The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-13
Cause of Steele-Smith
 Fire Is as Deep
 a Mystery as Ever
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company published the names of over 700
 girls and boys who were leading in the toy contest and in the juvenile world of Birmingham the sole topic of conversa- ton for the past few weeks had been the canvassing of votes for their favor- ites.
 As for the flre-fighters in the various station houses there was little rest yes terday. The majority of the firemen re- naned on the job until o'clock yester- day morning. Then miles of icy, stiff
 hose had to be gathered up and separated
 so that each fire company got its quota.
 This necessitated hours Of painful and
 arduous labor. Then the fire apparatus
 had to be cleaned and prepared for an-
 other large fire and incidentally 5000 pounds of coal placed in the station houses in sacks for another emergency. During all this tiresome labor the "dingle- bell'' l jngled at monotonous intervals announce
 ing fires in various parts of the city. In all 2l alarms were turned in between 6 | o'clock yesterday morning to o'clock last night.
 Second Alarm in Afternoon At 5:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon the smoking ruins of Steele Smiths alarmed some timorous persons and an alarm was sent in. All the firemen in the city came
 to the scene. They were wcared unto almost complete exhaustion, but they
 
 I false alarm and then started back to 1 their stations. al,ss-r .ls,. s.,55 E l It was announced, last night that the l Drennen company, another large depart | ment store at Second avenue and Twen- tieth street. had taken into it's employ 50 of the girls necessarily thrown out
 of work by the steele-Smith conflagra- ton. It was stated by the management of Drennen's that while they would be able to find work for the new girls. all of them were not needed but had been giy yen employment through knowledge of the fact that they were in dire need of employment at the present time. It was also stated yesterday that dur ing the flames pictorial record was made of 1t through the presence of Joe Jackson, comedian at the Lyric thea ire, who is the travelling agent of the Gaumont company. MT Jackson took sev- eral hundred feet of pictures of the fire
 and also of the falling west wall. This makes the second large fire that MT Jackson has been able to secure
 moving pictures of during the past week.
 Last Sunday night he went to North Birmingham and took pictures of tha burning of the large plant of the South ern Sewer Pipe company, q $l50,0O0 fire,
 and was promptly on the scene yesterday morning at Steele-Smith's These nov | ing pictures will be shown all over the | United States and the parts of Europe l that are not engaged in war, the Gau-
 mont company is worldwide corpora- | tion.
 Distribution of Insurance l The following is the distribution oft l insurance on the various losses from the l fire: g
 l Steele-Smith stock and fixtures: Aetna 1 5000; Aachen and Munich, $1500O: Atlas
 s55O0; City of New York, 5000; Citizens l of Baltimore, $3500; Connecticut Fire, $1000 Continental. $7500; Commercial Union s2500; Dixie Fire. s25O0: Fidelity-Phenix
 $2000; Firemens Fund, S6s00; Girard Fire and Marine $2500 Globes and Rutgers $s0O0; German Alliance, s11,000; Hamburg l Bremen. $1000; Hanover, $75O0; Home s5D00: Insurance Company of North Amer | ica, 5000; Liverpool and London and Globe, s5j09; National Union, $2500: New 1 Hampshire, 5000; National Fire, $6500 | New York Underwriters, 5000; Palatine $500; Pennsylvania, $l500; Phoenix. s650O Queen, s2000; Providence Washington