The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-06-13

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:MENT WORKS 81 f 49,
to her job, and did not leave the Of
fee until everything of importance
had been removed. She then recalled
Ithat there were some files in the
cooper shop, and she directed the
men to get them also. When the
! danger to the office was past, this
untiring young lady ordered the Of
| flee fixtures returned to the building
where they belonged, and superin-
J tended the job of removing them. In
the meantime she was all about the
fire, keeping watch of the progress
it was making. Miss Hager has been
in the employ of Mr.. Carney for sew
'eral years and has the business at
jacobson, she was the first official
to arrive at the fire. She knew ex-
actly what to do, and she did it
without wasting a second She GER
tainly had the interests of the COM
! pany at heart, and the management
owes her a vote of thanks.
Only Pickering Ruins Left.
Most of the spectators and the
firemen retired about one o'clock
By this time the fire had gone as far
as it could, and pickering mass of
ruins remained. What three hours
before was building sixty feet
| high, was then a pile of debris still
blazing avidly There were no other
buildings on any side which could
! then be reached by the fire, but
some of the firemen remained to
keep watch.
Need Of Fire Apparatus.
This fire shows the dire necessity
of more fire fighting apparatus. 1t
was said last night that if the de-
partment was equipped with large
automobile chemical fire engine, this
piece of machinery would have gone
| far toward checking the blaze. 1t
than the horses, and no doubt a
| heavy chemical stream would have
stayed the fire at the time when an
auto fire engine of this kind could
have arrived at the cement works.
The cement plant was established
in 1884 by Hartford, Conn, capital
| ists 1t was known as the Standard
Cement company, ]. S. Parsons, pres
| ident; U. Cummings, as manager, and
later F. N. Merrill, manager The
| h,tc WIT
years reaching a hundred and TWEEN
! ty-fve thousand barrels annually
Later the plant was operated by P
H. Carney & Sons. During the past
! twelve years the works have been
operated by the sons, and they have
been doing profitable business.
Covered Large Space.
The buildings of the cement works
covered space 700 feet long and
$50 feet wide, and were all of stone
/ construction. Mr.. Carney stated this
morning that the work of reconstruc-
! ton of the plant would be COM
menced at once and that the capa-
city would be doubled, because of
uct. Almost the entire output for
! this year had been sold. The fire
has thrown about seventy-five men
out of work temporarily, but they
were all at the cement works this
morning ready for what might come.
/ The cement works was originally
built in 1885 and then manufactured
1 hydraulic cement. In 1905 the pres.
ent owners, H. e. Carney and L. J.
4 Carney took over the business and
modernized the plant and have en-
gagged in the manufacture of Gem,
ent for brick mortar -
This morning the cement works
presented a sorrowful sight, the long,
low walls stood bare of covering and
bare of interior support Machinery
and charred timbers smouldered in
the ashes and piles of cement covered
/ the floors. The great geo horse pow
er Warren engine is wreck and the
screw like conveyors through the long
z, warehouse lay in the ashes in a
crumpled heap. But there was no
sign of disaster in the appearance of
the owners and employees of the works.
! They have already commenced to plan
for the future and are losing no time
an preparing to rebuild the RACED
structures in an even more substan-
tial way than they were formerly
built.
/ The entire insurance on the ce-
ment works was written by Theodore
1 Williams, who was engaged in set,
/ Ting the loss today.
| Mapleton