Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-01

| protect by this system is bounded by B and
| streets north and 1st and 18th streets
/ west
Motor Fire Engines.
\ During the year the officials of the de.
partment have been much interested in
motor fire apparatus. They We're sc
! pleased with a demonstration Of one in
this city that Chief Wagner concluded to
ask for an appropriation for the purchase
| OF at least one such fire engine
! The Commissioner mcfarland flag trophy
was won by No. IA engine company Fire
! Marshal Nicholson made his usual inspec-
! tons of business houses hotels, theaters
and other places, and also inspected build
ings in which oils We're stored.
During the month of January 1Ol fire
alarms were sounded. There were fifty
| three bell and forty-eight local alarms,
ten of the bell alarms having been
turned in by violators of the law who
wanted to create excitement or see the
horses run. The total loss occasoned
by ninety-one fires during the month
amounted to $22,SW. There were two
fires which were 50 threatening that ad-
ditional alarms had to be sounded. They
were at the Fair SIS 9TH street, and at
the Hudson office building on r street.
Only one fireman was injured and three
persons slightly burned. no fatality hay
ing been recorded.
Eghty-nine alarms claimed the atten-
ton of the department in February. a
decrease Of twelve. compared with
the preceding month There were thirty
eight bell alarms, two of them being
false. The alarms represented eighty
seven actual fires. Reports of the fire
marshal indicate an aggregate loss of
k19.97, the heaviest loss during the
month having been occasioned by the
destruction of the crematory at 26th
were slightly burned and three firemen
slightly injured.
Fatal Fire in March.
One fatality attended a conflagratiOn
during the third month of the year, the
victim being John Eenable, colored, one
of three men injured during the prog
ress of a blaze at the main plant of
the Washington Gas Light Company.
Eight others We're slightly injured or
burned. There were 100 alarms sounded
-ffty-siX local and forty-nine bell
alarms-only one being false. The total
loss by fire during the month was esti-
mated at $21.14S.
Members OF the fire department re-
sponded to 1Ol alarms during April, forty
five bell and fifty-six local alarms, six OF
the former having been false. The ninety
five actual fires during the month caused
amount. One fatal casualty. that of Mag
gle Bates, colored. was recorded. Two
| members of the fire department were
slightly injured.
seventy-seven actual fires during the
month of May was $93.S29. Six false
alarms, forty-nine bell and thirty-tour
local alarms were sounded. What proved
the most disastrous fire during the month
occurred at Martin Wiegand's planning
mill MARYLAND avenue southwest,
where the damage amounted to SCI, $50.
Ten casualties were reported during the
month. but none of the victims succumb-
ed to their injuries.
Only three casualties were reported dur
ing the sixth month of the year, the vic
Tins having sustained slight burns while
trying to save their effects from being
destroyed. Two false alarms were sent
in but there was a blaze in each of the
forty-seven other occasions Cor calling out
the fire department. Losses aggregating
s10Oo7 resulted from the fires.
Big Losses in July.
Damage to the amount of $4,000 to the
plant of the Chapin-Sacks Company was
the heaviest fire loss recorded during the
month of July. The total damage done
by fire during the month was $27,972.
resulting from seventy-six fires. One
false alarm was sounded. Three fatalities
attended the July fires. John H. Stevens.
Miss Mabel Owens and Mrs. Emma Cop
persmith having been burned to death.
Six persons we're slightly injured.
Sixty-six alarms. four of them false
were sounded during August The tota
amount of damage reported was only
of the fires. Bette Matthews. colored
ninety-eight years old. was burned to
death, one man was slightly burned and
another injured. The sounding Of Sec
ond alarm was necessitated for fire in
dwelling and stable in rear Of the BoS-
| ton bakery.
| In September there was . total loss OF
| $11 1921 occasioned by fire. Seventy seven
| alarms were turned in during the month
three of them being false. The loss oc-
fires amounted to 5000, while the dam
age caused by seventy other fires was
| only, 1851. The only fatality at a fire
during the month was that of Byrd Jett
colored, in a stable. Five persons were
slightly burned and one fireman injured.
October Was Dull.
| There were ninety-one fires during the
month of October. and four false alarms
were sounded. The total estimated loss
| was $7,C9s. a decrease of $4,S23, as COM
pared with the preceding month. Three
persons were slightly burned and one
fireman injured.
A large increase in the number oil
alarms and the amount of fire losses is
shown by the records for November, the
alarms having numbered IA and the
damage aggregating S94G75. Five of the
fires caused lossess of SSS,950 They were
the fires at the store of Rudolph, West 4
Co., Georgetown University. barn of the
Anacostia and Potomac River Railway
Company and store of y. Ii. Shea. One
person was slightly burned and MEM
Der of the fire department was injured.
More than 123 alarms were sounded
during the last month in the year While
the number of alarms was great the
losses were comparatively small. amount
ing to about $4,000. Two persons We're
burned to death and two slightly burned.
Those who lost their lives were Mrs.
Catherine Myers and Mrs. Elizabeth
Overman. Mrs. II. l.. Haycock and Mi
chael Flaherty being the ones who re-
covered from their injuries.
WITH THE POLICE.