^ o t5 \^ \ / ' '» m» ^ INDEX TO PLAN. No. «i i« «« 44 44 • 4 4i •4 I —Court House, t— Regbtry Ofliot. 3— Doul HouM. 4— Jail. 5-Tc 44 remperance HalL 6~St. John PresbirteriKii Church. 7— Wat«r Worics Offic* and Pipe Yaid. 8<-Lctiister Street Baptist Chuidi. 9~Ceiiteiiary Wedeyaa Church. ti—Dramadc Lyceum. St David's Chuidi ij— R. C. Temperance HalL i^— Victoria Sdiool. 15— Duke Street Christian ChaiwL 16— Pitt Street Mission. 17 -St PhiUip*s M. £. Church. 18— Wig^ns M. O. Institution 19— Marine Hospital • 30— Sheffield Street Mission. ai— St. James' Churdi. 33 Lower Cove Mission. 23— Germain Street Baptist Church. 34— Victoria Hotel. •• 35— St. Andrew's Church. •• 36— Odd Fellow's Hall. ** 37 — Grammar SchooL " 38— Germain Street Wesleyan Church. "• 39— Academy of Music. 30— Government Savings Bank, 31— Richer's Building. 32— City HalL 33— Bank of Nova Scotia. 34— Post Office. 35— Bank of New Brunswick. ** 36— Custom House. " 37~Trinity Church. 38-^Trinity School House. 39— Maritun Block. 40— Bank of British North America. 41— Congregational Church. 43— <2alvin Church. 43— St John Church. 44— Mechanic's Institute. 45— Unitarian Hall. " 46— Coburg Street Christian Church. ** 47— St, Steohen's Church. " 48— R C. Baptist Church. ** 49— St. Mary's Church. ** 50— Exmouth We&leyan Church. " 5X— Brussell Street Baptist Church. ** 3a— Hoikie lor the Aged. '* SS—Reformed Presbyterian Church. N. B. — Burnt district, ruled lines. Fire district enclosed in heavy line. A^cinity within which wooden buildings were prohibited previous to fire. 44 44 44 44 44 M 44 4< 4( • < 44 44 4« 44 44 (4 44 44 44 «4 44 44 U C O U fR 7- E /V THE STORY OF THE GREi^T FIKE 111 St.JOHN,:N.B. June 2oth ibjj, By George Stewart, Jun!" BELFORD BROS PUBLISHERS, TORONTO. ■ ■ - ] ITO Sea//'. .')CJ SVvz/^'. ,jOO Ff^t lo / //ic/i,.