The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-07-06
Quilted BY
fire AGAIN.
Another Fierce Blaze in the
Fitzgerald Building.
BRoKEoUT EARLYTnlS MORNING
fhnss Had Gained Great Hsaduay and
Three Alarms Were Sounded.
ExTINGUISHEO AFTER A HARD FIGHT.
Origin IN Doubt Many JswsIu Firms Damaged By
Fire and waG- Losses May Reach a
Total Of $4,000.

The Fitzgerald building. corner OF
Friendship and Eddy streets, is pursued
by a Nemesis IL, the shape OF fire.
This morning ;or the second time this
week. the firemen were called out 10
battle fiercely raging flames that
threatened the destruction OF the big
structure.
Singularly enough, the fire apparently
broke out on the same floor, If not in
bhe same apartment. as last Monday
nights blaze.
But, occurring as II did, just before
2 O'Clock this morning, the flames gor
such headway that three alarms were
deemed necessary. Monday evenings
fire called for two alarms.
Officer Thomas f. Kane OF the FiJh
police station first saw this mornings
fire and pulled in the alarm from box
245.
The fire had assumed such proper
fions by this time. thar before the bells
completed the first round the flames
burst through the roof and brightly IL
Illuminated the heavens.
Ii was at once seen that second
was lost in sending 1t in.
As soon az Chief Steere arrived. di-
rectly afterward, he ordered third
alarm, realizing the hazardous nature
OF that and the other buildings In that
locality.
FIGHTING THE FLAMES.
The flames were brightest on the Ed
.dy street side and here the firemen first
turned their attention.
The great aerial ladder from the
Three Ones station was raised directly
into the heart OF the fire and In less
time than il takes to tell IL the men
had a stream pouring into the blaze.
1t was a matter of few minutes
only to get at least dozen streams
at work, and together with The hign
pressure service. the building was de-
luged.
I'm fact. so much water was poured
into the burning structure that ~ was
stated that, while the loss by nre -
large the damage by water Us greater
The flames seemed determined TO
work down from the sixth fioor and
the firemen's efforts were directed TO-
ward preventing this.
The fire i'm the meantime spread en-
tirely over the sixth floor but by 2:3o
o'clock IL was evident the fire was un-
der control, although the all-out sig
nal was not given until $50 a. m.
WHERE FIRE WAS FIERCEST.
The fiercest OF the fire seemed TO be
in Catlow Brothers shop on the sixth
floor. where Monday nights fre did
such damage. This shop was practical
Iy the centre of the building. Between
n and Friendship street on the same
fiocr. is the shop OF Il. l.. Logee.
Mr.. Catlow stated this morning that
the fire did not originate in his part,
but originated behind the safes in AIR.
Logee's shop.
For confederation, he referred TO the
r.. 1. Electric Protective Associations
representative. who, he said, re-
ceived the alarm in the company's Office
on Custom House street before the po-
liceman who pulled the box discovered
the fire.
The protective associations wire en-
tered Mr.. Logee's office. which was
nearest the landing from which the
door opened into Catlow Brothers
shop.
No information could be obtaine
from the protective association this
morning. except that they received the
alarm. as Mr.. Catlow said, by the
burning out of the fuse in Mr.. Logee'
office.
Mr.. Logee is sick in bed At Hotel
Hallett and has been several days. In
his absence his foreman. Charles w.
CRUDE. was on hand today looking al
ter the ruins.
Mr.. CRUDE said that he saw that
everything was all right hast night.
There were no fires i'm the shop, nor was
the gas left burning.
They do not use electric lights, he
said. but there is q feed wire for An
electric motor that enters the shop near
the office. The fire could not have
started from that. he states, because 1t
is all right today. lie had no sug-
gestion 10 offer rs to the cause.
HEAVY DAMAGE.
The heaviest damage was at the
Friendship corner and the fire even ex-
tended TO the fourth floor at this end.
Likewise the stairs and hallwavs are
charred TO the street.
Catlow Brothers will not state their
loss. except that IL is total. It NAV be
$4,000. or ID may be $4,000. That Will
come out later.
Mr. Logee's loss is as much OF an
enigma at present. although IL ~ not
total some Of the machinery and dies
probably being In good shape.
Harvey a. Otis on the floor below, as
well az NJ. Fitzgerald a. CO., II. n.
Barker and George n. Holmes. do not
know how great their losses are, but
their shops present sorry sight.
A conservative estimate OF the total
loss by last nights fire places IL at
SEQ 600.
Nearly every occupant OF the building
loses something. either by fire or water.
The building is almost exclusively
occupied by jewelrv firms. although
the Eastern Tag company occupies a
large portion or the ground moor. There
are also several engraving frms und
electro platers in the building.