Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-03
F|REMEN GUESS
SCENE OF BLAZE
IN A. D. 7. ALARM
Cops Round Up Apparatus
When Alarm from Store Is
Transmitted TO Box.

Dangerous confusion reigned at the
-Four Corners during the rush hours
: early last night as thousands were on
their way home from work, when a
slight fire broke out in waste paper
basket in the store of L. Bamberger
& Co.. Market and Halsey streets.
Owing to the fact that the nearest
fire-alarm box is station 81 located al
Broad and Market streets, the firemen
driving the apparatus were at seaNas
far as knowing the exact location~o
the blaze was concerned.o 1t was not
until mounted policemen guided them
through the maze of traffic that they
We're able to get to the scene of the
fire. The bluecoats did good work
marshaling the fire apparatus and
golloped up Market street directing
the warriors to the fire.
This condition was brought about
by the fact that an alarm was sent
in to fire headquarters through the
American District Telegraph service
and the operators at fire headquar-
tiers, having no alternative. transmit
ted the alarm from the nearest box,
which happened to be at the busiest
spot In the whole State and a long
block from where the services of the
: flremen were supposed to be required.
The blaze started from some un-
known cause in the waste paper
chute of the store and was quickly
extinguished. 1t was in the northerly
end of the building in Halsey street.
There was a tattoo of alarms for a
Wire in the Newark Rivet Works, in
: Lafayette street, early this morn
ing. This building is equipped with
the A. ID. T. system, but none of the
signals came to headquarters from
that source.
A woman who had seen the blaze
ran to the house of Hook and Ladder
Company No. 4, at Congress and La
fayette streets, to notify the firemen
there, just as the company'S house
watch, who had also discovered
signs of fire, was telephoning to the
central fire alarm office in the City
Hall, to send out box 55S. This was
promptly done and at 4:3S O'Clock box
b5S was hitting.
One minute later an alarm for the
same fire was received at headquar-
ters from street box So, which, like
55S, is in the vicinity of the rivet
works. A few moments later a tele-
phone call giving notice of the fire
was received at the central office,
but everything had been attended TO
with the sending out of box 55S
The fire was caused by hot ashes
placed near the boiler igniting some
inf1ammable material The extent of
the loss was about $500.
Fire Quilted the cellar under the
store of the Newark Lunch Company
at Branford place shortly after 10
o'clock last night. 1t was discovered
simultaneously by John Davis, of 169
Bank street, and Frank Martis, of A
Monroe street, employees of the place
The fire had started from an I'M
known cause in quantity of paper
stored in the front of the cellar, and
when discovered neither employees
had time to do more than catch up
. their overcoats and run. Quick work
by the fire department kept the fire
from spreading. The loss is given
as $500.
Two years ago, on this even date,
4 fire of similar origin broke out in
the same building and worked its way
through under the Regal shoe store,
in Broad street. 1t was a stubborn
proposition and entailed a loss of more
than $1,000.