Evening star., 1926-04-14
.FOUR-ALARM FIRE
BRINGS OUT. 10000
Eisinger Bros. Lumber Yard
Damage Damaged d BY. y $4,000.
r. !. -. : Ball. Park Menaced. :.

A four-alarm fire broke out in the
Eisinger Brothers lumber yard. Just
north of the Washington Base Ball
Park, last night. drawing between
90 900 and 80, 900 spectators, causing
approximately $4,000 damage. and
tying up transportation : on the
Georgia avenue. car line for neaAay"an
hour.
Shortly before 10 o'clock almost all
Washington was centering It's gaze
on the brilliantly illuminated sky ana
making absolutely erroneous guesses
as to the location Of the IRE. 'Phou'
sands trooped in steady streams afoot
and hundreds came In automoplleS' TO
the radius of the fire, jamming streets
on the south. north and west OF the
blaze four and five blocks away.
Thought Ball Park Atire.
Many thought the base ball park
was going up in flames as tney ap-
nroached. Apparatus responding on
the fourth alarm had great difficulty In
getting to fire. plugs because OF the
crowd.
The cause Of the fire Is believed by
w. G. Eisinger, one of the proprietorS
of the lumber and mill plant, to nave
been a cigarette or cigar butt, tossed
from the packed grandstand at the
base ball park Yesterday afternoon
while Walter johnson was trounclng
the ite-.Eephants- from" Phhadei'
phia.
The nropertv destroyed consisted
mainly of d shed in which were piled
finished. holdings, and mill'workeo
lumber in anticipation of Spring
building in Washington. Mr.. Eising-
er estimated that $4,000 would cover
the lumber in the shed. which was
destroyed. The damage was not
complete to the lumber in the yard
and was fully covered by insurance.
Interesting Side Angles.
IN its wake the fire brought sew
eral interesting side angles. FOR
instance, newspaper men ctambered
ing the pavilion runway to the base
ball park and were viewing the
flames with a policeman from the
ninth precinct from vantage points,
when suddenly we'll directed stream
of water ricocheted from one OF the
piles of timber and caught several
full in the face. They emerged all
wet.
Photographers setting off fash
lights from nearby timber piles were
drenched by streams of water di-
rected at them just after the boom
of the flash.
The damage to the base ball park
was mainly centered in the awnings
and portion in the rear Of the paVil-
ion. There was never serious menace
to the concrete stands of the base ball
park. although the situation was
ticklish for a while with respect to
the lumber in the Kelly lumber yard.
The absence of a high wind, pres.
ence of sufficient apparatus and good
water pressure brought the flames
under control within an hour after the
arrival of the FIRST apparatus.
Among officials attending the fire
were Chief of Police E. b. Hesse, who
was rushed TO the scene in the head
quarters automobile piloted by Police
Chauffeur Hugh Robey; the inspectors
of the Police Department and DR..
Daniel L. Borden Of the visiting staff
of Emergency Hospital, : who was
ready for any ffrst-aid treatments,
Luckily, none OF the later became
necessary. ..~.
The labors of the ffremen were not
confined alone to the Eisinger lumber
yard last night. During this fire and
until o'clock this morning they
were kept on the jump answering
three false alarms, a call from a drug
store at No. 2 G. street, an explosion
in a gasoline tank car on railroad
siding at Sixth and V streets north
east, a fire in a taXicab and finally
one in a dump at Wisconsin avenue
and r street.