The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-03-20
DEPARTMENT RESTS
| AFTER BUSY S ASH |
Firemcn answer Many Alarrns IN y
Sections of City. But We're Not
Called Saturday Night.
HABLIsToN HOME ENpANcERf:l
Fire Destroys Homo OF Chart
Thompson, Fforist--w. r.. Woe
Engine Stoker, Thrown and Hurt
Is Now Recoycring--Six Oth<4
Ffres-scouts Assist In Extinguis16-
ing Blaze.

Members of Richmond's Fire d.
partment rested for few hours SukS&9
urday, and up to late hour that ntgnS
had not been called out on an aIarm
of Are The department deserved tn4
rest because min fires broke QUIT iMN1
the city and required the work OF the
department between the hours Or as
O. clock Friday evening and ii octockA u
Saturday morning. The forty.Hxs
pieces of apparatus which were called Il
out answered calls to confiagratiou4az
that resulted in a total loss or sl0s-
600.
Notwithstanding the unusual ac-
tiyity of firenen with their horsa~Ss
drawn and motorpropolled apparatus
there was but one accident to mems
Der OF the department reported. Thb9
accident occurred at Twenty-nrst anosS
Marshall Streets, shortly before Z Az
NJ Saturday. when a wheel of the
engine of No. L company came ons
while the engine was hurrying TO ~
fire.
w F. Wood. the engine stokers~
was thrown off and injured about thin
back. He was removed to his homer
1915 LIZ North Twenty eighth street.
In the automobile of Assistant Chiefs
Wise. The engine was repaired after
brief delay and proceeded to the
| fire.
The handsome home of w. NJ. Hab.
liston, president of the Old Dominion
Trust Company, was on fire at onA.I
time and was threatened with destruc-j
ton Friday night. when fire destroycd
the home of Charles Thompson. MI
florist, at Libby Avenue and Cary
Street road. The Habliston resideHNa]
is situated across the road from th0l
dwelling that burned. The roof NM
| Rna ax-tv,e I'll but fzS<x1
men, who had gone to the scene with
/ No 10 motor combination chemical
I and hosewagon. extinguished tbesa
blaze. ss
The ffremen under the direction ,.Qfa
Lie Itenant G. H. Davis. were able 10 y
do little toward saving the Thompsonss
home, two-story frame dwelling. it
was completely destroyed, entailing 49,
damage estimated at $4,000 to sS.e0f.s.
The fire originated In the Easements
from the explosion OF an oil stove. T4A.
negro servant was alone in the house.
| the family having gone to church,
A troop of Boy Scouts from Vest /
| hampton formed bucket brigadevs
and succeeded In saving adjoining {
houses from burning. $50
| At 1853 A. NJ. Saturday LieutenantM
| Davis and his men were called to-
| Lii ~ Avenue and Grove Road. wherea
they found the home Of Mrs. NARY
! Jones. a two-story frame house. On
| fire. As was the case at the Thomp-
son fire. no water supply was avail-
/ able and II was with difficulty thatss
the house was saved from destruction.
The damage was estimated at si.5aoss
to $4,000. The firemen used chemt-ss
/ cali to good effect and saved roMW
OF six houses nearby from burning
/ The high wind, which was a nlenac&s
to surrounding dwelling at the Thomp-a
son fire, had subsidized considerable
| before the second Westhampton fire.
| Three ladies in Mrs. Jones home. in-A
| GLIDING Mrs. Jones, were trapped on
! the second story By the burning or INA
| staircase. They were rescued by s. F.
! Williams, who boards at the Jones'
| home. Awakened by the dense smoke,
Mr.. Williams aroused the rest of the
| household and taking the ladies to ths \
| roof of the porch let them down 10 I
| safety by means OF a blanket. ~
! Mrs. Jones was loud in her praise
of the work of the bucket brigade.
! Damage estimated at $4,000 TO $S,eeH
was done by fire at 5:1+ o'clock FridAxs.
/ afternoon at the Sharon Baptist Church.
/ eolored. First and Leigh Streees- AZ.
I second alarm was-turasd- In fran -nfx-
| SIS for this fire six minutes after thu
! furnace room.
Three Others Occur.
! Three Ares within short distance or
| each other kept firemen busy Saturday.
An alarm was sent in from box Is at
| sos A. NJ for fire at i7l3 East Main
! Street. occupied by II. Passamaneck- Al
$40 A. NJ. an alarm was turned in from
| box IT, calling nremen to II. r, Haile'sM
| stables Nineteenth and FrankilfS
| Streets. 8s
/ The Are started on the second story
| OF the three-story brick building. ASs
| second alarm was sent in at s;2t.
! number of horses that were quarterc0#
| in box stalls on the ground floor wsrea
rescued. The damage, estimated A.
several hundred dollars, was TO hay ana7
grain stored on the upper floors.
/ Loss of $1,000.
At SAT A. NJ, an alarm from boz
las took hremen to 1is North EiEh~a
lteenth Street, where the one -story BRICK
building occupied by Waller Taylor 10
| Son. commission merchants. was fouM4S
on fre. A large Quantity of hay ana
| feed was burned. causing damage es-M
I timated in excess of $1,000. ss
! Other alarms included a still alarm
| re sponded TO by No 10 company AfN
/ 1890 A. M Saturday at 1902 Bouie~
| yard. and one at $50 p. M. Saturday
| at Third and Baker Streets.