New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-02-28
DRIVEN FROM HOMES
JERSEY CITY Has :!
500 900 BL4ZE.
Thirty Families Routed by
Flames That Destroy
Veneer Factory.

JerseysCity's Sunday repose was rude
~ shattered Yesterday afternoon by u
spectacular fire in the yards of the New
York Veneer Seating Company, at the
Pacific avenue station of the Central
Railroad of New Jersey, just beyond
Communipaw-
The first alarm was sent in by Patrol
men Burdy and Flick, of the 4th Precinct
station. and Fire Chief Conway IF the
Jersey City force made it a general alarm
as soon as he arrived on the scene.
a general alarm in Jersey City means
that every engine and truck in the city
has 20 roll" and even with the full
force there it took from about o'clock
until after s o'clock TO get the flames
entirely under control.
II was hours later before the blaze
burned out and before the firemen could
call IL conquered the largest part of
what the company officials said WAS
s400.00G worth of veneer>ed and finished
furniture and lumber had been de-
stroyed. In addition to that SupeTin-
Iendent Hanan of the Veneer Seating
COMPANY estimated that close to S56.000
worth OF machinery mad been damaged
The conapany's yard is bounded on one
side by the Newark division tracks Of
the Jersey Central Railroad and covers Ell
the block from the tracks 10 Forest Place
and from Pacific avenue to Halliday
street. except for a fringe of two-famIly
frame dwellings alorg the latter.
Thirty families living in these houses,
which back up directly on the big lum-
Der piles and warehouse sheds for I'm
ished goods belonging TO the veneer CON-
aany. We're driven out of their homes
within ten minutes after the discovery
d the fire.
The tenants had time enough for their
xii. but 3 strong wind blowing the ere
toward the houses made their ignition
sure and Inspector Leonard, in charge
n the police lines, ordered them all out
Policemen and spectators Joined in
helping the luc1less tenants TO move
their goods out into the mud of the
street and from there into the houses
# neigrbors who were out of reach of
the FIRE
Three sick men confined TO their beds,
we're carried out and taken to the Jer-
-ey City Hospital, not that they had
been injured i'm any way, but 10 save
them from exposure
Two or three lengths OF rotten hose
rlirstir. liz the midst Of the fight helped
tht. blaze TO gain strength. though Chief
.-onway declared that the high wind,
.,.cstfer with the highly inflammaple
material stored in the yards. was more
DO blame than the hose.
The first alarm was turned in when
nc IRE had burned well into pile near
lh. centre of the yard the high piles Of
lumber and storing sheds for finished
GOODS around the edges having kept 1t
from view at the start. The cause WAS
not learned yesterday, but il was SUP
,osed that a carelessly thrown match
an Saturday afternoon may have started
il and that il smouldered along without
li7,- force until the stiff breeze Of yest-r-
1a,- afternoon famed it into strength
Thousands Of spectators lined the
block around the fire. and detachment
r. fifty policemen had its hands full
i-aenin- them in check beyond the fire
lines.
The Newark division OF the central
Railroad of New Jersey WAS put cut Of
commission because Of the lines Of nose
stretched across the tracks, and for three
hours al Newark bound passengers were
taken around by way Of Elizabethport