Norwich bulletin., 1919-03-24
DANIELSON

A fire. for which an alarm c47le in st on after 4.31 o'clock Suntay morn ing, wrecked the garage of Moran and Ennis, Mechanic street, and practical ly destroyed five out Of eleven cars that were in the building, a three story frame structure originally the Abner Young Shoe shop. The fami4 ly of Noe pcsjardins. who live on the upper floor of the building. did not know they were in imminent dang CT of being burned to death until the cries of those who first saw the fire awakened them from their sleep All escaped without injury.
 James Moran. one of ties members O. the garage firm, said Sunday morn ing that he was convinced the fire was of incendiary origin.
 T was awakened at aaout 4.30 a. m. by some one rounding on my door and yelling F'ire,'" Mir Moran said. q live almost across the street and rush cd out to find flames runnine up the south side Of the lgarase building. When I got over there I found that panes of glass had been broken out of one of the windows where the fire was raging the hottest. and it seemed to me that someone had broken out the window and set a fire ncar where our
 
 dressed when I first came out. but | r. went back to the house and got SC me more clothes, eventually pulling an alarm from Box 43'
 1 The Captain Put Engine company operating tha new Seagrave auto 1 bumper, made its first response to al 1 8 aIarm with the new piece of arpafatus The big truck went booming out O. tnc central station on Academy street within three minutes after tffe alarm 1 had stopped sounding, and this may bt | considered a remarkable" record in view of the fact that no fremen were ol duty at the station. but had to dress
 at thei rhones and report for duty r. o. Armington. who was first oI l the drivers seat, yielded his place t i Driver Winthrop Short, who took ou the big machine on it's first real-fire fighting trip and it was up on Me chanic street in less than a minut
 after leaving the station. That fac undoubtedly saved the frame struc
 ture, which was being rapidly envelop ed in flames. from complete destruc ttCr and demonstrated the worth o the borough-e investment in the hi; machine. The machine worked per factly. A chemical stream was di rected at the fire while two lines o hose were being laid. and with these il
 action the ire was quickly subdued ard the recall sounded at $50.
 | TWO of the cars ruined in the fir tvcre owned by James Moran, one o the garage owners- Another was tn tproperty of Mrs. Thomas Marlor o Brooklyn. another of Paul ElIssey a overseer at the Connecticut Mills, an ianother of Thomas Weaver. of Daniel son.
 Of the six cars saved from seriou damage. these being in the rear par
 of the building. two belol@ed to Be
 Chasson. one each to F. V Basset Broa, dstreet A. F. Etner:dge, Fret
 Eeany and Victor Smith.
 The five cars destroyed will be a. los to their owners except in tEe case C Paul Bussey, whose machine was GOV
 cred hy insurance.
 The loss Of the Moran and Enni firm, including Mir. Morar's cars an ; tl'e firms tools. was estiu,ated at g. | coo by Mir. Moran who said that thi , less would be total. as it was not coy , eIed by cents worth of insurance The building is owned by J. II. Mill F gall, who lives on the Ein;vilIe roat and Arthur Milligan. his son, pro , rrietor of a garage at WaJregan. The purchased it on March 1 of this yea f from the Decker garage. The firl of James Moran and Archie Enni 3 therefore. had been in operation onl . fduring the present month and we l doing a splendid business. J. H. Mill l gan said Sunday afternoon that s1 5( : insurance was carried on the buildin s but that it was not likely that tf = settlement would cover the loss to tE = buildings owners.
 = Chief A. Putnam Woodward of Il I fire department was highly please = with tfe work done by the Captain Pl a Engine company and the biz naaclir S which they man. The fire WAS an eJ e ceedingly dangerous one. he said. bl n it was handled with the efficiency tn: s always marks the work of the 1oc Q Idepartment, now aided m ttir effor d by the use of high grade apuaratu
 There was "sprinq opening" on u West Side about 10 o'clock SaNrds
 eyening-not 6 millinery opening C . anything like that but an offici . opening of the booze hunting seaso . Constable John NJ. Bessette of u
 West Side conducted the ceremony. = As a result Peter Shainaniski wi appear at 10 o'clock this (Monda,
 morning before Justice ' rank M. B h derd to answer to charges Of haviI = liquor in his possession with intent 't sell and with actual sales Ghamani = Ri lives with his family a No. y Front street, West Sids Tn what E tEno,y1 ae fi,., n,yya5ve Lr1 piIv bIccl