Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-14

Several auto parties Aded the hfe-
fighters.
ELIZABETH. Nov. 14.-Seven
alarms of fire We're sent in in this
CITY Yesterday. The first alarm
was for a blaze in the home Of
Nicholes Cardone, S29 Anna street.
An overheated stove had ignited the
woodwork. The damage was slight
Shortly after the firemen were called
to put out a brush fire near the
Pingry oval A dangerous fire was
fought late today in the meadows. It
endangered the plant OF the Resin
Oil Company in South Front street
The firemen were twice summoned 70
brush fires in Newark avenue and
last night were called out for brush
fires in Madison avenue and in the
southern section of the city.
WENTWORTH, Nov. 14.--Fire de-
stroyed the kettle house at the TeXo-
leum factory yesterday. on December
10. 1918, the factory. then occupied by
a lamp manufacturing company, was
wrecked by fire. subsequently,, the
Texoleum Company, manufacturers
of linoleum, rented the property and
rebuilt the buildings. They took
possession three weeks ago. About
one hundred feet from the main
buildings they erected a sheet iron
building to contain furnace and a
cauldron for the boiling of the lin
seed oil used In the manufacture of
the product.
One hundred and six gallons of the
oil had been placed in the great kettle
and brought TO a boil and to
900 degrees of heat. Seven hundred
.las fe I.. vnfnf Tho hAaf
must have risen beyond control, for
the gas leaving the kettle burst into
flame and then the oil itself blazed
up The door of the building was
open and there was no explosion.
Superintendent George Garwood
had just inspected the paste" into
which the oil was 10 be introduced.
and was on his way to the kettle
house when the flames burst out.
The wind was blowing forty miles
an hour from the southwest and
carrying the flames toward the main
buildings. A fire alarm was turned
in. Mr.. Garwood and his men fought
the fire. When the firemen arrived
they could not fight the oil with their
outfit Sand and dirt were banked in
front OF the blazing oil and 1t was
finally kept from the buildings. The
flames spread to fields and brush
near the factory and the firemen had
TO fight TO prevent a forest fire start
ing. as not far away is a consider
able tract of timber and underbrush
The loss by the fire is about 1000
Several Of the men had their hands
and faces blistered by the heat.
RUTHERFORD. Nov. 14-Fire
late yesterday destroyed the Jorale-
man docks, at the foot of Rutherford
avenue, Rutherford. along the Pas
sale river. The loss is estimated at
about 5000.
There were number of men
D bout the docks when the fire was
discovered. and they formed them
selves into bucket brigades. but were
unable 10 check the fire. and by the
time the flremen reached the docks
the blaze had practically consumed
them.
PATTERSON. Nov. 14.-Many of the
men employed at the dupont Powder
Works at Wayne were kept busy all
yesterday afternoon fighting forest
fires 10 keep them q safe distance
from the works. They succeeded an
keeping the flames under contro'. 1t
is estimated that the flames covered
an area of about two or three miles
on each side Of the Passaic river.