The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-03-29
10 REBUILD SETON
! HALL DORM|TORY
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&rhief Astley, of the Newark depart
rssent, gave orders to engine companies
Nos. IL and q to make all speed for
Auth Orange, and Chief Matthews, OF
he orange department. started in per-
5nn for. the college, after having dis
sAtched W engines ahead of him.
NTH the arrival Of the four engines
Tithin AN, hour the mastery of the fire
Ftas first gained.
HWhile the engines from Newark and
Grange were %ploughing through the
gtud on, their way to the fire the
Mighbors from all the district there
3bout were racing to the flaming hill
8p. In autos and on foot they went;
Zen delivery carts and milk wagons
.@ined the early morning cavalcade up
Nbuth Orange avenue to the college.
'Ehe Right Reva otohn ]. O'Connor,
bishop of Newark, saw the flames
From his episcopal residence farther
Gown the savenue and was one of the
Hrst to arrive.
EThose who circled about the red-hot
walls of the dormitory saw some pretty
&ork done by the South Orange
Eolunteers before the professionals
4rrivcd from Orange and Newark.
.Fhe home .-tire-fghters speedily dis
Covered ~~Tstflat their feeble streams
gould do little more than to keep the
gals and wooden easements of the
Nearby buildings cool. Some of them
5ftrned their attention to the connect
big passageway between the burning
.Hormitory building and the main col
tege structure.
X Somebody in passing through this
Massage had left the connecting doors
open. thereby leaving a broad avenue
for the, FIRE to ride into the main build
;'Ulg on the back of a fiafre-back.
Michael Fitzsimmons, the town clerk of
%outhSDrange. n former head of the
volunteer department, led an expeditions
- close these doors. Three went with
Tim through the corridor of the main
building TO the connecting p~assageway
and fought their way through smoke
Tnd the scorching breath of the al
Sancifig flames to the doors, These they
Elamnied in Jhe face of"the fire. Though
The doors themselves were wooden, by
&hutting off the draught they stayed
.Hhe progress of the fire long enough to
save The seminary building until the
.Rnginss could arrive to- strengthen the
@trearrs .pfs water. - ~ d
+ saving the Books.
r. When the engines from Orange had
:Streams going there was "A second spec
Sacular piece of work done. From the
Tidgepole of the burning building a
Short tower rose, and that In time be-
Haine "a BLAZING finger menacing the
Eoof OF Che building vet untouched by
Cts impending fails Some of the Or
Ange fiemen %clalnbefed along this roof
with a line, of hose. and by playing the
full force of the stream on the tower
i3hey succeeded in forcing it back and
Hown with a crash into the ruins of the
3ormitory building.
& A neM library of pressed brick, which
Has reeentfy BEEN Built abutting upon
Ahe side Of the seminary building near
Ahe juncstne with the sdormitory hall
That swast hlrning, appeared to be
Ioomed from the beginning. AS soon
as the students from the blazing dor
&nItories had been brought down to the
xrouna Father Mooney marshaled them
3nto a salvage brigade, and they went
at the shelves of 10000 volumes with
sSeverish haste. Working in h glare
of III fire, which had already begun
10 lick at1he wooden stills of the library
Svindows. the boys bundled all OF the