The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-01-29
ANOTHER FIRE IN GREENSBORO
Three Story Brick Building Burned.
Quarters OF the Merchants and
Manufacturers Club.
Especial to The Nessenser.)

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Greensboro, n. c.. January J..-ror
the third time within the past two
weeks. Greensboro has been h victim
OF a serious fire. Like the Normal
fire. the one his morning was I'm the
early hours OF the morning. At three
o'clock. when people are getting their
soundest sleep: unlike that. there were
no precious human lives at stake. The
Katz building. owned by Miss Louise
Katz, now In Eimira. New York. was
discovered on FIRE. Flames n smoke
were pouring and shooting from the
windows OF the second floor, and the
building was doomed to destruction
from the first. The fire companies aii
fine work in preventing the spreai of
flames to adjoining buildings in this
business. The fire did not reach the
ground floor. except in offices in ths
rearA and the Postal Telegraph Office
In the front corner. which was conn.,
pletely Quilted. The building Is oppo-
site the Guilford hotel. and to the
south Of Farris' drug store. The
actual loses are generally covered ~
insurance. King Brothers. VINO have
q large E ok Of cigars and toba%n
did the principal mercantile business IN
the building. They had recently IN
ventoried a five thousand dollar stock.
The damage is mainly by water. The
Insurance is three thousand dollars
c. F. Thomas who has a job print
ing office in the basement. was darn
aged by water, but his loss is fully
covered by insurance.
DIR. ] W Richardson, whose office
was on the second floor. lost one thou
SAND dollars worth of medical work.,
on which he had 10 insurance. de
saved his Instruments.
Stock in the shoe shop of J.. III.
| Saunders. and the harness snop OF X
J. Lambe in the basement was lam
| aged by water. Furniture was burnei
in the offices occupied by m II.
Cobb. insurance agent. and j. II. Dick
son. dealer in electrical supplies. and
| the manager of the International Cor
respondence school.
The chief loss was the complete wip-
ing out of the furniture n parapher-
| MALTA. consisting of pictures. billiard
and pool tables, piano. furniture, etc.
belonging to h Merchants and Man
| ufactures club, the chief social organ-
iZation of the city, which had its home
/ on the entire third fioor of the build
ing. The insurance on this property
| was sixteen hundred dollars. while The
| value was about four thousand. Dry
last week n four hundred dollar piano
had been installed by the club. The
| club has for some time been consider
| ing the question of charging its qua
tiers and securing more luxuricu:
| equipments, and While regretting its
| present loss. it is felt hat the fire came
In n good time in that respect or The
| damage would q been much great
er. The building is insured for four
thousand dollars which will cover the
| damage. The walls are intact. tht
| northern half of the second floor not
| burned and the entire rrst floor .:
| basement being only water damaged.
Theories as TO the origin of the fl
! are numerous, but the generally &C.
! copied one, is that the fire was cause
| by q sill under one of the CRATES in one
| Of the club rooms on the south side al
the third floor catching fire through
the hot brick under the CRATE. the
burning wood dropped to infammablt
material below. About two weeks ago
fire was discovered in the south oon
Of the club, and it was found that a
| sill under the CRATE had caught. Thi:
wGs in the afternoon when the room
was occupied by SeveraI members ard
a confiagration was averted. without
calling out the fire department. tn.
insurance losses are plentycmfwyp III
insurance losses are pretty well dis
tributed through different agencies
here in about twenty different COM
panies. so hat the loss to any one
VIII % be heavy.