The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1881-09-28
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BEATTY's ORGAN FACTORY DESTROYED. =
Tho piano and,orRanu factory of Daniel b. f.
Beatty at Washington, in Warren county.
was burned on Sunday. The fire originated
in the rubbing room, Yon the fourth floor, and
was discovered about 9 Pm. It was evil
dently caused by spontaneous combustion,
The flames spread rapidly through the floor.
burning heirafters. AS the roof fell tho fire
was communicated to the lower floors, and
the entire building was quickly consumed.
The town is without water supply has no fire
apparatus, and nothing could be done to stay
the spread of the flames. From Beatty's
factory the fire spread to the smaller factory
of the Star Parlor Organ Company, which
was also entirely consumed. Much of the
material on hand in the batter factory was
saved, A number of drying and lumber
houses in the rear of, and belonging to the
Beatty factory were burned, together with q
large quantity of humber. Two double
dwelling houses adjoining the Beatty factory
caught fire and We're destroyed, but all Of the
household effects efthe occupants were saved.
Mr.. Beatty 8 stock and material are almost
an entire lossai Aahrge addition to his factory
has just been completed The losses arc esti
mated at $500 0O0 i; partially insured. Mr..
Beatty's factory bad q capacity Of over /. 900
organs per month, aud he employed between
400 and 500 men. .SS
Thenew depotuf the .Peunsylvapia Rail-
road at Penn Square and Hilbert streets Phila-
delphia, is rapidly approaching completion,
and IS quite an Imposing structure, ct to
stand opposite the great marble pile which is
absorbing amfllion. yearly of the city funds.
Through this depot will probably pass more
travellers than any other in the country. From
II the lines OF tbis monster corporation now
civerge to Baltimore aud Washington and
the South 10 Frederick, Maryland to the
Cumberland and Shenandoah Valleys; to Pitts
burg and the great Northwest to the oil
regions aud Erie; to Niagara Falls and
Canada; up the Delaware Valley. and to
New York and the East. There is one gan
in the great fan shaped circle to which the
company has no road-tp into the Schuylkil
and Lehigh regions but this win soon be
hlled, a road will q short time be built by
way of Germantown aud Nofristown. to con
meet with the Lehigh system Of roads.
The sudden death of Gen. Ambrose E..
Burnside was announced on Tuesday of last
week. He died from heart disease, at his
home, Bristol, Rhode Island. The record of
Gen. Burnside is we'll known to the country.
aud the part he took in the late war is por-
ton of our history. At the time of his death
he was U. $. Senator from Rhode Island.
thus making vacancy in the Senate on the
Republican side. He was 81 years of age
AMMAN rolled out of bed the other night
and was killed ; g. A. Rogers fell 100 feet in
a collapsed balloon, with Uncomfortable
velocity, last Wednesday afternoon. struck
upon his nose oD the beach at Lynn. Mass.
and is still alive to describe his sensation dur.
ing the descent.
Acargo Of 800 tons of human bones from
ConsssiItinolae.z was recently received at Rris
tol, England, shipped 10 a firm engaged In
manufacturing fertilizers.
The Philadelphia Councils have fixed on 4
tax rate of $l.90 Oh the 800.