New Britain herald., 1924-08-16
TWO AUTOMOBILES
 DAMAGED BY FIRE Truck and Touring Car Arc Con-
 sumed During Morning Hours NEW BRITAIN MAN HURT
Falls From Tree and Breaks Wrist special Meeting of Tiremen-Hiis Telephone role-thurch Notices Plain, file Rriefs.

II flain,iiie hriefs,
 II rlainNille Hose Co. No, had 2
 busy morning today answering alarms
 for burning automobiles, Two car,
 were almost totally destroyed hy fire
 on the streets ef lhs town, one oi
 them being a turing car and the other
 a truck.
 Shortly after o'clock this morn.
 Ing. an alarm was sent in for the com. pany from North Washington street
 where q touring car Of the steamer type owned by a Mir. Warren Of Pennington had cuaght afire. James
 Boswell, owner Of the F. X l., Service Station, who lives at the Maplehurst, arrived at the station first and drove the truck 10 ihe scene. The big chemical line was played on the car and tho machine was saved from ab- solute destruction. None of the oc- curants was injured.
 About 10:S0 o'clock. an alarm was sent in from New Britain avenue where truck owned by Joseph Mar cetti, a builder of Toirlngton. had caught ahre. Tho department an- swered and after playing chemicals on the famis, the damage showed the body totally destroyed but the rest Of the truck intact. The driver Of the truck, a workman in the employ Of Mir. Marcetti, stated that as he was driving along the road towards Plain vile. someone shouted at him and pointed to the bottom Of the vehicle. He. thinking that something had broken underneath, stopped and tp moment, was ehvelopcd in flames. The truck was one of the covered in types and fortunately, the fire de- partment responded in quick order.
 New Britain Man Hurt
 Harold R. Jones Of Stanley street. New Britain telegraph editor on the "Herald". was painfully hurt yester- day afternoon about o'clock, when a sedan in which he was travelling from New Britain to Plainville aas struck by touring car owned and driven by Mrs. Lottie P. Angerbower of Forestvile and overturned from the force of the impact Mir. Jones
 
 wards Cooke street and Mrs. Anger bower was coming from the opposite direction when she turned into Cooke street. Jones attempted to turn into the street 10 avoid hitting her auto mobile and in so doing, the wheels Of his automobile struck over the small curbink surrounding the park at the entrance Of the street. The front of Mrs. Angerbowers automobile struck 1t to oNerturn.
 Jones suffered a severe cut on the side of his head and decorations of the scalp and he was hurriedly brought to the office of Dr. George L. Cook in the Neri block. His wounds were treated there and Dr. Cook ordered him sent to the New Britain General hospital to have an N-ray taken 10 ascertain whether there was any frac- ture of the skull. Paul Lucas. Ser lin reporter on the "Herald' who was riding with Mir. Jones' was thrown out of the car but aside from suffering from the shock and several body bruises, he escaped injury. Mrs. and two women com panions escaped injury.
 Policeman Andrew Hogan was called to the scene and after an in | vestigation, he turned the facts over to Grand Juror William Foran. The office found that Mrs. Angerbower's license was not properly endorsed and gave the details Of the accident 10 the grand juror. Both drivers will be called into court for a hearing on he cases.
 Breaks Wrist in Fall
 Claire Buys of Bristol while play ng in the yard of relatives with whom she was visiting on Maple street, had both bones in her wrist broken when she fell from an apple rec, She was playing with num- per of other children and was at empting to garner some Of the fruit ,n the tree when a limb snapped and 'he was thrown to the ground. pr. ieorge l.. Cook was called to the ,ome and he set the bones. He ound also that the child had suffered m injury 10 her back which might lave serious effects later on.
 Bremen to Meet l. The members of PlainNile Hose Co. to. 1 will hold a special meeting tuesday evening in the remen's rooms 0 complete plans for their partici-