The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-03-04
BUSINESS PLACESIN DANGER
FIRE IN HATCH &c NORTON'S JOINER
SHOP ON WATER STREET,

Prompt and Effective work by the De-
partment Prevented a Disastrous Fire
The George w. AilinG Sons Company and
l.. II. sperry Sustained Slight LOSSES
Total Loss Will Not Exceed SIS 900.
At $50 o'clock last evening fire box
No. 50, at the corner of Water and
Brewery streets, was rung, and soon
afterward second alarm was sounded,
This box is in the center of a consider
able factory and shop district and the
second alarm caused much apprehen-
sion to proprietors of factories in that
section and those employed there.
The fire proved to be located in the
shop of Hatch & Norton, dealers in
builders and joiners' supplies and
manufacturers of packing boxes, at 1O2
Water street When the department
arrived on the scene the fire had al
ready gained considerable headway
and it began to look as though the fire
would be disastrous one.
1t was then that the second alarm
was turned in. All the steamers in the
department responded except No. 5 and
6, No. going to No As house and No,
6 to No. 3's house. Before the blaze
could be checked 1t spread to the office
building of the George Alling & Sons
company lumber dealers, who have
sawmill just back of Hatch & Nor
TONS.
By well directed efforts the fire was
kept from spreading, and after the de-
partment got we'll at work it was soon
extinguished. 1t had in the meantime,
however, crept through the second floor
of the office of the George Alling &
Sons company, and was getting start
in the second floor of the office of Ell
bert H. Sperry, stair builder adjoin-
ing. This was soon put out by hand
eXtinguisher. The fire was confined en-
tirely to the second floor of both build
| ings and the fiercest of the blaze was
kept in the Hatch & Norton shop. 1t
was in this shop that the fire evidently
started, near the back part of the sec
| ond floor.
There had been no fire of any kind in
| the room during the day, and the cause
| of last evenings fire could not be eX-
| planned. The men who work in the
shop left at 80 yesterday afternoon,
and al o'clock last evening the watch
man, Charles Fisher, was in the room
While on his rounds of the shop. He
said last evening that at o'clock,
while on his rounds he thought he no.
| ticed a peculiar odor, as of smoke, and
had made an investigation, but could
| find no fire. AT $50 o'clock small boy
walking on the other side of the street
saw the fire in Hatch & Norton's. He
ran across and informed the watch
| man, who turned in the alarm.
| The buildings in which the fire oc-
CURED are owned by the George Alling
| & Sons Co, but members of that firm
| stated last evening that they could not
estimate the loss until they had an OPP
portunity to look about by daylight 1t
| was stated, however, that the build
! ings are fully insured. Mr. Hatch of
! Hatch & Norton could not give an es-
| innate of that firms loss before going
over the place this morning. In the
room in their shop in which the fire
| originated there was considerable
amount of nearly finished work, of
| which the real value to the firm was
more than the money worth. Mr..
Hatch said that his firm was insured,
| but that the insurance only covered
about so per cent. of the value of the
plant. At the office of e. II. Sperry it
| was estimated that the damage there
by fire and water would not exceed $500,
which is fully covered by insurance
The entire loss will probably not ex-
ceed $4,000.
AS the chemical engine was coming
out of the engine house on Artizan
street, in response to the alarm, line
on the off horse broke and the team
veering at that, threw the driver, James
| D. Goodwin, from his seat to the
ground. Fred Hoyt, extra driven, who
was in the rear of the engine quickly
ran to the horses heads, stopped them,
fastened securely the broken line, re-
placed the harness, which had become
turned about, and jumping to the en-
gine seat, was soon on the way to the
fire with only a few moments time
lost. Hoyt has been in the department
only g. short time, but by his exhibit
ton of a cool head and nerve, last eve-
ming, shows that he is likely to become
valuable member of the department.
1t was said at No. rs house that
Driver Goodwin was run over by a
wheel of the engine when he was
thrown from his seat and was badly
bruised He was taken to his home on
Osborn street.