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ein THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1927 - "PAGE THREE FINE BLOCK DESTROYED IN EARLY MORNING BL AZE (Continued From Page 1) over the McWatter's establishment and did not carry any insurance, it is stat- ed unofficially. Speaking to The Oshawa Daily Tinies this morning Fire Chief Cam- eron stated it was one of the worst and stubbornest fires that the depart- ment has had to handle since the fire at Fittings Limited and previous tc that the one at the Simcoe Street Uni- ted Church. He was at a loss to state the reason. "lI am very grateful to the twenty- five or thirty citizens who assisted the firemen this morning," said the Chief who pointed out that many of the young fellows of the community did not hesitate to step in and do their share. They assisted with the hose and ladders and made themselves gen- erally useful in every respect. Among those citizens on. the scene early was Aldeman George Hart. 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Blazed Again At Noon The firemen were on the scene from shortly after 4.30 o'clock and at press time they were still working with the smouldering ruins. Shortly after twelve o'clock the 'blaze resumed again and it was necessary for the department to pour more water on. However, the de- bris is under control and work at pumping the water from the cellars of the various stores is proceeding. That a vast amount of water was thrown on from several lines is evident by the fact that for several hours this morn- ing the pumps of the department motor pump were busy taking water from the basements. While a great deal had been removed there still remained up to noon, a depth of about six fect. M. Alger of the Alger Press, Limited, when spoken to early this morning, stated he could not state very much. He had not, he added, a chance to look into the matter. He concurred with the reporter, though, that the damage would be well around $100,000. His firm would be the heavy loser for the building to which the greatest amount of damage was done, | belonged to them. Damage, he esti- mated, to the building alone would be well over $60,000. In addition to the loss of the Alger Block, the Alger Press Limited, it is understood, lost considerable printing. Two jobs having a worth of apprex- imately $8,000, were destroyed, while water, an attendant at the plant stat- ed, did damage to about $2,000 worth of Christmas cards. These were stored 'r the basement awaiting the Christ- mas season. Considerable other stock, mostly paper, was also water spoiled. Mr. Alger said the company will re- sume operations as soon as the debris can be taken care of. It is the inten- tion of the Alger Press Limited to re- build immediately. In the course of his conversation to a representative of the Oshawa Daily Times, Mr. Alger stated he is grate- ful to the Mundy Printing Company, which concern offered the use of its job printing department to the Alger Press Limited, while it is under a handicap. Firemen Overcome During the more scrious stages of the fire at an early hour this morning, Fire Chief A. C. Cameron was over come by smoke while fighting inside the Biltmore Cafe. He was immediate- ly taken outside where he responded to the fresh air. Fireman Wilson was knocked down by the force of a hose nozzel while the pressure was at ils heaviest. He was. also taken outside the site for about four years and three months. "Yes, I was at home sleeping at the fime," said Lee. "I was called on the telephone about 6 o'clock and told that the Biltmore was on fire. I said, 'No kidding' and the party on the telephone said, 'I'm not kid- ding, come down right away'." "What will your loss amount to as regards the business you have been doing?" "I was taking in about $1,200 a week." He explained that the loss from now until the company gets operat- ing again, which will be three months, anyway, will be approxi- mately $20,000. "We were doing a real good business there." "S. P. nny was there when I left late 1 night. He is boss when I'm away." Lee stated that in speaking to Kenny this morning the latter stated positively that everything was in perfect condition when he (Kenny) left, Kenny resides with Lee at the Waverly Inn on the Kingston high- way. Lee when asked for his opinion as to- how the fire started said he hadn't the slightest idea. The men employed there are always very careful. There might have been some smoking going on, but he could not say definitely. He admitted that it is customary to put the fire out at night. A coal stove is used in cooking and for the general kitchen work. Gas' is also used, but there is no electricity required other than for lighting purposes. Howard Lee, a waiter, residing at 11 Celina street, just around the corner from the Biltmore Cafe, when auerried in regards to the con- flagration, he said "You should have seen it, "Yes, I was in bed and a lady fame to the door and told us about + "I left about 8 o'clock last night as I was on morning duty. I usually start work at 6 o'clock. I was told about the fire about 5 o'clock and came right down, "Did you lose anything, personal belongings ?" Lost $500 Groceries- "About $500 or $600 of grocer- | ies and meat. They were stored in the cellar. A big order just came in yesterday. I haven't seen the bill yet. T don't know how much it will be. Maybe about $100. Everything is a loss. The canned goods might be alright, but I don't know." "What did you do at the more?" "I looked after the goods together with the head chef." He also added that he is a waiter and came to this city a couple of months ago at Lee's request, Howard Lee has some insurance on his goods and thus will not lose and was revived. He received a bad bump on the head. He, along with other firemen, was fighting a blaze in the floor of the Biltmore . - Severe burns and "cuts frm "glass "'werealsa sustained by several of the men. | While thc night watchman of the | Alger Press Limited could not be lo-| cated this morning by the Oshawa | Daily Times it is understood he lost considerable clothing and other wear- ing anparel. He was, it is said un- cfficially, sleeping in the offices of Mr. Sulley when he was aroused by ire smell of smoke. He got up it 1 and without any shoes or stockings nn tis feet, ran to the fire department asking for help. ; The fire doors leading into the Al- ger Press building were shut about 11 o'clock last night by the watchinan. A large quantity of benzine, etc, 1s used in the printing industry and the doors probably helped cunsiderably 2 keeping the flames from getting hold » benzine vapor. ofive y Alarm at 4.40 H. Kelly of the Post Office staff rang the alarm about 4.40 o'clock, he told The Oshawa Daily Times rep- | resentative. He was walking to work {this morning, starting out from his home so that he would be on duty at the required time of 4.30 o'clock. It is a habit of his to come along | King street, east, and as he was |- walking past the Biltmore Cafe, he | thought he noticed smoke coming from the side of the building. Ad | imagined it was just leaves smould- ering," he said in pointing out that there has been a lot of leaves burn- ing throughout the city this week. Suddenly there. was a glow arise in the dusk (meaning that it was rather dark at the time). "Then there was a sudden burst of fire as if there was an explosion came out of the window at the side," he explained. "1 came over here and phoned the fire department." : "Wag there anyone around?" "Yes, there was a fellow around singing fire, fire, but I don't know who he was." Willie Lee, manager of the Bilt- more Cafe, in whose place the fire is believed to have started, estimated his damage to be about $12,000 of | | ! which about half is covered by in- surance. The business is conducted by a company, of which Willie Lee is the main shareholder and the business has been in operation on' For Your PHONE 22 22: X= Thompson's Drug Store 10 Simcoe 8t. 8. We Deliver a ~ 18 SIMCOE STREET Just Arrived A nice assortment of Oshawa Embossed Stationery Splendid Quality Envel- opes and Paper Special 50c KARN"S Drug Store Next P. O. - Phone 378 ! i on R-- - fr 54 Church Street Attention Stock Feeders and Dairymen PEA MEAL $44.2 per Ton $2.00 per ton less if you supply bags. HOGG & LYTLE LIMITED ft Phone 203 Bilt- "Took A Friend's Advi And Found Relief Mis. A. Morash recommends Dodd's Kidney Pills "For over a year I suffered great pain," writes Mrs. A. Mor- ash of West Dover, Halifax Co., 'NS. "I could hardly walk for pains in my back. A friend told me about Dodd's Ki Pills. I bought a box and before I had it half used, I got relief. I have not had a pain in my back since and can recommend them to everybody as a sure relief for backache," Dodd's Kidney Pills strike right at the seat of the trouble, the bios. bp are no cure-all. ust simp! purely a kidney remedy. DODD'S KIDNEY PILLS as much proportion the other members of the staff. The Biltmore Cafe proprietors rent their premises from the Alger Press Limited. The Misses Garrow operate a beauty and hairdressing parlor on the second floor to one side of the Biltmore Cafe. When spoken to by The Times reporter this morning, one proprietress said she had no idea what their damage and loss would amount to. Asked if $5,000 would cover everything including the business lost until the building is again put into shape; she sad she believed it would. When the estab- lishment was opened up by the sis- ters last December they spent about $1,000 on equipment and furnish- ings. "The fire couldn't have started in your place?" querried The Times. '""No, we are always very careful and even keep our matches in a tin box," said one of them. "Yes, electrical apparatus is usually used in connection with our business." "I left night and then," ashe as o'clock last was alright about 6.55 everything admitted. Stove Fire Out Standing over at one corner of the Biltmore building was Charlie Long. He is a waiter and one of the proprietors of the cafe and is also a resident of Waverly Inn. Long came down town when he heard of the fire. He was one of the very last ty leave the establishment at an carly hour this morning. '""Are you sure the fire was out in the stove?' the reporter asked Long. "Oh, yes," he replied, "We always put it out and leave everything ready to light it up for breakfast when we come down in the morn- ing." ; "Yes, I left with Kenny and the other about 2.30 o'clock this morn- ing." The place, he claimed, was locked and there was no one inside. Asked as to how the fire might have started, the man said he did not know. He admitted having an in- terest' in the business and would be one of those to lose considerable. 'It will take three months to fix it up," he volunteered. Long showed the reporter where the kitchen stove was located. It was sitnated in the kitchen at the side of the building and was cold when the men left the building early this morning. There was no smoking, of cigarettes inside about the time they were preparing to leave for A Yomg Appetit Digests Anything A] Indegestion is the result of toc much acid in the stomach. It sours your food, turns it into a ferment- ing mass, gives you sick headaches bad breath, biliousness,, shortness of breath, and that drowsy, don't care-what-happens feeling. Pape's Diapepsin has helped thous- ands of such unfortunate stomach sufferers to get their appetite back. Chew one or two tablets of Pape's Diapepsin after meals to dissolve the excess acid and sweeten your stom- ach. Then your food will digest and nourish you. You will gair weight and feel fine. Pape's Dia- pepsin dces what it promises to do. That's the reason 5 million packages are used a year. Pape's Diapepsin will bring you re- lief in 5 minutes. It is sold by all drug stores. Thome, although they did smoke on {i the way out to Waverly Inn. Another heavy loser is W. W. Mc- Waters, proprietor 'of a lunch and confectionery store located directly next to the Biltmore Cafe. Interview- ed on the scene this morning shortly before nine o'clock, Mr. McWaters stated he valued his business and goods at $10,000, which was partly covered by: insurance. Practically everything in the store is a total loss, there not being a cent's worth of salvage. | Mr, McWaters stated he was told of the fire about seven o'clock and hurried down. He came to this city {on June 1, and opened up the busi- ness. He was formerly of Lindsay, Ont. Querried as to whether he would be able to continue in busi- ness, Mr. McWaters said he did not know. His plans for the future are indefinite. His business was doing nicely. W. J. Sulley, who had a rea! estate office in the building on the | second floor, said he has not had la chance to look into his damage {as yet. Everything in connectior | with his business was in the office | His loss would not be as great as | the other people. Slight damage to office equip- ment and other office goods war done to the office of Fred Carswell manager of Cassels, Turner, Craw- ford and Biggar who operate a bond and stocks business. Several cartons of feed and pupp: biscuits were damaged by wate: which soaked through the ceiling into the Pet Stock Supply Company This firm is located in a corner of the Disney building. Smoke penetrated into the officer of Dr. Hazelwood and A. J. Park hill's law office. Slight damage wa: done in both these places. They are however, able to carry on their busi. ness as usual. HOPING TO RESCUE MOST OF SURVIVOR! (Continued from page 1) life boats and rafts should not be i immediate danger. A wireless to steamship offices sai only 34 were missing and this figus was being credited as reports came i f shipwrecked passengers landing : Bahia, on the Brazilian coast, in sma boats in which they had escaped fro1 the wreck. Rio Janeiro, Brazil, Oct. 26.--Th; luxurious Italian steamer, Principes sa, Metfalda, carrying more than : thousand passengers, most of then Italian immigrants to Brazil and Argentina, sank last night off th: coast of Brazil. Four rescue ships standing by al night picked up at least 720 per sons of 1,208 stated to have bee? aboard ithe striclen vessel, while «another estimate placed the nuinue saved at upwards of a thousand. A Brazilian cruiser was today un der orders to aid in the rescue worl while four steamers were at the jcene, three of them known to have rescued hundreds of persons. The cause of the disaster was no definitely known but it was believe the vesscl struck a reef and found ;red after the boilers exploded. Th I'rench steamer Formose saved 12t the British steamer Empire Sta 200, and the German steamer Ath ena 400, while the British steam ship Radioleine also assisted in the rescue work. Shipping circles sug ;ested that the ship carried 1,601 persons but officials of the line pla ced the number at 1,208, includin + crew of 240. The ship, of 9,21( .onnage was reputedly the fastes n the Italian, South American ser vice and was commanded by Cap tain Guli, 55 years of age. All but 110 of the passenger: were Italian emigrants. Prof. Gigh lirector of the Statistical Institute Rcme, was among the passengers Captain of the French steamer Formose, standing by tHe scene of the sinking of the steamship Prin- cipessa Mafalda, today wirelessed the Associated Press that mor'e rescue vessels had arrived and it was hoped to rescue "almost all" of the Mafalda's twelve hundred pas- sengers. BUILDING PERMITS TUESDAY $21,125 Two Issued to Martin and ~ Company for G. M. C. Houses Building in Oshawa continues it's march towards a Dominion record, and Tuesday's total of $21,125 swells October's total to a point that mav put Oshawa third in Canada for thc tenth month of the year. Yesterday's larger permits were fea- iured by two issued to W. H. Martin and Company fors General Motors of Canada, Limited, both being for houses one of which will cost $6,000 and the other $6,800. The $6,000 house is to be built on Masson street, and the $6,800 dwelling being erected at the corner nf Mary street and Rossland Avenue Both houses have oak flcors on both Soors, trimmed with gumwood down- stairs and with fir upstairs. Two stories in height and of brick onstruction, these two houses will be added to Oshawa's growing wealth of finer residences. Roy H. Bishop is the architec. for both dwellings. I. H. Jackson is building a two- storey brick veneer dwelling 'on Nas- sau street to cost $3,500; S. Jamieson is erecting a brick vencer bungalow on Burk street to cost $2,500; M. Dubyk is building a" $1,500 frame house on Ritson Road; and John Smenik is erecting a small cottage on Conant street to cost $700. . O. M. Aliger is building a $125 garage on Simcoe street. W. H. Sim- nons also has a garage under way on (sladstone Avenue to cost $100. SALADA" TEA . -Nonehave equalled the quality. T0 URGE ACTION IN OPENING COURT Branch of Division to Be Established Here When Quar- ters Are Ready In order to facilitate the opening | of a branch of the Division Court here, of which Miss MacDonnell of Whitby will be in charge, Ald. D. A. J. Swanson will tonight urge the City Property Committee to take | 'mmediate action in the matter un- der authority granted it by the City Council. Members of the Oshawa egal profiession hope that the court | will be opened here not later than | N'avamber 15. The committee room which is reachlfed from the head of the first light of steps leading up to the Jouncil chambers in the city build- ng at Simcoe and Richmond streets as been set aside for the use of : the clerk who, it is understood, vig a wonderf ase which t would be in charge of the office owder to cli in Oshawa in the day and would op- ih period. Por on the Whitby office at night. delightful Dder Jonteeh 50 As most of Ontario County's divi- : sion court work originates in Osh-! N 1 1000 awa, it is felt by local legal men that ear y a branch of the court office should boxes of this powder sold dur- ing the 8 days of our One Cent Sale, which alone proves he oplened here with the least pos- Jonteel sible delay. | Cold Cream HAY ERECT HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE Face Powder SUBURBAN PUPS; .. 30c 2 Box It's popular because it sticks | The Rexall Store | Unless County Agrees to the I City's Demand in Regard i nist | Jury & Lovel i King St. E, . BD. were, a charge against James Me- Quarrie of consuming liquor in a publie place adjourned for one week, at his own request; Oliver Druz charged with . having liguor, journed until November 3rd; and Peter Spelman, up on the same charge, adjourped until Friday of this week. ad- Everybody loves a Winner I "ACE POWDER ul Col | ! -:= Simcoe S Members of the Oshawa Board of | "ducation have been informed of the = {rection of a suburban high school to, ake care of the 100 pupils of the Osh- wa Collegiate who will be denied ad- | rittance at the beginning of the spring erm in January unless the County | arees to meet the city's demands as to fees. | Westmount is said to be the district vhere the proposed suburban high chool would be located as the major- ty of Oshawa's suburban population s said to lic in that district. West- nount alcne is estimated to have 2,000 -esidents, most of whom work in the ty. Oshawa trustees are inclined to dis- 'ount this rumor but are free to admit hat the County may meet a part of he problem by making the Westmount wublic schoo): a continuation school. This would involve the building of nore rooms, it is stated, but three at he outside would take care of the situ- ation. - What would be done to take care of high school pupils east of Oshawa is ot clearly stated, though the suppor- ters of the suburban high school plan leclare that they would be eligible to ittend the Westmount School. Members of the Oshawa Board, wowever, believe that no drastic action vill be taken for several considerations. dne of which is the extreme probabil- ty that the city's limits will be widen- | «d both to the east and west within he near future, and that the town- ship--failing action by the County Council--would be advised to make a separate agreement with Oshawa as to high school pupils' fees. - » ORIGINAL POCAHONTAS sIR 0° COKE 1320 CANNEL '159° |) Conger Lehigh Coal Co. B2 King St. E. Phon 871 Yawd Atliol $4 Phone 931 aD 1 @D THREE CASES ADJOURNED Three cases which came before 'fagistrate Hind this morning were wdjourned for various periods. Ther "Vista Heights" Lots $400 to $800. : Do not delay in select-| ing your lot in "Vista Heights." IE YORLONG 6€ AER KS, . BONDS | SPECIALISTS IN MINING SECURITIES LISTED AND UNLISTED HEAD OFFICE: REFORD BUILDING Bay and Wellington Sts., Toronto PRIVATE WIRE SYSTEM 11 King Street East, Oshawa Above C.P.R. Office, Phone 144 8. F. Everson, Local Manager