New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-04-03

lion IN or appointment to q position un-s
der the Navy Department, ability to.
perform satisfactorily the duties of the.
position which he holds, or to which he
aspires must be a condition precedent
to favorable consideration Of an appli-
cation for intention or appointment
The funeral Of Justice Stanley Mat
hews, of the United States Supre me
Court, who died on Friday last, was
held at his resident in this city this af-
ternoon, and was attended by the Pre-.
sident. Cabinet, Supreme Court Senate
and all the members of the House who
were still in the city.
Friday gave every sign of being bad
one for New Ulm from confagration
point of view. About eight 'clock in
the morning an alarm was sounded
which brought out the fire department
to put out blaze in L. Buenger's store
on Minnesota Street. A new stove had
been put up in the Office of the store
that morning and it is thought that q
poor connection was made in the stove
pipe which went up through the first
floor ceiling, Some one at work in the
room over the office smelled smoke and
burning wood but for time it was hard
to locate the place of burning. The
floor near the place where the pipe ran
up was cut away and it was found that
fire was burning between the ceiling
and floor and had burned about four
feet of lath and studding. The bucket
brigade put it out and the engine went
back to its place. Fortunately the
studding was of oak and therefore
burned slowly; had it been of pine the
result would have been more serious.
If the fire had obtained few minutes
mo1e time before being discovered Mr..
.Buengec's large stock of goods, the
building and perhaps the nearest ad-
joining buildings would have been
burned. Highly painted and vanished
furniture with mattresses, turpentine
and other such articles as are usually
found in a furniture store would be the
best feeder for flames. Better time
was made by the fire company at this
lire than at the one q week ago.
Some delay was caused however, in
getting the engine to the fire. Alarm
number two was sent in about one
O'Clock P. M. from the Empire Mill.
When people heard that the mill was
on fire theSrwere justified in being con-
siderably alarmed and anxious as to
the size and nature of the fire. The
engine was out and on the street in
good season and stopped at the cistern
south of F. H. Behnke's grocery store,
ready for business. About this time
word was received that the fire had
been extinguished by means sof the
apparatus at the mill so the fire COM
pany went back d second time Some
one had thrown half smoked cigar
by the side of the team approach to the
mill among Il lot Of fine dust and the
fire at the time of discovery was about
to shoot up an outside elevator; had it
got that far along, it is very likely that
the Empire mill would have gone up in
smoke. 1t is indeed fortunate for New
Ulm that the two fires mentioned oc-
Cured as they did, in the. day time. At
night in either case there would have
been bad fire and it is necessary that
people use the greatest care 10 see that
they have no defective fues. chimneys
or ash barrels from which fire can
originate. We have good fire depart
ment and complete apparatus for rum
ming it, but it can not do more than lies
in human power nor be in but one
place at time. Each citizen should
consider himself as fireman certainly
rs far as his own house is concerned.