Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-05-17
DAIRY LOSS, $4,000
Fire Destroys J. J. BowIes'
Wagons and Bottles.
PROPERTY NOT INSURED
Blaze in Indiana Avenue Residence
Causes Small Loss-Losses in
Other Sections.

Fire in a building in the rear of J. J.
Bowles' dairy. 462 X street northwest.
this morning shortly after / O'Clock made
a blaze that was seen from all parts of
the city. The fire had been In progress
for some time before an alarm was sound
ed. and so much Roadway was gained be-
fore the fremen reached the building
that eighteen wagons In the structure
were ruined, several thousand milk bot
ties destroyed and the building badly
damaged.
Members of No. 4 truck company saw
the light from their quarters and started
an investigation before the alarm was
sounded. About the time the truck COM
pany left its quarters a colored man ran
to No. engine company's quarters and
told the firemen they were needed.
Neighbor Gives Alarm.
While the two companies were on their
way TO the fire a neighbor of the dairy
man ran to 9TH and X streets and sound
ed an alarm from box 900 \ number Of
persons residing in the vicinity of the
dairy donned wearing apparel enough to
enable them to leave their homes and
volunteered to assist in saving the prop
erty.
The building in which the fire occurred
is a two-story brick structure. Wagons
were kept on the ground floor the upper
rooms having been used for the storage
of milk bottles. An investigation was
made by the police of the sixth precinct
and it was concluded that the fire was
caused by the soft coal in the engine
room becoming overheated and setting fire
to two posts, the flames being thus COM
communicated to the building
An examination of the ruins was made
by the firemen and policemen, and they
estimated the damage at about $4,000.
Mr.. Bowles carried no insurance on the
property that was damaged and de-
stroyed.
Fire in Indiana Avenue Home.
Another of three fires that claimed the
attention of the fire and police depart
ments between midnight and day was in
a room on the fourth floor of the house
of Mrs. Robinson, Indiana avenue and Sd
street northwest, shortly after o'clock.
Joseph Stein and Albert Myers. occupants
of the room in which the fire occurred,
were awakened by the odor of smoke in
the room, the blaze having started in a
wardrobe. Hurrying out of bed, the two
men gave the alarm and went to the bath
room to get water with which to fight
the flames
Six companies of the fire department
and the sixth precinct police reserves hur-
ried to the house in response to an alarm.
The firemen who were first to arrive
threw the biz zing wardrobe through the
window to the street and the fire was ex-
tinguished after about $40 damage had
been done to the house.
Stein and Myers lost about forty dollars
worth of clothing and S21 in cash. Per
sons occupying other rooms in the house
became alarmed and got ready TO leave
the building, but the quick work of the
tiremen made their exit unnecessary.
In Other Sections.
At the house of Lawrence Nimms. All
street northwest. about 1910 o'clock
last night an exciting blaze. caused by
a lighted candle coming in contact with
a lace curtain, necesstated the calling
out OF several companies of the fire de-
partment.
An alarm summoned the fire depart
ment and a crowd of curious spectators
FOLLOWED the apparatus to the vicinity of
the o street house. The biaz, was eX-
tinguished before the arrival of the fire
men. About $40 damage resulted.
Last night shortly before L. O'Clock
the fire department got a call for a blaze
in the tool shed at Eureka Park, Ana
costa. The fire was of unknown origin,
and about 500 damage resulted William
H. West is owner of the property.
Firemen responded to an alarm for
blaze in a room on the second floor at
the house of Morris Freidenberg, grocer.
Cos I'd street northwest, yesterday after
noon. Mrs. Freidenberg was using gaso
line for housekeeping purposes, and the
fluid ignited. setting fire to a mattress.
About so damage resulted
No. 20 engine company responded TO an
alarm yesterday afternoon about $40
O'Clock and found a brush fire near 3Sth
and Fulton streets northwest. No dam
age resulted.
Child Painfully Burned.