Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-16
DANIELSON AND PUTNAM NEWS
PUTNAM

center of the city faced during. the 1 early hours of the morning when one | of the most dangerous fires the city 1
 has experienced in years was under way. Considering the nature of the
 fire and the weather conditions under which the firernen had to fight it, the general opinion seemed to be during the day that the frefnen did well to
 conflne the blaze within the hotel, which is total wreck. Of the greater part of the long frame structure not much remained after the fire except the ice e-covered walls. The interior is wholly gutted and there is grave doubt, it was stated Thursday, ! whether it ever will be rebuilt. as was the case after the fire that badly damaged the structure in 1913.
 It was difficult during Thursday to 1 fix the exact amount of the gross loss but conservative estimates fix it at not | less. than $40,000, this including the damage to the bIfildt1g, the loss of the hotel furnishings and equipment,
 the restaurant loss and the damage to ! the business places of the Putnam News ,unlpans, charles Miron barber; l F5 rHwlex. who had his
 plumbing shop in store on the Front .s..->- .---,4 ..-9>. ss...4 uerson whose 1 public market is next to the Rawley 1 store.
 1 The cause of the fire remained ob- Ecured in doubt during Thursday, 1 when the ruin of the hotel building
 was inspected by hundreds of people.
 Almost every square inch of what re- mains of the building is sheathed with ice, as are the streets and sidewalks
 on the Union, Front and Railroad
 street sides of the building.
 Inside the ruined storess the stocks
 are all ice coated and while there will
 be some salvage the loss is very heavy
 in all cases.
 i. In addition to the hotel furnishingss Landlord James F. sLueey lost all his household furniture. which was moved
 into the hotel only few days ago, after MT, Iucey was obliged to g4ve
 up his residence because it had been sold.
 There was some hurrying and scur- rytng and much worrying by the guests and other occupants of the ho- 1 tel in getting out of the burning structure, through which the flames spread with Surprising rapidity, but all came through to safety.
 Judge l.. H. Fuller who has his of- fee and an apartment in the Fuller building, adjoining the hotel told Thursday afternoon, being one of the first out at the fire, of man who stood in 8 wind5w on the third floor
 on the front street Side and called out to the judge to catch him, as he was about to jump.
 Judge Fuller warned against mak- ing such a reckless leap, quieting the
 excited man and telling him that the firenen would in minute and take him down. This message didn't seem T to bring much consolation to the man,
 whose name Judge Fuller did not
 learn, but 1t dissuaded him from
 jumping and led to his adopting the
 expedient of making his way down as
 best he could, which he did until with
 in few feet of the sidewalk, when
 he lost his balance and fell to the
 tstreeet, but was not seriously injured Some of the guests escaped with lit tie more than their night clothes, SC hurried was their exit, and ali o1
 these were quickly taken away to other hotels or to homes.
 3 There was one thing for which thos, !, who are charged with the city's safety t Were expressing words of thanksgiving Thursday and that was that the Watel pressure was excellent and the supply
 ample. In discussing the fire Thurs, ? day afternoon Mayor A. W. Marcy said he was pleased with the way tn, city department worked and also WitI s the excellent manner in which the au , to-pumper worked at what was it , first real try out Mayor Marcy alst } expressed his appreciation of ant $ satisfaction with the fine work done b1 . the Captain Put Engine Company, O ' Danielson.
 Chief Engineer c. D. Arnold O the Putnam department, was pleased . with the work of his men and espe cially well pleased with the service o
 the Danielson department "and I would : appreciate it if you would publish tn
 fact" said MT. Arnold, adding tha the Danielson men worked splendid ly and did everything I asked then :. 1 quickly and effectively. If the day eve comes when the Putnam departmeu can be of service to. Danielson al 5 they'll have to do is let us know" sai ! Chief Arnold
 R. H. Bradley, owner of the hote : said Thursday afternoon that he vii not rebuild. He stated that his in g surance on the structure is only s16 300, and then his loss is fully S10,O0 l above that amount. Mr. Bradley ex 2 plained that the insurance on tn,
 building was not more because of tn : fact that it had not been a license :. place since July l, as 1t had bee
 heretofore, and that the amount of in n surance he had been carrying had bee . reduced by the insurance companies, s The damage to the Fuller building @ adjoining the Chickering hotel, i I slight and is chiefly from water an, y smoke. Towne's studio. on the uppe 2 floor of the Fuller building. which ad joined the hotel from which is wa separated only by a heavy wall, ha
 some damage and there is water dam , age along the. stairways, where line f of hose were run through to get a the reef of the hotel.
 Firemen who fought the fire & \ bravely suffered intensely with tn l cold, but they stuck to what was e very difficult job and finally, after g four hours fight, conquered. A gal . that blew throughout the night adde,
 to the danger of the situation. Miss Minnie Gannen, eommereia , teacher at the high school, is a pa tient at the Day Kimball hospital
 where she successfully underwent al
 operation for appendicitis. Miss Jen . nie Berriman, of Dayyille, is substi tuting for her at the high school. . 1t was stated here Thursday that en
 of the results of the visit Of Dr. Alfre, 7 c. Zones, who delivered an addres , on dental hygiene at the high sehoo
 this week, will be to send the Putnam f school nurse to Bridgeport for tw Tor three weeks to study the denta : hygiene methods in force in the school of that city.
 - E. M. Wheaton, who went to tn . Mayo hospital at Rochester, Mfnn., vii
 return here without undergoing tn . ssIpsieaI O,aava fien tkaf ha avAaotaS f,