Seattle Rebuilds With Brick After Great Fire

The burning of Seattle has been a disastrous blow to the citizens of the Queen City, but there are items of future importance connected with the clearing off of some of the older buildings and shacks which are of more value than the losses dating from the day of the conflagration. In the first place, the citizens have decided to extend the fire limits, and only allow brick and stone structures within certain lines. This will insure a class of buildings which have been necessary to the growth and which have been withheld by the small wooden capital building of our merchants. This will give the real estate a flow of money which will reach every arm of trade and the results will be felt for years. Now that the fire has cleared the way and Seattle must be rebuilt, the question is not how many thousands or how much money can be induced to come to Seattle as through the building of better houses to replace the innumerable shacks which lined the best streets of the city. With these streets cleared and a firm resolve to build a brick town, a better class of capital will arrive. More money will be spent for material, more money can be induced to come West, and in five years’ time the Seattle of last week will be nowhere beside the healthy burg which will arise on the ruins of the old.