The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-02-13
FIRE AT THE CLOCK SHOP. BIC KILN DRT BURNED AND MUCH
 COSTLY LUMBER.

Fire Discovered by Clerk-Throws About
 Three Hundred Men out of Work-Build- ing Fully Insured-Loss Estimated About
 Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars.
 The alarm from the private box No. 46, which was sounded at about 615
 o'clock last night, was for fire in the
 kiln dry and adjoining rooms at the
 New Haven Clock company's works.
 The kiln dry building is in the rear of
 the main office, which is on Hamilton
 street Fred Bradley, clerk in the
 office on the top floor of the Hamilton
 street building, saw flames shooting out from the top of the building and ran
 down into the main office and informed c. M Whitney, another clerk, who rang the alarm. The fire was also discovered by Patrick Reynolds, night watch- man, who ran up the yard and was at the box when MT Whitney pulled 1t. w. w. Newman, a teamster in the em- ploy of the company, was putting his
 horse in the barn when he saw the fira and ran across the street and opened the gates just as the firemen arrived. He directed the firemen through the yard and into the burning building, and opened a skylight for the hose to be put through. As soon as Chief Kenne- dy arrived and saw the nature of the fire he had 8 second alarm sent in. The buildings contents were mostly destroyed by the fire. The walls of the building are intact The building was
 Icld s,,r lumber used in the manufacture of clocks. There was besides other valti- able lumber about 50,000 feet of ma- hogany, black walnut and rosewood in the building. President s. A. Galpin estimated the loss by the fire at $2O,OO0 to $25,OO0. The lumber was worth from $60 to $120 1000 feet The whole plant is insured for about $300,0O0 to S400, ,O0O through New Haven insurance agents. The insurance on the burned building was about $11,000. The company em- ployes about 800 men, and the fire will throw about one-half of the force out of employment temporarily.
 The orders the company now has for clocks do not call for clocks with wood castings so they will be able to re- sume shortly. It was reported last evening that the company has a new order calling for 1000 clocks day for several weeks.
 The drying room of the kiln is situat- ed over the boiler and engine roomsa This woodwork part of the factory closes at 4:30 p. m., and there was no one at work in the building where the fire was at the time 1t started, MT. Dwight c. Beach is engineer at the factory. He was home at the time of the fire, as was also the fireman. The building has been on fire several times before. It was thought that the fire last night was caused by spontaneous combustion. The firemen did ereditable work keep- ing the fire from spreading to any other buildings.
 The employees on the brass work de- partment and the finishing departments will probably continue at work. The new order issued by Superinten- dent of Police Smith for sergeants to attend large fires took effect in good shape last night. A little trouble was had in getting the crowds back to put up the fire ropes, but when they were up no one could pass unless a fireman or some one we'll known to the police. Ropes were stretched across at the corner of St. John and Hamilton streetss also at the corner of St. John and Wal- lace streets, and in front of the office on Hamilton street, keeping St. John and Hamilton streets entirely clean from the crowds There were no ar- rests made during the fire. The off, cers and sergeants deserve a good deal of credit