Morning journal and courier., 1881-11-10
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I
 About o'clock yesterday afternoon an alarm of fire was given from box No. 46, which is private one connected with the New Haven Clock company. The fremen responded promptly and hundreds of people l gathered in the streets in anticipation of an | extensive confagration Fortunately the fire was speedily extinguished without the aid of the fire department, owing to the fa- cilities for extinguishing fires on the prem ises. The fire originated in one of the worst places in the building, which was the room where the cases are vanished, and located in the third story corner room in that part of \ the building corner of St. John and Hamilton \ streets. The origin of the fire, as nearly as | could be ascertained, was as follows In the ! room where the fire originated were @ num- | ber of girls at work vanishing cases. One while busy at work, struck a match to ! light the gas in the room and it is supposed
 accidentally dropped it into pail of varnish which was at once ignited. Her associates | in the room called to her to throw it out the ! window, which she started to do when the
 burning varnish set fire to her clothing and
 she ran screaming t'Save me- save me, " into
 the arms of Luther E. Jerome and Mir. .Flagg,
 who were standing near the door of the var
 nish room They threw the frightened girl l to the floor and extinguished the flames, and ! then turned their attention to the room
 where the fire rapidly getting under
 headway. There is hose on every floor of
 the building, and this was speedily brought
 into acquisition and the fire was extinguished
 before any serious damage was done. It was
 found .that the girl was burned about the
 hands and arms, as were also one or two
 burned about his hands while extinguishing the burning clothing. Taken altogether it I was most fortunate escape from serious , consequences
 7 New Haven Colony Historical Society. . Historical" 8 correspondent, writes , tSeveral valuable and interesting gifts of his ! l torical and genealogical interest have been t made to the society during the past week. l. Among them may be named
 6 Portrait of Captain Daniel Greene, painted y in Paris in 1895 presented by his grand. = daughter Miss Greene.
 : Captain Greene was the commander of the l ship ''Neptune'' which made the great Chins q and sealing voyage from this port in 1796-7 6 Leverett Griswold was chief officer Gle diec d off St. Helena on the voyage home) and Ebe 5 nezer Townsend, jr., was supercargo. Thii fl I was the most extensive and lucrative voyage t ever made from this port. After the cargo o d silks, teas and China ware (the items O. z which are preserved on our custom house IS books) were sold, the profits of the voyage 7- amounted to over two hundred thousand dol
 lars, which was principally divided between
 Ebenezer Townsend, Captain Greene ant st Ebenezer Townsend, jr.
 n Captain Greene gave up his profession ,6 early in the century and resided in his house le (now known as the Hoadley house on Wate
 street), carrying on business in several spa y cious warehouses on the same square, all o of which he owned. He had the first ''Chais at House'' built in New Haven, and his tw g. kitchens were built some distance from hi er main house-as he said-''in Chinese fash as ion" He also built the wharf in front c
 the house to facilitate the landing of cargoe
 from his vessels.
 Soon after the close of the war of 181 :. Captain Greene gave up his business an
 bought large tract of land in the Wester =. Reserve, intending to emigrate there. 1916 he resolved to visit the West Indies [
 close up some interests which he had ther, and in September set sail from his wharf i s his brig, the ''Grace." His son was his chi'
 officer. Early in October terrific hurricar ox swept the West Indian seas, and as 'Captai .4 Greene's ship was never again heard from to' is supposed she was lost at that time. et- handsome monument was shortly afterwal g. erected to his memory in the Old Buryin ba Ground.
 From Samuel Wolcott, Esq, of Clevelanc
 the society has received The Wolcott Mem
 rial, perhaps as elaborate and costly fan al fly history as has been published in Americ n adorned with engravings of deeds mansion D' churches, historic scenes, etc.