New Britain herald., 1915-01-27

o'clock last evening. The loss is es- timated at about $2,O00, all of which was covered by insurance.
 The origin of the disastrous blaze is not known definitely, as it had gained considerable headway when discovered by a woman living down. stairs. This woman is of the opinion that the fire received it's start from an overloaded stove in the kitchen, where she had been washing clothes about an hour previously. She says that she kept good fire in the stove
 all day long.
 The woman was serving supper to
 her family when she was surprised to
 see flames licking up the walls of the kitchen. Giving the alarm to other
 members of her family, she warned an Italian family living upstairs bare
 ly in time to allow their escape.
 The family downstairs succeeded in
 getting out the best part of their fur
 niture, but the people living on the
 second floor lost everything, being
 fortunate to escape with their lives.
 The flames lit up the countryside for miles around and people from all parts of the town sWarmed to the scene. Handicapped by the lack Of a water system, volunteer fire fighters could do nothing but look after the barn on the place, which is situated about a hundred, feet from the
 burned house. At no time were
 neighboring buildings in danger. Contrary to report circulated about town last night, the house was not an old land mark. It was built
 less than forty years ago for Nathan Kidder by Cyrus Root, but has been ! occupied for several years by brick | yard laborers and their families. There was~ story to the effect that i the burned house was the old Dem-
 ing place, built by Seth Deming be-
 fore Revolutionary times.
 1 First Step Taken.
 The first step toward securing
 water system in kensington. was talk en last evening when Selectnan Will i liam H. Gibney appeared before the ! charter revision committees In New ] Britain and asked that a clause be in serted in the new charter to allow ! the City of New Britain the right to 1 extend it's water mains from Towers l corner into Kensngton. Whether or not the committee will acquiesce to 1 inc requests of the kensingtOn resi- | dents, whom SeleCtman Gibney rep | resented, is a matter of conjecture. ! As one citizen pat it this morning. { there will still be a loophole if the l |<ensin ytonites are turned down this i time. The kensington Water com ! p}nN as is generally known, holds a charter to sell water within the limits ! of the town of Berlin. It is under i stood that this concern which,, iii re- aity. is the American Paper Goods ! company, has sold about s6,00O worth l of stocks to date.
 AccC rding to estimates made by To- ! cal people who know, the cost of i layin gan eight inch pipe line from 1 Towers corner to the American Paper Goods corner and another ! branch from Upson's corner to the Berlin fair grounds. would be about
 $13,000.
 It would seem that the disposal of S7,OOO worth of more bonds would be a coTop oparatiycly easy matter. The company would then have cnoueh money to go ahead and lay the ncc- ! essary pipes. If it could then pre- 1 vail upon the city of Now Britain
 to exercise a right which it's charter
 allows, it could buy water from the Hardware City and, in turn. sell it in
 Nensington at a profit
 The Kersington Water company controls a reservoir on Turkey Hill,
 hut the cost of developing the prop
 erty and buying up all the land on the water shed would be enormous,