Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-11

reach her mother over the wire. but
failing, called up the BroWnsberger
school.
The news was confirmed there, and
with her employer she hurried home
ward, arriving in time to assist in put
ting some of their goods, strewn on the
grass and sidewalks, in a safer place.
Miss Daisy Brownsberger, whose
mother was sick at her home yester-
day. said:
Praise for Boys
GAS soon as the alarm was given by
the girls, who could see the flames in
the rear, Harold CASTOR, one of our
fleet-footed boys, ran to the corner box
to turn on the alarm.
"I suppose from fifty to seventy-five
boys then distributed themselves
through the burning building and on
top of the school and did iremen's
work.
There was, 1 thought, ten minutes
delay before the department came.
When the men di arrive they played
their hose on the west end of the build
ing, where the flames were, though
the wind was blowing east and the
blowing over the school, threatening to
set it on fire and carrying the blaze to
the other buildings east of us.
1.-THE boys worked like heroes. They
are heroes, manly lot. We owe our
escape to them.
"Our greatest damage was broken
windows and streams of water leaking
through the different floors, soaking
carpets, rugs, furniture and ceilings"
Some of the boys who helped as vol
unteers were w. Therkorn, Car
los Maytorena, Russell McGrath, Lu-
clan Rogers of Fullerton, Walter Cole
of Whittier H. Brewer of Mt. Pleasant,
Ia, Raymond Still, J. Wesley Roy, Pa
tricio Robles of Sinaloa, J. Treat, G.
L. Duncan, G. C. Appleton, o. G. Della
Tore, r. E. Suits, H. A. Lowe, Burton
w. Andrews of Sierra Madre, r. I.
Phelps of Huntington Beach, Harold
Moran, Leslie Bennett, H. G. Torbett,
Alexander Quasi, George Harris, Err
nest Wells, Leslie Bennett, Carl Bar
tells, Gray Webb, S. J. Grove, u. L.
Edmunds, Phil Kennedy, Charles Car
yer, Lelande Warde, C. L. Suits, D. F..
]. Hayek, L. r. Miller, B. Donnell, Jo-
seph Otero and James Dilley,
Young women from the school who
encouraged the heroes were Misses
Frieda Rupp, Cordelia Christie, Mar
garet Orr, Janeta Holgate, Maysie Nc
Cam, Hattie Thompson, Della Barna-
be, Stella Baker, Grace Hawley, Alma
Cole, Addie Wadsworth, Irene Alexan-
der, Adele Wohler, Kate Maiden, Flor
ence Gantzer, Alice Olson, Gertrude
Nicholson, Florence B. Dodge, Margue-
rite Rocco, Ruth Won Kirbach, Ann
Brown, Italia Garbarino, Eta Landers,
Bessie Hamblin, Genevieve Punch, LII
liam Parker, Helen Bradley, Lillian
Lawler, Edith Gird, Edna Wagner,
Mary Raphael, Velma Johnson, Adele
C. Rathwell, Harriet Williamson of
Lakeside, Julia Fluck, Helen Filson,
Jennie Blum, Mrs. Nettie B. Taber,
Misses Viola Lowery of Fresno, Matte
Bess, Cora L. Bailey of Gardena, May
Rogers, Elizabeth Littleton of Fuller
ton, H. J. Beard, Estelle Letter, Emily
Smith, Ada Nelson, Nora Cremin, Ruby
BeardsFee, Mary Holster, Stella Brook
er of Denver and Mrs. F. Whiting.
The building belongs to A. L. Cheney
of 651 Washington street, of the Cheney
& West company, 316-318 South Los
Angeles, and his willie, Mrs. Sarah E.
Cheney.
The loss is probably $4,000 on the
building, partly insured.
The loss to tenants amounts to $4,000
more, none being covered by insurance,