Norwich bulletin., 1913-01-16
Flying cinders.

Almost everybody in Westerly wit messed the fire.
 Nearly every camera owner visited the fire Wednesday.
 Flying cinders were waited by the breeze as far as Grove avenue.
 The lunch cart located close to the Star theatre was not even scorched.
 The standing walls of the brick building are a menace to public safety.
 Tine Barbers laid 2s0O feet of hose, the entire supply of the Pawcatuck departme ment-
 Manager Cowan of the Star theatre is to open a movie show in the Pot ter building
 Frank B1oser. an employe of the Star theatre, saved about $500 worth of moving picture films.
 The Isaac Sherman company has opened an office in the Frank L. Will COX building in West Broad street.
 Some of the first to arrive declare that the fire originated in the bowl ing alley and not in the restaurant.
 The fire was so threatening that of the street removed goods from their stores.
 It's about time the Westerly and Pawcatnck iremen got together and not wait for invitation to render as- sistanee in time of need.
 A fifty gallon tank of gasoiene owned by the Maxson Hardware company stored in small shed, was dumped into the river by the fremen.
 The Cyclone steamer did great work without lesSening the regular water pressure. The steamer was stationed on the bridge and pumped water from the river.
 The Isaac Sherman company had re- cent1y installed machinery which was rendered useless. In addition 8 lot of finished work ready for delivery was buFned-
 President Thomas Fowler of the Westerly Textile company, in jumping a fence in the mill yard in getting the purnps ready to assist the mennen, fell and gpHaine6 his right ankle
 It ts announced by the Isaac Sher- naan S4saax1any thaE no blaming mill will be erected on the site of the esae burned on account of the hlzh rate of 11ss1arance-A1x per cent of vaIaat1
 AM day WHdneaday there was crowd about the scene of the fire among tkem visitors from Norwich New Lon63gM, Stnn1nsfon- Mystic, No- ank, North SfDninsd0n. Asf,aNay and offsr pIaces-
 to th@ hre eqMPpse6 to render service iIN case amy of taaa 11rednAn were in 5IreA Fortunately their professional BaHwaG@S wers nDt required and they zAE4gtRH thu nrExREn in fighting the fire
 It WAS spectacular blaze, height ensd by the buEufng of the high tower om the old mill building, that fell iz1fD the burning mass at 4-20 with a louG crash followed by an upheaSaI of millions of sparks win pyrotech- mdcaa effect.
 Tfas Protector Fire company of Paw ca1uck was incorporated in 1s4s and was the only fire company in the vt1- lage- There was one company in the department at the Sz5,G10 fire in 1880 and there 1s but one fire company To- sated in the village today
 Long before the G1s was under con- trol there was agitation against per- hitting the erection Of buildings that would extend over the river. There is precedent against such hu11dings in 1he ease where the Lorraine Mfn com 9any contemplated the erection of a new building adjoining tfas5P burned near the bridge and were re- by court judgment
 Chief Cotueu has for a long time that a supply of hose be keEf in readiness for use in case of ire along the water front The hose could be kept in a scoW built for the purpose and be connected with the pumps lbf the tug Westerly when pos sibae. or with mill pumps on either side of tho river or with the regular ire district hydrants- Chief Cotre1l says that the expense should be borne ,F the Westerly and Pawcatuck fro