The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-06
BUSY DAYS THESE
FOR The FIREMEN
BATTLES WITH THE COLD CAUSE
t MANY ALARMS.
Citizens Keep Piling on. the Coal in
Vain Effort to Break Gold and
Sparks Bring the Changing Wagons
Most Blazes Inconsequential, but
Several Cause Losses.

Firemen are sleeping with their
clothes, on and with one eye open, and
unless the cold snap breaks soon they
may move their hunks to the trucks.
The man with the ladder and the hose
ism It in the limelight now. He's in
harness and a slave to the careless
ness of shivering householders who
want to see what the furnaces and
stoves will do toward breaking up the
mantle of cold.
For the last two days drivers Of all
sorts Of rigs and owners of baby car
riages have been suffering with wry
necks caused by looking over their
shoulders for fire engines. The small
boy in the residence district keeps his
face against the window, watching for
the dashing horses and a streetcar gong
creates f1rore in the business center.
And all this excitement is caused by
persons who try to get their houses so
warm that the cold winds will glance
off.
Occupants of high fiat buildings were
last evening when they looked out of
their windows. Between Z and 9
o'clock dozen small fires were play
ing about the chimneys of overfed
heating plants. At one time these
blazes sprang up so fast In some dis
tricts that the fire forces had to be
divided to attend all. .
Shovel Works Overtime. i
Those who lived in detached houses
saw some of these fires, too, but they
kept on shoveling coal, tho fearing that
the next alarm would call the big red
wagons to their places. A cold wave IS
the frefend's friend among the frame
houses. for at such times nearly all the
fires are confined to the smaller houses.
Twenty-one alarms were rung In
Sunday and Monday, and all of them
brought work for the department..
Fourteen of these occurred yesterday,
after the early morning fall Of the
Thermometer, and two Of them caused
considerable damage.
Aside from the actual loss the fear
that fills the small homes is unusual.
The children and old folks must be
kept warm and the danger OF hre
constantly stares them in the face. Inc
racing horses and the rattle OF the fire:
wagons may be fun for the visitor out
when they race past a house that Is
noorlv heated the excitement is at
tended by a little shudder. ,,.
Two Horses Burned.
Fire in the old building occupied by
the Northern Scrap Iron & Fuel com
pany at Fourteenth avenue N and Sec
ond street, last night, burned two
horses and damaged the building to the
extent Of $1,000. .....>......less...
The fire started in the barn, where
the company's horses are kept, ane
lspread to the other buildings. A par
sof the building is used by the People I
1 Scrap Iron company as a storehouse
and the loss is about equally divided
betweenSthe two companies.
The property was not insured, ant
the cause Of the fire is not known.
Fire at the Landour.
A mysterious fse broke out in tn,
Landour hotel, at Ninth street and Mic
ollet avenue, yesterday afternoon, ant
caused considerable excitement for /;
| time. -.
! The flames started in a room on tn
seventh story and burned thru tn
floor. The firemen cut thru the ceilin,
Of the sixth floor and soon extinguishei
the flames. Later, however, the fir
broke out again and another run ha,
to be made by the department.
The actual loss was small. The fire
men were unable to determine how tn
fire started. <r@-t = IS.