Word: fires
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...collection of clothing for the large numbers of people left destitute by the Chelsea fire will be made today by the Phillips Brooks House Association. Every man in the University is requested to give as liberally as possible. Men have been appointed to collect in the various dormitories and clothing should be given to them alone. Those men who live outside of the dormitories may either leave things at Phillips Brooks House, or leave word there where they may be called for. For the sake of getting the clothes to the front as soon as possible, wagons will be sent...
...worst conflagration which has occurred in Greater Boston for many years began yesterday morning about 11 o'clock at the westerly end of the city of Chelsea in a dump near the plant of the Boston Blacking Company on Summer street. Late last night the fire, fanned by the high northwest wind, had not only burned over an area of about half a mile wide and over two miles long in Chelsea, but had also spread rapidly in East Boston. One of the worst features of the fire was the explosion of the oil tanks of the Tidewater Oil Company...
...order to protect the household effects and property of the thousands of homeless people, the Chelsea militia was called out shortly after noon. Early in the course of the fire, help was sent for and men and apparatus came from Lynn, Cambridge, Everett, Revere, Winthrop, and other cities as far distant as Waltham...
...estimated late last night that the loss would be in the neighborhood of $10,000,000. The fire seemed to be under control by midnight and unless there is a change of wind it is probable that it will burn itself...
Confronted by these evils and their causes, President Eliot next proceeds to point out a way of obviating them. He shows how Boston has met some of the problems by placing her parks, her water supply, her library, city hospital, and fire department in the hands of commissions, thus relieving the mayor, aldermen, and council, of a large amount of municipal business. In Galveston, Texas, the mayor, aldermen, and council are entirely replaced by a single body whose functions are wholly administrative. There are five men elected by the people, each with a department of the city's business under...