Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1921-10-10
SMITH STREET FIRE
DOES BIG DAMAGE:
F|REMEN CHECK BLAz {
Fire Cuts Dairy Products
Store at 73 Smith st. and
Spreads to Other Shops
EARLY YESTERDAY A. M.
Woman Faints During Blaze
is Carried to Safety--Origin
is Mystery

Damage variously estimated at
from $4,000 to $4,000 was caused
by the fire which broke out early
Sunday morning and gutted the
dairy products store at 73 Smith
street operated by Harry Landweber
of 3S6 New street. The blaze, which
included the adjoining businesses of
the Perth Amboy Tailoring Com
pany at IL Smith street, and the
delicatessen store owned by Jacob
A. Lesslauer, at rs Smith street,
was discovered by Patrolman Pat
rick Dwyer at $50 O'Clock.
Officer Dwyer was in the act or
making his Sis ring to headquar-
ters from the call box at. the ferry
when he noticed clouds of thick
smoke arising from a point two
blocks above him. He ran up Smith
street and turned in an alarm from
box 35 at Smith and High streets,
after which Dwyer and Officer Mari
nus Ludwigson entered the adjoin-
ing building occupied sby the Less
laurs and arouse dthem.
The family had not been awaken
ed until the arrival of the policemen
end Mrs. Lesslauer tainted when
informed that the adjoining building
was afire.
Tne woman was CdTlltQ IOSo
Smith street to the New Packer
House by the policemen, where re-
storatiye measures were applied.
The rest of the Lesslauer family got
out of the house safely.
Some mystery seems to surround
the origin of the flames which en-
dangered the three stores. Mr.. Less
lauer said this morning that the
shattering of his three show case
windows had been caused by an ex-
plosion, while Langweber. the owner
of the store where the blaze started
is unable to assign any reason Tor
the fire. He kept no explosive ma
terial in the store. it was learned.
The fire department extinguished
the flames at the dairy store and
was preparing to leave, 1t Is said,
when the fire broke out anew the
walls of Lesslauer's building. The
wall adjoining the location of the
original fire is badly damaged and,
with the breakage of the windows in
the front of the store, 1t is expected
that Mr.. Lesslauer' total loss will
be close to S2,500 while Langwe-
ber's loss will exceed s1,500. The
building occupied by the dairy pro-
duct store is the property of DR..
Isadore Siegel. of 121 Market street.
and is alrlost a total loss. The ex-
act amount was not given out.
Suits and coats left at the Perth
Amboy Tailoring Company for
cleaning and pressing were injured
to the extent of $500. while rafters
and walls on the side next to the
fire are badly damaged. The extent
of this loss has not been deter
mined as yet.
Small Fire at Keasbey
KEASBEY, Oct. 10.-Fire at the
home of Thomas Daganski, near the
Fords Porcelain Works. called oul
the Protection Fire Company and
Fords Fire Company at O'CLOCK
this morning. Chief William Lybeck
estimated the damage at 800.
Daganski had about two tons ol
salt hay packed in one of the large
rooms of the house and 1t is believed
that spontaneous combustion started
the first Are alarm was turned in
\ by Daganski. who was asleep in the
room above and was awakened by
the smell of smoke. The quick ar
rival of the fire companies saved his
home from complete destruction.