Manitoba Morning Free Press from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada • Page 16

MANITOBA FREE PRESS, WINNIPEG, FRIDAY JANUARY, 1, 1904. me gp CTflaawfr jmiiii iw i fWlw lii 193 Lombard Street, 1W Cn 1U Winnipeg, Man. 8 WALTER SUCKL Real Estate and Insurance Agents To Our Patrons a Generally Gr tgisn bbp hbmsp aim a mminni tt qgiMteiw It is with pleasure that we announce having taken into partnership MR, H. I. BUNNEL of this city, who will in future act as manager of our firm, which will be run under the old name.

Mr. Bunnel is a man of large and varied experience in this line of work, having had for a numtjer of years charge, of the Real Estate Department in the Head Office of the Toronto General Trusts Corporation, the officials of which speak in the highest terms of his ability, integrity and industry; and we can assure you that, if favored with a continuance of your esteemed patronage, which we respectfully solicit, your interests will be as carefully looked after in the future as in the past. We append list of a few New Year THAT WILL PAY YOU TO INVESTIGATE RESIDENTIAL Desirable Home for Barrister on best portion or Kennedy StreeL, clciL-e to Court House, 2 storeys and attic, solid brick, stone foundation, about 11 rooms, all modern in every respect, well finished and comfortable lot Ox 120 to lane, beautifully Rfoft treed and sodded SPECULATION 20 Lots on Victor Only each. These will be worth $250 WAREHOUSE PROPERTY 357 Sutherland Avenue. Fine warehouse site, 50x150 within 20 feet of railway track, house on lot renting, for $10 per month.

Price 2,000 East Market Street. Warehouse property, 50 feet running back to 'track, only $180 per foot, cheapest priced lot on the street. A snap, per OA foot $10U INVESTMENT $12,000 buys fine all modern brick terrace of 4 houses, Edmonton Street, $12,009 Special Snap in Farm Property N.W. 14 20 and E. 12 32-4-10 West, 480 acres of fine open prairie and best soil, large portion now under cultivation, buildings first-class, property recently inspected by well-known valuator who says it is a great bargain at $6,000.

Owner is leaving country and will accept $5,000 if sold within a few days. 80 Acres at $5, before next summer- S3 WALTER Real Estate and Insurance Agents ED wards, I heard, and the McLaughlins were questioned about the pai ty at nome, but, sure, tne oiu routs nothing of the prank of ourselves eren'l able lo tell anything. Mrs. True Story is Told ol the Starting of the Great Chicago Fire in 1871 O'Leaiy didn't know until yeuis after- la as iaia 'aae am im tsm ssaa ffiEmFmsfmm mm ws aaaagJ sg; as IjL We Wish You AH a Happy jL IIP and Prosperous New Year. RB a in1 Pw.

I and told the truth whfn she said she was asleep wneu the big started. "None of the nelghbois knew, cithei, the few of us that did took good re to keep our own counsel. New that it's past and gone, I can uS toM I 9 K. teeifc rurnuure vo. I uld ne-ver havi The memory of Mrs.

Catherine O'Leary, of Chicago, is now vindicated, although her long ago passed to the shades, still stands convicted. On the eve of Chicago's centennial, when the mile posts of the city's history were being inspeced, there wa3 found personal testimony as to how the great fire of. was start- S22S2-u 5S3B Wm SSSlJESittcJ something that was entliely dn but I was younger then Now it an do no hatm to tell it Outline of the Other Tradition. The O'Leary tradition, which has been generally accepted until the new infoimatlou given bv Mis Callahan that on the eenniK of Octobei 9, istiic PREFERENTIAL kfcigar Not more tnan two thirds ha YoulII Enjoy Every Bit 01 It. 18 71, a family named Chambeilain hart been lejoicmg, in the coming of son.

The Chamberlains lived in the same house with Mis. O'Leary Do Koven street When they found the supply ol milk insufficient for the punch in which the were piroaimg to drink to the healtn of the son, one of the Chamberlains volunteeied to milk Mr. O'Learv'' cow. Ac. ordii.g to this same older tiadl-tioji the husband entered the staulc in the roat ot the house, curbing .1 kerosene lamn.

As ho seated himself beside the cow, the animal kicked over the pail, overturned the lamp, set lire (o the straw and won undying fame under the name of "Mrs. O'Leary's The flames started shortly after 1 o'rlock, und the barn, which wa3 only a few feet square, was consumed by the time the first engine summoned on a still alarm. The file spread to the house and was swept along by a strong southwest gale, burning for three days. Mrs. O'Leary died twelve years ago at the residence of her son, James O'Leary 4153 South Halstead street.

New York, Dee. 31 A dispatch from St Petersburg pays' "Russia's reply to Japan will toe handed to the Japanese officials on January 13." O'Leary, and we never dreamed of the horrible things that followed "It was one of a dozen little parties that the boys and glils held in the home of Tat McLaughlin, jigging and waltsdng to the time of the old man's fiddle and he was one oi' the best that ever crossed the water. "There were eigh1' of us in the party besides the old people, their children and giandchildrcn. The McLaughlins lived in a cottage in front of the O'Leary home and barn a' 13 7 De Koven street. We were all good friends of the O'Leatys, and Utile Annie McLaughlin her that is now the wife of great Jim O'Leary was one 3i' the old man's grandchildren who was playing about the flooi while wo vcre dancing.

Who Was There. "In the crowd were George and Will Lewis they're the city now, though I haven't seen them in years John Finnan, John Hanley he was afterward a member of the fire department for years Joan and Alice Reilly she's now Mis. Kane and lives in Sixteenth street Denny Connois he was fresh from the old country and myself. 1 It wasn't a planned party. We were all in the habit of going to McLaughlin's on Sunday evenings and singing, dancing, and merrymaking after the week's work.

We were all working boys and girls, none more than 22 or 113 years old, and most of us over from home but "a short time. "Denny Connors the Lord ha' mercy on him, he's dead now was a greenhorn and had only landed in Chicago a fw days before He was a cousin of the McLaughlin's and when I got there about 6 o'clock Sunday evening, he wasi telling tales of the old home and we sat listening to him for the better part of an hour. Fateful Pot of Tea. "Then Pat McLaughlin "got down his fiddle, and sitting on the cold stove with his feet on the wood box he scraped out the Mrs. McLeod's reel, the blackbird and other tunes that started our feet pattering A little before o'clock Mrs.

McLaughlin set about getting some tea for us, and me, who was helping her, found that there wasn't but a few drops at milk in the pitcher. "Stores weren't as many about the west side as they are now and Mis. O'Leary, who sold the only milk in the was sound asleep in her bed. Folks worked hard in those days and went to bed and got up early, and we didn't want to rouse th poor woman. We knew the cows were ln the shed in the rear, but neer gave it a thought until Denny Connors he was the wild odmathaun said to come -rvith him and we'd get milk in plenty.

"There was' no lock on the sheds or the houses either those days, and, taking a lamp from Mrs. McLaughlin's kitchen, we started for the cow sttable. If Mrs. O'Leary had been awake she wouldn't have bothered with us or the few pennies' worth of milk we were going to take, but we thought it would be the good joke on he-. to get the milk quietly, and then laugh at her afterwards.

us girls could have drawn the milk ln a minute, but there must have been few covvs in the pait of Ireland poor Denny came from, and lie knelt down on the left side of the cow to milk lamp had been put down on an old milking stool, and we were stand -In laughing aL Benny ti ying to grip the co which kept moving away tiom Lho strange hands and awkward movements. Jn the duii light III nevei know whether the cow kicked or Denny fell over the stool in his wild stumbling hut the lamp wont over, sure it did, and Alice and -self streamed ran for the house "In a minute Jl ins Kmnan came running after us and whispcied to us to say nothing Denny was not hurt, he isaid, and the thu iculd be put out in a minute. We thought nothing more of it and were waltaing with the boys when Connois and a man named Denny Kullivan, who lived across the street, came running in and shouted that the house was all afire Great hire in Progress. "Wo ran to the rear, and sure enough the barn wm blazing and the Are had i cached the O'Leary home, Mr. Sullivan pounded on the door and roused Mis, O'Leary and the family, while ve girls went to the two hydrants that were in the yard and filled buckets and pail3 and passed them to the boys.

one of us fought our best to keep down the fire, but our efforts were hopeless against the high wind and the dry limbers that hadn't been moistened by the rain in weeks. "They say the fire department didn't arrive for many minutes alter, but, sure, I don't know of that. We were too busy ourselves to heed the passing of time and tt might have been two minutes or two hours. The thing I do know is that they btarted to fight the fire from the wrong side. "The wind was blowing from the south and they all got on the south side of the Are instead of going to the other side and cutting it off.

Some of the men said the firemen were drunk from the free whiskey and liquor passed out at the big fire the night before, but I believe the poor men were tired out and not able to do the work they might have done otherwise. McLaughlin's house was north of O'Leary's and was not haimed by the fire. Terrorized the Next Day. "We staid there all night, and next day Alice and I walked to the bouses where we were working in Warren avenue. We were gnls who didn't know the ways of the country well then and the lives were frightened in us.

Although we'd intended no harm, we couldn't tell what might be done to us, and when we heard they were giving away free tickets to get out of town, to the office I went "Wp were refused at first, but I got a ticket for Sheboygan next day and I started out for the home of relatives and didn't come back to Chicago until most of the buint homes had been rebuilt. Denny Co.iners left the chy, too, and a little later went to Ireland, where he died years ago. "There was an investigation after- bed when the tire alarm hells startled the dwellers or De Koven street. Her story was substantiated by affidavits of herself and her husband, but by the average Chicago citizen the legend of Mrs, O'Leary and her cow has been accepted as gospel. Now cornea thc uuj tale of it alL Woman Tells True Story.

In a ut Ue house on the northwest Kido of the city an alert little woman who, on the night of October 9, 1871, was one of a party of young people gathered at 137 Dc Koen street, recently told to a reporter the story of the starting of the fire and the causes that impelled the participants in the affair to secrecy Mrs Mary Callahan for she it was who told the true story of the gieat is now 53 yeais old and resides at 190 -Emerson avenue. For i score of yeartr has been a familiar figure about te territory. Although a grandmother she is 'as active as the three children who play about skirts, to whom again and again she has told the story of the loosing of the "fire fiend and the destruction of worth almost $100,000,000. That Mrs. O'Leary was truthful in her declaration is the statement of Airs.

Callahan, To an innocent party younr people, four of whom are still residents of Chicago, Is laid the starting of the fire In the O'Leary shed tliit in an hour had swept beyord the control of any lire department and 3 aged for nearly 36 hours. A prank of young men and women, thought to play a joke on the owner of the cow was indulged ln by Mrs. Callahan and three friends, who hesitated, when the consequences were seen, to reveal the zeal origin of the fire. Three of the party left the city before the official investigation of the fl- was s-tartcd. and the one who was milking the cow at the time has never Mrs.

Callahan Talks. "P'alth, I mind it like it was said Mrs. Callahan, recently. "Jt frightened the life in us then and it wasn't till afterward, when the members ot the little crowd were scattered far arid wide, and some of them dead and gone, that the few of us who were left dai ed whisper about it en among ourselves "It v-as only the high spirits of a crowd of lads and 'girls that wanted to play a joke on our old friend, Mis. AIRSHIP WITHOUT GAS MADE BY J.M.F0RTIER LTD.

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No griping pains, sure pure, prlco cents. Um only Dr. Hamilton's Fills. tm pail, and went into the shed. Denny Connors was Hie one who said rracnme weigns seven manured pouncln and is borne by huge wings which haie behind them a pij.ir of screw propellers.

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