Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-10

Three West Orange men We're In
5ured while working at the fire. One
Of them, George Conname, a volun-
teer fireman, is still in Orange Me-
mortal Hospital suffering from ex-
pcsgve 70 the cold and a fan from the
roof OF one of the buildings. He was
found unconscious about 10:45 last
night, and It Is not known how long
he had been lying on the ground. His
condition is not regarded as serious.
The others injured were Lonnee
Jones, g call fireman, who sustained
a scalp wound and Charles Locus.
also a call fireman, whose hand was
badly cut Both were able to go home
after treatment at the hospital
Edison Exams Records.
Thomas A. Edison, now past sixty
seven years of age, did not attend the
conference Of the executive heads this
morning. and had not put in an ap-
pearance at noon. He was said to be
going over the records of great value
which had been removed to his home
last night to save them from the
blaze.
ne was IN the NnclA AaAA
fire started yesterday afternoon and
was busy directing the efforts OF tho
firemen until the blaze commenced &c
die out. Soon after the fire started,
Mrs. Edison arrived and herself saved
many valuable papers and records
from the Office building. Later, she
and her husband watched the IRE
barn itself out
The great inventor seemed more
surprised than cast down at the fire.
When his pastor, Rev. stephen J.
Herben, of the Orange NJ E. Church,
sought him out while the FIRE was IN
progress 10 offer coincidence. Mr..
Edison said: I'm game sport and
this is not going to make me CRY
and later. when the reporters found
him with his wife looking al the end
of the blaze, he was quite as cool
Tn pretty well burned out now,
boys. but I'll start all over tomorrow.
I'll go right to work to build the
plant over again. This is just a tenn
porary setback; remember that only
a temporary setback. If anyone tod
me before the fire that this was pos
sibe I would have told him ne was
crazy. The plant / am going 10 re-
place this one with viii be fireproof
y
and then, too. 1 viii have my own
water plant"
Blaze Confined TO Block.
The fire was confined to the block
bounded by Lakeside avenue. Valley
road. Alden street and Watching
avenue, in which were eighteen OF
the buildings which comprise the
plant. and of which ten were quite
large. Eleven were burned to some
extent. but three Of these. the Office
building, the machine shop and the
record building. withstood the flames
we'll and will be easily restored.
The burned buildings are in the
middle Of the long block those on
both the Valley road and Watching
avenue ends being saved. At what
is known as the main gate on the
Valley road end were stored great
quantities of infammable materials
but all of this was got out safely
Blown by the north wind, some
large sparks were carried as far AN
the burial ground in Orange. That
great loss of small frame dwellings
did not result might be attributed 10
a steady fall of snow which kept
shingle roofs wet.
A feature of the salvage work was
the contribution of men in the cab
/ met department More than eighty
of these, assisted by additional vol-
unteers. formed a steady procession
passing both ways through the en-
trance TO the building where finished
phonograph cabinets were stored
Each pair emerging brought between
them one of the large cabinets
wrapped up In white eheesecloth-
saved Valuable Films.
The bearers followed close upon one
! another's heels. and as line of aboui
| forty of them could be seen at once
they presented, in the semi darkness,
illumined by the lurid glare. a most
wierd picture. The cabinets were
loaded upon a large motor truck
which was run in and out OF The
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