Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-29
SEEK FIREBUG IN
! STOVE WORKS FIRE
100000 Damage from lncen-
4 diary's Torch at Plant in
Dover.
WAS TO HAVE CLOSED
i TOMORROW FOR REPAIRS
zoo Ena~'-,es kffeoted-PIans
Il ,50uiId Are Being
= Made.

ltI9 spec al 10 the Evening start
MI DOVER June 29.-Fire that yes
rday disabled the Richard & Boyn-
&li''A stove and range works here, do
- quarter of million dollars
be lind throNauE 200 men out
brk. was said todaA to be of an
y diary origin. The police of this
49, are said 10 pave n their pos
Ia certain fscIs which lead them
is belief Il is likely arrests
I bon be made
ouncement VAS made today by
* t-r1 that plans for the rebuilding
W Works would be made at once.
the ruins of the three large
#dings still smouldering today, a
hg of men were put TO work clear
aHg the debris.
= Would Have Closed Tomorrow.
Z The yesterday puts an end to
. work at the plant a week earlier
: than former years. Each year the
! plant is closed down for seven weeks.
: gsais year it was planned TO close
: Tomorrow.
SsThe blaze was discovered in the
X second floor of the mounting shop
{ only a few minutes after the watch
+. man had made his rounds Of the Va
? rious shops. The flames rapidly en-
F. Neloped the entire building, and when
the firemen arrived their efforts We're
1 Confined to the scratch and moulding
I. shops. Two empty Lackawanna
!. freight cars and 100 feet of fire hose
= were destroyed.
Water Pressure Low.
: Irhe mounting shop. which is 100x40O
!. feet in size, was the first to collapse.
. and the scratch house, which was a
! one story frame structure. 50Xl00 feet,
: al joining the mounting shop. caught
= fire1s1espite the hard work of the en-
2 tire lire department A low water
spressC're seriously handicapped the
= work The alarm was sent in by
: David Davis. the Waterman, shortly
safter 4 o'clock, and within four hours
Z the lar1ge buildings were RACED.
: after the scratch house became
ignited the firemen played two large
. streams on the holding shop. a two
story fra me building. 100x500 feet, but
. to no avail The workmen and by
standers} succeeded in removing al
most one- half of the expensive pat
terms from the holding shop before
the flames, drove them away.
The office was saved as was the
shipping room, pattern shop. engine
men worked valiantly to save the Of
fee at the request of Mayor William
L. r. Lynd. superintendent of the
works and were successful, although
names fromy the burning buildings
...s1 inuously Threatened to ignite the
structure. The office was complete
IL dismantled. as slight hope was held
OF preventing its destruction,
II. T. Richardson. president of the
III At
ternoon, and ,stated the reconstruction
would be commenced at once. When
questioned as to the exact loss to the
firm he said that it would he difficult
to estimate. as thousands of dollars
had been expended for improvements
and machinery
700 Men Out of Work.
An order v;ass posted Saturday with
the information that the shops would
IL closed tomorrow for the usual
summer repairs. Seven hundred en-
pioves are affected. al the shops can
not be rebuilt and equipped for sew
eraI months. They We're erected
ell hteeu years age The fire appa-
ratus at the plant proved useless
ovving 10 the inability of the firemen
10 obtain sufficient water pressure.
THE chemical auto apparatus. hook
and ladder and two steamers were
St .lized in the attempt to check the
flames
AT 2:S0 O'Clock yesterday morning
- false alarm was sent in from box
g. corner of Blackwell and Union
st1 Gets When the chemical arrived
al the box no one could be found.
. Fshe police authorities are investlgat-
fnc the cause of the big blaze, as ru-
rnors of incendiarism were circulated,
although two WatcTmen were CON
xtantN on guard at the plant Mayor
Ivnd is at a loss to account for the