The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-08-30
A PAPER MILL BURNED.
Pie of Unknown Origin Destroys
baltimore Plant.

BALTI8E Pc. Aug 3O.-The Federal
Park Paper Mills, Riverside and Warren
Avenues, cSDed and operated by George
F. Jones & Co, were destroyed by FIRE
last night The plant consisted Of three
buiIdiHgs-one 4 Ihree-story brick and the
other two single-stoTy frame structures,
fronting on Warren Avenue a distance Of
about $50 feet The loss is estimated at
$50 600.
The flames. broke out about 1870 o'clock.
and within ten minutes had spread through
the greater portion of the central build
ing, where the fire originated. B. the TIM
the engines reached the scene ali three
buildings were on ire.
Chief McAfee took charge Immediately,
and there were soou fifteen streams or
water on the burning buildings. The Roof
of the main building soon fell with a crash
and Z deIuge Of glowing embers from
broken rafters scattered the crowd Of fire
men on the ground for a moment, but they
quickly rallied.
Several times the fierce heat drove back
the fremen from their position. and relief
had to be sent.
The blaze continued ferceIy in the Iarg-
CT building until long past midnight, in
spite of the thousands of gallons OF water
that were poured into it from all sides
The building was heavily stocked with
paper which burned quickly The large
quantity OF paints winch " d. SASE Sb IL ~
other two buildings ignited readily, and
was the cause of the Tapidity with which
the fire spread from one building to the
other.
Elijah Winchester the watchman of the
building. was on the first floer of the main
building when he discovered the blaze,
which was about the time that the first
alarm was turned in Mr. Winchester had
just come down from the third floor and
m on I0rO rho DTHP- hUTld-
ing when he smelied the smoke and,
throwing open window saw the blaze.
His first thought was to rescue the watch
mans register. which hangs in his second
floor room and registers every time the
Waterman makes his rounds. BY the time
SIR. Winchester had gotten his register
free from the wall the main building was
on fire and the fire department had ar
rived. As it was. he had to run a CANT
let under blazing rafters to get out.
The Waterman also drew the fire from
under the boiler and opened the safety
valve.
Some minutes before the engines reach
ed the scene a crowd of persons from the
surrounding neighborhood had gathered
and became aware that there was a horse
in the building from the agonized neigh
ing Of the animal William SaueFhow.
with several others. broke down the small
office door and accompanied by Fatrolman
Harry Knight of the Southern district,
who lives near by. went inside and back
into the stable where they found the
horse, wild from fear although the flames
had not yet reached his stall.
The animal was led out by Mr.. Sauer-
how and taken to livery stable Mean
while Waterman Winchester and others
made an ATTEMPT TO rescue the books of
the company and made a dash into the
building but found they had been fore
stalled by Captain McGregor. of the sal
wage corps, who had covered them up. and
it is supposed they were saved from the
flames.
The main building was filled with new
and valuable machinery for paper manu-
faeture. which had recently been pur-
chased and which forms the heaviest part
of the loss Some of the machinery was
not touched by the fire. owing to Jhe eff
forts of the fremen. but the great heat
and cold water are believed to have taken
the temper out of the steel.
On the first floor OF the main building
were the offices. the engines, and the
stable. On the second floor were the paper
machines paper beateTs and a large
quantity of rolled paper, while on the
third floor there was a lot of waste paper
and paper cord. with some odd machinery.
The central building, where the fire
started was used paint mandatory
and storehouse and the other frame build
ing was solely a storehouse for paper and
paint George F. Jones. the Republican
member of the board of election super
visors who is the sole owner of the con-
Germ. did not reach the scene Of the fire
until nearly midnight.
He could give no idea as to the origin
of the fire, and said that the chief loss
would be the machinery Mr. Jones valued
his plant at $50 000 and said that he had
$i7 600 invested in it. including buildings
and machinery. The buildings and stock
were insured to the amount OF $39 500.
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