New-York tribune., 1918-01-05
Government Supplies and
Piers Inperilled bv
$1,00O,0O0 Blaze
Remington Arms Plan.
Is Also Endangered
Crashing Wall Bar.l,.
Misses Firemen; Sailor.
Render Assistance

solid block near the riyerfro,.
Hoboken went roaring up in a.u.
yesterday, kindling a score % h.'a. 80
ings, some of them three or four H.,
away, imperilling the Remington 49, A."
Company factory, starting a bla,. !:
the Iletien & Lang drydocks uh..
there are several government shin,
and threatening to envelop the en,;.
industrial section of ,tne citv n.
damage is estimated at 81 900 900
The fire started in the five s.orr
and paper warehouse of the Gatt;.M
Quade Company, at Fifteenth st,.'.
and Park Avenue. about s o,clo.L :
the morning. The water pressure 49, :.
only IL pounds, instead of the po,n.,
40 pounds, and the fire, famed l'aal ~
DrlsA wind, developed tremerSs.s
headway, spreading to the ad;o;u;saNs d;uvas
warehouse OF the James Butler crs coms
pany' three story structure vb;sa
with the paper warehouse and u,s' ,ms,
bakery takes up The entire No.,. me-,
bounded by Fifteenth Street. Park AVA aS.
nue., Fourteenth Street and Blooms.ss
Street. '"'e'a
Fire Chief Michae! Dunn summon,
help from New York, JERSEY CITY W..
HoDoken and Weehawken. Three sss
boats came from New York. So dsn
gerous was the blaze to military ss an,
naval property that a company oi ~. ~
ulars was ordered out to help the srs
men. and goo sailors were rushed fror
the navy yard under command of Lion.
tenant B. Franklin Hart and wan vss.
charging up Fourteenth Street at Il.
double, yanAing long lines of hose b..
hind them
Great billows Of flames snatcb.;
bales OF paper and rags from d,
depths OF the warehouse and bore ther
aloft, where the heat disintegratsl
them. and their flaming particles ws,
showered over the city for BLOCK,
around, starting at least score .,
smaller fires
On the nortl, side of the paper ware
house dozen firemen were directip,
thelr streams from the tracks of Ii,
Shore Railway when the wall, benin
winch were packed bales upon bale
OF paper, began to bulge outward jus
saLOfS VIZ second story.
Into it! Into it," yelled fire lies
tenant, and the tiremen chag
straight At the topping wall, draggr
their hose with them An instant late
the wall crashed down upon the vsr
spot where they had stood, buryih
their line of hose and littering Ii
tracks for hundred feet. Had Il
ilremen sought to escape in any 9TH
erection some of them must have bee
overwhelmed. AS it was the wall t,
from the second floor and went cles
over the men, who had saved eys
their hose nozzle. =
Pressure Is Raised
A couple of hours after the fir
started the 1Iackensack Water Com
pany. which had been conserving il
supply because the cold snap hs
brought the city to the verge of
water famine, got the pressure up i
twenty five pounds. and the stream
began To count. By noon the dange
10 surrounding property was averted
several small fires were started OF
piers which are now under covernmen
control. hcse were put out by sailors
who had laid lines of hose to NEE.
just such emergencies. The emergency
hospital in the Tictjcn & Lang Yard
aiso was set ablHe, but the local FIRE
fighting force wbich had been organ
lzed by. George " Dendell the supern
tendenti prevented the fire from gain
ing Roadway.
Three firemen were taken to St
Mary's Hospital and dozens wer
knocked out by smoke and cold. Thos,
taken to the hospital were Thoma
Lang. OF Engine Company ., VIII
Wrenched his back falling twenty fee
down an elevator shaft. and John Ca
sazza and James Callahan. of Engin'