The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-10-06
FIRE SCARES $500 CHILDREN
CATHOLIC PROTECTORl' ROT SED
ny BURNING LIMBER YARD.
Priest Moves SwiftiyThrouGhDO DOrmit ories
Aiiaying Panic While Glare From
Two Milton Feet Of BLAZING Timber
Nrddens " windows Loss u 500 900.

Fire starting in the mill al the centre
Of the Wcstchester Woodworking Com
pany's lumber yards on Unionport road
Startling avenue and Sand street. West
chester. n few minutes after 10 O'Clock
last night swept through the entire plant
and consumed the better part Of ? OO0. .OOC
feet Of lumber stored there. Owing 10
poor water pressure the firemen were
able To save very little Of the property.
4 rough estimate Of the loss was put at
$50 900. Alexander Cruickshank is presi-
dent and Archibald T. Mackenzie secre-
| tary of the concern.
Patrolman Trainor of the Bronx Park
station was on his way to report for
duty when he saw fire over the tops OF
the lumber yards which flank the two
square blocks which the Westchester
Woodworking Company occupies. He
turned in an alarm. and when the firemen
got there second was sent. This brought
Deputy Chief Gallon. When he reached
the spot the flames had caught on the
piles of lumber and were shooting out
| on a strong southeast wind. He turned
! in third alarm. For some time the
| fremen had trouble getting enough
pressure. and when the water force was
better il was hard to do much toward
wetting down the lumber on account OF
the surface presented by the hundreds
Of piles of lumber.
Opposite the lumber yard is the female
department Of the Catholic Protectory
with 500 girls. with Sister Superior Eu-
separated from the yard by a street. is
the Catholic Protectory, where Brother
Henry has 1000 boys The blaze re.
flected into the windows Of the protectory
and woke up the boys and girls The
children We're nervous and il took all the
efforts of the sisters and Brother Henry
assistants TO prevent panic. Father
Stanley chaplain OF the protectory
went to the fire and satisfied himself that
! the protectory was in no danger. Their
he returned end passed through the wards
assuring the children and their attendants
that there was no cause for alarm and that
no harm would come to them, The vino
blew away from the pro,ectory and in the
direction of Charles Bopp's home al
?oll Startling avenue.
Bopp. who lives there with his two
daughters Ii lie and Gusse. was awakened
and told 10 get out The family hurried
TO the street without waiting to change
their night clothes On Union Court
road opposte the lumber yard is row
of two s'orv frame dwellings, The
police notified occupants Of these house,
that thew had better leave. They did
and piled in the street as many OF theil
valuables as they could get out Th'
fire did not spread, however. and by
midnight was under control
At first the blaze was highly spectacula
and could be plainly seen from Manhat
| tan. Thousands came over from Th'
Bronx and Westche.ter, and the polio,
had their hands full trying to keep an!
| hlapra nf fire. lipaS How the f;r,
started is not known and up to uidnigh
there was no report of any one being hurt
I.es- than a year ago the Westcheste
Woodwork ing Company's plant at Wake
avenue and Adam street The Bronx
was destroyed by fire.