The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-19

neat Dtidllt sU great t-A&L o-sroAol-1 1 on the streets and sidewalks, who had been suffering with the cold. were warmed up.
 The spread of the flames was next mo- ticed on the third floor from one or two office windows, but the large stream of water was so powerful and it's full strength was turned onto the flames on that floor, in such a manner that the fires further spread was retarded. and although The men had been at work less than two hours on one of the hard est propositions in their experience. they had succeeded in getting the bet ter of the cruel fire fiend. This was about 7:SO. While the fire had been at tracting considerable attention from the front. it had also been burning merrily away at the back of the building, but Chief Fancher and his men were watcllr ing the progress with great zeal, and several sets of men and lines of hose were set to work to stop the progress of the flames in the rear. They laid line of hose through the alley north of the building and with ladders reached the upper floors, and after short time entered the building from one of the l side windows.
 From this time on the men kept streams of water constantly pouring into the doomed edifice and they grad ually gained absolute control
 1 Early in the history of the fire it was found by those having offices on the lower floors of the building that the structure was fated to total destruction and they made an effort to save some of their valuable books and papers. IWhile some of the officeholders succeed ed in doing this, many of them did not save anything from the wreck and con- graduated themselves on getting out alive.
 Among the other offices on the second floor was that of the republican town committee, and Chairman Theodore
 Macdonald said last night that unless the room escaped a bath all of the val
 uable records of tie committee, which
 extend back for q number of years,
 were a total loss. They were not kept in a safe, but in a desk, to which the
 water or flames would have easy ac- lcess.
 The Cooperative Coal company otti-
 cials realized the fact that their office
 would go with the rest, and after car
 rying out their books into the First Ma ! tional bank building the directors were
 called together and after hasty meet
 ing arranged to occupy a temporary
 office in the Rather bookstore at lS-
 Temple street.
 It was well nigh impossible last nigh
 to ascertain the exact amount Of dam
 age 10 each of the several tenants O
 the building, but it is certain that thos'
 who were not damaged by fire wer'
 damaged by water. and that most o
 their office effects and papers were los
 or destroyed. The tenants on the fourti and fsth floors must have lost every thing. as that portion of the building was entirely burned away.
 On the first or ground floor of tn, structure was Cosgrove's shoe store
 Adam ziegler's cafe, and Harry Fly
 mans furnishing store. The damage t
 these. with the exception of the cafe
 was almost entirely by water, although some of the Hyman stock, which was II
 the rear Of She store, was burned. II
 the Zeigler cafe the fire was tc Ia certain extent individual. in that i
 was confined entirely within the wall!
 of the room and did great damage. Tn,
 firemen turned one of the large stream of water into the burning room but sue
 ceeded in only temporarily stopping tn
 progress of the flames. They would thei
 give their attention to another part o the building, and the flames would star up afresh in the cafe and also in the of
 flee room immediately above. fin
 flames were perhaps fed by the liquor in the store, and by the very infiamma
 ble ornamental work on the ceiling ant side walls.
 The other occupants of the building
 whose property was more or less dam l aged. were: On the second floor, l.. G Hoadley. real estate; Connecticut Con crete company and the Co-operativ
 Coal company; A. J. Maltby, Ancho Advertising company, and the Repub lican town committee. On the thir, } floor, Cleveland S. Thompson, insuranc U. F. Schnautz, music studio; Seigwar Spier, law office, and the Hammonasset : Tribe of Red Men; on the fourth floor . the Ludington company. William F Chandler's studio, Alexander Drapeau c. G. Powning, advertising agency. an, ! the St. Aloysius T. A. B. society," Ther i twas also an attic at the top of tn, building.