The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-08-25
ArtlIlerynen Defy Fire and Smoke
When They Think Children X
Are In Danger Z
CUTTER COTTAGE BURNS ~.
WHILE FAMILY IS AWAY
Early Morning Blaze Destroys
Property Worth $4,000 and
Regulars Work Like Beavers

Stanley A. Cutter 3 five thousand dol.
lar bungalow in Dewey avenue, near
Waikiki beach, Immediately at the
town side Of Fort De Russy, was to-
tally destroyed by fire Of mysterious
origin which broke out after mid
night this morning. ~
Mr.. and Mrs. Cutter are in the Island
of Molokai. They were, notified this
morning by wireless of the destruction
Of their home. Their FIVE children
were left in Honolulu. The four young
est children were safe with their ma
ternal grandmother, Mrs. Abraham
Fernandez, widow OF the late hardware
merchant, while the eldest child, aged
ten, was with relatives on the wind.
ward side Of the island This was not
known at the time Of the FIRE. &
Sentry Gives Alarm with Rife
At FIVE minutes after midnight flames
were seen to be licking from a seawRrd
window and Privnte Barnes, sentry No,
on the Fort De Russy Eva beat, fired
his rife. .",f.
Immediately life stirred in the sleep.
ing fort. A hundred men were out Of
their dreams at the sound of a bugle
summoning them to fire emergency.
Within three minutes they were
swarming around the rapidly burning
building. Ladders, chemical engine and
FIRE engine of Fort De Russy were on
the scene as quickly as was possible,
when it is considered. that the roads
around the fort are being torn up for
improvements, and the "going" was
internally hard, TO quote the language
of one who knew Z n
Iminedia iate s4eiEh Ehbofs we've panic,
stricken for though most of them were
aware Of the fact that the Cutters had
few days ago gone to visit friends
in Molokai island, very few knew what
had become of the children, who are
great pets with the folks thereabOuts,
Rush Through Planes After Children
The boys at Fort De Russy knew
them and had often passed playful
words with them.
When a hysterical woman screamed
that the children were in the burning
building. a dozen> men rushed through
the smoke and fame to rescue the
babes they thought were within.
| Today there are burned arms and
scorched faces, singed eyelashes and
absent eyebrows to testify to the alb
solute Disregard Of personal safety
evinced by the ready and willing boys
Of Fort De Russy, who responded with
out moments hesitation when they
thought young lives awaited rescue
within the rapidly burning structure.
There are numerous popular boarding
and lodging houses in the neighbor
hOod-the Oceanic, Cressaty's and Cas-
sidy's, not so far away-and within
five or ten minutes after the pillar OF
flame and smoke announced the con
sumption of u neighb0r : home there
were men and women in all manner OF
,neglgee upon the red-dirt streets. Man,
u gay nocturnal kimono will be sou
venired for long time with the brick
colored dust of the road and the mark
of wind d rifting Are stuff.
The word of the missing children
spread among the crowd quicker thar
the flames fickered through the com
paratively new frame building.
One Soldier Nearly fncinerated
One of the Fort De Russy boys, OI
the roof trying to do work with a hose
narrowly escaped being dropped int
the incinerating mass when the roo
fell. By a clever backward spring h
escaped with nothing worse than
lame back.
The Makiki fire department respond
ed promptly, though IL was long rur
and when the men of the city fire dc
partment arrived they found that tn
best that could be procured was
forty-foOt stream of water. The cit
department could do nothing more tina
had already been done by the soldiers
and that was to safeguard surroundin
frame buildings, of which there are
considerable number.
In twenty-five minutes from the tim
the first fame was observed there wa
nothing left of the building sav
: charred and glowing underpinning
The men of the United States regula
army service who had so readily T,
> sponded and who had done so much
) prevent adjoining structures from b'
coming victims Of the fire were bugle
back to quarters, picking up their hos
. and moving hOmeward with their al
raratus-nOt as fast as they came,
be sure, except those who were cage
to get to the Vaseline and other sootl
, ing medicants that promised relit
} from blistered flesh,
Property Held In Trust
Stanley A. Cutter is q conductor q
;. the Rapid Transit lines He and h
h wife, who was Minerva Fernandez, ha
y for some time been talking of takir
f trip to Molokai. The Bishop Tru
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