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S BUSY Money is Pouring in for Business Resumption. , GEN. RIGGS EXPLAINS PLANS FOR REBUILDING ALONG MODERN LINES Composite Estimate of Loss Placed at $85,000,000-No Troops Sent to the City Yet. Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. BALTIMORE, Md., February 11 -Phoenix-like Baltimore will arise from its district ashes, and in a few years the burned will again be a scene of great activity. For the past three days the population has been dazed by the appaling catastrophe. The people could not come to realization that the mainspring of the city's commercial and financial world had been destroyed. Now, however, the realization has come and with it a determination to restore and the city's eminence as a commercial financial center. Already a number have of leading merchants and amnufacturers commissioned architects to draw up plans for new structures. In some instances with contracts have already been signed builders. Thousands for Clearing Work. The work of clearing away the debris be proceeded with as rapidly as poswill sible. Arrangments are now being made put by the building inspector's office to burned of men to work in the district. thousands The Baltimore and Ohio, NorthCentral and Philadelphia, Baltimore engaged ern and Washington railroads are now into in laying temporary tracks running running district, for the purpose of great the which will be loaded the gondolas of on wreckage. This debris will and be carried mass to points yet to be designated unloaded. there the intention of the city officials city to It is first that portion of the bounded clear up by Baltimore street on on the the north, east on the south, Holiiday of about Pratt on the west, an area were 10and Liberty Within this section and 300 acres. the principal wholesale houses the first cated and they will be given that the factories, to rebuild, in order motion opportunity of progress may be set in again wheels at the earliest opportunity. Wholesale Traders Busy. Many of the larger wholesale southern houses, trade, secured offices just as have which already have supply an enormous their customers and never are in oc- a position expeditiously to as if the fire had curred. stated by a prominent wholesaler condition today It was that the larger firms once. are and in while the to meet cannot all orders be supplied at here they facility will be rushed goods through with the element greatest lies in the Another encouraging have given asthat the underwriters will be paid in fact that all the losses trepidasurance There had been considerable assurance full. point, and when that came tion on it this had much to do with restoring of confidence. feeling too, the wealthy men of the for city reThen, to give liberally the show a disposition sum is now at lief work, and large The financial situation, mayor's is brightening, disposal. and confidence in that too, direction is being restored president of the Mr. John Mechanies B Ramsay, Bank, and one of The the foremost National financiers of the city, said to Star correspondent today: into Money Pouring Into City. city to meet in general the "An men abundance and the all of community money current is needs. pouring Tempo- Business at once dispel all anxiety. by all the should rary offices are being were opened wrecked, and in so banks whose homes far as the banks Until few days business, will go on as before be outthe vaults is being obtained opened, are a concerned, money in the different banks from can has of-town sources City Bank of New York, the "Why, bank it offered to the supply need. every My bank here received all and money it may from New York, will all be banks are doing the quarters. $1,000,000 yesterday Other paid out from our temporary anxiety same thing. there is considerable the question of "I know men on occasion among business money, but there is no As an inmight getting for this lack of confidence. cite the Philadelphia, railroad. stance, Baltimore I and Washington to me Tuesrepresent ative came we going to Their asked 'Where are ddesday? money for our pay office, I day get Right and here at our temporary day replied. Suspension Order Causes Uneasiness. anxiety orig"I suppose this governor's feeling of ten-day legal from the That action was inated proclamation phases of holiday the legal have only to cover might taken sactions that could get financial transac until the banks quarinto working to be delayed shape in temporary finanters. there need be no fear coming of a into "No, stringency. Millions insurance are companies cial fire merwill expedite Then, too. of chants the city. to resume The payments rapidly out-of-town to enable capital mil- of lions of attracted dollars by the opportunity offices, builderecting will be new structures, and manufacturing arehouses dest royed ones. I ings, to replace the great disaster, but "The fire effect a great not one of here. of believe plants enterprise it will was mournful I am view awakening big the situation. of those who take There a is going to be a district burned there will boom. "In rebuilding ortunity the for the city to into put section. be an execution The old plans with ramshackle for modern beautifying build- structhat will be replaced Baltimore will rise deings and thus a new I think all the stroyed sites there tures, from the area ashes. will Do be are quickly too valuable rebuilt? to Certainly; long unoccupied." Mr. remain Fire Will Prove a Blessing by herein men. The views reflect expressed those of other and, prominent indeed, bankers Ramsay and those business who now regard disguise. the They conthere are blessing in into flagration as Baltimore had fallen ostastrophe rut, ergue and that that just such a
