Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-02-07
FIRES ALL OVER
THE CITY CAUSED
BY COLO SPELL
Frequent Alarms Keep Fireinen
Hustling, but No Serious
Blaze Is Reported.

.ls the result of the cold spell the
firemen today had a crowded few hour.
answering alarms for fires which broke
out in almost every part of the city. Ii
seemed to them as IL the alarm gong
rang almost necessarily.
During the morning the Salvage
Corps automobile Travelled eiShteer
miles answering six alarms, and tbs
Wagon covered nine miles answering
four alarms, making a total of twenty
seven miles travelled.
When l5-year-old Abraham Alst en-
tered his fathers store at 95 Broome
street today it was bitter cold, and he
started to build a fire in a stove. In
order to get quick results he used benz
zine, which caused the fuel to blaze SC
fiercely and suddenly that his clothing
caught fire.
He grabbed a blanket and put out
the flames before the arrival of the fire
department. which had been summoned
by a pedestrian.
A maid in the home of David l..
FEEDER. 6 White terrace, discovered fire
on the first floor of the building at
11;01 a. m. She ran 10 the second floor
and awoke Mrs. FEEDER, who escaped In
her night clothes to the home of a
~neighbor. Finding it impossible. to get
the ff~e department on the phone Mrs,
FEEDER sent the maid to the quarters
OF Engine Company No. II. Captain
Harrison sent two men back to the
house with ex~tinguishers.
They telephoned for aid and 1t was
two hours before they managed to get
the flames under control. The. furnish
ings on the first floor OF the house were
destroyed and the rooms were wrecked.
At noon today Frederick Lauer. the
engineer, discovered flames in the siz-
ing-room of the hat factory of Silver
stein. Flexner e. Gottiieb, 26 Kip street.
This room is directly alongside of the
boiier-room. Stock in the sizing and
drying rooms was destroyed. but the
flames we're confined to these rooms.
The office was slightly damaged. The
damage will not exceed $1,000.
A ervant girl in the home of Halsey
Monroe Larter. q gold and silversmith,
Of 519 Mt. Prospect avenue was SO
frightened when a steam pipe in the
house exploded today that she turned
In a fire alarm from box 4o7. Fire
men quickly a~scertained the source of
the trouble. and excepting for the lam
age caused by the escaping water from
h steam pipe, there was no loss.
An over-heated stove caused a slight
fire at he home Of Mrs. James Gill
amen, OF lis Jefferson street, today
the blaze being extinguished by chemi-
Gals. Engine 8 and other apparatus
responded to the alarm, and the fire
was put out with damage of about IS.
Alarm from box 654 brought the en-
sines to the home Of Harry Schwartz.
of IA Boyd street. where a fire was in
progress as the result of, an attempt
to thaw pipes. The house Is a three
story frame dwelling. The fire was
e~xtinguished without great difficulty,
the damage amounting to about $25.
Choildren playing with fire started a
blaze at the home OF Edmund Wright.
G2S North Eighth street. An alarm waa
turned In from box 1923. and the blaze.
which was confined to the kitchen, was
a~xtinguished with but slight damage
1t Is said that two children playing
with matches and kerosene started the
blaze. The children saturated a rag
with Kerosene and set fire to oilcloth
on the kitchen floor.
Fire originating In efforts to thaw out
a frozen water pipe in the cellar Of
John Roth's home, at 643 South Seven
teenth street. was quickly extinguished
this morning with small damage to the
building.
Other alarms were; Bon $50, Market
and Bowery streets: box 61T. SPRING
field avenue and Seventeenth street;
box OF. Tngraham place and Milliken
avenue box 1872, Berkeley avenue and
Seventh street.