Evening Star Newspaper, November 22, 1929, Page 5

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, VORKERSOUTE | N STSOO0 BLAZE |Five Alarms Sounded and Two Hours Required to { Hall, Bath Control Flames. Electrical —— | Three-fourths of the city's fire ap- | ipamltus shlmgm and conquercc; a_spec- | tacular $150,000 blaze in a four-story | Rental 385 per month | brick bullding at 238 First street yes- | | terday afternoon that routed 30 young THE ARGONNE | women and 10 men from their work and | threatened for a time to destroy the | 16th & Columbia Rd. [ |gntire structure and spread to. houses| nearby. H A panic among the 40 employes of the | Columbia Specialty Paper Box Co., ! which occupled the three upper floors | of the bullding, was narrowly averted | when the densé smoke began (o seep through the ceiling and doors to the | second floor, where they were working. No one was Injured, however, either by the rush or the fire. As soon as the flames began to spread men from the crowd, which quick gathered, were impressed into servi to remove 15 large trucks, each contain- ing a _supply of gasoline, stored on the first floor, which was occupied by the Two Rooms, Kitchen, Reception and ‘Porch. Refrigeration. *“The North Wind Doth Blow—" National Motors, Inc. This soarce of danger was removed from the bullding without mishap. Paper Boxes Burn. Employes of the paper box company told firemen that they thought the fire ' had its origin in a short circuit on the | fourth floor. The two upper stories were packed with paper boxes, comprising & capacity stock for the holiday trade, and consequently the interior burned like tinder, Soon after firemen arrived flames Scene during the general alarm fire caused adjournment. yesterday at z3 Inélana avenue. D. C, FRIDAY, NOV 29 EMBER 1929. FIREMEN. BATTLING $150,000 FIRE NEAR CAPITOL Smoke drifted Into the Senate chamber and —Star Staft Photo. | forced their ladders away from the windows and broke through the roof, shooting as high as 50 feet into the air. A huge crowd gathered and & large detail of police headed by In- spector Thaddeus Bean, and working under the supervision of Commissioner Sidney F. Taliaferro, had considerable trouble in maintaining order. Five alarms in all were sounded and it was two hours before the blaze was subdued. The Bladensburg and Claren- don Volunteer Fire Companies also re- sponded, but their services were not required. the fire had been gotten under control. A portion of the second floor, weakened by the fire and weighted down by water, collapsed, sending firemen scur- rying to safety. No one was caught be- neath. The building is one of the oldest in the vicinity of the Capitol and was once occupied by the Business High School. Later it was used by the Dis- trict government as a warehouse. It is now owned by the Washington Hold- ing Co. A portion of the loss is cov- ered by imsurance. Forced back from the building itself | ~ Aaronson and Jeffrey estimated that by the flames and dense clouds of |the damage to their stock and equip- smoke, the fire fighters, from the street; ment will run to at least $50.000 and and points of vantage on low roofs of that their section of the building sus- adjoining buildings, poured heavy | tained at least that much damage. streams of water on the blaze. Walter Miles, president of the Nation- Use Water Tower. al Motors, Inc., who lives at 3907 Jocelyn street, said his loss would ap- Chiet Engincer George S. Watson . arrived on the sccne at the second | APProximate £50,000. The fire marshal alarm and secing the proportions of the |7aS unable to give an estimate this fire turned in the additional alarms in | MOrRinE. qulcl'(‘ 5uv}:‘cess=nn. 'Ir'he w,m.er loxrr B i B P e nupeRvE 1 “TWO:SUSTAINIBURNS. action. When the fire was at its height there were three streams of watcr play- ing on it from the front and five from each side. George Altman, 8 printer employed by the paper box company, discovered the fire. It was then confined to a comparatively small space on the fourth floor. He summoned Ruben Aaronson of 2800 Elsinor avenue, Baltimore, Md., who, with H. Jeffrey, 4323 Sixteenth street, is the proprietor of the firm. Aaronson took charge and sent Alt- man and several other men to the fourth floor with fire extinguishers. “About that time a few little puffs of smoke came through the door into the second floor, where the girls and other men were working on a big Gov- ernment rush order we had,” Aaronson declared. “A few moments later a couple of the men ran back and told me they had used up the extinguishers and the fire was spreading fast. I cautioned the girls to stay quiet and that I'd get them out safely.” He said that one of the employes turned in the alarm and the women started out. 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