Evening journal., 1910-11-28
FIREMEN CHECK
STABLE BLAZE
Hotel Property and Adjoining
Garage Are Threatened
by Morning Fire
LOSS WILL REACH $1,000;
ORIGIN REMAINS A MYSTERY

Fire that broke out in the stables
in the rear Of the Bulls Head Hotel,
i'm West Fourth street, between Ship
lev and Orange streets, shortly before
O'Clock this morning, threatened
confiagration. Immediately around
the stable are a number of old build
ings and a garage, which faces on
Orange street and is conducted by
the Stoddard-DaytonA Automobile Com
pany Of Wilmington. In the garage
were six machines, including the
handsome new 1911 STANDARDIZATION
car offered as the first prize In The
! EVENING JOURNAL contest The
employees of the firm, however, got all
| the cars out of the place together
with tank containing sixty gallons
/ Of gasoline within few moments at-
/ ter the FIRE was discovered. Only a
thin wall separated the garage from
/ the stables and had the fire reached
the former place the infiammable ma
terial Il contained would likely have
caused a big blaze
While responding TO the fire John
/ W. Porter, assistant chief Of the Fire
/ Department, was thrown from his
carriage at Eleventh and Church
streets and was so badly injured that
he had to be taken to the Homeo-
pathic Hospital in the Phoenix ambul-
ance.
The blaze IN the stable was dis
( covered by James Welsh, bartender at
the Bulls Head Hotel, who sent a
customer TO strike the alarm from No.
9 box. Five minutes earlier John
McGowan, the stableman, had walked
into the room in the rear Of the hotel
bar and sat down beside the stove TO
warm himself. He said he had noticed
nothing wrong when he passed
through the yard
The blaze started IN a small two
story structure which connects the
hotel with the stables and which was
used as sort Of office. Nothing was
kept In this building and the origin
of the fire is a mystery. II is not
known whether il started on the first
floor or in the second story. When
discovered by Welsh the Are was
burning fast and banks of smoke
} ascended and passed over the sur
rounding buildings, giving the firemen
. who quickly arrived. the impression
that big blaze was I'm progress.
within a short time the blaze passed
up the inside wall of the stables
t proper and tongues Of fame begsl
to emerge from the coping Of the
building. In remarkably quick time
. however, the fire apparatus arrived OF
5 the scene with the automobile ap
paratus Of the Reliance Compan,
] among the first comers, and the frs
= ] -, L,s 1fna NJ hnEp laid
! In consequence of this quick wori
It was not long before streams q
water were playing on the fre. Within
half hour the blaze had been eN
tinguished and everybody in th'
neighborhood breathed more freely.
T. NJ Mernin. proprietor Of th'
. Bulls Head Hotel, was asleep at th'
). time the fire started and was awak
= ened by the clatter Of the fire ap
2 paratus and the dense smoke. He salt
|. he rented the stables TO J. ID. Cor
z, man. Mr.. Germans loss may reacl
J, about 5000, while the loss to the stabl
4 building, which property belongs q
the Brown estate, may reach abou
= 81 900, covered by insurance.
During the time the fire was Il
progress and despite the dense cloud
of smoke and streams Of water, tha
just escaped striking It. a pigeon oc
4 cupied a place in a broken windoV
\ near the top OF the burning buildin
and refused to leave. II was though
that the bird had a nest Of littl
% pigeons in the hayloft, and when th
firemen. who at first failed to motto
: the bird, saw it, they we're careful .
4 keep the streams Of water from i
q The pigeon remained throughout III
n excitement and when the firemen dc
n parted it disappeared within the lof