The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-10-01
my BAKERY" STORE
BURNED OUT TO-DAY
Gerald Holmes, Proprietor,
and A. Scampini, Owner of
Building, Chief Losers

block on North Main street to-day did
damage amounting to $4,000, glltted thc
bakery on the first floor, owned and
conducted by Gerald Holmes, and the
offices OF the Quarryworkers' lnterna.
tional association on the second floor
and caused smoke and water damage
to the offices of the Consolidated Quarry
Co in the second story, the George Sib-
son Granite office on the same floor
| the Italian Pleasure club, just across
the halk and the Knights of Columbus
hall on the third floor. Insurance on
the building and the personal property
of the occupants will nearly cover the
loss, it is believed The fire caught near
one of the large ovens in the rear OF
the bakery although it may have been
due to defective insulation
The principal losers are Angelo Scam
PM, who owns the building, Mr.. Holmes
and the Quarryworkers' association, in
| whose headquarters the business OF the
| organization was carried on and its
monthly organ, The Journal, issued. Ref
erence files of The Journal and other
valuable papers were destroyed.
Discovered by Policeman.
Officer George r. Carle is believed to
| have been the first to notice the fire.
A few minutes before 3 o'clock he was
passing down North Main street, ana
was near the Morse block when he
smelled smoke. Quickening his pace, he
soon saw smoke pouring from the rear
windows of the bakery. Retracing his
steps, he turned in a general alarm from
box 81 at the corner of North Main
street and Depot square. With the auto
fire truck, the first to come, all of the
city's fire fighting apparatus, with the
| regulars and call men was shortly bat
thing with one of the most stubborn fires
in recent years.
Through a rear door OF the bakery,
the fremeR made their first stand against
the flames. Another line OF hose was
directed at the burning bakery from
the south side OF the block and a third
was hoisted to second story window
from the same side leading TO the Quar-
ryworkers offices. BY this time flames
were issuing from windows on both out
side walls of the bakery and the smoke
had spread to nearly every section of
the building. Tons of water were dumped
into the bakery with telling effect and
the fight on the second floor was just
as determined.
Dense Smoke Baked Firemen.
For some time after their arrival, the
iremen were unable to make any prog
ress through the front entrance leading
upstairs, owing to the dense smoke. But
tho H,r an Tho l,yvns arr
to be subdued. number of firemen went
to the second floor and resisted the
flames so successfully that the danger
of spreading throughout the block was
early ayerted. A two-inch hose attached
to a small faucet in the second story
aided the firemen greatly and with the
line of hose from outside the blaze was
stopped before ID could mount higher
All told. there were four lines of hose
laid and water from three of them was
in use almost constantly.
BY 3:45 the all-out whistle sounded,
although fremen continued to play
streams on the interior for some time
afterward. A number OF the regulars
remained at the building until morning.
When interviewed this morning, Mr..
Holmes, in whose quarters the fire is
known to have started expressed his be
lief that the outbreak occurred in the
ceiling directly over the largest oven
He said that his night shift OF bakers
finished work at 2;l5 o'clock and from, |
that time until 8 o'clock no one was
supposed to be in the bakery. At 3
O'Clock the day shift was supposed to
start With the exception of Sun |
days. the place was seldom left ALONE.
he said. Usually the day bakers ar /
rived before the night shift had com
pletel their labors, though this was /
not the case to-day, he added
Mr. Holmes was unable to place def /
mite estimate on his loss. Fortunately |
his stock of flour was low at the time
of the fire, as he had been expecting a
carload during the week This circum-
which he would otherwise have expert I
eneed. he explained The proprietor an
nomced his purpose TO re-establish the
business as soon as the insurance ad-
justment is made.
Loss Fairly Well Covered by Insurance.
Loss on the building is covered by
insurance in the Robinson & McAllister
agency of Barre. Mr.. Holmes had in. /
sured his bakery equipment with, the
John w. Dillon agency, while the Quar-
ryworkers' fixtures were insured in the
Robinson & Pape agency, it was said.
Both the bakery, known to the retail
trade as MY Bakery" and the Quar-
ryworkers' office will have TO undergo
extensive repairs. The headquarters OF
the Socialist party in the rear of the
second story was also Quilted and a con-
siderable outlay will be necessary. Ma
Lerial damage in the Consolidated Office
was slight, as was the case in the Ital
an Pleasure club and the headquarters
If Barre local Granitecutters' Interna
.iOnal association on the same side OF
he building. Probably the rooms oc-
,upied by the latter suffered less than
my of the others. The X c. club rooms
% the front of the third story were
lamaged but slightly by smoke. How
,ver. the hall in the rear was filled