New Britain herald., 1926-05-10
PainuiUe NetDs
,GOVERNOR ID LAY . H. 5. CORNERSTONE

May 29 Set as Date for Official
 Start of Building
 FLAMES WRECK GARAGE Automobile Destroyed by Fire
 Changes in School Teaching stan Week end Accidents-Plainville A..
 (. JubiIant-S135 For Library.
 Governor John Fl Trumbull will lay the cornerstone of the new Plainytlle high school on Saturday afternoon, May 20, it was announced today by the school department An appropriate program of exercises is being arranged and Frank T. Wheel CT. chairman of the special building committee, will be master of cere- monies.
 Ii is hoped and expected that the entire town will turn out on this occasion. the official beginning of the first high school Plainyille has had since the old one was discon- tinucd several decades ago. It will therefore be an historic occasion. and plans are being made to observe it with all the impressiveness which I it deserves.
 Garage Guttcd by Fire
 The garage in the rear of the Clarendon block was destroyed and one car in it ruined about o'clock Saturday afternoon in a fire which threatened the center of the town for a time and caused considerable excitement The blaze was caused by sparks from a nearby incinerator in which q bundle Of papers was be ing burned These ignited the wood en wall and roof of the garage. the flames spreading rapidly and leap ing to the nearby 25-car garage own cd by the Neri Bros.
 The cloud of dense smoke which arose was seen by many people, who deludged the telephone office with calls for the fire department. The apparatus was at the scene in few minutes and the tiremcn came hastening in answer to the alarm blown on Trumbull's whistle Three lines of hose were laid. McanW hilc the fire had jumped to the wall of q wooden building behind the Gen. tral block and the department had three blazing structures with which to cope.
 Under the direction of Chief r., P. Prior they went at their task with energy and prevented the flames from spreading further. A sedan owned by William O'Hara in the garage was ruined by the flames nothing being left of it but q heap of blistered and battered metal After d hard fight for half an hour the flames were controlled.
 Some confusion was caused and quite a bit of complaint has arisen concerning the turning in Of the alarm, if being claimed by some of those who telephoned in that their calls were not answered by ihe op- orator until after five or ten minutes of waiting. This was explained to- day by the fact that so many per sons called in to give the alarm. The operators have positive orders that when a fire alarm comes in they are to neglect everything else until Chief Prior, Driver James R. ! Boswell, and the TTumbull Electric ] Mfg. Co.,, have been notified in order that apparatus and alarm may he as prompt as possible.
 The first call apparently can" from the Neri block, after which th" operators turned their attention to getting out the men and apparatus [ Consequently 1t was necessary 10 disregard the other calls coming in and when these were finally answer ed they proved to be mostly calls for the same fire. Almost 10 different calls were put in for the same alarm and the fact that the majority were not answered promptly was due 10 the efficiency rather than the ineffi- cioncy of the telephone exchange. 1 Had the fire had q bit more start ! it would have been very dangerous. There was a brisk breeze blowing and the fire was in q cluster e. wooden structures which, had they got properly started. would have en- iangcred the whole business center ] As it is, the prompt work of the fire men practically confined the damag" 1 to the garage, where the loss will probably he about $2,oD0.
 1 IncineratOr Starts Another ! A second fire started from an in- 1 icinerator occurred yesterday morn ing in the rear Of inc post office when sparks flew and set afame the fence along the railroad track. J. E. i Boswell chanccd to see inc flames and, finding himself unable 10 put them out without equipment. rushed to the fire house and sci out with the truck Meanwhile some eNcit- able person turned in an alarm, with the result that G0 men answered a call for q burning fence and the town is $2o poorer, There was no real dana ges.
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