The Washington herald., 1908-01-13
1t Proves Just a Waste of
Effort on His Fart.
YOU CAN SEE FOR YOURSELF
Read This Tragic Tale and Then
Enter Into the Spirit that Pervaded
the Breasts of Those Three BHche-
Iors Who Lost Their Roast Lamb,
Likewise Their other Possessions.

the blooded French bulldog that Play
wright Booth Harrington gave Playwright
Harry Leon Wilson last spring in Paris
and who is spending the season with
Bert Lesion Taylor at Riverside, while
Messrs. Wilson and Harrington are az
their indianapolis cOllaboratory-Spran-
gle. the subject nominative of this SEN
tence which is pretty long considering
the cost Of white paper, set up barking
at 7.OS o'clock Friday night that caused
little Alya Taylor to go out on the porch
to look into the cause Of it. Sprangle
indicated as we'll as he could that there
was fire In the vicinity
Aiva saw the flames but Alva's mother
and father had gone 10 the big city 10
the theater and, anyway, Riverside
hasn't any fire department, SO there was
nothing for it but TO let Sprangle bark
his pedigreed head off.
Well. Sprangle is the champion ground
and lofty barker Of Fairfield County; so
much so. in fact. that the Taylors, 30 per
cent in Jest and 30 per cent in earnest,
call him Booth Harrington, and his bark
ing finally reached the ears OF Charles
s Somerville. Fred s Doremus. and
Louis r. AIberger,. who were at dinner
AT home. about three miles away,
Mr. Doremus was just about 10 carve
the roast lamb when the barking got on
his nerves and. without waiting TO ex-
cuse himseIf-the trio are bachelors and
live. or lived, there alone-he went to
the door and looked out.
Gets Busy on the Phone.
It was apparent that the chimney ana
a good part of the roof were on fire. So.
informing Messrs. Somerville and Alber-
ger. briefly, he went to the phone and
called up the volunteer fire department.
the Amogerone Hook and Ladder Com
pany. l4S Greenwich. to be accurate. In
less time than it takes to write this
whole account the man on watch an
swered.
House afre," said Mr.. Doremus.
where dye live?" queried the man.
whose name could not be learned up TO
late tonight
Dublin Road.
sorry" said the nameless one, but
that's out of the Borough Of Greenwich.
and I'm the town Of Greenwich, and we
can't do anything without having an or
der from James r. Mead, the borough
official and anyhow | don't know where
the foreman is. and Joe Whelan, the first
assistant foreman, Is over 20 Port Chester
bowling, and he loves to bowl, and l
don't guess he'd ought 20 be disturbed,
and Bill Rich is.
Words BETTER Left UnSaId
Excessive warmth near the phone and
the thickness Of smoke inhibited fur
ther holding Of the receiver. so Mr.. Dore-
mus let il go at that His companions
and the servants tried to go up stairs TO
save a few things. such as yacht trophies.
but the smoke was pretty fierce. They
used the extinguishers, but these didn't
do much good.
While the flames were consuming the
upper story Mr.. Charles II. Ebert the
artist. hiked over and helped as well as
he could. managing to rescue a couple OF
Mr.. SomerviIle's neckties.
The bachelor trio, while sorry 10 lose
their household and personal effects-some-
thing like sj0000-were greatly incensed
at having been interrupted at dinner
and bewailed the loss of the fine roast
lamb, which was not recovered from the
ruins.
So at about II o'clock, when there was
nothing left Of the house but four boxes
OF cigarettes and three neckties, not 10
mention case Of 1852 ginger ale-''in case
Of lady visitors" Mr. Alberger vouch-
safed-all hands went by 20-horsepower to
the Indian Harbor Yacht Club. where a
lamb dinner was served.
Well, Who Is ia BIamef
All the foregoing is the unimportant
part. Ever since Friday night-nor is any
relief in sight-the only subject spoken of
from up-sound Beach, way down to just
this side Of Port Chester, is not the fire
itself, but the dilatoriness Of the Amo-
gerones in getting on the job. II there
is one thing folks in Fairfield County
pride themselves on. IL is the fire depart
ments. Many there be that say the
Amogerones were perfectly right in not
going to the fire: If folks want protection
they should live in the borough.
Others there were TO cOntrOvert this
Mayor George Sammis. far away as
Sound Beach, said at Sunday dinner that
if he'd been around home and not count
ing up at the Herald Square. Friday
night. he'd have called out the Sound
Beach Little Giants. as great a horde of
flame fighters as ever-as eveT-er-fought
flames. The discussion went on all day
and up 10 the time the last tram left
Greenwich for New York at 9:13 tonight.
The general belief then was that the
blame for the Amogerones not coming at
once should he divided among Guranqlo
the recent panic. and its cause. and the
Gulf Stream. But Pop Gibson blames
the nameless man, and Pop ought to