The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1892-02-04
THE DESTROYING ELEM ENT
Again Lays Waste q Prominent Man
ufacturing Concern.
The Building of the Canton Dental and
Surgical Chair Company eutted by Fire
Saturday Night.

The great destroying element mas again
played sad havoc IN Canton, and the
wheels of another industry are stopped
In the city and perhaps in all the United
States there was no more prosperous ana
active an establishment than the Canton
Surgical and Dental Chair Company.
Their establishment, situated in East
Seventh street has been running full time
and orders were piled up which would
keep the men working for months. There
had been in past times demand for more
room and greater facilities and additions
had been made to the buildings until the
plant has assumed large proportions.
An alarm of fire was turned in from box
1S, situated at the corner OF Walnut and
Tuscarawas streets Saturday. night.
Promptly at the ringing of the
bell the hremen responded and
each company made splendid run.
Some little delay was occasioned by rea-
son of the refusal of water plugs TO be
turned. The plug at the corner of wal
nut and Tuscarawas did not appear 10 be
frozen but was not in the best OF condi-
ton not having been used for some time.
Water through this plug was fioally Sc,
cured. In the meantime connections had
been made with other fire plugs and
water was being thrown on the burning
structure. 1t seemed for time that the
efforts of the fremen would be OF no
avail, as an explosion OF oils inside the
building caused the flames TO burst forth
with renewed energy, about the time when
the flremen had chsnce to get the blaze
under control. The entire building was
ablaze after the explosion and II was
necess sary to fight the fire from all sides.
The Tabernacle, an immense structure
built of ipflamable material, situated west
of the chair works, had very close call,
an iron roof was all that saved II, as II Is
removed from the chair works but about
Is feet.
On the east is long building, the prop
erty of the Canton Fruit and Produce
commission house. The space between
this building and the one which was burn
ing SO fiercely is but few feet. The
commission building had an iron roof and
had it not been for that the structure
would certainly have burned.
There were "a number of partitions IN
the chair works and this made 1t very
difficult for the hremen to work. They
did brave work however, and at about
o'clock the fire was out and the button
was touched by Assistant Chief Talbot
announcing that fact.
There were many newly finished goods
| in the building and these we're destroyed
An inventory of the plant a short umt
since showed that the stock of the COM
pany was valued at S25 900. The building
was valued at about $1,000.
A FIREMAN INJURED.
1t was very difficult working on ladders
| and nearly all the work by the firemer
1 had to be done by means of ladders raiseC
| to the upper windows. The rouads of the
| ladder would become covered with water
which would freeze tn IS making yer.
| slippery standing. Foreman Fioren Ross
of No. 3 Egnine house fell from ladder
| while the fire was in progress, but fortu
| nately fell on his feet. One ankle wal
badly spraiued but aside from that lie wal
not J. jured.
a. p. GOULD INTERVIEWED.
Mr.. A. p. Gould is president of the com
| paDy, Mr.. A Hafer secretary and Mr.. j
L. Shelton treasurer. Mr.. Gould was seer
| this morning in the Tabernacle, where
| several chairs had been taken. The chairi
| are badly damaged, but one at least may
I come out all right. The reporter askec
Mr.. Gould what he thought his loss would
be.
NI do not know answered the gentle,
man, '"but 1t will reach $4,000 above Tho
| insurance. Concerning the matter o
/ rebuilding Mr.. Gould was unable TO say
what the company would do. He STATED
| that they would fix up place temporarily
| in order to fill their orders, but as to
/ permanent location he did not know wha
] would be done.
"Do you c1ntemplate leaving the city? p
1 inquired the reporter.
II do not know about that" said Mr.
| Gould, "there have been several good 10
| cations offered us here.
He attributed the origin of the fire Il
| spontaneous combustion, as there
| had been no fire in the build
/ ing near where the blaze originated
THE INSURANCE.
The Canton Dental and Surgical Chai
Company carried the following insur
4 ance: