Daily Republican., 1886-12-27
M0NDAY DEC EN- sER 81. 1889
the Newark rire.


No greater calamity affecting the
welfare Of so many people we tonot
has ever happened within twelve miles
OF Wilmington than the destruction by
flames Of the Dean Wooden Mills ct
Newark, on Christmas morning By
it some eight hundred or more persons
have been suddenly deprived OF their
accustomed means OF making liveli'
hood, aud it Is the more severe that II
has happened nearly in the heart OF
winter when employ ment 10 not SO
easily found, and when change OF
residenca to better the condition must
be attended with many privations and
hardships. Its very fortunate. great
q the destfu ton OF property has been,
t1st lives were not lost In the conf agra.
to-. Mills can be rebuilt, and prop
erty could IN the course Of time be re-
. ored, but nothing could bring back
lie ii ooce lost. Therefore, In the
W.dst OF the surrounding ruins the
eight hundred people o, Ne vark, whose
livelihood depended upon these mills,
have great reason for thAnkfulness that
none OF their number are missing.
There may after ell have been a prov
ideuce in the fra taking place on
Christmas morning, the worlds grea,
hol, lay, whoa all the en- pioyes OF the
mills aere at home rejoicing and en-
i0yiag les pleasures.
Tue most IN welcome report Is that
the ogners do not intend to Ie-
build the mills. II this be true, Dslt-
ware will loss one OF It's most energetic,
euterprisins manufactures. II they
are NO. rebuilt, the loss 10 Newark Will
bs 0. a more permanent charaster. Tae
town will feel the loss 10 every depart
msnt that conduces to lis prosperity
and happiness. We will sill hope,
however, that the Dean WOODEN Mills
Company will see their way clear 70 re-
build aud be enabled TO carry on the
works with such profit as to make up
their heavy LOSSES aud also enable New
ark to retain about one-fourth Of her
population.
Speaking OF not rebuilding tn ese
mi Is reminds Us that the country Re
tW1en Wilmington and Newark has
QIits number OF IN Misunderstanding sites
ma -ked only by ruins. Rosevllle, not
days fire, was within easy recollection
tle largest WOODEN mandatory OF the
s ate, but there Is naught left to mark
iis site ex;ept the excavations where
toe bailiiugs stood and q iew wre,ched
tenenenis, denotiDg the most SbjeoI
poverty GA Pike creek, only some
two miles and = BALI beyond Stanton, q
sttA 10 ruins denotes the plsoe where
many years ago a large wooden and
other mAnutAcgoriss we're carried on
The place may be said 70 have gone tt
RAIN, and exceps a lttle telloe auC
spoke factory now carried 90 there Il
Do'bing left TO marx lis former great
ness aud prosperity. The village o
Stsnton Is not without Its chsrred RuG
E1iasd manufactures, and on Nil
creek Is the ste OF tue Broad bent NJ III
still standing. bat nos operated, AIT
one known as a grea. manufacturing
een're.
TIE ten iency o., manufacturing es
Establishments Ia towards cities Wher
there are mere easy com nunic.tiont
aud whers there are more facilities 70
ths preservs'iop Of propsrty from tn
fln4e-. Had the Dean Wooden NH
been l1csted in Wilmington instead O
Newark, the flames unight have broke
or the same, bat there Is no doub. tina
by our well, arranged water aad fire De
partments the loss would have bee
comparatively triti,uE. The Ee@sr
fire bat teaches the leseon often taugt
before that more and better f1oi!iut
are needed for putting out fres in IL
SINAI. towns o. the StA:e. A cJiiecti1
OF buildings like the Dean Woolc
Mills should not have been without Il
reservoir and fra engine. II 4d thet
been supp led AID in good order, la
the property consumed at least con-
have been saved. BY this fl Ice anotht
warning is given that 1t Is extremel
hnz Ardous for any village the size
Newark, and with its msnufAcurit
importance, 10 be without weI
regulated SYSTEM for extinguIsh.ng fire