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ORTH SHORE BREEZE 
AND REMINDER 
Manchester, Mass., Friday, August 20 
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No. 34 
Salem—Pride of Historic New England 
Up from the Ashes of Year Ago, and on the Way 
KATHERINE GAUSS 
A LITTLE over a year ago Salem, the pride of historic 
New England, was swept by flames which reduced 
over $5,000,000 worth of taxable property to ashes. A fire 
that swept clean the various parts of the city so that on 
the morning after, twisted iron and seared bricks were 
all that was left of factories and homes. And now, even 
in this short space of time that has elapsed, this busy city 
is up and on its way to a far more prosperous period 
than has ever been known before. 
Millions of dollars worth of property has already 
been erected and the results are for a more beautiful city. 
Trees and srubbery aer fast making green the spots leit 
bare by the fire and the cellars on more than eighty streets 
are rapidly being covered by a fine type of dwelling house 
which are housing many of the 2000 or more families 
that were burned out. 
The care and good management of the rebuilding 
and the enforcing of stringent “regulations is all toward 
South Salem and along Lafayette 
street has grown up clean and vigorous. Beautiful dwel- 
lings of colonial lines have been erected where old and 
re-modeled houses used to stand. ‘The wooden shingles 
have disappeared all over the city and space is required 
between all buildings, so that fire cannot get any headway, 
if by chance it should visit these districts again. 
The “three decker’ is forbidden and in its place 
have come substantial fireproof, brick blocks that have 
plenty of light and air,—tenements that hold six to 
eight and. sometimes ten families, but well-housed and 
not over-crowded. 
Not only in the burned area is building going on, but 
ail over the ‘city new land is being developed and new 
streets are fast filling up with new houses. Gardner 
Park, one of the suburbs of Salem is thriving and the 
Dugan estate in North Salem is spreading out. The im- 
mense property controlled by Mrs. Emma §$. Almy is 
being laid out and will form a model French district in 
the near future, with a church, school and playground. 
A word about the business of Salem, which is boom- 
even for dull times! Up near Boston street, where 
the fire started, leather factories have sprung up, fine 
b.ick and cement buildings a credit to any business. And 
on the Point the mammoth works of the Naumkeag 
Steam Cotton campany are fast going up,—low brick 
siieds with glass roofs for the looms, with four and five 
storied cement office buildings. This company has also 
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Mt. Vernon Street, Salem, First Street finished (in March), 
