The Washington herald., 1918-01-05
FIRE in ALEXANDRIA
CAUSES $1,000 Loss
Home of ]. B. Ewald Scene of
Blaze Yesterday Morning.
THE HERALD BUREAU,
II. Z. knight q Son,
6a GA King Street.

sas8 King Street
Alexandria, Va, Jan. 4.-Damage
estimated at $1,000 was caused to
house and contents belonging to
Joseph B. Ewald, 80 North Alfred
street, which star. ID shortly before
o'clock tris moraing, The loss is
partially covered by insurance A
defective flue is thought TO have
been responsible for the blaze. At
the time Mr.. Ewald was about to
start the work of thawing out a
frozen water pipe. He succeeded in
saving most of the contents.
The firemen worked nearly two
hours in the cold and the water froze
almost as fast. as it was thrown
from the nozzle of the hose and the
interior of the house looked like an
iceberg when the firemen departed.
The firemen suffered considerably
from the cold and their coats and
helmets were caked with ice, the
water freezing as fast as 1t fell.
Several trees in front of the house
presented a beautiful picture with
icicles covering every branch caus-
ed by the water thrown by the fire
men. During the progress of the
fire, neighbors furnished the fire.
men with hot coffee.
The local exemption board will
Wednesday mail out the last of the
questionnaires for this city and Alex
andria County. Thus far, 200 have
been mailed and 460 remain to be
sent out. Already the board has re-
ceived questionnaires from a majority
of the registrants to whom they were
mailed and a week from Wednesday
every QUESTIONABLE will be in the
hands OF the local board.
Next week the board will give its
time to classifying the questionnaires
which have been returned
| Plumbers estimate that there are
fully 1000 frozen water pipes now in
every section of the city. Many ad-
ditional pipes were found frozen to-
day and some instances bursted pipes
have resulted. Plumbers are working
overtime and it will be fully a week
before all of the frozen pipes are re-
lieved. Many householders, abie
to wait for the plumbers, succeeded
in thawing out their own pipes.
Capt. Earl Hopkins, who is in charge
lof sailing vessel now anchored al
the shipyard, reports to the ponct
that slO5 was stolen from his vessel
Tuesday night Edna Lloyd and
Daisy Dudley, both colored, who were
abroad the vessel that night, were ar
rested by Policeman hewitt. Capt
Hopkins said he suspected the LLOYD
woman of the robbery. There vas
no evidence that. she was guilty and
she was acquitted of that charge
although she and the Dudley woman
were fined S each for disorderly
conduct.
Announcement is made that Juliar
d. Knight has been awarded the con
tract for building a warehouse a
"Colross," which will be 80 by $50 feet
for the Alexandria Hay and GraiT
Company, Inc. TO cost $00O. w
Leon Clark, this city, is the architect
Work will be begun Monday.
Rev. John Lee Allison. d. D., pas
tor Of the Second Presbyterian Church
today. efficiated at the funeral o.
Harry c. Leef, who died IN Danville
Va, held at the residence Of hi
mother, Mrs. Margaret Leef, 1906 Kint
street. Burial was in Bethel Gene
terry,
The Alexandria soldiers at Admission
Ala, have written a letter to the Re
freshment Corps of the Red Cros
thanking them for Christmas pack
| ages.