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The Washington times., 1904-02-09
JONES FALLS. STREAM OF SAVORY FAME.
SERVED TO STOP ADVANCE OF FIRE KING
Last Stand Weary Fire Fighters Lumber Bordering
With Water Until Soaked
4eat-Lef Space Over Which FeneF Not Leap.

BALTIMORE, Feb. s.--Jones Falls
proved the salvation Of Baltimore yes
terday. and marked the extreme limit
Of the fire. which will go down in his
tory as the greatest connagration that
ever swept through the business section
Of a large city. and for a while en-
tirely got beyond the efforts OF modern
fire fighters.
Yesterday afternoon the fire had
reached the Falls, more than a mile
from its starting point on Liberty
Street. On the other side OF the unsav-
ory stream, which has been the subject
Of jest and contumely by Baltimoreans
Tor years, were the enormous lumber
yards. reaching TO the water front Had
the blaze once gotten in those yards
the entire eastern section of the city
would have been doomed. and the hun
drds of firemen on the scene would have
been as helpless as children.
Lumber yards onsthe west side of the
falls were the great source of worry
70 the firemen. For hours before the
fire reached it the lumber was kept
drenched with water. Thousands of gal
Ions were poured upon boards which
could not be thrown into the falls. be-
cause of the lack OF assistance. When
the fire did get into the great ware
houses along the docks. which cut into
the city from the harbor. blazing
brands were hurled into the lumber. but
so thoroughly had the firemen worked
and so great was the quantity Of water
that had been poured on it. that they
were able to control 1t by making the
most desperate efforts.
Ignored the Buildings.
No thought of saving any of the build
ings on fire was entertained The one
idea was to prevent the lumber from
catching. The burning wood driven
through the air by the high wind would
have scattered destruction among the
homes of 10000 people. would have car
ried the flames to the grent oil tanks
and ore docks of Canton. would have
robbed the city of all its facilities as one
Of the greatest shipping ports in the
world.
Two hundred men and between thirty
and forty engines were occupied in
soaking the lumber on both sides of the
falls. Baltimore firemen who had been
continuously on duty for thirty-slx
hours. and whose eyes were so drawn
by the heat that half of them could not
see where they were going or what they
were doing. worked with the men of
the picked companies of New York. IO7
experienced volunteers from Atlantic
City. thirty hardy and ambitious volun-
teers from Phoenixville, Pa. details
from the Washington companies and
men from Philadelphia
Streams were turned away from the
main fire. as TO have pointed them in
that direction would have been a use
less waste of energy. and while ware
houses stored with the most valuable
products of the world were Utterly ig-
nored, tons of water were poured on
boards which all together were not
worth the goods on one floor Of some Of
The Washington times., 1904-02-09
BILL TO INCORPORATE
SANITARY COMPANY

Representative Allen Of Maine. mem
Der of the District Committee. has in
troduced a bill to incorporate the Sani-
tary Housing Company.
Representative Babcock has intro
duced a Commissioners bill TO regulate
the practice of pharmacy and the sale
Of poison in the District
The Washington times., 1904-02-09

Falls and in the neighborhood imme-
diately beyond. made the grand stand
which marked there the farthest line OF
the fires advance.
Praise is heard on all sides for the
work OF the various out-of-town fire
contingents, including Washington. Phil
adelphia, Wilmington, Frederick, Md,
Westminster. Md, and York, Pa. All
the visiting fire departments viii leave
Baltimore today. Some Of them returned
home yesterday.
Firemen to Depart.
The New York and Philadelphia con-
tingents left on special trains about ]
o'clock D. m. while the balance Of the
twenty-seven companies will leave at
convenient hours.
Chief Horton. who was said to have
been injured Sunday afternoon by live
wire and was out OF the fight yesterday.
asserts now that the local apparatus is
capable OF caring for the ruins. and the
work. although extensive, will not tax
the powers of the department
Predicted Disaster.
Former President Cathcart. Of the fire
board. who is still a member Of the
board. predicted the fire horror that has
mortally stricken Baltimores CONNER
cial life.
Mr.. Cathcart was, and is, a strong ad-
vocate for the renovating Of the local
fire department. He expressed himself
TO the city administration when presi-
dent Of the fire board as being OF the
opinion that should a fire get headway
in the business center Of the city the
fire department obsolete and made
quate. would be unable TO cope with II
and that an appalling disaster would re-
gulf
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which there was not a bucket brigade
to do duty on the roof and to help
neighbor in distress Fire on that side
meant almost as mueh as fire across the
falls. hut while 1t was reported the
sparks ignited the roof of a number of
buildings. the incipient fires were
quenched before they could make head
way
Sweeping down the Long dock. Union
dock. and the other narrow but vastly
important docks which pierce the water
front te the west of Jones Falls, the
fire fouSd an abundance of the most in
fiammable fuel. Great -four warehouses
with their explosive dust were con-
sumed in a few moments. Chemical
manufacturing plants located on the
water. so they could have an escape
for their nOxious waste matter and easy
access to the ships bringing them ma
terial from all over the World. burned
as if soaked in oil; and at times their
contents exploded with deafening effect,
rivaling the dynamite which had been
used with such slight effect.
Tar and ROsin Afame.
An enormous warehouse filed with tar
rosin, and other naval supplies. czught
on Union Dock yesterday morning Had
that building caught fire by itself under
ordinary circums tances IT would prob
ably have led the fire department to
consider asking outside aid. Yesterday
II was a mere incident, and in the gen
cral mass OF flames attracted no special
attention.
A building for which the fremen aud
citizens made a desperate but vain fight
was the powerhOuse Of the United Rail
ways Company on Pratt Street. A huge
stone and steel structure with appaPen.s
ly notHng 20 provide food for the flames,
'he powerhouse seemed destined TO cs-
cape. 1t vas struck by the avalanche
or fame and today it stands n charred
shell of brick. from which the two lofty
smokestacks rise like the fingers of
mocking fate.
Yesterday afternoon the fire got down
to the pier Of the Old Bay Line Steam
boat Company. The long sheds and
wooden structures incident to a wharf
were licked up in a moment. and the
headquarters of one of the most famous
steamboat lines in the country was q
mass of charcoal.
Fight on Light Street.
On Light Street the firemen did some
Of their best work. The first of the New
York companies to arrive were placed
there, and the manner in which they
protected the wharves added new hon
ors to the firemen OF the metropolis
Narrow. Dadly-paved. faced by five
blocks OF wooden wharf structures and
lined with old brick buildings, many of
which should have been condemned
years ago. Light Street has always pre-
sented one Of the greatest fields in the
country for a disastrous fire. Had the
street and it's wharves been destroyed
the immensely valuable trade OF Bal
timore with Maryland and Virginia
would have been paralyzed. and a great
The Washington times., 1904-02-09
Will You Write a Postal
So a Sick One May Get We'll?

so Sick One May Get WellE
Send no money-simply a postal card, giving
the name of some enc who needs help. Tell me
the book - s~nd
Then | viii do this:-I viii arrange with :
druggist necr hlm that he may take six bot
ties Dr. Shops Restorative. He may take IL a
month at my risk. II ]. succtseds. the cost IS
Sl50 II it fails. the druggist viii bill the cost
- me
That months tes. viii show you what the
remedy can do Il Is the easies: way 10 cQn-
vince you. Il is the only w8- 20 induce ali
who need help T. accep. Il.
| make -his offer 20 multiply my cures, and !
am willing TO tTus, the cured ones to be fair
with me.
in the past y years / have furnished my Res
torativc 10 hundreds Of thousands Of sick ones
on JUS. those terms. and 80 out of 20 have
paid gladly, because they got well. / pay jusi
rs willingly when one says I have failed
The reneny Is my discovery, the resilt ~ a
lifetimes work. l have perfected l. by watch
ing results n thousands Of the most difficult
cases that physicians ever meet. / know what
IL viii do.
Ny success comes from strengthening weak
inside nerves, and my Restorative is the only
remedy that does that. When organ IS weak
lriDg back the nerve power which alone oij-
crates every vital organ Il is Ike giving an
engine more steam. I give the weak organ power
10 do its dut-. and there is no other wav 10
make a weak organ we'll.
Can you conceive a a sick one who viii ncc-
lect such treatment. when I take the encl-e
.is,sg
Address DR.. sioop, box s76G. Racine. Wis.
Mild cases, not chronic, are often cured with
one or two bottles. A. druggists
The Washington times., 1904-02-09
Fight on Light Street.
Box Service Paralyzed.

In Only ten minutes elapsed before the
flames drove them away again.
Box Service Paralyzed.
Our cables come into Baltimore un-
derground from the north. south. east,
and west. To these points. Of course,
the fire did not reach and stations were
established there. People were willing
TO walk many miles to send telegram
in such an emergency. Call box ser
vice was practically paralyzed. AIessen-
gers were demoralized and local CON
nections cut. Later. however. collect
ing Offices in the center Of the city were
maintained and messengers were run
to the suburban stations. We have
now secured central Office at 21s
Calvert Street. and wires viii soon be
working in as good shape as ever"
Western Unions Experience.
II. F. Taft. manager Of the Western
Union, related practically the same ex-
perience for that company. A heavy
volume Of business was maintained by
the company until the very last moment.
when the men were driven from the
Equitable building by the police Line
men We're called In from all nearby
points and hurried measures were taken
to re-establish connections with the
North and South. Wires were brought
by a long circuit around the burning
district. and at last, about daylight
Monday morning, the first tick went
over the wires again. telling the story
OF devastation wrought by the flames.
The Washington times., 1904-02-09
coNNcTIoNERs. NorIcEI

] am IN z position 70 offer manufacturers'
prices on the following:
Green's Polar System Soda Fountain, Hooton-s
Fountain Cocoa. KOOtCn's Sweet Chocolate
HOoton's Chocolate Liquor, American Paper
Julip Straws, Rigney's Rock Candy and Rock
Candy Syrup, Gelatine Shredded and Granulated
Dmoy Concentrated Fruit Syrups, Ice Cream
Cabinets, standard makes; Ice Cream Freezers
for hand and power
Also have lot OF secondhand Soda Foun-
tains which l win sell cheap.
THoS. F. BURCH, 467 c ST. N. w.
The Washington times., 1904-02-09
IN MEMoRIAM.

PENN-In loving but sad remembrance o
dear sister-in-law, DORA Z. PENN, who de
parted this life one year ago today, Feb. o, 1908
One long year, oh, sister dear,
Since YOU have passed away,
But still your memory is sacred 10 US
As II ]. had been yesterday.
1t By CARRIE V. JASTRR.
The Washington times., 1904-02-09

source of food supply for the city would
have been cut of
The importance Of Light Street was
keenly appreciated. and the houses in
the neiEhborhood were literally flooded
with water when the fire was three
blocks away
Dynamite was used on Pratt Street
on Sunday afternoon. and the entire
north side Of Pratt Street. from Charles
10 Calvert. was converted from pros
porous business houses into shapeless
masses Of brick. The dynamite the
water. and the development OF the
strong westerly wind saved Light
Street, and not a wharf was touched.
The only steamboat line of the twenty
or thirty which use the street that
did not send out a steamer on Non
days schedule was the Ericsson line
to Philadelphia. at the corntr of Pratt
and Light Streets and in the midst or
the fire zone. The officials of the line
we're afraid to take their steamer to a
wharf liable TO burst into flames a any
moment.
Use of Dynamite Wise.
Blowing up the buildings on Pratt
Street proved a wise moasure. The heat
generated by the wide burning area was
sufficient TO carry the conflagra ton
against the wind. and had not dras-
tic measures been taken the rich but
shabby appearing manufacturing dis
trict west of Light Street and south of
Pratt Street would in all probability
have been sacrificed.
Explosives OF some kind viii have to
De used at once to get down tbs shaking
walls and swaying corners and Chin
aeys of the big plants in the business
district. Hundreds OF safes are buried
the ruins. and distracted owners are
ciamoring for an opportunity to get at
them and see if the intense heat caused
their contents to catch fire. Explora-
Ion among the ruins a present is abso-
.utely precluded. because of the danger,
and the military authorities are allow
ing no one, no matter how high his po-
sition. toA travel between the lines OF
catered sins.
To Demolish Walls.
1t was reported last night that ex-
plosives would first be used along the
eastern edge Of the fire. Many walls
from which there is no smoke or flame
to be seen are known to be holding large
masses of smoldering sparks. These are
a constant menace to the eastern sec
ton Of the city. Some of the standing
walls are high enough to spread debris
across the falls and in the exhausted
condition Of the hremen it would be an
easy matter for an ordinarily insignih-
cant fire TO reach proportions which
might duplicate in the east the horrors
OF Sunday and Monday in the west.
The work TO be done is so great and so
varied that no one knows where to
begin. but 1t is expected that by this
afternoon some sort of order win be
brought out Of the gchaos, and the
ofhcials will be able 10 proceed system
to remove the sOurceS OF danger
The Washington times., 1904-02-09
Work for All.

pEaSc OF the FAMINE VIII enc tonight.
Work for All.
AS to the unemployed. the commercial
and other bodies are discussing plans to
give all who want it work cleaning
up the burned district The matter is
now being discussed by Mayor McI.ane
and a committee of the Chamber of
Commerce.
The insurance men are in session at
the Lexington Hotel. Representatives
arc here from all over the United States
AS yet 1t is Impossible 10 give exact in
surance losses.
All engines from other cities are going
home. Five left this morning for New
York. one for Philadelphia. and three
for Washington. All Baltimore is prais
ing Washington men who came to it's
aid. Some Washington men worked
thirty-six hours without sleep.
Troops at Postoffice.
The delivery of mail and telegrams
in Baltimore forms another serious
problem Letters for all burned dis
tricts are held at the postoffice, and the
jam of people there is terrific. Tele-
grams received yesterday noon have not
vet been delivered. Federal troops are
keeping people in line at the postoffice.
Inside the fire lines of soldiers are
policemen and swarms OF detectives.
In fact. there are scores Of the best
thief catchers ehere from ali big cities.
Hotels, railroad stations, and the ruins
are guarded by plain-clothes men. 1t
was thought the millions buried under
the ruins would attract thieves here. II
they come, Jail alone awaits them.
McCluslcy Sends Men.
Captain McCluslxy'- of New York. has
ten OF his best men here. Captain
Miller, of Philadelphia. has seven. and
Major Sylvester this morning, five.
These 1are supplemented by men from
Chicago and Pittsburg. SO far. how
ever. there has been no disorder or loot
ing. Fewer arrests have been made
than the average before the fire.
The Washington times., 1904-02-09
NEW YORK c1GY.
HOTEL DARLINGTON
27TH STREET WESI

Zl1h STREET NEST
Between BROADWAY and 9Th AV.
NEW YORK.
Absolutely fire proof. European plan.
The most central and accessible 10
cation IN the city, combined with quiet
and refined surroundings.
TABLE DHOTE DINNER 6 to S.
Music in Palm Room.
TARIFF OF RATES:
Single Rooms (Bath), $3.50 to 50.
Double Rooms (Bath), l person.
81; 2 persons, So.
Bath Rooms Adjoining.
Large Double Rooms with Private
Bathroom, 1 person, 81; 2 persons, S5.
Suites of Parlor, Bedroom. and
Bath, for l person, SO, 81, So; 2 per-
sons, $4, $5, Sc.
f. NJ. EARLE & SON,
or Earle's Hotel. n. Y Established 1s4s
The Washington times., 1904-02-09
Hello Service All Right.

Mr.. Taft returned to Washington yes
terday.
Hello Service All Right.
1t was stated by officials Of the Chesa-
peake and Potomac Long Distance Tele-
phone Company that phone communi-
cation could be had with Baltimore
without difficulty. Considerable loss
was suffered by the company by the
destruction Of their main exchange on
St. Paul Street, but remarkable energy
was shown in meeting the emergency.
and new lines were soon opened II was
by means OF telephone communication
that Baltimore was enabled to summon
aid from Washington, and communica-
ton was kept up practically through the
whole night.
All three companies affirm that there
has been a heavy increase in business
with Baltimore on account of the fire.
but they think this is only temporary
The destruction of so many large busi-
ness houses. they feel sure will affect
the amount Of wire communication con-
siderably.
The Washington times., 1904-02-09

Phone East 254 E.:ss.ss Il s.s; ss' S,sria: OF q:
For Rear Goa famous Golden Hop Beer
W CSS'' for 81. Delivered in unletteEed
The Washington times., 1904-02-09
SmoIdering Ruins.
Lighted the City.

Last night this district acted as a
great pyre, which lighted Up the other
wise oarkened city with smoky. vap-
orous glare. The Baltimore firemen
were loud in their praise of the
eleven New York engines and crews
which. on the bridges across Jones
The Washington times., 1904-02-09
]. WILLIAM LEE,

UNpERrAKER AND LIVERY,
~ Prun kv, ". Washington. ID n
The Washington times., 1904-02-09
GAUNT FAMINE
FACES BAL TIMORE

(Continued from First Paee.)
phia and New York for supplies. This
phase Of the famine will end tonight.
The Washington times., 1904-02-09

Mr.. Taft returned to Washington yes
The Washington times., 1904-02-09

in Only ten minutes elapsed before the
flames drove them away again.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-06

thought of. Everything carried the backs OF
horses donkeys. Naturally, the bridge, the only
highway to London from the country the river
was busy place. There always something
going on-the entrance of foreign ambassador with
his train of followers religious procession
riding Of the Lord Mayor; a pageant; nobleman
with his livery; bishop priest with his servants
pilgrimage, perhaps nothing than string
of pack horses out Of Kent, bringing fruit and
tables into the city.
With all these things going on, the place became
favorite with store keepers. Haberdashers and
traders in small settled there first. Then book
sellers and statoners and merchants followed
The Great Frewhich really deserves the distinction
capital etters-desroyed the houses the bridge,
of which not rebuilt In 1857, the traffic
had grown that all of the houses torn down,
and the full width given to the continuous train Of
wagons and people going and coming.
The bridge made great difference to those
who went up and down the Thames in boats. Shoot
ing the bridge" meant often ducking thru the cap
sizing boat in the always swift at that
spot but rendered douby uncertain by the bridge
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-06

no two of which, hardly, were the same size shape
The narrowest width; the widest, thirty
two Peter felt that these variations
with where the tide ebbed and flowed savagely
twice day. It experiment in bridge building,
the structure lasted almost six centuries and
quarter, it must be confessed that those religious
bridge builders thirteenth century knew how
to do durable work.
1t was the fashion then when any great enterprise
like this completed, to dedicate it to saint
Thomas Beckett Of Canterbury had just been canon
lied England, proud of the honor, dedicated the
English saint They built a chapel to him the
largest pier, made the pier itself part of the
chapel that it could be entered from the water
we'll as from the bridge BY by began be
built on other side. They fourteen feet deep
and only twelve traffic But then,
in those days wagons for carrying produce not
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-06
The High School Credit Contests.

DERHAPS it is we'll understood the high
schools of the northwest that there must be four
papers on a topic, in order the work of the
high school eligible in the high school credit contests
but so many weeks only three papers from school
come in, making credit mark impossible that the
editor again attention the rule requiring four
If the papers were not generally above the aver
age would not be noticeable but in case so
far, there has unusually good paper,
which would naturally have been entitled to credit
had the required number been sent to make the school
eligible The editor believes that there
must be a mistake counting somewhere and that in
consequence there several high schools in the
credits
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-06

like that in England is a thing be lightly put
When King John the king who granted the Magma
Chara, realized that London getting to he great
city, he that the time had when bridge
be built the Thames. Merchants could
not carry their wares freely about; there was no
means Of communication with the people on the other
side by boats ferries piled to and fro, but
orally commercial traffic to and from the city had to
long and roundabout routes in order to cross
the river at fords. ,&&@sz~&
In those days, there religious order in the
church who studied the building of bridges and it
member of this order, Peter of Coechurch, who
chosen to build the great bridge. It made
tonal affair. The king not only gave toward the
pense but also the great lords the bishops the
chants, and all the common people who could
mite, proud to help even by that little in the
building of the great enterprise AL their went
down the table fair written for posterity." I'm
fortunately for postery, the Great Fire of London
swallowed them.
To eyes it funny looking bridge that
Peter of Coechurch planned. It had twenty arches,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-06

for them to visitors and Shakspere himself
hardly at dignifed English
the sign reading ct is forbidden to pluck the
flowers
Perhaps it seems long winded to you Neverthe-
courtesy it all is felt in the proper
spirit does not feel the flash of irritation
obstinacy that the American signs often arouse
IT HERE are so many touches to to be seen
l in the crowds the streets of London, that one
is always kept the alert for what may next
1t takes away the breath Of an American woman to
the low-necked gowns sported by London
early in the morning. High collars such as women
universally this side Of the notice.
their absence Moreover the dress is always
bit (more less) and string or two three
strings pearl beads close about the throat
they trip daintily along in what cali slippers,
never wearing the streets The heels