Smyrna times., 1930-08-20
SECOND FIRE AT ARNOLD'S,
BRENF0RD, WITH $4,000 LOSS
DESTROYS GARAGE AND HEN
HOUSE WITH TOTAL LOSS

DESTROYS GARAGE AND HEN
HOUSE WITH TOTAL LOSS
e. B. Arnold Had Just Returned i'm
His Auto From Dover and Dis
covered BlaZe-ReSidence Saved
Fire supposed to have started
from a carlessly neglected cigar
cite stump, burned the garage and
hen house of E. B. Arnold at Bren-
ford between IL o'clock and noon
on Thursday, entailing a. loss with
contents, of upwards of $4,000. It
was Mr.. Arnold's second fire with
in six weeks, the first visiting and
completely destroying his large
cannery with a $4,000 loss. Hard
ly had he recovered from this
when the fire last Thursday burn
ed much of his equipment he had
stored in his garage to be moved
/ to the newly rebuilt factory. Mr..
Arnold had been on a motor trip
to Dover Thursday morning and
1 had just returned. AS soon as he
! got out of his car he noticed smoke
coming out of the garage and up
on investigation saw that one end
near the work bench, in a mass of
/ flames. He knew it called for
quick action so he rushed out and
called to Elijah Smith and his
men, working on his new can
merry that his garage was on
fire and to come quick. Then rush
ing to a phone he sent the fire
alarm to Smyrna, Clayton, Ches-
void and Dover. Elij. Smith and
his men formed a bucket brigade
but were powerless to do anything
with the garage and hennery as
they were doomed from the start.
Consequently they paid attention
to Mr.. Arnold's residence, the roof
of which was ablaze from falling
embers. Walter David, one of
Mr.. Smiths men, very successfully
put out blaze that was creeping
fast into the residence only to find
another place which broke out. BY
this time Smyrna firemen with
their truck, the first fire COM
pany on the scene, drove up.
Extinguish Blaze at Reiman Home
Hardly had they arrived in
Brenford than their attention was
called to Mr.. Reiman's house di-
rectly across the railroad from Mr..
Arnold's. They stopped long
enough to extinguish this menac-
ing blaze and then rushed to Mr.
Arnold's where they worked dill
gently to keep the residence from
being consumed. By this time Clay
ton, Cheswold and Dover fire
trucks were on the scene and all
of them fighting together, kept the
fire confined to the Arnold Garage
and Hennery, which burned to the
ground. The garage was a two
story structure about % 18 feet
in which was stored quantities of
tools of every description, 80 cases
of tomatoes, lot of cannery equip
ment, including nearly new Ia
beling machine valued at $500
which Mr. Arnold had saved from
his previous cannery fire. He also
lost his hen house, building 81 X
II feet, modern in style and equip
ment and some laying hens he
could not get out. He also lost
about 20 bushels of feed he had
just laid in. Mr.. Arnold places
his loss on the garage and hen
house at over $4,000 and only had
about $500 insurance on the gar
age and 5000 on the hennery.
MIR. Arnold has Pluck i'm Adversely
Mr. Arnold with all his hard
streak of luck. has gone ahead
and showed his usual enterprise by
preparing for the tomato canning
season now soon to start. He has
his big canning factory built and
ready for use and has much of his
machinery, all modern and new, in
place. The building is built of con-
crete with corrugated iron roof
and is 1876 feet long by 40 feet
wide About one hundred feet of
this building is being partitioned
off for his ware house, labelling
machinery and storage room and
office. He expects to have every
thing in readiness by the time his
foreign help arrives to start up in
full blast. He had contracted for
his acreage before he had his fire.