FIRES.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1673, 13 February 1913, Page 4

FIRES.

THE FHA.THERSTON STREET OUTBREAK. Had ll not been .thai th<! spa<So between iho lining imd Iho . Oilta wall 4, and 'be< tw6eii. interior partitions, was ,filled with/' ''deafening"; (sawdust), tile danipgfc done' by the fire in, Mr. C; B. Mbrisou'a. biiild* ii'iß in Pcntherston Street oil Tuesday night would have been a Brent deal Shore serious thfm-n'a& the! case.. Tho old-time-method .of tendering thti : walls sound-j proof was ft. very effective method ot; oliecking a Mr. J,' Charlcswortli« architect, who suffered the loss of n parser hiihibsr of valuable plans, by a, of flnijio, which obtained entrance to his offices through the lead-Unlit glass; panels in his door, slates tlult but ; for stiiis. tho. \vholo if liij oHicc-equiphibnty including'a very large collection of plntis nnd art treasures muet have been destroyed, ; Tin) lining, in the jiassagc buHide his tboin« tffts bWtied'right througm. but the wad of satydust. ftreyentod iho ilahicsitoticliinj the inner wall. , Thht was tho case even' ill the room where ill? fire, broke out and rased fiercest owinp .to the. stock of highly cohibiisliblb -kinetafttogtopH.. film'. .Tho rettbtnl of the'ehatted lining showed tliti jnher hall quite untouched. The excfntioii only frns where tliti sawdust had ftilleii but. Thp dcitsih'. bf tho sawdust and the fact thht it. fihtil; out ali draughts made it a very effective barrier'to. tin, spread of tlio fire. ' ■ It appears that the' film destroyed iri thii roohi whefo th 6 . cvttbitak occurred was not the property of Mr. C. E.'Hickey (anent for- the Clement.. Mitioh Coi>'bf Sydney), nbr had ho anything, to do with, tho same.. Tho contents .01 +,lie; Voota' Monged tolhv.C. Bryant, a, who had about 10.000 feet of film in-stock, as well ns a lot of valuable printing. ]Io estimates Hie value of the goodi destroyed atatymt .£IOOO. Tliey wcreinsitred in tlw British Dominions, Office /for JCMi&i Tho heat of the firo was such , that it Shrivell-d some of tho films, -held . by Mr,. C. E. luckey, whoso office is at the far pido of tho passage 1 from the outbreak, and it is a 111 Alter for surprise that, it-did not burst into' flames. Itis «;toe,k and' offie# fit tines arc covercd by. a risk of jIOO in the Commercial Union and .£lO.l in tlio Liverpool, London, and ttlobc Office. Mr, Charjesworth's office, fillinirs ami loots woro covered to thrs amount of Jll2O in. the Alliance. The biiilding was inSnred for -ClOOj) in the Liverpool, London, and Globe Offlc?, but bwing to a policy having lapsed quite recently, Mr. C. 13. Morton,. a.C., luid 110 insurance on tho contents of his offices, which wore damaged li gocd deal by water. -

(By TelezroDb.'-Pwss Assoclntloii.i ' ~,; . : , Hastings, Febrnnrj-il, llio sash nnd door-i'Mory ■owtiDil hi the Hastings Uiick, Tilo, and TimlvV Company, Ltd., was completely' destroyed by life tliis afternoon.. A heavy stout of timber in the yni-d adjoining was caved by Uio splendid high pressure water sup. ply. . V :