St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-09-24


was fastened Chinese coin and it adver-
tised the Widow Jones" suits for BOYS,
which are the best suits ever made for
the money.
Mrs. Wicker Of the Brooks Tyler store
has gone to New York to study up the
latest Partisan styles in dresses.
Harry B. Daniels has offered his meat
market for sale, and will go into the busi-
ness OF raising fancy poultry and ship
ping live stock to the city markets. Mr.
Daniels birds are prize winners, and he
is also well qualified to handle cattle.
Miss Jennie Miller goes to New York
this week to purchase fall millinery goods.
Cottage Hotel Burned. - Fire was
discovered in the Cottage Hotel about
1.30 Thursday morning by the night
clerk who was returning from the depot.
The fire caught from lamp which was
near the ceiling and the woodwo above
had become charred. The clerk smelt
smoke and called Fred Estabrooks
and told him he thought they could put
the fire out without the department.
But when they brought the hose cart to
the hotel they saw it was necessary to
have help and the alarm was sounded.
The fire had made good head way and it
took lots of water to drown it out. The
hotel was not badly burned and the
principal damage will be from the water,
The building is owned by Richard B.
Flint and is insured with Crawford
Ranney Tor $4,000 divided as follows:
$1,000 with the Phoenix, $1,000 with the
Springfield, $500 with the Globe and
$500 with the New Hampshire. Mr..
Flint also carried $500 on his furniture.
Landlord Lindsey's furniture was
insured in the Vermont Mutual. Land
lord Lindsey worked hard TO save the
property and served breakfast to the
guests yesterday morning.
The CALIFORNIAN has received the fol.
lowing from the unfortunate occupant
oil the room which first caught fire
EDITOR CALIFORNIAN - Inasmuch as
several have made themselves heroes
in this mornings fire in Cottage Hotel
allow the writer to give his experience
not as "herO" but as a man acting
upon the instinct of self preservation
the same as any one acts under fire ,
] was assigned room No. 6, where thu
head OF he bed was placed close up tc
the partition, and exactly over where
the light had set fire to the woodwork
which communicated upward between
the plasterng and the outside boarding
and finish. had sat at nv table writ
itg till about 1870, hence retired about
10 so p m. was very tired and dozeC
off quickly to sleep. About 1.10 tni.
morning was awakened by what sup
posed was rain falling upon the tin roo
just outside my window. | had moi
opened my eyes, however, before smelleC
smoke. When opened my eyes, | saw
Pickering light shining out from unde
the head of he bed. 1t did not take {
moment to discover that my mattres.
was on fire, and that the room was fill
ing rapidly with smoke, almost suffocat
ing me. Thinking that match had il
some way ignited under the bed, raj
for the wash bowl and threw wate
over the head OF the bed, and tor al
instant | thought | had extnguisheC
the fame, but in another moment wa
horrfied to find flame shooting out a
top OF base board, and my pillow was
on fire together with the lace cul tains
AT this point heard sounds OF running
here and there down below me and
ran to my door, unlocked it and shouted
Fire! FIRE! Get out of here, the hous,
is on fre!" then darted back, pulled OF
my pants, got into my shoes, (,omehow
cant tell howl pulled down my vest.
scrambled on my undercoat, all thes,
over my night shirt, gathered what lev
effects had into my grip, and using my
overcoat as a bag, | put into it my
boiled shirt, collar, necktie, put on m,
hat and ran out of the room in a stag
gering condition. l managed to stag
ger across the street into lighted hall
| way, where IOuHu Il DtDV carriage INC
which dumped nv personal effects. A.
soon as could breathe, began making
my toilet by changing my night shirt
putting on my collar, etc. Shortly alte
this learned that Henry Estabrook.
had four beds over his store that wer,
vacant. Finding him. applied Tor {
bed and through his kindness, after h,
had been to the Union House to asccr
tain, as he said, If somebody dion
want to take the whole tour." obi aimee
a bed, paying him in advance, $1,00
"inasmuch as was stranger" and h,
"didn't care TO trust me till Daylight
This very kind deed, that OF giving me
place to finish the night, enabling M
to "be about today deserves a public
"thauk YOU" which now extend to m,
kind host from a m. to s a. m. hi
23d day OF September. | have h, ar,
that my lie was saved by 'someon
bursting open my door and awakening
me- but somehow he managed to loci
it again from the inside. Perhaps LET
him under The bed, but don't know
that did. IRA G BLAKE.