Norwich bulletin., 1912-11-23

shoot him as a dog!" is a remark fre- quently heard.
 The site of the fire was visited by hundreds Friday from surrounding towns and by majority of the pop ulation of the city. Those who came to look gazed upon an area of black ened and smoking ruins, reddened here and there by yet unquenched darts of flames, but almost everything de- structible had been reduced to ashes.
 Bremen, wearied almost to the point of exhaustion from many hours of unremitting duty, played streams over dangerous areas in the ruins. which had almost cooled by night. Specta- tors saw owners, underwriters, firemen and others who had business there carefully inspecting the devastation, but there was little left to hold the attention of the mere curiosity seeker.
 Trouble and Confusion.
 Linemen for the telephone, telegraph and electric lighting companies were scattered through the fire district hustling to get their wires back in working order The Western Union men had set poles and were restring l ing wires on a line that went down on the railroad terrace, while the tele phone company's employees were busy splicing a 50-pair and a 25-pair cable that was melted apart at a point near the junction of School and Front streets. The breaking of these cables cut out all lines into the Grosvenor- dales and other parts of the town of Thompson, but they were restored as quickly as possible. The electric light people were early at work and com pleted their circuits in good time.
 Distressing Features.
 Members of families that were burn ed out put in most of Friday arrang- ing new places of abode to be fitted with such properties as they were able to save from their homes. There arc some distressing features in connec- tion with their losses, which in some cases are not protected by one cents worth of insurance, though in other cases the losses will be partly met by insurance money.
 Joseph Burke's Loss.
 Many talked during the day of tho
 absolute loss suffered by Josepf
 Burke, who occupied a cosy cottage
 in the rear of the Wheaton company building. MT. Burke, at the first sigh
 of the fire rushed out to rescue hi . automobile from a station under tn ; Wheaton building. He succeeded il doing this, but by the time he go
 back to his house it was all aflame and it was only with the greatest diff } ficulty that the members of his house , hold were gotten out, Mr. Burke es 7 caping with only barely sufficien z clothes to cover him.
 : Dr.. Perry's Valuable Aid.
 Dr. Edward F. Perry, who earl , and quickly had sensed the extent { , which the conflagration might spread rendered great service in organizin and explaining a relief party tha
 achieved fine results in rescue worl
 Dr. Perry and his fellow workers weT
 of great help to the families of Phili , Drucker and Nathan Pearl, who oc : cupied one of the Wheaton building : as a dwelling. Through the systemat
 ic efforts of the physician and hi . helpers much of the furniture of thes . families was gotten out and the mem . | bers steadied from a state of near panic. Neither of the families wa protected by insurance.
 l True Samaritans.
 I Stories without end, all of them in f teresting, were told Friday of littl t incidents of the fire, but no one thin Q now stands out more prominently tha 0 the chivalrous hospitality extended { f the afflicted and to those that neede s assistance of any kind. Putnam pee f pie did themselves proud. An in = stance is that of Lemuel Weeks, wh = announced that his horses and cal 6 riages were all at the service of an
 deservedly needing them and no or
 was to pay one penny for the priv ilege.
 e Splendid Work of Department. g Many were the compliments paid the officers and members of the fiji department Friday. When those WI R could fully realize, stopped and COT
 sidered the mighty handicap und,
 which the department worked in ia,
 ing a fire of such proportions and
 such a nature they became unstintt
 in their praise. No building with T the zone of the big fire stood any hoI ! of being saved from the very stai I but no building outside that zone wel I to destruction, due to the bulldog -lil Il fight that the department men maC d to stay the progress of the flame 3 They did great work-as much as ar department with similar equipmei