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Burning of the Newhall House
Published by Bleyer Bros.
Cramer, Aikens & Cramer, Printers - 1883

     [58]              BURNING OF THE NEWHALL HOUSE
     
                              PECUNIARY LOSS
                              
     The following is a statement of the pecuniary loss by the great
  conflagration: 
  
           Underwriters' value of the hotel . . . . $140,000
           Estimated value of furniture . . . . . .   26,400
                                                    --------
                                                             166,400
           Insurance on building  . . . . . . . . .  $78,500
               "     "  furniture . . . . . . . . .   23,800
                                                    --------
                                                              102,300
           Actual loss  . . . . . . . . . . . . . .           $64,100
           
     The ground floor of the building was occupied by Geo. Scheller,
  hotel bar-room; Manufacturers' Bank; C. F. Hibbard & Co., and C.
  H. Ross, insurance and freight agents; L. A. Wheeler and C. E.
  Grain, insurance agents; W. T. Durand, insurance agent; F. W.
  Montgomery & Co., insurance agents; Merchants' Dispatch Freight
  office; West & Myers, insurance agents; Blue Line freight office;
  and Benj. M. Weil, real estate agent. The basement was occupied
  by the Mutual Union and District Telegraph offices; Grand Trunk
  freight office; A. H. Baumgaertner, painter; A. W. Goetz, barber;
  and Burdick & Armitage, job printers. Of these occupants the
  last named were the heaviest losers. Their presses and material
  were valued at $10,000, upon which there was an insurance of
  $8,500. The losses of the other occupants were mainly in office
  furniture and books and commercial documents of small intrinsic
  value. The stock of the hotel bar-room, kept by Geo. Scheller,
  was well insured. To these losses by business establishments in
  the basement and first floor of the building should be added the
  loss suffered by guests and servants in the destruction of clothing,
  jewelry and other personal effects. In several instances
  these losses reached a considerable sum. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. E.
  Cramer lost valuable diamonds and a store-room full of choice
  books and articles of virtu collected during their foreign travels.
  Henry C. Payne, postmaster, lost a valuable library and other
  goods which he had stored in the building. The total amount
  of these personal losses cannot be computed, but it certainly
  reached a large figure.  
  
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