Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-24
FURNITURE STOCK
SWEPT BY FIRE
Hub Company Warehouse at
First and L Streets NE.
Is Raced by Flames.

Fire Of undetermined origin that
broke out shortly before IL o'clock this
morning swept through a warehouse
OF the Hub Furniture Co., at First and
L streets northeast, endangered nearby
buildings and brought out every avail
able piece of apparatus to prevent the
spread to nearby buildings, several of
which also serve as warehouses.
One fireman was injured, J.AH Mich
olson OF No. Rescue Squad sustaining
a badly cut hand.
Fourth in Year.
OnicialS reported this was the fourth
major fire within a year in the plants
of the Hub concern.
Announcing that the Hub loss would
amount to $4,000 or $4,000, e. M
kaufman, the manager, said that the
only furniture stored in the building
was that in preparation for shipping
the company's stock being carried else
Wnere. The fire. consequently. viii not
nrlng any curtailmer1t in operations, he
Only a shell of the building itself
was left. Wilbur r. Nash, the owner.
valued the structure at $4,000.
Estimates earlier had put the total
loss around 100000.
The brick building where the blaze
centered was but a single story high.
IL covered about quarter of a block.
AT the height of the fire practically
the entire plant appeared to be burning.
Oense olack smoke swept into the air
oy gusts OF wind hampered the firemen
IN tner EFFORTS to extinguish the blaze.
Gas masks were donned by numerous
men assigned to enter the fiame-ridden
pulldlng with high-preSSure hose lines.
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scene turned in second, third. fourth
and NTH alarms in rapid order.
Although the flre appeared to be
unoer control an hour or so after 1t
broke out, it still threatened several
nearby structures, including those of
the Jacobs Transfer Co, the Washing
ton Paper Co. and the Cook 81 District
waste Paper Co., Union Storage, Ches-
apeake d Potomac and Woodward e.
Lotnrops storehouses. At some of these
employees went about with fire extin-
gulShers TO guard against flying embers.
L street building for use as a ware
house after its warehouse on M street
was wrecked by flames about three
months ago. The structure was for
merly used for the Topham trunk
factory.
Police reserves, under the direction
OF Inspector Albert j. Headley, stretched
fire lines in the neighborhood to con-
troll throng of several thousand spec
tatorS.
Ambulances on Hand.
A squadron of ambulances was on
hand to facilitate medical aid should
any firemen be overcome by smoke.
Less than a dozen workmen were
reported to have been in the building
when the flames were discovered. None
was injured.
The flames were practically extin-
gulshed about o'clock and all but a
lew engines were ordered to return to
their home stations.
Capt. o. T. Davis of the second pre-
cinct reported flremen were handicap
ped "a great deal when the flames first
broke out by the fact that numerous
automobiles had been parked on streets
In the vicinity, principally Pierce street,
IN the rear of the warehouse, with their
doors locked. My men had to smash
the windows of more than a score of
those machines In order to get them
out OF the danger zone"
Capt. Davis said he was in favor of
the purchase of derricks by the Fire De-
partment to aid in removing cars under
such circumstances in the future.