Show SMALL L THEME THEATRE OF fiRE Moving Picture Machines and Some of Films Are De Destroyed Destroyed Destroyed at Electric PEOPLE GET OUT SAFELY LITTLE LITTLE CONFUSION AND NO ONE INJURED I N J U H ED EDThe The Electric theatre at South street between Second and anU Third South wa wall yan damaged by bya a fire which 1 th tho moving picture machine and unil some orno of ot tho the films t ms The fire occurred while the tho motion picture show was In hi II progress There Thoro were people lo In Inthe the theatre at the tho time bime all alt of ot whom tot got safely out nut of ot the tho doors as soon as asIt asIt asit It was vas announced that the place was WIlS wason WIlSon wason on fire The fhe machine was being operated by Byron Park He succeeded In cover covering ing ins up the rest of ot the films so that they were saved He Ho escaped Injury The operator Is s a brother rother of ot Lester Park Parke who was seriously burned last summer In a fire In an electric theatre on Main street while operating a moving movIng ing picture machine there All of the wires leading Into the the theatre theatre atre atro were ware cut by the fire department electricians ps soon as the firemen reached rached the place In order that there might be no danger to the firemen while they were extinguishing the thc flames near noor the machine Manager C A Nichols and Elec Electrician Electrician George Goorge E Russell joined In a statement last evening concerning the fir firt at tho thu Electric theatre The fire occurred red at clock said Mr Russell while the racing sc sene ene A Hundred to One Shot was mi on The film caught from a spark from the carbon cubon Films are highly combustible and amft It i is iii no uncommon thing for them to take fire As soon is s the fire broke out I told the ope one operator operator and his assistant to come down out of the operating room I then urged the people to be calm and to tom tomake m make their way to the exit without undue haste There were 2 2 people pe pleIn In the house which will seat There tre are two exits one oIl In the front and anti one in m the rear Mr of the were thrown open Meanwhile an alarm of fire had been turned In but it was ten min minutes minutes mm utes before the department arrived upon the scene Beene The seats In our boWIe houie are arranged arrange 1 in movable sets of fours By E these thele to one side we soon lOOn had a wide aisle the length of ot the house houIe The foot floor foots is s level and there th re are no stairs Some Sonae Somei i ut f the women in the audience became excited naturally but the men were tool thorn th tn to the exits with witha a remarkable lack of confusion It is isa ISa isa a conservative estimate I think to say that the house was emptied in two minutes The walls of our operating room as asell aswell aswell well ell as the are of ot asbestos The room In dimensions is about six by y eight el ht feet The rhe he front of o this Is masked with paper and nd it was not un tin until until til the asbestos became overheated that this paper caught fire about fifteen teen minutes after the fire first broke out lout in the operating room The janitor of t f the Brooks Arcade Arade the th building in which the theatre Is came with a Ii hand and had the fire practically subdued when the firemen took charge The electric lights continued to burn throughout the progress of emptying the th hou house and afterward The damage aside ulde from the ma machines hines dunes and films consists con of breakage here and there and accumulations pf pC tater ater and chemicals incident to a fire probably OO flO flOI I be that the theatre the tre should have been provided with emergency fire protection I believe all theatres of the kind should be Hand chemicals In sufficient number should be placed at convenient points throughout the buildings The damage to the machines and reels of oC films tUrns is estimated at about J I Manager Nichols says the house will willbe be reopened Sunday |