New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-07-16
PROlPT AID FROM MANY UTLLING HANDS
EFFORTS OF THE FIREMEN AND FARMERS
TO sUBDUE TIE FLAMES AT oPHIR FARM.
Ernm Tho Now York sun.


From The Newly sun.
White Plains is poor in fire apparatus, but r,ch in
willing men. Union Hook and Ladder Company was
I'm comparison with the great ladder trucks of this city
Dan Duscnbury, a livery stable man, came rushing
up with team eager to earn The % that the company
Offers for the fist team on hand. Then Jake Craw
ford, caiman. hooked team on Hope Engine Hose
An9iher ,c3 wa, aitsIJ 10 ~ Ec
gathering TO the scene of the fire with men cnngihg
all over II. Chcf Louis C. Plat and Foreman John
EMERSON, of the hook and ladder company, gathered
tAcr men in hurry, and In few minutes he entire
bound for the famous ophr Farm. The roads are
very bad They lie under oceans OF dust, and the pas
- 80 Westward Is almost a steady climb The horses
We're asbed and Yelled ar and hey struggled 50 des
pcraely that IN thirty minutes cloud Oi SMOKE ana
red sheets Of fame could be distinctly seen above me
were the ground having covered the three miles and
o ha msh nd Mr. Yy %ss h the pop
Tor OF the Orawaupum Hotel at White Plains, sent UP
fought the hardest were C. II. brown, John Gibson
and another fireman flom White Plains Gibson was
slightly injured.
From The Ncw-YOrk Herald
alarm and brought Hope Engine Company and indie
pendent Engine company cut OF their houses IN Wh'e
Plan~ Horses were htChcl 1n - thcdl ana IN
beasts were driven al top speed toward Ophir Farm.
over ihcwisc and Union Hook and Ladder Company
Of White Plains, was on hand to render every assist
ance practicable.
lief smith AMI his men did al, in their power to
save the dwelling, but the fire had gained such a hold
The MiB~Alu lNOf iiidt thClf cnOfS were una
vallng Besides the engines had to be hauled over
Three miles after notice OF The fire had been given
them. They went TO work energetlcally, however
From The Ncw-York Press.
Hope Engine Company, Independent Fire Engine
Company. MON Hook and Ladder Company, Of White
Plains were carly on the ground, being dragged along
livery Stables ReIlahle Engine COMPANY No l. Of
Porches'er, arrived at p m: being pulled seven
in lie castle was mostly saved by The effort. OF Tho
hfiy men the place and aided by the farmers for
miles around.
From Tho Ncw-York STAR
Hope Engine Company Independent Engine Com
pany and Union Hook and Ladder Company, OF
White Plains, were early on the ground being
dragged along the lly roads by powerful horses taken
10. !. Of Portcheaer arrived at l being pulled,
eleven miles by six horses. The fine had IN the
tine run along the cOrnlce the whole length Of the
building and igniting the lathe and pe ter work
Of the walls, which were eDveope'i IN flames.
The fire companies put streams upon the burning
bu!ldeg obtaining water from two large clsferns on
the placc and pond near the castle Finding their
efforts Ruthless they directed their attention saving
the west wing, used for a kitchen. laundry and ser
wants apartments. In this they partially
successful The valuable furniture was mostly saved
by the efforts Of the fifty men the place.
On the haste and confusion consequent upon the
fire, some Of the New-YorS papers were msled
into saying that the plumbers who had been EN-
ployed on the house refused to remain TO make
the cottage habitable into which Mr. Reid moved
| foreman Of the plumbers, who is an old empl0ye
Of Alexander Orr, and had worked for Mr. Reid
ut various times for fifteen years past, did what
he could and offered to remain as long as he was
| wanted There one. either from New.
| York or the vicinity. who did not chcerfuly and
| gladly do everything that lay in his power.l