The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-05-20
Montclair Patrolman Res
cues Child Mid Thrill
: ing Incidents.
DROPS GIRL FROM
WINDOW; THEN JUMPS
Mrs. Robert Reeves, by Her
Goodness, Saves Life of Six
Small Children.

Lillian Reeves. 3 years old, accidental
ly ,ast behind when her mother and six
lit brothers and sisters escaped from
8 ming building at AZ Glen Ridge
svarle. Montclair, today, was saved
from the fames by Policeman James s.
Lennon, of that town, who dared death
In the snoke-filled hallway. groped his
way to the second floor apartment and
found the baby asleep in a bedroom of
the apartment of the second floor where
the family lived. He jumped off the
roof with the child in his arms.
When he started his return journey
to the street and safety Lennon dis
covered that the stairway had fallen
and the hallway was a roaring furnace.
Closing the dor he ran to rear win
dow ond broke the panes of glass A
few feet below him was the roof of
onestory extension to the main build
ing. Lennon managed to drop the
child to- this roof without injuring her,
and then climbed down beside her.
It was twelve feet from this roof to
the ground, and the policeman deter
mined to await the arrival of the fire
department. Hardly had this resolution
been taken when flames broke through
the roof beneath him and forced ,Sn
immediate change of program.
Clasping the little girl tightly in his
arms Lennon leaped to the ground.
Uninjured, he ran to the frantic mother
and placed the baby in her arms. The
fire was discovered at 8 o'clock today.
stairway on Fire.
On the second floor of the building
were Mrs. Robert Reeves and her seven
children. Before Mrs. Reeves war
aware. ,of it the stairway was on fire-
She seized her back, and calling on the
other children to follow her, ran down
the stairs. When she reached the
street Mrs. Reeves discovered that Lii
Han, three years old. was missing. She
remembered the child was asleep in a
rear bedroom. Just then Policeman
James S. Lennon, who reached the
scene at that time, learned from the
grief-crazed mother that a child re-
manned in the busning hou-a.
Without word, Lennon. who had
for two years been member of Hook
and Ladder Company No. 2, Of Mont
clair, rushed into the flaming building.
Child Tells OF Fire
The first floor of the building was oc-
cupied by Joseph D'Alesandro. his wife
and two children, as dry goods store
and dwelling Mrs. d D'Alesandro said
that she went out to the yard to hang
caothes On a line. and her Oldest child
ran to the yard soon after and told her
of the fire.
She ran into the house, she says, and
found the store in flames, She seized
her baby and ran to the street. 1t was
not until the blaze was under control
that Mrs D'Alesandro remembered that
she had $3.50 in a shoe box on shelf in
the store BY that time everything in
the store was burned into ashes.
D'Alesandro places his loss at $4,000
on stock and furniture, besides the
cash that was burned up, and Reeves
loss is $500 on furniture and the loss on
building will reach s1,5OO The building
is owned by Leonard Scrano of Wall
nut street, Montclair The loss on the
building is covered by insurance, as is
the stock of dry goods.
Frank B. Moorehead, fireman of
Hook and Ladder Company No 1, had
the forefinger of his right haid laid
completely open with broken glass.
He went to the Mountainside Hospital,
which is near the scene of the fire, and
had seven stitches taken in 1t.
Axel Wiberg, of Hose Company No.
l. Climbed up on the blazing roof and
seved a kitten which had taken refuge
there.